Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp recap the drag competition show "Dragula: the search for the world's next drag supermonster." Hosted by Dracmorda and Swanthula (the Boulet Brothers), Dragula is available on Amazon Prime in the US and OutTV in Canada.
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Mike lives in San Francisco. Joe lives in Los Angeles. They've been friends for over a decade. And each week they call one another and just...catch up.
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Good morning! Indignity editor and longtime media critic Tom Scocca gets newsprint on his hands to give you a quick summary of the new day's current events, with commentary about how they're being covered.
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Insights into the world of school marketing and communications, presented by Charlie Maughan, Rita Kilroy and the imageseven team. The education industry is an increasingly competitive one - a school is a business, and a marketing strategy can no longer be an afterthought.
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December 31, 1999: The world braced for disaster as midnight approached. Then, nothing happened. The hysteria over the Y2K computer bug quickly became an afterthought; a punch-line. In Surviving Y2K, Dan Taberski takes you back to the turn of the millennium to meet the people for whom it was anything but a joke â computer coders, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, and true believers â as they each face their own version of the apocalypse. And Dan tells a new millennium story of his own, abo ...
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About Men Radio is a show about men. Not all men, mind you, but specifically about lifelong friends coping with rapidly changing gender roles and how they interact with their partners, their kids, their co-workers and each other. We post periodically but each episode is funny, feisty and very, very real.
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From global technology consulting firm Tag1 Consulting, Tag1 Team Talks are wide-ranging, in-depth conversations about implementing various open-source technologies, including the business prerogatives and technical ins and outs with leading web developers and technologists. Join us as we explore trends in open source. About Tag1 At Tag1, we are redefining the boundaries of digital possibilities. As a leading name in the industry, we are committed to delivering innovative and tailored soluti ...
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Welcome to the Korean American Parenting Podcast, where we share the idiosyncrasies, struggles, joys and pains of being a Korean American parent, not just Korean or American, navigating the unique cross cultural challenges of parenthood. Hosts Jang Cho and Jerry Won chat with fellow parents and parenting experts about topics like academics, health both physical and mental, culture, and of course how current events such as COVID have impacted all of our lives in numerous ways. Our hope is tha ...
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The holidays come early on this weekâs Hello Uglies as Joe and Lauri unwrap Dragula: Titans Episode 5, âHolidays of Horror.â The monsters deck the halls with filth, horror, and a surprising double extermination that leaves the hosts both impressed and a little exhausted. Joe kicks off with the usual chaos, plugging Just Between Us Ghouls and recappâŚ
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235: Stop chasing clicks: how brand building drives long-term school growth
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30:29School marketing and communications with Charlie Maughan, Rita Kilroy and James Tindall In this episode of SMC, Charlie and Rita are joined by Senior Account Manager James Tindall to chat about why it's time for school marketers to stop chasing clicks and start building brands that last. In Making News, the team first discuss fresh data showing CMOâŚ
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Episode 570: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 570: It's always been a pleasure.
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13:14EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: It's always been a pleasure to talk to you in the mornings about what's going on and how the press is covering it. But honestly, ever since the first Tuesday of last November, getting up in the morning and immediately surveying the state of current events has been pretty discouraging. Pretty much every day, the news has been âŚ
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Episode 569: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 569: Dick Cheney is dead.
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12:26EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: [THE WASHINGTON POST] "Mr. Cheney supported tax cuts and defense spending increases, like nearly all Republicans, but he joined the rightmost wing in voting against a federal holiday honoring the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Equal Rights Amendment, creation of the Education Department, a ban on armor-pierciâŚ
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Episode 568: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 568: The sepia tone of afterthoughts.
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16:30EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Titans S2EP04 - Return to the Nosferatu Beach Party
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56:17Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp sink their fangs into Dragula: Titans Season 2, Episode 4 â âReturn to the Nosferatu Beach Party.â This weekâs episode is packed with blood, garlic, and pure chaos as the Boulet Brothers challenge the monsters to stomach some horrifying delicacies and perform a beachy floor show that turns into a full-blown nightmarâŚ
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Episode 567: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 567: Non-cacao ingredients.
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12:41EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: [THE NEW YORK TIMES] "Randy Shumway, chairman of the state Homeless Services Board, said in an interview, âUtah will end a harmful culture of permissiveness,â he said, âand guide homeless people towards human thriving.ââ An accountability center. Because if there's one lesson that homeless people with drug addiction problems âŚ
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Episode 566: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 566: A matter of guesswork.
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20:19EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Just doing a funny accent, gobbling up his ketchup treats, grooving to YMCA. Extremely normal things for the leader of a superpower on the world stage. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Episode 565: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 565: A machete.
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12:38EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Inside the paper on page A20, the Times reports on a breakdown in solidarity fighting the shutdown. âTop Federal Workers Union breaks with Democrats over the shutdown. AFGE chief calls on Congress to open now and negotiate later. The largest union of federal workers called on Monday for Congress to pass a spending bill to immâŚ
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Episode 564: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 564: A rounding error.
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12:49EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Bloomberg is reporting that Trump Media, the social media company owned by President Trump, the single person with the greatest power to personally cause events to happen in the world is going to start selling gambling contracts on prediction markets. âTrump Media and Technology Group Corp.â Bloomberg writes âplans to make prâŚ
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Episode 563: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 563: Sorely disappointed.
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15:15EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: âWith no end in sight to the nearly month-long federal government shutdown,â the Times writes, âfunding for the nation's largest food assistance program, known as SNAP, will disappear at the start of November, according to the Department of Agriculture. On Friday, the Trump administration said in a memo that it would not tap âŚ
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Hello Uglies â Titans Season 2, Episode 3: âA Gothic WeddingâEpisode Summary This week, Joe and Lauri return to the crypt for a wedding like no other! The monsters of Dragula: Titans Season 2 walk down a blood-soaked aisle as gothic brides and grooms, but behind the veils, the claws are out. Accusations of fakery, narc-ing, and fanbase manipulationâŚ
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Episode 562: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 562: Murders.
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14:48EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: On the website, the Times this morning published a piece that really digs into and emphasizes the point that its reporters keep making, down inside the incremental coverage of Donald Trump's ongoing campaign of slaughter at sea. It's a NEWS ANALYSIS piece by Charlie Savage, âThe peril of a White House that flaunts its indiffeâŚ
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Episode 561: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 561: South America produces cocaine.
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14:58EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The process of tearing down the East Wing,â the story continues, âwas expected to be completed as soon as this weekend, two senior administration officials said, as Mr. Trump moved rapidly to carry out a passion project that he said was necessary to host state dinners and other events. But,â the story then says, âthe previousâŚ
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Episode 560: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 560: White House demolition.
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13:58EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Donald Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the White House continued yesterday, advancing well past the facade to smash the main structure. The New York Times belatedly realized that this was, in fact, front page news, and put the picture on the front page at the top, four columns wide. But, being the Times, decided that tâŚ
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Episode 559: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 559: Happy problems.
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14:02EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Hello Uglies â Titans Season 2, Episode 2: âThe Monsters of Rock: Cyberpussyâ In this episode of Hello Uglies, Joe Betance and Lauri Roggenkamp take on the electrifyingâand chaoticâsecond episode of Dragula: Titans Season 2, âThe Monsters of Rock: Cyberpussy.â The monsters are bussed into the desert for a mysterious cyberpunk music challenge that pâŚ
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Episode 558: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 558: Royal jewels.
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15:07EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Episode 557: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 557: Secrecy and encryption.
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13:08EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Protesters showing up to wave Israeli flags outside the building does not mean that the "tension was spilling out of the synagogue." It's like when anti semitic protesters showed up on Broadway outside the fence of Columbia University, and their behavior was incorporated into the brief against the Columbia campus protesters, âŚ
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Episode 556: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 556: A huge news cycle for official racism.
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17:07EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The headline is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy / White People Would Be Given Preference." Here again, the bigotry is so blatant that the headline writers couldn't even sustain neutral euphemism long enough to get through the subhead. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIâŚ
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Episode 555: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 555: The data itself.
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15:34EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: President Donald Trump announced that the United States had murdered six more people on the high seas yesterday, in its fifth unprovoked attack on unarmed boats in the Caribbean, "asserting," as the New York Times puts it, "without evidence that they had been transporting drugs." Along with the social media post announcing thâŚ
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Episode 554: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 554: A function of access.
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14:51EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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đ¸ď¸ Hello Uglies: Titans Season 2, Episode 1 â âHalloween House Party 2â The monsters are back from the grave, and so are Joe and Lauri! In this premiere of Dragula: Titans Season 2, the Boulet Brothers resurrect fourteen ghouls for another round of filth, horror, and glamour. The fright feat? Pulling pins from a voodoo doll. The main challenge? A HâŚ
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Episode 553: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 553: Redefine criminality.
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14:36EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: There's not much point in quibbling about a prize that already went to Henry Kissinger, but US-backed regime change and peace don't usually end up on the same side of the ledger. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTâŚ
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Episode 552: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 552: Watching the world burn.
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16:29EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The final story above the fold has the headline âFar Outside the U.S., Kirkâs Memory Has Become a Political Tool / Public Tribute in Peru by a Mayor Seeking Trumpâs Help.â The story pretty heavily contradicts the headline, in that it documents that in Lima there really isn't any such thing as the memory of Charlie Kirk. Even âŚ
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Episode 551: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Widely criticized as flimsy.
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17:03EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The Timesâs designated campus scold Anemona Hartocollis has a new headline to scandalize the readers. âHarvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture. Harvard University is one of the most difficult schools to gain admission toâ she writes, âwith the school turning away some 97% of applicants every year. But, once they get in, âŚ
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Episode 550: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 550: Let's do the [CURSE WORD] news.
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Episode 549: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 549: The 21st paragraph.
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Episode 548: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 548: An Eisenhower sword.
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13:49EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: There is no job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. The numbers were reportedly compiled but are not being released, due to the government shutdown. Surely this is a neutral logistical decision on the bureau's part, and the numbers would stay in a file drawer even if they were positive for the Trump adminâŚ
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Episode 547: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 547: No matter what Congress says.
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13:45EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: There we have one of the basic problems with writing about the Trump administration and what its officials said, in that pretty much every part of that paraphrase is false. The review was not in response to Donald Trump's executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. It was quite obviously in response to the governâŚ
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234: Dude, where did my search traffic go? â Why AI summaries are changing SEO
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27:17School marketing and communications with Charlie Maughan, Rita Kilroy and Harrison Shearn In this episode, Charlie is joined by Rita and Digital Marketing Specialist, Harrison, to explore some eye-opening stats from the marketing world. From job-switching in the industry, to the surprisingly low awareness of brand purpose, and even why ads perform âŚ
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Episode 546: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 546: Ahead of a midnight deadline.
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13:11EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Back on page one, at the top left of the page, the headline is, âComey Is Stuck In Long Feud With President / A Bad Start Escalated Into an Indictment.â The bad start was James Comey as FBI director telling Donald Trump in their first meeting when Trump was president-elect that there were allegations circulating about Trump aâŚ
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Episode 545: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 545: Fear of retribution.
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14:48EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: This is how Peter Baker decided to respond to the spectacle of the complete collapse of the rule of law, by somehow simultaneously assuming the posture of a kindergarten teacher and of a child sucking its thumb on a sleepy mat. Boy, those Republicans sure wouldn't like it if someone treated them the way that they're treating âŚ
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Episode 544: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 544: Something of a joke.
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13:13EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Marjorie Taylor Green, whose entire politics is built around not being able to get along with people, is not getting along with people. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Episode 543: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 543: Chikungunya.
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15:07EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Speaking of declining literacy, in the international news on page A6, there's the headline, âSome Poo-Poo an Italian City Tax Designed to Combat Dog Waste.â That's P-O-O hyphen P-O-O. Completely amateur attempted wordplay. The term âpooh-poohâ for disparaging something is spelled with Hâs, so it's not a clever piece of wordplâŚ
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Episode 542: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 542: Strangers on the street.
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14:13EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Below the jump for that story on page A15, the headline is âSEC dropped a civil complaint against a former client of its Trump-picked chairman. In 2018,â the Times writes, âPaul Atkins was paid $1,450 an hour to be an expert witness by Devin Archer's lawyers as they tried to undermine accusations that their client defrauded aâŚ
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Episode 541: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 541: Going to hell.
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13:08EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The great difficulty in trying to convey what happens with this president and this presidency is that Donald Trump is a profoundly addled and frivolous person who doesn't care or understand the things he says or does, but he is also the president of the United States, so that the things that he says and does are real and seriâŚ
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Episode 540: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 540: A broad offensive.
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12:00EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: In the abstract, in principle, this isn't a terrible way for a mainstream publication to express skepticism toward official claims, but to politely and firmly rebut the claims put forward yesterday, to rationalize them into a new step toward reframing autism, is to miss the entire tenor of the thing. The story then tries to dâŚ
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Episode 539: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 539: Dark forces.
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15:19EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Jeremy W. Peters' nonsense, flattering as it does the sensibilities and sensitivities of the people who run the paper, gets page one, and again, a straight news story package, whereas Adam Liptak, writing about how the actual removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves, as the Trump administration threatened to use its regulatoâŚ
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Episode 538: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 538: Confusion and near chaos.
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14:51EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Knowing that the Senate went ahead and jammed through Kimberly Guilfoyle's appointment to be an ambassador at the expense of longstanding procedural rules just affirms the already established situation of the Senate. Framing it as a steady erosion of John Thune's values as an institutionalist is kind of funny, but likewise noâŚ
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Episode 537: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 537: Silenced by social platforms.
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11:55EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Before we get to the larger news, we're going to start with something very small, or at least something petty, that turns out astonishingly and yet obviously, to be of world historic import. It's in a passage by Ben Smith writing for Semafor. âThe Trump administration,â Smith writes, âfrom the president down to the middle levâŚ
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Episode 536: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 536: Acute malnutrition.
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10:50EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Hamstringing the FBI's ability to investigate financial fraud doesn't seem like things backfiring for the Trump administration exactly. Seems more like one of their more successful integrated policy initiatives. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTâŚ
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Episode 535: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 535: Business as usual.
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11:48EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The administration may have accused Venezuelan cartels of bringing fentanyl into the United States, but the New York Times has reported that Venezuela plays essentially no role in the fentanyl trade. The story does return to the fact that there is no legal basis for these killings, but it mostly slides past the fact that the âŚ
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Episode 534: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 534: Business first.
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13:38EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: It's one thing to ruin the lives of civil servants, it's quite another to inconvenience Bayer. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Episode 533: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 533: You have no idea.
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9:44EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: The Times writes, âMr. Kirk would arrive at colleges ready for rhetorical combat, willing to engage on the thorniest topics from abortion rights to race. the topic of race.â Ah, that âtopicâ of race. Right. His opinion on the "topic" of race was that black people were inherently mentally inferior to white people and only owedâŚ
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Episode 532: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 532: An interesting claim.
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13:00EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Shooting a retreating unarmed vessel and then making sure to massacre any survivors, would be absolutely illegal in a war, which again, is not what this was. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/ Support INDIGNITY MORNING PODCASTBy TOM SCOCCA
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Episode 531: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 531: Reply All.
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12:35EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Donald Trump's participation in Jeffrey Epstein's sleazy birthday book makes its way onto the front page in a NEWS ANALYSIS piece. âEpstein Revelations Hindering Trumpâs Attempts to Turn Page.â It's illustrated with an infographic, âSignature With a Characteristic Flourish. The president has denied signing a birthday message âŚ
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Episode 530: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 530: Drawing for Epstein.
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14:42EASY LISTENING DEPâT.: Way inside the paper, on page A16, down at the bottom, the headline is âDrawing for Epstein, apparently signed by Trump, is released.â âKey congressional committee on Monday,â the Times writes, âobtained a note and sexually suggestive drawing, apparently signed by Donald J. Trump, and included in a book for the disgraced finaâŚ
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