Monthly-ish Mix #12 The Great American Heist

Air Date: 9/22/2026

The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on the news from July and August without being overwhelming! Organized around a single idea: ask who the system is for, and every story this summer gives the same answer. The administration rewrites the national story while libraries lose their funding. Corporations fence off ideas as private property. Latin America gets treated like a portfolio and Greenland like a drilling site. Police cameras put every driver under permanent investigation. The seats it all runs from are held until death, and the fixes on the table aim at prying some of them open.

Covering: July–August 2026

Full Show Notes

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SECTION 1: OWNING THE STORY

(00:01:52) #1815 - Sanctioned Ignorance: The Assault on Museums, Libraries, and American Memory

1: Trying to Rewrite History - Letters From an American - Air Date 7-28-26

2: Why Libraries Matter in a Fascist Moment Part 1 - Movement Memos - Air Date 3-19-26

(00:21:31) #1816 - IP'd to Death: How Intellectual Property Law Went from a Protection to a Weapon

3: We Are Being IP-ed to Death / Vicky Osterweil Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 5-27-26

4: Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? - Taylor Lorenz - Air Date 8-5-26

5: Everyone's Wrong About John Oliver's Trademark War - LegalEagle - Air Date 8-8-26

SECTION 2: THE WORLD AS INVENTORY

(00:45:39) #1814 - Open Imperialism in Latin America: Trump Says the Whole Hemisphere Is His to Run

6: "Imperial Laboratory": Alexander Aviña on the "Donroe" Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America - Democracy Now! - Air Date 1-6-26

7: 'Cuba Is Not Venezuela': Trump's Takeover Threat Collides with 'disciplined Revolutionary State' - FRANCE 24 English - Air Date 3-18-26

(01:02:20) #1817 - Worse on Purpose: Trump is Killing Our Response to the Climate Emergency

8: Fire Climate Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control - Democracy Now! - Air Date 8-6-24

9: Is This How We Invade Greenland - The Rachel Maddow Show - Air Date 8-11-26

SECTION 3: EVERYONE ELSE

(01:22:58) #1818 - Flock Cameras, ICE, and the Surveillance State Targeting Everyone

10: Ohio Professor Specialized in Policing Nails Why Flock Cameras Are a Threat to Everyone - More Perfect Union - Air Date 8-16-26

11: Police Surveillance Technology - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 8-3-26

12: Former ICE Lawyer Says the Point of Trump's ICE Is to "engender Fear" - The Current - Air Date 7-14-26

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