Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

00:00 Show Open And Today's Rundown

04:21 Trump And The Kennedy Center

10:06 AI Scraping And Who Pays Artists

20:09 Bone-Crushing Sanctions And China Energy

35:31 Dons, Memes, And Lost Pop Culture

47:58 Hasan Piker And Guilt By Association

01:02 Cuba, Sanctions, And Democratic Half-Measures

01:16 Can America Move Past Trump?

Today we discuss:

• China, long highly vulnerable to oil supply shocks, has transformed that weakness into a source of geopolitical power, by stockpiling huge amounts of oil, building extra oil refining capacity and investing in coal and other alternatives. And it flexed that power by cutting off supplies of jet  ...