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179: Skepticrat179 - Emutant Ninja Edition Aug 01, 2022

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On this week's episode: Noah will undo both of his stories from the last episode ... Andrew will tell you that the guy some of you only reluctantly voted for - only after Marianne Williamson dropped out of the race - is FUNDING INTERNATIONAL ATHEISM and it’s 100% true ... And we learn about the greatest bird versus drunk guy fight since Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken.
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Trump thinks running for president again is his get out of jail free card: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/donald-trump-2024-prison
Homeland Security watchdog halted plan to recover Secret Service texts, records show: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/29/homeland-inspector-general-texts
Fox News discovers SFOP0007977: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-demand-answers-biden-admin-grants-promote-atheism
Actual proposal: https://www.state.gov/statements-of-interest-requests-for-proposals-and-notices-of-funding-opportunity/drl-fy20-irf-promoting-and-defending-religious-freedom-inclusive-of-atheist-humanist-non-practicing-and-non-affiliated-individuals/
Manchin finally agrees to reduced climate bill, then Sinema remembers she also sucks: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/climate/manchin-climate-deal.html https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/sinema-schumer-manchin-deal-democrats
Emu and chef help stop driver fleeing crash site: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/uk-emu-fleeing-driver-chef-hotel/
Christianity Today: “With Gen Z, Women Are No Longer More Religious Than Men”: https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/july/young-women-not-more-religious-than-men-gender-gap-gen-z.html
Russia announces it will drop out of ISS missions after 2024: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-science-241e789005f6375eeac3189acbdbc140

178: Skepticrat178 - Tory Book Ending Edition Jul 18, 2022

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On this week’s episode, Marsh keeps us up to date on the death of the empire, we’ll check in on a Manchin more haunted than Luigi’s, and Eli won’t let Marsh leave America until he fully understands how Prime Ministers are chosen … so he’s pretty much a resident now.—To support the show on Patreon, click here: https://www.patreon.com/skepticrat To check out our sister show, The Scathing Atheist, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/scathing-atheist To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To check out our sister show’s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/ Hear more from Evil Giraffes on Mars here: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGiraffesOnMars Headline Resources:Boris Johnson to resign: https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnson-resignation-60da3c4b29a4e9c93c7db9f53034ad0e Joe Manchin wants everyone to know he sucks even harder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/16/white-house-manchin-biden/ 988 Mental crisis line opens: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/988-suicide-prevention-hotline-launch-nationwide-rcna38297 US/Russia hammer out space carpool rules amid ongoing Russian war crimes: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nasa-russian-space-agency-sign-deal-share-space-station-flights-roscosmos-2022-07-15/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/15/putin-orders-shake-up-at-russias-space-agency https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/14/putin-signs-expanded-foreign-agents-law-a78298 https://www.thejournal.ie/russia-shelling-from-ukraine-nuclear-plant-5818580-Jul2022/ Fetterman trolls Dr. Oz: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/snooki-fetterman-new-jersey.html

177: Skepticrat177 - Unborn on the 4th of July Edition Jul 04, 2022

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On this week's episode: Rudy Giuliani hires Jussie Smollett as a very specific acting coach ... Florida will take all your “couldn’t be any stupider” jibes as a challenge ... And Donald Trump has a really fun limo ride with Tall Tyler and Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Fetal personhood is absurd:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/04/we-are-not-going-back-to-the-time-before-roe-we-are-going-somewhere-worse https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/if-a-fetus-is-a-person-it-should-get-child-support-due-process-and-citizenship/2019/05/17/7280ae30-78ac-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html
N.Y. Lawmakers Respond on Guns and Abortion After Supreme Court Rulings: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/nyregion/ny-guns-abortion-supreme-court.html
Educating in Florida is as terrifying as you thought: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/02/desantis-civics-separation-church-state/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/07/01/desantis-florida-universities-laws/
Cassidy Hutchinson testimony at J6 hearings: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/06/cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-the-most-explosive-revelations.html
COVID-19 Vaccines Authorized for Children 6 Months and Older:
https://time.com/6187674/covid-19-vaccines-kids-under-five-fda/
Rudy Giuliani freaks the fuck out about tiny little pat on the back: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/27/nyregion/rudolph-giuliani-smack-charge.html

176: Skepticrat176 - Doge-Eat-Doge Edition Jun 20, 2022

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On this week's episode: The sane wing of Congress rejects the idea that insurrections become legal if they’re stupid enough ... Committed Dogecoin investors get trapped like the passenger of a flaming Tesla that locks itself from the inside ... And a Google AI does a better job mimicking human interaction than the guy who claims it’s sentient ever managed.
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Jan 6 Hearings recap: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104103404/new-revelations-and-other-takeaways-from-first-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104657476/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105513685/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing
Elon Musk getting sued for running Dogecoin "pyramid scheme": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-sued-lawsuit-dogecoin-b2102939.html https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/elon-musk-sued-258-billion-over-alleged-dogecoin-pyramid-scheme-2022-06-16/
Lunatic claims Google AI is sentient, gets put on leave: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/technology/google-chatbot-ai-blake-lemoine.html
"How to Murder Your Husband" writer sentenced to life for killing husband: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/14/how-to-murder-your-husband-life-sentence/
Chinese telescope signal turns out not to be extraterrestrial: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/science/china-alien-signal.html
Mike Lindell has a meltdown after Walmart pulls MyPillow off their shelves: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-rages-walmart-over-mypillow-pull-youre-canceling-us-1716705

175: Skepticrat175 - Peach Tree Edishion Jun 06, 2022

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On this week's episode: Marjorie Taylor Greene gets stuck up a speech tree ... The UK will try parading on a reign for a change ... And we'll be speaking with a state representative who made headlines last week by shoving the hypocrisy of anti-choice Republicans right in their faces.
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MTG is wrong about every single major news item this week: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxjwa/mtg-trudeau-gun-law-canada-russia https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/05/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-latest-republican-spreading-lie-uvalde-massacre-gunman-was-transgender https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/06/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-doubles-down-on-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-suggests-pride-month-needs-to-end https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/06/03/lab-meat-politics
Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/01/jubilee-platinum-queen-elizabeth-guide/
Turkey changes its name to Türkiye so that we’ll stop making stupid bird jokes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913

174: Skepticrat174 - Hurricane Gun Control Edition May 23, 2022

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On this week's episode: Primary season makes us miss the time of locusts ... Noah makes a strong case that we should just outsource our voting stuff to Australia ... And against all odds, we learn that Donald Trump is even dumber than we thought.
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PA Primaries:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/18/oz-mccormick-trump-pennsylvania/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-republican-governor-trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/21/voting-is-surging-georgia-despite-controversial-new-election-law/
Madison Cawthorn is a losing loser who lost:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/madison-cawthorn-vows-dark-maga-takeover-after-losing-to-chuck-edwards-in-north-carolina-primary
Activision Blizzard heavily edits King’s Diversity Generator Blog, removes all race ranking:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/05/14/activision-blizzard-heavily-edits-kings-diversity-generator-blog-removes-all-ranking-images/?sh=2bf293043de0
US Congress wastes time with silly UFO shit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/17/ufo-hearing-congress/
Jordan Peterson continues to be a parody I couldn’t write if I tried: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/jordan-peterson-twitter-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-yumi-nu-rcna29382
Trump kept asking if China was shooting us with a "hurricane gun": https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hurricane-gun-china-world-war-1350638/

173: Skepticrat173 - Recorded Early Before the Roe News Edition May 09, 2022

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On this week's episode: New Jersey’s weed is as legal as it is expensive ... Madison Cawthorn’s existence continues to be the "free space" of political comedy ... And Twitter just got recalled for running a red light and killing a pedestrian. Also, we recorded this a week earlier than normal, and the news about Roe hadn't come out yet. We'll obviously be yelling about that next episode. But for now, enjoy the one podcast from this week that's not about real life Gilead.
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Elon Musk is buying Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/business/elon-musk-twitter-trump-return.html https://stratechery.com/2022/back-to-the-future-of-twitter/
NJ legal weed sales begin: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/marijuana/2022/04/27/nj-legal-weed-first-day-sales/9558217002/
Trump’s border wall causing grievous injuries: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/29/trump-border-wall-injuries-deaths/
Russia bizarrely includes Sims 3 among evidence of 'Staged' assassination plot: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gpmg/russia-sims-3
Dog dumped for being gay is adopted: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fezco-dog-dumped-shelter-gay-adopted_n_623a3dc2e4b0d39357ce1a85
Madison Cawthorn somehow keeps getting worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/us/politics/madison-cawthorn.html

172: Skepticrat172 - Bronze Balls Edition Apr 25, 2022

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On this week's episode: A Trump appointee sends masks to jail for their crimes against humanity ... Tucker Carlson’s lie to his wife about it being suntan lotion he was slathering his balls with gets out of hand ... And InfoWars goes from morally bankrupt to the other one too.
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Florida judge strikes down national mask mandate because insanity is legal: https://apnews.com/article/biden-health-business-travel-tampa-3408cc825582126fbda5fbedd3a49dd3
Florida releases 4 examples from math textbooks it rejected for public schools: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/us/florida-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory-examples/index.html
Alex Jones’s Infowars Files for Bankruptcy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy.html
Tucker Carlson urges his viewers to irradiate their testicles: https://www.salon.com/2022/04/21/tucker-carlson-testicle-tanning/
MTG testifies in hearing on whether to disqualify her from seeking reelection: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-disqualification/index.html
White House reporters laugh at Peter Doocy after Jen Psaki reminds him he's not a doctor: https://www.rawstory.com/peter-doocy-question-draws-mockery/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10721853/Psaki-says-Doocy-sounds-like-stupid-son-b-h-questions-Fox-gives-him.html

171: Skepticrat171 - Ketanji Brown Jackson Edition Apr 11, 2022

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On this week's episode: Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed to the Supreme Court ... Donald Trump Jr all but texts “let’s criminally crime crimes” to Mark Meadows ... And being a Republican means arguing that Fig Newtons are moist and wonderful and better than Oreos.
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KBJ confirmed, Republicans walk out during ovation, SCOTUS still terrible overall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/06/supreme-court-shadow-docket-clean-water-act/ https://www.businessinsider.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-republicans-walk-out-senate-confirmation-video-2022-4
Donald Trump Jr.’s texts to Mark Meadows even worse than Ginni Thomas’s: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html
2 Men Posing as Federal Agents Duped Secret Service, U.S. Says: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/us/impersonators-secret-service.html?smid=url-share
Conservatives failing at more boycotts including Disney and Oreo: https://www.salon.com/2022/04/05/i-do-not-like-gay-cookies-conservatives-vow-to-boycott-oreo-over-new-ad/
Truth Social hemorrhaging executives: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/donald-trump-truth-social-senior-executives-resign
Major Cheese Heist Puts Dutch Dairy Farmers on Alert: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/world/europe/cheese-theft-netherlands.html?smid=url-share

170: Skepticrat170 - KBJ FTW Edition Mar 28, 2022

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On this week's episode: Vladimir Putin fights for a different kind of TERF ... A South Carolina man proves you can save someone from drowning on a technicality ... And Ted Cruz thinks he might be turning Japanese - he really thinks so.
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KBJ confirmation hearings: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearings-takeaways/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-woman-definition.html https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088217548/hawleys-attacks-on-ketanji-brown-jackson-fuel-a-surge-in-online-conspiracy-chatt
Putin Goes Into Battle on a Second Front...Culture:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/world/europe/putin-cancel-culture-rowling.html
Ginni Thomas did a bunch of sedition texting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/ GOP Senator Mike Braun says Ginni and Clarence's marriage should be illegal in some states: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/opinion/mike-braun-loving-virginia.html
Trump endorsements don’t seem to matter: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-03-23/trump-endorsed-candidates-struggle-idaho-governor-little-mcgeachin
Shitty dude gets shot by guy rescuing him: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10649259/Teen-jet-skier-shot-dead-Lake-Keowee-Good-Samaritan.html
FBI and Anonymous hacktivists fucking with Russia:
https://www.rawstory.com/r-2656999569/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/fbi-trolls-russian-embassy-with-geotargeted-ads-for-disgruntled-spies/

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