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Mark McKinnon and Dan Shapiro: Mid-Wreckage
Because half the country so desperately wanted Trump back, we may now be on the verge of attacking Iran because the fake peacenik president wants some…
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Tim Miller
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56:36
Congress Has the Power to Authorize War. They’re Handing It to Trump.
Plus: The Secret Service’s secret-issue timekeeper.
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Joe Perticone
55
Emergency Podcast: The Israel-Iran War
In a special episode of Shield of the Republic, Eric and Eliot discuss the Israeli military operation against Iran.
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58:46
It Doesn’t Matter What You Think About Iran and ‘Regime Change’
There is no agency. But there will be accountability.
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Jonathan V. Last
381
Adrian Carrasquillo with Carlos Eduardo Espina
A recording from Adrian Carrasquillo's live video
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Adrian Carrasquillo
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Carlos Eduardo Espina
26
35:57
Is Mike Lee Shitposting His Way Out of Congress?
The Utah Republican has given Democrats in the state the rarest of opportunities. They’re already charting out how to retire him.
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Lauren Egan
72
Marco Rubio, Velociraptor
Life finds a way and the administration is learning.
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Andrew Egger
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Jim Swift
222
Juneteenth: ‘The Day of Freedom Came’
First-person accounts of emancipation.
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Booker T. Washington et al.
The Romantic Comedy Is Solved
In this bonus episode of Across the Movie Aisle, Sonny Bunch, Alyssa Rosenberg, and Peter Suderman debate the state of the romantic comedy.
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Sonny Bunch
13
20:18
Donald Trump’s Non-Protection Racket
He’s leaving his former national security officials unshielded against Iran's assassins.
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Will Saletan
Trump’s Mass Deportations Are Making Us More Vulnerable to Domestic Terrorism
Law enforcement can only do so much at one.
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Will Selber
Can Trump TACO His TACO?
Tim, Sarah, and JVL discuss Trump continuing to TACO causing increasingly slipping support, more Democrats getting arrested over immigration policies…
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Tim Miller
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Jonathan V. Last
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Sarah Longwell
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1:20:00
Ben Rhodes: The World We Made
Iran is in a vulnerable spot for a variety of reasons, and Israel sees this as a stars-aligning moment to decapitate the Iranian state.
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Tim Miller
114
1:00:40
Russia. It's Always Russia.
The Europeans are going to need their own nuclear deterrent. Here's how they might get it.
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Jonathan V. Last
643
The Dodgers Owe More to Their Latino Fan Base
Forty percent of their fans are Latino, but the team has been silent as protests against ICE have raged.
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Adrian Carrasquillo
35
Trump’s Goon Squad Strikes Again
Just another day on the job for ICE as it arrests another Democratic official.
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William Kristol
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Andrew Egger
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Jim Swift
342
The Growing Threat of Homegrown Religious Extremism
The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of us.
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Mona Charen
Trump Should Fire Tulsi Gabbard. But He Won’t.
She’s not doing her job—but she is doing what he wants her to do.
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Benjamin Parker
Do Republicans Realize Whose Health Care They’re Cutting?
Their big beautiful bill is polling terribly, yet somehow Senate leaders may have just made it worse.
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Jonathan Cohn
141
Why Israel Did It
JVL joins Mona to revel in the wonders of Yellowstone National Park before shifting to the Israeli-Iranian conflict.
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Jonathan V. Last
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Mona Charen
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46:09
Zohran Mamdani: FYPod Crossover
NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani joins Tim and Cam for a special edition of the daily pod to discuss making the city more affordable, building more…
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Tim Miller
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Cam Kasky
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1:22:28
Mike Lee Needs an Intervention
The senator spends nearly every waking hour in an online bubble
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Joe Perticone
158
How Big Tech Captured the Army
Palantir and AI are inside the house.
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Jonathan V. Last
469
Does 'Materialists' Work?
Plus: the hypocrisy of indie cinema fans.
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Sonny Bunch
12
46:00
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