Episodios

  • Ryan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution

    Ryan Grim: An Unconscionable Reaction to a Summary Execution
    Jan 8 2026

    Most law enforcement departments train officers not to stand in front of vehicles—or shoot at moving ones—but masked ICE agents in Minneapolis did just that after descending on Renee Good's Honda Pilot and spitting out conflicting instructions to her. Not only did the president of the United States lie about the condition of the officer who shot her, Vance and Noem disparaged the deceased 37-year-old mother of three. Meanwhile, Americans are not down with the idea of the US running Venezuela. And the manosphere podcast world, which helped Trump win the election, are now feeling disillusioned and embarrassed about his betrayal of his "peace president" promise—along with his handling of the Epstein files. Plus, a discourse on white people, a consideration of Epstein's influence with the rich and powerful, and a meaty exchange over Kamala courting the Liz Cheney wing while bypassing the left's demands on Gaza.

    Ryan Grim joins Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    • Drop Site news
    • Ryan's 2022 piece on progressive advocacy groups
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    1 h y 10 m
  • George Conway: Trump Is a Vampire

    George Conway: Trump Is a Vampire
    Jan 7 2026

    Biden and Merrick Garland thought Trump would just go away, but malignant narcissists must be made to go away. And with Congress not fulfilling its constitutional obligation to hold Trump accountable for running the country like a mob boss, newly christened congressional candidate George hopes to join those Democrats on the Hill who aren't afraid to investigate—and impeach—the president and his miscreants. Meanwhile, Trump is rambling about postponing the midterms as he orders the military to commit piracy at sea.

    George Conway joins Tim Miller to discuss his congressional race, his return to New York, Yimbyism, and Mamdani.

    show notes

    • Monday's "Morning Shots," including Mark Hertling on the "belly-button rule"

    • Tim’s 2025 Music Year in Review

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    53 m
  • Jonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela

    Jonathan Blitzer: The Stars Aligned Against Venezuela
    Jan 6 2026

    Trump wanted to alpha male and take some oil, Hegseth wanted to bomb something, Rubio wanted Maduro gone, and aggrieved Stephen Miller wanted to bully the weak. The White House eventually settled on Venezuela as the best place to take out its aggressions and drive home its anti-immigration message. And now the administration finds itself depending on an acting Venezuelan president who has a long history of being extremely anti-American. Jonathan and Tim take a deep dive into the back story of our latest international intervention. Plus, the State Department is trying to deport an activist against online hate as a favor to Elon Musk.

    Imran Ahmed and The New Yorker's Jon Blitzer join Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Jon's reporting on Venezuela's acting president

    • Jon on the administration's chaos in the Caribbean

    • Imran's Center for Countering Digital Hate

    • "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here," Jon's book— recommended by a number of Tim's guests

    • Bill and Tom Joscelyn's retrospective on the fifth annivesary of Jan 6

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    1 h y 17 m
  • Bill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention

    Bill Kristol: A Stupid and Insane Foreign Intervention
    Jan 5 2026
    Toppling the leader of Venezuela looks to be about greed and Trump's vanity. It's not about national security, and is likely to produce bad outcomes—including more repression of ordinary Venezuelans and more refugees fleeing the country. And even the monetary value of plundering a sovereign country's oil is vastly overstated. Meanwhile, fake imagery of Venezuelans celebrating in response to the US intervention are being shared across social media, and a polymarket bet before the strike smacks of insider trading. Plus, the idiocy of the Donroe Doctrine, JD Vance should shut up, Tim Walz was not ready for national politics, Hegseth looks like a total dork over the censure of Mark Kelly, and Tim reads from the Monday Mailbag.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Will Saletan's guide on the other countries Trump could target

    • Monday's "Morning Shots," including Mark Hertling on the "belly-button rule"

    • Tim’s 2025 Music Year in Review

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    1 h y 3 m
  • John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started

    John Heilemann: The Year Is Ending a Lot Better than It Started
    Dec 31 2025
    Only six months ago, the wheels felt like they were coming off of America, and our democracy experiment. But since the Epstein case broke wide open, the wheels started to come off Trump instead. And he's not just lost his way in politics but in the broader culture too—with his despicable words about Rob Reiner, his trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired, and his pedophile cover-up. At the same time, we are likely stuck with his family grift, which will last for generations. Over on the Democratic side, the left has the momentum but there is room for a McCain-style reform candidate. Meanwhile, JD may be too repellant to win the presidency and the expectations for Mamdani are likely unrealistic. Plus, some love for Oasis, Geese, and Cameron Winter—and some hope that people are longing for something tangible in their music again. People need a rock star.

    John Heilemann joins Tim Miller for the year-end pod.

    show notes:

    • John's "Impolitic" podcast
    • John's columns at Puck
    • Tim's 2025 Music Year in Review
    • Filmmaker Charles Curran's recut of the Melania trailer with Miss Piggy
    • Shane Gillis on how we got Trump
    • Tim's playlist
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    1 h y 12 m
  • Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files

    Julie K. Brown: Hiding the Truth in the Epstein Files
    Dec 30 2025
    The DOJ is releasing random Epstein documents to distract the public, while also intentionally covering the faces of men in images. It's also pulling docs that reveal Trump's name. Epstein's victims think the government's messy release is all designed to protect their not publicly-known perpetrators. Meanwhile, more victims are coming forward to Julie, THE reporter who got the Epstein matter reopened after her investigation of his 2008 deal that no other modern pedophile would ever have received. Ghislaine Maxwell is key to understanding the whole case, Republican donors may be named in the files, and Trump flew on the Epstein plane eight times.

    Julie K. Brown joins Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    • Julie's Substack
    • Julie's reporting at the Miami Herald
    • "Perversion of Justice," Julie's investigation into Epstein
    • The NYT on Epstein's wealth
    • Robert Draper on MTG's break with Trump, referenced by Tim
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    47 m
  • Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot

    Bill Kristol: Trump Has Lost the Plot
    Dec 29 2025
    After a campaign built on the promise that Trump was going to look out for his voters, he started his administration getting sidetracked by DOGE and Musk's phony ideas about saving money. After that petered out, he got distracted by his need to put his name all over the place. In the process, he's totally forgotten to help his people—or even fake trying to help them. Meanwhile, Trump is trapped in a Groundhog Day of his own making on Ukraine-Russia. Plus, his bruising has now moved to his left hand, Melania can't speak English, the DOJ is still working to find the 'real' people who made the rioters descend on the Capitol, the withholding of information in the Epstein case is worse than the redactions, and Dems need to forcefully call out the Medicaid fraud in Minnesota.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    • Monday's "Morning Shots," including what Andrew learned from his extended family
    • The 12 Days of Christmas, Bulwark style
    • Addison's piece on America's two Christmases
    • Bill's "Bulwark on Sunday" with Ryan Goodman
    • Phrase Tim and Bill referenced: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
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    48 m
  • Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment

    Kara Swisher: We're in an 'Eat the Rich' Moment
    Dec 26 2025
    The year started with America's tech overlords kissing the ring at Trump's inauguration, and it's ending with the public fed up with the ostentatiously rich—and more distrustful of Silicon Valley than ever, particularly on AI. Plus, Kara's key role in the revelations about the relationship between RFK, Jr. and Olivia Nuzzi, Trump is giving away the store to China and setting back university research and innovation by a generation, the AI advances in healthcare are mind-blowing, media companies are going to accelerate their consolidation, much of the tech oligarchy has daddy issues, JD is like a Cybertruck, "Pluribus" is great, and "KPop Demon Hunters" is golden.

    Kara Swisher joins Tim Miller for the holiday weekend pod.

    show notes

    • Kara’s podcasts: "Pivot," with Scott Galloway" and "On with Kara Swisher"

    • Tim's playlist

    • Tim's Ulimate Christmas Mix
    • "Pluribus"

    • "KPop Demon Hunters"

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    55 m
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