Grok = Rebellious Teen, Dems Suspicious Of Low Hanging Fruit!? 05.16.25

The Daily Zeitgeist

In episode 1865, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian behind the comedy special Recommended Based On Your Search History, Joe Kwaczala, to discuss… Oh Grok Is Now Feeding Into The White Genocide Conspiracy, You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?! Wrestling Childcare Away From Private Equity Is The Winning Issue Democrats Keep Ignoring and more!

1. Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats
2. Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are ‘dangerous’
3. You Got That 2025 Topps Pope Leo XIV Rookie Card?!
4. What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care
5. U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
6. Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
7. New Polling on Child Care and the 2024 Election
8. Harris wants to limit child care costs to 7% of family income
9. Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?
10. The “Affordability” Hustle
11. New Mexico Started Offering Free Childcare and Reduced the State’s Poverty Rate
12. Transforming the Child Care Landscape
13. New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
14. Project 2025 plan calls for shifting funding for childcare to in-home care
15. Project 2025 Proposes Defunding Daycare
16. Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home
17. Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry
18. Can Child Care Be a Big Business? Private Equity Thinks So.
19. For-Profit Childcare Chains Showered Manchin in Cash After He Blocked Universal Care

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