Air Date: 10-27-2026

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from September and October without being overwhelming! Organized around a single idea: when something goes wrong, follow where the blame lands. Republicans staged a hearing over Anthony Fauci's diary while a food-borne parasite sickened more than 1,500 people after the Trump administration gutted the systems that track outbreaks. Housing costs get pinned on rent control, and the paperwork of being poor eats hours the wealthy pay someone else to spend. Meanwhile Boulder, Colorado is taking Exxon to court over what the company knew about climate change fifty years ago. The mix closes with the people organizing to protect the midterms and with what Occupy Wall Street left behind.

Covering: September–October 2026

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SECTION 1: THEY KNEW

(00:01:45) #1827 - Deep Cuts: Exxon Knew - The History Behind the Case to Make Polluters Pay

1: Trump’s Big Oil Case Heads to the Supreme Court - What A Day - Air Date 3-16-26

2: The Fight for Fossil Fuel Industry Accountability: Understanding Suncor V. Boulder Part 1 - Center for Progressive Reform - Air Date 9-3-26

3: What‘s Suncor V. Boulder? And Why Does It Matter to Climate Progress? - Covering Climate Now - Air Date 9-23-26

(00:25:05) #1824 - The Next Gilded Age: AI Doomsday and the Insatiable Business Model

4: The AI Bubble Is Bigger And More Dangerous Than You Think Part 1 - The Tea with Myriam François - Air Date 9-11-26

5: You Don't Hate AI Enough. - Nash Keune - Air Date 9-20-26

6: The ‘End Times Fascists’ of AI - Blood in the Machine - Air Date 9-13-26

SECTION 2: SENT TO THE WRONG ADDRESS

(00:53:41) #1829 - Poverty Is Hard on Purpose in America and We All Pay the Time Tax

7: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of Affordability Politics Part 1 - Citations Needed - Air Date 6-17-26

8: The Time Cost of Bureaucracy Part 1 - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 8-28-26

9: Merchants of Death The Men Who Killed Healthcare in America. Part 1 - UNFTR - Air Date 9-4-26

(01:17:56) #1826 - The Mechanics of Complicity from Nazis to Newsrooms to Fandoms

10: I Quit My Job Because of Harry Potter Part 1 - Hoots Hootman - Air Date 9-26-26

11: UK Sanctions Israeli Settlers. A Breakthrough Or A Cop-Out? - Owen Jones - Air Date 9-8-26

12: Why Centrists and Ezra Klein Are Ruining Everything - Benaminute - Air Date 11-21-25

SECTION 3: SHOW TRIALS AND REAL ONES

(01:43:37) #1820 - Science and Public Health Under Attack by Our Own Government

13: Fauci Takes the 5th Amendment While MAGA Cracks His Diary Open & Calls Him Hitler - The Daily Show - Air Date 7-30-26

14: Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health Part 1 - Reveal - Air Date 8-11-26

15: We Need to Accept That We Elected an Actual Madman to Be President - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 8-11-26

(02:05:20) #1822 - The State Media Playbook: The FCC and Billionaires Are Waging a War on the Free Press

16: "Profoundly Corrupt": Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month - Democracy Now! - Air Date - 8-19-26

17: Trump’s “Authoritarian Takeover” of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press’s Jessica González - Air Date 8-19-26

18: Coyote Vs. Acme Proves the CEOs Don’t Know S***. - Adam Conover - Air Date 9-4-26

SECTION 4: WHERE ANSWERING STILL HAPPENS

(02:27:22) #1821 - Election Sabotage, Voting System Vulnerabilities, and the Defense of the 2026 Midterms

19: President Trump Is Trying to Change How Elections Are Run. Where Do Things Stand - Consider This - Air Date 8-28-26

20: Will Dems Risk Being Called 'Election Deniers' If They Need to Challenge Midterms - The BradCast - Air Date 8-27-26

21: Protecting the Midterms—at the Grassroots and in the Courts Part 1 - Start Making Sense - Air Date 8-19-26

(02:50:29) #1825 - We Are Still the 99%: Occupy Wall Street's Unfinished Business, 15 Years Later

22: The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States with Kim Phillips-Fein Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 9-3-26

23: We Are the 99 - 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street's Impact Is Still Being Felt Part 1 - Democracy Now! - Air Date 9-18-26

24: Episode 6 You Can't Evict an Idea Part 1 - Future Hindsight - Air Date 8-13-26

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