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Welcome back, One and All to The Damage Report. It's John. It's a John solo show. Hopefully not totally so. Hopefully there's people out. Let me check. Twitch, YouTube. Okay, there's some people there. Okay, awesome, because that would have been really awkward. But anyway, very happy to have you all here because we do have a lot of news to get to. Not only big updates on the shutdown, why it's still going on, what is being

cut while it goes on, but we'll also be talking about the continued invasion of American

cities. The brief bit of, I struggle to call it reforms that Pete Hagsith is making to that

effort, but it's kind of funny, so we're going to be talking about it.

Some little bits of resistance to Christy Noem and the way she's tried to politicize this shutdown.

And good news coming out of schools, what seemed like a big identity war win for the right,

not necessarily playing out on the ground the way that they might have expected.

And that's all coming up at the first hour.

In the aftermath, we have the rare interview, very excited.

Author Jacob Silverman is going to be joined the show to talk about his book, Gilded Rage, Elon Musk and the radicalization of Silicon Valley.

Talking about not only Elon Musk, but a bunch of these other tech bros that have become massive right wingers.

We're going to be talking about why that's happening.

What could happen if a Democrat were to take the White House once again?

So it should be a fun conversation.

And then if there's time, we'll be closing out the show by talking about Donald Trump's little critique for his new Time magazine cover.

Turns out he found a way to not be happy about him getting.

I think arguably the only the only goal he had bigger for himself than the Nobel Peace Prize was to be on the cover

of time and he's not really enjoying the experience very much. So with all that said, definitely

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