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Chapo Trap House - Movie Mindset Bonus – Interview With Director Lexi Alexander

Will & Hesse sit down with director Lexi Alexander, whose works include Green Street Hooligans (2005), Punisher: War Zone (2008) & the new film Absolute Dominions (2025). We discuss how her experience in combat sports influences her filmmaking, creating comic book movies within the studio system, working as an outspoken Palestinian in Hollywood, and how to stay calm after being stabbed. Plus, an answer to “who she would fight, given the opportunity” that’s sure to entertain many listeners. Absolute Dominion now available for streaming on digital platforms.
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The Source - The book on saving the Amazon that murder couldn’t silence

The Amazon rainforest is known as the “lungs of planet Earth,” but what happens when deforestation in Brazil continues? One journalist tried to alert the world to this coming crisis. Dom Phillips was writing the book “How to Save The Amazon” when he was murdered. His colleagues refused to let Phillips' work die—and they completed his book.
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1A - Best Of: Chef José Andrés On Building A Better World

José Andrés is a Michelin-starred chef and the owner of 40 restaurants across the globe. But the culinary star is just as well known for his humanitarian work.

His organization, World Central Kitchen, has fed millions in Gaza and Ukraine and during natural disasters in the U.S. and abroad.

Now, he's releasing a memoir about what it's like to not only feed people when they want it, but when they need it.

We talk to Andrés about his life, work, and his new book, "Change the Recipe."

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The Bulwark Podcast - Nicolle Wallace: The Silence of Republicans Is the Bigger Threat

While Trump and his administration are the ones politicizing the rule of the law, ignoring due process, and annihilating democratic norms, it's Republicans leaders saying and doing nothing in response that poses a bigger threat to our country and democracy. Meanwhile, when it comes to the Middle East, we don't know who Trump is talking to—or listening to. Plus, when Bush 43, McCain, and Jeb pushed for immigration reform, the romantic idealism of Aaron Sorkin, and the sounds of kids and dogs. 

(An unfiltered) Nicolle Wallace joins Tim Miller.

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Federalist Radio Hour - Three Years Of Dobbs: Reflecting On The Past, Present, And Future Of Pro-Life Policy

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," President of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Marjorie Dannenfelser joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to remember the cultural moment marked by the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, recall the pro-life victories achieved because of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, discuss Big Abortion's response, and consider the possibilities ahead for the pro-life movement.

Read more about the many lives saved in three years of Dobbs here. 

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Bad Faith - Episode 485 BONUS EPISODE: Have Your Cake & Eat #MeToo (w/ Lindsey Boylan)

The first victim of Andrew Cuomo's serial harassment to come forward, former aide to the Governor Lindsey Boylan,  takes a break from canvassing to join Bad Faith to remind the audience why no one should rank Cuomo. She explains why the Democratic Party has a crisis of credibility as a consequence of selectively weaponizing the #metoo movement for political ends, and Briahna shares her own tale of workplace harassment.

Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).

Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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The Daily - An Iran Cease-Fire — and Why N.Y.C.’s Mayoral Race Matters for Democrats Everywhere

Overnight, Iran and Israel said they had agreed to a cease-fire — after an Iranian attack on a U.S. air base in Qatar that appeared to be a largely symbolic act of revenge.

But the main topic on “The Daily” is the mayor’s race in New York City, where Tuesday is Democratic Primary Day. The race has quickly become an excruciatingly close contest between two candidates who are offering themselves as the solution to what’s wrong with their party in the age of President Trump.

Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics for The Times, discusses the competing visions competing for the mayoralty and who is most likely to win.

Guest: Nicholas Fandos, a reporter covering New York politics and government for The New York Times.

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Pod Save America - How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bombing Iran

Donald Trump, without consulting Congress or United States allies, orders the military to bomb Iran, and then claims that Iran and Israel have reached a ceasefire. Military and intelligence services push back on Trump's claims that Iran's three nuclear sites have been "completely and totally obliterated." MAGA isolationists change their tone to avoid Trump's ire. Jon, Lovett, Tommy, and Dan react to all the latest, including reports that nuclear material may have been removed before the attacks, Iran's retaliatory strikes on an American military installation in Qatar, and Trump's new posts indicating he may be open to regime change. Then, the guys walk through Democrats' response to the attacks, the latest from Trump's ongoing National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, and a New York City mayoral primary that's both frustrating and exciting.

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Chapo Trap House - 945 – Hashtag Fordow Fail feat. Libby Watson (6/23/25)

Libby Watson returns to the show! We discuss the weekend’s limited US strike on Iran and Trump’s baffling behavior around what already may be a winding-down conflict. We also talk Democratic & media responses, and where Iran might go from here. Then: all eyes are on Zohran in the NYC mayoral primary, voting is tomorrow, we discuss Zorhan’s campaign and his chances of bringing this all home. Finally, we celebrate the love & marriage of an old friend of the show with their NYT vows section announcement. Find Libby’s new show “What’s All This Then” wherever you get podcasts, and all her other links here: https://linktr.ee/whatsallthisthen New merch for the summer up at https://chapotraphouse.store