Weekly Skews

Small towns across America are being flooded by plans for massive ICE detention centers, which Andrea Pitzer, in One Long Night, describes as concentration camps. In this episode of Good Skews, Producer Matt talks with rural organizer and former state House candidate Megan Kocher about what’s unfolding in Northeastern Pennsylvania and across the country, why warehouse sites are spreading into small towns with little local input, and how recent reporting on ICE misconduct raises urgent oversight concerns. We also discuss what real organizing looks like beyond protests — from building ICEwatch networks and mutual aid systems to leveraging zoning boards, local officials, and elections to slow or stop detention projects before they take root. 
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We talk about the various freakouts surrounding the Super Bowl, then the various freakouts surrounding the Olympics. Then we get into the continuing fallout around the Epstein documents and how officials in other countries are facing consequences. Not in America though, because no one here did anything they could be ashamed of, because no one has shame.
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The White House seems to be considering arming the Brave Mujahadeen of Alberta, Canada. Then we get into the latest Epstein document dump, the hilarious conspiracy theorists’ reaction to them, and also how Ol’ Jeff’s schemes seem to have been carried on after he was dead. Probably a coincidence. And yeah, the thing that’s in the episode title: Epstein tried to fund a biological weapon that would make women horny. Join us.
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Unfortunately, we had very little time to discuss the latest rapper to try to become a LinkedIn Mar-a-Lago guy because of the weekend’s events in Minneapolis. It seems perhaps we’ve reached the limits of lying about: things we can all see, the sequence of events in linear time, and the plain meaning of third-grade vocabulary words. Also, the people who defrauded Kyle Rittenhouse’s GoFundMes think guns are bad now. Confusing times.
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In this episode of Good Skews, Matt Hildreth sits down with comedians Drew Morgan and DJ Lewis to talk about what it means to help people when everything feels like it’s on fire, and why “mutual aid” is about showing up, plugging in, and supporting the helpers who are already doing the work.
The conversation moves from ICE raids and neighbors doing laundry in solidarity, to local fights over land, water, and data centers, to the left’s tendency to over-academicize politics.
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