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Headlines

00:00 — House Republicans finally pass an impeachment, and it's going nowhere

07:42 — Kansas City Chiefs victory parade becomes latest site of mass shooting

18:18 — New poll shows some Trump voters will believe conspiracy theories upon first hearing them

24:00 — Beyoncé Knowles doing country songs proves very triggering to some people

31:21 — Stung by stepped up criticism about his decaying mental state, Trump now claims his gaffes are on purpose

36:13 — Kentucky Republican state legislator claims that her white father was a slave, despite having been born in 1933

41:06 — Democrats win George Santos’s former congressional seat

44:56 — African Methodist Episcopal Church calls for ceasefire in Gaza

49:51 — STJH is going on a hiatus for a bit and we wanted you to know

51:32 — Group that provided basis for Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” admits in court it has no evidence of election fraud in Georgia

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Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

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Cover photo: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Deputy Secretary John Tien attend the raising of the Pride Flag at DHS Headquarters in Washington, DC, alongside other component members. June 1, 2022. Photo: DHS

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00:00 — Mormonism is a lot more varied that most non-Mormons realize

06:26 — Exploring how Mormons invented Christian nationalism but also are not fully onboard with Trumpism

12:01 — Mormonism and the 1980s “Satanic Panic”

23:46 — Why sexual and gender hypocrisy is endemic to reactionary thinking

28:57 — Fear of differences is ultimately what motivates reactionaries, and that they know they are losing

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Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

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Cover photo: A publicity photo from the musical “The Book of Mormon.”

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Headlines

00:00 — Nicki Minaj escalates her toxic feud with Megan Thee Stallion

07:46 — “A*****e gravitation,” the right wing’s new outreach mechanism to awful celebrities

18:07 — Snoop Dogg debases himself with praise for Donald Trump

22:30 — Quick Hits: Desperate to execute people, Alabama used nitrogen gas to kill an inmate

25:26 — Brittany Watts opening up about persecution by Ohio for having miscarriage

27:25 — Joe Manchin keeps making noises about a third-party presidential run

28:52 — Nancy Pelosi foments absurd conspiracy theory about Russia and anti-Gaza war protesters

31:58 — Charlie Kirk slanders NYC council member as he steps up racist and soulless marketing strategy

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Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

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Cover photo: Rapper Nicki Minaj poses for a publicity photo to promote her fragrance line Pink Friday 2. 

Headlines

00:00 — New research estimates more than 60,000 rape victims have been forced to carry pregnancies in red states

06:09 — After losing every abortion access ballot initiative, Republicans are trying to ban them in several states

11:22 — Right wing media spent 50 years telling their audiences they were going to be killed by the libs, the followers now believe it

16:35 — Automotive industry in turmoil as demand for electric vehicles has stalled

24:07 — Senate Republicans pressured by Trump and others in far right to reject any sort of immigration deal

29:19 — MAGA influencers are raging against Taylor Swift, a reversal of their former love of the singer, but is it all fake?

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Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

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Cover photo: Over 10,000 abortion rights protesters marched on the Minnesota Capitol to demand that abortion remain legal in Minnesota and to protest a recent US Supreme court decision that effectively made abortion illegal in many states. July 27, 2022. Credit: Fibonacci Blue

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00:00 — Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says he won’t allow any sort of Palestinian state

01:48 — Tennessee and Oklahoma introduce “abortion trafficking” censorship bills

03:47 — More Oklahoma craziness: State Republican legislator wants to criminalize all forms of pornography

05:52 — Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross speaks out about her firing

13:59 — CEOs seem to finally be ending their war on working from home

17:24 — Daily Show announces Jon Stewart to host for one day a week until Election Day

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Cover Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on January 30, 2023. State Department photo by Ron Przysucha

Headlines

00:00 — Introduction

01:31 — New Hampshire primary results reveal Trump’s big weaknesses as a general election candidate

08:32 — Nikki Haley’s opportunistic attitudes toward racism

14:04 — New report exposes wildly extreme viewpoints of influential “anti-DEI” activists

18:01 — Self-proclaimed free speech activists privately admit they want progressives fired

23:20 — Matt Gaetz admits far right is targeting Hispanic and black men for radicalization

27:15 — A handful of minor black celebrities are (unintentionally?) helping Republicans propagandize

31:33 — Tim Scott humiliated himself in a display for the ages at Trump’s NH victory speech

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Cover Photo: Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition's 2023 Annual Leadership Summit at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. October 28, 2023. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0

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00:00 — Ohio jury declines to indict Brittany Watts for miscarriage, but many other women will not be so lucky

03:11 — Case against NYC subway killer Daniel Penney allowed to continue

04:20 — Yes, it is Confederate Christianity

06:28 — Right-wingers dropping the pretense of respect for Martin Luther King

09:17 — Stephen A. Smith and many other sports media people trash far-right commentator Jason Whitlock

14:26 — AI generated content, including fake porn images, is flooding the internet

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Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

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Brittany Watts photo via screenshot

Headlines

00:00 — Nikki Haley has no chance, please stop pretending otherwise

08:18 — Vivek Ramaswamy ends his fake campaign after getting 7 percent in Iowa

11:23 — Despite their genuflections, Haley and Ramaswamy will always be “other” to Republicans

17:40 — Trump has turned to the “pound the table” legal defense because he knows the facts and law don’t favor him

22:50 — Kentucky Republican moves to legalize first-cousin incest

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Theme Song

Easy Lover: “The End of Our Deceit”

Lyrics and Vocals by Kali Holloway

Music by Jeremy Wimmer

Nikki Haley photo by Gage Skidmore