What Does Peak Fascism Look Like?
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Leah is joined by guest co-host Somil Trivedi, advocacy director & senior counsel at Court Accountability, to run through last weekβs legal news, which involves a whole lot of straight up fascism, the corruption that enables it, and the rising tide of Christian nationalism. They also ask the important questions: Whoβs the richest SCOTUS justice? Andβ¦what exactly is Trump babysitter Natalie Harpβs whole deal? Then Melissa sits down with Jesse Wegman for a conversation about his book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution.
Favorite Things:
- Leah: The Natalie Harp saga; The Five-Star Weekend (Peacock); Lost Weekend, Phoebe Bridgers; He Was Deported to a Country Heβd Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free, Nicholas Casey (NYT); Kateβs conversation with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer about their book, On Courage; The Wrong Kind of American, Julia Curlee (The Atlantic)
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Somil: Lost Weekend, Phoebe Bridgers; Frozen Charlotte, Jack White
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