Podcast Episodes

Republicans Are Messing with Texas

Episode 1184

OA1184 - The saying pretty explicitly tells us to don't, and yet here they are not don'ting. This week on Rapid Response Friday: why is a Texas lawmaker filing a habeas petition asking a federal cour…

Published on 4 months ago

The Boston Globe put out two bootlicking Trump op-eds in one week. What are we DOING

Episode 4

VR4 - It’s a Boston doubleheader for this Vapid Response Wednesday as Thomas, Lydia, and Matt take on two truly awful takes from the pages of Matt’s hometown paper last week within 24 hours of each o…

Published on 4 months ago

The Most Important LGTBQ Rights Case You’ve Never Heard Of

Episode 1183

OA1183 - We continue our ongoing look at some of our favorite Warren Court-era Supreme Court cases with this one-line 1958 decision finding as a matter of law that one of the most important LGTBQ mag…

Published on 4 months ago

What Can We Do To Stop ICE?

Episode 1182

OA1182 - DC is under full federal occupation. California is putting the Trump administration’s unprecedented deployment of the National Guard to support federal immigration enforcement on trial. And …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

“ICE Is No Gestapo!” Complain Gestapo Enthusiasts

Episode 3

VR3 - It ’s Thomas, Lydia, and Matt versus the entire National Review editorial board! Join us as we take on the conservative magazine’s recent op-ed on why it is extremely rude to compare masked Ame…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Project 2025, Six Months Later

Episode 1181

OA1181 - In this episode recorded almost exactly six months into the Trump administration, we check in on the progress of the Heritage Foundation’s infamous playbook to remake every part of the feder…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Why the Whole Alligator Alcatraz Thing Is Somehow Worse Than It Sounds

Episode 1180

OA1180 - We begin with some much-needed reminders that good things are still happening and the rule of law is still (mostly) holding on before turning to a recent Trump executive order on homelessnes…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

NYTimes lets awful Harvard Law prof lie his ass off for some reason

Episode 2

VR2 - Vapid Response Wednesday returns live on video for another round of bad-faith legal takes from the American right’s leading--well, let’s just go with “minds.”

We begin with a quick check-in on …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

LEARY V. US (1969): Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Everything You Thought You Knew About Timothy Leary

Episode 1179

OA1179 - Dr. Timothy Leary is best remembered today as the Harvard psychologist who told America to “turn on, tune in, and drop out” with psychedelics in the 1960s. But did you know that “the High Pr…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Entrenched Power Hates It When Actual Progressives Are in Office

Episode 1178

OA1178 - Our conversation with former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin continues with a closer look at the accomplishments of his term, what progressive prosecutors can realistically expect to be able t…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago