It’s News Day Tuesday! Sam speaks with James North, reporter covering the Global South and editor-at-large at MondoWeiss, to discuss the ongoing electoral situation in Venezuela. First, Sam runs through updates on Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz as her running mate, her today’s primaries across the Midwest, the Google monopoly, Elon Musk’s legal woes, ANOTHER undisclosed gift to Clarence Thomas, Israel’s torture camps, and Nassau’s mask ban, before walking through Walz bona fides and his vision for US politics. James North then joins, diving right into the national crisis in Venezuela that led up to last week’s contested elections, before stepping back to unpack the devastating impact of Donald Trump’s economic warfare on the country amid a then-existing economic crisis, resulting in one of the worst humanitarian catastrophe Latin America has seen in the last century. After expanding on this, exploring why repealing these sanctions regardless of the future of this recent election’s results must be at the center of US Foreign Policy and looking at why the sanctions failed (as they always do), North walks Sam through the history of Venezuela’s generally free and fair elections, and what went different this time around, with the mass refugee exodus from the country playing a central role in Maduro’s shady win. Wrapping up, James and Sam tackle why the US needs to step back from Latin American politics, and how this crisis can help recenter the conversation around immigration.

And in the Fun Half: Sam somehow dives even deeper into Tim Walz’ impeccable rhetorical work, listening to him perfectly weave progressive ideals with notes about the insanity of the GOP’s anti-family anti-people platform and weird culture war talking points, also watching Fox struggle to make sense of such a logical decision by the Democrats. Tim Pool’s wishcasting falls short, Sam gets to know Adin Ross, John from San Antonio discusses Cori Bush’s primary and the Walz pick, Chris from St. Louis gives his perspective on the former and Fiora from Minnesota gives hers on the latter, and Alisa from PA unpacks Shapiro’s problems even within Pennsylvania, plus, your calls and IMs!

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