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GOP BETS CRIME WILL GENERATE FEAR AND VOTES - WILL IT WORK? Sep 26, 2022

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Amanda Marcotte - MAGA & the "Incels": Latest Jan. 6 arrests show how fascists target insecure young men. In 1864, a legislature of 27 white men created a body of laws that discriminated against Black people and people of color and considered girls as young as 10 able to consent to sex, and in 2022, one of those laws is back in force in Arizona.

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THE FIVE STAGES OF TRUMPISM Sep 25, 2022

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Is Trumpism in the final stages? As Trump's legal problems grow, will his supporters finally see him for who he is? Or has the Supreme Court already enabled the criminal takeover of America?

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LATIN AMERICA- THE REAL STORY Sep 24, 2022

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Mark Weisbrot, author of "Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong About the Global Economy" joins Thom to examine what the right-wing press doesn't understand about Argentina

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WILL THE IRANIAN REGIME SURVIVE THE DEATH OF MAHSA BY THE MORALITY POLICE? Sep 23, 2022

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President of the NIAC (National Iranian American Council), Jamal Abdi reflects on recent developments in Iran. Also is the Russia crisis about to come to a head? Reporting on the disastrous West Virginia abortion ban is Ixya Vega, Morgantown City Council and Community Organizer for Planned Parenthood and South Atlantic and Planned Parenthood Votes! Ali Velshi weighs in on NY AG's fraud suit against Trump. Dean Obeidallah comments on his article that Republicans just gave the country a master class on extremism. Geeky Science: Blueberries a Superfood? Study finds eating the fruit every day can reverse cognitive decline in elderly people.

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AMERICANS USED TO UNDERSTAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE COMMONS Sep 22, 2022

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The idea of America as a true “land of opportunity” is anathema to their ideal of a nation of “classes and orders” where every person knows their place and morbidly rich white men are in charge. Crazy Alert! Trump Is pushing FBI looking for Hillary's emails at Mar-a-Lago?! The Internet solves Trump's "Peekaboo" Letitia James slur. John Harwood sums It up in a tweet - the juxtaposition of two events in NYC today - Biden's speech to the UN and the NY AG's fraud suit against the Trumps - underscores the simplest contrast: a decent man who believes in the American experiment has replaced an indecent con man, who does not, as president of the US. Executive Director of YAFFED, Naftuli Moster reveals sub standard basic education for students in some Hasidic schools.

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AS PUTIN ISSUES NEW THREATS, ARE RUSSIAN TROLLS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY? Sep 21, 2022

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National Progressive Townhall Meeting with Congressman Mark Pocan. Is Russia sending cannibals and convicted murderers into Ukraine to fight? Also Texas maternal mortality data won’t be ready before midterms. And Crazy Alert! Trump promotes children's book validating the "Big Lie" Plus: Breaking News that New York Attorney General Letitia James sues Trump and three children $250 million for a new fraud case.

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FAR-RIGHT CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WAGE DIGITAL FOREVER WAR Sep 20, 2022

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There is a dangerous digital forever war of far-right conspiracy theories, but where did it start and what is it? Investigative reporter for ProPublica, Andy Kroll joins Thom to discuss far-right conspiracy theories. Also recently a very reasonable sounding fellow called into the show and said, essentially, “I voted twice for Trump and would again. Why do you think I’m a threat to America?” We ended up debating tax policy and I never did fully answer his question. The bottom line is that if you’re supporting this long (and incomplete) list of horribles, then you are a threat to America.

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LET'S JUST ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CRUELTY AND DEATH IS THE GOP BRAND Sep 19, 2022

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Republicans simply don’t believe that protecting the people of America is a legitimate function of government and they’re strengthened in that belief by far-right billionaires’ money showered on them. Is the far-Right’s entire agenda driven by "Liberals are Evil?" And because they believe in the “greater truth” of their narrative, they have no compunction about lying in the service of spreading it. Also, how privatization of the commons is harming countries and communities. First hit by privatization, Puerto Rico is in 'total blackout' as Fiona makes landfall - First Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. Then the power grid was privatized in 2020. Now this.

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IS TRUMP A RUSSIAN ASSET? Sep 18, 2022

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Is it finally time to connect the dots and admit that Trump has been a foreign agent of Russia for decades? Does this explain what is really going on with the stolen Top Secret documents?

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THE CHURCHES CRIMINALIZING WOMANHOOD Sep 17, 2022

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Reporter Sarah Posner of The Nation magazine joins Thom. How did the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention by religious extremists help bring about the repeal of Roe? And what are the wider consequences of allowing states to ban abortion?

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