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What Next: TBD | Inside the MAGA Content Mill

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As Trump throws out journalists and outlets that report anything negative about him, he’s limiting access to a group of right-wing influencers who work to further his agenda. Guest: Makena Kelly, tech and politics writer for WIRED. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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hello I'm Christy. I wanted to ask you a few questions. How long have you been in the United States?

1:19.2

There's this video that was circulating on X recently. In it, you can see DHS Secretary Christy Knoam, accompanied by federal agents, and she's leaning into the backseat of a car in Portland.

1:30.9

She's talking to a man who she says is an immigrant with a sex offense conviction.

1:36.2

I asked McKenna Kelly from Wired to describe it.

1:39.3

She kind of opens up this car door and leans over against this man who appears to be at least some

1:46.5

kind of, like a detained immigrant, and she on this video is interrogating him about how many

1:53.7

times he's crossed the border. When was the first time he illegally crossed the border? It was

1:59.4

seven years ago. They go back and forth through an interpreter, but Nome's message is clear on camera.

2:06.0

You also know it's a crime to be here illegally, and you won't be prosecuted for it, correct?

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