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On this day, a celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 250th year of our republic, and in the midst of a rapidly escalating attempt to end it, my thoughts are on the ordinary man, rather than the larger than life legend. In the legend, King appears like a biblical prophet, laying bare our faults and laying a path for our salvation, before predict...


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Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it a new coinage? A pre-existing word that gained a new meaning or usage this year? A word that seemed to be on everybody's lips in 2025?

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Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group, and remains a vital commentator and activist in this disturbing time.

Will recounts witnessing ICE abductions, confronting ICE agents, ...


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Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history and ideology of Stephen Miller. How did the product of Russian Jewish refugees come to see today's refugees as incapable of integration in American society? What are the white nationalist positions on who is a real American, and how does Miller navig...


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Over the past few weeks, it’s become clear that numerous users of X have been using Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot that’s integrated into the platform, to produce thousands of nonconsensual sexualized images of people—primarily women. The mo...


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