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Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan

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News
Venezuela's Earthquake Exposes the Hollow Trump 'Success Story'

Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan · Jul 1, 2026 News

Venezuela's catastrophic earthquakes — 1,700+ dead, 50,000 missing — are testing Delcy Rodriguez's interim government in ways that expose how little changed when Maduro was ousted. The military sat by while citizens dug through rubble with their hands. Ben Rhodes argues the Trump administration's 'success' in Venezuela was always just tribute extraction, not real political change.

6m 10s

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Supreme Court Rulings: Birthright Citizenship and TPS for Haitians and Syrians

At 43:10 · chapter starts 34:57

Tommy frames the birthright ruling as good news that shouldn't require celebration — the plain text of the 14th Amendment is not ambiguous — but notes the effective margin was 5-4 because Kavanaugh agreed with the outcome while declining to join the majority opinion, signaling a future path to reversal. The TPS ruling is less ambiguous as good news: 350,000 Haitians are being sent back to a country the State Department rates 'do not travel,' where gangs control major territory and half the population faces acute hunger, while white South Afrikaners receive welcome bags full of revisionist history books. Ben Rhodes invokes Frederick Douglass to skewer conservative originalists for ignoring the 14th Amendment's actual authors, who clearly intended universal birthright citizenship. He and Tommy both call the TPS ruling what it is: straightforwardly racist, constitutionally rationalized. Rhodes adds that Venezuelan TPS holders who supported Republican policies because of Maduro opposition have now been told exactly what the party thinks of them.

Government
Supreme Court Almost Threw Out the 14th Amendment

Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan · Jul 1, 2026 Government

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship — but barely. The 6-3 ruling is more like 5-4 because Kavanaugh agreed with the outcome but not the majority opinion and has signaled a path to eliminating it later. Tommy and Ben note the absurdity of celebrating a ruling that simply upheld the plain text of the 14th Amendment.

2m 53s
Government
The TPS Ruling Is Just Racist

Keeping Up With the Korruption in Kazakhstan · Jul 1, 2026 Government

The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling stripping Temporary Protected Status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians — while white South Africans get refugee welcome bags — is not a close legal question. Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor argue the racial double standard is self-evident and that the Court's blessing of Stephen Miller's immigration agenda is a lasting stain.

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