The Rogue Voice Podcast with Linsay Rousseau

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders take My Chemical Romance to court for dressing like them in a fake dictatorship, the real one had a busy week.This week, Trump's Justice Department sues to stop a Senate race from being counted if the Republican loses, the Pentagon hides what Iran did to our bases, the Trump administration opens a donut bar for bears in Alaska's national preserves so hunters can shoot them, the State Department asks diplomats who they voted for, and ICE hits a guy and tells...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, the news show for everyone whose body has been quietly reclassified as public infrastructure.This week, Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy turn child sexual abuse into a campaign ad, abortion bans get linked to more women murdered, ICE skips prenatal care for a woman who already lost one baby, an Arizona man gets paid for his ex-wife's abortion, and both parties campaign on trans kids. Let's get into it.Vivek Smears an Abuse Survivor, Trump Calls It Pay DirtDonald Trump says Vivek Ramaswamy's ad calling...

Two firefighting pilots died fighting a Yosemite wildfire that was climbing a remote mountainside, away from every home in the park, under Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's order to fully suppress every wildfire, no matter what it's threatening."For what?" one federal fire official told The Atlantic. "There's nothing out there. Just let nature do its thing." Another asked, "Did they die in vain?"Burgum's new Wildland Fire Service runs firefighting in every national park, and his April memo calls for "the presumption of a full suppression strategy applied to every wildfire." It's a throwback to...

Donald Trump just told Marines poisoned at Camp Lejeune that they get their money only if Republicans win in November. His exact words:If we don't win, there's no money. If we do win, you're getting it.Ransom notes used to be cut out of magazines. Now they come with a teleprompter and a Lee Greenwood song.From 1953 to 1987, the Marine Corps served its own people a tap water cocktail of dry cleaning solvent, degreaser and benzene. In 1982, one system tested at 280 times the EPA limit. The base is a Superfund site. They...

Donald Trump just launched a $25 million fraud bounty program, named himself the judge of who gets paid, and gave the first check to a 24-year-old right-wing YouTuber.It comes out of Trump's fraud task force, which he set up in March and put JD Vance in charge of. Vance says the work is "fun." His pitch: "if you want to help us stop it, you get to share in the rewards." Which is exactly how every pyramid scheme I've ever been invited to started.So how much do you get? Trump says 1% of whatever you...

Donald Trump's Treasury Department is getting ready to seize the tax refunds, Social Security checks and paychecks of nearly 10 million Americans who've defaulted on their student loans. And according to five sources who talked to The Washington Sun, they're not planning to announce it until after you vote.Why wait? One source explained:"It would be politically insane to do this before the midterms."Politically insane. Not cruel. Not wrong. Just bad timing. They're not debating whether to mug you. They're debating whether to do it before or after you mail in your...

Trump's Justice Department just shut down a criminal investigation into whether Meta helped kids buy fentanyl pills on its apps, right after Meta's lawyers, including Trump's own personal law firm, went to DOJ's political bosses and asked nicely.Since the pandemic, federal prosecutors in Virginia had a criminal grand jury investigating whether Meta helped create a market for young people to buy fentanyl pills and other addictive drugs, let prescription drugs get promoted to children, and made money off it. Meta executives had been subpoenaed to testify, the one notification you can't swipe away.Last...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching Elon Musk’s Roadster hop over a Cybertruck on 600 liters of compressed air like the world’s most expensive whoopee cushion, the Trump administration spent the week making sure nobody can stop it from doing anything.This week: Trump let Putin off the hook to fix gas prices from his own war, his Justice Department threatened to jail election workers, two Democrats co-wrote a bill that locks judges out of protecting your public lands, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired the general who warned him about miss...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where the forecast is always partly cloudy with a chance of some guy in a suit trying to grab the steering wheel of my uterus.This week, Trump’s ICE is locking up women for being abused, Trump fires the women around him and saves his compliments for the handsome men, Dr. Oz cuts off trans kids’ medical care while two Democratic governors hold the door, and the scuba world is having its Me Too moment. Let’s get into it.ICE Jails Abuse Victims, Abusers Say Thanks...

ICE is arresting parents inside the United States, taking their kids, and stamping those kids “unaccompanied” so it can lock them in federal shelters and foster care for months. Mother Jones found kids as young as 8.Under Biden this almost never happened. Under Trump, kids taken inside the country instead of at the border are now about 1 in 5 of the children sent to these shelters, and lawyers think it’s closing in on half. Kids used to be held about a month. Now the average is more than six.In April, ICE arrested a Venezuelan dad ou...

JD Vance keeps warning America about people driving Lamborghinis on food stamps, and ProPublica just found the real SNAP fraud. Crime rings stole $470 million from more than 990,000 families last year, and the Trump administration cut the money to stop them.Back in May, at a rally in Des Moines, Vance said, “if you are wealthy enough to afford a Lamborghini, then you are wealthy enough to not receive SNAP benefits.” Finally, somebody brave enough to take on the Lamborghini lobby. He also said hunting fraud in government is “like fishing in a barrel with dynamite.”So how m...

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, lobbied for Texas’s abortion pill bounty law, and now she’s getting sued under it for ordering abortion pills.Back in March, according to the lawsuit, Hawkins and three of her staffers stood outside Space Center Houston and ordered abortion pills on their phones. None of them were pregnant. It was a stunt to prove the pills are too easy to get. Mother Jones was there watching, because they were following her for a documentary. Then came the post: “Guess what we are doing? Ordering abortion pills undercover? Yep. Stay t...

Trump’s Park Service took chainsaws to at least 430 trees at a public park in Washington, D.C. over a holiday weekend so the president can get a fancier golf course. They warned the judge on the case at 4:55 on a Friday.The judge had asked for a heads up before they did anything they couldn’t undo. They filed it minutes before the courts closed for a three-day weekend. By Saturday morning the chainsaws were running. Technically, that’s notice.The course is East Potomac Golf Links. It’s 106 years old, it’s public, and the or...

Homeland Security agents raided Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's Washington home before dawn this morning, three weeks before the midterms, in a criminal case over her immigration paperwork.Omar came here as a 12-year-old refugee after her family fled civil war in Somalia. She's been a citizen for 26 years. She's on the ballot in three weeks. And the federal government picked this morning to get curious about her forms.The Justice Department says it's "part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation." Homeland Security referred every question to the Justice Department. One agency shows up at her...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching the Yankees get swept out of the playoffs, the Trump administration packed a year’s worth of “what is wrong with these people?” into seven days.This week: Pete Hegseth wants to livestream an execution while he hides the deaths of his own troops. Trump signed sanctions on Russia and then cut Putin a deal. ICE agents dressed as construction workers shot a father in front of his five-year-old. ICE is offering kindergartners cash to leave the country. And the administration told international election observers to stay h...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where I spend all week watching powerful men explain women to women, so you can scream into a pillow on your own schedule.This week: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handed the country’s birth control training to people who don’t like birth control. Pete Hegseth is getting sued over a study on whether women can fight. A Republican running for Congress thinks a child’s rape can turn into “something incredible.” And AI chatbots will take a Muslim woman’s hijab off for anyone who asks. Let’s get into it.<...

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Donald Trump’s immigration agents have detained at least 506 American citizens since he took office, and the Department of Homeland Security’s official position is that none of this is happening.ProPublica published every case it could find today, with video, because the government doesn’t keep count. Convenient, since you can’t be wrong about a number you refuse to write down.Being a citizen is supposed to be the one thing that keeps these guys off you. So let’s check the denials against the receipts.DHS says it is not arresting...

Welcome back to This Week in Tyranny. While you were watching the mother of four of Elon Musk’s children break up with him on his own app, the government stayed busy. This week, Trump is buying the midterms with your money, your ballot has a mail problem, measles is winning in Pennsylvania, border agents want your phone, the Justice Department is going after the judges who told it no, and a startup wants 456 nuclear reactors on your public land. Let’s get into it.Trump Raids the Border for $20 Million in Ads About TrumpDona...

Hey fam, welcome back to the Gilead Gazette, where the men in charge keep saying they love women, and I keep asking them to do it from farther away.This week: one Democrat in Albany is protecting the law that got the Cornell case closed. The Education Secretary locked in weaker rules for every campus survivor in America. Three attorneys general want the name of every woman in their states who ordered abortion pills. Missouri Republicans are fighting over whether their abortion ban is mean enough. And Tennessee tried to execute a survivor of child sexual abuse...