In this week’s episode of The Actual News, we navigate a barrage of real headlines: escalating immigration crackdowns, swelling protests, and even a political assassination. Host Alex Giampapa unpacks the media’s obsession with fear and spectacle, the Trump administration’s immigration theater, and the dangerously effective power of perception over reality. What happens when policy becomes performance and fear becomes currency? And more importantly—how do we respond?

Notable Quotes:

“It seems like it’s not necessarily the end of the world, but perhaps just the end of the world as we know it.”

“They’re not after your money necessarily. They’re after your attention.”

“If Trump is able to get enough people to believe that, then he won’t have to improve the economy—because he, in hand with legacy media, will simply make people feel scared.”

“Just because you get rid of undocumented immigrants...does not mean there’s going to be more money in your pocket.”

“Communism has never worked. Okay. Has fascism ever worked?”

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