HH:

* Dems attack their left flank in MI

* MAGA darling is accused of horrendous domestic violence

* New record of unadjusted minimum wage

* A potential cyber attack on US water infrastructure by Iran

* Edwin Jovanny Lopez-Cornejo dies in ICE detention at Delaney Hall (Newark)

Artifact: An artcle from Wired by Noah Shachtman entitled: For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

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Well it finally happened. This life of ours has caught up to us, prompting the need for a brief hiatus. We will be back with a full length episode next week. In the meantime, enjoy this reading of Simone’s piece from our Substack. Don’t forget to subscribe, there is a free tier as well as a $5/month subscription that helps us with our rather extensive babysitter budget.

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HH:

* Trump admin (Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio) coordinate an attack on the left

* Trump threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires.

Artifact: We talk racism and media via Reporting on ICE killings follows a long history of normalizing state violence by Aja Arnold in The Objective.

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HH:

* Lindsey Graham is dead and Mitch McConnell is… alive?

* Trump is hot and cold at the NATO Summit

* ICE murders two people fleeing from them

* Iran War limply returns

Artifact: We talk World Cup via an article in CounterPunch by Graham Peebles entitled: Poisoning The World Cup: The American Way

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Trigger warning: Discussion of sexual assault/rape

* China tests ballistic missiles

* Trump is bilking the country for billions

* KIDS Act threatens to kill the internet

* Women in the army are more likely to be killed by fellow soldiers than combatants

* The Intercept anonymous tip line compromised (for months!)

Artifact: The ups and down of “DSA-style” candidates (NYC DSA sweep + Graham Platner crash and burn) with a Jonathan Chait double feature.

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HH:

* The Supreme Court decides to do some “work”

* Cancelling Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians

* Shielding Monstanto from liability for cancer caused by Roundup

* Eliminate (even more!) campaign finance rules

* Legalize discrimination against trans athletes

* …saved birthright citizenship?

* Outrageous sentences rolled out for Prairieland 8

Artifact:

An X post and a Substack video by Glenn Greenwald about the impacts of independent media

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HH:

* Strait of Hormuz gets closed again (well its open now but it was closed when we were recording and will probably be again by the time you’re listening)

* Trump admin moved to bringing back Institutionalization.

* Paper by Exequiel Hernandez (Wharton), “ICE-ing the Economy: Immigration Enforcement Under Trump 2.0 and Local Economic Activity” shows negative economic impacts of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

* Trump Admin takes issue with latest Anthropic LLM model.

Artifact: An Episode of the Unruffled Podcast by Janet Lansbury called, “Kids Don’t Need Intensive Parenting (and Neither do We!)”

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HH:-Ezra Klein is a Thielite psyop

-15 Minneapolis activists indicted for anti-ICE protests

-Trump agrees to a deal with Iran so embarrassing it has to be kept secret

-IEP protections stripped from the Department of Education and handed of to HHS and the DOJ

Artifact: This grotesque hit piece on Chris Smalls in Jacobin by Annie Levin

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HH:The establishment takes a shot at Graham PlatnerArtifact: This NYTs video op-ed with Nadja Spiegelman, Frederick Joseph, and Ruth Whippman called America Has a Masculinity Crisis.

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No Artifact this week, we spend most of the episode ranting and raving about the complicitly of liberal politicians vis-a-vis Delaney Hall.

HH:

Trump sics the justice department of his sexual assault victim, E. Jean Carroll.

ICE and “progressive” liberal coordinate in fascist crackdown outside of NJ immigrant detention center aka Delaney Hall concentration camp.

Shout out to Kevin Ortega-Rojas at Here’s Why w/ Kevin Ortega-Rojas for asking sharp questions of NJ’s governor.

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