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On this episode, we discuss Sen. Josh Hawley's op-ed and new book, as well as conservatives' current obsession with "traditional masculinity." We also talk about the Republican presidential primary, a record fine for Meta, Catholic sex abuse in Illinois, attacks on Target over Pride Month apparel, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US
• Catholic clergy sexually abused Illinois kids far more often than church acknowledged, state finds
• Target removes some Pride Month products after threats against employees
• DeSantis launches GOP presidential campaign in Twitter announcement plagued by glitches
• Pudding Fingers ad
• Putin Fingers ad
• Ron DeSalesTax ad
• 2024 Republican presidential candidates: A list of who is or may be running
• Oath Keepers sentenced for seditious conspiracy
• Florida Woman who petitioned to ban books and poem from Florida schools has to apologize to Jewish community for spreading anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda on Facebook
• Kamala Harris' husband mocked for focusing on 'masculine toxicity'
• Jordan Peterson: The Current Crisis of Masculinity
• Trans vs Conservative Men: Is Masculinity Disappearing in America? | Middle Ground
• Tucker’s REALLY homoerotic  trailer for The End of Men
• America's men are in crisis and it's rooted in one big lie

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On this episode, we dive deep into the Durham Report and why it's not the bombshell Republicans and conservatives claim it is. We also talk about Rudy Giuliani getting sued, the Kansas GOP trying to do a hate crime, a lawsuit over whether a fetus is an employee, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Civil suit by former employee of Rudy Giuliani accuses him of sexual harassment and attempting to sell pardons
• Kansas GOP considers kicking minority, youth and women’s groups out of party leadership
• A Missouri agency tried to classify a fetus as an employee, raising concerns about personhood laws
• Florida teacher under investigation for showing a Disney film with a gay character
• Ben Shapiro upset about Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover models (but he would never look at anything like that anyway…)
• Bill Barr Fox News Interview
• The Durham Report
• 34 individuals and 3 companies were indicted or pleaded guilty as a result of the Mueller investigation, including 5 Trump aides who struck plea deals
•  Horowitz Report

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On this episode, we discuss school choice programs and their effects on education. We also talk about the latest shooting in Allen, Texas, a Wisconsin Republican screaming about demons, Tucker Carlson goes to war with Fox News, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Why some people are spreading false rumors about the Texas gunman
• Jury says Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation
• Scoop: Tucker Carlson ready to torch Fox News
• Fox demands Media Matters stop publishing leaked Tucker Carlson videos
• Ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted producer "It's not how white men fight," report says
• Tucker Carlson says he'll take his show to Twitter
• State Rep. Chuck Wichgers claims Wisconsin state capitol has ‘demons in the walls’ before blaming ‘godlessness’ for mental illness
• GOP Rep. George Santos has been charged by the Justice Department
• Matt Walsh: "You can never be fully manly on ice skates"
• False choice: Wisconsin taxpayers support schools that can discriminate 
• Wisconsin Policy Forum report
• Choice, Charter Schools Get Big Payday
• Conservative Christians took over a Colorado school district. Now they're destroying it.
• ‘Trump was great at this’: How conservatives transformed a Colorado school district
• Arizona School Vouchers Explained
• Nation watches as Arizona’s universal ESA voucher fiasco fails
• Turning Point Academy
• Firm saw $40 million potential in Charlie Kirk’s ‘America-first’ academy. Then its plans fell apart.

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On this episode, we discuss the reasons why people hate using someone's preferred pronouns. We also talk about the latest updates on SCOTUS corruption, Proud Boys members being found guilty, and the party of small government being exactly not that. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Harlan Crow purchased the home of Clarence Thomas’ mother and paid for tens of thousands of dollars of improvements
• Crow also paid the $6,000/month private school tuition for Thomas’ nephew
• Ginni Thomas was paid tens of thousands of dollars for “consulting work” by conservative judicial activist Leonard Lee in 2012
• After being on the market for 2 years, Gorsuch’s 40 acre property was bought by the head of one of the country’s largest law firms, 9 days after Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
• Ohio lawmakers debate increasing voting threshold to 60% to pass statewide ballot initiatives
• Pornhub, the largest porn site in the U.S., blocks Utahns ahead of new age verification law
• Four Proud Boys members including Enrique Tarrio found guilty of seditious conspiracy in Jan 6th coup attempt
• Republican legislatures look to put local issues in liberal areas under state control
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders launches her “Real Women in Politics” coozies
• Florida Republicans pass bills on pronoun usage at schools, ban on diversity programs
• Florida HB 1069
• Conservatives Shouldn’t Use Transgender Pronouns - National Review
• ‘We cannot give in’: Professor who won battle over trans pronouns speaks out
• Jordan Peterson: 2016/09/27: Part 1: Fear and the Law

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On this episode, we catch up on ALL the news we missed while Jason was on vacation. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Fox News settles with Dominion at the last second, pays more than $787 million to avert defamation trial over its 2020 election lies
• Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News
• Carlson and Fox are being sued by his former head of booking Abby Grossberg
• Reportedly, Rupert Murdoch’s ex-fiance Ann Lesley Smith was a Tucker Carlson superfan
• Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that Fox executive Irena Briganti has a stockpile of damaging information on Carlson that will be released if he tries to attack the network.
• Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records
• Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
• Debt Ceiling Bill
• What to know about the "Tennessee Three": Why were two of the Democratic lawmakers expelled, and what happens now?
• Montana transgender lawmaker silenced: What to know
• Tucker Carlson says trans people are Christians’ “natural enemies” in doomsday rant
• Ron Johnson says global warming is good because Wisconsin is already too cold

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On this episode, we discuss the latest anti-drag legislation that passed in Tennessee and the conservative war on drag shows throughout the country. We also remind Wisconsin voters to VOTE FOR JANET PROTASIEWICZ for WI Supreme Court on April 4th, talk about Tucker Carlson trying to rewrite the history of January 6th, and discuss the highlights of CPAC. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• There is also a special election for state senate district 8 (W and NW suburbs)
• Capitol Police chief tears into Tucker Carlson for claims about Officer Brian Sicknick
• 'Bulls---': GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as 'mostly peaceful'
• Trump's CPAC Speech
• Fact checkers found 23 outright lies in his speech
• Hershey Faces Boycott Calls Over Trans Woman in International Women’s Day Campaign
• Candace Owens Video
• Brett Cooper Video
• Tucker Carlson Segment on Hershey’s chocolate
• DailyWire tweet
• Tennessee is the latest state to sign one of these bills into law, which takes effect on July 1st
• Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S.
• New York Repeals 'Walking While Trans' Law
• When cross-dressing was criminal: Book documents history of longtime San Francisco law
• Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson interview with NPR
• Tennessee Drag Queen Gives Defiant Speech About Anti-Drag Bill With Powerful Stonewall Reminder

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This week, we discuss America's gun culture and how conservatives have taken it to a weird extreme. We also talk about a Texas judge ruling on mifepristone, updates on the "lab leak theory,"  Dilbert being canceled, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Mississippi bans gender-affirming care for trans youth
• Florida Republican pitches bill to eliminate the Florida Democratic Party
• Texas judge to rule on abortion pill used by millions of Americans
• Scott Adams Livestream
• Do you agree or disagree with this statement:  “It’s OK to be white.”
• American National Election Studies Survey
• Cartoonists say a rebuke of 'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams is long overdue
• Covid has been proven to come from a lab in China by the US government (not really)
• Fox News blasts Lego for “going woke”
• H.R.1095
• A pastor in Tennessee went viral for posting a video promoting an AR-15 giveaway
• Ignite Church attempts to recruit young men by giving away AR-15
• A gun church that glorifies the AR-15 and is led by the son of the 'Moonies' church founder has been making alliances with far-right figures
• Key facts about Americans and guns
• Some gun death statistics from the BBC
• study published in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
• Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault
• Homicide Deaths Among Adult Cohabitants of Handgun Owners in California, 2004 to 2016
• More than 100 ads during the 2022 midterms
  
  

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On this episode, we discuss the whitewashing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by conservatives. We also discuss the latest update on the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News, how the Mormon church have been illegally hiding money from its members, the results of the Wisconsin Supreme Court primary, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled
• Will Sommer Twitter Thread
• Dominion v. Fox News Complaint
• Mormon Church and its investment manager fined $5 million by SEC
• WI Supreme Court Rules Against Lowes Trying to Evade Property Tax
• Dark Store Theory
• Biden Just Destroyed Putin’s Last Hope
• Republicans criticize Biden’s trip to Kyiv as Putin withdraws from nuclear treaty
• Conservatives Lose Their Minds Over Chelsea Handler Skit
• Stanford The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
• Examples of conservatives appropriating Dr. King’s words
• WI SJR 7
• Fox News: MLK Dream Score
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Labor
• Martin Luther King on “right to work”
• MLK studied communism
• 1952 letter to his future wife, Coretta Scott
• “The Other America” speech
• The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement
• The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968

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This week, we discuss the tragic story of the Wilmington Coup. We also talk about the He Gets Us campaign, Nikki Haley running for president, the massive train derailment in Ohio, and how Elon Musk is an idiot... again. If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• "He gets us" Super Bowl Jesus commercial angers both left and right
• The truth behind the ‘He Gets Us’ ads for Jesus airing during the Super Bowl
• The Far Right Is Funding Evangelical Super Bowl Sunday Ads
• Nikki Haley is running for president
• President Joe Biden signed legislation on December 2nd 2022 to block a national U.S. railroad strike.
• Rebecca Watson video
• Dianne Feinstein announces she will retire at the end of her current term (sort of)
• Elon Musk declares cancel culture over since Twitter takeover: 'You won't be missed'
• Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
• Michael Knowles on performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before the Super Bowl
• Ben Shapiro gives his “thoughts” and also ponders the genitals of flyover pilots
• NewsMax’s Benny Johnson says it should be illegal
• A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
• Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
• THE WILMINGTON COUP D'ÉTAT OF 1898
• What a White-Supremacist Coup Looks Like
• "The Vampire that Hovers Over North Carolina," News and Observer, September 27, 1898
• White Declaration of Independence

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On this episode, we continue our observance of Black History Month by discussing the tragic events of the Tulsa Massacre. We also talk about Biden's State of the Union, killer Chinese balloons, and more! If you like our podcast, make sure to leave a 5-star review!  Useful links from the episode:

• Republican Party of Wisconsin: Complaint filed with Wisconsin Judicial Commission over Janet Protasiewicz for judicial conduct violations in her campaign
• Janet Protasiewicz leads fundraising for state Supreme Court; Jennifer Dorow has strong start
• Candace Owens: “The trans agenda is demonic. Any actor, actress, individual that supports this is supporting something that is demonic.
• ChatGPT refuses to use N-word to disarm bomb
• Greenwood neighborhood prior to the massacre
• Sarah Page
• Tulsa Tribune article
• There had been 2 lynchings in Tulsa in 1920
• How the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Was (and Might Be) Forgotten
• June 4th editorial in the Tulsa Tribune “It Must Not Be Again”
• City Commission claims for property damage total $1.8 million dollars 
• Redfearn v. American Central Ins. Co. in 1926, Oklahoma Supreme Court immunizes insurance companies from liability due to a riot.