Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

This week, Madeline and David do part 2 of our Heritage Foundation episode and get into Project 2025

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation-and-the-death-of-republican-ideas/279955/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/07/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/too-hot-for-heritage-00116094

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/republican-president-2024-heritage-foundation.html

https://www.project2025.org/policy/

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FOREWORD.pdf

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-conservative-promise/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch

https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/the-national-endowment-democracy-prudent-investment-thefuture

https://www.ned.org/fellows/olivia-enos/

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R000502320001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100560001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420082-7.pdf

https://www.heritage.org/article/timeline-heritage-successes

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#Core_Financials

https://victimsofcommunism.org/award/edwin-feulner-jr-phd/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/

This week, Madeline and David talk about The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation-and-the-death-of-republican-ideas/279955/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/07/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/too-hot-for-heritage-00116094

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/republican-president-2024-heritage-foundation.html

https://www.project2025.org/policy/

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FOREWORD.pdf

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-conservative-promise/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch

https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/the-national-endowment-democracy-prudent-investment-thefuture

https://www.ned.org/fellows/olivia-enos/

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R000502320001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100560001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420082-7.pdf

https://www.heritage.org/article/timeline-heritage-successes

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#Core_Financials

https://victimsofcommunism.org/award/edwin-feulner-jr-phd/

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/

This week, Madeline and David finish up the second part of our two-parter on the School of the Americas, a.k.a. WHINSEC!

Warning: Contains mention of SA, violence against children, and torture

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://jacobin.com/2019/11/shut-down-school-of-the-americas-whinsec-ice-border-patrol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/08/spanish-trial-of-soldiers-behind-uca-atrocity-raises-hopes-of-ending-impunity-in-el-salvador

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Peron

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/3/1/el-salvadors-brutal-civil-war-what-we-still-dont-know

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/21/world/roberto-d-aubuisson-48-far-rightist-in-salvador.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/18/us-military-usa

https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2015/nr-4/colombias-bloody-history/

https://www.e-ir.info/2017/08/22/imperialism-by-another-name-the-us-war-on-drugs-in-colombia/

https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/news-item/the-zapatista-movement-the-fight-for-indigenous-rights-in-mexico/

https://schoolsforchiapas.org/the-massacre-of-viejo-velasco/

https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates

https://web.archive.org/web/20070119115027/http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=851

https://soaw.org/training-in-2019-soa-whinsec

https://www.lawg.org/declassified-army-and-cia-manuals/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/notorious-georgia-army-school-became-americas-training-ground-for-global-torture/285223/

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA527172.pdf

http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-defense/western-hemisphere-institute-for-security-cooperation-school-of-the-americas?agencyid=7389

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/12/9/infamous-us-military-school-still-draws-fire

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/920310%20Imporper%20Material%20in%20Spanish-Language%20Intelligence%20Training%20Manuals.pdf

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2018/12/actions-across-latin-america-target-notorious-school-americas/

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1997_rpt/soarpt.htm

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880017-0.pdf

https://nacla.org/news/us-intervention-paraguay-continues

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-00733R000100110006-6.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000200010050-9.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STEPS%20TO%20IMPROVE%20U.S.-ARG%5B15503036%5D.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00287R000901540001-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90M00005R001100160023-3.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000300010023-8.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01058R000100010001-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402010001-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402000001-2.pdf

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch11p2.htm

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000100190001-6.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82-00850R000200070035-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301550001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301720002-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00907R000100340001-5.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00447R000100110001-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R002203530034-7.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R001802760013-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00367R000100090001-3.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89B00423R000300330003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/LIEUTENANT%20GENERAL%20LEOPOL%5B15499966%5D.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20191106052505/http://william_h_ormsbee.tripod.com/Articles/school_americas_who_84.pdf

https://irp.fas.org/crs/soa.htm

https://armyuniversity.edu/whinsec/en/faq

This week, Madeline and David talk about the School of the Americas -- where the USA trains future dictators of the world!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://jacobin.com/2019/11/shut-down-school-of-the-americas-whinsec-ice-border-patrol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/08/spanish-trial-of-soldiers-behind-uca-atrocity-raises-hopes-of-ending-impunity-in-el-salvador

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Peron

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/3/1/el-salvadors-brutal-civil-war-what-we-still-dont-know

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/21/world/roberto-d-aubuisson-48-far-rightist-in-salvador.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/18/us-military-usa

https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2015/nr-4/colombias-bloody-history/

https://www.e-ir.info/2017/08/22/imperialism-by-another-name-the-us-war-on-drugs-in-colombia/

https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/news-item/the-zapatista-movement-the-fight-for-indigenous-rights-in-mexico/

https://schoolsforchiapas.org/the-massacre-of-viejo-velasco/

https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates

https://web.archive.org/web/20070119115027/http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=851

https://soaw.org/training-in-2019-soa-whinsec

https://www.lawg.org/declassified-army-and-cia-manuals/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/notorious-georgia-army-school-became-americas-training-ground-for-global-torture/285223/

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA527172.pdf

http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-defense/western-hemisphere-institute-for-security-cooperation-school-of-the-americas?agencyid=7389

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/12/9/infamous-us-military-school-still-draws-fire

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/920310%20Imporper%20Material%20in%20Spanish-Language%20Intelligence%20Training%20Manuals.pdf

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2018/12/actions-across-latin-america-target-notorious-school-americas/

https://irp.fas.org/congress/1997_rpt/soarpt.htm

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880017-0.pdf

https://nacla.org/news/us-intervention-paraguay-continues

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-00733R000100110006-6.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000200010050-9.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STEPS%20TO%20IMPROVE%20U.S.-ARG%5B15503036%5D.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00287R000901540001-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90M00005R001100160023-3.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000300010023-8.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01058R000100010001-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402010001-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402000001-2.pdf

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch11p2.htm

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000100190001-6.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82-00850R000200070035-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301550001-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301720002-2.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00907R000100340001-5.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00447R000100110001-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R002203530034-7.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R001802760013-1.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00367R000100090001-3.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89B00423R000300330003-4.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/LIEUTENANT%20GENERAL%20LEOPOL%5B15499966%5D.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20191106052505/http://william_h_ormsbee.tripod.com/Articles/school_americas_who_84.pdf

https://irp.fas.org/crs/soa.htm

https://armyuniversity.edu/whinsec/en/faq

This week, Madeline and David finish our episode about Coca-Colonization in Mexico!

BOOK: 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/ 

PATREON: 

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared 

SOURCES: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coca-cola-mexico-wells-dry-bottled-water-sucking-san-felipe-ecatepec-chiapas-a7953026.html

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/chiapas-forever-indigenous?format=amp

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/28/water-is-the-real-thing-but-millions-of-mexicans-are-struggling-without-it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coca-cola-diabetes.html

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22172862/coca-cola-mexico-town-water/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL5N2XF4ZG/

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/this-small-town-in-mexico-is-addicted-to-coca-cola-it-also-grapples-with-a-deadly-disease/p1m2g5dtd

https://truthout.org/articles/coca-cola-sucks-wells-dry-in-chiapas-forcing-residents-to-buy-water/

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/major-cities-in-mexico-running-out-of-water-as-extreme-heat-continues-209737285844

https://coha.org/coca-colas-corporate-greed-is-leaving-mexicans-thirsty/

https://borgenproject.org/chronic-diseases-in-chiapas/

https://killercoke.org/ray_rogers_absurdity_at_unam_110329.php

https://killercoke.org/crimes_mexico.php

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cola-wars-in-mexico

https://chiapas-support.org/2023/06/14/coca-colas-lack-of-political-transparency-is-associated-with-life-and-death-in-chiapas/

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/cocacolonization/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587?via%3Dihub

https://compact.org/news/coca-colonization-and-christmas-cheer-in-mexico

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/04/the-coca-cola-invasion-is-causing-mexicos-slow-death-by-junk-food_partner/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/12/23/coca-cola-red-and-whitewashing-the-empire

https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-influence-on-mexican-culture-2018-8#but-there-was-a-downside-to-cokes-sudden-spike-in-popularity-the-diabetes-rate-doubled-in-mexico-between-2000-and-2007-14

This week, Madeline and David talk about Coca Cola's colonization of Mexico, part 1 of a 2-parter!

BOOK: 

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/ 

PATREON: 

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared 

SOURCES: 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coca-cola-mexico-wells-dry-bottled-water-sucking-san-felipe-ecatepec-chiapas-a7953026.html

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/chiapas-forever-indigenous?format=amp

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/28/water-is-the-real-thing-but-millions-of-mexicans-are-struggling-without-it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/world/americas/mexico-coca-cola-diabetes.html

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22172862/coca-cola-mexico-town-water/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL5N2XF4ZG/

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/this-small-town-in-mexico-is-addicted-to-coca-cola-it-also-grapples-with-a-deadly-disease/p1m2g5dtd

https://truthout.org/articles/coca-cola-sucks-wells-dry-in-chiapas-forcing-residents-to-buy-water/

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/major-cities-in-mexico-running-out-of-water-as-extreme-heat-continues-209737285844

https://coha.org/coca-colas-corporate-greed-is-leaving-mexicans-thirsty/

https://borgenproject.org/chronic-diseases-in-chiapas/

https://killercoke.org/ray_rogers_absurdity_at_unam_110329.php

https://killercoke.org/crimes_mexico.php

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cola-wars-in-mexico

https://chiapas-support.org/2023/06/14/coca-colas-lack-of-political-transparency-is-associated-with-life-and-death-in-chiapas/

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/cocacolonization/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587?via%3Dihub

https://compact.org/news/coca-colonization-and-christmas-cheer-in-mexico

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953604004587

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/04/the-coca-cola-invasion-is-causing-mexicos-slow-death-by-junk-food_partner/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/12/23/coca-cola-red-and-whitewashing-the-empire

https://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-influence-on-mexican-culture-2018-8#but-there-was-a-downside-to-cokes-sudden-spike-in-popularity-the-diabetes-rate-doubled-in-mexico-between-2000-and-2007-14

This week, Madeline and David talk about the tinier CIA: The National Endowment for Democracy! Part 1.

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A1xOGFEcb2-Iy_ZUuNVx_9tdJtnMdjpTMYQfEHnuPRM/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Madeline and David talk about Shen Yun, Falun Gong, The Epoch Times, and Li Hongzhi!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OFqFIW1ejobai9MrY3ksBc96Jr5lfoW5YeyPzzjkDm8/edit?usp=sharing

This week, David and Madeline talk about the West Virginia coal mining wars, deputizing orthodontists to shoot the poors, and maybe the only okay cop to ever exist -- maybe!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

Savage, Lon: Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Coal Mine War 1920-1921

Shogon, Robert: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Hubert, Patrick: Rednecks and Red Bandanas

Wheeler, Hoyt: What Did the Coal Miner See

Amsden, Jon and Brier, Stephen: Coal Miners on Strike

Gadsby, Margaret: The Coal Strikes