HH:

* The US is running out of missiles and interceptors, and Trump wants to punish the people who let you know.

* Lawsuit contends that Trump Admin is targeting unaccompanied minors to pump deportation numbers.

* Israel indicates a Jewish settler for manslaughter in the West Bank.

* NM sues DOJ over withholding unredacted Epstein files.

* Lindsay Clancy trial reveals the ways post-partum women are failed…and maybe also our fascination with a good old conspiracy.

Artifact: Classic appearance of Angela Davis on Democracy Now! during the George Floyd protests, tackling the politics of prison abolition.

HH:

* Dems attack their left flank in MI

* MAGA darling is accused of horrendous domestic violence

* New record of unadjusted minimum wage

* A potential cyber attack on US water infrastructure by Iran

* Edwin Jovanny Lopez-Cornejo dies in ICE detention at Delaney Hall (Newark)

Artifact: An artcle from Wired by Noah Shachtman entitled: For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

Well it finally happened. This life of ours has caught up to us, prompting the need for a brief hiatus. We will be back with a full length episode next week. In the meantime, enjoy this reading of Simone’s piece from our Substack. Don’t forget to subscribe, there is a free tier as well as a $5/month subscription that helps us with our rather extensive babysitter budget.

HH:

* Trump admin (Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio) coordinate an attack on the left

* Trump threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfires.

Artifact: We talk racism and media via Reporting on ICE killings follows a long history of normalizing state violence by Aja Arnold in The Objective.

Theme Music: “Mock the Afflicted” by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

HH:

* Lindsey Graham is dead and Mitch McConnell is… alive?

* Trump is hot and cold at the NATO Summit

* ICE murders two people fleeing from them

* Iran War limply returns

Artifact: We talk World Cup via an article in CounterPunch by Graham Peebles entitled: Poisoning The World Cup: The American Way

Theme Music: “Mock the Afflicted” by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

Trigger warning: Discussion of sexual assault/rape

* China tests ballistic missiles

* Trump is bilking the country for billions

* KIDS Act threatens to kill the internet

* Women in the army are more likely to be killed by fellow soldiers than combatants

* The Intercept anonymous tip line compromised (for months!)

Artifact: The ups and down of “DSA-style” candidates (NYC DSA sweep + Graham Platner crash and burn) with a Jonathan Chait double feature.

HH:

* The Supreme Court decides to do some “work”

* Cancelling Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians

* Shielding Monstanto from liability for cancer caused by Roundup

* Eliminate (even more!) campaign finance rules

* Legalize discrimination against trans athletes

* …saved birthright citizenship?

* Outrageous sentences rolled out for Prairieland 8

Artifact:

An X post and a Substack video by Glenn Greenwald about the impacts of independent media

Theme Music: “Mock the Afflicted” by Robert Warrington, Licensed under CC BY 3.0

HH:

* Strait of Hormuz gets closed again (well its open now but it was closed when we were recording and will probably be again by the time you’re listening)

* Trump admin moved to bringing back Institutionalization.

* Paper by Exequiel Hernandez (Wharton), “ICE-ing the Economy: Immigration Enforcement Under Trump 2.0 and Local Economic Activity” shows negative economic impacts of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies.

* Trump Admin takes issue with latest Anthropic LLM model.

Artifact: An Episode of the Unruffled Podcast by Janet Lansbury called, “Kids Don’t Need Intensive Parenting (and Neither do We!)”