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Stuck In The Midterms With You

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Election Day has wrapped, but now the wait begins as votes are counted and results pour in from across the country. We walk through what we know so fa...

The Midterm Voter's Guide To The Galaxy

08 Nov 2022

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Today is Election Day. And Shaniqua McClendon, Crooked’s political director, explains what you need to know if you’re voting today – from what t...

A Twitter Pill To Swallow

07 Nov 2022

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Elon Musk, who recently acquired Twitter for $44 billion, laid off about half of the company’s staff on Friday. The move also impacted teams that mo...

True Crime Rates

04 Nov 2022

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In the run-up to the midterm elections, Republicans have made crime a central issue in their attacks against Democrats. But the fear tactics aren’t ...

For God's Sake, Vote

03 Nov 2022

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President Biden on Wednesday made his closing argument to voters ahead of Election Day. In a speech delivered near Capitol Hill, where violent extremi...

Who Watches The Poll Watchers

02 Nov 2022

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As Democrats make their final push on the campaign trail ahead of Election Day, election deniers are making their presence known in person. In Florida...

Affirmative Action’s Last Stand

01 Nov 2022

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The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over two cases that will decide the fate of affirmative action at American colleges and universities. Jay Wil...

The Catastrophic Effects Of Climate Change Hit Nigeria

31 Oct 2022

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked in their San Francisco home early Friday morning. The alleged assailant ...

Sayonara Bolsonaro (We Hope)

28 Oct 2022

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Brazilians will vote for their next president on Sunday — an election that could be the most decisive in that country’s democratic history. The ch...

Toxic Jobs May Be Hazardous To Your Health

27 Oct 2022

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Pennsylvania Senate candidates John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz met on Tuesday for one of the most highly anticipated debates of this midterm election cyc...

Feeling Frost In Florida

26 Oct 2022

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Arizona election officials have referred at least six cases of alleged voter intimidation at ballot drop-off boxes to the Justice Department. The comp...

It's Rishi, Bitch

25 Oct 2022

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There’s growing concern among Western countries that Russia could be planning a false flag operation in Ukraine – by deploying a so-called “dirt...

Debt Relief It Or Not

24 Oct 2022

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A federal appeals court has temporarily put a hold on the Biden administration’s student debt forgiveness plan. The challenge comes from six Republi...

No Truss, No Fuss

21 Oct 2022

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Liz Truss abruptly resigned as Britain’s prime minister on Thursday, after just 45 days in office — making her the shortest-serving prime minister...

Defund The Florida Election Police

20 Oct 2022

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In August, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of several people accused of illegally voting in the 2020 election. But newly released ...

One More Reason To Roe To The Polls

19 Oct 2022

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President Biden promised to codify abortion access into federal law next year if voters elect more Democrats to the Senate and maintain their majority...

Understanding Russia's "Kamikaze" Drones

18 Oct 2022

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Another deadly round of Russian attacks hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early Monday morning – this time, from so-called "kamikaze" drones believed to ...

One Month Of Women-Led Protests In Iran

17 Oct 2022

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It’s been one month since women began burning their hijabs and leading daily protests in the streets of Iran over the killing of Mahsa Amini. In tha...

Don-Subpoena Relationship

14 Oct 2022

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The House select committee investigating the January 6th insurrection held its latest — and potentially last — public hearing on Thursday, and vot...

Angry White Guys Gone Wild

13 Oct 2022

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A jury in Connecticut ordered Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in damages to the families of eight victims of the 2012...

No Country For Extremist Election Officials

12 Oct 2022

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John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat, is hanging on to his lead over his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz. ...

No Digas Nada, Nury

11 Oct 2022

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Russia launched its biggest attacks against Ukraine in months, targeting at least 14 regions – including civilian areas – on Monday. Vladimir Puti...

Kerch Strait Bridge Is Falling Down

10 Oct 2022

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Over the weekend, 20 Russian missiles hit civilian areas of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 60 more. These air strikes followed ...

Puff Puff Pardon

07 Oct 2022

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President Biden announced Thursday he will pardon federal marijuana convictions. The order will impact a few thousand people, since most cannabis conv...

Can Russia Take Its Foot Off My OPEC?

06 Oct 2022

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President Biden visited Florida on Wednesday to survey the damage from Hurricane Ian, which has left at least 100 people dead in that state. So far, m...

Herschel Walk Of Shame

05 Oct 2022

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Conservative leaders have rallied behind Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker, following a report that he paid for an abortion for an e...

L.A. Hopes For A New Sheriff In Town

04 Oct 2022

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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday, weeks after Hurricane Fiona tore through the island. The trip – and the...

I'm Sorry, Justice Jackson

03 Oct 2022

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Florida's death toll from Hurricane Ian soared to at least 74 over the weekend, and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still do not have el...

Tracking The Devastation Of Hurricane Ian

30 Sep 2022

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After leaving a trail of destruction in southern Florida, Hurricane Ian is expected to make a second landfall in South Carolina on Friday. Officials i...

Hurricane Ian Makes Landfall In Florida

29 Sep 2022

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Hurricane Ian reached Florida Wednesday afternoon as one of the strongest storms to hit the U.S. mainland in decades. Some 2.5 million residents of Ta...

Florida Prepares For Hurricane Ian

28 Sep 2022

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Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across Cuba and is barreling toward Florida, where it’s expected to intensify into a Category 3 or 4 storm. Mary...

The Pound And The Fury

27 Sep 2022

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The British pound hit a record low against the U.S. dollar on Monday. We discuss the economic plan by new U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss that sent the ...

Move Over, Monkeypox

26 Sep 2022

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Almost 750 demonstrators were arrested in Russia on Saturday. They were protesting president Vladimir Putin’s declaration from last week of a “par...

How Favre We've Fallen

23 Sep 2022

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Outrage continues in Iran over the death of a woman detained by that country's "morality police," and at least nine people have been killed in clashes...

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Fraud

22 Sep 2022

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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a $250 million lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his three adult children, accusing them...

You Can't Always Declassify What You Want

21 Sep 2022

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The legal battle over sensitive government documents seized from Mar-a-Lago continued on Tuesday, as lawyers for Donald Trump and the Justice Departme...

Nobody Puts COVID In A Corner

20 Sep 2022

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Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest Monday, marking the end of the ten days of public mourning since her death on September 8th.President Biden said i...

Fiona Leaves Puerto Rico In The Dark

19 Sep 2022

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The entire island of Puerto Rico is without power after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday. More than 3 million people are in the dark, nearly fi...

Red-State Governors Use People As Props

16 Sep 2022

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The White House announced a tentative agreement with freight rail companies and the unions representing 100,000 workers on Thursday, averting a strike...

A Freight Knot

15 Sep 2022

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Tens of thousands of railroad workers could go on strike Friday, even as top-level negotiators and Labor Department officials met in Washington yester...

No Vacation From Inflation

14 Sep 2022

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The latest Consumer Price Index report caught investors off-guard Tuesday, after it showed that inflation in August didn't cool off as much as economi...

Not Everybody Loves Royalty

13 Sep 2022

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Mourners are paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II as her remains make the journey to London ahead of her funeral, but protesters are also turni...

Ukraine On The Offensive

12 Sep 2022

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Yesterday marked 21 years since the September 11th attacks, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives and remains the deadliest act of terror on U.S. soil. Uk...

Britain Mourns Queen Elizabeth II

09 Sep 2022

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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, passed away on Thursday. She was 96 years old. Kristen Meinzer, the cohost of New...

Welcome To The Hot Hell California

08 Sep 2022

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As millions of Californians were trying to stay cool amid a scorching heat wave on Tuesday, overwhelming demand for electricity nearly forced the stat...

The Delayed Side Of The Moon

07 Sep 2022

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NASA was forced to scrub the test launch for its Artemis I moon mission for the second time on Saturday. Miriam Kramer, a space reporter for Axios, jo...

Going Into Labor Day

02 Sep 2022

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Labor Day weekend is coming up, and it's a great time to celebrate American workers. We check in with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh about unions, the st...

Boosting Makes Me Feel Good

01 Sep 2022

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The FDA authorized the first new versions of the Covid-19 vaccines since they were introduced in late 2020, and the updated formulations target the ne...

Mississippi’s Crisis Over Troubled Water

31 Aug 2022

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The city of Jackson, Mississippi is under a state of emergency because of ongoing problems with its troubled water system, leaving residents without s...

Understanding Trump's Request For A "Special Master"

30 Aug 2022

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A federal judge has indicated that she may appoint a “special master” to review the documents that the FBI seized from Mar-A-Lago earlier this mon...

Kaiser Mental Health Care Workers Strike For Change

29 Aug 2022

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The Justice Department released the affidavit that led to the FBI search on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Although the documen...

Day Of The Affidavit

26 Aug 2022

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A redacted version of the affidavit that justified the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is expected to be released to the public t...

Student Debt, You’re Cancelled

25 Aug 2022

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President Biden announced on Wednesday a plan that would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for millions of Americans, and $20,000 for Pell grant rec...

Ukraine Celebrates A Somber Independence Day

24 Aug 2022

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Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day, marking 31 years since it broke from the Soviet Union. It also comes six months since Russia launched its full-...

Protecting Your Data In A Post-Roe World

23 Aug 2022

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A teenager and her mother are facing criminal charges for allegedly violating Nebraska's abortion ban, and police used their Facebook direct messages ...

Now That's What I Call Climate Chaos

22 Aug 2022

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Extreme weather is taking a toll around the globe, with intense storms battering parts of Europe, and historic drought revealing long-submerged relics...

Tip Of The Weisselberg

19 Aug 2022

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A federal judge in Florida announced Thursday he is "inclined" to release parts of the affidavit that led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this...

Better COVID Messaging? We'll CDC About That

18 Aug 2022

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CDC director Rochelle Walensky announced Wednesday the agency is making big structural and cultural changes, following widespread criticism over its r...

A Gay Doctor Talks Monkeypox

17 Aug 2022

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The CDC recently reported that new monkeypox cases in New York City appear to be slowing down, though new cases are slowly rising nationwide. Dr. Carl...

Georgia Grand Jury On My Mind

16 Aug 2022

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More allies of former President Donald Trump will have to appear before a special grand jury in Georgia in the coming weeks, as part of the criminal i...

Caught In The Espionage Act

15 Aug 2022

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The Justice Department is investigating former President Donald Trump for potentially violating three federal laws related to handling government docu...

Trump Gets Merrick-Rolled

12 Aug 2022

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Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unexpected announcement yesterday to address the FBI search for confidential documents at Donald Trump’s ho...

The 45th Pleads The 5th

11 Aug 2022

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Former President Donald Trump pleaded the Fifth Amendment during depositions for the civil case against him by New York state. The strategy could be a...

Winter White House Down

10 Aug 2022

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The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida property Mar-A-Lago on Monday. A New York Times source says agents were searching for classified documents the...

Ahmaud Arbery's Killers Sentenced In Federal Court

09 Aug 2022

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Three men were sentenced in federal court for their role in the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The man who shot Arbery, Travis McMichael, and ...

Highs And Lows of the Climate Bill

08 Aug 2022

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Hot Take’s Mary Annaïse Heglar joins us to talk about the Senate passing the Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday. It now heads to the House this week...

Monkeypox Is Now A Federal Health Emergency

05 Aug 2022

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The U.S. declared a federal public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak on Thursday after the states of New York, California and Illinois did ...

Keeping Up With The Alex Joneses

04 Aug 2022

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Far-right talk show host Alex Jones took the stand on Wednesday in one of his many defamation cases. Jones has spent the last decade lying repeatedly ...

Yes We Kansas

03 Aug 2022

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Abortion access in Kansas will be preserved because yesterday the state overwhelmingly voted against a referendum designed to open the door to abortio...

Kansas Votes Today To Protect Abortion Access

02 Aug 2022

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Kansas votes today on whether the state’s constitution should still explicitly protect the right to an abortion. Ashley All, a spokesperson for Kans...

Biden's Rebound Relationship With COVID

01 Aug 2022

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Indiana state lawmakers on Saturday moved one step closer to banning nearly all abortions. The vote puts the state on track to be one of the first in ...

One Small Step For Manchin, One Giant Leap For Mankind

29 Jul 2022

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Senate Democrats reached a deal on a historic climate spending package – thanks to a surprise reversal from West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who p...

Biden’s Plan To Get Brittney Griner Home

28 Jul 2022

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The U.S. announced Wednesday that it has officially proposed a deal to Russia for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner as well as former Marine Pa...

Brittney Griner’s Defense

27 Jul 2022

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WNBA star Brittney Griner is set to testify in Russian court today for the first time since being detained back in February at a Moscow airport. Her d...

Indigenous Reactions To The Pope's Apology

26 Jul 2022

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Pope Francis apologized on Monday to a crowd of survivors, advocates and others in Alberta, Canada, for the Catholic Church’s historic role in the m...

Tour De Francis

25 Jul 2022

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About 71 million Americans live in places that were dangerously hot on Sunday. Temperatures from Texas to Arkansas, from Washington DC to Massachusett...

Hot Insurrection Hearings Summer

22 Jul 2022

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President Biden tested positive for COVID. He’s fine, but remember — everyone 6 months and over is eligible for vaccination, so get yours today.Th...

Pox News

21 Jul 2022

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A bipartisan group of senators announced a new bill on Wednesday that aims to protect election integrity. The legislation would make it clear that for...

The Haunted Manchin

20 Jul 2022

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The House passed the Respect for Marriage Act on Tuesday with bipartisan support. The law would mandate that all states recognize same-sex marriage an...

Location Sharing With Homeland Security

19 Jul 2022

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Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter than the Sahara Desert, and in the U.S. 35 millio...

Nearly 400 Cops Failed At Uvalde

18 Jul 2022

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None of the 400 law enforcement officials on location at the Uvalde mass school shooting in May did anything for over an hour to stop the gunman who e...

The Very Uphill Battle To Protect Abortion In Congress

15 Jul 2022

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The House will vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act today in an effort to codify abortion rights — but without a Democratic majority in the S...

Lost In Inflation

14 Jul 2022

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Consumer prices are up 9.1% over this time last year, according to new inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest inflat...

COVID Burnout Notice

13 Jul 2022

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As the U.S. sees another rise in COVID cases, White House officials are working to give all adults access to a second vaccine booster shot. Dr. Abdul ...

Jan 6th Back, Alright!

12 Jul 2022

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The House Select Committee investigating January 6th is back in action with another hearing today. Dan Pfieffer, co-host of Crooked’s “Pod Save Am...

Shinzo Abe's Assassination And What It Means For Japan

11 Jul 2022

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President Biden signed an executive order on Friday to try to protect access to abortion, but it’s not the solution many reproductive rights advocat...

The Great British Boot Out

08 Jul 2022

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Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he’ll be stepping down after three years in office. This comes after many members of the go...

The Victims Of The July 4th Highland Park Shooting

07 Jul 2022

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During an Independence Day parade this Monday, a 21-year-old man in Highland Park, Illinois shot and killed at least seven people and injured many mor...

The Courts v. Climate (From our friends at Hot Take)

01 Jul 2022

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The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday that limits the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change. Our friends at ...

SCOTUS Ends A Low Term On A Low Note

30 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Wednesday — one of which dramatically increased the power that states have over Native American tribes and ...

Ketchup On The Latest January 6th News

29 Jun 2022

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The latest House January 6th hearing was perhaps the most explosive to date with testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, the top aide to former White House...

Drag Queen History Hour

28 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court issued more rulings on Monday. There have also been several legal challenges to the trigger laws set to go into effect in states lik...

The Fight For Abortion Rights Isn't Over

27 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, and throughout the weekend people took to the streets. We hear from you, our listeners, ...

SCOTUS Shoots Down A NY Gun Control Law

24 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court announced more rulings on Thursday — one of which dealt a huge blow to gun control advocates. The court struck down a New York Sta...

Ready, Aim, Bipartisan Gun Control Deal

23 Jun 2022

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The Senate unveiled a highly-anticipated, bipartisan gun control bill on Tuesday. The chamber voted 64-34 in a procedural vote to allow for its quick ...

The "Abject Failure" Of Law Enforcement At Uvalde

22 Jun 2022

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The January 6th House committee held its fourth hearing on Tuesday, and we learned more about the effort to overturn the election by former President ...

Some VP That I Used To Know

17 Jun 2022

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We're about halfway through the January 6th committee hearings scheduled for this month. Yesterday, the committee focused on former President Trump’...

Goodbye, Yellowstone Road

16 Jun 2022

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The Supreme Court released opinions on Wednesday in six different cases across a range of issues including veterans’ benefits, Medicare reimbursemen...

The Bear Market Necessities

15 Jun 2022

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Inflation is at a four-decade high, and on Monday, stocks fell to their lowest levels since March 2021. We break down what’s happening in the econom...

The Bitter Reality Of Tennessee's Mandatory Minimums

14 Jun 2022

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The second public January 6th hearing was yesterday. The House committee focused on the lie that the election was stolen and how that fueled the attac...