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SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared

In late September, shortly after declaring antifa a "domestic terrorist", Trump issued a memorandum directing the IRS to investigate tax-exempt organizations that could be "directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism" and nonprofit organizations reasonably felt concerned of being targeted. A couple of weeks later, Lydia and Thomas ran into Nick Fish, President of the American Atheists [https://www.atheists.org/], at California Freethought Day and asked how he and the organization were holding up in light of everything. We're pleased to have Nick on to discuss what nonprofit organizations can do to protect themselves, as well as the people who have supported their mission and the communities they serve, when it is feeling less and less paranoid that the federal government might be coming for you. How can organizations fortify themselves through governing documents and organizational structure to donor databases and retention policies when the President of the United States could very well declare your nonprofit a supporter of domestic terrorism? * Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence [https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/] (NSPM-7) (9/25/2025) * Support American Atheists [https://www.atheists.org/support/]!

SIO498: The Science of Hallucinations, Ear-worms, and Phantom Limbs

Dr. Jenessa Seymour is on to teach us more about the brain! What do hallucinations, ear-worms, and phantom limbs have in common? And is "hallucinating" really a good term for what AI does when it makes something up?

SIO497: The Mamdani Machine Exposed! Part 2

Part 2 of Asra Nomani's insanely terrible Fox News article [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-mamdani-machine-soros-cash-socialists-radical-imams-engineered-zohran-mamdanis-path-power]. Make sure you listened to part 1! This is big, folks. Think Watergate combined with Deflate-gate combined with Christina Applegate combined with the Bowling Green Massacre. THAT's how big of a scandal this is. You thought Zohran Mamdani was just an innocent 34 year old assemblyman who rose to stardom by being an incredibly good candidate and relentless campaigning an economic message in a positive way. But you were an idiot. Dummy. Asra Nomani broke it here [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-mamdani-machine-soros-cash-socialists-radical-imams-engineered-zohran-mamdanis-path-power], but let Jenessa and I explain it to you because clearly your feeble, gullible brain can't process. information properly.

SIO496: Asra Nomani Has EXPOSED the Mamdani Machine!

Part 1. This is big, folks. Think Watergate combined with Deflate-gate combined with Christina Applegate combined with the Bowling Green Massacre. THAT's how big of a scandal this is. You thought Zohran Mamdani was just an innocent 34 year old assemblyman who rose to stardom by being an incredibly good candidate and relentless campaigning an economic message in a positive way. But you were an idiot. Dummy. Asra Nomani broke it here [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-mamdani-machine-soros-cash-socialists-radical-imams-engineered-zohran-mamdanis-path-power], but let Jenessa and I explain it to you because clearly your feeble, gullible brain can't process. information properly.

SIO495: Can AI Chatbots Make You Delusional? A Psychologist Explains

Stormy Decisis AKA Dr. Alan Smerbeck is back! With multiple stories in the news of AI Chatbots potentially driving people to delusion or psychosis, Stormy wanted to explain to us what's going on and what the actual differences are between psychosis, delusions, schizophrenia, and more. Visit Stormy's amazing project, sharebannedbooks.com [https://sharebannedbooks.com]!