Air Date: 11-11-25

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we examine how power is being quietly consolidated across institutions, how propaganda and AI are reshaping our sense of reality, and how division and fear are fueling both domestic repression and global aggression. From the Supreme Court to state media manipulation, from dismantled voting rights to foreign influence campaigns, we trace the machinery of authoritarian control—and spotlight the journalists, educators, and activists still pushing back to keep truth and democracy alive.

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PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE & CONSOLIDATION

(00:01:44) 1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism

1: 'Unconscionably Irreconcilable': Justice Sotomayor RIPS Colleagues in Fiery Dissent - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 9-9-25

2: Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s How to Fix It- Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 8-28-25

(00:16:53) 1743 Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America

3: The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak Part 1 - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 9-29-25

4: Trumps Battle With The Federal Reserve Part 1 - 1A - Air Date 9-10-2025

5: The Vought Doctrine Make It Hurt - Velshi - Air Date 10-5-25

(00:43:56) 1749 Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat

6: Voting Rights, But Mainly for White People - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, Justice, and the Courts - Air Date 10-18-25

7: Trump's Predictable Bad Faith on Election Security Gives His Opponents an Advantage - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 10-28-25

8: Why Trumps Plot to Secure His Grip on Power Beyond 2028 Could Backfire - The Humanist Report - Air Date 10-28-25

PART 2 INFORMATION WARFARE & REALITY CONTROL

(01:08:35) 1746 What an actual attack on free speech looks like

9: FCC's Anna Gomez & Axios' Sara Fischer - Axios - Air Date 9-19-25

10: ‘They’ll Be Others’: Trump THREATENS More Indictments of Foes After Comey - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 9-26-25

11: Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Amid Trump's "Antifa" Fearmongering - Democracy Now! - Air Date 10-15-25

(01:40:37) 1745 Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism

12: We're in Our AI Slop Era Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 8-7-25

13: AI and the Demise of College Writing Part 1 - Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry - Air Date 7-15-25

(01:54:27) 1744 Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly

14: Comedians Hold NOTHING Back While RIPPING Fellow Comics to Shreds - TYT Sports - Air Date 10-1-25

15: MAGA TikTokers Are Being Paid by Israel to Make the WORST Propaganda Youll Ever See - The Humanist Report - Air Date 10-2-25

PART 3 OTHERING & EXPANSION

(02:13:08) 1747 Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem

16: 'Kids Telling Edgy Jokes’? Hayes SHREDS Vance’s Defense of Racist GOP Group Chat - All In W/ Chris Hayes - Air Date 10-15-25

17: ‘A Very Dangerous Theory:’ MAGA’s Mask-off Racist Vision of America - Velshi - Air Date 9-7-25

(02:31:27) 1741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal

18: What's Behind the Anti-immigration Protests in the UK Part 1 - The Inside Story Podcast - Air Date 9-15-25

19: Block Everything W/ Sebastian Budgen Part 1 - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 9-16-25

20: Social Media Ban Sparks Deadly Protests in Nepal - The World - Air Date 9-8-25

(02:56:07) 1750 "American's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs

21: Ceasefire in Gaza, The Monroe Doctrine Under Trump, and a US Economy on the Brink of Collapse Part 1 - Red Menace - Air Date 10-14-25

22: Bailing on Farmers to Bail Out Argentina: Two to Tango Part 1 - UNFTR - Air Date 10-6-25

23: Trumps Hegemony Gambit; The Rights Warm Racist Embrace with Jeet Heer Part 1 - The Majority Report - Air Date 11-1-25

(03:20:01) 1748 Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, and the Fight Over What America Means

24: Democracy's Morticians Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on 'How Democracies Die' Part 1 - Lawfare Archive - Air Date 5-1-18

25: Unitary Executive Meets Textualism Part 1 - #SistersInLaw - Air Date 10-11-23

26: Reclaiming Patriotism From Trumps America with Ted Johnson Part 1 - How to Fix It with John Avlon - Air Date 4-27-25

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