Episodios

  • S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious

    S2 Ep1011: Susan Rice: This Is Bloody Serious
    Apr 1 2025
    The administration admits it mistakenly sent a Maryland father with protected status to the Salvadoran penal colony—but at the same time, it says the federal courts have no jurisdiction over him because he is now in a foreign country. If some of us have no due process, that opens the door to none of us having due process. Meanwhile, Trump's administration seems hellbent on destroying the U.S.-led world order, Marco Rubio is acting very un-American, and we actually do have long-standing protocols for how a president's national security team should discuss a military strike. Plus, Mother Jones reporters show the absurdity of ICE's assertions about migrant gang membership.

    Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, along with Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias, join Tim Miller.
    show notes

    • Atlantic piece on the Maryland father sent to El Salvador

    • Tim's Bulwark Take on ICE's 'mistaken' deportation

    • Mother Jones on the shoddy tattoo evidence being used to disappear migrants
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    1 h y 6 m
  • S2 Ep1009: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats

    S2 Ep1009: Bill Kristol: Stiffen Your Spines, Democrats
    Mar 31 2025
    If Joe Rogan is the voice in the wilderness on the disappearing of migrants to El Salvador, then the Democratic leadership really needs to rethink its cautiousness. Meanwhile, the Bluffer-in-Chief is musing about a third term and Elon seems to be skirting the law in Wisconsin over an election he claims will determine the fate of civilization. Plus, the tariffs threats are rattling the markets, Trump's gullibility with Putin is coming through loud and clear, and why does JD hate Europe so much?

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
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    • The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial on Boston Common

    • Official trailer for the film, Glory

    • Texas Democrat Veronica Escobar on the deportations to El Salvador

    • Elon in a cheesehead

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    49 m
  • S2 Ep1009: Daddy? No, Manny Trump

    S2 Ep1009: Daddy? No, Manny Trump
    Mar 28 2025
    Trump is siccing the thought police on the Smithsonian, he's got an FBI task force set up to protect Elon's car company, and he's turning random tattoos into gang insignia—unless they're on Pete Hegseth. Meanwhile, Greenlanders did not come to play, Elise Stefanik gets benched, the DOJ won't do its real job, and next week's elections are making Republicans nervous. Plus, courage is contagious—make them come after everybody. Amanda Carpenter joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

    Amanda Carpenter joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
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    • "Hands Off" demonstrations on April 5

    • Protect Democracy's "If You Can Keep It" newsletter

    • Tim and JVL on JD and Usha Vance's Greenland trip

    • MTG lashing out at a British reporter

    • Tim's playlist
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    59 m
  • S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View

    S2 Ep1008: Jon Lovett: A Worst Case Scenario Comes Into View
    Mar 27 2025
    Trump so far is not delivering on his promised spike in deportations, but he is creating a permission structure where we lock up people without due process in a foreign gulag—and where masked, plainclothes officers in unmarked cars can grab an international student off the street because of her speech. Meanwhile, a Rolex-wearing Kristi Noem is shooting videos in front of people we've turned into hostages, the mainstream media is struggling to respond to the moment, we can't count on judges siding with the Constitution, Republicans refuse to be honest, and far too much of the public is not paying attention.

    Jon Lovett joins Tim Miller.
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    • FDR's "Rendevous with Destiny" speech
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    1 h y 1 m
  • S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid

    S2 Ep1008: Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni: Radioactively Stupid
    Mar 26 2025
    No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that claimed it was rooting out incompetence is plain on its face. And while Jeffrey Goldberg told Tim Tuesday that he was mulling over releasing the Signal messages, he went ahead and did so after the administration accused him of lying and sneaking into the Signal group chat. Plus, Russia pretends to agree to a cease-fire, Breitbart kind of grows up, and a new book examines Capitol Hill's craziness—including Trump's control of the House GOP, Nancy Mace's delusions of grandeur, and Schumer's infinite faith in the Republican Party of old.

    Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni join Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Annie's new book, "Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress"

    • Ben's pod, "Mixed Signals"

    • More on Tulsi's Vatican trip paid by a Belgian businessman with ties to the Kremlin

    • Ben's interview with Megyn Kelly at Semafor Events

    • Phillips O'Brien's Substack piece on the “Black Sea Ceasefire”

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  • S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?

    S2 Ep1007: Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Wehner: What's Going on with Our National Security?
    Mar 25 2025
    Senior members of Trump's Cabinet got caught sharing attack plans—down to details of who they were planning to kill, and with what kind of weapons, while also wishing Godspeed to our soldiers—and now they'll say anything to get out of the jam they put themselves in. Also, JD Vance openly questioned the judgement of the president in front of those very senior Cabinet members. Meanwhile, vengeance has long been a defining feature of Trump, but the habits of his heart have also infected his supporters. And they've become a moral freak show cheering on deportations of families and starving Africans. Jeff Goldberg and Pete Wehner join Tim Miller.

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    • Jeff's original scoop on getting texted war plans (gifted)
    • Pete's piece on Trump's insatiable appetite for revenge
    • Trump's 1992 interview with Charlie Rose
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    1 h y 1 m
  • S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix

    S2 Ep1006: Live from Phoenix
    Mar 24 2025
    Bill Kristol joined Tim Saturday in Arizona to rip the atrocious behavior of our government—depriving even lawful Venezuelan migrants of due process, and shipping them off to a mega-prison in San Salvador where they may be being tortured. Any Democratic politician failing to speak out on this is wrong politically, morally, and ethically. Meanwhile, the DOJ is gearing up to charge Tesla vandals with domestic terrorism and Trump sent a Putin fanboy and very useful idiot, Steve Witkoff, to negotiate over Ukraine. Plus, AOC, Bernie, and Bill 2003 vs. Bill 2025. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Time magazine piece on the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador

    • Sam talking with Lindsay Toczylowski, who represents Andrys, the gay barber and Salvadoran prisoner

    • Photos of Andrys as a barber/makeup artist

    • Call your Democratic senator: 202-224-3121.

    • Immigrant Defenders Law Center

    • The immigrants' rights division of the ACLU
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    43 m
  • S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones

    S2 Ep1005: Michael Lewis: Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones
    Mar 21 2025
    Trump loves to complain about the deep state while Elon claims he's rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse with all his mass firings. But DOGE should be looking higher up the food chain to target the graft: for example, the South African immigrant whose car company would not have gotten off the ground without the taxpayer money he still collects. In contrast, government workers are mainly mission-driven and they're not in it for the money. Michael's new collection of essays takes a look at some of the characters who populate our federal workforce, including people performing small miracles without fame and glory. Plus, the risk of Trump politicizing economic data and his plan to destroy whatever trust people still have in the government.

    Michael Lewis—and Sarah Vowell, who profiled a record keeper at the National Archives for the new book—join Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
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    • The new book, "Who Is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service"

    • Tim's "Bulwark Takes" on some of the men taken taken to the El Salvador prison camp

    • Adrian's "Huddled Masses" newsletter on ICE deportations based on tattoos

    • George Conway emergency pod on the Paul Weiss law firm caving to Trump

    • Michael's book, "Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House"

    • Tim's playlist
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    1 h y 1 m