Horrible Headlines this week:

• Trump calls Colombian President Gustavo Petro a drug dealing thug
• ICE shoots a famous TikToker in LA
• Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo is exposed

Artifact:

The Washington Post cautions MAGA not to underestimate No Kings... relating it, somehow, to the Tea Party...

Theme Music: "⁠⁠Mock the Afflicted⁠⁠" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Intermission Music: "Blind Love Dub" by Jeris, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Simone and Jean-Paul discuss the ceasefire in Gaza, ICE social media snooping, torture meted out by Israel against the Sumud Flotilla activists, and a threat by the White House to invoke the Insurrection Act, before reviewing a classic Bari Weiss NYT Op-ed in honor of her installment at the top of the CBS Newsroom.

Sorry. This one's a little long.

This week's artifact⁠

Theme Music: "⁠⁠Mock the Afflicted⁠⁠" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Intermission Music: "City view from Torni" by Brylie Christopher Oxley, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Clip from Reel by User “yusufvaw”

Clip from Al Jazeera

On this episode, we discuss the distressing executive orders, the US invading itself, the government shutdown, and the humiliation ritual of the top military brass, before diving into the sophisticated politics guiding the Global Sumud Flotilla that was "intercepted" on the way to Gaza.

This week's artifact

Theme Music: "⁠Mock the Afflicted⁠" by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Intermission Music: reel audio from everydaypalestine