Episode 815: Meta Ends Fact Checking, DOGE Targets Education

Cognitive Dissonance

Tom Curry

Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Trump is reportedly complaining about Elon in private — and hates 'President Musk' joke | The Independent Johnson says House Republicans will investigate Jan. 6 committee Strict abortion laws since fall of Roe have led to increased infant deaths — not fewer Kids' low reading scores are 'a 5-alarm fire,' says DOGE's Ramaswamy. His solution: Eliminate the Education Department. The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn | Vox Kent Christmas Says God Will Soon Kill President Biden for Awarding the Medal of Freedom to George Soros | People For Few transgender minors receive gender-affirming care medicines, study finds : Shots - Health News : NPR Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump

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0:00.0	This episode of Cognitive Dissinence is brought to you by our patrons.
0:04.3	You fucking rock.
0:09.1	Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart, or the easily offended.
0:15.0	The explicit tag is there for a reason. Recording live from Gloryhole Studios in Chicago and beyond.
0:44.0	This is cognitive dissonance.
0:46.8	Every episode we blast anyone who gets in our way.
0:49.6	We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news,
0:55.5	makes it big or makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome, Matt.
1:04.9	Today is Thursday, January the 9th. And Cecil, L.A. is on fire today.
1:11.8	Did you have that in your bingo card?
1:13.4	Wow, yeah.
1:14.2	It was really devastating out there.
1:16.0	It's terrible.
1:17.0	Those winds just ripped through and like so many different places got burned out there.
1:21.4	It was really just a drone footage was awful to look at.
1:24.1	Not even remotely contained.
1:25.8	Like I was reading a thing today.
1:27.4	I've got a good friend of mine out in California.
1:29.4	And when this whole thing started, I reached out to him.
1:31.3	Now, he's in the inland empire, so he's pretty far from L.A.
1:35.3	But they get a lot of fires where he's at.
1:37.5	And he sent me like a thing of like the newscaster.
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