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The Doomscroll News Report — 53 episodes

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1

The Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner, and what's going on with Kash Patel

2

Mass trials, technofascist manifestos, and salmon on cocaine

3

One year of doomscrolling!

4

An uneasy ceasefire without Lebanon, and Hungary's big election

5

Iran war identity crisis, Cuba without power, and alpine divorce

6

Scam industries and skinny shots

7

Anthropic sues the Pentagon, and Paramount buy Warner Brothers

8

U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and other forms of monkey business

9

Mexico's El Mencho, Ukraine's fourth year of war, and Chinamaxxing versus the Olympics

10

South Korea's Yoon imprisoned for life and Uber's lax background checks

11

Japanese DLP snap election success, Ring doorbell camera surveillance

12

The importance of resilient connectivity in a seemingly superconnected world

13

Legal action against Grok's new explicit image generation tools and how youth movements are taking on social media addiction

14

What ICE is doing in Minnesota, and the continuing war on journalism

15

Protests in Iran continue, and South Korea and China meet to say very little

16

What the US military mission in Venezuela means for global power balance

17

North Korea cozying up to Russia, China's symbolic tax on contraceptives, and billionaire yacht parties

18

How to balance staying informed with staying grounded: Leslie Liao, Eric Gao, and Iris Hsu

19

2025 Year-end retrospective: Part 2

20

2025 year-end retrospective: Part 1

21

Pardoning "narco-terrorists", Nano Banana's threats to visual journalism, and rage bait

22

A Russian-authored Ukraine "peace plan", Bolsonaro goes to prison, and free birthing

23

Another internet downer, women ruining workplaces, and parasocial relationships

24

The AI bubble, Argentina's economic crisis and bailout, and mushroom computing

25

The Sudanese civil war seen from space, the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown, and plastic-eating bacteria

26

Missing the mark on climate change, and what's the deal with those drug boats, anyway?

27

A completely different ceasefire, thieves in the Louvre, and internet blackouts

28

Japan's Iron Lady and Taiwan's aviation industry

29

Madagascar Protests and a new proposal in Israel's war on Gaza

30

US government shuts down and Taiwan's FPCC is revealed to be sourcing naphtha from Russia

31

Freedom of speech and media as a means to informing a more engaged public with Michael Geier

32

Dreams of revolution in Nepal and Indonesia

33

Google survives its first anti-trust lawsuit and Israel bombs Qatar

34

The Axis of Upheveal and Chinese foreign exchange students allowed back in the USA

35

Nuclear power, nuclear disarmament, and Taiwan's cabinet reshuffle

36

Taiwan's AI dreams and the US's recent attempts at Russia-Ukraine diplomacy

37

More tariff talk, Jensen's baller move, and Canadian wildfires

38

The EU's international relations conundrum, Slovakian politics, and Russian quakes and volcanoes

39

What happened to the Great Recall?

40

Some final Epstein Files updates, and Grok meets the Department of Defense

41

How belief in conspiracy theories affects interpersonal relationships: Feat. Lauren Mastroni

42

Clean water, human rights, and good news!

43

AI versus IP, and Budapest's incredible Pride

44

US joining the Israel-Iran conflict, a tenuous ceasefire, and a potential sale of American public lands

45

The MMR vaccine in the US and a new Israel-Iran conflict

46

The Elon Musk-Trump breakup, updates on the Madleen activists, and the LA ICE Protests

47

Updates on the War in Ukraine, and problematic AI personalities and behaviors

48

All about borders: birthright citizenship, deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, and little Chinese boats

49

Covering conflict in Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and there's a new pope

50

Investigating birth rate declines, with PeiChieh Hsu

51

Canadian election results and tariff take-backsies

52

Salvadoran prisons, big tech breakups, and a fond farewell to Pope Francis

53

The ripple effects following the defunding of USGAM