We welcome our first Honorary Muckraker guest to the show today as we talk about the old story of Typhoid Mary, a cautionary tale of why you should listen to scientists when they warn you about stuff (cough global warming cough).

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Nancy Pelosi, the highest ranking legitimately elected politician in America, takes her throne as Speaker of the House this week while Putin's Puppet continues to destabilize the nation with his childish shutdown. Meanwhile, Mike Pence plays Bizarro Robin Hood by stealing from the poor (400,000 gov employees forced to work without pay) to give to the rich (him and Trump's cabinet members giving themselves a $10,000 pay raise).

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Twas the week of Christmas, and the President shutdown the government to make half a million essential service personnel work without pay and another half a mil Americans take forced time off without pay.

This week lasted a million years, and saw everything from the fraudulent Trump Foundation to the US gov shutting down. But the Notorious R.B.G. refuses to shutdown even as lung cancer looms, and she will hopefully outlive this scourge to democracy who's off to golf for 17 days while Gov Employees will be forced to keep working real jobs for no pay because Trump wants a wall he will never, ever get.

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President Individual-1 gets humiliated by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as he threatens to shutdown the government. But while Trump screams, tosses papers around, and refuses to get out of bed until noon the other shoe is about to drop, and the Mueller Man will some come a'callin'.

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Flynn and Cohen's sentencing recommendation memos have been released by Mueller. Through all their heavy redactions we can still see that "Individual-1" is going to be in hot water! Wonder who that could possibly be (spoilers it's Trump).

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The Mueller investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal took several dramatic leaps forward this week, and we eventually get around to talking about it after a long stretch of chatting about spiders and goats.

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Thanksgiving gave us our first slow news week since this podcast began! Also, an Alabama Man is shot by an arrow while Florida Man is caught having sex with miniature horses; all that and more on this week's episode! Oh, also Article 13 from the EU is brought up. Could be the beginning of the end of the Internet as we know it!

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Watch Democracy die in Georgia as Kemp, the guy in charge of the election, declares himself the winner! Also, what new crimes has Trump committed this week? Doesn't matter because he's above the law! All this and Brain Flake MMA on this week's Muckrakers!

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This last week was 10,000 years long. The morning after the earth-shattering midterms (an event full of thousands of individual stories of both triumph and heartache) the midterms themselves wasn't even the top story anymore!

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