The Muckrake Political Podcast

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the particulars of 88 year old Pope Francis and his death, move on to the Supreme Court standing up to Trump kinda sorta, before landing on the Pete Hegseth Debacle, where it's reported he was responsible for another leak of classified information on Signal. Then, author Craig A Johnson joins the show to discuss his latest book How To Talk To Your Son About Fascism.

This is a preview of The Weekender edition of the Muckrake Podcast. Please go to our Patreon to gain access to the regular Weekender episodes on Fridays. Nick Hauselman is out for the day, so Jared Yates Sexton talks with Karl Folk about recent developments, including the prison camps in El Salvador, the fight for a better future, and a whole host of things, including the need for the criminals behind this farce to go to prison. A word of warning, this is not an episode you're going to want to listen to with your kids. Jared is...pissed off.

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down the troubling press conference between Donald Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, exposing the blatant authoritarianism on display — especially as the administration defies a unanimous Supreme Court ruling to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. They also discuss Bill Maher's shocking admission that he visited the White House last week, helping to normalize a figure who should be anything but normalized.Support the show and gain access to the Weekender episodes on Friday by going to our Patreon and becoming a patron.

This is a preview of the Patron-only Weekender episode. To gain full access to these episodes, as well as special post-event and live recordings, and to keep the show editorially independent and ad-free, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today.Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman try to figure out what the hell Donald Trump is trying to do with the tariffs and the economy and the answer is: enrich himself. However, with growing unrest about the markets, there might be a moment of clarity amongst Republicans. If things couldn't get worse, they turn to our immigration policies and they continue to follow the authoritarian playbook. Oh yeah, Trump is also dismantling the IRS for the upper class and Social Security for everyone else.

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton discuss how little coverage the Hands Off! protests got this weekend before diving into the intentional nosedive the markets have taken after Trump's buffoonery of a math equation levied tariffs across the world. And they finish with the Supreme Court's decision to get in the way of the court case to return an innocent man from the El Salvador gulag he was mistakenly sent to by this administration. Support the show and gain access to the Weekender episodes on Friday by going to our Patreon and becoming a patron.

This is a preview of the Patron-only Weekender episode. To gain full access to these episodes, as well as special post-event and live recordings, and to keep the show editorially independent and ad-free, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today.Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the markets were roiled as we all realized Donald Trump was actually going to go through with it. Their math wasn't math-ing as they came up with a ridiculous formula for each country, and the gross incompetence continues. Wisconsin elected a new Supreme Court justice and it just might have led to the beginning of Elon Musk's departure in an official role at the White House. Meanwhile, Senator Corey Booker made a stand on the Senate floor, eclipsing the record for longest speech and perhaps dropping a gauntlet for the Democrats

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss Donald Trump's latest interview where he called Kristin Welker and boasted about his 3rd term in office. Oh, he also talked about attacking Iran if they don't sign a nuclear deal that they had already agreed to. They move on to Elon Musk's Cheesehead appearance in Wisconsin where he's trying to pay people to vote.Support the show and gain access to the Weekender episodes on Friday by going to our Patreon and becoming a patron.

This is a preview of the Patron-only Weekender episode. To gain full access to these episodes, as well as special post-event and live recordings, and to keep the show editorially independent and ad-free, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today.Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman examine the fallout from the group chat from hell as the GOP has circled the wagons with some gold medal winning mental gymnastics. They shift to more students on visas being disappeared for voicing their concerns with that is happening between Israel and Gaza before having to go into the morass that is dismantling child labor laws in Florida.

Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman must deal with incompetency on a level never before seen as the National Security Advisor inadvertently added Editor In Chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg to a top secret, high level chat about their Mardis Gras plans- I mean, the strategic war plans to attack the Houthis in the Middle East. Donald Trump is so concerned that he wasn't even briefed, as he was too busy complaining about a portrait of himself in Colorado and demanding an apology from the Governor of Maine. They finish on Columbia University utter capitulation to Trump to get their $400 million federal pittance back. Support the show and gain access to the Weekender episodes on Friday by going to our Patreon and becoming a patron.

This is a preview of the Patron-only Weekender episode. To gain full access to these episodes, as well as special post-event and live recordings, and to keep the show editorially independent and ad-free, head over to Patreon and become a subscriber today.Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman digest what's happening to Federal Judge James Boasberg as he told the Trump administration to stop deporting people based on tattoos. The problem is: with Absolute Immunity bestowed upon him by the Supreme Court, why would Trump ever listen to anyone? They shift to the backlash against Elon Musk, who seems completely shocked that people would have a problem with what he's been doing with DOGE. They finish by discussing the latest document dump of the JFK files.