May 14, 2025 84 mins

The girlies are back for part two of the immigration series to unpack our modern-day McCarthyism. Starting with a recap of current events (aka The Horrible Things Update), they pick up where they left off in history, discussing Japanese internment, the second Red Scare, post-9/11 surveillance, and how fear of the 'other' has always justified oppression. Digressions include Khloe Kardashian’s venture into protein dust and the comforting fact that, as of today, sunlight is still legal to experience.

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This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.

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 ‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos

At $5 Million Each, 1000 ‘Gold Card’ Visas Have Been Sold. Could This Pay Off The US Debt?

Ask a Historian: How Many Japanese Americans Were Incarcerated During WWII?

Columbia University agrees to policy changes after Trump administration funding threats

Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

Counterintelligence and Access to Transactional Records: A Practical History of USA PATRIOT Act Section 215

Eighty Years After the U.S. Incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans, Trauma and Scars Still Remain 

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

Fact check: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says?

Florida lawmakers push legislation to weaken child labor laws 

Forced to live in horse stalls. How one of America’s worst injustices played out at Santa Anita

Harvard Renames Diversity Office As Trump Demands Dismantling of DEI

Harvard, Under Pressure, Revamps D.E.I. Office

Harvard Will Not Fund Affinity Group Graduation Celebrations Following Ed Department Warning 

Higher education, federal government ‘intimately connected’

History of the Certificate of Citizenship, 1790–1956

Hollywood Ten

How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history

HUAC  

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