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All I'm gonna be is a jump on. Hello, everybody.

It's a joke.

And we've got some chop for you.

On today's episode, Felix and I are joined by the journalist Prem

Tecker from Zetio. Prem is, we invited him to talk about the ongoing horror show in Palestine and Gaza,

but I'd like to begin today with something a little bit closer to home. And it's something that we have mentioned in passing on the show, but I think it's really

worth opening up the show talking about it today.

And that is the ongoing federal occupation of our nation's capital.

So, Prem, beginning there, watching this from my computer screen or on television from here in New York,

like so much in our present political moment, it seems like this is a mix of pure malevolence and absurdity.

But from someone in D.C., like some of the videos I saw you post and some of what you're covering,

what does this federal takeover of DC practically entail? Like, what was, how did it start? And what does it

feel and look like to be out and about in the nation's capital right now? Yeah. So being in DC

is very, very weird. It's a mix of, I think, the essence of this is that I think people are kind of oscillating between whether this is a distraction or whether it's, as you say, just malevolent, you know, part and parcel with how Donald Trump operates. And I think it's a yes and, like, it's obviously like very convenient to distract from, you know, him being Jeffrey Epstein's pen pal.

And every other reason he's incredibly unpopular.

But it's also, like, functionally, materially, a disaster.

I mean, there are real people being swept off the streets.

There's workers who are just trying to deliver, you know,

food, who are being shoved off their mopeds, people snatched out of their vehicles. We have no sense

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