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Air Date: 9/26/2026
Today we explore the layers of chaos surrounding the AI industry, including the idealistic nerds-turned-nazis, the grift, bubble, and doom-marketing business model, and what people are doing to fight back.
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KP 1: Do Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to End Democracy? - Political Breakdown - Air Date 8-14-26
KP 3: OpenAI's Math Battle - Elena OnOffline - Air Date 9-9-26
KP 4: Muskism Is the New Fordism with Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian - Tech Won't Save Us - Air Date 5-7-26
KP 5: Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift - Better Offline - Air Date 9-10-26
KP 6: The Real AI Jobs Apocalypse - Blood in the Machine - Air Date 9-4-26
KP 7: AI Has Ruined the Internet - Adam Conover - Air Date 8-31-26
KP 8: You Don't Hate AI Enough. - Nash Keune - Air Date 9-20-26
(01:00:11) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
AI Turned "Just a Little Bit More" Into a Business Model
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(01:12:47) SECTION A: THE NERD REICH - WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY BELIEVE
A2: Valerie Veatch: Ghost in the Machine — AI as Eugenics - Pivot to AI - Air Date 9-11-26
A3: The 'End Times Fascists' of AI - Blood in the Machine - Air Date 9-13-26
A4: Silicon Valley's Dark Future Is Almost Here - Michael Burns - Air Date 9-2-26
(01:58:16) SECTION B: WHAT AI IS ACTUALLY DOING TO US
B1: The Al Question No One Wants to Ask Part 1 - Struthless - Air Date 6-9-26
B3: The Al Question No One Wants to Ask Part 2 - Struthless - Air Date 6-9-26
B4: Never Learn Again! AI Will Do It For You - Harland Spinks - Air Date 8-31-26
B5: Cybersecurity Has An AI Doomer Problem. - Marcus Hutchins - Air Date 9-15-26
B6: AI Expert: A 10% Extinction Risk Is "Way Too Low" - W/ Nate Soares - Owen Jones - Air Date 9-10-26
(02:44:18) SECTION C: THE GRIFT, THE BUBBLE, THE DOOM MARKETING
C1: Is AI The Terminator Or The Big Short? - The Lever - Air Date 9-15-26
C3: Slow Down Your AI Expectations! - PissedMagistus - Air Date 9-20-26
C4: Why Tech Can't Determine Our Future - Side Burns - Air Date 9-10-26
(03:06:54) SECTION D: FIGHTING BACK - WORKERS, COMMUNITIES, ALTERNATIVES
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Air Date: 9/22/2026
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from July and August without being overwhelming! Organized around a single idea: ask who the system is for, and every story this summer gives the same answer. The administration rewrites the national story while libraries lose their funding. Corporations fence off ideas as private property. Latin America gets treated like a portfolio and Greenland like a drilling site. Police cameras put every driver under permanent investigation. The seats it all runs from are held until death, and the fixes on the table aim at prying some of them open.
Covering: July–August 2026
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SECTION 1: OWNING THE STORY
(00:01:52) #1815 - Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory
1: Trying to Rewrite History - Letters From an American - Air Date 7-28-26
2: Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment Part 1 - Movement Memos - Air Date 3-19-26
(00:21:31) #1816 - IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon
3: We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 5-27-26
4: Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? - Taylor Lorenz - Air Date 8-5-26
5: Everyone's Wrong About John Oliver's Trademark War - LegalEagle - Air Date 8-8-26
SECTION 2: THE WORLD AS INVENTORY
(00:45:39) #1814 - Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run
(01:02:20) #1817 - Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency
9: Is This How We Invade Greenland - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 8-11-26
SECTION 3: EVERYONE ELSE
(01:22:58) #1818 - Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone
11: Police Surveillance Technology - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 8-3-26
(01:42:24) #1813 - Suffering is the Strategy: ICE, Mass Deportation, and Demographic Engineering
13: Trumps National Killer Police Force Part 1 - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 7-24-26
14: ICE Deports Family To Their Deaths In Guatemala - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-29-26
15: Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders Part 1 - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-17-26
16: Buck V. Bell Part 1 - 5-4 - Air Date 5-26-20
17: Explaining This Moment of Pronatalism Part 1 - rePROS Fight Back - Air Date 6-16-26
SECTION 4: HELD FOR LIFE... UNTIL NOW
(02:35:29) #1811 - Country for Old Men: Gerontocracy By Design and the Democracy Problem
19: Mitch, Lindsey and the Gerontocracy Part 1 - What Next - Air Date 7-13-26
20: What Is There to Say About Lindsey Graham - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 7-12-26
21: Where Is Mitch McConnell? - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 7-10-26
(02:58:47) #1812 - Democracy or This Supreme Court, But Not Both
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Air Date: 9/18/2026
Today we're doing something new and different but also very old. Occupy Wall Street just hit its 15th anniversary this month and we thought we'd do something that only we can, which is dip into our archives and pull out the best of the Occupy coverage we played in real time as it was happening as well as some other retrospective coverage that aired 10 years later.
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KP 1: Keith Olbermann Reads First Collective Statement of Occupy Wall Street - Countdown - Air Date 10-6-11
KP 3: News Coverage Numbers of the Occupy Protests Vs Tea Party Protests - On the Media - Air Date 10-7-11
KP 4: What the Occupy Wall St Movement Wants Part 1 - Planet Money - Air Date 10-7-11
KP 5: The General Strike in Oakland - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-2-11
KP 6: Keith's Special Comment Why OWS Needs Michael Bloomberg - Countdown - Air Date 11-16-11
KP 8: Occupy at 10 with Astra Taylor Part 1 - The Dig - Air Date 9-25-21
(01:01:34) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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(01:12:59) SECTION A: THE STATE STRIKES BACK
A1: Comparing the Occupation to the Bonus Army Encampment - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 10-26-11
A2: Erroneous Reporting on the Occupation - Counterspin - Air Date 10-27-11
A3: Protesting at Berkley, Past and Present - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 11-15-11
A4: If Cops Use Force Then Your Speech Wasn't Free (to Say the Least) - Matthew Filipowicz - Air Date 12-9-11
A5: Iraq Vet Scott Olsen on What He Hopes the Movement Will Achieve - Countdown - Air Date 12-2-11
(01:49:52) SECTION B: RIGGED SYSTEM, RIGGED COVERAGE
B1: The Top 1% Vs YOU - The Young Turks - Air Date 10-31-11
B2: Panic of the Plutocrats - Green News Report - Air Date 10-11-11
B4: World Economy Going to Hell - Dan Carlin - Air Date 9-28-11
B5: Leaked Republicans Scared of Occupy Wall Street - The Young Turks - Air Date 12-2-11
B6: Erin Burnett's Horrible Occupy Wall St Report - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-7-11
B7: The Screaming Majority Song on Occupy Wall St - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-7-11
(02:43:16) SECTION C: WHAT THE MOVEMENT WAS DOING
C1: What the Occupy Wall St Movement Wants Part 2 - Planet Money
C2: Prophetic Article Calling for the Occupation - The Majority Report - Air Date 10-25-11
C3: Occupying Our Homes - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 12-2-11
(03:13:08) SECTION D: THE LEGACY, 10 YEARS ON
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Air Date: 9/13/2026
Today we trace the two-front war on the American press. On one side, government regulators and members of Congress are going after news outlets for the stories they choose to run. On the other, politically friendly buyers are taking ownership of major networks to turn them into free-market versions of state media.
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KP 1: How to Build a State Media - Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious - Air Date 12-13-25
KP 4: Congress Just Subpoenaed Our Newsroom for Doing Journalism - BreakThroughNews - Air Date 7-23-26
KP 5: Public Media - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Air Date 11-17-25
KP 7: Coyote Vs. Acme Proves the CEOs Don't Know S***. - Adam Conover - Air Date 9-4-26
(00:56:23) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Corporate Media Cannot Be Trusted to Serve the Public Interest
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(01:06:24) SECTION A: THE FCC WEAPONIZED
A2: Trump's Scheme to Control the Media - Robert Reich and Inequality Media - Air Date 5-7-26
(01:23:10) SECTION B: JOURNALISTS IN THE CROSSHAIRS
B5: Katy Tur Sounds More Like 1930s German Propaganda Than Journalism - Paul Lance - Air Date 9-3-26
(02:06:18) SECTION C: WHO'S BUYING, WHO'S CASHING IN
C3: The Meta Settlement Isn't The Victory You Think It Is - Leeja Miller - Air Date 8-28-26
C5: Finance Bros Are Coming for the Public Airwaves - On The Media - Air Date 8-28-26
(02:35:41) SECTION D: BUILDING SOMETHING BETTER
D1: The World After Billionaire Media - Lever Time - Air Date 6-21-24
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Air Date: 9/9/2026
Today we look at the strategies being deployed by the Trump administration and their enablers to undermine the midterm elections and what it actually takes to fight back. The lawyers fighting in court against the efforts to destroy our democracy are clear-eyed that you cannot litigate your way to a free election. The most durable defense is a turnout margin too large to plausibly contest, and organizers are building toward it now.
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KP 4: Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms Part 1 - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 8-31-26
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(01:00:47) SECTION A: THREAT AND BACKFIRE
A1: What Happens if Trump Tries to Mess with the Midterms - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 8-28-26
(01:32:06) SECTION B: CRACKS AND CONSTRAINTS
B1: Trump Election Scheme Suddenly Blocked in Late Night Order Part 1 - Legal AF - Air Date 8-29-26
B2: Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms Part 2 - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 8-31-26
B4: Trump Election Scheme Suddenly Blocked in Late Night Order Part 2 - Legal AF - Air Date 8-29-26
(02:14:39) SECTION C: RESISTANCE AND RESPONSE
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Re-Air Date: 8/5/26
Original Air Date: 4/24/26
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
Ch. 1 - Why victims of crime are underserved and actually prefer rehabilitative, root-case approaches to justice
Ch. 2 - How cashless bail reform has shrunk jail populations and fueled momentum to block new jail construction
Ch. 3 - The local fight over a proposed mega-prison in Arkansas making some conservatives question mass incarceration itself
Ch. 4 - A think tank report that proves the glaringly obvious facts about what reduces recidivism, and an article on the community "solutionaries" already preventing and disrupting violence without police
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The People Most Ignored by the Criminal-Justice System - The Atlantic
Jails Are Closing Across America. Why? - The Nation
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Air Date: 9/2/2026
Today we look at how public health is being gutted by a system that took ordinary parental worry and organized, radicalized and monetized it into an anti-science "wellness" movement large enough to seize real political power.
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KP 3: Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 9-4-25
KP 6: The Anti-Vaccine Movement Part 1 - Throughline - Air Date 9-25-25
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(01:09:24) SECTION A: THE CURRENT DAMAGE
A1: Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health Part 1 - Reveal - Air Date 8-11-26
A3: Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health Part 2 - Reveal - Air Date 8-11-26
(01:35:53) SECTION B: HOW WE GOT HERE
B1: The Anti-Vaccine Movement Part 2 - Throughline - Air Date 9-25-25
B2: Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine - Yale Insights - Air Date 11-27-25
B3: To Be a Trump Republican You Have to Dare to Be Stupid - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 8-27-26
(01:59:55) SECTION C: WHY IT WORKS
C1: Fall Of The House Of Misinformation: Science At Work Part 1 - Unbiased Science - Air Date 4-17-24
C2: Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38 - CrashCourse - Air Date 11-11-14
C3: Fall Of The House Of Misinformation: Science At Work Part 2 - Unbiased Science - Air Date 4-17-24
(02:23:55) SECTION D: RESPONDING TO THE MOMENT
D2: Why Doctors Are Mad at Me for My Debate - Doctor Mike - Air Date 12-17-25
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Air Date: 8/29/2026
Today we examine what happens when the state wants to decide whether a person reproduces. A century ago, American courts sanctioned the forced sterilization of women deemed unfit to reproduce. 60 years ago, a communist dictator ran a pronatalist experiment with disastrous results. Now, abortion access is collapsing and a new pronatalist movement is rising to wreak havoc.
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KP 1: Buck V. Bell Part 1 - 5-4 - Air Date 5-26-20
KP 2: Fannie Lou Hamer - Who Did What Now - Air Date 3-5-26
KP 3: Erika Cohn - Belly of the Beast Part 1 - Bitch Talk Podcast - Air Date 1-27-21
KP 4: Explaining This Moment of Pronatalism Part 1 - rePROS Fight Back - Air Date 6-16-26
KP 6: Explaining This Moment of Pronatalism Part 2 - rePROS Fight Back - Air Date 6-16-26
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(00:55:30) SECTION A: EUGENIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
A1: Buck V. Bell Part 1 - Stuff You Missed in History Class - Air Date 8-20-25
A2: Buck V. Bell Part 2 - 5-4 - Air Date 5-26-20
A3: Buck V. Bell Part 2 - Stuff You Missed in History Class - Air Date 8-20-25
(01:19:19) SECTION B: COERCED STERILIZATION TODAY
B1: The Dark History of Forced Sterilization - Breakthrough News - Air Date 10-21-20
B2: We're Still Here with Simon and Julie - The John Fugelsang Podcast - Air Date 6-21-25
B3: Erika Cohn - Belly of the Beast Part 2 - Bitch Talk Podcast - Air Date 1-27-21
(01:40:32) SECTION C: POST-DOBBS LEGAL BATTLEFIELD
C2: Return of the Abortion Pill Wars - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 5-16-26
C3: Uncertainty Is a Given Litigation Post-Roe Part 1 - rePROs Fight Back - Air Date 7-28-26
C6: Uncertainty Is a Given Litigation Post-Roe Part 2 - rePROs Fight Back - Air Date 7-28-26
(02:33:29) SECTION D: PRONATALISM, STATE-DIRECTED REPRODUCTION IN REVERSE
D1: Pronatalism Make America Procreate Again Part 1 - The Global Story - Air Date 3-27-25
D2: Why Do Musk and Vance Want More US Babies - BBC News - Air Date 10-8-25
D3: The Lost Children of Romania's Ceaușescu Dictatorship Part 1 - FRANCE 24 English - Air Date 2-14-25
D5: Pronatalism Make America Procreate Again Part 2 - The Global Story - Air Date 3-27-25
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Air Date: 8/25/2026
Today we explore the resistance to Flock cameras and mass surveillance as a whole. Communities across the country are voting to cancel their tracking-camera contracts, others are filing records requests to drag secret police deals into daylight, and some people stopped waiting and went out at night with wire cutters.
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KP 3: We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in Under 30 Seconds. 🫥 Part 1 - Benn Jordan - Air Date 11-16-25
KP 4: The Politics of Spider-Man: Brand New Day - Shawn Grenier | The Canvas - Air Date 8-11-26
KP 5: Copaganda / Alec Karakatsanis - This Is Hell! - Air Date 4-15-25
KP 7: Pushing Back On Flock Cameras with Kate Bertash - The Final Straw Radio - Air Date 4-13-25
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A Texas Deputy Typed "had an Abortion, Search for Female"
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(01:10:50) SECTION A: WHAT FLOCK ACTUALLY IS & THE BUSINESS OF SURVEILLANCE
A2: Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras - Benn Jordan - Air Date 8-26-25
A3: Flock Is Tracking People, Not Just Cars - 404 Media - Air Date 6-22-26
A4: Police Surveillance Technology - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 8-3-26
A5: We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in Under 30 Seconds. 🫥 Part 2 - Benn Jordan - Air Date 11-16-25
(01:56:22) SECTION B: BEYOND FLOCK - THE FULL SURVEILLANCE MACHINE
B1: The Panopticon Effect - 99% Invisible - Air Date 3-28-23
B2: It's Time to Take Down Your Smart Cameras 😬 - Benn Jordan - Air Date 4-2-26
B3: Police Are Buying $1M Spy SUVs - Silicon Cowboy - Air Date 8-18-26
B4: Meta Glasses Are Spying On You - imuRgency - Air Date 7-9-26
B5: Meta's New Product Is So Bad It Got Banned Immediately - House of El: AI - Air Date 7-17-26
(02:36:56) SECTION C: COPAGANDA & THE ICE ENFORCEMENT ARM
C1: Why Does ICE Want to Use Electronic Shock Gloves? - Here & Now Anytime -Air Date 8-13-26
C3: School Kids Being ZAPPED with ICE Shock Gloves - Status Coup News and MeidasTouch - Air Date 8-18-26
C5: A Note For ICE - UNFTR Media - Air Date 8-20-26
(03:02:12) SECTION D: FIGHTING BACK
D2: How to Surveil the Police - 404 Media - Air Date 8-10-26
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Air Date: 8/22/2026
Today we look at how the Republican Party made climate denial its policy more than twenty years ago and is now removing the government's ability to see the problem at all. The Environmental Protection Agency under Bush refused to regulate carbon in 2003, and now the Trump administration is dismantling the science that would help us both avoid worsening the climate emergency and mitigate the inevitable destruction to lives and property now baked into the system.
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KP 3: Five Lies Republicans Tell About the Climate Crisis - The Hartmann Report - Air Date 8-9-26
KP 4: Is This How We Invade Greenland - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 8-11-26
KP 6: Climate Wayfinding A Compass for the Climate Crisis Part 1 - Sea Change - Air Date 5-22-26
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(01:00:01) SECTION A: ON THE GROUND
A2: Wildfires Rage Across the Okanagan Part 1 - The Current - Air Date 8-10-26
A4: Wildfires Rage Across the Okanagan Part 2 - The Current - Air Date 8-10-26
(01:29:50) SECTION B: EUROPE ON FIRE
B1: Wildfires Are Burning Through Europe Part 1 - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 8-4-26
B3: Wildfires Are Burning Through Europe Part 2 - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 8-4-26
(01:58:01) SECTION C: THE DELAY MACHINE
C4: Trump Administration Ends Funding for Arctic Climate Report - PBS Newshour - Air Date 8-13-26
(02:59:45) SECTION D: WHAT COMES NEXT
D1: A Biden Climate Retrospective Part 1 - Left Anchor - Air Date 8-14-26
D2: Climate Wayfinding A Compass for the Climate Crisis Part 2 - Sea Change - Air Date 5-22-26
D3: A Biden Climate Retrospective Part 2 - Left Anchor - Air Date 8-14-26
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