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Trump Caves on Weaponization Fund? My Discussion with Norm Eisen, Scott MacFarlane and Doctor Rob Davidson of Paging America. 01.06.2026 54min

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Erin Brockovich on the Explosion of Data Centers Across America 29.05.2026 45min

A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: INCOGNIAre you worried about your sensitive data lingering on the internet? I sure am. Have you ever searched for your personal information on Google or ChatGPT? You’d be shocked to find out what’s out there.Your name, phone number, and home address are just the beginning. Information about your family members, health records, and financial accounts, could be vulnerable.Incogni’s Unlimited plan puts you back in control of your online privacy, keeping you safer from harmful scams, identity theft, financial fraud, and other threats impacting your physical safety.Use code JIMM55 today to get an exclusive 55% discount on unlimited removals from anywhere that exposes your data. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

THE CREW IS BACK! With Katie Phang, Joy Reid, and Wajahat Ali 29.05.2026 57min

Thank you Kait Justice, Mandy Ohman, Christina Beck, Elaine Cimino, Soso's World, and many others for tuning into my live video with THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali and Katie Phang! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Cuba Invasion Next? Former Obama Official Ben Rhodes, Legal Analyst Joyce Vance, and Immigration Reporter Nick Valencia 28.05.2026 59min

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Could Texas Go Blue? My Discussion with Under the Desk News Star V Spehar and Maria Teresa Kumar 27.05.2026 52min

Thank you Dianne Mize, Annette, Lisa N. Peterson, Tina Krall, LeftieProf, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

ICE Pepper Sprays Sen. Andy Kim Who Joins Jim plus Glenn Kirschner and FL Dem for Governor David Jolly 26.05.2026 1h 1min

To all of our subscribers… Thanks for tuning in and supporting independent media! HEY, CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPONSOR - INCOGNIHave you ever searched for your personal information on Google or ChatGPT? You’d be shocked to find out what people can find out about you.Your name, phone number, and home address are just the beginning. Anyone deeply researching you can find out about your family members and relationships, SSN, health records, financial accounts, and employment history.Incogni’s Unlimited plan puts you back in control of your online privacy, keeping you safer from harmful scams, identity theft, financial fraud, and other threats impacting your physical safety.Use code JIMM55 today to get an exclusive 55% discount on unlimited removals from anywhere that exposes your data. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Jim Acosta on the Media & Epstein 18.04.2026 28min

Thank you Caroline Henry, Kevin McSpadden, Jeeni Criscenzo, Noble Blend, Miss Myra, and many others for tuning into my live video with Raw America! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Katie Phang, Glenn Kirschner and "Finding the Third Way" in Politics with Lanny Davis 16.04.2026 56min

Thank you Carol Johnston, Grace Alexandra Hayden, LeftieProf, Deeanna Burleson, Leah Anderson, and many others for tuning into my live video with Katie Phang! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

ICE Invades Homes in Minneapolis. My discussion with Katie Phang, Justin Wolfers, and Mike Froman. 12.01.2026 1h 3min

The Jim Acosta Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Thank you Dianne Mize, Cat, Mark, Mc Nelly Torres, Joan Donaldson, and many others for tuning into my live video with Katie Phang! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Coffee with The Contrarians and Jim Acosta 08.01.2026 38min

Thank you Steward Beckham, Dianne Mize, Cat, Caro Henry, Kelli Pryor, and many others for tuning into my live video with Norman Eisen and Jennifer Rubin! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Chicago Teens Ben and Sam Who Track ICE plus Epstein Survivor Attorney Arick Fudali 11.12.2025 47min

Thanks everybody for watching today! I was really inspired by this Chicago family that went out and documented ICE abuses in their city. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Researcher of Far-Right Extremism Jared Holt 09.12.2025 53min

Thank you Lev Parnas, Ellie Leonard, Dianne Mize, Reda Rountree (she/her), Different Lens, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Trump’s Monster Memes at the Department of Homeland Sadism 08.12.2025

The Jim Acosta Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Department of Homeland Security, a once critical arm of the federal government designed to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks in the aftermath of 9/11, is now in the business of doing the terrorizing. Even during the holiday season, DHS is carrying out its extremist mission with a distinct measure of glee these days, with memes and imagery that feel borrowed from white nationalist and neo-Nazi web sites, and even some of the darkest Hitler-era propaganda of the early 20th century. No, we’ve not reached that particular hell on earth. But you can see some of it from here. Witness the latest exploits from the X account run by DHS staffers who seem to delight in celebrating the department’s heinous operations of chasing down non-criminal migrants at home and at work, often ripping apart families on the spot, while occasionally body-slamming women, and pepper spraying innocent children. DHS touts the work of its masked ICE agents with memes tying their heartlessness to the holidays. “YOU’RE GOING HO HO HOME,” reads one recent DHS X post, which features images of ICE agents in Santa hats, standing next to vehicles adorned with Christmas lights. That sickening post, which boasts nearly 10 million views, is hardly an isolated example. But it does neatly illustrate the soulless monstrosity that DHS has become. It is America’s department of homeland sadism - an agency that appears to have abandoned its origin story of protecting the public in favor of delivering cheap thrills to those who feel a sort of kinship with baby-snatching ghouls. Another recent post on the DHS X account, see above, features a grainy 1980’s game show-inspired video offering prizes of $1000 to families that self-deport. The parents and children depicted in this unfunny government spoof are, surprise, brown-skinned. The video, which is hilarious only to the barbaric DHS public information team that produced this content, offers to take care of all of the travel arrangements. The point, of course, is not the comedy. It’s the cruelty. The shameful DHS X feed does point to the arrests of alleged undocumented criminals who have been apprehended since Trump’s return to the White House. But these are individuals who would have been targeted for removal proceedings under any other Democratic or Republican administration. What the DHS X account conveniently avoids mentioning are the numerous news accounts, as of late, to report that ICE has largely scooped up non-violent offenders. “We won’t apologize for posting banger memes,” a department spokeswoman told WIRED last summer in response to a piece from the magazine on DHS’s online recruitment efforts, which included images harkening back to the nation’s brutal embrace of the idea of “manifest destiny” - a period defined by western American (white) explorers violently removing indigenous tribes from their lands. WIRED piece on DHS memesDHS Secretary Kristi Noem, whose perch atop the department is reportedly tenuous, is all-in on serving as the department’s meme queen, a cosplayer-in-chief, riding horseback in skin-tight jeans in cringey images tweeted out by her team. According to the Bulwark’s excellent immigration reporter Adrian Carrasquillo, Noem may be bucked out her saddle any day now. Virginia’s outgoing governor Glenn Youngkin could be her successor. Noem on her way out?It should be noted the department’s gaslighting goes way beyond juvenile shitposting on X. Just last month, DHS deputy assistant secretary Micah Bock, a senior department official, attempted to rewrite American history and the country’s identity by insisting in an Instagram post that the U.S. is “not a nation of immigrants.”“We are a nation of citizens,” Bock declares in the video. See below. DHS deputy secretary says America not a nation of immigrants What’s next? Stripping Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus,” from the Statue of Liberty? Don’t give Bock any ideas. Obviously, the DHS social media propaganda machine has largely ignored the countless viral videos of women and children assaulted by ICE agents, many of which I’ve recounted on my podcast. DHS officials rarely offer any plausible explanations for the horrendous actions of ICE agents in their posts. Instead, the department leaves much of its pushback efforts to softball interviews offered up on Fox.In reality, the memes are the department’s response. Trump wants America to do more than just tolerate or even support his mass deportation atrocities. Like all of human history’s worst demagogues, he wants you to enjoy the show. In other words, the meme is the message. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimacosta.substack.com/subscribe

Sports Journalist Pablo Torre and Instagram Comedian and "PE Guy" Johnny Hilbrant 05.12.2025 53min

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Top Dem on House Intel Committee Rep. Jim Himes says DOD "Wasted" Defenseless Boat Strike Survivors plus Rep. Eric Swalwell Runs for CA Gov. 04.12.2025 41min

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Calling Out Cruelty with I've Had It Podcast Host Jennifer Welch plus Rep. Robert Garcia on New Photos from Epstein Island. 03.12.2025 52min

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Hegseth Blames the "Fog of War" While Trump Naps - with Rep. Jason Crow and David Rothkopf. 02.12.2025 58min

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Liz Oyer on Trump's Pardon Hypocrisy! Pardons for Profit? Plus Maria Cardona on Trump's MRI BS. 01.12.2025 58min

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BREAKING NEWS NATIONAL GUARD SHOOTING IN DC, WITH MALCOLM NANCE & LEV PARNAS, PLUS MOLLY JONG FAST WITH OUR TOP 10 TURKEYS 26.11.2025 55min

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Keith Edwards on Hegseth Overcompensating and Tennessee State Rep. Aftyn Behn Fights to Flip Red Congressional District 25.11.2025 56min

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