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In this episode, we wrap up our look into the Minneapolis Crime Watch and Information network with a look at their ideology and agenda. Special guest is New Republic staff writer and Minnesota native Alex Pareene.

In part one of two or three, we look at Alpha News' crime coverage. And we have our first fact-check triple threat: one article, three lies. The read of the week is an amphetamine trip in 1,200 words about how socialists want to abolish the family.

A quick look at some of the most popular lies and half-truths the media network is peddling to defend the president.

In this episode, I introduce a new segment called Fact Check. Why just say that the blog network is garbage when I can show that they're garbage? Also, I check in with Curtis Dozier, Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College, to help me respond to a particularly vile Alpha News post called "The Unmatched Exceptionalism of Western Culture." Dozier runs a website called Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics where he documents appropriation of Greek and Roman culture by hate groups. Can you guess which Minnesota-based blog he's written about?


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In the inaugural episode of the newly christened UNBALANCED.MN, we look at some of the connections between the media network that surrounds the Freedom Club and the network fostered by the Koch brothers and other billionaire conservatives. We also give a salute to an anonymous angel; a vigilante; a digital Batman; the hero we deserve but not the hero we need. The music is "Old Folks Range," by Dan Carroll/Big Horn.