District Sentinel Radio
District Sentinel Radio is the latest project from Sam Sacks and Sam Knight--the two journalists behind The District Sentinel News Co-op. Devoted to watchdog journalism, District Sentinel Radio is the podcast arm of the co-op.
Episodes
February 7, 2024 • 86 mins
-Chip Gibbons joins the two Sams to discuss the historic ICJ ruling calling on Israel to stop killing Palestinian civilians
-Land Back: A look at settler colonialism and genocide in the United States
-Congress responds to social media companies’ exploitation of children by allowing the exploitation to continue
-An announcement from Sam K follows this week’s Garbage Can
Music by Adam Fligsten adamfligsten.com
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November 6, 2023 • 99 mins
-A look at Israel’s defeat to Hezbollah in 2006, and its influence on the ongoing war in Gaza
-An interview with Yumna Patel, Palestine News Director for Mondoweiss, who brings us up to speed on events in the West Bank and Israeli repression of dissent after October 7
-Bizarre: the military classification system is making it look like the Pentagon has something to hide from that guy who thought FDR, the Pope, and Mussolini covered ...
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October 15, 2023 • 20 mins
-The Israel-Palestine conflict is entering uncharted territory. What we know is that Palestinians have the right to resist, occupied people will always fight back in asymmetrical warfare, and you shouldn’t be bullied out of stating the obvious.
-Plus, an update on Sentinel Radio: we’re pulling back on weekly podcasts to focus on longer form deep-dives and interviews. Trust us, it’s gonna be better.
Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamf...
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September 10, 2023 • 51 mins
-Stop Cop City protesters in Atlanta engage in civil disobedience, refuse to be cowed by the state’s attempts to criminalize dissent
-Ron DeSanctimonious’ housing market is crashing
-A drop in the oil barrel: Department of Interior drafted talking points defending Willow Project by touting $249 million investment in clean energy, per email obtained through FOIA
-Pelosi, Gen Z candidate guy, Walmart, ERCOT, Manchester United, and US...
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August 21, 2023 • 34 mins
-Paris Marx joins Sentinel Radio to discuss Uber and tech, ten years after the ridesharing service defeated DC government regulators.
-Paris helps us with the Can: Elon, Sam Altman, Cruise, and Bryan “Blood Man” Johnson are this week’s Garbage Candidates in a Tech Dipshit special
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Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com
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August 14, 2023 • 4 mins
The Department of Energy is investing a small amount of money into an unproven method of fighting the effects of carbon emissions. It's the subject of Sam Knight's FOIA request this week.
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July 30, 2023 • 49 mins
-The U.S. gerontocracy, Elon, PragerU, NYT, Pfizer, RFK Jr are nominated for the Garbage Can
-It’s official: Oily SCOTUS approved of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
-Biden dithers as millions lose Medicaid
-File Follies: Not saying you should put your money under the mattress, but banks are looking extra sketchy these days
Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com
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July 17, 2023 • 42 mins
-FTC Chair Lina Khan is under attack this week as “populist” Republicans cry about the regulator using antitrust law to oppress huge corporations
-Speaking of unassailable conglomerates, JP Morgan is readying itself to become a tech giant thanks to the Biden administration’s reaction to the spring financial crisis
-House GOP pushes defense spending bonanza. Bipartisan support for cluster bombs. Take that, children decades from now....
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July 3, 2023 • 49 mins
-The Supreme Court is ruling in favor of reactionaries, in cases based on wholesale fabrications. It’s the best.
-Biden EPA abandons “Cancer Alley” civil rights investigation; the case was likely winnable, even with the current goon squad on SCOTUS
-FILE FOLLIES: A company formerly run by a union-hating senator has some DOL enforcement records that we would very much like to see.
-John Roberts, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Adams, Jesse Watte...
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June 18, 2023 • 50 mins
-He’s going to ask to take food from babies: Republicans are proposing cuts in benefits to 5 million WIC participants, emboldened by Democratic Party cowardice, namely their refusal to mint the coin.
-Please stop brutal racist policing, pretty please, DOJ asks Minneapolis PD
-File Follies: Fintech FOIA Frenzy! Filing requests related to the Fed and FDIC reports on major bank failures
-JD Vance, Secretary Mayor Pete, Francis Suarez...
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June 3, 2023 • 50 mins
-Chris Christie will never be forgiven by voters for closing the bridge, but he could humiliate Ron DeSantis in a futile bid to become Attorney General.
-The end of the pandemic emergency has led to 600,000 people losing health insurance since April 1
-File Follies: Taking a look at Republican Governors’ cynical border operation, asking the feds for records
-Elon, the Supreme Court and Joe Manchin get Garbage Can nominations yet ag...
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May 20, 2023 • 66 mins
-The best of the 2020 election hate mail to Louis DeJoy disclosed to us under FOIA by the USPS.
-Imagine having so much money that you can make money simply by moving your own money. Capitalism is truly for sickos.
-Unsurprisingly, the FBI used dragnet surveillance powers during the 2020 uprising, the Washington Post reported.
-Musk, Pelosi, Clay Higgins, Florida lawmakers, Gov. Gianforte, and the people melting down about John Fe...
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May 15, 2023 • 8 mins
In June 2020, a White House aide held a “telephonic discussion” with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy two days after then-President Trump posted this tweet. Record of the call was revealed by the agency in response to our FOIA request
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275024974579982336
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April 30, 2023 • 52 mins
-Biden’s six hour workday is the most likable thing about him (too bad about the strikebreaking)
-10 years after the Boston Marathon attack, Congress is still uninterested in evidence suggesting that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant
-Would a Gitmo torture victim remember Ron DeSantis? He would, if Ron was laughing like a maniac, as alleged
-Tucker Cucks, Montana GOP, Steven Crowder, Elon Musk, and Kyrsten Sinema are nominated...
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April 16, 2023 • 59 mins
-It’s about time we had a huge ass leak of military secrets exposing the US government, even if the weirdo who leaked them only wanted to share them with his group chat.
-Time for Clarence Thomas to be held accountable by *checks notes* the party of Dianne Feinstein. How grim.
-File Follies: EPA questions Department of Energy analysis in Alaska gas export approval
-Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, Missouri’s Attorney General, SF crime h...
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April 9, 2023 • 14 mins
-Emails from 2020 obtained through FOIA show Trump’s DHS eager to unleash counterterror powers on Portland as early as May 30, promises of antifa plots that never materialized
Access the DHS files here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j1pKfwNZESVOVP8dzE-drFizw4Vyyo8i/view?usp=sharing
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April 2, 2023 • 63 mins
-Ron made no attempt to advance his candidacy, just whiny vows to defend his rival. Why is this weenie even bothering?
-The easiest way to rob a bank is to own one, Rashida Tlaib reminded us this week
-File Follies: The FBI disclosed its letter announcing a flip-flop in response to our FOIA request. First, the Bureau told lawmakers that it wouldn’t talk about informants. Then, it announced an investigation after a Republican screa...
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March 12, 2023 • 72 mins
-Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the country and a major funder of tech start-ups, went bankrupt this week at light speed, in the largest bank collapse since 2008.
-File Follies: SVB’s last annual report has some interesting tidbits, including disclosures about large loans to individual clients, investments in companies that have never turned a profit, and “activities that are new to us or, in some cases, are experime...
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February 20, 2023 • 62 mins
-J.D. Vance made his banking committee debut by saying that crypto, fake internet money, could be as useful as the internet itself, and that the internet, which was created by government research, could have been killed by government regulation. An industry trade group witness nodded and called him a good boy.
-Hobbyists might have standing to sue the U.S. government for taking out their balloons. The Two Sams consider buying a ba...
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February 4, 2023 • 19 mins
An excerpt from this week's District Sentinel Radio:
-Union-busters’ kids hate them and other observations from a National Restaurant Association symposium. An interview with Lever News’ Julia Rock. Article link: https://www.levernews.com/fear-and-loathing-among-the-union-busters/
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