Susan Collins claimed on Fox News that Roe would have been overturned regardless of her vote for Kavanaugh because of the 6-3 vote. Wrong: Roberts did not vote to overrule Roe — only five justices did. Collins confirmed the fifth.
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Dan plays a clip of Susan Collins arguing on Fox News that Roe would have been overturned 6-3 with or without Kavanaugh. Leah dismantles this in seconds: Chief Justice Roberts did not vote to overrule Roe — he voted to narrow it, not eliminate it [1] — Leah Litman "Susan Collins claimed on Fox News that Roe would have been overturned regardless of her vote for Kavanaugh because of the 6-3 vote. Wrong: …" 1:04:30 . The Dobbs majority was exactly five justices. Collins confirmed the fifth. Her claim is simply, factually wrong. But Leah's deeper contempt is for the framing itself — 'I disagree with the outcome, I don't regret my vote' — which requires pretending that Brett Kavanaugh has done something worth the documented loss of women's lives, fertility, and health in post-Roe America [2] — Leah Litman "Had Justice Kavanaugh not been confirmed, there were not 5 votes to overrule Roe v. Wade. Chief Justice Roberts did not vote to overrule Ro…" 1:05:08 . The discussion closes on the Maine Senate race where Graham Plattner is running against Collins, and the broader accountability opportunity the 2026 midterms represent.
Susan Collins falsely claimed Roe would have been overturned regardless of her Kavanaugh vote; in fact, Chief Justice Roberts did not vote to overturn Roe, making Kavanaugh the decisive 5th vote.
Four years after Dobbs, pro-choice identification is at an all-time high and hasn't dropped. Dan Pfeiffer argues the 2024 result was a one-off shaped by unique circumstances; Leah Litman worries the misogyny Americans tolerate may prevent real electoral accountability.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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