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The Doomscroll News Report — 59 episodes
Race riots in Northern Ireland, commencement speech drama, and the Pope's encyclical
SpaceX and Anthropic go public, the ceasefires that couldn't, and animal lookalikes
World-record heat, FIFA problems, and the Enhanced Games disappoints
Trump Xi Summit, Ebola Virus, and good news actually?
Gerrymandering back home and the UK Labour party's identity crisis
Boats (Hormuz), boats (hantavirus), and billionaires
The Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner, and what's going on with Kash Patel
Mass trials, technofascist manifestos, and salmon on cocaine
One year of doomscrolling!
An uneasy ceasefire without Lebanon, and Hungary's big election
Iran war identity crisis, Cuba without power, and alpine divorce
Scam industries and skinny shots
Anthropic sues the Pentagon, and Paramount buy Warner Brothers
U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran and other forms of monkey business
Mexico's El Mencho, Ukraine's fourth year of war, and Chinamaxxing versus the Olympics
South Korea's Yoon imprisoned for life and Uber's lax background checks
Japanese DLP snap election success, Ring doorbell camera surveillance
The importance of resilient connectivity in a seemingly superconnected world
Legal action against Grok's new explicit image generation tools and how youth movements are taking on social media addiction
What ICE is doing in Minnesota, and the continuing war on journalism
Protests in Iran continue, and South Korea and China meet to say very little
What the US military mission in Venezuela means for global power balance
North Korea cozying up to Russia, China's symbolic tax on contraceptives, and billionaire yacht parties
How to balance staying informed with staying grounded: Leslie Liao, Eric Gao, and Iris Hsu
2025 Year-end retrospective: Part 2
2025 year-end retrospective: Part 1
Pardoning "narco-terrorists", Nano Banana's threats to visual journalism, and rage bait
A Russian-authored Ukraine "peace plan", Bolsonaro goes to prison, and free birthing
Another internet downer, women ruining workplaces, and parasocial relationships
The AI bubble, Argentina's economic crisis and bailout, and mushroom computing
The Sudanese civil war seen from space, the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown, and plastic-eating bacteria
Missing the mark on climate change, and what's the deal with those drug boats, anyway?
A completely different ceasefire, thieves in the Louvre, and internet blackouts
Japan's Iron Lady and Taiwan's aviation industry
Madagascar Protests and a new proposal in Israel's war on Gaza
US government shuts down and Taiwan's FPCC is revealed to be sourcing naphtha from Russia
Freedom of speech and media as a means to informing a more engaged public with Michael Geier
Dreams of revolution in Nepal and Indonesia
Google survives its first anti-trust lawsuit and Israel bombs Qatar
The Axis of Upheveal and Chinese foreign exchange students allowed back in the USA
Nuclear power, nuclear disarmament, and Taiwan's cabinet reshuffle
Taiwan's AI dreams and the US's recent attempts at Russia-Ukraine diplomacy
More tariff talk, Jensen's baller move, and Canadian wildfires
The EU's international relations conundrum, Slovakian politics, and Russian quakes and volcanoes
What happened to the Great Recall?
Some final Epstein Files updates, and Grok meets the Department of Defense
How belief in conspiracy theories affects interpersonal relationships: Feat. Lauren Mastroni
Clean water, human rights, and good news!
AI versus IP, and Budapest's incredible Pride
US joining the Israel-Iran conflict, a tenuous ceasefire, and a potential sale of American public lands
The MMR vaccine in the US and a new Israel-Iran conflict
The Elon Musk-Trump breakup, updates on the Madleen activists, and the LA ICE Protests
Updates on the War in Ukraine, and problematic AI personalities and behaviors
All about borders: birthright citizenship, deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, and little Chinese boats
Covering conflict in Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and there's a new pope
Investigating birth rate declines, with PeiChieh Hsu
Canadian election results and tariff take-backsies
Salvadoran prisons, big tech breakups, and a fond farewell to Pope Francis
The ripple effects following the defunding of USGAM