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Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION!
We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III!
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song: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
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Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to.
Whither the Teamsters for a Democratic Union? Whither the labor movement? Is there a future for the types of left labor reform movements that Labor Notes calls for? Sean, Hope and Jamie Merchant give their assessment of the good, bad and ugly at the conference including those topic which remained unaddressed but hung in the air.
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Song: Neil Young - This Note's For You
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The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's adversarial stance towards the reigning Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership.
Tune in to next week's new episode where Andy and Sean break down the counterprogramming event that occurred outside LN2026 featuring supporters of TM, Spartacists League and the leftcom group International Communist Party.
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song: Neil Young - This Note's For You
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Sean is joined by favorite guest and wife Rax King to discuss her upcoming essay in journalism cooperative Flaming Hydra on why organizing in the food service industry is so difficult but also so vital. What will it take for labor to break through in this industry? What can restaurant work teach us about labor in general? Why are these restaurant owners always clenching their jaws and sweating so much? Answers to these questions, an introduction to Rax's patented Nine Rigors system of becoming a human, an old fashioned gripezone and more on this special, last minute episode.
To support our work and get access to all our bonus material become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
Check out Rax King's excellent newsletter for all her great writings: https://www.patreon.com/c/raxkingisdead/home
Come see Rax in person in NYC for the Veiled Prophet event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-veiled-prophet-nyc-book-event-tickets-1990109537198
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As Sean and Varn reconvene we are faced with the unenviable task of trying to understand what the hell the Democratic Party is going to run on in 2026 and 2028, How to understand this economic moment? How to understand the various geopolitical crises around the globe? How are counterhegemonic actors like Graham Platner and Alex Jones going to politically confront the brave new world of AI? Stay tuned!
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NEW EP! Was Trump's China trip a Nothing Burger or a soy slop?
Why does the Deep State care so much about Taiwan?
And Sean's NY☭ hat came from WHERE?
All that plus choo-choo talk (LIRR Strike) in the bonus! For the full episode, sign up at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/lirr-strike-long-island-rail-road.html
De-Tuckerized version of Sean's hat: https://www.neoliberalhell.com/shop/p/mysterious-hat
Song: Misfits - She (Demo version)
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NEWS EP! Sean reports back from the a Beverly Hills Hedge Fund summit. Europe goes solar punk. US debt passes GDP as Project Freedom fails, and the Mideast bases lie in ruin. Is America through, or just through being cool?
Billionaires Unfazed by Iran: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/19bda51e-fb62-4432-bc37-b9b425f19edd
Labor Market Unfazed by Iran https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/57482c61-164e-4f48-8214-370b269ac7b6
Europe Solar/Iran War: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/business/europe-solar-panels-iran-war.html
US Debt Milestone: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/us-debt-trump-policies-budget.html
This (US base) Wreckage: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/world/video/us-military-bases-iran-strikes-images-invs-digvid
"Operation Trust Me Bro" : https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/05/07/top-iran-negotiator-mocks-operation-trust-me-bro-and-questions-reports-of-trumps-peace-proposal/
Saudi/Kuwait Cold Feet — Gulf states pulling back from US posture on Hormuz https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/politics/trump-strait-of-hormuz-saudis.html
Iran Economic Wreckage: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/world/middleeast/iran-economy-layoffs.html
America is through being cool? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/opinion/vintage-clothes-america-cool-culture.html
Song: Nirvana - Milk It
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We're joined by Henry Wallis of the FORMS podcast to guide us through one of the most obscure and challenging, yet arguably most consequential Biblical texts: the Book of Revelations.
For the FULL episode, Discord access, and all bonus content support the show at http:///patreon.com/ThisWreckage
Written by a Christian exile on an Aegean Island in a time of intense imperial Civil War and internal repression of Jews and Christians, the text is interpreted by scholars as a coded polemic against tyranny and assimilation, and by end-times preachers (and US officials) as a description of contemporary events. Now, Henry, the Orthodox scholar, Sean, the occasional Church-goer, and Andy, the non-practicing Reddit Athiest, will take on the text with fresh eyes.
We read from the King James Bible and David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament
Song: Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator
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Interviews from this past weekend's Upstate Anarchist Bookfair with Riot Act Books, Solarpunk writer Phoebe Wagner, Flock Off Ithaca, Bolshevik Tendency, and Warzone Distro
For an extended version of this episode, sign up for FREE at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
At the end I include a snippet of our Armed Love interview with Ben Morea, who passed away this weekend. Check out the full interview here: Part 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65595770?collection=87680 Part 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65563424?collection=87680
Critique of "win" narrative in Minneapolis: https://illwill.com/proto-politics-in-purgatory
Song: Another Dimension - Twilight Zone (Remix)
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We take another break from WW3 and various attempted assassinations with a sojourn into some economic shit with our guest Nicolas D Villarreal, an independent researcher focusing on the capitalist political economy.
For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Full piece: https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-capitalist-in-the-21st-century/
Response https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/letter-limiting-factors-in-capitalist-growth/
Counter-Response https://cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/letter-why-the-limit-is-not-a-lack-of-opportunity/
FT article in agricultural inflation: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e13369c2-edb8-4418-adfb-3496d2fae185
CBS News' penny pinching tips: https://x.com/TheRealVarnVlog/status/2048217038443991052
Song: Kinks - Maximum Consumption
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Sean and Andy are joined by researcher A.J.A. Woods to discuss their new book The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West.
How did this basket of conspiracies come together in the post-60s moment? Who was Lyndon Larouche and how did he provide a bridge from quasi-Leninist elitism to the Reaganite New Right? What does culture even mean for the right and how has it taken such outsized importance for them?
And, in the bonus for subscribers, what might an actual Marxism that is cultural look like and how many Beatles songs was Theodor Adorno responsible for writing?
Become a supporter of our work at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
Song: Alien Nosejob - Kinks vs. Stones
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&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)!
This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" and a section of Berlin Childhood.
For the full episode, subscribe at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage & listen to the end for a story of Anders' Benjamin-inspired direct action against Rahm Emmanuel.
Song: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (Slowed)
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NEWS EP! Andy is a bestseller. Sean becomes a Luddite Gnome. Orbon is Or-gone. Situation monitoring Hormuz, and looking back at the Suez crisis.
In the bonus we discuss AI-generated Iranian propaganda. To hear that, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Metropolitans B&N event with Noah Kulwin: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0
‘Summer of Ludd’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/style/lamp-club-luddites.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Orban Loss: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/orban-trump-maga.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Audio of Iranian warning that scared away US Navy warship https://x.com/eternalphysics/status/2043309125572936047?s=46
Suez and Iran by Niall Ferguson https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/america-suez-crisis-trump-presidency-world-order-iran-cqrfs86z0
Central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/6fac51c8-b650-48d4-82eb-e6e66f75dd2fForeign
Iran plans permanent changes to world economy https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/10/766586/why-no-matter-can-undermine-iran-eternal-dominance-over-strait-hormuz
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Catching up with Molly Crabapple about Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, available TODAY!!
See also Molly's "My Great Grandfather was a Bundist" in New York Review of Books
Support the show / get bonus content at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Song: New Yiddish Chorale/Workers Circle Chorus feat. Adrienne Cooper - Barikadn (Barricades)
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Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement.
Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire.
For access to this and all our bonus content become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
For the video of this episode and lots of great educational material become a supporter of C. Derick Varn over at VarnVlog
You can support Henry's work over at the excellent magazine https://newint.org/
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Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!!
One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character.
Check out this excerpt, this interview, or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review.
PREORDER from Penguin, Bookshop.org, Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events:
April 1: Official book launch! w/ Bradford William Davis at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn (Ticketing information: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-metropolitans-by-a-m-gittlitz/)
April 3: Release celebration at Lou’s Athletic Club in Bushwick more info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPKFCQCp5r/
April 4: Tabling with Books and Rooks at Ft. Green Farmer’s Market around 11am April 12: Paper Moon in Troy, NY April 13: B&N in Albany
April 16: B&N Brooklyn with Noah Kulwin! https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0
April 20: B&N in Carle's place LI with Greg Prince
April 27: B&N in Paramus, NJ April
30 Mets vs. Yankees debate at Le Pere on 90 Orchard St., moderated by Mattie Lubchansky!
More info will be posted at Astra House’s IG
Monologue adapted from Jean Shepard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0pnq3ijfs
Tipping Pitches: https://tippingpitch.es/
Go to Greenpoint/Williamsburg/Bushwick/Ridgewood History nights: https://www.instagram.com/gphistorynight/
Songs: The Strokes - Ode to the Mets
The 1986 Mets - Get Metsmerized
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audio from the Independent Labor Club of New York City's 03/21 panel at the NYU Games Center featuring JD Calvelli, Nathan Greyson, and Goran, Svorcan-Mercola. Moderated by Alexander King. To find more info about the ILC check out ILCLabor.com to sign up.
Become a supporter of our podcast at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage
Song: LDR - Video Games (Live at Stagecoach)
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Sean and Andy are joined by Deep State Kuba Ph.D., international relation expert to the podcasting stars, to discuss current events in an unraveling world. Who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine? How has the media coverage of war and peace gotten so bad since the last great period of wars in the early 2000's? What kind of divisions exist within the global ruling class and what aspects of governance unify them? Whither the great post-war institutions in an era of global turbulence?
For the fun half, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
What Fresh Hell series on TiR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtgfYtQDvBI
ILC of NYC Gaming Event RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-fight-labor-organizing-in-the-game-industry-tickets-1984299154186?aff=oddtdtcreator
ILC of Chicago People's Cafe RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwtjPq9qukA4mswg1BMMgWSB83yognq_HY0M7-ABS9JCuNGQ/viewform
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The full episode is avaiable for FREE members at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Paid subscribers can watch the video version of the pod here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152718531
We're joined by actor, comedian, activist, & Anders lookalike NATE SMITH! The two mog each other as we discuss the roots of his two action groups Climate Defiance & Extinction Rebellion, the recent interest both have received from the state, tips on dealing with FBI knocks from Ron Kuby, the use of humor in disruptive actions, anti-ginger racism, & much more!
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fbi-counterterror-extinction-rebellion/
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/can-extinction-rebellion-survive/
Song: Organized Konfusion - The Extinction Agenda
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We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immamentalizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can
For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage
Kharg theory: https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-oil-island-that-could-break-iran/
https://x.com/guy_laron/status/2030262780389937167
Uniparty Theory: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-iran-regime-change-democrats-chuck-schumer-midterms?utm_source=publication-search
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-nuclear-2672345081/
Armageddon Theory: https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-end-times-christian/
Klip Theory: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-we-struck-iran
Mike Prysner on mobilization: https://x.com/MikePrysner/status/2030106988265578976
Song: Discharge - Why? (Reprise) & Visions of War
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