Cognitive Dissonance

This two part episode dives into the opioid crisis. If you have any experience with this issue or have any personal stories you feel like sharing please leave in the comments below. America's Opioid Epidemic : NPR Listen to 'The Daily': How the Opioid Crisis Started - The New York Times The Family That Profited From the Opioid Crisis - The New York Times The New Yorker Radio Hour - How OxyContin W...

I.R.S. Memo Undercuts Mnuchin on Withholding Trump's Tax Returns - The New York Times 2020 Democrats on Impeachment: Where They Stand - The New York Times Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment | Environment | The Guardian Conservatives' junk science is having real consequences - The Washington Post Your 5G Phone Won't Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherw...

How You Can Help How to Help Fight Against Abortion Bans in Alabama, Georgia Stories from the week Ahead of Alabama abortion bill debate, Lieutenant Governor fights against rape and incest exceptions Alabama Governor Signs Abortion Law Banning Most Abortions | PEOPLE.com Alabama Legislators Refuse to Fund Mother and Child Health Care as They Ban Nearly All Abortions Alabama 'has gone too far' with...

Texas lawmaker calls vaccines 'sorcery,' verbally attacks prominent advocate - Houston Chronicle Falwell Urges Barr to Prosecute Those Who Launched Mueller Investigation | Right Wing Watch Michael Cohen says he helped Jerry Falwell Jr. handle racy photos Anti-vaxx Kentucky teen who sued over unvaccinated chickenpox ban now has chickenpox Reporter dragged away after confronting televangelist: 'Why...

Stories from the Week Two HIV Cases Linked to Spa That Gave Trendy 'Vampire Facials' Police: Man plowed his car into crowd because he thought they were Muslim – ThinkProgress Christian Site: 5G Technology Will Bring The Antichrist - Joe. My. God. Kat Kerr Used 'Heaven's Oil' to Anoint Israel and Guarantee Netanyahu's Re-Election | Right Wing Watch Mark Taylor: Notre Dame Fire Was God's Judgment to...

Stories from the Week Steve King compares himself to Jesus after his censuring over racist language - The Washington Post Anti-gay Christian activist: People like me 'will be hated' if Pete Buttigieg becomes president – DeadState Jewish effigy hanged and burned in 'disturbing' Easter ritual in Poland | The Independent Bill Mitchell: The Mueller Investigation Was 'Political Judo' by Trump | Right W...

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Stories from the Week Yoga Does Not Make Inmates Gay, Says Russian Prison Chief as Classes Are Reinstated Will Brunei's anti-LGBT Sharia law spread across southeast Asia? - CNN 'Justice Is Coming': Mark Taylor Issues An Alarming Prophecy | Right Wing Watch Stefan Molyneux: White Civilization Is Being Pulled Down Because Other Races Feel They Can't Compete | Right Wing Watch Cory Daniel: New Zealan...

Fox Refers to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as 'Three Mexican Countries' Stefan Molyneux: The Mueller Investigation Was Secretly About Immigration | Right Wing Watch This Colorado sheriff is willing to go to jail rather than enforce a proposed gun law - CNN Thanks to Thomas Smith for joining us https://twitter.com/seriouspod

Stories from the Week The White House will get the Mueller report before the public does in case it wants to make redactions, Barr says Fox News White House Correspondent Inflames QAnon | Right Wing Watch Joel Osteen's protégé says the devil is trying to 'mute' him after his mistress releases suggestive voicemails Josh Bernstein: Hillary Clinton 'Should Be First in Line at the Guillotines' | Right...

Stories from the Week Pope rejects resignation of French Cardinal Barbarin, convicted in child sex abuse cover-up Liz Crokin: College Admissions Scandal Proves QAnon's 'Mass Arrests Are Happening' | Right Wing Watch Ann Vandersteel: New Zealand Massacre Was a Left-Wing 'False Flag' | Right Wing Watch Kurt Schlichter: Socialists Will Take Your Car and Feed You 'Vegan Nightmare Food' | Right Wing Wa...

Stories from the Week Pat Robertson: LGBTQ People Will Destroy Everything to Ensure Society Legitimizes 'Their Weird Way of Doing Sex' | Right Wing Watch Trump's attorney general wants god's moral order enforced by government Young-earth creationist to AOC: Hell is the only form of climate change you need to worry about – DeadState More than 6K suspension orders to go out to Waterloo region studen...

Stories from the Week Rick Wiles Doubles Down: Tom Brady Is Sleeping With the Equivalent of a 'Serial Murderer' | Right Wing Watch2 Southern Baptist Convention: More than 200 ministers, deacons and others have been found guilty of sex abuse, report says George Pell's lawyer says child abuse was 'plain vanilla' sex as cardinal heads to jail | Australia news | The Guardian This Valentine's Day, Lanc...

Stories from the Week There's yet another Trump administration scandal brewing. And it's a doozy. - The Washington Post Laura Loomer: 'It's Almost Like [Democrats] Want Little Girls to Get Raped' | Right Wing Watch Chris McDonald: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Theology Is of Satan' | Right Wing Watch Rep. Matt Gaetz apologizes, deletes tweet seen by some as warning to Michael Cohen ahead of hearing...

Stories from the Week Chris Wallace calls Rush Limbaugh a hypocrite -- to his face: 'You were outraged' over Obama's executive actions Trump administration launches global effort to end criminalization of homosexuality Catholic cardinals urge end of 'homosexual agenda' - BBC News White House moves forward with wall funding despite lawsuits - CNNPolitics USC Forced To Investigate After Church Of Sc...

Stories from the Week Apple and Google Pressured to Dump Saudi App Where Men Track Women Relatives - The New York Times GOP livid with Trump over ignored Khashoggi report - POLITICO Religious Right Pundits: Chief Justice John Roberts a 'Disgrace' and a 'Hack' for Vote to Stay Anti-Abortion Law | Right Wing Watch The State of the Q-nion | Right Wing Watch Rick Wiles: Tom Brady Is 'Sleeping With a W...

Resources from this episode Check out the Innocence Project The Death Penalty — Civics 101: A Podcast An Execution in Nebraska - The New York Times Perfect Evidence - This American Life DIY - This American Life Should the Wrongfully Convicted Take an Alford Plea? - The Atlantic Can You Prove Your Innocence Without DNA? - The Atlantic The Wrong Man - The Atlantic Jailing the Wrong Man: Mug Shot Sea...

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Stories from the Week Trump Says He'll Delay Speech Until After Shutdown, as Democrats Draft Border Security Plan - The New York Times Saudi teen granted asylum in Canada drinks wine, eats bacon in Snapchat images | Newshub Anti-vax movement makes 2019 list of top global health threats, but that's not the whole story Trump Administration Allows South Carolina to Discriminate White House patronizes...

Stories from the Week Steve King Still Has Backing in Iowa, but Even Supporters Say 'He's Done' - The New York Times Indiana GOP Legislator Sponsors Bill to Teach Creationism in Public Schools | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos Karen Pence Is Working At A School That Bans LGBTQ Employees And Kids | HuffPost This website gives me the willies. It's like a Christian 'Stepford Wives.' | Rick...

Stories from the Week Trump Trying to Sell Americans a Wall Was Eerily Predicted in a 1950s TV Show Australia Will Consider Granting Asylum To Saudi Woman Who Fears For Her Life : NPR Evangelicals are lobbying against anti-lynching law because it includes LGBTQ people / LGBTQ Nation Pastor Who Praised Pulse Nightclub Gunman Resigns After Allegedly Paying for Sex - The New York Times James Dobson W...

Meet the New Freshmen in Congress Being Sworn In Today Rudy Giuliani Goes Full Conspiracy Theorist Because He Doesn't Understand The Internet | HuffPost Alex Jones Says Trump Will 'Strike Back Against the Pedophile Rings' in 2019 | Right Wing Watch Trump Claims Most Furloughed Government Workers Are 'Democrats' | Fortune Trump Said Federal Workers Support Shutdown. Not True, Say Unions | Time Bill...

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Josh Bernstein: Obama and Clinton Should Be Arrested and Forced to Build Trump's Border Wall | Right Wing Watch At House Hearing, Google CEO Wrestles with Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory (and Questions About Why My Phone Does That Thing) | Right Wing Watch David Seaman Prays God Will Destroy Google With an Earthquake | Right Wing Watch Rick Wiles: Democrats and Russia Worked Together to Take Down the...

rump Charity to Dissolve Under Deal With N.Y. Attorney General - The New York Times Pro-Trump 'journalist': George H.W. Bush didn't die of natural causes, he was 'executed' – DeadState Donate to Modest Needs below! Scathing Atheist Podcast https://scathingatheist.com/