Air Date: 09/30/25

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we track the dangerous convergence of domestic collapse and international chaos by looking at political violence and martyrdom accelerating division, institutional capture from the courts to the media, the dismantling of voting rights and public health infrastructure, military deployments at home and wars abroad, plus the resistance movements fighting back through town halls, labor organizing, and revolutionary art despite overwhelming odds.

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PART 1: THE HOME FRONT CRUMBLES

(00:01:50) #1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It

(00:22:18) #1736 Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now

(00:40:43) #1728 The Lawfare Presidency: The Case of Trump v. Journalism

(01:02:37) #1731 Raw Power, the Presidency, the Courts, and Democracy in the Balance

PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL DECAY AND CONTROL

(01:17:27) #1732 It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, and the Project 2025 Agenda)

(01:43:50) #1733 The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA

(02:04:58) #1730 The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause

PART 3: THE WORLD BURNS

(02:26:54) #1735 Trump's Making Friends of Enemies and Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign and Domestic Wars)

(02:51:27) #1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It

PART 4: RESISTANCE DESPITE FRAGMENTATION

(03:15:52) #1737 State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before

(03:39:51) #1734 Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?

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Air Date: 9–24-25

Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:

• Ch. 1 - Intro, and quick follow up on bad satire

• Ch. 2 - The new culture of ‘buy now pay later’ and how these companies are manipulating the public to normalize the culture of overconsumption

• Ch. 3 - How companies pass the environmental toll of their products on the public, and the rise of “cute” debt

• Ch. 4 - The way heavy ‘buy now pay later’ marketing has dramatically changed people’s impression of how they spend their money

• Ch. 5 - Why poor voters are America’s swing voters and why that’s extremely important right now

• SOLVED! BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm: How we should address young boy’s anger

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Buy now, pay later usage for groceries nearly doubles as consumers struggle with food costs - Fox Business

Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy? - The New York Times

Inside the Manipulative “conspiracy” of consumption - Fast Company

The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’ - The Atlantic

The ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Bubble Is About to Burst - The Atlantic

Poor People Are America’s Swing Voters - Time

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Original Air Date: 11/15/2022

Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution, through the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, into the Civil Rights era, the Militia Movement and domestic terrorism, and now to our current once-again-radicalized, right-wing movement willing to use and tacitly condone violence as a political tactic.

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SHOW NOTES

Ch. 1: Capitol Attack Wasn't the 1st Violent Incident in Congress - Inside Edition - Air Date 1-20-22

Ch. 2: A history of US political violence Part 1 - Americast - Air Date 11-2-22

Ch. 3: Storm of White Right Wing Violence Isn't Coming... It's Here Featuring Luke Mogelson Part 1 - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-15-22

Ch. 4: Political Violence Is No Anomaly in American History - System Check - Air Date 1-8-21

Ch. 5: Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s - Part 1 - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 11-7-22

Ch. 6: Storm of White Right Wing Violence Isn't Coming... It's Here Featuring Luke Mogelson Part 2 - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-15-22

Ch. 7: Pelosi Attack Leads to Conspiracies, Obama Crushes GOP - The David Pakman Show - Air Date 10-31-22

Ch. 8: A history of US political violence Part 2 - Americast - Air Date 11-2-22

Ch. 9: Political Violence - In the Thick - Air Date 11-4-22

Ch 10. Today's Republicans were made in the 1990s - Part 2 - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 11-7-22