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Always a pleasure to have the great @gregsargent.bsky.social on the program w @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & myself. Great work about Pete Hegseth and what makes him tick. Turns out it’s a whole bunch of nonsense fantasy shit, but as he holds some power in the government rn, it’s all highly relevant!
"'No Quarter, No Mercy': Understanding Pete Hegseth": @gregsargent.bsky.social with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social, on our Half the Answer podcast
we here at @halftheanswer.bsky.social are serious about keeping you abreast of all the pete hegseth/kid rock related news that’s fit to print
youtu.be/HlzMbVZAgUk?...
Here's the piece we discussed. @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social are great hosts!
newrepublic.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth's bloodlust, sadism, and barely disguised enthusiasm about precision military killing are deeply entangled in his Christian Reconstructionism. Really enjoyed this chat on the @liberalcurrents.com Half the Answer pod about my piece on all this:
www.liberalcurrents.com/no-quarter-n...
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What’s the deal with crazy Pete Hegseth? What’s his background? Why does he yell about god & rave about violence & blood? Was weekend Fox & Friends THAT convincing? @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social & I asked friend of the pod @gregsargent.bsky.social all of this and more on @halftheanswer.bsky.social
Half the Answer #77: A bloodthirsty, homicidal maniac is in charge of our nation's military, and he deeply believes that extreme violence is awesome and God likes it a lot. Trent and Caitlin ask Greg Sargent what he learned from experts about Pete Hegseth's attitude toward violence.
Correct; let them sink
when u see this, u know @gillianbrockell.com is on the pod
hello and welcome to the caitlin crying about traumatized little kids podcast. enjoy!
Half the Answer #76: Delta Airlines brought Liam Ramos back from the child prison in Texas, but they don't seem to want to talk about how they took him there in the first place. Trent and Caitlin debrief with Gillian Brockell about the current status of ICE flights.
The great @gillianbrockell.com with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social speaking about Liam Ramos, kid prisons, #DeltaAirlines, and a bit about how @the-independent.com and other media outlets do business.
What it’s like hosting @halftheanswer.bsky.social with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com; @kissphoria.bsky.social was absolutely brilliant and we look forward to her return!
Half the Answer #75: What the hell is going on in Texas? Trent and Caitlin welcome Houston culture reporter Gwen Howerton about the Texas senate primaries, censorship in prisons, and the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the Lone Star State. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-the-hel...
Back when I was a flight attendant we called PBI “where America goes to die.” Didn’t know how right we were!
it’s the question on everyone’s mind! featuring @kissphoria.bsky.social
youtu.be/kZ28xghpp_M
I think I forgot to share this last week. Great discussion with @ryanlcooper.com on @halftheanswer.bsky.social.
What's happened in New York City since Zohran Mamdani became mayor in January? Has it already become a Marxist-Islamic bastion, ruled by a soviet? @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social discuss this with @ryanlcooper.com
Today @marisakabas.bsky.social returns, fresh off her incredible legal win obtaining the body cam footage from the DC cops who assisted the DOGE boys in breaking into the USIP office in March 2025. www.liberalcurrents.com/doge-dunces-...
three people are foregrounded at the bottom of an image, in the background is a large cartoon Shiba Inu holding a chainsaw in its front paws. Overlaid are brightly colored words “very crime,” “much collude” and “wow”
it’s been suggested that i only have a podcast as a vehicle for creating unhinged thumbnails. and to those people i say: you might have a point. new episode with @marisakabas.bsky.social is out
www.liberalcurrents.com/doge-dunces-...
Half the Answer #73: DC cops assisted the DOGE boys in breaking into the United States Institute of Peace office in March 2025—and now journalist Marisa Kabas of the Handbasket has obtained their body cam footage from that day. She tells Trent and Caitlin how she did it.
“hey caitlin how’s your week been” don’t ask me that. you’re not going to enjoy the answer. i certainly didn’t!
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lol, this thumbnail picture of me. always a pleasure to do the show.
Today @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social talk to @joshuaerlich.bsky.social about the difficulties of holding immigration and border patrol agents accountable www.liberalcurrents.com/holding-ice-...
we opened this episode with a collective “bye bitch” for gregory bovino because we recorded it when he got banished back to el centro, but it works now that he’s retiring too. bye bitch!
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had such a pleasure chopping it up with the great @aurelmondon.com on @halftheanswer.bsky.social recently. What is life? Can it be fascism if it’s not from THAT part of Germany? Is it just sparkling authoritarianism? Why’s everything polarizing? We investigated.
I look grumpy but it was such a pleasure chatting to @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social about polarisation hype
In particular, we took our cue from the paper @juanroch.bsky.social @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I co-authored
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Half the Answer #71: Caitlin and Trent talk with Aurelien Mondon about his recent political science paper outlining the limitations of considering all politics through the lens of "polarization." They discuss the pitfalls of the term and how "polarizing" events and speech can sometimes be positive.
