DMs! My Kingdom For DMs!

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Co-hosts Nick Hauselman and Jared Yates Sexton open with a rare California Corner that’s more flood warning than sunshine report. Then they dig into the New York Times reporting on DHS and ICE subpoenas sent to Google, Meta, Discord, and Reddit, aimed at unmasking accounts tracking ICE and criticizing the crackdown. They talk through what that means in practice, why “anonymous” is a fantasy once the state wants names, and how pressure gets applied through watchlists, travel pain, and fear. From there they hit Wajahat Ali pressing Hakeem Jeffries on abolishing ICE and why Democratic leadership keeps dodging the simplest question because they helped build the machine. They also get into Russ Vought and the USAID money story, the right wing status theater of private security, and the East Wing fiasco as the perfect corruption tell. They close on climate, the EPA trying to yank the legal foundation for regulating greenhouse gases, and the ugly truth that leaders have known about this for decades and still refuse to act. Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: ⁠http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast⁠.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCray podcast, I'm JoJ. It's Sexton. I'm joined by my co-host, Nick
0:06.0	Alseman, and we have a very rare California corner installment today. It's not 72 degrees and sunny.
0:13.1	You're actually going through it today. I mean, my feet are wet and it's cold, and it's a deluge right now,
0:20.4	biblical proportions. So stay inside if you're in
0:22.6	l.A my goodness what was that like for you was it was it like the sky was falling did do you retain
0:28.5	some midwestern sensibilities or just all over the talkals of somewhere but um you know
0:34.6	we've had such we had 80 degree weather like in January, which is
0:38.1	like unheard of as well. So we're definitely, A, we're due and B, we're not used to this. It's not,
0:43.4	you know, 55 degrees in raining is not worth it. Well, we're going to have a conversation
0:47.9	a little bit about the climate. So just keep that in mind, everybody. Also a reminder,
0:53.3	head over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast, become a patron, support the show.
0:57.4	Last week, we had one of our patented mailbag episodes.
1:00.7	I loved how it went.
1:01.8	I think the feedback was excellent.
1:04.2	We were building such a good community here, but we also need your help, particularly at this time of rising fascism.
1:10.1	We need all of the help that we can get, patreon.com slash Montcrayk Podcasts,
1:14.3	sports show, keeps us editorially independent, ad-free, and also you get every episode
1:19.9	of Weekender on Fridays. Nick, we start with another disturbing little tidbit from Ice
1:27.1	and the Department of Homeland Security.
1:29.8	The New York Times has reported that DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to tech companies like
1:35.2	Google, meta, Discord, and Reddit, demanding information on social media accounts that are
1:41.2	tracking ICE and also commenting on ICE. This is part of a larger
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CLNS Media Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CLNS Media Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.