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Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live.

We started with a debrief of last night’s State of the Union. If you didn’t watch: Congrats. Let us recap for you.

Just a few topics we touched on:

* Trump as Daddy Protector of Patriarchy (also: a leering creep)

* That bombshell NPR report on the DOJ withholding files re: allegations of Trump abusing a minor

* Why the U.S. men’s hockey team (and the entire Trump admin) needs a training in bystander intervention

* Kash Patel: frat-boy idiot

* Trump and Melania’s shitty marriage as a perfect reflection of the misogyny and control behind “family values”

* Everything the America’s Next Top Model documentary got wrong about consent and reporting on an alleged sexual assault

* Kid Rock and RFK Jr. chugging milk, doing pushups in a sauna, and wearing jeans in a cold plunge tub

* The anti-heterosexuality of the Olympics

* Scott Galloway being disgusted by the birth of his own child

* Love Is Blind fat-shaming and straight men’s “just being honest” rhetoric

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