Robert discusses what's likely to happen, unlikely to happen, and likely to happen in unlikely ways this election season.

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Mia and James take a break from America to discuss the history of Guy Fawkes Day, the heroes of the German Peasants War, and the future of trans cinema.

Sources:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/real-story-of-bonfire-night/

https://www.ajc.org/news/on-luther-and-his-lies

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/guy-fawkes-bonfire-night/index.html

https://deadline.com/2024/10/lilly-wachowski-anarchists-united-grants-1236161483/

https://www.autostraddle.com/lilly-wachowski-interview/

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Margaret reads you a story in which vampires serve as a metaphor for yet another thing, because vampires are cool.

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Molly talks about the recently unsealed case against the Albanian racist who recruited American teens in a Roblox chat to Zoombomb California city council meetings.

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Robert and Gare discuss the final event of the 2024 RNC: the Trump Coronation Spectacular.

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Margaret reads you a story about what enormous love it will take to rebuild the world and take back what's ours from the powerful.

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Robert and Sophie infiltrate the private Heritage Foundation afterparty, and Gare talks with a conservative environmentalist group.

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Robert and Gare report from where Ohio police shot a houseless Black man, meanwhile Sophie attends a Moms for Liberty event starring Ron DeSantis.

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Robert, Gare and Sophie report from the first official day of the Republican National Convention.

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Robert, Gare and Sophie report from Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Red, White, & Brew RNC welcome party.

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These are frightening times, but Robert explains why now is not the time to panic. The situation is not as dire or hopeless as many people want you to believe, and there's a lot of good evidence to back that up.

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Margaret finishes reading you a reimagining of Hindu mythology by a masterful speculative fiction author.

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1. An Alex Jones Update feat. Knowledge Fight

2. Infiltrating Local Nazi Groups
3. How Trump Rigged an FBI Investigation for Brett Kavanaugh
4. Economists Win Worst Nobel Prize Yet, Asked to Please Stop
5. Charlie Kirk vs College Students

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James and Shereen talk about attacks on Syrian refugees in Turkey, the response in Turkish occupied Syria, and the Turkish  ultra nationalism that took advantage of economic conditions to stoke anti-refugee sentiments.

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Mia and James take a deep dive into how Saudi Arabia's attempts to get returns on their investments led them to carry out a genocide in Yemen and an Esports tournament in Riyadh.

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Robert and Gare enter the KHIVE to discuss post debate polls, whether Biden will step down, and if Kamala Harris could replace him on the ballot.

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An exploration of two different ways to define being indigenous.

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Margaret reads you a reimagining of Hindu mythology by a masterful speculative fiction author.

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Mia and James discuss the economic crisis and splits in the MAS and Bolivia's social movements that led to the worst coup attempt in modern history.

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Robert, James, and Gare discuss the first presidential debate of 2024, Biden’s poor performance, Trump's lies and what this means for the upcoming election.

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Margaret finishes reading Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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Garrison dissociates at a Charlie Kirk x Vivek Ramaswamy rally and wonders if it's even worth it anymore.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html 

https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/immigration/new-york-city-free-one-way-plane-tickets-migrants-fact-check/536-c6e7168f-7f16-4bf9-97cd-33389729869c
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/nyregion/nyc-hotels-homeless-shelters.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/kamala-harris-afghanistan-withdrawal-report
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/oct/15/byron-donalds/fact-checking-misleading-claims-about-black-wage-g/

https://www.tampabay.com/news/2024/07/02/how-did-black-americans-do-economically-under-trump-biden/

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-trump-administration-embraces-the-saudi-led-war-yemen

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/saudi-arabia-arms-deal-trump-what-to-know/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/

https://www.wabe.org/charlie-kirk-vivek-ramaswamy-tangle-with-georgia-state-students-at-tour-stop-in-support-of-trump/

https://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NLP-Teen-Survey-Report-2024.pdf 

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Robert and Gare explore 'The New Norm Show,’ the worst conservative cartoon ever made.

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Robert and Gare take a look at the polls post Trump's felony conviction.

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Mia talks with comedian, political satirist, and writer Justine Wanda about the movement against Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill and how massive tax hikes on basic goods have driven Kenyans into the streets. 

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James talks to immigration attorney Kirsten Zittlau about ICE’s recent transfer of asylum seekers from detention in California to Texas, Biden’s recent executive order, and how to participate in mutual aid to help migrants.

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Andrew takes a look at the historical tactics and methods of resistance used in the struggle against colonial powers in the Caribbean.

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Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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Robert and James discuss war crimes that have happened in their proximity, but which they (and this is important for legal reasons) did not partake in.

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Molly and Robert discuss the hung jury in the first of the nazi torch march cases to go to trial.

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Mia and James discuss Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson's recent fake economics Nobel won for being to first economists to discover that history exists.

Sources:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.91.4.938

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118773614
https://www.nber.org/papers/w10481
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/117/4/1231/1875948
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf
https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2024.pdf
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.91.5.1369

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James, Sophie, and Molly talk about their gardens and give listeners tips on starting their own garden this summer. 

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Mia and James go through a flurry of Supreme Court news ranging from history's worst legal arguments in the Mifepristone case to a reversal of the bump stock ban.

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Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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Continuing the conversation from Part 1, Shereen discusses the history of Hamas and summarizes the previous peace deal attempts.

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Shereen explains the most recent US proposed peace deal for Hamas and Israel and the events leading up to its announcement.

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Gare and Mia discuss the newest anti-trans conspiracy theory: the false rise in transgender mass shooters.

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James is joined again by Mick and Roos to discuss the terrible conditions endured by asylum seekers at Ter Apel and how the community has organized to help.

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Mia talks with James and Gare about the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and their part in the Great Uprising that stretched from 1963-1972.

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Margaret reads Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.

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Mia, Sophie and Robert relive the horror of the Kavanaugh hearings and discover how Trump made the FBI conduct a fake "investigation" to clear him.

Sources:

https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/KavanaughReport_final.pdf

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-brett-kavanaugh-misogyny.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-white-house-fbi-report/

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article214604235.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/kavanaugh-trump-white-house-fbi-report/

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Gare takes Robert and Sophie inside the wild world of Donald Trump pornography.

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Robert explains to Garrison how a chunk of the online left have convinced themselves the Houthis sunk an aircraft carrier, and what that means about the nature of reality in 2020s.

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