It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma speak with Ryan Grim, reporter at Drop Site News and co-host of Counter Points, to break down the biggest headlines of the day. First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Israel’s brutal assaults on Beirut and Gaza, the US’ longshoremen strike, the US economy, Trump’s attacks on legal migrants, student loan relief, the devastation of Hurricane Helene, and Eric Adams’ legal woes, also watching Trump’s pitch for his economic platform (it’s just him bragging about ripping people off). Ryan Grim then joins, diving right into Israel’s ongoing escalation and expansion of their military offensive, and the US’ condonation of their brutal campaign as it now extends into Lebanon and potentially to Iran, stepping back to look at how the Biden Administration – and more particularly advisors Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein –  have skirted around US military recommendations and intelligence to endorse Israel’s pivot whole-heartedly. After expanding on the role of US oil reserves in potentially bolstering Biden’s commitment to expanding Zionist bloodthirst, Ryan, Sam, and Emma unpack the strong continuity between the campaigns and administrations of Harris and Biden, first touching on inklings of a potentially devastating departure from Biden’s labor personnel before walking through the role this coherence plays in influencing the Harris campaign’s ongoing pivot to center-right voters. They also touch on the role of the growing labor movement in bolstering and challenging the Harris campaign and wrap up the show with a conversation on the conservative canvassing conundrum and the pointlessness of the VP Debate.

And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma discuss the sentencing of former Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters over Trump’s election scheme while no organizers of the scheme have been held accountable, and Kowalski from Nebraska gives me (the person writing this) a lovely compliment and unpacks some of JD Vance’s industrial and manufacturing rhetoric from the debate. They also dive deep into the turnaround of the US economy and the boost it’s giving to Harris’ polling – with some helpful commentary from Laura Ingraham and Julie Su. Baddie from Cincinnati has some plans for Cincy’s abandoned subway tunnels, Mike Lawler explains the nuances of Blackface, and JD Vance does some election denial. Neville from New Joisey helps to end the show with some good ol'-fashioned genocide-denial, plus, your calls and IMs!

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