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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Fake Shakeups, Same Crackdowns

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Weekender, our weekly show for Patreon members, opens with fallout from Alex Pretti’s murder and the sudden sidelining of Bovino, with Tom Homan stepping in and the administration pretending this is accountability instead of damage control. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down why this shakeup changes nothing, why ICE is still operating like a lawless occupying force, and why Democrats are offering cosmetic fixes while people are being abducted in the streets. They dig into the broader picture, from Kristi Noem’s political trouble to the FBI raid on Georgia election offices, and why the renewed obsession with 2020 looks a lot like groundwork for controlling future elections. The conversation circles back to the same question: if institutions won’t stop this, where does real resistance come from. They cool things down at the end with what they’re reading and watching, including Oscar contenders, a brutal takedown of The Rip, and why some messy, ambitious movies stick in your head long after the credits roll. 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

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of My Creek podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton.

0:05.4

I got something going on in my sinuses, Nick. That's not the best thing for a person. It's not the best thing for a podcast. It's bad news. No, it's fine. You're going to get through it. We're going to get through it. And, you know, it's the weather. It's everything. I'm sorry to hear that you're going through it's everything and uh thanks for uh putting up with me everybody

0:23.2

it's good to be back to the weekender i'll

0:25.1

say that uh we got a whole bunch to talk to uh talk to we got a whole bunch to talk about and

0:31.4

we're not talking to anybody be of it i don't know i've words words and podcasting and recording

0:37.4

uh a reminder head over to patreon dot com slash my craig podcast you're already It, I don't know. I've words, words and podcasting and recording.

0:41.0

A reminder, head over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast.

0:43.1

You're already listening to the free preview.

0:44.9

Come on, support us.

0:48.1

We are in the middle of a fascist takeover of the United States of America.

0:52.1

We have been on the front line of this thing from the very beginning.

0:55.3

Stick with us, support us, Patreon.com slash my Greg podcast. Nick, since we talked, we recorded the Tuesday episode, of course, on Monday.

1:02.0

A lot has happened following the brutal, brutal public murder of Alex Pretti.

1:08.1

Since then, the backlash has led to a few dominoes sort of moving, more,

1:14.8

more different, more of the same. Greg Bovino has been sidelined, has been taken out of Minneapolis.

1:21.5

Borders are Tom Holman has come in. We'll talk more about that in a second. Christy Noem is under

1:26.0

fire with Congress, as much as anybody could be under fire with Congress. We'll talk more about that in a second. Christy Noem is under fire with Congress as much as

1:28.4

anybody could be under fire with Congress. We'll talk in a little bit about the shutdown and what the Democrats are calling for. But before we get to any of that, Nick, what do you make about this shakeup with Bovino and Tom Homan? Well, you know, it's like, is this one of those moments where like Trump actually has a moment of clarity and realizes, oh, we, you know, because on the margins, if he were to do a few things like get rid of Nome, get rid of a Bovino, he might actually engender some goodwill for all of this.

1:54.3

But we know my worry is that the guy replacing Bovino in Homan is worse, arguably, than him.

2:01.7

And anybody they do find to permanently replace that will be worse because who else is willing

2:06.6

to do this job, the way that the administration is laid it out, the way Stephen Miller has laid

2:10.5

it out.

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