Air Date: 9-22-2026

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from July and August without being overwhelming! Organized around a single idea: ask who the system is for, and every story this summer gives the same answer. The administration rewrites the national story while libraries lose their funding. Corporations fence off ideas as private property. Latin America gets treated like a portfolio and Greenland like a drilling site. Police cameras put every driver under permanent investigation. The seats it all runs from are held until death, and the fixes on the table aim at prying some of them open.

Covering: July–August 2026

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SECTION 1: OWNING THE STORY

(00:01:52) #1815 - Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory

1: Trying to Rewrite History - Letters From an American - Air Date 7-28-26

2: Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment Part 1 - Movement Memos - Air Date 3-19-26

(00:21:31) #1816 - IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon

3: We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 5-27-26

4: Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? - Taylor Lorenz - Air Date 8-5-26

5: Everyone's Wrong About John Oliver's Trademark War - LegalEagle - Air Date 8-8-26

SECTION 2: THE WORLD AS INVENTORY

(00:45:39) #1814 - Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run

6: "Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America - Democracy Now! - Air Date 1-6-26

7: 'Cuba Is Not Venezuela': Trump's Takeover Threat Collides with 'disciplined Revolutionary State' - FRANCE 24 English - Air Date 3-18-26

(01:02:20) #1817 - Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency

8: Fire Climate Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-6-24

9: Is This How We Invade Greenland - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 8-11-26

SECTION 3: EVERYONE ELSE

(01:22:58) #1818 - Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone

10: Ohio Professor Specialized in Policing Nails Why Flock Cameras Are a Threat to Everyone - More Perfect Union - Air Date 8-16-26

11: Police Surveillance Technology - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 8-3-26

12: Former ICE Lawyer Says the Point of Trump's ICE Is to "engender Fear" - The Current - Air Date 7-14-26

(01:42:24) #1813 - Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering

13: Trumps National Killer Police Force Part 1 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 7-24-26

14: ICE Deports Family To Their Deaths In Guatemala - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-29-26

15: Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders Part 1 - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-17-26

(02:08:33) #1819 - Coerced Sterilization, Abortion Bans, and the New Pronatalism: Who Controls American Reproduction

16: Buck V. Bell Part 1 - 5-4 - Air Date 5-26-20

17: Explaining This Moment of Pronatalism Part 1 - rePROS Fight Back - Air Date 6-16-26

18: If Roe Was Never Enough, Why Was It Everything (And a Word to My Boom! Lawyered Fam) Part 1 - Boom! Lawyered - Air Date 6-11-26

SECTION 4: HELD FOR LIFE... UNTIL NOW

(02:35:29) #1811 - Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem

19: Mitch, Lindsey and the Gerontocracy Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 7-13-26

20: What Is There to Say About Lindsey Graham - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 7-12-26

21: Where Is Mitch McConnell? - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 7-10-26

(02:58:47) #1812 - Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both

22: 'Unhinged and Racist': Hayes EVISCERATES Trump's Birthright Argument - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 6-30-26

23: Did the Birthright Citizenship Ruling Prove It's Time for SCOTUS Reform? Part 1 - Stateside with Kai and Carter - Air Date 7-1-26

24: Broke: Pack the Supreme Court. Woke: Pack ALL of the Courts - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 7-23-26

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