Your Border is Showing: From Kashmir to ICE

Meg returns for a Mother’s Day episode that is warm, weird, and wildly enraging.

We start with a ceasefire (India and Pakistan) and end with state violence (ICE kidnapping a mom in Massachusetts). In between, we explore the imperial roots of the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir, why caste and colonialism still matter, and how U.S. immigration law is a eugenics project in bureaucratic drag.

Other things we cover:

• What a teenage Indian pacifist on live TV can teach all of us
• How Stephen Miller’s immigration plans recycle 1920s-style race science
• Why MAGA fascism isn’t new, just newly branded
• The emerging tradition of regular people blocking ICE with their bodies
• Whether Trump actually wants a Nobel Peace Prize (spoiler: yes)
• And what it's like to be the sullied gene pool (looking at you, Finn)

Don’t just listen. Organize, radicalize, and leave us a 5-star review that would make Karl Rove proud (but maybe don’t use his name this time).

Links:

1. Amazingly wise pacifist Indian teen. This is how you handle reporters.
2. Must-watch documentary, The Settlers, from Louis Theroux. (If you can't watch the BBC, try a Google search or search on X. You might find a friendly pirate.)
3. Meg's current book, Bad Law by Elie Mystal
4. And, if you want to check out that scene of Cantinflas on the border.