TDWS: Effed-Up Friday with Marlon Weems

We always love when Marlon joins us on The Daily Whatever Show. We had an incredible chat before the Fucked-up Friday competition even began—as we discussed the $40 trillion national debt, reparations, what our spending says about our values, the increasingly terrifying surveillance state, those horrific ICE shock gloves, and Caroline Levitt resignation once she realized Trump sent her (and Marco Rubio and the entire press corp) on a decoy plane. Big yikes for her.

Then we launched into our Fucked-up Friday competition... and you’re gonna have to tune in to hear which stories we thought were even more fucked-up than all that.

Thank you Cat: Poli-Psych, Caro Henry, Ms.Yuse, NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge, Diane Johnston, and many others for tuning in.

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