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Molly here with our first ever, weird little guys, emergency minisode.

You know I don't like current events.

I was just telling you a few weeks ago what a relief it's been working on this show,

but I don't have to deal with the stress of breaking news.

I can work current events into my narrative flow,

when the time is right in the history I'm trying

to write. Whatever, I did say that. But here's the thing. I couldn't wait this time. It's too

funny. I have to tell you this right now. And it actually fits in perfectly with the subject of this week's regular episode,

because that's how I found it. I was doing my due diligence researching for the episode you'll

hear in a few days when I found something extremely unexpected. A weird little guy has filed a new lawsuit. And the lawsuit is against

another weird little guy. This is one of my favorite things. It doesn't happen very often,

but it's always so special.

So this week, I was getting my notes together to write about the president's claim that the Unite the Right rally was a hoax, perpetrated entirely by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

So as part of my process, I popped over to PACER, the public access site for federal court documents.

We'll explore this more fully in the regular episode, but the Department of Justice recently indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging they engaged in wire fraud and conspiracy

to commit money laundering in their dealings with paid sources within various hate groups.

The government seems to want you to believe that paying sources for information

means that the Southern Poverty Law Center was actually funneling their donor money into those hate groups

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