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263 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsFlux is a media platform for change, with smart and fun podcasts like Theory of Change, Doomscroll, and So This Just Happened.
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Trump and RFK have realized they're both going for the lunatic vote
May 01, 2024 07:50 - 32 minutes - 24 MBThis Doomscroll episode is available on video as well as audio. Be sure to follow our guest, John Fugelsang. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Trump and RFK were supposed to team up against Biden, but now they hate each other 07:54 — Arizona indicts 2020 fake electors and many Trump attorneys 10:26 — Fox has been barely covering the first presidential criminal trial in history, while massively playing up isolated student protests 16:15 — Great news for employees: FTC bans non-compete agreements 2...
Weekly newspapers transformed journalism by transforming dating and sex
April 29, 2024 09:14 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBThe past two episodes of Theory of Change have focused on dating and sex, and I wanted to end the miniseries with a conversation that brings in the topic of media as well. Not just because the next episode arc we'll be doing is about the state of journalism, but also because media have played an important role in how people meet and form connections. It seems forever ago now in 2024, but for many years, one of the ways that people went on dates was through a local newspaper and their person...
Senate Democrats’ total dismissal of the sham Mayorkas impeachment should be an example to all
April 27, 2024 18:23 - 1 minute - 2.76 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community This is a bonus Doomscroll episode is available only to paid Flux subscribers. Please support independent progressive media and join us! We need your help. Also be sure to follow Matt and Lisa’s guest on this episode, Lance Aksamit. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Senate Dems showed how right-wing ideas should be treated by throwing House Republicans' impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas into the trash can 02:28 — Supre...
Diminished Don: Trump’s Stormy Daniels trial is completely destroying his fake macho image
April 24, 2024 07:00 - 33 minutes - 24.6 MBThis Doomscroll episode is available on video as well as audio. Be sure to follow our guest, Lance Aksamit. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Donald Trump’s hush money trial is destroying his carefully coiffed tough-guy image 10:32 — House Freedom Caucus launches committee, doesn't realize acronym for it is “FART” 12:34 — Congress would rather ban TikTok than pass a privacy protection law 15:00 — Marjorie Taylor Greene gets 2 more co-sponsors to remove Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House 17:29 —...
MAGA is morphing beyond a political identity into a sexual fetish
April 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBDonald Trump has been very public about remaking the Republican party in his political image by boosting people who flatter and praise him the hardest in primary elections. But his longstanding role as leader of the Republican party isn’t just having an effect on the politicians, it is also remaking America’s right-wing subculture in his personal image as well. Besides being thoroughly corrupt and authoritarian, Trump is also incredibly strange, especially in his attitudes toward women and...
The right’s abortion obfuscation reveals a truth: power is their only belief
April 19, 2024 18:07 - 2 minutes - 1.45 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community This is a bonus Doomscroll episode is available only to paid Flux subscribers. Please support independent progressive media by and join us! We need your help. Also be sure to check out our guest Corey Ryan Forrester’s Substack. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Arizona Republicans reveal that reactionaries have no real principles beyond getting power 05:18 — Another Elon Musk fail: Tesla is laying off 10 percent of wor...
After a lifetime of crime, Donald Trump is finally on trial
April 17, 2024 13:15 - 31 minutes - 23 MBThis Doomscroll episode is available on video as well as audio. Be sure to check out our guest Corey Ryan Forrester’s Substack. Audio Chapters 00:00 — After a lifetime of crime, Donald Trump is finally on trial 08:51 — NH Governor Chris Sununu humiliates himself shilling for Trump 11:48 — RFK Junior's New York campaign director says she's trying to help Trump win 18:39 — Trump's dementia is getting even worse 24:30 — Right-wingers are angry at Scrabble now Follow or Die! Doomscroll ...
Dating in the present age has become quite the mess
April 15, 2024 09:15 - 38 minutes - 28.2 MBIntroduction For a variety of reasons, increasing numbers of Americans are turning away from marriage and dating. In a 2022 study, less than a majority of adults surveyed were married, while 37 percent were not in any form of relationship. As the percentage of single people has increased, it seems also that social media is filling up with awful dating advice as well. Self-styled dating and relationship gurus are proliferating on places like YouTube and TikTok in particular, many of them re...
Arizona shows what happens when you leave abortion access to the states
April 10, 2024 08:18 - 39 minutes - 29.4 MBThis Doomscroll episode is available on video as well as audio. Be sure to follow our guest Maggie Maye! Audio Chapters 00:00 — Arizona Supreme Court reinstates 1864 anti-abortion law 07:51 — Donald Trump and Kari Lake are the latest Republicans who won't reveal their radical anti-abortion viewpoints 16:33 — Senate Democrats vow to quickly dispose of sham impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary 19:46 — Right-wing Christians are freaking out about Satan, the eclipse, and earthquakes ...
Tolerance is winning, which is why we need to keep battling for it
April 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBSummary The news is terrible. Americans are extremely divided along political and religious lines, and far-right radicals have completely taken over one of the country’s major political parties. It’s a lot to handle. And yet, as bad as things are, it’s important to realize that they are improving. Although it may be hard to perceive right now, beginning with Generation X, every single generation of Americans has become successively more tolerant and more willing to update and expand the so...
Truth Social Stock drops bigly after company's huge financial losses revealed
April 03, 2024 08:20 - 34 minutes - 25.4 MBThis Doomscroll episode is available on video as well as audio. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Trump trashes judge's daughter, gets slapped with gag order in Stormy Daniels case 05:53 — Stock of parent company of "Truth Social" collapses after disclosure it lost $58 million last year 12:41 — GOP congressman says Gaza should be treated "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima" 13:58 — Does the majority of Americans realize that right-wingers declared a "culture war" on us? 18:34 — Far-right Christian att...
MAGA media outlets are showcasing the extreme policies a second Trump administration would enact
April 01, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes - 37.1 MBWhatever you may happen to think about Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the presidency is not a one-person job. Overwhelmingly, the work inside any White House is done by the advisors. They form policies, promote them to the public, and then make the federal government carry them out. Ultimately, part of determining who you you want to be president should be examining who is giving them advice. In Joe Biden's case, he has surrounded himself by experienced and well-qualified officials, usually peo...
‘Free speech absolutist’ Elon Musk’s legal attempt to silence anti-hate group thrown out
March 28, 2024 22:39 - 1 minute - 2.72 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community This is a bonus episode for paid Flux subscribers. Please sign up on Patreon or Substack to get full access. Thanks for supporting independent progressive comedy! Lisa’s Upcoming Shows April 5 — Headlining Mic Drop Mania, Chandler, AZ 7 — Hosting at the Higher Path, Sherman Oaks Follow or Die! Doomscroll Instagram YouTube Twitter Lisa Instagram Twitter Matt Twitter Mastodon Threads Bluesky Gue...
The Truth Social stock is full of hot air
March 27, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes - 26.8 MBAudio Chapters 00:00 — Trump has to pay $175 million appeal fee which his lawyer thinks is a real victory, huh? 06:33 — Truth Social's stock is Trump's latest scam, experts say it's drastically overvalued 15:33 — George Santos leaves Republican party because he says it's too dishonest for him 20:43 — NBC News faces massive employee complaints for hiring insurrection supporting Ronna McDaniel 26:49 — Self-described pastor hired hitmen to kill guy dating his daughter Lisa’s Upcoming Show...
Jewish fascism is a very real, and very disturbing political movement
March 25, 2024 07:46 - 51 minutes - 37.1 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Jewish fascism. It's a term that seems cruelly oxymoronic, a mockery of the memories of millions of people who were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler. And yet, Jewish fascism is real thing, an incredibly strange and hateful movement that's growing in both Israel and the United States. But what does Jewish fascism look like, and why is it a thing? In this episode, I’m joined by Ben Lorber, a senior research analyst ...
Peter Navarro goes to jail, doesn’t pass Go
March 20, 2024 08:15 - 35 minutes - 25.7 MBYou can watch the video version of this episode! Audio Chapters 00:00 — Peter Navarro becomes first-ever Trumper to go to jail for his crimes 04:04 — Trump forced to admit he can't pay $464 million to appeal fraud judgment 09:07 — Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen will testify against Trump in hush money case after he loses bid to force them out 10:53 — Alina Habba, Trump’s airhead attorney, gets thrown under the bus in harassment suit against Mar-a-Lago 13:53 — House Republicans reach ...
Republicans built an infrastructure to attack democracy, Democrats must build one to protect it
March 18, 2024 08:21 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBIt’s all but official that the 2024 presidential election is going to be Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. And so because of that, we’re going to move to more of a general election focus on Theory of Change. At this point in many of the surveys, Joe Biden is trailing Donald Trump. There are a number of reasons for this, one of them being that the Democratic party is operating under a politics of yesteryear against a Republican party that has not existed in many decades. Besides being much mo...
Peter Navarro for prison? We can get into that
March 13, 2024 07:47 - 30 minutes - 22.5 MBLisa was in London with terrible wifi so there's no video for this episode, sorry! Audio Chapters 00:00 — Peter Navarro ordered to report for prison by judge 02:38 — Trump admits he wants to cut Social Security 05:20 — Right-wingers devise new idiotic conspiracy about Joe Biden after boffo SOTU speech 07:23 — Katie Britt’s strange Republican response is still freaking people out 10:06 — Trump is having trouble paying bills, raising the question of whether he's managed to suck MAGA dry ...
Katie Britt meant to sound weird, but you weren’t supposed to notice
March 11, 2024 09:24 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBPresident Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union speech on Thursday, but most of the focus since then has been on Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, who delivered the Republican response. And with good reason. Her Handmaid’s Tale setting and melodramatic delivery were so disturbing that even party apparatchiks couldn’t contain their disgust. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever,” one Republican strategist lamented to Daily Beast reporter Jake Lahut. Veteran right-wing operative Roger Stone c...
Bonus: Alabama Goddam
March 06, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes - 19.1 MBAudio Chapters 00:00 — Alabama Supreme Court says embryos are babies 08:44 — While Alabama thinks killing cells is sinful, it loves the idea of experimental gas executions 14:52 — Republicans have driven out all the sane people, but many apolitical people haven't realized this 22:34 — Mike Lindell loses in court after trying to avoid payout to man who debunked him Cover photo: Residents of Lee County, Alabama are seen along the roadway as they welcome Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Mar...
Mitch McConnell’s cowardly and anti-democratic legacy
March 04, 2024 16:36 - 50 minutes - 36.1 MBThis episode is a very special one because I'm excited to announce that here at Flux, we are adding another podcast to our network, The Electorette, hosted by Jennifer Taylor-Skinner. To introduce Jennifer to the Flux audience, I wanted to bring her on Theory of Change to talk about her program, and to discuss a big news event, the retirement announcement from Sen. Mitch McConnell, who will be resigning as the Republicans’ leader in the Senate. There's a lot to talk about with his legacy. ...
Weak Donald Trump still can't improve against Nikki Haley
February 28, 2024 08:00 - 42 minutes - 30.9 MBThe video version of this episode is also available. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Trump wins South Carolina but 40% of primary voters rejected him 05:33 — Hunter Biden’s lawyers say federal prosecutors mistook sawdust for cocaine in photo 09:18 — Former NRA CEO found guilty of scamming members, must repay millions 16:36 — FBI informant who lied about Joe Biden says Russia told him what to say 22:15 — Far-right Christian Canadian family realizes Russia is terrible after moving there 27:51 — ...
The transition to electric vehicles will be inevitable, not irreproachable
February 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBIntroduction The automotive industry is in a state of turmoil right now, as a number of manufacturers, particularly Ford, have scaled back the production of both vehicles and battery technology. But nonetheless, all of the companies have said that they will be continuing to move toward an all electric strategy, which makes sense. But the last part of that response is something you certainly don't hear about in the right wing media coverage of these developments. And then there is, of cours...
Trumpers are trying to crowdfund his court fines
February 21, 2024 08:00 - 31 minutes - 23.4 MBThe video version of this episode is also available. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Introduction 00:56 — Trump cultists are trying to crowdfund his $355 million fraud fine 04:09 — Woman at Trump sneakers event lets her MAGA crazy flag fly 09:32 — Former FBI informant central to Republican impeachment of Biden indicted for lying to FBI 13:24 — Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk fantasizes about making children watch beheadings 20:48 — Iowa Republicans promoting unconstitutional bill to get reven...
The decline of Black churches and independent media is impacting American politics
February 19, 2024 08:21 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBIntroduction The 2024 presidential general election is looming large now that Donald Trump has all but vanquished the remaining putative opposition that he faced from people like Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. But at this point, many Black Americans are still not very satisfied with President Joe Biden and many Democrats as well, even if they may not like Trump. So here at Theory of Change, we’re doing a mini series on Black Americans and their political views. If you missed the first episo...
Republicans and the impeachment about nothing
February 16, 2024 18:12 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBProgramming Note: “So This Just Happened” is going to go on a brief hiatus after this episode, but we wanted to make it an extra special one so we invited Lisa Curry, Matt’s co-host on “Doomscroll” for a live recording. Please enjoy and we’ll see you in a while! Headlines 00:00 — House Republicans finally pass an impeachment, and it's going nowhere 07:42 — Kansas City Chiefs victory parade becomes latest site of mass shooting 18:18 — New poll shows some Trump voters will believe conspira...
Trump invites Russia to attack while evangelicals try to foot-wash away hatred
February 14, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes - 33.1 MBAudio Chapters 00:00 — Introduction 00:33 — Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies he thinks aren't paying up 03:25 — Special counsel investigating Biden document retention attacks him as too old 05:07 — Robert Kennedy Jr. super PAC rips off his famous relatives in Super Bowl ad 10:27 — Israel has started bombing the last city in Gaza it hasn't leveled 12:53 — Rudy Giuliani forced to reveal all sorts of embarrassing financial details after declaring bankruptcy 15:...
Black Americans want something more from Democrats
February 12, 2024 17:04 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBNow that the pretense of a Republican presidential primary is nearly at an end, the second general election matchup between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is beginning to take shape. And while the race features the same candidates as in 2020, the political dynamics are different in several important ways, most prominently that we are no longer in a global pandemic. One other difference this time around is that each of the candidates’ support base seems to have lost some enthusiasm. On the Repu...
Vince McMahon and Michael Rappaport deserve each other
February 10, 2024 23:18 - 2 minutes - 2.87 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Only some of this episode is available to free subscribers. Please support our comedy and get full access on Substack or Patreon! Doomscroll is a podcast from Flux Community. Check us out more smart, fun, and progressive podcasts and articles! Audio Chapters 00:00 — Vince McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling, forced out amid sex abuse scandal 02:04 — Michael Rappaport gives incredibly stupid reason to vote for T...
The Mormon tradition is a lot bigger than you may realize
February 09, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes - 27.5 MBHeadlines 00:00 — Mormonism is a lot more varied that most non-Mormons realize 06:26 — Exploring how Mormons invented Christian nationalism but also are not fully onboard with Trumpism 12:01 — Mormonism and the 1980s “Satanic Panic” 23:46 — Why sexual and gender hypocrisy is endemic to reactionary thinking 28:57 — Fear of differences is ultimately what motivates reactionaries, and that they know they are losing Join the Conversation! Matt * Twitter * Mastodon * Threads * Bluesky ...
Iowa Satanic Temple vows to use new GOP law
February 07, 2024 08:01 - 35 minutes - 26.1 MBThe video version of this episode is also available. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Trump had secret room at Mar-a-Lago with more stolen classified documents: report 02:18 — Nancy Mace is turning Congress into an even bigger joke 05:38 —OAN host defends MAGA rantings of Ohio man who beheaded his father 14:39 — Republican National Committee facing fundraising crisis 17:21 — GOP pollster uses AI-generated pic of black man with three arms to tout party’s outreach 21:14 — Texas right-wingers are ...
Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, and toxic gravitation
February 06, 2024 21:43 - 2 minutes - 4.88 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community This is an episode for paid Flux subscribers. Please support our work and enjoy full access on either Patreon or Substack! Headlines 00:00 — Nicki Minaj escalates her toxic feud with Megan Thee Stallion 07:46 — “A*****e gravitation,” the right wing’s new outreach mechanism to awful celebrities 18:07 — Snoop Dogg debases himself with praise for Donald Trump 22:30 — Quick Hits: Desperate to execute people, ...
Today’s disinformation economy was built on the lying techniques of Big Tobacco
February 05, 2024 08:03 - 46 minutes - 33.4 MBThe term disinformation is most commonly associated with the internet and social media posters spreading conspiracy theories, but when you really think about it, disinformation is actually just lying at an industrial scale. While various authoritarian governments have used lying and propaganda forever, the history is crystal-clear: In the United States, the modern-day tactics of lying to the masses were invented in the mid-20th century by huge tobacco companies desperate to stave off federa...
Wisconsin Republican cites veterinary experience in debate about abortion
February 04, 2024 08:01 - 2 minutes - 2.91 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Only the first part of this episode is available to free subscribers. Please support our comedy and get full access! Substack: https://plus.flux.community/subscribe Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discoverflux Audio Chapters 00:00 — Rudy Giuliani defends Trump in the dumbest possible way 02:04 — Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman almost prosecuted for miscarriage is speaking out 08:31 — Wisconsin Republican ...
After losing abortion ballot initiatives, Republicans are trying to block them in several states
February 02, 2024 08:41 - 38 minutes - 29.4 MBHeadlines 00:00 — New research estimates more than 60,000 rape victims have been forced to carry pregnancies in red states 06:09 — After losing every abortion access ballot initiative, Republicans are trying to ban them in several states 11:22 — Right wing media spent 50 years telling their audiences they were going to be killed by the libs, the followers now believe it 16:35 — Automotive industry in turmoil as demand for electric vehicles has stalled 24:07 — Senate Republicans pressure...
When will Trump actually have to pay up to E. Jean Carroll?
January 31, 2024 14:57 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThe video version of this episode is also available. Audio Chapters 00:00 — Trump loses slander lawsuit to E. Jean Carroll, when will he have to pay up? 06:28 — Nancy Pelosi offers ludicrous conspiracy that Russia controls anti-Gaza war protestors 13:59 — U.S. military base in Jordan struck by drone 20:15 — Florida Republican exposed for taking credit for bills she voted against 26:57 — Government report reveals Trump WH was giving out drugs like candy 30:29 — NASA Mars helicopter was...
Israel has dropped its two-state pretense, what will the world do in response?
January 31, 2024 01:05 - 1 minute - 4.33 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Headlines Only the first segment is available to free subscribers 00:00 — Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he won’t allow any sort of Palestinian state 01:48 — Tennessee and Oklahoma introduce “abortion trafficking” censorship bills 03:47 — More Oklahoma craziness: State Republican legislator wants to criminalize all forms of pornography 05:52 — Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross speaks out about her firing...
The right-wing media landscape has been reshaped completely by Donald Trump
January 29, 2024 08:22 - 1 hour - 56 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Introduction Donald Trump’s rise to power within the Republican party set off an explosion of reactionary extremism within the right-wing ecosystem, but it’s important to realize that Trump did not create the present-day authoritarianism that dominates Republican politics, he only encouraged it and empowered it. As president, Trump welcomed in some of the most extreme Republican members of congress, including...
In the general election, Donald Trump is a weak candidate
January 26, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes - 30.4 MBHeadlines 00:00 — Introduction 01:31 — New Hampshire primary results reveal Trump’s big weaknesses as a general election candidate 08:32 — Nikki Haley’s opportunistic attitudes toward racism 14:04 — New report exposes wildly extreme viewpoints of influential “anti-DEI” activists 18:01 — Self-proclaimed free speech activists privately admit they want progressives fired 23:20 — Matt Gaetz admits far right is targeting Hispanic and black men for radicalization 27:15 — A handful of minor ...
Trump wins NH primary, Haley says she'll stay in
January 24, 2024 08:21 - 36 minutes - 27.8 MBYou can watch this episode on video as well Audio Chapters 0:00 — Trump wins NH primary, Haley insists she’ll stay in 00:39 — Ron DeSantis attributed Budweiser advertising quote to Winston Churchill 02:44 — Nikki Haley seems to be running as “Plan B” in case Trump dies or is jailed 08:20 — Fox is conflicted on how to deal with a decrepit Trump 13:54 — Who is more bizarre, Elise Stefanik or Peter Navarro? 18:21 — Kanye West claims he had his teeth removed and replaced with metal dentur...
Bonus: Ohio grand jury spares woman from miscarriage prosecution, but other women won't be so lucky
January 23, 2024 08:00 - 3 minutes - 5.25 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Headlines Paid subscription required to listen to full discussion 00:00 — Ohio jury declines to indict Brittany Watts for miscarriage, but many other women will not be so lucky 03:11 — Case against NYC subway killer Daniel Penney allowed to continue 04:20 — Yes, it is Confederate Christianity 06:28 — Right-wingers dropping the pretense of respect for Martin Luther King 09:17 — Stephen A. Smith and many ot...
The ‘post left’ grift is as lucrative as it is unpersuasive
January 22, 2024 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBIntroduction As the American right has become dangerously radicalized, there is a small number of people who insist that Democrats are the real extremists. These arguments are absurd on their face given that disgraced ex-president Donald Trump openly talks about “suspending the Constitution” and becoming a dictator three years after an armed mob of his supporters tried for the first time in American history to stop the peaceful transition of presidential power. But it isn’t just 90-year...
Stop pretending Nikki Haley has a chance
January 19, 2024 17:27 - 32 minutes - 25.1 MBHeadlines 00:00 — Nikki Haley has no chance, please stop pretending otherwise 08:18 — Vivek Ramaswamy ends his fake campaign after getting 7 percent in Iowa 11:23 — Despite their genuflections, Haley and Ramaswamy will always be “other” to Republicans 17:40 — Trump has turned to the “pound the table” legal defense because he knows the facts and law don’t favor him 22:50 — Kentucky Republican moves to legalize first-cousin incest Join the Conversation Matt https://twitter.com/mattshe...
Republicans destroyed their 'voter fraud' argument in the Iowa caucuses
January 17, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes - 25.1 MBYou can watch this episode on video as well Audio Chapters 0:00 — Iowa Republicans cast ballots in shopping bags, proving they don’t care about “election integrity” 03:28 — Ron DeSantis gets trolled with participation trophy gag 07:21 — Secretary of Defense didn't tell Biden he was going to be hospitalized 09:38 — Fake AI George Carlin special circulates on YouTube 15:39 — Mike Johnson becomes latest Republican Speaker to face mutiny 18:22 — Mike Lindell banned from advertising on Fox...
Democrats haven't realized they must do more than attack Donald Trump
January 15, 2024 18:09 - 1 hour - 49 MBIntroduction The 2024 presidential election continues to be perilously close between Donald Trump, the fascist ex-president who's been found guilty of numerous crimes and is indicted for many other ones, and Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential incumbent. But the close race that is happening right now is actually a function of a much larger problem that has existed for many years in which neither party has been able to gain the advantage over the other one. While Democrats are closer to...
STJH Bonus: Mass grave discovered in Mississippi
January 14, 2024 18:51 - 2 minutes - 5.08 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Audio Chapters This is a paid episode so only the first chapter is available for free 0:00 — Mass grave discovered behind Mississippi jail 02:57 — New York Times publishes irresponsible piece on Taylor Swift's sex life 05:12 — Trump hatchet-man Roger Stone recorded asking for murder and kidnapping 07:03 — Ray Epps sentenced 08:59 — Far-right Christian women tangle over how much misogyny is enough 16:18 —...
Doomscroll Bonus: Hunter Biden, Roger Stone, and the Florida surgeon general walk into a bar
January 13, 2024 08:00 - 2 minutes - 1.49 MBThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community This Doomscroll episode is only for paid subscribers. Enjoy the laughs and support our work on Substack at the link above or on Patreon! Audio Chapters 0:00 — New report shows Trump companies paid millions by foreign governments 02:52 — Roger Stone and the Republican lying tradition 06:25 — Alaska Airlines plane part breaks off mid-air 09:04 — Florida Republican surgeon general says mRNA vaccines are "anti...
Democrats divide on Palestine as Bill Ackman exposes himself
January 12, 2024 10:49 - 41 minutes - 31.3 MBHeadlines 0:00 — Anti-war protesters at Biden’s Charleston speech reflect unsettled questions of what democracy looks like 07:19 — Younger Democrats are feeling frustrated by elderly party leaders who won't listen 14:24 — Deranged billionaire Bill Ackman proves attacks on Claudine Gay were not about plagiarism or antisemitism 22:47 — Mark Cuban tangles with Elon Musk over diversity initiatives 31:08 — Mehdi Hasan leaves MSNBC after show canceled, how about that liberal media? 34:02 — C...
Nikki Haley renamed her husband and the great 'cancel culture' scam
January 10, 2024 08:28 - 37 minutes - 27.8 MBAudio Chapters 0:00 — Nikki Haley renamed her husband, wtf? 08:38 — Trump is polling well because Democrats won’t talk to regular people 16:41 — Trump attorney Alina Habba says she’d rather be pretty than smart since you can fake being smart 19:42 — Britney Spears says she will “never” return to music industry 23:38 — Golden Globes stiffed “Barbie” and host Jo Koy threw his writers under the bus 27:54 — Can we be as canceled as Ricky Gervais? You can watch the video version of this ep...
Seeing the bigger picture of Moms for Liberty
January 08, 2024 11:52 - 52 minutes - 37.9 MBSummary Moms for Liberty, the dishonestly named far-right Christian group, is in the news after Bridget Ziegler, one of the group's co-founders, has been reported to have been in a relationship with another woman and her husband,. Christian Ziegler, her husband, has been accused of raping the woman in Sarasota, Florida. As shocking as that allegation is, it's important to note that Christian Ziegler says he is innocent. There are no criminal charges that have been filed. But nonetheless, ...