# 1010: Things Fall Apart | Secret Podcast

An episode of [The Next Level](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1647085571), 29 Aug 2025, 26 min.

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Another dark week: Trump toys with occupying Chicago, the FBI under Kash Patel ignores domestic terrorism, RFK Jr. runs HHS with conspiracy theories, and even the CDC is led by a political crony. JVL and Sarah Longwell ask the hard question, what if our democracy is already too broken to fix?

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