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SimplySafe. Welcome to Potta of America. I'm Tommy Ditor. I'm John Levitt. Favro is off today. On today's show, it's a huge moment for the world as the Israeli hostages come home and a ceasefire begins in Gaza. We'll explain how this deal happened and what comes next. Then we've got some new court rulings on Trump's invasion of America's cities, a crackdown on free speech at the Pentagon. And of course, we are still stuck in a government shutdown. But there are some key dates coming up that might

force action. Finally, Levy catches up with Leah Greenberg from Indivisible, one of the organizations

helping to organize the No Kings Day protest this weekend, and not unrelatedly, one of the groups

being targeted by the Trump administration as a domestic terror front. It's getting to be a long list,

huh? Wild.

Long list of domestic enemies.

Indivisible. It was good-hearted and sort of civic-minded organization that you could imagine. Yeah, just encouraging people to care about what's happening and get involved. But let's start with the latest from the Middle East. We were recording this on Monday afternoon at about 3.30 Pacific time overnight. All 20 of the living Israeli hostages came

home, as did the remains of four of the deceased Israeli hostages. Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners

were released by Israel. That breaks down to about 1,700 people who were picked up in Gaza since

October 7th and held there without charges, and about 250 others who are serving prison sentences,

including for violent attacks on Israeli citizens. Trump arrived in Israel on Monday to a hero's welcome.

He gave a speech at the Knesset. It was a mix of a justifiable celebration and then the usual

hyperbole and bullshit. Let's listen to an excerpt. If you think we settled eight wars in eight months,

now including this one, by the way, if that's okay, they may say,

well, that was quick, because yesterday I was saying seven,

but now I can say eight. The hostages are back.

The forces of chaos, terror, and ruin that have plagued the region for decades now

stand weakened, isolated, and totally defeated.

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