Digging For Peanuts

This week on a very special episode of Secretly Timid, we remain Sarahless but she sent us a comforting care package.Â This comes in handy when Megan discusses how the government doesn’t care about your student loan debit and Otieno suggests there’s a concerted attempt to overwhelm the progressive US electorate with garbage data.Â But hey, vote Blue ya’ll.Â Seriously.Â For now. This week’s Hot Topics include: Student Loan Forgiveness https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/your-money/public-service-loan-forgiveness-apply.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur Hypernormalization Excerpt: https://youtu.be/-fny99f8amM?t=2h16m51s The Christian Nationalist Blitz https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/opinion/project-blitz-christian-nationalists.html Life Expectancy and Health Care Expenditure Over Time https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/998309880183377926 Preview YouTube video HyperNormalisation 2016 HyperNormalisation 2016 Photo Credit: Emilio Mesa https://www.instagram.com/_ee_emm/ This week’s featured song is “Wait for You” by Somogyi. Please consider donating to her GoFundMe campaign to record her debut album. Support local music.

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