Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Muckering podcast. I'm Jare J.J. It's sex. I'm here with my good friend, my co-host, my cohort.

Nick Houseman. How you doing, Nick? I'm doing well. Looking forward to another week of living in abutting authoritarianism.

Yeah, I mean, you can't beat it, right? I mean, really just the ideal of all world. So a quick announcement,

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We're going to be recording this on Wednesday,

late afternoon, so get those questions in in a hurry. Nick, we have a whole slew of different

things to talk about today, weird, disturbing things that I think are very, very telling about

where we are. But in an event that has already sort of moved out of like the consciousness

of America on Saturday, a car bomb detonated outside of the American reproductive center

in Palm Springs, California, not too far away from you. The suspect who died in the bombing

has been reported as a 25-year-old.

The only casualty, thank God from this, allegedly had an anti-LGBQ IVF agenda described as a pro-mortalist or someone who thinks that it's better to be dead than alive.

This is a really disturbing thing, and I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about what this is, even though in America, as we've experienced it in this modern era, events and tragedies like this keep mounting up.

And we don't pay enough attention to them and we don't discuss what they tell us about what's going on in our politics and our culture.

Well, here's the thing. I'm not so sure that 2025 has as much of an effect on this attack as we might think in terms of this is the kind of thing we've been seeing and attacks on places like this in the past, right?

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