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Trump finally appears to be getting what he wants – a draconian police state he can rule. Jarv, Chris and Nikki are joined by Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter at Rolling Stone to discuss this and more as they wrap up the increasingly terrifying news from the United States of America.  Back us on Patreon – we need your help to keep going. Get ad free episodes, extra bits and merch: https://www.patreon.com/c/americanfriction  We're now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanFrictionPod  Follow us on social media:  BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/americanfric.bsky.social  Instagram  TikTok Written and presented by Chris Jones, Jacob Jarvis and Nikki McCann Ramirez. Audio and video editor: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis Executive producer: Martin Bojtos. Artwork by James Parrett. Music: Orange Factory Music. AMERICAN FRICTION is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Guests: Alex Wagner, Asawin Suebsaeng, Julia Ioffe, Rep. Dan Goldman, Rabbi Sharon BrousThe Trump-Musk bromance ends in spectacular fashion. Tonight: America's president lashes out at the world's richest man in a social media civil war. Then, Donald Trump's incurious world view on full display in the Oval Office. And the frightening new sights of what feels like secret police on America's streets.  Want more of Chris? Download and subscribe to his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.

President Trump has raged at Bruce Springsteen for days, demanding investigations as retaliation against him for criticizing the president. This is easy to dismiss as the usual lunacy, but Rolling Stone reports that there's a genuine idea at work here: Trump has long planned to use government agencies to constrain his opponents' political activities, and that's now under way. Indeed, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, staunch Trump ally Alina Habba, just brought charges against a House Democrat for trumped up reasons. Given all this, Trump's fury at Springsteen suddenly looks a lot darker. So we talked to Rolling Stone writer Asawin Suebsaeng, co-author of that article. He explains how Trump is slowly escalating the use of investigatory power against political foes, what the GOP is doing to make this possible, and why the trend is deeply “chilling.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump has raged at Bruce Springsteen for days, demanding investigations as retaliation against him for criticizing the president. This is easy to dismiss as the usual lunacy, but Rolling Stone reports that there's a genuine idea at work here: Trump has long planned to use government agencies to constrain his opponents' political activities, and that's now under way. Indeed, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, staunch Trump ally Alina Habba, just brought charges against a House Democrat for trumped up reasons. Given all this, Trump's fury at Springsteen suddenly looks a lot darker. So we talked to Rolling Stone writer Asawin Suebsaeng, co-author of that article. He explains how Trump is slowly escalating the use of investigatory power against political foes, what the GOP is doing to make this possible, and why the trend is deeply “chilling.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President Trump has raged at Bruce Springsteen for days, demanding investigations as retaliation against him for criticizing the president. This is easy to dismiss as the usual lunacy, but Rolling Stone reports that there's a genuine idea at work here: Trump has long planned to use government agencies to constrain his opponents' political activities, and that's now under way. Indeed, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, staunch Trump ally Alina Habba, just brought charges against a House Democrat for trumped up reasons. Given all this, Trump's fury at Springsteen suddenly looks a lot darker. So we talked to Rolling Stone writer Asawin Suebsaeng, co-author of that article. He explains how Trump is slowly escalating the use of investigatory power against political foes, what the GOP is doing to make this possible, and why the trend is deeply “chilling.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Monday, Donald Trump met with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, and in an act of true infamy, the two authoritarian leaders collectively agreed that wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not be returned to the United States. And in a series of vile rants, Trump clearly telegraphed his intention to defy the Supreme Court, which has directed the administration to facilitate his return. We talked to Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter at Rolling Stone magazine and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati, who has been reporting on the Trump team's plans to ramp up the lawless deportations and defy the high court. He explains what he's learned about Trump's true long-term intentions, which he terms “horrifying.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Monday, Donald Trump met with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, and in an act of true infamy, the two authoritarian leaders collectively agreed that wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not be returned to the United States. And in a series of vile rants, Trump clearly telegraphed his intention to defy the Supreme Court, which has directed the administration to facilitate his return. We talked to Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter at Rolling Stone magazine and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati, who has been reporting on the Trump team's plans to ramp up the lawless deportations and defy the high court. He explains what he's learned about Trump's true long-term intentions, which he terms “horrifying.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Monday, Donald Trump met with El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, and in an act of true infamy, the two authoritarian leaders collectively agreed that wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia will not be returned to the United States. And in a series of vile rants, Trump clearly telegraphed his intention to defy the Supreme Court, which has directed the administration to facilitate his return. We talked to Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter at Rolling Stone magazine and an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Cincinnati, who has been reporting on the Trump team's plans to ramp up the lawless deportations and defy the high court. He explains what he's learned about Trump's true long-term intentions, which he terms “horrifying.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and suggesting the trade wars will only get worse. Then press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the 51st U.S. state. She said it: Trump's tariffs are really about getting Canada to submit to his will. Newsflash: It's not okay for the American president to lie relentlessly about our allies and threaten them with economic Armageddon to bend them to his deranged, passing whims. We talked to Rolling Stone senior political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who's been forcefully making that argument. He explains why Trump's vile bullying of our allies deserves to be taken much more seriously, as a clear sign of Trump's very real imperialist intentions.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and suggesting the trade wars will only get worse. Then press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the 51st U.S. state. She said it: Trump's tariffs are really about getting Canada to submit to his will. Newsflash: It's not okay for the American president to lie relentlessly about our allies and threaten them with economic Armageddon to bend them to his deranged, passing whims. We talked to Rolling Stone senior political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who's been forcefully making that argument. He explains why Trump's vile bullying of our allies deserves to be taken much more seriously, as a clear sign of Trump's very real imperialist intentions. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his speech to Congress, President Trump kept lying about his tariffs, falsely claiming that Canada is letting huge amounts of fentanyl into our country and suggesting the trade wars will only get worse. Then press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the 51st U.S. state. She said it: Trump's tariffs are really about getting Canada to submit to his will. Newsflash: It's not okay for the American president to lie relentlessly about our allies and threaten them with economic Armageddon to bend them to his deranged, passing whims. We talked to Rolling Stone senior political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng, who's been forcefully making that argument. He explains why Trump's vile bullying of our allies deserves to be taken much more seriously, as a clear sign of Trump's very real imperialist intentions.  Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests: Sam Stein, Brendan Buck, Asawin Suebsaeng, Brandy Zadrozny, Doug Bock Clark, Tyler Aquilina, Donna Edwards, Charlie Dent, Tim Miller, Wajahat Ali, April Ryan, Molly Jong=Fast, Dean Obeidallah  Tonight: The plan for Trump's incoming administration. And RFK Jr. and what his potential confirmation to the Department of Health and Human Services may mean for the bird flu outbreak. Then, how North Carolina Republicans plan to undermine elected Democrats. Plus, how the NFL and Beyoncé are changing the streaming landscape. Also tonight, House Republicans prepare to elect their next speaker and how Elon Musk may get involved. And, Trump's tech bros spar with MAGA loyalists online over immigration. Then, the threat to journalism abroad and in Trump's second term. Plus, a few good things that happened this year.  Want more of Chris? Download and subscribe to his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.

With the election in just two days, Sam recaps essential points on refusing fascism in the event of various scenarios that may arise over the next few days and weeks. While there is much that we do not know about what will happen on Tuesday and after, we do know this: fascism is never legitimate. No election, fair or fraudulent, can legitimize a fascist regime. Join the online forum: Refuse Fascism Responds to the 2024 Election Friday, Nov 8 at 8PM ET. Sign-up to join us: ⁠https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FvJFMP5qSZO1pDEWtLaCxA⁠ Then, Sam talks with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). His latest book is ⁠The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy.⁠ Check out Dr. Jones' writing at ⁠www.whitetoolong.net⁠ and listen to ⁠The Convocation Unscripted podcast on YouTube⁠ or follow on Substack: ⁠convocation.substack.com⁠ Mentioned in this episode: ⁠Radical Reports by Teddy Wilson⁠ ⁠That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here's What It Could Mean. by Elie Mystal⁠ ⁠The Republican Supreme Court just blessed an illegal voter purge by Ian Millhiser⁠ By popular demand! Get your Refuse Fascism T-Shirt here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bonfire.com/refuse-fascism-pod-shirt⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Find us on all the socials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RefuseFascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@samgoldmanrf⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/RefuseFascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Additional Resources: ⁠Election Violence Is Already Here by Tess Owen⁠ ⁠Meet the Far-Right Constitutional Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if Trump Loses by Leah Feiger⁠ ⁠How Republicans Could Help Trump Steal the Election from Harris by Justin Glawe and Asawin Suebsaeng⁠

This election is set to be the most expensive ever. On this week's On the Media, what does a billion dollars in campaign funds actually buy? Plus, Democrats condemned dark money for years. Now they embrace it.[01:00] Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger explore why Donald Trump came to be so reliant on his billionaire donors. Plus, Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone details Trump's history of promising his benefactors big favors. And Bloomberg reporter Annie Massa breaks down the relationship between Trump and megadonor Jeff Yass.[09:48] Host Micah Loewinger speaks with Kenneth Vogel, who covers money, influence, and politics at the New York Times, about the rise of the dark money political infrastructure following the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.[24:53] Host Micah Loewinger sits down with Helen Santoro, money and politics reporter at The Lever, about Kamala Harris' robust political history as a proponent of dark money reform, and her recent about-face.[38:16] Host Brooke Gladstone talks with Steven Sprick Schuster, professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University, to discuss if raising more money actually helps you win an election.Further reading / listening:“Republicans Tell Trump That Elon Musk's Super PAC Is Blowing It,” by Asawin Suebsaeng, Miles Klee, and Andrew Perez“How Jeff Yass Became One of the Most Influential Billionaires in the 2024 Election,” by Annie Massa“Democrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020,” by Kenneth Vogel and Shane Goldmacher“Harris' Turn To The Dark (Money) Side,” by Helen Santoro“Does Campaign Spending Affect Election Outcomes? New Evidence from Transaction-Level Disbursement Data,” by Steven Sprick Schuster On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Guests: Margie Omero, Fernand Amandi, Ian Sams, Asawin Suebsaeng, Ryan ReillyCan an openly unapologetic fascist win an American election? Tonight: the race the Harris campaign is calling "too close for comfort.” Then, a full recounting of last night's bizarre campaign episode—and how today didn't get any better. And four years after the Trump campaign tried to steal Michigan, what we know about what they're planning this year.  Want more of Chris? Download and subscribe to his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.

In the second episode of Late Night's limited podcast series "A Closer Look Back," A Closer Look Supervising Writer/Producer Sal Gentile and A Closer Look Supervising Producer Emily Erotas discuss moments in A Closer Look from when Donald Trump was in the White House. They tell behind-the-scenes stories from their time working with Seth Meyers and Late Night's writers and producers during the Trump administration — and why the Sea Captain was so difficult to produce when Seth was recording the show in an attic.Then, Sal talks to journalist Asawin Suebsaeng, Senior Political Reporter at Rolling Stone. He discusses his reporting from Springfield, OH, and what he discovered about the city that Donald Trump and his campaign have recently smeared with conspiracy theories. Sal and Asawin talk about how Trump is using the Springfield example as a playbook for his plans if he returns to office."A Closer Look Back" is available in the Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast feed every other Monday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on The New Abnormal, why one word has taken such a toll on Trump. Then, Andrew Lawrence, Media Matters for America's deputy director of rapid response, joins the show to explain why the word “weird” is working for Democrats. Plus! Asawin Suebsaeng, a Rolling Stone senior politics reporter, delves into Donald Trump's involvement with Project 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Preet Bharara, Charles Coleman, Asawin Suebsaeng, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jamie RaskinThe President's son: found guilty of violating federal gun laws. Tonight: what today's ruling means—and doesn't mean about the rule of law in America. Then, the convict candidate trying to weed out criminals from the ticket. And the Alito scandal that just won't end. Tonight: Jamie Raskin and AOC together on their push to get answers from the Supreme Court. Want more of Chris? Download and subscribe to his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.

Guests: Sherrilyn Ifill, Ryan Reilly, Roger Sollenberger, Asawin Suebsaeng, Adam SerwerTonight: Why so many voters know the ex-president did something criminal—but still plan to vote for him anyway. Then: just hours after the Colorado Supreme Court kicked Trump off the ballot, the threats started pouring in. Plus, the Biden campaign now explicitly calling out what Donald Trump is doing. And Rudy Giuliani declares bankruptcy rather than pay out millions in lawsuits. But just does he owe money to?   

The hosts talk with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) about his new bill, “End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023”—and why America needs a paradigm shift in the way it thinks about housing. Plus! A conversation with senior Rolling Stone political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng about his recent investigation titled, “Inside Trump's Plot to Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage' Data.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ali Velshi – in for Nicolle Wallace – discusses breaking news out of Fulton County as District Attorney Fani Willis reiterates her desire to try all 19 co-defendants at once, Mark Meadows' gamble as he tries to get his case moved to federal court, a new report that Special Counsel Jack Smith grilled witnesses in his investigation about Rudy Giuliani's drinking habits, an update on Hurricane Idalia as it barrels towards the Gulf and more. Joined by: Glenn Kirschner, Carol Leonnig, Tamar Hallerman, Asawin Suebsaeng, Nick Corasaniti, Charlie Sykes, Ryan Reilly, Errin Haines, Frank Figliuzzi, Michael Eric Dyson and Bill Karins.

It's the final episode of Fever Dreams. After sharing some of their favorite moments from the podcast's years-long run, the hosts tackle the right-wing obfuscation of a mass shooter's extremist history and a viral prank on the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Journalist Asawin Suebsaeng discusses his Rolling Stones articles "Twitter Kept Entire 'Database' of Republican Requests to Censor Posts " and "Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House". This episode also features this week's Hangover Cure, new Question from Hell!, and a Past Inside the Present about Jim Crow Laws from historian Sebastion Wuepper. https://www.rollingstone.com/author/asawin-suebsaeng/

Stanford's Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:This should be a far bigger story: India is ordering platforms to take down content related to a BBC documentary. The widely predicted and highly consequential dramatic escalation in India's legal battles with platforms is here, and we better be watching - Hannah Ellis-Petersen/ The GuardianThe UK Online Safety Bill was back in the House of Commons last week, but the Sunak administration is biding time in negotiations over the wording of a new criminal liability provision for social media executives. An amendment also adds videos that show people crossing the Channel in small boats in a “positive light” to a list of illegal content that must be proactively blocked from users. Dan Milmo/ The Guardian, Dan Milmo/ The Guardian, Dan Milmo/ The Guardian, BBC NewsAn investigative report highlights the mental health challenges and low wages for workers in Kenya that reviewed text snippets of disturbing situations and hateful speech in support of an OpenAI system to detect and prevent toxic content from appearing in ChatGPT and other tools. - Billy Perrigo/ TimeThe Federal Election Commission tossed out claims made by the Republican National Committee that Google's Gmail spam filters are biased against conservatives because they send a higher percentage of GOP fundraising emails to spam. - John McKinnon/ The Wall Street JournalFormer President Donald Trump's presidential campaign is formally petitioning Meta to reinstate his social media accounts in a written letter. And Trump wants to get out of an exclusivity agreement to post first on his own social network, Truth Social, as his campaign plans to ramp up later this year. - Marc Caputo, Jonathan Allen/ NBC News, Asawin Suebsaeng, Adam Rawnsley/ Rolling StoneTikTok has an internal tool for staff to manually amplify individual videos, picking and choosing brands and creators to go viral without disclosing that recommended content for users. - Emily Baker-White/ ForbesCourtroom Corner:The Supreme Court has put two state content moderation cases on hold, asking the Biden administration to weigh in on challenges to Texas and Florida laws that would restrict social media companies from removing posts with political opinions. - @steve_vladeck, Adam Liptak/ The New York Times, Andrew Chung/ ReutersNearly 50 amicus briefs were filed last week in support of Section 230 in Gonzalez v. Google. - SCOTUSblogIt turns out that international soccer star Messi's record for the most-liked picture on Instagram was the result of coordinated authentic behavior. Following Argentina's World Cup victory, fans organized to like Messi's post and unlike the picture of an egg that previously held the title of the most liked Instagram post. - Lucía Cholakian Herrera/ Rest Of The WorldBecause of course, members of Taliban leadership were among the Twitter Blue subscribers paying for a blue check mark verification badge on their accounts. The badge was removed from the accounts following intense backlash, but what do the blue checks even mean anymore? - Abdirahim Saeed/ BBC News, Ramon Antonio Vargas/ The GuardianJoin the conversation and connect with Evelyn and Alex on Twitter at @evelyndouek and @alexstamos.Moderated Content is produced in partnership by Stanford Law School and the Cyber Policy Center. Special thanks to John Perrino for research and editorial assistance.Like what you heard? Don't forget to subscribe and share the podcast with friends!

 New Abnormal hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy reveal who is really taking on Trump and talk to politics reporter Asawin Suebsaeng for the scoop on Dr. Oz's latest fight. Despite continued allegations of fraud and obstruction of justice claims against Donald Trump, somehow, there are still only two people continuing to call the former president out—and neither on is a man. Also on the podcast, Matt Fuller, senior politics editor at The Daily Beast, explains how Democrats have something to push voters to the polls: abortion. “That's the big animating factor for Democrats,” Fuller says.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a typical Monday, meaning it came too quickly! There's lots going on, so today, we'll try to get updated on all of it. I've got stories, the phone lines are open for you to chime in with what you're following. And we'll check in with Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng too.

Guests: Chuck Rosenberg, Olivia Troye, Asawin Suebsaeng, Meredith McGraw, Karine Jean-Pierre, Jon MeachamThe Justice Department calls Donald Trump's bluff. Tonight: Chuck Rosenberg on what the Garland announcement means for the investigation—and when we may know the details Donald Trump is concealing. Then, the DOJ response to incitement of violence against law enforcement as an FBI field office is attacked. Plus, new reporting on Trump's paranoia over so-called "rats" wearing wires at Mar-a-Lago. And, the White House press secretary on a series of big wins for the Biden administration. 

U.S. President Joe Biden passed a health care, tax and climate bill that some say is legacy-defining. Meanwhile, the FBI raided the home of former president Donald Trump. We discuss what these duelling political narratives might mean for the upcoming midterms with Molly Ball, the national political correspondent at TIME; and Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter at Rolling Stone.

On the latest episode of Fever Dreams, host Will Sommer and guest host Asawin Suebsaeng–returning to the podcast he helped launch– talk about the “little people just riding around the miasma of MAGA-ism”. One of those people is Ray Epps, whose life has been turned upside down by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory and who's had to go on the run. But the big guys have problems, too. The hosts discuss Trump's reasons for running again in 2024—not least among them, his belief that it's harder to prosecutors to go after him if he's in the Oval Office. And Matt Ford, a writer with the New Republic, delves into the nitty gritty of how exactly we got to where we are as a country with an aggressively rightwing Supreme Court See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guests: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Asawin Suebsaeng, Asha Rangappa, Harry LitmanThe top lawyer for ‘Team Normal' finally comes to terms with the reality. Committee Member Jamie Raskin on Pat Cipollone's revelations—and Donald Trump's culpability for all of it. Then, why Trump's lawyers think Mark Meadows is going down: one of the reporters who broke that story joins live. And it was a rough day for a couple of other Trumpworld figures trying to stay out of court—the latest on Lindsey Graham's attempts to dodge the Georgia grand jury.  

Move over, MAGA — it's LAVA time. With efforts to overturn the election stalling, a former inventor and treasure hunter proposes that Trump supporters embrace a new acronym: LAVA, or “Let America Vote Again.” Fever Dreams host Will Sommer buries the hatchet with his one-time podcasting partner and Rolling Stone reporter Asawin Suebsaeng to break it down. Also on this week's episode: Trumpworld looks for a patsy to take the fall as the Jan. 6 committee closes in. Will explains the meaning of “NESARA,” the mythical law some conspiracy theorists means they don't have to pay their credit card bills. Finally, the boys say goodbye to the Georgia Guidestones, a Fever Dreams favorite recently blown up by a mysterious bomber. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Asawin Suebsaeng, senior reporter for The Daily Beast and co-host of the Fever Dreams podcast, joins the show from Cincinnati to discuss Walter Hill's underrated 1988 Cold War cop thriller Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a KGB cop on the hunt for a Soviet gangster on the loose in the United States, forced to cooperate on the case with Chicago cop Jim Belushi. Arnold mentioned filming Red Heat in Moscow during his recent video address for the Russian people to tell them the truth about the war in Ukraine. Swin and I talk about Red Heat as an amazing time capsule of the end of the Cold War and how the film holds a sympathetic view of the Soviet Union (in particular, their style of policing) and how in some ways this movie anticipated the current respect in some American conservative circles for the modern autocratic Russia of Vladimir Putin (himself a former KGB agent in the eighties!) Plus: the secret connection Red Heat has to John Woo's The Killer! Patrons of the Junk Filter podcast receive at least two additional exclusive episodes a month: some of our notable previous guests include Jared Yates Sexton, David Roth, Bryan Quinby, Sooz Kempner, and Jacob Bacharach. More to come! Sign up at https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter Follow Asawin Suebsaeng on Twitter and check out the Fever Dreams podcast! Swin's recent book with Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington, is available here. Trailer for Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) Trailer for Red Heat (Walter Hill, 1988)

Moscow accuses Ukraine of launching an airstrike on a Russian fuel depot, which would mark the first attack on Russian soil since the war began. It comes as the Defense Department announces $300 million in additional assistance for Ukraine. Meantime, the economy added 431,000 jobs in March despite worries over slowing growth. Peter Baker, Jason Beardsley, Julia Davis, Justin Wolfers, Asawin Suebsaeng, Harry Litman and Sergiy Stakhovsky join.

Some of Donald Trump's lawyers have some cringe hobbies, like trying to do coup d'états. But did you know that one of them is an amateur poet, who has written verses about "THE TORONTO SUBWAY SYSTEM" and, "of life and sex and puzzled joy, a chopped up mess of Miss Playboy." In this week's episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng bring you dramatic readings of the Trump "legal B-team" poetry. Elsewhere on the pod, our hosts welcome New York Times writer Elizabeth Williamson to discuss her new book on the Sandy Hook massacre, Alex Jones, and "the Battle for Truth." For those interested in plumbing the depths of Ginni Thomas's efforts to support Trump's efforts to cling to power, Sommer breaks down the wild, undeniable QAnon connections. Finally, for listeners curious about the question, "Why are Capitol Hill Republicans so furious this week about (alleged!) cocaine-fueled orgies involving 70-something year-olds?" our hosts—unfortunately—have an answer for you! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is back with a wacky new claim, this time about Fever Dreams host Asawin Suebsaeng. It's not true—but it's not even the weirdest conspiracy theory on this week's podcast, where we preview co-host Kelly Weill's new book about the flat earth movement. We check in on a flat earther who got arrested for trying to hand out flyers at a school playground, and learn why the movement even alienates some QAnon believers. Actress Dylan Gelula joins us to discuss her podcast “Lecture Hall” and why we can blame Mad Cow Disease for the rise of Dr. Phil. Elsewhere, we try to log into Donald Trump's new social network (which is too glitchy to load) and learn about an upcoming gathering of clout-chasing white supremacists, and the politicians who support them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guests: Rep. Elaine Luria, Asawin Suebsaeng, Danya Perry, Josie Duffy Rice, Michelle Goldberg, Eddie GlaudeTonight: The White House requests an expedited release of Trump visitor logs as new text messages reveal new characters lobbying Trump before the Capitol attack. Then, why the Trump family panic after their accountant dropped them isn't exactly misplaced. And the sad return to the bad old days of criminal justice backlash politics. 

Even though the Canadian trucker protesters have been cleared from Ottawa's border bridge and commerce lanes with the U.S. reopened this past weekend, Canada is still struggling to contain the demonstrators—and as Fever Dreams guest and Vice writer Mack Lamoureux notes, more insidious, and even armed, groups are emerging within the greater protest. What's more, Canada's trucker blockade is spawning copycats far and wide. Elsewhere on the pod, co-hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Kelly Weill, and very special guest host David Roth, talk about how Super Bowl 2022 was just one gigantic ad for crypto, and how Ohio Senate primary candidate Josh Mandel—the one whose alleged sex life Trump likes to gossip about—“looks like he just hatched out of something.” The hosts also unpack how QAnon-loving Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has become a prime kingmaker in GOP political endorsements, and follow several disturbing developments in the story of the violent Denver manosphere shooter Lyndon McLeod. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first QAnon campaign finance filing is finally here, everybody! And it's… hilarious how much cash this congressional campaign managed to raise. “His first campaign finance filing came in, and it seems to support the idea that not too many people want Mr. QAnon himself in Congress,” Fever Dreams co-host Kelly Weill reports. Elsewhere on this episode, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Weill interview Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau, who reveals how an ordinary citizen's phone can suddenly turn its user into an unwitting spy for the U.S. military. Also, the Fever Dreams gang tries to answer one of contemporary popular culture's most enduring, most annoying mysteries: “Why does Bill Maher laugh so much at his own jokes all the time?” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One surefire way to garner some extreme MAGA-cred nowadays is to get COVID-19, lie about it and say you just have pneumonia, and remain unrepentant as an avowed anti-vaxxer. But there's at least one MAGA diehard—an associate of Steve Bannon—who has taken things a step farther. This guy has recently been vlogging (yes, vlogging) from his hospital bed—after being admitted for contracting the coronavirus. Of course, he's talked about how thrilled he is that he never got the COVID vaccine… even though he's been vlogging lately from a COVID ward about how much trouble he's had breathing. Join Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng, as they offer this latest glimpse into a most lethal American culture war. Elsewhere on the episode, Suebsaeng and Fever Dreams producer Jesse Cannon interview Abbie Richards, a TikTok “power user” who's also a leading expert on how conspiracy theories wildly proliferate on TikTok. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Amanda Moore lost her job, she decided to go undercover in MAGA land, attending QAnon events and CPAC, hanging with Neo-Nazis and “blood-and-soil fascists,” and palling around with Proud Boys at Harry's Bar in the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Riot. But what her new compatriots didn't know was that she was often recording them, and the result is a chilling portrait “of what the right looks like from the inside.” Elsewhere on the podcast, co-hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng discuss the results of a Texas election audit that “Republican officials were trying to bury”—namely because “they found basically nothing wrong with the results”—and dissect an increasingly bitter feud between two audit-fanatics that has descended into potty-mouthed doxxing. Sommer recounts his firsthand experience of being at the Capitol during the riot a year ago, and the hosts dissect the newest catchphrase to devour the far-right and the latest chaos roiling the ultra-alpha manosphere. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The year 2021 brought some major grifts in MAGA-land, as Fever Dreams hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer noted in their final podcast of the year—think Melania Trump's NFT's and the ‘Freedom phone,' which was basically a “rebrand of a cheapo Chinese phone” selling at five times the price. But the Qux Box (pronounced “Cucks”) takes the prize as the pair's “favorite dumb character of 2021.” Months after it was first promoted by its inventors—a former Infowars reporter and her husband—“I'm still trying to figure out what the Qux Box is,” Sommer notes. “Seems to be an off-brand Roku as best as I can tell.” Meanwhile, as the Omicron wave hits the United States with a vengeance, some right-wingers are convinced that the reason they're sick is not because of the widely transmissible and near-ubiquitous new variant of COVID-19, but because of … anthrax. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some internet mischief-makers created a fake DHS website purporting to show President Biden's plan for COVID concentration camps—and rightwing Senate candidate JD Vance fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Elsewhere on the podcast, The Daily Beast discovers the answer to whether character actor Jay Johnston—who voices the villainous Jimmy Pesto on Fox sitcom Bob's Burgers—really did storm the Capitol on January 6. Meanwhile, the Proud Boys are teaming up with a radical Black nationalist organization called The Black Hammers, who are darlings of right-wing media for doing things like bashing Holocaust victim Anne Frank. Journalist Dick Lehr drops by the pod to discuss his new book, White Hot Hate, on a domestic terror plot to bomb an immigrant mosque in Kansas. And James O'Keefe is entertaining the crowd at rightwing conferences with songs from the musical Oklahoma. As co-host Asawin Suebsaeng notes, further proof that “failed theater kids will destroy us all.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Her name is Trevian Kutti. Is that the name of the lamest Bond villains of the Pierce Brosnan era? Or is she a Kanye West publicist who fumbled her way into a Coen Brothers-style mission to shred the democratic order and keep Donald Trump in power? On this week's Fever Dreams, hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer are joined by Daily Beast colleague Adam Rawnsley to bring you a new deep-dive into the life and bizarre world of Kutti. Later on, our hosts welcome Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes, the hosts of the excellent Knowledge Fight podcast, wherein “each episode, Dan and Jordan take a look at some clips from that day's Alex Jones Show and struggle to make sense of what they find.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Trump fanatics Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn had a secret falling-out—and it's just the latest revelation in the ongoing civil strife that's been engulfing some of MAGAworld's top election deniers. On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng dig deeper on some of the unreported aspects of the backstabbing and high-school-style melodramas that are throttling the once tight-knit community of far-right luminaries who tried to nuke American democracy to make Donald Trump happy. Elsewhere on this episode, writer and “Know Your Enemy” podcast co-host Sam Adler-Bell talks about his article in The New Republic on the latest “New Right” and upstart young conservative intellectuals talking up “counterrevolution.” Sommer and Suebsaeng also get into the apparently out-of-shape neo-Nazis marching around in Washington, DC, and also take a look at the latest on former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' world-historically shambolic book tour. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ron Watkins, the alleged mastermind behind QAnon, is getting in on the NFT game by selling Trump retweets. And Tiffany Trump and the Krassenstein Brothers aren't far behind...Meanwhile, Eric Trump is headlining an anti-vaxxer conference that also features the Q. yoga crystals lady—so, sounds prestigious. And Fever Dreams hosts Asawin Suebsaeng and Will Sommer chat with director Joe Carnahan about his latest movie, Copshop—including the post-production drama that led Frank Grillo to slam the film's editors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A former InfoWars reporter is pushing a hot new gadget on the right-wing electronics market: the Qux… Yes, it's pronounced “cucks.” No, no one knows what it does. But for $99, it promises to free Donald Trump's supporters from the tyranny of Big Tech! Elsewhere on the pod, Fever Dreams hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng welcome on filmmaker and horror-comedy auteur Josh Ruben, director of “Werewolves Within” and “Scare Me.” Ruben dishes on his as-of-yet unproduced horror-movie script—inspired by a true story of a woman enraptured by the cult of Trump. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over $8 trillion spent, and almost a million dead bodies. The U.S.-led war on terror absolutely devastating over the last two decades. The wars also led to Donald Trump's rise to power, irreparably degraded our culture, and made our far-right conspiracy theorists somehow even dumber. On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng bring on national-security reporter and ‘REIGN OF TERROR' author Spencer Ackerman to break down how, thanks to the War on Terror, “[what's] QAnon today,” is likely “going to be the Republican Party on Capitol Hill in however many years.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It figures. Trump is impeached again- the first time in history a president is impeached a second time, and my internet went down. Thanks AT&T! At least it wasn't only me, they were down all over South Florida, as if that makes it any better? I did my best under less than ideal circumstances. I tried connecting to the internet through my cell phone's mobile hotspot (thankfully I don't have ATT as my cell provider), and that helped a bit.. the connection came up shortly before the end of the show, so at least I was able to share some audio from the House debate earlier in the day. I also shared the first-hand account of what it was like being in the House chamber during the insurrection from NBC News producer Haley Talbot. And I had a scratchy conversation with The Daily Beast's Asawin Suebsaeng, who's got pool duty today at the White House. We'll be back tomorrow, AT&T permitting....

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