Trigger warning: Discussion of sexual assault/rape

* China tests ballistic missiles

* Trump is bilking the country for billions

* KIDS Act threatens to kill the internet

* Women in the army are more likely to be killed by fellow soldiers than combatants

* The Intercept anonymous tip line compromised (for months!)

Artifact: The ups and down of “DSA-style” candidates (NYC DSA sweep + Graham Platner crash and burn) with a Jonathan Chait double feature.

HH:

* The Supreme Court decides to do some “work”

* Cancelling Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians

* Shielding Monstanto from liability for cancer caused by Roundup

* Eliminate (even more!) campaign finance rules

* Legalize discrimination against trans athletes

* …saved birthright citizenship?

* Outrageous sentences rolled out for Prairieland 8

Artifact:

An X post and a Substack video by Glenn Greenwald about the impacts of independent media

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

HH:

* Strait of Hormuz gets closed again (well its open now but it was closed when we were recording and will probably be again by the time you’re listening)

* Trump admin moved to bringing back Institutionalization.

* Paper by Exequiel Hernandez (Wharton), “ICE-ing the Economy: Immigration Enforcement Under Trump 2.0 and Local Economic Activity” shows negative economic impacts of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

* Trump Admin takes issue with latest Anthropic LLM model.

Artifact: An Episode of the Unruffled Podcast by Janet Lansbury called, “Kids Don’t Need Intensive Parenting (and Neither do We!)”