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Jun 2025
1h 47m

113: Truth Decay, with Mohammed El-Kurd

Matt Lieb
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Matt and Daniel are joined by Palestinian author, journalist, and poet Mohammed El-Kurd to talk through settler logic, the trope trap, and whether a lie is still a lie if lying is your job and you work for a ghoul and the lie is about genocide (it is!)


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