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Hello Mershan, it is Mahriel, ah, I have a very bad newz

In this News Brief, we detail how CBS, Fox, WSJ, and NYT promoted an essentialized, overblown narrative on the "Somali Minnesota fraud" story, teeing up a full blown rightwing incitement campaign against Minneapolis's immigrant communities.

News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota

Julian, Travis, and Jake ring in the new year by chatting about the deluge of disinformation and AI slop created in the wake of the brazen U.S. abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. We interview The Empire Files journalist Abby Martin about her on-the-ground reporting in Venezuela. Plus, Julian reveals the darkest secret of his family line. 


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The Empire Files
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Earth’s Greatest Enemy: A Film by Abby Martin
https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/


All episodes of Annie Kelly’s new 6-part podcast miniseries “Truly Tradly Deeply” are available to Cursed Media subscribers. Sign up now for the most in depth analysis of tradwives you can hear anywhere. 

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Cursed Media subscribers also get access to every episode of every QAA miniseries we produced, including Manclan by Julian Feeld and Annie Kelly, Trickle Down by Travis View, The Spectral Voyager by Jake Rockatansky and Brad Abrahams, and Perverts by Julian Feeld and Liv Agar. Plus, Cursed Media subscribers will get access to at least three new exclusive podcast miniseries every year.

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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.


Black Bag Inc. feat. Abby Martin (E354)

Minnesotan community member Maryam Mohamad joins us to talk about the killing of Renee Nicole Good and the siege of Minneapolis by ICE and the DHS. We talk about the events and prosecutions that put the Somali community in the crosshairs, the regime’s attempt to spin this execution as self-defense, Border Patrol and ICE’s recent history of excessive force, and the predictably weak response from Democratic electeds. Maryam also talks about the Minneapolis and Somali community’s reactions to these horrors and their unwillingness to take this lying down.

Follow Maryam on twitter @messyventura

Just a few more days to buy the 2nd printing of ¡No Pasarán!: Matt Christman's Spanish Civil War over at chapotraphouse.store 

Year Zero: A Chapo Trap House Comics Anthology is also 15% off at badegg.co. Through end of year purchases of the book also include a free digital version of the comic. The digital version is also available through GlobalComix.

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1001 - The Midwest Bank feat. Maryam Mohamad (1/12/26)

We cover Trump vs Carney at Davos, the lib and middle powers' markets reaction to it all, and why no matter how bad America sucks we'll never let the Dutch talk down to us.

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Episode 428: Carneyval

Will and Felix talk about the horrific killing of Alex Pretti. We talk about the execution, the man Alex was, why the right despises him, the inspiring response of the people of Minnesota, and reasons to hope that we haven’t irreversibly opened the gates of Hell. We also talk about the public responses, ranging from the bizarre justifications from Mike Cernovich and JD Vance to Sohrab Amari’s attempt at aloofness to the [???] from Tom Friedman. Plus: Marie Glusenkamp Perez dealing the shittiest weed in the world.

Katherine’s article at The Intercept is out: https://theintercept.com/2026/01/25/tony-dokoupil-cbs-evening-news/ 

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1005 - Ice Storm (1/26/26)

Tarence and Tom discuss the ongoing situation in Minneapolis, whether or not poor kids benefit from their proximity to their well-to-do friends, Giancarlo Esposito's call for revolution, and naturally what would The Price is Right have looked like in feudal times.

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Episode 429: The Price is Blight

Spent more time on AI than we meant too (and stand by very little of it in the sober light of the morning!) Also hit some of the other topics du jour toward the end.

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Episode 431: Claude Seeding

In this News Brief, we are joined by Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd Wolfson of the American Association of University Professors to discuss Trump's gutting of higher education, its expansion on previous neoliberal privatization efforts, how big donor and media backlash against "woke "academics and an anti-Gaza genocide protestors is fueling the possible end of academic independence as we know it.   

News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago

Jonathan Shainin returns to Chapo after ten years to talk about what the hell is going on in the United Kingdom. We talk about Keir Starmer’s and Labour collapse, his wildly unpopular policies and austerity regime, the rise of the Green Party, and Jeremy Corbyn’s bizarre Our Party. We then talk about Shainin’s new magazine Equator and their pieces on the end of liberal Zionism and the Long 90s.

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Few tickets left for our April 3rd live show at the Palace Theater in LA: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0900643BE404F182

1013 - Your Podcast feat. Jonathan Shainin (2/23/26)

We are at war with Iran. Journalist and Chapo veteran Séamus Malekafzali returns to help us break down what has happened in the past few days, the spillover into neighboring and nearby Gulf countries, and what the future of this conflict might look like. We also return to the Israeli-USian murder-suicide pact, the protests from neighboring countries versus the celebrations from the Iranian diaspora community, and whether the Fourth Reich will ever fall.

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1015 - Monitoring the Situation feat. Séamus Malekafzali (3/2/26)

The world is a gas station, and we’re fighting in its parking lot. This week, Will and Felix offer the definitive analysis of America’s suicidal flailing on the world stage. We also talk about JD trying to straddle the “anti-war” fence, Robert J. O’Neill as the ultimate 21st century American, and more US jets crashing.


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1015 - Monitoring the Situation feat. Séamus Malekafzali (3/2/26)

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