THE MOST IMPORTANT THING: WE PREDICTED GEORGE SANTOS’ RELEASE!!!!
This episode of Red State Reboot is brought to you by… A Bad Night’s Sleep - “Nature’s Beta Blocker!” JK, it’s brought to you by us after Freaky Friday-ing our bad moods. This week, we’re talking the MAGA-made crisis of a government shutdown and the :) dissolution of a free press in the U.S. :) as evidenced by the new Pentagon media rules. Also, we discuss the Hatch Act and its repeated violations by this Admin - including but not limited to Kristi Noem’s video in the TSA lines, and how this is just the cherry on top. Yuck! But we don’t let Kristi off the hook there - we pull up the REAL receipts of her trying to use the bathroom at an animal shelter (REST IN POWER, CRICKET). Regrettably, we are once again shouting out MTG and… George Santos (?)… Finally, we talk Tylenol and Trump Derangement Syndrome, and present a new theory we have on the latter.
Oh! And early voting started this week … NC Rebooties can look up their local elections here https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election/local-voter-tool
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SOURCES:
Anderson, Jon Lee. 2025. “Have Cubans Fled One Authoritarian State for Another?” The New Yorker, September 29. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/a-cuban-exodus-faces-trumps-america
Najmabadi, Shannon, and Aaron Gregg. 2025. “Airports Say They Won’t Air Kristi Noem Shutdown Video at TSA Checkpoints.” The Washington Post, October 13. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2025/10/13/kristi-noem-shutdown-video/
Priest, Aaron. 2025. “RFK’s Cousin Tim Shriver Weighs in on Trump Administration’s Unproven Ties Between Autism & Tylenol.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/us/video/rfk-cousin-tim-shriver-speaks-live-ebof
Shapero, Julia. 2025. “Apple Renames Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America on Maps.” The Hill, February 12. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5140467-apple-maps-renames-gulf-of-mexico/amp/
The Independent. 2025. “Kristi Noem Refused Access to Bathroom During Illinois ICE Facility Visit.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6x9ttlSZ_c
Wemple, Erik. 2025. “What Do the New Pentagon Press Reporting Rules Say?” The New York Times, October 16. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/business/media/pentagon-press-rules.html
Wright, Thomas C. 2023. Democracy in Latin America: A history since independence. Rowman & Littlefield
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