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We couldn't do it without you. Oh, Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Riga.

Today we're going to talk about a few things.

We're going to first pick up where we left off on Friday

when we did the special episode

about the State of the Union address by President Biden, kind of continue to see where the sort of, you know, the vibes bump as it were is continuing or not continuing.

Then we're going to get into, you know, Trump had this kind of

of misfire, at least seemingly misfire with Social Security and Medicare.

And then we have some interesting news you know Kate has been

closely following over the god I don't know I was going to say the last year but I think it

goes back two or three years this pipeline they have with a few particularly radical Trump

judges that you know you set up an organization down in Amarillo, Texas, go to

this one guy and there's you know there's a couple of them but there's mainly

this one guy down in Texas and suddenly you can get a whole you know ban just you know kind of

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