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Kevin Bolling faced the biggest challenge he's faced as Executive Director of the Secular Student Alliance. He had to manage the group through the pandemic and then resume regular support once the schools opened back up. SSA launched a massive effort to reach 1.4 million students. He will tell us how SSA did it and what is in store for the group. Lastly we take a look at a recent case where a professor settled a lawsuit while refusing to use the preferred pronouns of his students and how that case is really about him and others that attempt to needlessly erase LGBTQ+ people.

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01:35 Reaching Out To Secular Students
09:17 Dealing With Christian Nationalism
23:26 Doug's Letter To The Editor About Preferred Pronouns

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The stench of Trump has been absorbed into the corpuscles of the Republican party so that now it isn't about policies but what fake outrage you support or are against. The electorate suffers. We take a look at some examples of this theater called a primary season here in Ohio.

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00:45 Karens call the cops on Morgan Harper
13:18 Better lies through political advertising
37:44 Unicorns and Rainbows can only mean gay stuff

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Elections matter and when you can hold a super majority in the state legislature you can feed your every factless conspiracy theory fever dream and let your bigot flag fly.

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00:36 Announcement
05:33 Release Time Religious Instruction
25:03 Correction
26:10 Letting Your Bigot Flag Fly

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Violent crime has spiked recently. Are we wasting time and money with more policing? Can having children be immoral? And where are the vigils and memorials for the thousands who died in the pandemic. One political party has blood on its hands and its initials are G. O. P.

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00:45 Gun Violence Isn't Always About Gangs And Drugs
13:18 Anti-natalism
21:08 Why aren't we honoring the covid dead?

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In this episode, we look at the struggles of 'moderate' Republican and retired sports reporter Michele Tafoya as she tries to stop the world from making her babies feel bad in our 'post' racial era. Tucker Carlson celebrates her American Ideal. Then we look at how the Ohio GOP is trying to run out the clock to maintain their super majority in the legislature. They are on the finish line and want to change the rules.

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00:50 Michele Tafoya is a moderate?
21:36 Mapless Matt Huffman refuses to draw fair maps

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In this episode Doug looks at Bari Weiss's appearance on Bill Maher's HBO show and why her flippant Pandemic of Bureaucracy is both childish and dangerous to us all. Then we look at a recent church and state case over a Boston flag pole that was heard at the US Supreme Court. It doesn't look good for secular people or for more than 40 years of settled jurisprudence.

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00:51 Bari Weiss Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
18:51 Boston Flagpole Fight

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In this episode, Doug takes a look at political polarization, which many people feel is a threat to our democracy. We take a look at two projects that think talking things out will lead to shiny happy people, rainbows, and unicorns.

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01:32 One Small Step I Take
25:07 Dialog Only Angels

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In this episode, we wonder why, at the request of no one, Ohio Attorney General David Yost inserted the state into a local case and tried to prosecute a rape victim instead of the rapist. And a Federal judge tells parents they don't have a constitutional right to avoid school mask mandates.

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00:44 Yost Sticks Nose Into Local Rape Case
19:47 Parents can't make martyrs of their children

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In this episode, we take a deep dive into the abortion issue because the US Supreme Court is looking at a Mississippi law that ignores established science and bans abortion at 15 weeks. We look at the history of abortion rights in this country and why the Christian Nationalist's argument that a fetus is a child is factually wrong.

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00:58 History of Abortion Rights
16:46 A Fetus is NOT a Child

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In this episode we look at some wrong hot takes on the Kyle Rittenhouse case and ask why it was treated differently than the Breonna Taylor case in 2020. President Biden was threatened by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops again over his pro-choice stance but the Pope stepped in to provide cover. We get an update on Ohio's terrible congressional district maps and yet another anti-abortion bill that isn't needed.

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00:57 Kyle Rittenhouse The Great White Hope
19:13 Bishop Tries To Take Biden
27:57 The Miseducation Of The Ohio GOP

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