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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning, where we react to the Sunday morning new shows so that you do not have to watch them. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Katie Halper. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Mary Matta, everybody. |
| 0:10.9 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:12.4 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:13.8 | Great to start the week with you and some of the worst people on corporate TV. |
| 0:17.1 | Our website, as always, is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. |
| 0:20.7 | Go there to support the show. keep us going and get bonus content. |
| 0:25.1 | Good announcement. Our fundraiser for the Middle East Children's Alliance has just passed $20,000. |
| 0:32.1 | So thank you to everybody who donated. There's been an option next to all of our segments on YouTube to donate. So |
| 0:39.7 | collectively, we've raised $20,000 for Mecca, Middle East Children's Alliance. Now we're launching |
| 0:45.1 | a new fundraiser. It's for Heal Palestine. It's founded by a previous guest on useful idiots. |
| 0:56.0 | Steve Soseby. |
| 0:57.6 | Was that I pronounce his name? |
| 0:59.6 | I think it's Sosby, but I actually don't know. |
| 1:00.8 | That makes sense. |
| 1:01.7 | Steve Sosby. |
| 1:09.1 | And it's a wonderful organization helping wounded Palestinian children, wounded and maimed Palestinian children get medical care. |
| 1:28.8 | They're the group that was at the center of the decision by Marco Rubio recently at the behest of Laura Lumer to ban medical visas for Palestinians because Laura Limer couldn't take the sight of seeing wounded Palestinian kids arriving at airports to get medical treatment for the injuries, serious injuries, |
| 1:30.9 | sustained at the hands of U.S. made bombs. |
| 1:36.8 | So really important to support heal, and you can click the donate button next to this video on YouTube to help us support this wonderful organization, making a huge difference |
| 1:43.4 | for children from Gaza who have been wounded and |
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