HH:

* Mamdani launches First-in-the-Nation Office of Worker Power

* Mamdani bans student facing AI in NYC public schools

* Ben-Gvir posts concentration camp AI video

* Climate careens over milestone

Artifact:We discuss the curious liberal-led assault on El-Sayed and Piker via Jonathan Chait’s “The Crisis for Democrats in Michigan”

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HH:

* More Mail-in-ballot shenanigans.

* ICE purchasing robot dogs.

* Gary, Indiana goes 2 weeks without power.

* Indian Fascist movement Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) holds rally at Madison Square Gardens.

Artifact:

Derek Hunter wonders “Is Our Military Really This Weak Now?” in Townhall, in reaction to the complaints of the sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln after their record setting deployment off the coast of Iran.

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Only Horrible Headlines this week because we know how much you missed them:

* Economy is not doing very well

* Lefty academics sign a letter criticizing Iran’s for political repression and then all walk it back at the same time

* Trump moves to suppress mail in voting

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We are on vacation (as much as such a thing is possible with 5 young children) so on this special episode you get one extra long artifact. We talk LLMs and the bleak? exciting? future of the human/technology hybrid via Meghan O’Gieblyn’s piece in The Yale Review:Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise: We were supposed to become feminist cyborgs. Instead, we got ChatGPT…which is a response to Donna Haraway’s classic text:A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

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HH:

* The US is running out of missiles and interceptors, and Trump wants to punish the people who let you know.

* Lawsuit contends that Trump Admin is targeting unaccompanied minors to pump deportation numbers.

* Israel indicates a Jewish settler for manslaughter in the West Bank.

* NM sues DOJ over withholding unredacted Epstein files.

* Lindsay Clancy trial reveals the ways post-partum women are failed…and maybe also our fascination with a good old conspiracy.

Artifact: Classic appearance of Angela Davis on Democracy Now! during the George Floyd protests, tackling the politics of prison abolition.

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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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