🎙️ Politics, Pets, and Public Discourse — July 2, 2025
Episode summary written in the voice of someone who’s seen the abyss stare back. Then invited it to dinner. Possibly with ribs.
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💡 Broadcast from the edge of a dying empire: Roxanne reminds us this is a small, scrappy show without producers or backers—just a mic, some listeners, and a router that keeps shorting out in thunderstorms. July fundraising limps forward with a $50 challenge from Charlene and the “Bruce & Karen Memorial Challenge.” Power was lost the night before. Funding hole is at $1155 through July 3rd. Please consider contributing headon.live/contribute
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🏚️ Welcome to “Alligator Alcatraz”:
A Florida immigration camp—cheerfully described by MAGATs as “stormproof”—floods in its first rain. Roxanne calls it what it is: a concentration camp. Laura Loomer jokes that “alligators are guaranteed 65 million meals,” and suddenly, the math looks genocidal. -
🧊 ICE, ICE, baby… and not in a good way:
The “Big Beautiful Bill” makes ICE America’s largest domestic policing force. $45B for detention. $30B for deportation. 10,000 new agents. Even National Guard lawyers get deputized after six weeks of “training.” Deportations may even include U.S.-born citizens. -
🧬 Peter Thiel wants to live forever. Everyone else can die.
Roxanne tears into Thiel’s transhumanist nonsense and his ignorance of trans healthcare. A man who could feed the world decides instead to play God with bad code. -
🧠 RFK Jr. vs. Reality:
“Whalehead Dead Bear Brainworm” now controls vaccine policy. He doesn’t believe in experts, prefers AI to human doctors, and once told grassroots climate activists that fracking was the future. He’s anti-science, anti-vax, and possibly anti-oxygen. -
🗳️ Democracy? Cute idea. Let’s kill it.
Georgia GOP installs conspiracy theorists on election boards ahead of 2026. Roxanne warns: they plan to refuse certifications, suppress votes, and crown kings. -
🎇 July 4th, or July 2nd? Who cares.
Independence Day technically started July 2. Roxanne says there’s not much to celebrate either way. “The cruelty isn’t a side effect. It’s the whole damn product.” -
🛠️ Stochastic Terrorism & “Lone Wolves”
FBI warns of attacks over the holiday. Vague warnings. Right-wing language. Usual suspects. Roxanne wonders if the goal is safety—or fear itself. -
🩺 17 million set to lose Medicaid
State-by-state lists of future dead are read like obituary bingo. Most live in MAGAT territory. Still, their senators smile and vote yes. -
📺 “Fox News is TV-Rwanda”
The host torches the corporate press for enabling fascism. She warns: those who seek power for its own sake are the most unfit to wield it. -
🐕 Pets > Politicians
Despair is real. A listener writes in barely holding on. Roxanne says: take a break, feel it, then get mad again. Also: hug your dog. Dogs don’t gaslight. Dogs don’t deport. -
🪧 Final Words
“We keep going. Because they want us to stop.”
The landscape is grim, the air smells like sulfur and fraud, and yet—here we are. Still telling the truth. Still cooking ribs. Still alive.
🗓️ Jul 02, 2025 | 🔗 headon.live | Sponsored by 🌱 Coal River Mountain Watch (crmw.net)