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This week, Madeline interviews Kiel Lopez-Schmidt (he/they) about the upcoming Queer Housing Summit in Fresno, California! CHECK OUT THE EVENT! REGISTER: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0jZl80KGsgMcf7OSgQGBPVELP7VC3H2FSjP-KaUC9z1vOug/viewform TICKETS: https://www.towertheatrefresno.com/ INSTAGRAM: @southtowerclt @queerhousingsummit

This week, David talks about the Olympics and Madeline definitely does NOT sexually harass anyone! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1230&context=ca_ballot_props Al Stump “The Hopeless Dream of William May Garland”, https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll1/id/33885/download https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/a-boosters-dream-come-true-l-a-and-the-1932-olympics Mike Davis, City of Quartz Pg. 36. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/tlatelolco-massacre/ https://www.npr.org/2008/12/01/97546687/mexicos-1968-massacre-what-really-happened https://www.radiodiaries.org/audiohistory/storyimages/mexico/doc1.pdf https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB10/mex16-01.htm Eugenia Allier-Montano “Memory and History of Mexico ’68 in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 10/16, N. 102 Elisa Kriza “Anti-Communism, Communism, and Interventionism in Narratives Surrounding the Student Massacre on Tlatelolco Square.”  Bulletin of Latin American Affairs 38.1, 2019. Pp.82-96 https://www.si.com/olympics/2020/08/12/tommie-smith-john-carlos-1968-olympics-protest-athlete-activism https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/johv26n2h.pdf https://www.thenation.com/article/society/avery-brundage/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB10/nsaebb10.htm https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/qfp/104481.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/07/24/olympics-munich-israel-1972-paris/ https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1116641214/munich-olympics-massacre-hostage-terrorism-israel-germany https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/want-understand-1992-la-riots-start-1984-la-olympics/ https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/06/03/la-84-olympics-changed-the-games-daily-cover https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2023/08/28/cold-war-diplomatic-games-the-1984-los-angeles-summer-olympics/ Joshua Ryan Leiser “Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold War” Dissertation, UC Riverside 2014, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tb760kz Reagan arrives in LA ahead of the 1984 Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvhSGFcVekg https://reagan.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/05/ronald-reagans-remarks-when-the-olympic-torch-came-to-the-white-house-in-1984/ https://www.atf.gov/our-history/eric-rudolph https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/06/the-1984-olympics-fueled-l-a-s-war-on-crime-will-the-2028-games-do-the-same/ https://www.businessinsider.com/g4s-olympic-security-disaster-2012-7 Pete Fussey “Command, Control and contestation: Negotiating security at the London 2012 Olympics”, The Geographic Journal, Vol. 181, N. 3 9/15. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/30/a-massive-betrayal-how-londons-olympic-legacy-was-sold-out https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/idmc/2016/en/111503 https://www.ksbw.com/article/migrants-homeless-people-cleared-out-of-paris-olympics/61710134 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/06/deadly-side-rio-olympics-2016/

This week, Madeline and David wrap up our multi-part dive into the US Agency for Global Media -- the USA's propaganda wing! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vQMU0LMIbnXB64R6EYyMxkaqbfGYD09C7fYAsYAks-E/

This week, Madeline and David get into part 2 of our look at the US Agency for Global Media -- the USA's propaganda arm -- by examining Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vQMU0LMIbnXB64R6EYyMxkaqbfGYD09C7fYAsYAks-E/

This week, Madeline and David talk about the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the branch of the U.S. government that oversees American propaganda efforts around the globe! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vQMU0LMIbnXB64R6EYyMxkaqbfGYD09C7fYAsYAks-E/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Madeline and David talk about microplastics and personal safety! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4970522/new-research-suggests-that-microplastics-could-be-affecting-male-fertility https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/envhealth.3c00052 https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-everywhere https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/microplastics-stroke https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a46993585/microplastics-human-placenta/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=arb_ga_pop_md_dsa_hybd_mix_us_21178859017&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj9-zBhDyARIsAERjds23S1pMLEiciUj2cIVolQpsuQZHv16BQrLjSlGPLiFbopI6pXAAT7waArf3EALw_wcB https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/04/microplastics-in-organs.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/11/microplastics-health-impacts-unknown/ https://e360.yale.edu/features/plastic-waste-atmosphere-climate-weather https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/our-life-is-plasticized-new-research-shows-microplastics-in-our-food-water-air/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01172-y https://www.ciel.org/news/sowing-a-plastic-planet-new-report-exposes-intentional-use-of-microplastics-on-food-crops/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927104/ https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SaPP-Factsheet-English_Jan2023.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10072287/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source-of-microplastic-pollution-heres-how-to-clean-your-clothes-more-sustainably https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/12/18/3396 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36948312/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722083607 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734713/ https://resolutions.unep.org/resolutions/uploads/sowing_a_plastic_planet_-_how_microplastics_in_agrochemicals_are_affecting_our_soils_our_food_and_our_future_ciel.pdf_0.pdf https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/3/701 https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/7/1/19

This week, Madeline and David are back (with better audio quality than last week!!!) to talk about MICROPLASTICS! They're everywhere! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/23/nx-s1-4970522/new-research-suggests-that-microplastics-could-be-affecting-male-fertility https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10151227/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/ https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/envhealth.3c00052 https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-everywhere https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/microplastics-stroke https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a46993585/microplastics-human-placenta/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=arb_ga_pop_md_dsa_hybd_mix_us_21178859017&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj9-zBhDyARIsAERjds23S1pMLEiciUj2cIVolQpsuQZHv16BQrLjSlGPLiFbopI6pXAAT7waArf3EALw_wcB https://hsc.unm.edu/news/2024/04/microplastics-in-organs.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/11/microplastics-health-impacts-unknown/ https://e360.yale.edu/features/plastic-waste-atmosphere-climate-weather https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/our-life-is-plasticized-new-research-shows-microplastics-in-our-food-water-air/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01172-y https://www.ciel.org/news/sowing-a-plastic-planet-new-report-exposes-intentional-use-of-microplastics-on-food-crops/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927104/ https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SaPP-Factsheet-English_Jan2023.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10072287/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source-of-microplastic-pollution-heres-how-to-clean-your-clothes-more-sustainably https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/12/18/3396 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36948312/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722083607 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9273611/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9734713/ https://resolutions.unep.org/resolutions/uploads/sowing_a_plastic_planet_-_how_microplastics_in_agrochemicals_are_affecting_our_soils_our_food_and_our_future_ciel.pdf_0.pdf https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/3/701 https://www.mdpi.com/2571-8789/7/1/19

This week, Madeline and David do part 2 of our Heritage Foundation episode and get into Project 2025 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation-and-the-death-of-republican-ideas/279955/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/07/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/too-hot-for-heritage-00116094 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/republican-president-2024-heritage-foundation.html https://www.project2025.org/policy/ https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FOREWORD.pdf https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-conservative-promise/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/ https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/the-national-endowment-democracy-prudent-investment-thefuture https://www.ned.org/fellows/olivia-enos/ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R000502320001-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100560001-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420082-7.pdf https://www.heritage.org/article/timeline-heritage-successes https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#Core_Financials https://victimsofcommunism.org/award/edwin-feulner-jr-phd/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/

This week, Madeline and David talk about The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-fall-of-the-heritage-foundation-and-the-death-of-republican-ideas/279955/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/magazine/heritage-foundation-kevin-roberts.html https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/magazine/trump-government-heritage-foundation-think-tank.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/07/heritage-foundation-trump-republicans/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/too-hot-for-heritage-00116094 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/republican-president-2024-heritage-foundation.html https://www.project2025.org/policy/ https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FOREWORD.pdf https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-conservative-promise/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-trump-heritage-foundation-maga/ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/ https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch https://www.heritage.org/trade/report/the-national-endowment-democracy-prudent-investment-thefuture https://www.ned.org/fellows/olivia-enos/ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R000502320001-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100560001-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000505420082-7.pdf https://www.heritage.org/article/timeline-heritage-successes https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Heritage_Foundation#Core_Financials https://victimsofcommunism.org/award/edwin-feulner-jr-phd/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/will-the-heritage-foundations-project-2025-turn-trumpism-into-a-governing-agenda/

This week, Madeline and David finish up the second part of our two-parter on the School of the Americas, a.k.a. WHINSEC! Warning: Contains mention of SA, violence against children, and torture PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://jacobin.com/2019/11/shut-down-school-of-the-americas-whinsec-ice-border-patrol https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/08/spanish-trial-of-soldiers-behind-uca-atrocity-raises-hopes-of-ending-impunity-in-el-salvador https://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-Peron https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/3/1/el-salvadors-brutal-civil-war-what-we-still-dont-know https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/21/world/roberto-d-aubuisson-48-far-rightist-in-salvador.html https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/nov/18/us-military-usa https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2015/nr-4/colombias-bloody-history/ https://www.e-ir.info/2017/08/22/imperialism-by-another-name-the-us-war-on-drugs-in-colombia/ https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/news-item/the-zapatista-movement-the-fight-for-indigenous-rights-in-mexico/ https://schoolsforchiapas.org/the-massacre-of-viejo-velasco/ https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates https://web.archive.org/web/20070119115027/http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=851 https://soaw.org/training-in-2019-soa-whinsec https://www.lawg.org/declassified-army-and-cia-manuals/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/notorious-georgia-army-school-became-americas-training-ground-for-global-torture/285223/ https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA527172.pdf http://www.allgov.com/departments/department-of-defense/western-hemisphere-institute-for-security-cooperation-school-of-the-americas?agencyid=7389 https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/12/9/infamous-us-military-school-still-draws-fire https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/920310%20Imporper%20Material%20in%20Spanish-Language%20Intelligence%20Training%20Manuals.pdf https://wagingnonviolence.org/2018/12/actions-across-latin-america-target-notorious-school-americas/ https://irp.fas.org/congress/1997_rpt/soarpt.htm https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000504880017-0.pdf https://nacla.org/news/us-intervention-paraguay-continues https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-00733R000100110006-6.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000200010050-9.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/STEPS%20TO%20IMPROVE%20U.S.-ARG%5B15503036%5D.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00287R000901540001-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90M00005R001100160023-3.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01094R000300010023-8.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01058R000100010001-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402010001-1.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP99-01448R000402000001-2.pdf https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch11p2.htm https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00845R000100190001-6.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP82-00850R000200070035-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301550001-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T01184R000301720002-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00907R000100340001-5.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00447R000100110001-1.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100350003-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R002203530034-7.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M00539R001802760013-1.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP04T00367R000100090001-3.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89B00423R000300330003-4.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/LIEUTENANT%20GENERAL%20LEOPOL%5B15499966%5D.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20191106052505/http://william_h_ormsbee.tripod.com/Articles/school_americas_who_84.pdf https://irp.fas.org/crs/soa.htm https://armyuniversity.edu/whinsec/en/faq