Pod Save America, episode 1151
Source: Crooked Media
“Trump Loses the Gerrymander War.” (04/24/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8894902-trump-loses-the-gerrymander-war
An All-American Retort to Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon as part of an effort to commandeer that territory. Israel’s bombing has been so indiscriminate that even President Donald Trump objected. … I have the same recommendation now that I had in a 1987 USA Today piece opposing deployment of the U.S. Navy to the Persian Gulf: ‘This is not our war, and there is no profit in U.S. intervention.’ GTFO remains the best Middle East policy for America.” (04/24/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/an-all-american-retort-to-israels-invasion-of-lebanon
Israel Apologists Lie About Their Feelings And Beliefs
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“One of the most frustrating things about Israel apologists is how they constantly pretend to believe things they don’t really believe in order to push Israeli PR. There’s a tweet going around by a rabbi named Elchanan Poupko that says ‘I had never met a Zionist who does not care also for the lives of innocent Palestinians. I have never met an anti-zionist who does care for the lives of israelis. That is the difference between us.’ This person does not believe his own claim. He is knowingly lying about what he thinks is true about Zionists. A Penn State survey published in Israeli media last year found that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the forced expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza. Nearly half, 47 percent, said the IDF should kill all inhabitants of any city they capture — that’s inhabitants, not combatants.” (04/25/26)
Tibetans-in-exile vote for new government as future without Dalai Lama looms
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Tibetans outside Chinese control vote on Sunday for a government-in-exile, an election of heightened significance as they brace for an inevitable, eventual, future without their revered spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) — condemned by China as ‘nothing but a separatist political group’ — is a key institution for the exiles, especially after the Dalai Lama handed over political power in 2011. … Polling is due to take place in 27 countries — but not China. The 91,000 registered voters including Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia’s megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America. … The five-year parliament, which sits twice a year, has 45 members from across the world: 30 representing three traditional provinces, 10 representing five religious traditions, and five representing the diaspora.” (04/26/26)
Serious Trouble, 04/24/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“Laura Loomer and Kash Patel lose their defamation suits, but Patel has filed a new one; a former Capitol police officer sues The Blaze for accusing her of being the pipe bomber; SPLC is indicted.” (04/24/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/this-episode-contains-no-administrative
The new Blob is even scarier than the old one
Source: NonZero Newsletter
by Robert Wright
“As the age of artificial intelligence dawns, the various people who make a living as Blobsters — the think tankers, the past and present government officials, the military-industrial-complex titans, the influential media figures — show few signs of getting the picture. Whereas the atomic age spawned lots of creative and even enlightened thinking about its revolutionary implications for national and international security, the age of AI seems so far to be having roughly the opposite effect.” (04/25/26)
Our Anti-Rich Tax System
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“I suspect that, considering how most commentators talk about the matter, many people think the U.S. tax system favors the rich, the public’s favorite scapegoat. But according to Adam N. Michel, the Cato Institute’s director of tax policy studies, ‘We actually have one of the most progressive income taxes in the developed world.’ … The average tax rate on upper-tier earners is as high as 33.4 percent. ‘[A]s a share of adjusted gross income (AGI), the top half of income earners paid 97.1 percent of federal income taxes.’ That leaves less than 3 percent for the rest.” (04/24/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-who-pays-federal-taxes
Free Talk Live, 04/25/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“FreeIanNow.org :: Possible pardons before Bitcoin Conference :: Ethereum founder working on making AI safer :: Southern Poverty Law Center funding racists :: Mark says ‘a noose is a fun knot to tie!’ :: Skeeter hits on females hosts creepily :: Pfizer stealing a house in Kilo vs The City of New London :: Eminent Domain :: Dems and Repubs have never been principled :: Abortion and leaving deformed children to exposure :: Mark is pro abortion for fewer Dems :: Christians suicidally empathetic :: Southern Poverty Law Center donors say they are okay with their money going to the KKK :: Turd even creepier to Wyn than Skeeter was :: Ricky calls in about abortion :: Joe Rogan texted Trump to fast track psychedelics research and descheduling :: Mark fan calls in :: AllPoliticiansAreLiarsAndThieves podcast :: AI facial recognition in stores secretly :: 2026-04-25 :: Hosts: Bonnie, Mark Edge, Angelo, Wyn.” (04/25/26)
After Viktor Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary, the “New Right” Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire
Source: Reason
by Steven Greenhut
“Hungary is Europe’s basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.” (04/24/26)
Colombia: Explosive device kills 13, injures 38 on bus in southwest as violence persists
Source: SFGate
“An explosive device killed 13 people traveling on a bus in southwestern Colombia on Saturday, an attack the country’s army chief described as a ‘terrorist act’ that also left at least 38 injured as violence linked to drug trafficking in the region escalates. Octavio Guzmán, the governor of the region of Cauca, said on X that the device was set off while the bus was traveling along the Panamerican Highway in the municipality of Cajibio. Five children were among the injured, Cauca Health Secretary Carolina Camargo told Noticias Caracol, a TV news program.” (04/26/26)