Joshua Holland kicks off this week's show with a look at research into why even the most ludicrous propaganda is still so effective. 

And then we are joined by Parker Molloy, who writes The Present Age newsletter, to talk about what it's like for transgender people who are just trying to live their lives at a time when their very existence has become a right-wing moral panic. 

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