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Show notes for today’s episode, 6/13/16

Good afternoon Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie The Necessity of Political Vulgarity SCOOCHER PLAYLIST The outro music is “On Fire” by the Gurus.

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/9/16

Good afternoon Scoochers! We spend the hour on John’s Village Voice cover story, A Hello to Arms: A New Generation of Steely-Gazed Anarcho-Communists Head Off to Syria The outro music is “What a Tease” by Nico Yaryan.

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/8/16

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Protesters attack Trump supporters after San Jose speech striking back at Clinton Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker And the outro music is “Subterranean” by Tracy Bryant.

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/7/16

Good afternoon Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal Where Nearly Half of Pupils Are Homeless, School Aims to Be Teacher, Therapist, Even Santa And the outro music is “City Wrecker” by Moonface and Siinai.

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/6/16

Good afternoon Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s episode: Protesters attack Trump supporters after San Jose speech striking back at Clinton Trump Could Threaten U.S. Rule of Law, Scholars Say And, from listener Laura, on the subject of teaching history backwards: Nebraska Teacher Taken Out Of Classroom For Showing Iraq Documentary And the outro… Read more »

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/3/16

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Bill Kristol Thinks a Nobody Named David French Can Take Down Donald Trump Guantánamo prosecutors want 10 sick, elderly relatives of 9/11 victims to testify while they still can And the outro music is “Masterpiece” by Big Thief.

Show notes for today’s episode, 6/2/16

Good afternoon Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Why the dreaded term ‘millennial’ is actually worth saving U.S. Struggles With Goal of Admitting 10,000 Syrians And the outro music is “1973” by Beth Orton.

Show notes for today’s episode, 5/30/16

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Hillary Clinton’s email problems just got much worse The Left’s drive to push conservatives out of education reform And the outro music is “Moods” by Sonny and the Sunsets.

Show notes for today’s episode, 5/27/16

Good afternoon, Scoochers! Here are the links for today’s show: Reports: Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s Lawsuit Against Gawker Leaked Questions Rekindle Debate Over Common Core Tests The PARCC Test: Exposed And the outro music is “The Worst in You” by Andy Shauf.

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