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

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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!)”

HH:-Ezra Klein is a Thielite psyop

-15 Minneapolis activists indicted for anti-ICE protests

-Trump agrees to a deal with Iran so embarrassing it has to be kept secret

-IEP protections stripped from the Department of Education and handed of to HHS and the DOJ

Artifact: This grotesque hit piece on Chris Smalls in Jacobin by Annie Levin

HH:The establishment takes a shot at Graham PlatnerArtifact: This NYTs video op-ed with Nadja Spiegelman, Frederick Joseph, and Ruth Whippman called America Has a Masculinity Crisis.

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No Artifact this week, we spend most of the episode ranting and raving about the complicitly of liberal politicians vis-a-vis Delaney Hall.

HH:

Trump sics the justice department of his sexual assault victim, E. Jean Carroll.

ICE and “progressive” liberal coordinate in fascist crackdown outside of NJ immigrant detention center aka Delaney Hall concentration camp.

Shout out to Kevin Ortega-Rojas at Here’s Why w/ Kevin Ortega-Rojas for asking sharp questions of NJ’s governor.

Support Families Impacted by Detention at Delaney Hall

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HH:

* Jan 6 slush fund

* CA town evacuated over chemical plant

* Tulsi is the latest woman to leave the admin

* Iran: Will they, won’t they?

* Massie

* DNC autopsy (It’s Dead)

* Global Samud Flotilla sexual assault allegations

* Hasan Pike & Medea Benjamin Subpoenaed over Cuba visit

* New Ebola strain tests post-US-led world

Artifact:

This fantastic article about Cultural Engagement by none other than Simone.

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A day late and a HH short, but this is a good one.Artifact: Van Jones endorses Plutocratic governance in his recent fireside chat with McCormark professor of citizenship and self-government Archon Fung, hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.