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New Campaign Finance Research Tool, Ben Shapiro in Montana?, Burnham's Potential War Crimes · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: A new campaign finance tool in order to look up who funded an attack ad or
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  SPEAKER_01: a smear ad or a good ad for that matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: But that's the first thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Who paid for this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ben Shapiro in Montana?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a crazy story.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Andy Burnham's potential war crimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's looking at Yemen.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's Yemen.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's answer Allah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the Strait of Hormuz right there, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or the other strait.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the Strait of Hormuz right there.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the other strait that Yemen has cut off access to.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let's get into this.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's going on here?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well,
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  SPEAKER_01: The president's political operation spent more than a million dollars
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  SPEAKER_01: on direct mail attacking Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Saeed,
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  SPEAKER_01: who I'm not a fan of either.
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  SPEAKER_01: Judd is definitely a Democratic homer and very anti-Trump.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of these ads misleadingly accuses El Saeed of wanting to commute sentences
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  SPEAKER_01: for murderers and rapists, which he doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which...
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, he,
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  SPEAKER_01: during a previous run for governor,
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  SPEAKER_01: proposed commuting sentences of low-risk prisoners convicted as juveniles.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right, there's the attack ad.
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  SPEAKER_01: The disclosure on this mailer only says, paid for by No Going Back Pack Incorporated.
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  SPEAKER_01: Going to the listed website isn't very helpful.
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  SPEAKER_01: It only says that No Going Back Pack makes independent expenditures in U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: federal elections in support of candidates who share the values of the founders
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  SPEAKER_01: and funders of No Going Back Pack, Inc.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unless the recipient has the time and requisite skills
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  SPEAKER_01: to do federal campaign finance research, the paid-for-by box is a dead end.
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  SPEAKER_01: Today, that changes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Popular Info is releasing PaidForBy.info,
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  SPEAKER_01: a web app that gives you unprecedented insight into who is really sending you mail
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  SPEAKER_01: and who's paying for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All you have to do is take a photo of the front and back of the political mailer and upload it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyone can use PaidForBy.info for free and it takes seconds.
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  SPEAKER_01: If a voter uploads the no-going-back mailer targeting El Saeed,
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  SPEAKER_01: here's some of what they'll learn.
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  SPEAKER_01: That it's an offshoot of MAGA Incorporated.
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  SPEAKER_01: That it can raise and spend unlimited amounts,
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  SPEAKER_01: including from corporations and unions,
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  SPEAKER_01: but cannot give to candidates and is restricted in how it can coordinate with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: That super PAC has spent $128 million through October 2nd.
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  SPEAKER_01: Backing almost entirely Republicans,
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  SPEAKER_01: opposing Sherrod Brown,
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  SPEAKER_01: El Saeed, and Rory Cooper in Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina, respectively.
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  SPEAKER_01: The group behind it, MAGA Inc., is a hybrid PAC.
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  SPEAKER_01: This specifically is No Going Back PAC, has $128 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: The group behind it has another $399 that spent $27.5 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, backing almost entirely Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where that money is coming from, what a surprise.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jeff Yass, Miriam Adelson, Diane Hendricks, and ForrestDaxInc, Crypto.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: PaidForBy.info also produces a condensed graphic summarizing the info with an image
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  SPEAKER_01: of the mailer so you can share on social media or via text.
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  SPEAKER_01: In this way, you can help inform your friends and neighbors.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll be blunt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Popular info has a lot of readers, but only a very small percentage are paid subs.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he's asking everyone to upgrade.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's an article that goes along with this.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Political males often the vehicle of choice for the most scurrilous attacks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Already in 2026,
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  SPEAKER_01: political mailers have been used to target black voters with Klan imagery,
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  SPEAKER_01: smear a house candidate with AI doctored photos, and push antiseptic tropes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then he teaches you how to use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And where's the link?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go and look at it right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again,
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  SPEAKER_01: all you have to do is put an email and a zip code so it helps you correctly identify
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  SPEAKER_01: the mailer.
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  SPEAKER_01: They will not share it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Paid for by is fine print is readable.
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  SPEAKER_01: It also works for TV and online ads.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pause on the last frame with the paid for by line.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take a photo or screenshot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cover your address if you like.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you don't, we cover it before we show the mailer and the reporting.
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  SPEAKER_01: So then you upload or take a photo, find out who paid, and boom, it then shows you the result.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's number one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next, our friend Rich Slutsky over at Counterspin, lies,
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  SPEAKER_01: damn lies,
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  SPEAKER_01: and spin,
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  SPEAKER_01: wrote an article this week that I actually am including in the INN newsletter
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  SPEAKER_01: on Friday for the weekly update.
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  SPEAKER_01: He hasn't read one in a couple of months, but he wanted to write about local topics.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said he got sidetracked.
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  SPEAKER_01: But this is a story out of Montana, a weird one that triggered him for multiple reasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: He starts out by saying Ben Shapiro and his company,
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  SPEAKER_01: The Daily Caller,
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  SPEAKER_01: were caught in a legal palaver relating to the filming
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  SPEAKER_01: of something called Pawn Shop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Presumed to be documented in leaked scripts found online.
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  SPEAKER_01: Based on those leaked scripts,
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  SPEAKER_01: the film follows the events dramatizing the killing of Renee Good,
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  SPEAKER_01: a woman murdered in cold blood by ice in Minneapolis, in January of this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Actually,
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  SPEAKER_01: rephrase,
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  SPEAKER_01: Your Honor,
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  SPEAKER_01: the leaked script appears to rewrite history entirely in a favorable way for ICE and
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  SPEAKER_01: the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: federal government pertaining to the summary execution of Renee Good while sitting
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  SPEAKER_01: in her car under the guise of a fictitious event.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is disgusting.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Daily Ministry of Truth has decided
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  SPEAKER_01: that you really shouldn't believe your own steaming lying eyes,
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  SPEAKER_01: nor those cell phone videos from the moment it happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you should, in fact, remember something else more favorable entirely.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So what he says here
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  SPEAKER_01: is, and he ends up getting sued by the town, which is funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he says there's accusations of dodging IATSE and doing their best
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  SPEAKER_01: to shirk SAG-AFTRA currently on a conditional start agreement.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's questions surrounding the names attached to the film.
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  SPEAKER_01: Harvey Keitel and Danny Trejo,
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  SPEAKER_01: both out and loud activists against the Trump admin and ICE directly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Putting aside the garbage that this film is,
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  SPEAKER_01: presumably, let's talk about the mechanics of it all.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love a good movie production and all the fun shit that goes into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Permits,
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  SPEAKER_01: locations,
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  SPEAKER_01: trailers,
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  SPEAKER_01: cameras,
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  SPEAKER_01: lighting rigs,
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  SPEAKER_01: sound, scenery, set design, costume, you name it, I'm a sucker for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I grew up within walking distance of Haddad's in Pittsburgh and spent more
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  SPEAKER_01: than enough time socializing with cinematography majors at Point Park University,
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  SPEAKER_01: so none of this is alien to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: The production company,
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  SPEAKER_01: an LLC filed by presumably Shapiro and Daily Caller,
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  SPEAKER_01: secured permits in Livingston, Montana for street shutdown filming.
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  SPEAKER_01: They began filming quietly.
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  SPEAKER_01: They didn't explain to anyone what the film was,
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  SPEAKER_01: nor that this shutdown would impact the local food bank,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Livingston Food Resource Center, for roughly three weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: This food resource feeds somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 plus people across
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  SPEAKER_01: the town and county area in a given calendar period.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a central need for the desperately poor living there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Without it, they're sure to struggle beyond what are already unreasonable conditions.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you've never been to small town Montana or anywhere rural in America,
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  SPEAKER_01: you won't understand this,
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  SPEAKER_01: but resources and places for them are very scarce,
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  SPEAKER_01: and they only become harder to find the poorer you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the town.
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  SPEAKER_01: It looks like northern exposure, like the population 9,300.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very small town Americana, Livingston, Montana.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not your sleepy suburb municipality, nor is it metropolis.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a blink-and-you-miss-it flyover town, deeply rural, desolate, and rugged.
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  SPEAKER_01: From the town center, the nearest Walmart is nearly 30 miles away in Bozeman.
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  SPEAKER_01: Livingston does have an Albertsons of its own,
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  SPEAKER_01: but aside from fast food and a few small restaurants or small clerk stores,
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  SPEAKER_01: this town has no other meaningful food resources.
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  SPEAKER_01: If the Resource Center is shut down even temporarily, those people are effectively starved.
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  SPEAKER_01: Having to coordinate around a vanity film project is already shameful enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Having it shut down that resource for weeks is unthinkable and inhumane.
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  SPEAKER_01: Having the production shut off food access to keep filming a movie valorizing
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  SPEAKER_01: the institution that's been killing people in custody is jaw-droppingly,
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  SPEAKER_01: breathtakingly, mortifying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not telling them ahead of time?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just one last slap in the face.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the map.
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  SPEAKER_01: And where the Livingston Food Resource Center is.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a lot more to this article.
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  SPEAKER_01: I again encourage everyone to go patronize my friend Rich's publication over
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  SPEAKER_01: at counterspin.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Counterspin lies and running out of bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's funny,
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  SPEAKER_01: they didn't get the right amount of permits and now their project can be shut down
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  SPEAKER_01: and why do they want to do it here?
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  SPEAKER_01: And they didn't tell the extras of what they were doing and
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  SPEAKER_01: then people didn't feel right about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a weird, weird story going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: So read the rest of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Finally,
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  SPEAKER_01: there is a third article I wanted to bring that's sort of about Israel,
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  SPEAKER_01: sort of,
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  SPEAKER_01: but more about UK war crimes and now supporting Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is again why I put that photo,
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  SPEAKER_01: that thumbnail with Yemen, the map of Yemen with Andy Burnham.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's the new Prime Minister of England.
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  SPEAKER_01: With his thumbnail.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is by a woman named Iona Craig out of Declassified UK.
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  SPEAKER_01: Saying that what the media isn't telling you about Burnham's support for Saudi Arabia.
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  SPEAKER_01: Defensive refueling of planes bombing Yemen can still cause war crimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just ask Keir Starmer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's going to draw a parallel to Starmer allowing the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: and Israel to use the base in Akrotiri in Cyprus and in Greece
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  SPEAKER_01: to make plane refueling runs while they were doing spy flights over Gaza.
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  SPEAKER_01: Effectively is what they're going to tell you in this article.
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  SPEAKER_01: But again,
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  SPEAKER_01: big fan of Declassified UK,
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  SPEAKER_01: Indie Media Award honoree, first ballot, one of the best.
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  SPEAKER_01: So support their efforts.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know Iona Craig.
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  SPEAKER_01: I believe she's a freelancer that they republished this story.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then there was responding to Britain's plan to refuel Saudi fighter jets.
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  SPEAKER_01: A Houthi official told Declassified that Yemen will respond in a manner commensurate
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  SPEAKER_01: with the scale and nature of the involvement.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they're putting their own people at risk now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Unnecessarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: No!
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  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place It's not what you want me
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  SPEAKER_00: to say You prove it's possible to sleep for days
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  SPEAKER_00: but God, it's so hard to save.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they told you everything was
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