Happy Friday! Sam and Emma speak with Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon.com and proprietor of the blog Hullabaloo, to round up the week in news. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on the Supreme Court’s affirmation of the TikTok ban, Biden and Trump’s following denunciations of said ban, Israel’s ceasefire sabotage, Trump’s cabinet nominees, medicare drug price negotiations, and Mike Johnson’s enforcement of the Trump regime, before watching Bernie push Trump treasury pick Bessent on why he doesn’t think working people deserve fair wages. Digby then joins, as she, Sam, and Emma dive right into the devastating wildfires continuing to ravage LA, and the right’s immediate push to politicize the event for all of their culture war BS, targeting Newsome, Bass, and DEI, before shifting to the greater absurdity of blaming people for failing to deal with an issue (climate change) that you refuse even to acknowledge. Expanding on this latter element, Digby tackles how LA is already being set up for Big Tech disaster capitalists to swoop in, diving deep into the setup of Trump’s uber-oligarchy, what Big Tech wants from the relationship, and what makes them distinct from both contemporary and historical oligarch comparisons, wrapping up the show by waxing on the horrors of a Polymarket populist future.
And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma take some highlights from the hearings for Trump’s Administrative nominees, including Bessent’s abject fear of taxing the wealthy, Russell Vought’s attempt to shirk the “has repeatedly fantasized about terrorizing bureaucratic agents” accusations, and Hegseth’s utter embarrassment in the face of Elizabeth Warren. They also unpack right-wing reactionaries’ attempt to pin California’s forest fires on those damn meth-smoking homeless people in urban Los Angeles, plus, your calls and IMs!
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It’s Monday, and everything is fine… On today’s show
It’s the NYC Primary Election Eve and an Emerson College Poll shows Zohran Mamdani winning in round 8 of the rank choice voting.
We talk to Matt Duss over the conflict in Iran. Check out his podcast Undiplomatic and his work at the Center for International Policy
Also joining us is Professor Eskander Sadeghi for a discussion on the history that has led us to this point in Iran. Check out his piece for Jacobin
Plus, Anthony Conwright joins us to discuss the NYC Mayoral Primary and his piece in The Nation “Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialists”
In the Fun Half
The GOP continues to fold themselves into pretzels as they reframe their own previous statements on Iran.
Vinny from PBD attempts to be the voice of reason by pointing out the similarities between Iran and Iraq…attempts.
Marco Rubio goes on Face the Nation to argue that whether Iran has expressed intent of nuclear weaponization is irrelevant to US policy.
ICE agents continue to brutally and violently terrorize communities.
Mahmoud Khalil Returns Home, greeted by AOC and heads straight to Columbia University to continue his fight to end the genocide in Gaza.
All that and more, folks.
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