Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.

I'm Adam Johnson.

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listener funded. And we do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length episodes.

And today, Adam, we really wanted to talk about not only the detention of Columbia student,

Mahmoud Khalil, but also the media and political

coverage and fallout from that. And how disingenuous, surprise, surprise, many of these

statements have been. Yeah. So this story has really shown the degree to which we have

completely entered an alternate universe that is no bearing to reality,

where a discussion about the suppression of people opposing a genocide and the genocide of their people

is now being framed in these mushy liberal anti-racism terms in the most dishonest and cynical way

possible. So we've officially reached the nadir of this discourse,

and we wanted to discuss how this has become a co-crime,

a co-conspiracy between liberalism or sort of institutional liberalism

in the US and the fascist, overtly fascist,

I think it's fair to say at this point, Trump regime.

And this is truly a co-production,

and we'll sort of explain why that is and why it's

important to maintain that focus as groups like the ADL team up with Trump to frankly disappear

people for having wrongthink on the so-called Israel Hamas War, as the New York Times puts it.

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