Don’t Overlook How Bad This Lesser-Known Trump Nominee Is

Don’t Overlook How Bad This Lesser-Known Trump Nominee Is

A look at Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick for chair of the Federal Communications Commission, and the way he has incorrectly been pitched as a “free speech advocate.” Then, Lucy Dean Stockton, an editor and reporter at The Lever, joins the program to discuss the very specific way Trump could erase many of President Joe Biden’s recent regulatory wins. Plus! a conversation with Jared Holt, a senior research analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, about the growing threats of hate, extremism and misinformation online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden

Why Republicans Can’t Seem To Lay a Glove on Biden

That new documentary on QAnon ended with something of a bang, with one likely suspect seeming to half-confess that he was ‘Q,’ the oracle of the violent conspiracy movement. But there may not be even ...

6 Apr 20211h 2min

UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken

UNLOCKED: DNC Chair Jamie Harrison: The Democratic Brand Is Broken

Democrats are in control of the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives for the first time in a decade. But to the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, it’s clear that the...

5 Apr 202129min

Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself

Gaetz Keeps Digging Deeper Holes for Himself

The New Abnormal’s least favorite Florida congressman, Matt Gaetz, is in hot water over mounting allegations that he’s been involved with underage women and taking them across state lines. To discuss ...

2 Apr 20211h 4min

FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free

FEVER DREAMS: Why QAnon Is So Bummed to See the Suez Ship Go Free

Did you know that everyone’s favorite Suez-Canal-blocking ship is now the subject of a QAnon conspiracy? The Daily Beast’s Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer lay out why the adrenochrome set is convince...

31 Mar 202144min

The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law

The Right Way to Fight Georgia’s Voter-Suppression Law

Goldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows first-hand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law.  “What [Gov.] B...

30 Mar 20211h 2min

FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie

FEVER DREAMS: What It’s Like When MAGA Nation Wants to Kill You for Your Movie

Take one self-proclaimed satanism expert. Add in a pinch of dumpster-diving. Throw in a chicken-coop fire, and (of course) pillow magnate and Donald Trump pal Mike Lindell. And you’ve got the recipe t...

29 Mar 202154min

TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop

TEASER: How Ted Cruz and the GOP Are Using the Border as a Prop

GOP Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn led a tour for themselves and others in their party at the border on Friday, but according to Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who took over Beto O’Rourke’s former...

28 Mar 20215min

Rep. Adam Kinzinger: ‘All We Do Is Call the Other Side Douchebags’

Rep. Adam Kinzinger: ‘All We Do Is Call the Other Side Douchebags’

What’s our wildly divisive political climate doing to today’s 20-year-olds, who will be our political leaders of the future? That’s what Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) asks co-hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Je...

26 Mar 20211h 4min

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