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Air Date: 3–19-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- A special little ditty Jay put together
- The legitimate problems that helped birth the damaging MAHA movement
- Sherrod Brown’s OpEd on how the Democrats lost their way
- What Jay learned from India’s railway engineers
- An interview with Ro Khanna that sparked some hope
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“Like a Flame in the Night” - Based on SOLVED! Ep. #340: Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future (March 9th)
Health Paranoia and the Politics of MAHA
Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again
Ro Khanna Is Doing More Than Voting 'No'
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Air Date 3/18/2025
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Bernie Response Does Huge Numbers｜One Democrat Defies Trump - The Rational National - Air Date 3-5-25
KP 2: How to Rebuild the Left as the Far Right Floods the Zone - UNFTR Media - Air Date 2-5-25
KP 3: How to Really Resist - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 2-28-25
KP 4: Republicans finally go NUCLEAR over town hall disasters - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 3-5-25
KP 5: How Leftists Can Win in 2025 - Harper O'Conner - Air Date 1-3-25
KP 6: Gov. Pritzker SLAMS Trump and Musk in closing remarks of State of the State address - NBC Chicago - Air Date 2-19-25
(50:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Giving the call to join the fight at Indivisible.org
DEEPER DIVES
(52:46) SECTION A: STRATEGY & GOALS
(1:16:30) SECTION B: HUMOR AS A TACTIC
(1:35:34) SECTION C: PROTEST
(1:54:57) SECTION D: BOYCOTT
(2:13:48) SECTION E: RESOURCES
(2:37:09) SECTION F: POWER STRUCTURES
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Description: A protestor holds a Trans Pride flag with the word RESIST (with an equals sign in the E) in front of a state capitol building.
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Air Date 3/15/2025
It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop foreign and economic policies. Allow us to list the ways.
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KEY POINTS
1: Project 2025 Foreign Policy America Last - The Tristan Snell Show - Air Date 8-15-25
2: March 6, 2025 Full Show - Democracy Now! - Air Date 3-6-25
3: Trump's Foreign Policy - It Could Happen Here - 11-14-24
4: Ukraine's Fight for Self-Determination w/ Howie Hawkins - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 3-3-25
5: Russia, Ukraine, US The Global Chessboard - WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts - Air Date 3-4-25
6: After restarting aid to Ukraine, U.S. will present ceasefire proposal to Russia - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 3-11-25
7: Trump's tariff tumult - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 3-6-25
8: Trumps On-and-Off-Again Tariffs, and Decoding Make America Healthy Again - On the Media - Air Date 3-7-25
9: Global Chess Europe's Unity Strengthens While American Trade Policy Falters - The Tristan Snell Show - Air Date 3-6-25
(59:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On Monthly-ish Recaps and the week of activism
DEEPER DIVES
(1:02:33) SECTION A: RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
(1:44:50) SECTION B: TRADE WARS AND TARIFFS
(2:27:43) SECTION C: USAID
(3:03:26) SECTION D: US REALIGNMENT & NATO
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Air Date 3/12/2025
The (Approximately) Monthly Mix is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at the future for Gaza, Trump's plans for mass deportations, the decline of the US on the international stage, the wrecking crew dismantling the federal government, RFK Jr. and the threat to public health, and Trump's endemic corruption.
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PART 1: ETHNIC CLEANSING AT HOME AND ABROAD
#1687 Respite: Ceasefire in Gaza and the Legacy of Imperial Folly in the Middle East
1: Gaza Ceasefire Explained Reading Between The Lines Part 2 - The Socialist Program - Air Date 1-16-25
2: On the Situation in Syria and its Implications for the Region - Revolutionary Left Radio - Air Date 1-6-25
3: Egypt, Jordan Reject Trump Plan to Clean Out Gaza; Palestinians Return to N. Gaza in Historic Day - Democracy Now! - Air Date 1-27-25
(25:13) #1693 Empowering Ethnostates: Ethnically cleansing Gaza and Trump's South Africa fixation
4: Trump's Insane Plan To Own Gaza - Pod Save the World - Air Date 2-12-25
5: West Bank Annexation Inevitable - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-6-25
6: Trump's South Africa Fixation - What Next - Air Date 2-12-25
(49:33) #1692 Ethnically Cleansing America
(1:16:02) #1688 International Decline: The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
PART 2: TRUMP AND THE WRECKING CREW
(1:41:55) #1689 The Media and the Moguls
(2:02:34) #1691 Breaking the Government
(2:25:26) #1690 Oligarchy Unmasked- Why Billionaires Hate Democracy and How They're Dismantling It
(2:45:15) #1694 Unhealthy Discourse - RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health
(3:02:31) #1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course
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Air Date: 3–9-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- The Founding Fathers’ prophetic concerns that we don’t ever talk about
- FDR VP Harry Wallace’s op-ed on American fascism from 1944
- Philosopher Richard Rorty’s chilling predictions from 1998
- A few reasons - with caveats - why U.S. Democracy might make it through Trump 2.0
- Some hope and advice from a country that recently defeated their authoritarian regime
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Benjamin Franklin to the Federal Convention
The Other Fear of the Founders - The Atlantic
Vice President Henry A. Wallace on ‘The Danger of American Fascism’ in 1944 - Brewminate
An eerie prophecy of Trump’s second term - Vox
Three reasons why American democracy will likely withstand Trump - Vox
Poland just showed the world how democracy wins
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Air Date 3/7/2025
Corruption, for those who indulge, isn't just a perk of power, it can also be a method of maintaining it. Trump is not bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate or how it's geared toward supporting his desire for unchecked power.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: President Trump's Second Administration and Project 2025 - Trump's Terms - Air Date 2-11-25
KP 2: The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau was protecting you from corporate greed. It's gone now. - The Real News Network - Air Date 2-18-25
KP 3: The Gangster Presidency - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 2-15-25
KP 4: Trump's Theory of Power - Brennan Center for Justice - Air Date 2-5-25
KP 5: See Trump's blatant quid pro quo with Eric Adams play out live on Fox News - All In w Chris Hayes - Air Date 2-14-25
KP 6: The Billionaires Government Branko Marcetic on Trumps Complete Betrayal of His Base - Democracy Now! - Air Date 2-27-25
KP 7: D.C. Gutted. Grassroots Galvanized. - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 2-22-25
KP 8: Elie Mystal On The Peoples Checks and Balances - Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast - Air Date 2-21-25
(56:17) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the impact of corruption
DEEPER DIVES
(1:05:38) SECTION A: THE CABINET OF GREED
(1:48:28) SECTION B: QUID-PRO-QUO
(2:10:58) SECTION C: CORPORATE INTERESTS
(2:48:08) SECTION D: KING TRUMP
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Air Date 3/4/2025
An old proverb says that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and we're all about to see how dangerous as know-nothings and science skeptics take over the government agencies staffed by doctors and scientists with the goal of keeping the population healthy.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: U.S. health agencies hit with mass layoffs by Trump administration - Way Too Early with Ali Vitali - Air Date 2-18-25
KP 2: Department of Health and Holy Sh*t: RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement and What It Means for America Part 1 - Inside the Hive - Air Date 2-5-25
KP 3: Psychiatric Struggle w/ Danielle Carr - The Dig - Air Date 2-17-25
KP 4: MAHA Forever - The Dream - Air Date 2-16-25
KP 5: Republicans are Proposing Bills SO F***ing Stupid They’ll Make Your Head Explode - The Humanist Report - Air Date 2-18-25
KP 6: Samoa's Health Chief Says RFK Jr. Spread Anti-Vax Misinformation Before Deadly Measles Outbreak - Democracy Now! - Air Date 1-31-25
(48:15) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the tragedy of the mirror world
DEEPER DIVES
(57:25) SECTION A: HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS
(1:15:51) SECTION B: RFK JR.
(1:30:48) SECTION C: ANTI-SCIENCE DANGERS
(1:55:19) SECTION D: PREDATORS AND PREY
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Description: RFK Jr. speaks at the podium at a Trump-Vance rally while an out-of-focus Donald Trump watches him in the background.
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Air Date: 3-2-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- How “entrepreneurialism” has gained unearned adoration and disempowered labor organizing
- The 100-year-old “New Thought” era and how it shaped our current culture of work
- The social critic Theodore Roszak’s accurate predictions about the dark turn of tech and work
- What Democrats should learn from Steve Bannon’s approach to Musk
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The Cult of the Entrepreneur - The New Republic
The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech’s Dark Turn - The Nation
What Anti-Musk Democrats Can Learn From Steven Bannon - NY Magazine
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Original Air Date: 615/2022
The many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than a basic human need or, if you're feeling radical, a basic human right.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Housing Market - If You Don't Know, Now You Know - The Daily Show - Air Date 12-8-21
Ch. 2: How Foreign Companies Are Raising Housing Prices - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 12-27-21
Ch. 3: John and Ana React to Bonkers Housing Story - The Damage Report - Air Date 3-12-22
Ch. 4: How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis - The Gravel Institute - Air Date 1-29-21
Ch. 5: Is the Housing Bubble About to Burst Featuring Prof. Richard Wolff - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 6-1-22
Ch. 6: Eviction Rates Are Rising - The Takeaway - Air Date 5-13-22
Ch. 7: Why Dems Have Abandoned Public Housing - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-9-22
Ch. 8: Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing? Swimming Pools, Private TV Channels & More - Channel 4 Documentaries - Air Date 8-8-19
Ch. 9: Short-term rental housing is hurting Ouray residents - Rocky Mountain PBS - Air Date 7-19-21
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Air Date 2/25/2025
Racism is at the core of most of what Trump believes so it should be no surprise when he aligns himself and the country with explicitly supremacist projects like the perceived Jewish superiority over Palestinians and the assumed "reverse racism" against White South Africans
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Trumps Insane Plan To Own Gaza - Pod Save the World - Air Date 2-12-25
KP 2: Elon's African roots - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-13-25
KP 3: Trumps South Africa Fixation - What Next - Air Date 2-12-25
KP 4: American Jews, Israel, and Palestine w Peter Beinart - American Prestige - Air Date 2-11-25
KP 5: West Bank Annexation Inevitable - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-6-25
KP 6: Israelis and Palestinians Standing Together - Ralph Nader Radio Hour - Air Date 2-15-25
KP 7: On The Ground in Gaza Serving the People in Palestine - Rev Left Radio - Air Date 2-11-25
(51:08) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On why Israel and Gaza are not are complicated as you may think
DEEPER DIVES
(56:45) SECTION A: TRUMP’S GAZA PROPOSAL
(1:10:39) SECTION B: AFRIKANERS AND TRUMP
(1:35:00) SECTION C: WEST BANK VIOLENCE
(1:59:33) SECTION D: HISTORICAL CONTEXT
(2:25:09) SECTION E: RESISTANCE
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Description: Composite showing Netanyahu and Trump with their heads close looking down on a Palestinian flag flying out of the rubble on Gaza.
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Air Date: 2-23-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- The heavy influence of a Nazi political theorist (propagandist) on the MAGA movement
- How our disagreements on baseline reality lead us to devastatingly different conclusions
- What many Trump supporters hoped for vs. what they got
- How so-called Timeline apps may help us extricate ourselves from social media
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Us and Them Is All the Rage
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Air Date 2/21/2025
There is nothing other than racism at the heart of Trump's immigration policy. He wants to deport as many brown people as possible, stop as many immigrants and refugees as possible unless they're White people from South Africa or the nearly 40 million Canadians he's inviting to enjoy immediate US citizenship. This is not complicated. Trump is a disgusting, blatant racist (and always has been) who's trying to turn the US into a White ethnostate.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Trump’s Unconstitutional Rampage Against Immigration - Amicus - Air Date 1-25-25
KP 2: Guantanamo's other history Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-10-12
KP 3: Know your rights (immigration edition) - Make Your Damn Bed - Air Date 1-23-25
KP 4: Operation Wetback and the Bipartisan Legacy of US Deportations Part 1 - Letters and Politics - Air Date 1-16-25
KP 5: Extraordinary Cruelty, Ordinary Policy: Immigration and Deportation Under Trump 2.0. - Unf*cking The Republic - Air Date 1-31-25
(45:30) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On what we can learn from imaginary borders
DEEPER DIVES
(51:24) SECTION A: RIGHTS & FIGHTS
(1:26:42) SECTION B: GITMO & HAITI
(1:48:34) SECTION C: BIPARTISAN EXPLOITATION
(2:36:28) SECTION D: REALITY ON THE GROUND
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Air Date 2/18/2025
Democracies slide into dictatorship in two ways, first slowly and then all of a sudden. We have been sliding in this direction for at least as long as I have been paying attention to politics and we're finally at the moment where that slow slide shifts into full speed.
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KEY POINTS
1: Is America Broken - The Gray Area - Air Date 2-10-25
2: Musk's 'DOGE' is spiraling U.S. into a constitutional crisis - The ReidOut - Air Date 2-7-25
3: Trump's latest target the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 2-10-25
4: Trumps American Takeover - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 2-1-25
5: Musk's Coup and Trump's Christian Zionist Gaza Takeover - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 2-7-25
6: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith _Cost-Cutting Effort - Citations Needed - Air Date 2-5-25
7: Why Are Dems Surprised - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 2-7-25
(55:58) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the long slide to dictatorship
Clip: O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts - NPR
DEEPER DIVES
(1:03:06) SECTION A: GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
(1:29:34) SECTION B: CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
(2:00:04) SECTION C: THE PLAYBOOK
(2:22:46) SECTION D: WHAT TO DO
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Composite image of the US Capitol building, surrounded by symbols of justice, treasury, international aid, and education, with a large brick smashing into the center with the acronym “MAGA” on the end.
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Air Date: 2-16-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- Why we may be forced to bring back bullying
- The impact of algorithms and what we can do about it
- Democrats and the meaning of 'the medium is the message'
- The unbelievable stupidity of techbro dweebs and their followers
- The sociopathic reasons why Musk is doing this
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The Algorithmic Cage
The Big Tech Takeover of American Politics
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
Remedial Civics for Tech Bros (Middle article)
Why Is Elon Musk So Hell-Bent on Bulldozing the Government?
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Original Air Date: 8/4/2015
The dysfunctional state of the US immigration system and the political fight brewing over what to do about it
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Show NotesAct 1: Coming Out As An Undocumented Immigrant - Latino Voices - AJ+ (@ajplus) - Air Date: 03-20-15
Act 2: Donald Trump WRONG About 'Immigrant Crime' - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 07-08-15
Act 3: Scott Walker Now Bashing Any and All Immigrants - @majorityfm - Air Date: 04-22-15
Act 4: La Raza Annual Conference Will Be Skipped By EVERY 2016 Republican Candidate - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 07-12-15
Act 5: 'OITNB' actress (@dianeguerrero__) speaks out about family's deportation - CNN - Air Date: 11-17-14
Act 6: Mass Graves of Immigrants Found in Texas, But State Says No Laws Were Broken - @democracynow - Air Date: 07-16-15
Act 7: Did You Know Jesus Was Against Immigration? - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 07-16-15
Act 8: Hold Border Patrol Responsible via @ACLU — Best of the Left Activism
Act 9: Let Them All In? How Immigration Can Help the Economy - @LearnLiberty - Air Date: 01-13-15
Act 10: The Migrant Manifesto by Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) - @migrants_rights Network - Air Date: 11-26-12
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Air Date 2/11/2025
The very rich, as has been noted before, are not on the side of regular people. And even if you think that the federal government needs a major reboot, no one but the ultra-wealthy are going to be happy with what they build in the aftermath of the administrative coup currently underway.
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ACTIVISM ROUNDUP
KEY POINTS
KP 1: How Oligarchs Took Over The World - Double Down News - Air Date 1-9-25
KP 2: Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Unelected Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept. & Other Agencies - Democracy Now! - Air Date 2-3-25
KP 3: The Oligarchy's Power is Waking America Up - Velshi - Air Date 1-27-25
KP 4: DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America Part 1 - Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious - Air Date 11-13-24
KP 5: Why the Tech Bros Allied with Trump - Zeteo - Air Date 2-2-25
KP 6: President Trump and the Power of the Purse - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 2-5-25
(51:21) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the dream of the accelerationists
DEEPER DIVES
(56:16) SECTION A: HISTORICAL CONTEXT
(1:40:21) SECTION B: GOVERNMENT DESTRUCTION
(2:25:04) SECTION C: THE BROS
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Air Date: 2-10-25
Today, Jay! and Amanda (Deon and Erin were sick) discuss:
- Why you should be using an RSS reader
- The danger of Mystification as humans try to cope
- Musk and Trump's flagrant law breaking
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You should be using an RSS reader
Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein
Q & A: Jared Yates Sexton on the ‘Weaponized Abuse’ of Authoritarianism
Brian Schatz on How Democrats Can ‘Start Kicking Ass Again’
All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now
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Air Date 2/7/2025
Trump came in with a plan to subdue the media and large swaths of the media came in with a plan to acquiesce. But it's important to understand why because it's not a conspiracy or people wanting to do harm, it's structural to the system.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Revenge- Trump throws lawsuits at the media and demands compliance - The ReidOut w Joy Reid - Air Date 12-17-24
KP 2: Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars. - On the Media - Air Date 11-15-24
KP 3: Trump SECRET Meeting with Media before Payoff EXPOSED - The MeidasTouch Podcast - Air Date 12-16-24
KP 4: Mickey Huff The Mainstream Media is [CENSORED] - The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow - Air Date 1-11-25
KP 5: Why Is Mainstream Media Still So Bad At This - The Majority Report - Air Date 2-2-25
KP 6: Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) - On the Media - Air Date 1-10-25
KP 7: Attention pays (with Chris Hayes) - The Gray Area with Sean Illing - Air Date 1-27-25
KP 8: Jim Acosta's powerful last words as he leaves CNN- -It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant - Dean Obeidallah Show - Air Date 1-28-25
KP 9: Fox News is Back at the White House. Plus, No Joke, The Onion Buys Infowars. Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 11-15-24
(53:40) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the liberatory power of the humble RSS feed reader
DEEPER DIVES
(1:00:23) SECTION A: MONEY
(1:20:46) SECTION B: ATTENTION
(1:34:24) SECTION C: FREE PRESS
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Air Date 2/4/2025
The era of unquestioned US hegemony is undoubtedly on the decline but the future is much more complicated and uncertain than the straightforward idea of China rising to take our place that we've been told. Though Trump is not the cause of US decline, he may send us out in a tragic blaze of glory.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: Things Fall Apart - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 1-28-25
KP 2: The end of America's global dominance Part 1 - The New Statesman - Air Date 1-8-25
KP 3: Will France and Germany's woes affect the rest of Europe? | Counting the Cost - Al Jazeera English - Air Date 12-12-24
KP 4: Putin faces 'economic dilemma' amid Trump sanctions threats | World in 10 - Times Radio - Air Date 1-25-25
KP 5: Goodnight, Pax Americana: Neoliberalism and the decline of the US Empire w/ Radhika Desai Part 1 - The Red Nation Podcast - Air Date 9-22-23
KP 6: Yanis Varoufakis on Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War - DiEM25 - Air Date 1-26-24
(46:57) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On soft landings vs crash landings
DEEPER DIVES
(52:56) SECTION A: AMERICAN DECLINE
(1:26:09) SECTION B: CHINA
(1:49:01) SECTION C: RUSSIA
(2:15:18) SECTION D: FRANCE
(2:35:47) SECTION E: CORPORATE CONTROL
(2:59:56) SECTION F: WHAT COMES NEXT
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Air Date: 2-2-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- How the resistance is transforming, not over
- What actually worked when resisting Trump's first term
- A curation of good advice on being effective and staying sane this time aroundFOLLOW US ON:
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Goodbye, ‘Resistance.’ The Era of Hyperpolitics Is Over.
How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, VerfBlog
Here's What You Can Do to Keep Democracy Alive During Trump's Second Term
Trump Will Overplay His Hand. Here’s How to Be Ready.
A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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