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Mar 2025
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Bad Hasbara 92: Free Mahmoud Khalil, wit...

Matt Lieb
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Matt and Daniel are joined by comedian and actor Bilal Sharmoug to talk over the shocking ICE detention of Columbia grad student and protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, finding common cause with Ann Coulter, and a Beatle cucking in our nation’s intelligence capital: Nassau County, New York.

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