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-Of course the first Congressional speech written by an algorithm was about loving Israel and bipartisanship -From the “Is this Good?” Pile: Subprime auto loan delinquency rate breaks January 2009 record -Republicans struggle to get the votes they need to pretend that Ilhan Omar deserves to be expelled from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (they’re mad at her because she embarrassed the GOP’s favorite career war criminal, Eliot Abrams) -Kemp, Kavanaugh, BuzzFeed, Union Pacific, Jeffrey Zeints, and Mike Pompeo all get Garbage Can nominations this week Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to more episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-McCarthy finally elected Speaker, but the parallels to the 1850s are a bit bothersome -Good luck in federal court, friends: FTC takes aim at worker non-compete agreements -FOIA Follies: We search for records on the regulated banks in Sam Bankman-Fried’s sweaty, awkward empire -Walgreen’s, transphobic worm David Bullard, Charlie Kirk & “Doctor” Drew, Muriel Bowser, and Pete Buttigieg get Garbage Can nominations Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Documents obtained by FOIA show that major corporations urged the Department of Agriculture to run a pandemic hunger relief program as a public-private partnership. They didn’t disclose their efforts in lobbying disclosure forms, and experts said they didn’t need to. Music by Adam Fligsten adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

It’s the final show of 2022. The two Sams round up the GARBAGE CANDIDATES OF THE YEAR. And we discuss the new Means TV film we’re in: Yell, Stomp, Hiss. We join up with Bryan Quinby of Street Fight Radio, Tom Sexton of The Trillbillies, and Nick Hayes of Means TV to talk about our tour of the South. Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Week of Shame: Democrats and President Biden vote to break power of rail unions, and force workers to accept contract with no leave -Don’t trust anything Sam Bankman-Fried says, but he’s right about GOP dark money donations: there’s a trail of money from him to Republican candidates through shell organizations -FOIA Follies: The crypto industry clings to its free-for-all -Elon, Dem strikebreakers, Kanye, GOP House Judiciary leaders, and the Pentagon are nominated to the Garbage Can Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-If and when Elon runs this website off the rails, our replacement is going to need a main character of the day, let’s be real -Sick of crooked politicians who do favors for crypto scammers? Bad news. The incoming Republican House Whip thinks that the SEC shouldn’t regulate crypto, but still got mad at the agency for going soft on FTX -Finally, a win for fans of austerity. Joe Manchin handed Republicans a huge gift on a platter by refusing to raise the debt ceiling in the lame duck -Elon, Hakeem Jeffries, the IDF, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Jordan Peterson fan Cristiano Ronaldo are all nominated to the Garbage Can Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Huge, if true, which it is. Would Elon Musk’s Twitter be lying to you? -Fed official says people need to empty their bank accounts before rate hikes can stop. That means more people being forced into debt, which is becoming increasingly expensive thanks to the Fed -GAO Footnote: State Department, Pentagon didn’t bother looking into killer crackdown by narcostate with U.S. weapons. -Musk, Netanyahu, Joe Manchin, Jesse Watters, Snowden libertarianism, and Powerball jackpot inequality are nominated for the Garbage Can Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com To listen to future episodes of District Sentinel Radio, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Jerome Powell has 27 pages of Larry Summers-related emails that the Fed won’t release citing the deliberative process exemption This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Manchin’s scheme to throw permits to the fossil fuel is in trouble after members of his caucus vowed to stop it -The Fed won’t stop hiking interest rates. By the time they do, it will be too late for the labor market. -FOIA Follies: Don’t Glomar me, bro! Interior acts funny in response to request for Alaska oil project files -DeSantis, Biden, Dems who support Israeli apartheid, David Malpasa, Larry Summers, and the CIA are nominated for the Garbage Can this week Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com This episode has been unlocked. To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-The Department of the Interior initially declined to name the company in a report on efforts to deceive regulators. We obtained the identity through FOIA -Fieldwood Energy gained notoriety for declaring bankruptcy during the pandemic to shirk offshore clean-up obligations This is an excerpt from the weekly District Sentinel Radio podcast. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

This episode has been unlocked. To listen to future episodes, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel -We all owe Louise Mensch an apology if Donald Trump is executed for stealing highly sensitive state secrets. It brings us no pleasure etc. -Owning China by rejecting the Mandate of Heaven: CDC confirms that the U.S. government is just fully giving up -Some rare good news: one of Elon Musk’s companies was actually denied almost $1 billion in subsidies -Biden admin regulators have failed to reverse a Trump era policy granting banks permission to get involved in crypto, senators warn - “Actually, the right does share our criminal justice reform goals” crowd is nominated for the Garbage Can alongside the CDC, Hillary Clinton, Tulsi, Andrea Mitchell, and Brian Kilmeade Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com

-The Biden administration and DC mayor Muriel Bowser are ignoring pleas to help migrants being bused to the nation’s capital by callous Republican governors. Regular Washingtonians are stepping up and mutual aid is filling the void. Organizer Claire H joins us to discuss. This is an excerpt from the latest District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Congress gave the Department of Defense $58 billion more than it asked for last year. That’s more money than the annual budget of many agencies that don’t kill people. -Who’d have thought that an organization with the initials SS would find itself implicated in a far-right power grab? (Secret Service Jan. 6 text messages erased amid investigations.) -FOIA Follies: Ivana Trump no longer has rights under the Privacy Act -The Fed stonewalled our inquiry of Jerome Powell’s alleged “wokeness” -Anti-abortion freaks, John Bolton, Uvalde Police, the Musk family, Ruy Texeira, and Dr. Leanna Wen are nominated for the Garbage Can this week Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com

-Andrew Perez joins us to talk about Leonard Leo and his dark money network that has been pushing the court to the far-right for the past 17 years -Leo, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Manchin, and Stacey Abrams get Garbage Can nominations Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com This is an excerpt from the District Sentinel Radio podcast. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

An interview with Angel Montalvo, who’s running for Congress in Miami on a Berniecrat platform, and down to lock horns with reactionaries in both parties This is an excerpt from District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-After changing their story numerous times, cops admitted to cowering in the hallway while the Uvalde shooter killed kids -Speaking of cops and mass killings, the recent Buffalo shooter became friends with a retired federal agent in a racist chatroom where participants got a preview of the massacre. -FOIA Follies: DOJ has more than 400 email records from 2020 involving Attorney General Barr’s chief of staff and the phrase “call me” -Abbott Labs CEO on the infant formula shortage crisis that he caused: “We’re gonna learn from this” -Uvalde cops, Republicans fixated on school doors, Chuck Schumer and a trio of Oklahoma sickos get nominated for the Garbage Can To catch future episodes of District Sentinel Radio, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-Through the magic of FOIA, we have obtained the first five weeks of Pete Buttigieg’s schedule as Transportation Secretary, and decided to make a quiz about it. Sam Sacks is in the hot seat. This is an excerpt from a recent episode of District Sentinel Radio. To listen to more, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

This is an excerpt from the District Sentinel Radio podcast. To listen o the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

-US Officials, Turn on Your Monitor: Hearing features complaints about an alleged Chinese development debt trap, defense of stiff IMF surcharges This is an excerpt from the latest District Sentinel Radio. To listen to the full episode, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel

*UNLOCKED* To listen to future episodes in full, subscribe at Patreon.com/DistrictSentinel -The Amazon Labor Union, led by fired warehouse worker Christian Smalls, has won a certification vote, in an incredible historic victory for an independent labor union -There are still battles to be fought before even thinking about contract negotiations: Amazon is threatening to challenge the NLRB’s authority before a judiciary that’s incredibly hostile to labor. -Other headlines: One step forward, two steps back on Russia-Ukraine peace talks, House passes cannabis legalization, USDA pressed on subsidies to law-breaking meat conglomerate -FOIA Follies: Intelligence agencies’ version of Twitter, eChirp, reportedly contains evidence of US spies cheering on January 6 plot -Garbage Can: Psaki and Mulvaney access mongers, Buffalo Sports Billionaires, and Oscars dipshits take the spotlight Music by Adam Fligsten www.adamfligsten.com