Eliza Griswold (@elizagriswold) joins us to discuss her new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

On today’s show: Sam calls out libertarian Tim Carney for his disingenuous concern-trolling re: ICE’s family separation policy.

Poet and journalist Eliza Griswold joins us to discuss her new book, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Why Stacey Hanes of Amityville, PA signed a natural gas lease to let a Texas company frack on her land and how she realized there was something wrong with her family’s water supply. The history of mineral rights leases in Appalachia. How fracking works and why it’s so difficult to do it safely. The nightmare of trying to figure out what’s giving people cancer when the chemicals used in fracking are proprietary. How rural America’s “resource curse” has disenfranchised the people there and built up resentment towards urban areas. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791, onerous farm regulations, and other factors driving rural distrust of big government. How Stacey went from concerned parent to political activist in her efforts to get redress from the corporations polluting her community.

Conservative commentator Todd Starnes calls asylum-seekers “illegal alien invaders,” outlines how this is different from the Holocaust.

On the fun half: Ronald Raygun steals valor from 4-H. Jeff Sessions says “in Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country.” Acting ICE director Thomas Homan uses Nuremberg defense to reject Nazi comparison, says they’re “simply enforcing laws.” John Kelly describes plan to separate families in March 2017. A caller in Arkansas on how right-wing media indoctrinated people into the the Republican cult starting with Jerry Falwell in the 1980s. Direct Action Alliance Portland protest outside ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon. Trump directs Pentagon to create “space force” military branch. Chris in Taiwan on the audio of kids in ICE detention centers.

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