Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Chapter 12: Year in Review
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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We are back next week with new episodes of The Bill Press Pod. The 12th and final chapter chronicles the demise of our fictional magazine, Capital Monthly. The pressure from the White House, from advertisers and from Social Media algorithms kills the independent journalism that was, in our stories, documenting what life was like for people under Donald Trump's second term guided by Project 2025. We now have seen, in real life, what evil Project 2025 has wrought. We hope this update of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal restores in all of us, our commitment to halt the march to disaster that is MAGA, Trump and most of the GOP. 2026 cannot come fast enough. But for us to stop the madness, we must VOTE and convince friends and family to vote as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.2 | Thank you. on Audible. Go to Audible.com slash Rich Girl Summer. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, good friends. Good to see you again. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:12.1 | Well, I'll be back from my research and writing sabbatical in Europe next week, but we still have one more episode of our updated version of Trump's Project 2025 up close and personal, that special series we ran |
| 1:18.8 | last fall before the election. Of course, we all tried to prevent it, but Trump did win, |
| 1:25.2 | and his reign of terror against the media is ongoing every day. |
| 1:29.7 | Now, in today's fictional story, the 12th and final chapter chronicles the demise of our |
| 1:35.2 | fictional magazine capital monthly. The pressure from the White House, from advertisers, from |
| 1:40.3 | internet trolls, and a financial offer from a right-wing hedge fund kills the independent |
| 1:45.6 | journalism that was documenting what life was actually like under Trump's second regime, guided, |
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