#1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism
Air Date: 10-7-2025
The Trump administration has been doing what we knew it would: breaking laws and losing about 95% of their court battles. And the conservatively stacked Supreme Court has been doing what we knew it would: overwhelmingly ruling for Trump to cover his tracks because that's what they were put there to do.
Read more#1696 ~Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's Corruption
Air Date: 3-11-2025
The (Approximately) Monthly Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at the future for Gaza, Trump's plans for mass deportations, the decline of the US on the international stage, the wrecking crew dismantling the federal government, RFK Jr. and the threat to public health, and Trump's endemic corruption.
Read more#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power
Air Date: 3-7-2025
Corruption, for those who indulge, isn't just a perk of power, it can also be a method of maintaining it. Trump is not bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate or how it's geared toward supporting his desire for unchecked power.
Read more#1682 Looking Back to Trump 1.0 (Remix)
Air Date: 1-11-2025
Today, we look back to the warnings we gave ourselves at the beginning of the first Trump administration. In 2017 there was concern about corruption and his business dealings, ethics around his nominees, and the inability of the media to cover him properly.
Read more#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them
Air Date: 6-14-2024
We're in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for non-extreme conservatives in the country, at the same time as scandal, corruption, and justices Thomas and Alito's refusal to recuse in the face of clear bias are reaching a modern peak.
Read more#1603 Clarence Thomas and the Highest Court in the Land with the Lowest Standards of Ethics
Air Date: 1-13-2024
The Supreme Court began to lose its legitimacy in the eyes of many when President Obama wasn't allowed to fill the open seat left by the death of Antonin Scalia but, in truth, the scandal and manipulation of the nation's highest court go back much, much farther than that. However, in a bygone age, scandal was handled much differently than today, putting our current state of dysfunction and hyper-partisanship into sharp focus.
Read more#TBT #1152 Rise of the Oligarchs like the Ones Taking Clarence Thomas on Trips (Money in Politics) (Throwback)
#1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1528 The Ugly Underbelly of The Beautiful Game (Qatar World Cup)
Air Date: 11–30-2022
Today, we take a look at the context of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar including the labor abuses endemic in the construction of the facilities, the authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ policies of the Qatari government, and the corruption fundamental to the inner working of FIFA that brought the tournament to Qatar in the first place.
Read more#1287 Mitch McConnell is the Forking Worst (Repost)
Original Air Date: 7–5-2019
Today we take an unflinching look at Mitch McConnell and what a bad, bad man he is for basically all of the reasons.
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