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American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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04:45 TEMP CHECK: Will this week’s headlines give you a fever or make you freeze? 24:45 MAIN NEWS: Now that Louisiana has posted the 10 Commandments in every classroom, Sami and V discuss how extreme conservatives are spreading the Christian Dominionist Movement and how they want to completely rewrite the Constitution to create a more evangelical America. 50:15 DOWN BALLOT: It’s Election Day, and the primary race between Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer has now become the most expensive in history as well as controversial due to the Within Our Lives protest. 1:03:20 AMER-I-CAN’T: Hyper-capitalism in journalism is baring its fangs now that journalists are revealing they acquired important information while researching and how their contracts kept them from disclosing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rise and I'm
0:05.0	Seine Fever Dreamers look alive my friends I'm The Spear and I'm Sammy Sage and this is
0:08.0	American Fever Dream presented by Betches News where we explore the
0:11.4	absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American experience.
0:15.0	Today we are checking the temperature on disinformation and social media bots,
0:19.0	as well as Julian Assange's plea deal and the latest scotis ruling on firearms.
0:24.8	Then we are moving on to our main news where we get into Louisiana's 10 Commandments
0:28.3	mandate and how this is really a harbinger for the attempted Christian takeover of American schools under something called the Seven Mountains mandate.
0:36.2	Some of you have heard me go in on this a few years ago, but it is back, baby. It really never left.
0:40.9	Then we are talking about Jamal Bowman for our down ballot
0:43.8	race of the week and finally an American's rant about how publishing
0:47.9	contracts are hindering important journalism. Hello V. Hello Sammy I don't know if you guys can't see Sammy but I can but she got her
0:56.6	hair cut and died and she's looking gorgeous today like a mermaid.
0:59.7	Thank you we have our book party tonight.
1:02.5	Emily and my phone is in Emily in the other room right now.
1:05.7	She's recording a podcast.
1:07.5	So we're like a factory, news factory over here.
1:10.7	It's like a newsroom basically. Yeah and then you have to come to
1:13.8	VidCon where I am in LA right now. It's going to be wild. Very excited for our
1:18.8	VidCon show. We just are full of events, things we're doing.
1:23.4	My book is coming out in two weeks.
1:25.3	Democracy and Retrograde
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