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Ep 234: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) recs The Killers' Imploding the Mirage, Lydia Loveless' Daughter, The Boys' season finale, and Shudder, while Allison recs: Sufjan Stevens' The Ascension, neilcic's Mouth Dreams, and the season premiere of Great British Bakeoff (it's so bad that it's good) In bad news: Trump simultaneously claims Covid is NBD—but also he's a big, brave boy for "beating it," Trump...

Ep 233: Allison shares a spooky story and recs: Raised By Wolves and the trailer for Minari, while Erek (@erek_smith) recs The Devil All The Time and the Borat 2 trailer In bad news: The shitshow of a debate in which Trump told the Proud Boys to "stand by" and mocked drug addicts and Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency In good news: Trump has Covid and so do...

Ep 232: Allison recs some spooky pods, Happy Death Day, Netflix's Alive, Pen15, and recaps the Emmys In bad news: DOJ designates NYC as an "anarchist jurisdiction," which is weird because there sure are a lot of cops, Trump won't commit to "peaceful" post-election transfer of power (he's been threatening this since 2016), Don Jr. is unhinged and urging people to "enlist" into Trump's "army" of pol...

Ep 231: Allison reads Patreon questions and recs and then recs: Zero Zero Zero, The Devil All The Time, Designing Women, and Harley Quinn In bad news: RBG has died and Trump can't wait to fill her seat, alleged unwanted hysterectomies and other abuses at ICE facility prompts investigation, ICE deported a key witness in investigation of sexual assault and harassment at an El Paso detention center,...

Ep 230: Allison is in huge trouble with Penny and recs: the Dune trailer, I'm Thinking Of Ending Things, The Boys S2, Catastrophe, and You're The Worst In bad news: The Oscars' new diversity standards are a checklist, Trump admin siphoned almost $4 million from 9/11 first responders fund, 17 people are dead and dozens are missing in the vast western wildfires (and the military deployed firefightin...

Ep 229: Allison reads Patreon recs and recs: Selling Sunset, Man in the High Castle, The Last Dance, Booksmart, Pop Star, and Class Action Park and laments the lack of WAP at the VMAs In bad news: Police killing of Daniel Pride, no scandal (not the "War heroes are losers" or pimping out of Sarah Sanders) will bring down Trump, Michael Reinoehl and violence in direct action, pro-Trump caravans in P...

Ep 228: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) and Allison rec First Cow, She Dies Tomorrow, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Allison recs the new Batman and I'm Thinking Of Ending Things trailers In bad news: Chadwick Boseman was a true king, fact-checking the many lies at the RNC, the police shooting of Jacob Blake and militia execution of Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum (and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz),...

Ep 227: Allison recs: I May Destroy You, Lovecraft Country, Bright Eyes' new album, Yes, God, Yes, Search Party, and An American Pickle In bad news: The DNC gives one minute to AOC and invites sexual predator Bill Clinton to speak, will people risk their lives to see Tenet?, Louis DeJoy testifies before Congress about the USPS budget cuts, and Trump suggests deploying law enforcement on election d...

Ep 226: It's a dang bonus episode with David Kim (@davidkim2020), who is running for Congress in California! Listen to David talk about the importance of Medicare For All during a pandemic, a universal basic income, and a human-centered economy. Visit davidkim2020.com to volunteer or kick him some sweet dollars! Light Treason News is supported by members! To sign up and keep the show going, visit...

Ep 225: Erek (@erek_smith) recs Netflix's The Chase, Picking Up by Robin Nagle, and Nightcrawler, and Allison recs HBO's I'll Be Gone In The Dark, Golden Girls, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov In bad news: Trump says he opposes funding USPS because of mail-in voting and revives "birther" conspiracy theory—this time for Kamala Harris, and all about the QAnon conspiracy the...

Ep 224: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show to discuss the new LTN bonus ep with director Jeff Barnaby, and recs The Rain and the "First Time Hearing" YouTube series by Tim and Fred Williams AKA TwinsthenewTrend, and Allison recs HBO's Perry Mason, WAP, and Black Is King. In bad news: Trump's multiple confusing executive orders on pre-existing conditions (which already exists in the ACA) and...

Ep 223: A very special BONUS LTN episode with @MeredithLClark and director Jeff Barnaby (@tripgore) on his killer new film, Blood Quantum, promoting a zombie film during a pandemic, how Native people were always braced for the apocalypse, and his fav film and comic book recs. Light Treason News is supported by members! To sign up and keep the show going, visit lighttreason.news

Ep 222: Meredith (@MeredithLClark) joins the show to rec Dark, Blood Quantum, and Star Trek's sex and fear, while Allison recs Taylor Swift's Folklore and Host. In bad news: Trump's unhinged rantings about delaying the election and banning TikTok, the DoJ's plans to "surge" federal officers into black and Latino neighborhoods sounds a lot like what the NYPD has been doing for decades, and the very...

Ep 221: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recs Dark, Unsolved Mysteries, Eurovision Song Contest, and anti-recs the new season of Queer Eye and drinking sea water. In bad news: Dems just joined the GOP to increase military spending by $2 billion—but apparently that's not looting, Congress lets $600 unemployment benefit lapse when we're on the precipice of a wave of evictions, and while there's lots of go...

Ep 220: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recs Hamilton (if you can BELIEVE), Palm Springs, Crawl, The Old Guard, and The Magicians, while Erek (@erek_smith) recs Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. In bad news: John Lewis and C.T. Vivian, civil rights icons, have died, secret police are arresting activists in Portland and Ken Cuccinelli says the program is going nationwide, Covid cases are soaring in California...

Ep 219: Charles (@charlesrockhill; @DirtyHorrorPod) recs Unsolved Mysteries, Relic, and Killer Workout, and Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recaps her Survivor journey and they discuss the Wayfair debacle and their favorite conspiracy theories. In bad news: Lady Antebellum is suing Lady A, a black artist, as part of their rebranding campaign to not be racist, Trump commutes his henchman Roger Stone's s...

Ep 218: Allison talks about how Survivor's Rupert is Ned Stark, shames people asking for "no essential workers" in apartment listings, and says let people enjoy Hamilton, and Erek (@erek_smith) recs the Unsolved Mysteries reboot on Netflix. In bad news: Trump uses his Mount Rushmore speech to wage battle against a "new far-left fascism" which doesn't exist at a time when Dr. Fauci warns that we co...

Ep 217: Allison talks about her move and ongoing journey watching all of Survivor and reading The Road now, of all times, for some reason, and also recs The King of Staten Island, while Erek recs Less Than Human and the band Hum In bad news: Trumps dumb (and poorly attended) rallies were a dangerous move during a pandemic, especially at a time when 11 states are pausing or rolling back their reope...

Ep 216: Allison (@allisonkilkenny) recs Survivor (surprise!), Carly Rae Jepsen's Side B, RTJ 4, The Warriors, and reads a Patreon rec for Hannah Gadsby's Douglas, while Erek (@erek_smith) recs House, The Robbery of Nature by Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster, and The End of Policing by Alex Vitale. They also discuss that embarrassing white-celebs-against-racism video (someone please hire Aaron P...

Ep 215: #BlackLivesMatter and here's a list of resources for how to help and where to spend your money: https://linktr.ee/NationalResourcesList In bad news: Police in Buffalo assault a 75-year-old man and their buddies cheer them on and then resign to support them, hundreds in NYC are arrested and held in crowded cells during a pandemic, police have the weapons and we have cans of White Claw, De B...

Ep 214: Allison, of course, recommends Survivor, but also: The Great, Devs' finale, and the work of Karyn Kasuma, and reads good news from a returning supporter In bad news: George Floyd, police brutality, and the police state response to protests, Derek Chauvin's long history of complaints, our real looting problem i.e. American billionaires getting $434 billion richer during a pandemic, Trump fr...

Ep 213: Allison recs Normal People, Survivor, The King Of Staten Island trailer, the High Fidelity reboot, and Better Call Saul, while Erek (@erek_smith) recs Billions, Psych, House, Fever Pitch, and the work of sociologists Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster 🤓 In bad news: Joe Biden tells black voters "you ain't black" if you don't pick him over Trump (and is immediately forced to apologize), t...

Ep 212: Allison and Charles (@charlesrockhill) unpack Robert Pattinson's insane recipe and Charles sort of recs, sort of anti-recs RHONY and RHONJ, and very much recs pimple-popping vids and My Feet Are Killing Me, while Allison recs watching all of Survivor, but especially S7 In bad news: Some men considering wearing masks to be "weak," Trump goes mask-free at the mask factory, Jersey Shore beach...

Ep 211: Allison celebrates two months in quarantine and reads Patreon music recs for Plastic Love and Ghost and recs Better Call Saul, Mrs. America, and The Sopranos. In bad news: The slayings of Ahmaud Arbery and Sean Reed, the Plandemic conspiracy video on Facebook, and everyone in the White House is getting Corona. In good news: Dolly Parton is backing research into promising Covid treatment, I...

Ep 210: Chlo (@itsthechew) joins the show to rec What We Do In The Shadows and Christine and the Queens and to discuss Britney burning down her gym, while Allison recs Bey and Megan Thee Stallion's Savage remix, Too Hot To Handle, Euphoria, and SNL at home. In bad news: Aliens may be real and no one cares?? Also, if you're celebrating May Day you better also support raising the minimum wage and a...