News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this News Brief we are joined by friend of the show, Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News, to discuss Democrats' pathetic, myopic, and nihilistic attempt to play the Racist Reverse Uno Card on Congressional Republicans.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a citations needed news brief. I am Nemes Shirazzi. I'm Adam Johnson. You can follow the show on Twitter at citations pod Needed, and become a supporter of the show through
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0:23.9	We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full length
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0:29.5	And today we are thrilled to welcome back friend of the show Max Alvarez editor and chief of the
0:37.3	real news network host of the working people podcast which like citations is currently in its seventh season and his book
0:46.0	The Work of Living was published by Or Books in 2022. Max, welcome back to citations needed.
0:54.0	Hey guys, thank you so much for having me back.
0:56.0	Always a pleasure to be here.
0:58.0	So this is obviously a very shitty grim topic to talk about.
1:01.0	It was made...
1:02.0	Yeah, when are you guys going to fucking invite me to do like one of the Christmas episodes?
1:06.4	Like why do I always got to come on when like shit is awful?
1:09.0	That is true, you always get the depressing.
1:10.6	Whenever we're at our angriest, we're like do we talk to to be fair like 90% of our
1:15.2	episodes are downers but this in particular we deal with a lot of cynicism in the show
1:19.6	it's a key element of the show obviously and we deal with a lot of stupid things.
1:23.8	This is, I gotta think is the highest combination of both.
1:27.0	The peak of both?
1:28.0	Yeah, it really is and I'm careful.
1:29.8	You know, Roger Ebert always said if you're gonna do a film review,
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