🎙️ Dispatches from the American Experiment — July 17, 2025

Epstein Files & MAGAT Gaslighting: Roxanne digs into the MAGAT hypocrisy meltdown: after years of “release the files!” rants, Trump world now balks. Senator Gallego calls it a cover-up. Trump’s pals—Pam "Blondie" Bondi, Ka$h Patel—sit on a swampy pile of secrets 🐊. Pence wants transparency, but gets queasy when asked specifics. Shawn Duffy blathers about “child videos.” Roxanne: “These MAGATs never once mention the victims.” Over 1,000 identified. Virginia Giuffre is dead. The pain is real.

Judicial Chess: Emil Bove: A Trump lackey (and grandson of Peter Lorre, somehow), Bove is being groomed for the Supreme Court. He helped Trump dodge the E. Jean Carroll case and allegedly told DOJ prosecutors to “say f*** you to the courts.” 900+ DOJ lawyers said: no more. Chuckles Grassley shoved the nomination through. Cory Booker walked out. Roxanne suspects: this is about stacking the bench for decades 📚.

Environmental Doom, Health Gloom:

Why Voters Self-Sabotage: Roxanne answers a caller's despair: voters cling to guns, Jesus, or billionaires. They’ve been manipulated. Another caller, Clarence, nails the real culprit: no civics, no knowledge. “People don’t know who’s in charge of the potholes they whine about.” 🎓

LGBTQ+ Youth Left Behind: Roxanne rages over the shutdown of the 988 LGBTQ+ text line. “These MAGATs want them dead. Dead, dead.” Suicide risk is 4x higher for queer youth. Trevor Project’s CEO called it “dangerous.” Roxanne says: “You don’t have to be trans to care.”

Bee Stations, Soba Noodles & Royal Canapés:

Listener Sylvie built a “bee watering station” 🐝. Roxanne loved it.

She’s got a craving for cold soba. She’s got a grudge against deep-fried Long John Silvers leftovers in a sweaty room.

Power company’s on edge during storms—“like a chihuahua passing a peach pit.”

Chrissie Hynde may be “problematic.” Brother Deacon Asa dishes the backstory 🍿.

Truckin’ with Clarence: Ports in the east doing OK. Out west? Freight problems. Infrastructure construction is booming—but Clarence fears Trump will yank funding. "Just like he did to that battery plant in Florence."

Final Thoughts: Roxanne’s voice cuts through the noise with Appalachian fire and barbed truth. No PR team. No algorithms. Just truth, satire, and a deep love for democracy’s last flickering candle 🕯️. Support the show. Speak out. Don’t let the MAGATs win. $1580 funding deficit through the end of Friday, July 18. Please consider contributing headon.live/contribute

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