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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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0:00.0 | It's time for the last word with Ali Vilsche. Hey, Ali. |
0:04.0 | How do you feel? It's been a week. Good. It's been a week. This day has been a bit of a crushing emotional journey, I think, for everybody. So, yeah, how are you feeling at 10 p.m? |
0:15.1 | There's a lot. Chipper. There's a lot. These are just, we remember these days from the first Trump administration where just it's a lot, |
0:23.1 | a lot to get through. Carla Hayden, not a particularly controversial character. No. |
0:28.6 | For all the things she was accused of doing, making children gay and trans, apparently, |
0:34.6 | but it's not where most kids get their books at the Library of Congress, incidentally. |
0:38.2 | But when I looked into this movement to get her fired, it's a kind of a crazy right-wing |
0:44.0 | website. |
0:45.6 | And you're like all of us would make the cut. |
0:48.3 | Like literally anything you say that is not Trumpian makes you a crazy left-wing communist socialist who should be |
0:56.1 | eliminated from your job. It's just, it's hard to make sense of. Very hard. Not a controversial |
1:02.6 | job. Got an overwhelming three quarters vote when she was confirmed. Yeah. And as you said, |
1:09.6 | kids don't get their books from there. |
1:11.6 | Yeah. |
1:11.7 | That's your thing, which is not either of our things. |
1:14.8 | But it's a pretty, but, you know, as I just mentioned in the last block, we can show a picture of her and people can make their judgments on why she was fired. |
1:24.7 | We're firing librarians. |
1:26.1 | We just need to understand that. That's where we are |
1:28.9 | in this government. Congratulations on an amazing, strong first week. I look forward to many more |
1:35.3 | of these conversations with you. Thank you, Allie. Great talking to. Have a good show. See you next week. |
1:39.9 | Donald Trump's attention-seeking clown car administration is, in fact, coming off the rails. |
1:46.6 | This is an administration filled with Fox hosts and billionaires who have little to know experience in government |
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