#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises

#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises

Update: 2025-11-11
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Air Date: 11/11/25

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we examine how power is being quietly consolidated across institutions, how propaganda and AI are reshaping our sense of reality, and how division and fear are fueling both domestic repression and global aggression. From the Supreme Court to state media manipulation, from dismantled voting rights to foreign influence campaigns, we trace the machinery of authoritarian control—and spotlight the journalists, educators, and activists still pushing back to keep truth and democracy alive.

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PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE & CONSOLIDATION

(00:01:44 ) 1742 Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism

(00:16:531743 Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America

(00:43:561749 Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat

PART 2 INFORMATION WARFARE & REALITY CONTROL

(01:08:35 ) 1746 What an actual attack on free speech looks like

(01:40:371745 Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism

(01:54:271744 Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly

PART 3 OTHERING & EXPANSION

(02:13:08 ) 1747 Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem

(02:31:271741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal

(02:56:071750 "American's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs

(03:20:011748 Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, and the Fight Over What America Means

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#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises

#1751 Monthly-ish Mix: Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises