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Hey Kids, Let’s Go to DeSantis World!Listen now (2 min) | Until recently, kids were thrilled when their parents said: “We’re going to Disney World!” But that was in the beforetimes, before…
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Why Can’t Ill Seniors Get Even a Scrap of Dignity from Congress?Listen now (2 min) | What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean. I don’t like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs…
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Take a Whiff of Elon Musk’s Ecological ParadiseListen now (2 min) | Exciting News, people: Utopia is on the rise! Space Commander Elon Musk has announced that His Magnificence (ie, him) intends to…
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I would call Josh Hawley a fool, but he keeps demonstrating the proof of that faster than I can say the word. The latest embarrassing stunt by the…
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How Despicable Are Big Pharmacies Insulin Price Gougers?Listen now (2 min) | Profiteering is always bad, but there are degrees of profiteer. Level 1 includes your everyday price gougers, like banks and…
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Did the Texas Department of Agriculture really endorse donkeys for farm defense in the 1980s?
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Texas: What the Hell? Get Ready for Roving Bands of Book-Banners Coming to Your TownListen now (2 min) | Not so long ago, book burnings were considered a festive group activity by assorted right-wing zealots. Today, though, burning…
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History Morsel: The Day Masturbation Saved the First Amendment in TexasWatch now (5 min) | Hightower recounts the story of longtime activist John Henry Faulk’s appearance at a community meeting about an X-rated movie…
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Why the GOP Should Undergo Remedial Diversity TrainingListen now (2 min) | Obviously, the main social problem in America is that Black people run everything and us white folks as a group just can’t get a…
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Are the Women in Your State Legislature Properly Attired?Listen now (2 min) | Many of today’s right-wing governors and state legislators have a problem. By constantly pushing an extremist ideological agenda of…
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Tracking Norfolk Southern’s DerailmentListen now (2 min) | “The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the…
How to Guarantee a Train WreckListen now (2 min) | Stuff happens, right? I mean, who could’ve thought that in these modern times of digital monitoring of everything, something as…
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