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Jane Coaston joins Erin Ryan to break down Vivek Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad in the Ohio governor’s race, Bari Weiss’s predictable push to smear Abdul El-Sayed, and ICE ramping up its daily arrests ahead of Election Day. Then they review the most important down-ballot abortion measures in Idaho, Missouri, Virginia, and Nevada. They wrap up with a petty rant session about Trump’s women’s health initiative.Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier (NYT 10/20)How CBS News’ Middle East war spread to the Upper Midwest (Semafor 10/19)Exclusive: ICE agents told to ramp up daily immigration arrests despite GOP unease as midterms near (CNN 10/7)Your Abortion Ballot Measure Cheat Sheet (Abortion, Everyday 10/19) Trump Belittles Melania to Her Face in Public Humiliation (The Daily Beast 10/19)Erin’s Las Vegas recs: breakfast burrito at Chile Verde and Thai food at Lotus of SiamBecome a subscriber to Crooked Media!It’s the best way to directly support us as we build an independent, pro-democracy media company. Subscribers get exclusive benefits, like bonus podcasts, newsletters and more. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends or wherever you listen to podcasts.You can request a transcript by emailing [email protected]. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

In our 49th episode of This F*cking Guy, Crooked’s Alex Wagner joins Erin to dive deep into the past of Trump’s Executive Task Rabbit, Marco Rubio. From fudging the truth about being the “son of Cuban exiles," to his gross hypocrisy on immigration, to befriending sleaze bags and corrupt world leaders like it’s his job, to cosplaying as Viceroy of Venezuela, this may be our most two-faced guy yet!List of sources available here.You can request a transcript by emailing [email protected]. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

Erin and KQED’s Marisa Lagos take a look at the democrats’' national polling surge, analyze the heck is going on in California politics, and look into the horrific yet familiar Cornell 7 sexual assault case. Then labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards joins to demystify everything from the job market to the AI bubble. They wrap up with a petty conversation about the WNBA finals and killer e-bikes.Proposition 40 Apply one-time tax to billionaires to fund healthcare and education (CalMatters)The No-BS Guide to What Karen Bass and Nithya Raman Plan to Do If They’re Elected (LA Taco 9/21)Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened (NYT 9/28)Cornell Denies That Defendants in Alleged Chi Phi Gang Rape Only Wrote Essays, Confirms Expulsions (Cornell Sun 9/28)Klobuchar on Schmitt: Glad one of us knows difference between Hawks, Hawkeyes (The Hill 9/29)You can request a transcript by emailing [email protected]. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

Erin and MS Now’s Brandy Zadrozny discuss Patrick Clancy’s softball 60 Minutes interview, how Brandy’s reporting got her roped into a russian bot misinformation campaign, and a shadowy network of collegiate sports fans who digitally exploit women. Then Jezebel founder Anna Holmes drops by to talk about her new book, The Power of No. They wrap up with a petty chat about Candace Owens and a viral Midwestern news anchor.A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms (MS NOW 9/11)Patrick Clancy Has Spoken. Absolutely No One Can Agree On What It Means. (Slate 9/21)FULL STORY: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work (Wired 9/14)You can request a transcript by emailing [email protected]. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

In our 47th episode of This F*cking Guy, What A Day’s Jane Coaston joins Erin to relive the destruction caused by the witless war criminal, George W. Bush. From his early years of drunken antics, relying on his dad’s help to trip upwards, to leaving MANY children behind as Governor of Texas, to squandering his 9/11 approval ratings by invading Iraq and permitting war crimes, to gaslighting the media about his preparedness for Hurricane Katrina, this may be our most moronic man-child guy, yet.You can request a transcript by emailing [email protected]. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.Bush reacts to latest Middle East violence (AP Archive)George W. Bush after rehearsing a speech, 2001 (Reddit)George W. Bush’s Paintings Cannot Redeem Him (Hyperallergic)Shoe-Throwing Reporter Tells Tale Of Torture (NPR)Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge (CNN)Sharon Bush denies Kitty Kelley account (NBC)Kitty Kelley defends sources of new Bush book (Today)Kitty Kelley's bad magic (Chron)Man Says He OK'd Bush for Guard (Washington Post)Go East, Young Man (Texas Monthly)The Guard Years (The New Yorker)Bush fell short on duty at Guard (Boston.com)Author Examines the Legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale Game (Valley News)Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics (The Harvard Crimson)Bush's Life-Changing Year (Washington Post)George W. Bush DUI Arrest Record (The Smoking Gun)George W. Bush on his DUI arrest (Salon)Bush's Disdainful Presidency (Consortium News)Was Dubya Drunk? (Slate)How team Bush took an airbrush to the Chosen One’s misdeeds (The Times)Little Did We Know (Texas Monthly)What Price Baseball? (Austin Chronicle)Governor Deadbeat (Austin Chronicle)Bush and the Texas Environment (Texas Observer) Capitol Offenses (Texas Obserber)The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education (DOAJ)Death in Texas (The New York Review)Read My Chips (Austin Chronicle)Years ago, Texas hustled to get kids on state health care. Now it’s kicking them off. (Texas Tribune)CHIP Enrollment (texas.gov)Texas Governor George W. Bush’s Record on Taxes (Citizens For Tax Justice)State's budget crunch haunting Bush (Chron)Gov. Rick Perry says in 2003, Texas cut $10 billion from the budget yet increased spending for public education and health and human services (Politifact)Devil May Care (Talk Magazine)Bush’s revealing interview (The Baltimore Sun)Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears (University of Delaware)Hoyer, Waxman Ask Rumsfeld For Investigation into CPA Hiring (Steny Hoyer)Getting the Facts Straight (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)How Projected Surpluses Became Deficits (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)The Changing Budget Picture (The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)From Riches to Rags: Causes of Fiscal Deterioration Since 2001 (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)Fiscal Fact Checker: What Caused the Swing From Surplus to Deficit? (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget)Phase II Report (govinfo.gov)Senate Intelligence Committee Unveils Final Phase II Reports on Prewar Iraq Intelligence (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)Committee Study ofthe CentralIntelligenceAgmcy 's Detention and Interrogation Program (U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence)Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together with Foreword by Chairman Feinstein and Additional and Minority Views (congress.gov)Senate Session 10/25/01 (C-Span)Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Judiciary Committee concerning “The FBI's Use of National Security Letters and Section 215 Requests for Business Records” (U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General)Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary concerning reauthorizing the USA Patriot Act (senate.gov)The Contentious ‘No Child’ Law II: Money Has Not Been Left Behind (EducationWeek)No Child Left Behind: An Overview (EducationWeek)Reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act with More Funding, Better Enforcement, and Additional Supports for Struggling Schools (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)Department of Education--Contract to Obtain Services of Armstrong Williams (Government Accountability Office)GAO: Armstrong Williams PR Contract Violated Law (EducationWeek)Why Armstrong Williams Wants Us To Forgive and Forget (Center for Media and Democracy)Reading First: Scandalous and ineffective (The Center for Public Integrity)Ultimate Sacrifice: Bush Quit Golf For The Troops (Crooks and Liars)George W. Bush Announces Mission Accomplished (C-span)W.’s Greatest Hits (Slate)George W. Bush ‘Didn’t Care’ When People Made Fun of Him as President, Jenna Bush Hager Says: ‘He Loved It’ (People)Top 10 failures of the Bush administration (The Center for Public Integrity)Bush 'Not Insulted' by Thrown Shoes (ABC)Bush administration scandals (EBSCO)Enron's Close Ties to Bush (ABC)9 US presidents who faced sex scandals before, during, or after their time in office (Business Insider)A Woman Accuses Bush of Rape, Later Dies of Aparent Suicide (Daily Kos)For Bush, Thrill Was in Father's Chase (NY Times)Bush Election Stirs Political and Legal Controversy (EBSCO)Search the 935 Iraq War false statements (The Center for Public Integrity)The Other “Big Lie” and Our Democratic Fragility (The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation)The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie That Launched the Catastrophic War (Mother Jones)Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: United States (HRW)The Supreme Court is Giving George W. Bush the Last Laugh on Guantanamo (Politico)No Child Left Behind: The oral history (Politico)No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn't (NPR)The paintings of George W. Bush (ArtForum)George W. Bush in the eye of a hurricane (Washington Post)