Live from the Police State

This week, we keep it a little shorter, since Finn, Patrick and Meg are deep in work on a documentary about Gaza solidarity in the high schools.

On the podcast, we cover:

• AI and the Big Dumb Bill. The House passed a monster benefits-cut bill. Half of them didn’t even read it. it is bad in almost every way, EXCEPT, it finally kicked off the divorce between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We discuss the latest insults flying between them.

• ICE in LA. Trump is sending the military and the National Guard to break up sanctuary cities. Protesters fight back. A union leader gets hospitalized. Tiananmen Square, but worse, as a protestor is run down by an ICE van⁠. (disturbing)

• Travel Ban Redux. Trump revives the Muslim ban idea and ends protections for hundreds of thousands.

• The Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Since we recorded, Israel has boarded the ship and detained and deported its activists. Greta was on board, our hero. Read their latest updates here.

• Mexico Elects Its Judges, So Naturally It’s a “Dictatorship” Now. The Western press flips out over a democratic reform that is overcoming judicial corruption.

• Dockworkers vs. Empire. French unions block weapons shipments to Israel.

• Mamdani Rising. NYC’s most charismatic DSA candidate wrecks Cuomo at the debate. He’s surging in the polls and he already raised enough money, so he's just asking for your time now. See the fun debate where everyone beats up on Andrew Cuomo.

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