** "Once again, Charlie Brown, you've been had..."

Pacifica Host Garland Nixon midterms epilogue - fascism, populism, and telling the people what they want to hear. And what it all has to do with Wall Street, the minimum wage and Medicare for all, footballs, Democrats, Republicans and the left - and 'Trump a sick and twisted man who to me, is the best representative of the US empire...'

** "Right now the headlines, you don't even have to rewrite them - those headlines rewrite themselves as Debbie Downer-isms!..."

Rachel Dratch Talks Loves Company, Debbie Downer, Hexed, SNL - and Debbie Downer's perpetually gloomy but still resonant as ever, reflections on this current no laughing matter world. Plus that shape shifting satirical actress in her latest film, not exactly a sequel or remake of Stephen King's Misery - titled Love's Company.

And in which Dratch is sort of the Kathy Bates designated deranged, psychopathic nurse as Antoinette Funk, imprisoning the object of her celebrity fan obsession. Likewise, just completing her performance in The Rocky Horror Show on Broadway, Dratch delves into her upcoming Hexed witch, and how SNL has changed her life...

** "Musk's darkened account on election night - data centers in space, and Musk's possibly malfunctioning space lasers..."

In Case You Missed It - The Arts Express Roundup of the week's most absurd and head shaking news...Referencing Stephen Miller and disembodied snail canals, Hegseth, low testosterone, meat eaters, and sex hormone binding globulins - and 'freezers at six US military bases mysterious malfunction...'

** "These are your lone nuts, the wackos, the criminals, the terrorists, the long haired weirdos in the greasy raincoats in the subway at midnight. America where we produce monsters who appear as anyone - keep the poor in the gutter and still continue to live out their lives in peace in America..."

The Five Minute Marxist - an extended heartland voices excursion with Minnesota rebel wordsmith, Mike Palecek...

** "A scathing and starkly intelligent look at Silicon Valley, its ethos, and the tech billionaires that are now running - not only our tech and entertainment but are deeply entwined with the government and the Pentagon, with personal surveillance and with the war industry..."

Bro On The Global Television Beat - What To Watch Or Not: Arts Express Paris Correspndent Professor Dennis Broe on Cupertino, AI And The New Limits Of Network TV Critique. A legal satire 'pitting the Silicon Valley Goliaths presumably against whistleblowers and the working class...'