01:00 Don’t just take action, sit there
03:00 Jewish and black confidence
04:30 Does Trump plan before taking action? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbpnOmImhY
18:00 Trump slashes Education department, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j5VNj9_ZWw
19:00 NYT: Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff: The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-education-department-firings.html
24:00 WSJ: Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat – Executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have chilled industry, https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dec
30:00 NYT: ‘‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=159342
43:20 Elliott Blatt loves DOGE but fears the chaos disrupting the economy
45:30 What if gay marriage were invalidated?
46:45 The Elon Factor frightens Elliott
52:00 What happens when the illegals are deported?
56:00 AI improves my writing
1:01:00 The musicality of KMG, https://rumble.com/v6qhzim-the-kmg-show-r84-4pm-pt7-pm-et-king-charles-gets-jiggy-with-it.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
1:03:00 Atlantic: Coaching Is the New ‘Asking Your Friends for Help’: Lifestyle coaches offer help with vacation planning, decision making, meditation, and more—for a price. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/03/lifestyle-coaches-cost-reasons/681915/
1:16:00 I’m in a prison of my poor choices creating isolation
1:23:00 Public radio in San Francisco is left
1:28:45 Talk show host Michael Krasny, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Krasny_(talk_show_host)
1:30:00 KQED has long been the number one radio station in SF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQED-FM
1:33:00 Oh Lucky Man, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Lucky_Man!
1:40:00 Joe Frank, transcendent radio storyteller, https://www.joefrank.com/about/
1:43:30 WSJ: Blocked From Reaching the U.S., Migrants Begin the Reverse Journey South: As President Trump’s migration policy begins to bite, growing numbers of people are heading back through Panama and Colombia. ‘What else can you do?’, https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-border-immigration-reverse-migration-150854c4?mod=hp_lead_pos5
1:44:50 FT: Trump crackdown forces Latin America’s migrant flows into reverse: A Colombian town adapted its economy to Darién Gap travellers. Now only a few are travelling — and in the opposite direction. https://www.ft.com/content/112b7d98-ccbe-49c6-9021-7abe01328f8f
1:46:00 Kamala Harris’s latest unbearable public performance
1:49:00 Jim Goad says he’s near the end of his life, https://x.com/NobleAtlas88/status/1686539573650915335
1:52:00 Eric Kaufman critiques Trump II
1:54:00 John Podhoretz suggests that Elon Musk deserves to get punched in the face, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrVpqGTyL8
1:56:00 The irony of YT incentives, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/special-supplementary-material-two-psychologists-one-anthropologist-three-beers
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