Podcast Episodes

The Truth about the Big Ugly, Social Security, Healthcare & More with Alex Lawson

Season 2025 Episode 709

The Social Security Administration sent out an unsolicited email a few days ago, making far fetched claims about what ‘benefits’ the just-passed Big Ugly Tax & Kill bill would bring to Social Securit…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Wendell Potter on What Will Happen to our Healthcare Now

Season 2025 Episode 708

We first met Wendell Potter about 15 years ago when he broke ranks as a health insurance PR executive to blow the whistle on the industry he knew was killing people in its quest for higher profits. A…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Another F'n News Monday with Jonathan Larsen of The F'n News

Season 2025

When Jonathan Larsen first launched his newsletter and called it "The Fucking News," I thought it was quite clever. Now I know it was perfect and prescient. Jonathan joins me on the show each Monday …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

A Big Ugly Independence Day Eve! We'll Take it to 11 with Spinal Tap's Harry Shearer!

Season 2025 Episode 703

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Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

CBS Caves, Immigrants Continue to Fight Back with Gaby Pacheco

Season 2025 Episode 702

Knowing that I can't possibly cover everything that goes on each day in this hour we have together, today we'll focus on two... CBS paid Trump's extortion demands and a conversation with Gaby Pacheco…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

SCOTUS & Senate Screwed Us. Law Dork Chris Geidner Informs Us

Season 2025 Episode 701

After more than 24 hours of "debate" (it wasn't a debate) and the so-called vote-a-rama (including bullshit backroom deals, we're looking at you Murkowski), the Opposite World fittingly-named "One Bi…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Can the F'n News Get Any More F'd Up?

Season 2025 Episode 630

It's difficult to imagine the news getting any worse than the crap we've been dealing with over the last five months. Just when you think we've hit rock bottom, we live through another week of Dump 2…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Emptywheel Fridays

Season 2026 Episode 627

It was a week that, once again, felt like a year... or more! There was a war. More accurately, the moron in the White House inserted us into a war between Israel and Iran. The Supreme/Extreme Court f…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Catching Up on the News - The Bad, The Sad and a Tiny Bit of Fun

Season 2025 Episode 626

I read a ridiculous amount of news in preparation for this show every day, much of which I never get to during the hour I'm on the air with this show. So today we'll play catch up on a bunch of news …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Courts, Rule of Law and Lisa Graves

Season 2025 Episode 625

While we await the final rulings of this term from the Supreme Extreme Court, we're still getting decisions from them along with rulings from lower courts which may, or may not, apply nationally... d…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago