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Episode 504: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 504: Unusually competitive.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 12:48


Episode 503: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 503: The Democratic Party's agenda.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 11:54


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: Nowhere in the paper is the news that 128 Democrats in the House of Representatives joined the Republicans to prevent Texas Representative Al Green from getting the House to vote on impeaching Donald Trump for his congressionally unauthorized attack on Iran. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 502: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 502: A barrage of unhinged posts.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 9:13


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: A big morning for newsworthy cuss words from the executive branch. I guess the job here on this podcast is to try to make sense of the news, but I gotta confess, I'm whipped. I know the potential smoldering fuse of World War III is a heck of a thing to throw up one's hands about, but it seems pretty clear that the people doing the war also have no idea what's really going on. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 501: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 501: Get more involved.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 14:09


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: the Times has a five-byline story narrating the process by which Donald Trump chose to send the bombers, and it essentially is not a story about military strategy at all. It was simply a child-minded and senescent president balancing his whims against the lobbying of his advisors and largely what he saw on television before deciding to do what seemed like the biggest most drastic and most satisfying thing. visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 500: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 500: White asbestos.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 12:17


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: “I don't reach out to persuade you,” Huckabee says, “only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven. And that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's.” And that is how the United States's current administration is approaching a military crisis precipitated by a nuclear-armed ally. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 499: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 499: Considerably more than tacit.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 13:27


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: “Today, the "Times writes, "while most Americans do not support political violence, a growing share have said in surveys that they view rival partisans as a threat to the country or even as inhuman. Mr. Trump,” the Times continues, “has had a hand in that. Since his 2016 candidacy, he has signaled at least his tacit approval of violence against his political opponents. He encouraged attendees at his rallies to ‘knock the hell' out of protesters, praised a lawmaker who body slammed a reporter, and defended the rioters on January 6th, 2021, who clamored to hang Mike Pence. One of his first acts in his second term as president was to pardon those rioters.” Yeah, I think the approval of violence is considerably more than tacit there. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 498: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 498: Not necessarily his approach.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 15:54


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Episode 497: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 497: An expert on defense policy.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 12:05


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: Last term, people told him he couldn't have that military parade and that he couldn't send the troops to shoot protesters. But this time around, he's gotten rid of those people and with them the limits on his ability to play around with deadly force to make himself feel powerful. If you can't grasp that simple fact, you need not to be presenting yourself as an expert on defense policy or for that matter, as the editor of a major general interest magazine. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 496: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 496: Guess what?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 10:42


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: This, it turns out, is how a violent fascist takeover manifests itself operating in the uncanny nexus between completely made up pretexts and complaints and genuine power and violence. Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth go on TV, done up like Bratz dolls of themselves and make flamboyantly idiotic and fantastic claims about reality, while somebody's real head bangs into a real curb, and they end up locked up and facing extravagant criminal punishment, in the real criminal justice system. Burning vehicles really feature prominently so far in the iconography of what's happening in LA. They make nice dramatic pictures, which is presumably a large part of why people set them on fire. And they're easier to get a nice composed shot of than the crowded, chaotic and fast moving spectacle of, say, police horses trampling protesters underfoot. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 495: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 495: An elastic range of activities.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 11:37


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: The New York Times would not allow itself to write a news headline asserting that the president is abusing his power, but it's perfectly happy to go fishing for a quote that will say that. In this case, the fishing line is still visible, as what Trevor Potter, the president of the Campaign Legal Center and a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission says, specifically is, “and yes, this is an example of Trump publicly and improperly threatening,” etc. which points back to his having been asked by the reporter to affirm the proposition that Trump is abusing his power. So he got the quote, the quote goes in quotation marks, and the Times simply reports it, as a thing in the world that someone factually spoke. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 494: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 494: A little creep at Brown.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 11:20


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: It seems like there would be several more salient reasons why someone would avoid publicly attaching their name to a story about defying the out-of-control authoritarian president, but journalistic conventions are journalistic conventions. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 493: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 493: Another weird decision by the Times.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 12:32


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: It is June 4th, the date the tanks rolled in, drawing approval, at the time, from Donald Trump for the Chinese government's display of the "power of strength," as he told Playboy in an interview. But that was all very long ago and surely not relevant here in the 21st century. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 492: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 492: Fantastic semantic duality.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 13:56


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: It wasn't just a demonstration of the capacity for military action. It was a military action. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 491: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 491: The most law-abiding immigrants.

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 11:13


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: The whole gambit of snatching people out of immigration court completely contradicts the message of the Trump campaign and administration, that it is turning ICE loose to seize and deport the most dangerous criminal elements in the country because Trump's preferred arms of federal law enforcement are lazy and incompetent, and because the real point is to create a spectacle of brutality, instead of trying to track down hardened criminals, they are literally going after the most law-abiding immigrants they can lay their hands on by seizing them as they're in the middle of trying to abide by the law. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 490: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 490: This is just a start.

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 12:40


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: Driven by his subliterate vulgar Darwinian unto eugenicist belief system, Kennedy, in concert with Mehmet Oz, the Trump administration's head of Medicare and Medicaid, wants to import a diseased flock of birds to the United States and turn them loose on a ranch owned by Dr. Oz in Florida. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 489: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 489: A new menace.

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 12:36


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Episode 488: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 488: Take a quick breath.

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 14:18


Episode 487: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 487: Vaporous effusions.

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 11:23


EASY LISTENING DEP'T. If you're a person who cares about Venezuelan babies, this may tug at your heartstrings. But given that the people who are running this country hate Venezuelan babies and want the worst for them, the story reads like a more literally constructed version of a triumphalist memo that the White House would put out. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 486: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 486: Tucked inside dashes.

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 12:14


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: For an instructive contrast of approach, there is the lawsuit filed yesterday by Shira Perlmutter, on the question of who is in charge of the United States Copyright Office, in which the plaintiff identifies herself as Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, while naming the defendants Todd Blanche “in his capacity as the person claiming to be Acting Librarian of Congress” and Paul Perkins “in his capacity as the person claiming to be the Register of Copyrights.” Just because Donald Trump says he's taken a job away from someone and given it to someone else, that doesn't mean change is reportable as a fact in its own right. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 485: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 485: The headline desk's dissociation powers.

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 10:13


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: The president of the United States somehow becomes an adjective attached to a “broadside,” a broadside that then “embroils” the South African president. This generates a mood, a mood of “tension.” And then comes a little action, sharing a video, but the video is only "echoing false assertions over white genocide." “Over” is just a weird space-filler, wrong choice of preposition there. Apparently, “of” would have left the line too short. But what is this “echo” of an “assertion?” Where was the assertion coming from that the video that the president of the United States played only contained a reflection of its substance? Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 484: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 484: Astonishingly white.

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 12:03


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: This all starts to sound a little bit like the episode where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft handed Vladimir Putin one of his Super Bowl rings to show it off, and Putin tucked it in his pocket and declared it a gift. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 483: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 483: institutional commitment to euphemism.

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 12:28


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: Saying Trump cares about supposed Afrikaner persecution because he cares about DEI is just an incredibly tortured way of saying that the president is a racist crank. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 482: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 482: A rare rift.

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 10:21


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: The Times carries on its recent welcome habit of writing direct and unmediated assessments of the president's shortcomings, “President's Opponents Getting Wise to His Ways / A Pattern of Blustering Negotiating Tactics Ending in Retreat.” Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 481: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 481: In full view of the press.

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 13:00


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: On the front of this morning's New York Times, four columns wide, is a picture of a greeting between the lawless strongman leader of a corrupt petrostate and Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, as the latter stretches out his hands to welcome Donald Trump. “During President Trump's first term,” the piece begins, “the idea that special interests and governments were buying meals and booking rooms at his hotels set off legal and ethical alarms about the potential for corruption. Mr. Trump's second term is making those concerns look trivial.” Or you could just say, during President Trump's first term, special interests and governments bought meals and booked rooms at his hotels. Mr. Trump's second term is making those dealings look trivial. See? Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 480: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 480: The meme stock presidency.

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 11:49


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: The story cites Trump telling Bob Woodward that he saved Mohammed bin Salman's ass by making the congressional hubbub over bin Salman's decision to murder Jamal Khashoggi of the Washington Post and chop his body up with a bone saw go away, and it recalls how the Saudi sovereign wealth fund gave Jared Kushner two billion dollars to play with, after Trump's first term was over, and how Trump used the Saudis upstart professional golf tour to enrich his own golf courses and hotels, and it brings up the real estate and crypto deals on top of that. It's a very nice roundup, but it's not clear why it should be a news analysis piece instead of just being inserted as standard boilerplate into every story about the president's Middle Eastern dealings. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 479: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 479: Beneath contempt.

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 10:09


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: This is only about “dueling perspectives” in the same sense that New York City and Al-Qaeda had different ideas about the best use for the World Trade Center. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 478: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 478: A truly gorgeous case study.

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 9:29


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Episode 477: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 477: Pope smoke.

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 13:42


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Episode 476: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 476: Not knowing what really happened.

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 13:34


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Episode 475: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 475: Minimal hierarchical guidance.

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 10:35


EASY LISTENING DEP'T.: One thing that is missing from this morning is your Indignity Morning Podcast's physical copy of the New York Times. There is neither a bagged one nor a soggy, unbagged one anywhere to be found, and so this edition is going to face the news with only minimal hierarchical guidance. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

Episode 474: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 474: The greatest scandal in American political history.

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 13:23


Episode 473: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 473: Bad, selfish, senseless things.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 13:21


Episode 472: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 472: Something unambiguously much worse.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2025 14:33


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Episode 471: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 471: A famous technical term.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 11:10


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Episode 470: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 470: The National Chicken Council.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 12:46


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Episode 469: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 469: They did Canaday.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 13:25


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Episode 468: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 468: A message that held until the end.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 10:53


Episode 465: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 465: Just what the people wanted.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2025 12:31


Episode 464: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 464: Somewhere between false and delusional.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 13:18


Episode 460: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 460: Tariff war is tariff peace.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 9:07


Episode 458: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 458: Excessively polite.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 11:01


Episode 455: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 455: According to the CIA Factbook.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 9:31


Episode 454: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 454: Malice and unreason.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 10:19


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