Social Media Scrub & Foreign Policy Flops
Alex and Dani are back tonight, digging through the internet’s favorite new hobby—deleting your past—and Washington’s favorite strategy—looking tough while doing absolutely nothing. The media’s pretending none of this is weird. Fortunately, that’s not our job.
🧾 Tonight's Lineup:
• 🧹 Digital Cleanup Crew – Rama Duwaji suddenly discovers the “delete” button after old posts praising terrorists, using racial slurs, and pushing extremist takes resurface… because apparently the internet has a memory now. (New York Post)
• 📱 Selective Amnesia – We’re told she’s a “private citizen”… right after years of public activism, published work, and very public opinions. Funny how that works once receipts start showing up.
• 🌍 Iran Red Line Theater – Trump threatens, Iran threatens, everyone threatens. Oil spikes, markets ...
We haven't been streaming, and I figure you all deserve to know why.
On August 10th I decided to take the rest of the month off. Honestly, it started as a heat thing. Keeping the studio comfortable this summer was miserable and I just didn't want to deal with it. But August ended and I realized something: I didn't miss streaming. Not even a little. I asked Dani if she felt the same way, and she did.
Yesterday was the show's anniversary. I didn't feel any pull or desire to go live. Dani and I made a deal a long time ago that we'd keep doing this as long as it was fun, and the second it started feeling like work, we'd stop. I think we're there.
Dani has other successful projects going that take up a lot of her time, and they're very much worth her time. As for me, I’m at the point where I prefer recording and uploading on my own schedule better than the grind of live streaming. So going forward, live streaming is going to be the exception, not the rule.
This isn't necessarily a goodbye. ...