#upfirst

Listen to Invisibilia here

Brief Description: "Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently." (via NPR.org)

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Brief Description: "NPR's Up First is the news you need to start your day. The three biggest stories of the day, with reporting and analysis from NPR News — in 10 minutes." (via NPR.org)

Now this is pure TDS! NPR comes up with a new podcast called Trump’s Trials. I would love to hear NPR’s UpFirst mention Devon Archer or the Hur report. What about a podcast of Hunter? You can explain how he made millions while addicted to drugs.

NPR even admits their agenda here, if Trump is locked up then the campaign trail does not matter. I can only handle so many NPR podcasts in one day but UpFirst has not discussed any of the scandals/rumors about Fani Willis or Letitia James. I wonder if this one has.

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Trump's Trials, a new podcast examining the inquiries, trials and criminal probes facing former President Donald Trump.

Trump's Trials is another source for those who want the kind of analysis listeners have come to expect from the NPR podcast portfolio, including The NPR Politics Podcast, Consider This and Up First.

Questioning the circumstances about Jeffery Epstein’s “suicide”, is extreme “conspiratorial thinking”? You can’t find it suspicious that an individual on suicide watch, completes suicide? Upfirst did not do a lot of reporting on Epstein, so what other conclusions is their audience suppose to come too? It’s also a drastic leap to hear that line, connect it to Epstein and then say “it’s a conspiracy about his death”. The song talks about Rich men, where there a lot of poor people going to Epstein’s Island?

If you really cared about “cultural artifacts” broadening the reach of “extremist spheres” onto unsuspecting audiences you would have spoken out against all of the profanity, violence and sexual content in other songs and movies that is much more available, accessible and main stream.

NPR, just be honest. You hate Republicans and you’ve only singled out this song because they played it at the GOP Debate.

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The mention of "minors on an island" is understood to refer to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal; though Epstein died in jail in 2019, the circumstances around his death continue to feed conspiratorial thinking.

"And if these far-right figures are successful in associating themselves directly with the song, it could potentially open up a wider audience that they might normally not have access to all the time."

That conspiracy theory revolves around a baseless claim that elites (those whom Anthony might call the "Rich Men North of Richmond") are secretly trafficking children for sex and to harvest their blood.