Epstein, the Manosphere, and the Erasure of Women w/ Lauren Leader

Lauren Leader — co-founder of All In Together and one of the leading voices on women in politics — joins Tara to talk about the pattern no one in Washington wants to name: every woman in Trump's cabinet is being pushed out. From Pam Bondi to Kristi Noem to Tulsi Gabbard to Linda McMahon, the firings keep coming — and Lauren explains why this is textbook "glass cliff" politics. They go deep on the manosphere's hijacking of the Epstein story, why victim testimony from women is treated as hearsay, the Victoria's Secret–Wexner–Epstein pipeline that sexualized an entire generation of girls, Joe Rogan's 11% female guest rate, Michael Wolff's Epstein ties, and why the U.S. ranks 43rd in the world for gender parity.

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0:00 – Intro: Every woman in Trump's cabinet is getting fired

2:13 – The glass cliff: women handed impossible jobs, then blamed when they fail

7:34 – Pam Bondi was a lapdog who still got fired

10:32 – The manosphere hijacks the Epstein narrative — Rogan, Fridman, all-male panels

14:30 – Joe Rogan: only 11% of his guests are women — and it shows

21:49 – "Not one of them has been fired — they all resigned. That's not the same thing"

24:43 – Victoria's Secret, Les Wexner, and how Epstein shaped a body image crisis

30:02 – Ezra Klein and Bill Maher center men in the Epstein conversation

35:50 – Michael Wolff: decades observing Epstein, offering to brief the Saudis through him

40:14 – Anna Paulina Luna's discharge petition — credit where it's due

42:25 – Mike Johnson blocking Republican women from leadership

45:07 – The pay gap got worse, black women's unemployment spiked, maternal health crisis deepens

45:31 – The Florida woman forced into a C-section mid-labor by a Zoom judge

47:29 – Outro and thanks

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