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The gang discuss Trump’s 60 Minutes interview, tensions over Chuck Schumer becoming senate majority leader, trouble for NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, a US attorney folding on habeas petitions, Hegseth surviving an impeachment vote, and President Bukele deploying thousands of Salvadoran soldiers to Haiti.

Sources:
https://x.com/AvAkifAkin/status/2119530275541811504?a=P678NnFDDQ_gCEpTZ5Y&s=20
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ICS_U.S._Mission_to_Burma_20260831-Public.pdf
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/11/disrupting-irans-pursuit-of-man-portable-air-defense-systems-fact-sheet

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/portsmouth-grants-rnli-highest-civic-honour-following-threats-to-crew-9342509
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/08/scoop-mamdanis-bid-for-2028-kingmaker

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/11/09/congress/union-sours-on-schumer-01157983
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/11/10/congress/sanders-dings-schumer-01159546
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/no-idea-hegseth-strategy-iran-james-comer/

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mzvwv2cxl32x
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026317
https://x.com/Rep_Stansbury/status/2120312483697091008
https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/house-democrats-traffic-key-hegseth-impeachment-vote
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6206617-jeffries-supports-hegseth-impeachment/
https://x.com/riley_rogerson/status/2120299241348202952
https://x.com/LEBassett/status/2120307288754065812?a=q397I_gDFM3huIgD_to&s=20

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-natural-causes-340763248/episode/urgent-the-bipartisan-effort-to-quietly-erode-environmental-and-tribal-protections-349745030/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2aC8lAOQbg

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2118778661243634138a=9rxD6GnZblVeCArqCvo&s=20

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2118794656154550533a=qjnnQBn295o28uObEuM&s=20

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2118805228153864465a=UMBw8NvHgD9qVhvwTbY&s=20
https://massie.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=395863

https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hegseth_articles_of_impeachment.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-impeachment-vote-house-thomas-massie/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_Ui8f1k6jYbISwuK2TJWdFmumkR24jM/view
https://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/sites/wawd/files/General%20Order%200826%20re%20Immigration%20Habeas%20Petitions.pdf
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-bond-policy-trump-washington-judges-976cd214de879948f324988a60a96d4b
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/bukele-says-salvadoran-troops-destroyed-195938494.html
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/2120182485015474372?a=Dgw1vfEEOAu9XXLcnqY&s=20
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/2118798429434343447?a=-NEIMF6zQ-lBZ4jXr5A&s=20
https://apnews.com/article/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-haiti-elections-war-on-gangs-un-rubio-democracy
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/17/americas/haiti-erik-prince-drones
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/10/haiti-drone-strikes-put-residents-at-risk
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-deal-trump-bukele-gangs-el-salvador/
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article317973147.html
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/10/el-salvador-state-department-haiti-gangs
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2026/11/11/haiti-depth-what-bukeles-intervention-means-security-crisis
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company
https://www.ft.com/content/a55a2a22-4479-4f93-a445-6147a5c6d790?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/jensen-huangs-affair-with-alleged-chinese-spy-puts-nvidias-china-ambitions-under-scrutiny/
https://archive.is/4MK0d#selection-473.0-477.231
https://archive.is/DitAN
https://archive.is/20261029091025/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-hired-a-pr-firm-known-for-handling-sex-scandals-last-year/
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Andrew and Garrison talk about the politics of assassination as a symbolic act from Luigi Mangione and United Healthcare to Gaetano Bresci and the king of Italy.

Sources:
https://abcnews.com/US/luigi-mangione-charged-murder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/10/luigi-mangione-life-school-family-back/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/luigi-mangione-guilty-plea-brian-thompson-killing
America's Forgotten Terrorists: The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists by Jeffrey D. Simon
Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe by Nunzio Pernicone, Fraser Ottanelli
The Anarchist Assassin and Italian History, 1870s to 1930s by Carl Levy
The Monza Tragedy by Errico Malatesta - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-the-monza-tragedy
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Kevin Foster dives into the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger and the consequences for labor, press freedom, and history.

Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/warner-bros-signs-110-billion-deal-with-paramount-its-executive-discloses-2026-02-27/
https://www.skydance.com/news/press/paramount-completes-acquisition-of-warner-bros-discovery-creating-a-new-global-entertainment-leader-skydance
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/12-states-challenge-paramounts-takeover-of-warner-say-merger-would-extinguish-competition
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/paramount-pledges-release-30-films-year-how-will-that-add-up-2026-09-23/
https://fortune.com/2026/10/15/skydance-warner-media-consolidation-trust-gallup/
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/paramount-bonta-in-talks-to-settle-antitrust-litigation-01085072
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/trump-praises-paramount-warner-bros-skydance-merger-terrific-people-1236903643/
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/free-press-founder-bari-weiss-named-editor-cbs-news-after-deal-with-paramount-2025-10-06/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-cbs-news-chief-draws-backlash-by-pulling-60-minutes-story-on-el-salvador-prison
https://www.nilc.org/resources/tracking-the-cecot-disappearances/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/new-cnn-cbs-news-editorial-indepedence-board-who-what-why-1236707168/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/oracle-tiktok-us-stake-outages.html
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-d5d8a1d56b5185778536874d7fc1ee62
https://csmapnyu.org/impact/news/was-there-censorship-on-tiktok-after-the-u-s-takeover
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James is joined by Natali Geovia of the Water Protector Legal Collective to discuss the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) and the tremendous damage it could do to protections for the land, Indigenous people, and public health.
https://www.waterprotectorlegal.org/
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Mia talks with David Forbes of the Asheville Blade about how Asheville's government has used Helene to exploit its people and push neoliberal economics.
Sources:
https://ashevilleblade.com/?p=5399

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