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S2E37: Vote Like Somebody’s Trying to Stop You (opens the original)
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The Trump administration makes its third bid to the Supreme Court to restrict mail-in voting — even as ballots are already going out. Meanwhile, DOJ and DHS are quietly building the first-ever federal citizen voter list, missing their own deadline in the process. Then: an armed man rushes Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, the latest in a troubling pattern of political violence. Plus — vesper bats have an immune system unlike any other mammal on Earth, and it might explain
S2E36: Crude Awakening: Oil's Well That Ends Well (opens the original)
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Venezuela's oil, an Oklahoma data center drained mid-drought, and tariff-free beef with no country-of-origin label. Joe and Jesse cover a news week that had a little bit of everything. They break down the new 65-billion-barrel Venezuela deal, dig into fresh strikes on Iran and the blast radius of the weapon behind them, and run through Congress censuring one of its own, SCOTUS clearing Trump's $400 million ballroom, and George Santos' lifetime betting ban. So sit back, relax, and get ready to ha
S2E35: Nixon Twice and Tricky Dick's Revenge (opens the original)
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Hakeem Jeffries' secret meet with Jared Kushner sets off a Democratic Party firestorm and we aren't buying the "real talk" video. The DSA backed insurgent knocks off a $16M funded Democrat in Florida, Darlene Graham wins her her primary, the U.S.-Canada trade war goes boom, the national debt just hit $40 trillion, and a new ICE operation nets over 1,300 arrets in Virginia and Maryland. No need dive this week, so sit back, relax, and get ready to have a civil conversation.
S2E34: The Government's Monopoly (opens the original)
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Joe’s school couldn't afford paper for homework, but his classroom got a brand-new computer it didn't need. Twenty years later, he found out why — and it starts with a lottery that isn't legally allowed to exist unless the government runs it. This week we go through the California Lottery, a 2019 state audit that found $36 million missing, then follow the money into CSU's broken "tuition-free" promise, a pension bet that went bad, and how the U.S. actually stacks up against the rest of the world
S2E33: Legal Doesn't Mean Just in the Lemon Market (opens the original)
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Just as we promised , a deep dive where Jesse explores the gap between legal and just — tracing Milton Friedman's shareholder-profit doctrine and Akerlof's "market for lemons" through four decades of wage stagnation and record corporate profits. We break down $50-340 billion in annual wage theft, why Walmart and McDonald's top every state's SNAP and Medicaid recipient lists, and how it all traces back to Citizens United's broken promise of transparency. So sit back, relax, and get ready to have
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