This is a neat one; special thanks to Karina Vazirova, host of MOTHER-podcast, and her guest Leah Hazard, for allowing us to reproduce parts of their conversation: Midwifery and The Future of Birth.

HH:

* A drawdown from ICE? Or a temporary strategic retreat?

* The Government shuts down again (partially)

* Another Epstein file dump

* The US escalated tensions with Iran

* Trump Admin blusters about Mark Carney’s Davos speech

Artifact:

Leah Hazard on MOTHER-podcast, hosted by Karina Vazirova

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Better late than never…though this one was worth waiting for.

HH:

* ICE commits another murder in Minneapolis

* Bovine-o gets the boot

* A “framework” for Greenland is announced

Artifact:

Canadian PM Mark Carney gives a very interesting speech to Davos about the future of middling powers in an era of great power rivalry.

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HH:

* Trump DOJ comes after Renee Good’s wife

* CBS lies about Good’s murderer suffering from “interal bleeding”

* Neo Nazi Jake Lang gets run the fuck out of Minneapolis

* The new Venezuelan president capitulates to the US

* Would-be opposition leader Machado pathetically hands over her Nobel Peace Prize

* Another US war crime is discovered

Artifact:

Simone and JP talk birth rate and child rearing as a social good via NPR’s As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions.

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We are dropping our artifact (the new Trump National Security Strategy document) this week as a separate episode.

Please forgive the many interlopers in this episode as well as JP’s terrible Trump impression.

Please enjoy!

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We have decided to features only headlines, largely about the murder of Renee Good.

We will be releasing an extra long artifact special covering the new National Security Strategy document later this week.

Solidarity with all the heroes in MN fighting the Federal brownshirts however they can.

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So the US did a coup in Venezuela and JP has an extra sexy voice this time.

HH:

US Imperialist on the march in Latin America.

Trump moves to punish student loan debtors.

Right Wing Youtuber does an op in MN.

Artifact:

The Narco-Terrorist Elite by Maureen Tkacik

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Happy New Year from the Red Diaper family!

For our last episode of the year, we decided to do a whole episode on Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.”

Looking forward to seeing you in 2026!

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Happy Holidays everyone. Don’t let the pedophilic cabal running the planet get you down.

HH

* Gaza continues to suffer Genocide at the hands of the Israeli government

* Infighting at Americafest

* More Epstein drips

* Bari Weiss exercised her editorial power to protect the Trump Administration

Artifact

Epstein party goer David Brooks makes a very uncompelling case about why you shouldn’t count out the Neocons with his new piece in the Atlantic, “The Neocons Were Right.”

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Simone & JP discuss the crumbling international order that at one time hinged its fantasy of moral authority on the concept of “The West,” an idea left in tatters by the genocide of the Palestinians, via Pankaj Mishra’s excellent piece in Harper’s, Liberal Totalitarianism.

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HH:

* 2 mass shootings

* Trump forces through a national AI regulatory regime

* The FBI revolts against Kash Patel

* The US engages in a little light piracy

Artifact:Harper’s Liberal Totalitarianism by Pankaj Mishra

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Well so with JP laid off it seems Tuesday is going to be our drop day from now on….

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Horrible Headlines:

* DC shooter redux

* “SSecretary of War” does a(nother) war crime

* Luigi might go free?

Artifact:

We discuss Scott Galloway’s new book Notes on Being a Man via his interview with Steve Rose at the Guardian: Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’

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