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Jan 2020
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Episode 169: "I'm so sorry this is happe...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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- When the mob came for the Fifth

- Hong Kong: Proto Police State

- The Democratic Field

- Bernie's Got a Shot, The Joe Rogan Bounce

- Criminalizing Disinformation

- Watching Lou Dobbs

- Fearing the Bern

- Truthy Skepticism

- An Impeachment Drive-By

- Eli on the FBI

- Some Idiot Wrote This (and this... and this...)


Recorded: January 29, 2020

Released: January 30, 2020



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