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Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Is potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil proof that Donald Trump will use cancel culture against his loudest critics? If misogyny is a political ideology, should the Southport murderer's crime be classed as terrorism? Why are health professionals struggling to treat teenagers addicted to vaping?  Tortoise editor Giles Whittell is joined by TYT's very own Cenk Uygur and Tortoise journalists Katie Riley and Claudia Williams, as they each pitch a story they think should lead the news.  You can listen to the full episode here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Long bendy Twizzlers candy keeps the fun going. Keep the fun going. Hello, it's Giles Wittel from Tortus. Welcome to the news meeting. Jenk, as guest of honor, you're up first.

Tell us more about your story. Mahmoud Khalil was a graduate student in Columbia. ICE came to arrest them. Is it cancel culture to arrest them? Obviously, it doesn't get a bigger cancel culture than arresting someone, except perhaps maybe deporting them. So he's literally canceled from the country for daring to criticize Donald Trump's largest donor. So his real crime is criticizing Israel and leading peace process.

We can see in this story the kind of handprint of all the different things that the Trump administration has previously been saying. This makes total sense as a kind of individual to go after and why it would land. Claudia, tell us more about your story. Professor Rachel Isba is running a pilot scheme in England helping teenagers to stop vaping. It's a clinic that was opened in January. It's now seeing children as young as 11. Katie, tell us more about your story. Axel Ruda-Cabana killed three little girls and injured a bunch of other people in Southport.

the fact that he went to almost all female event. I think that we don't see misogyny as terrorism. What do you make of that argument? Yeah, I hate it, but not for the reasons that you might think. He's a lunatic who did a random crime. Now, here's the thing. Young men always get to be lunatics, though. Like, young men who kill women are allowed to be lunatics,

and they're one-off, and there's no political ideology behind them. And I think that we do not connect these dots as well as we should. So, let me do two pieces of nuance there. So one is if we called everyone who did mass killings in America terrorists, half the country would be terrorists. Should we not? We should definitely not. Are they not inspiring terror? If you'd like to listen to the full episode, search for the news meeting wherever you get your podcast.