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Margaret reads you a science fiction story about space unions and family ties.

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Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up.

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Mia, Gare and Margaret Killjoy discuss how to fight back across multiple terrains.

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Margaret reads you a classic feminist horror story about the madness caused by patriarchy.

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Queer Zapatista network activist Eme Flores gives Mia an update about the current status of Mexico's terf movement and how they fueled the campaign against Olympic boxer Imane Khelif.

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James talks to Giulia Messner from sea watch about how the EU is creating a humanitarian crisis and how people are organizing to help.

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Robert and Gare sit down with D.C. resident, Bridget Todd to discuss her experiences at the inauguration, the return of the Proud Boys, and what it all means for everyone in and out of the District.

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1. Behind the Scenes of That Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

2. Why Watching Actors Get Maimed By Big Cats Gives Me Hope For The Future

3. How ICE Kidnapped A Farmworker Union Organizer

4. Esperanto with Andrew

5. Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

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Sources/Links:

Behind the Scenes of that Teen Vogue Article on Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's Daughter

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #11

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/trump-administration-immigrant-detention-facilities-services.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.PL6V.gJR0OQEOJP8G&smid=url-share 

https://ucsdguardian.org/2025/04/07/5-ucsd-students-face-sudden-f-1-visa-terminations-a-6th-deported-at-the-border-no-apparent-pattern-among-students-targeted/ 

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-statement-international-students-visa-status-terminations 

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmcxoqk2ts24

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147/gov.uscourts.dcd.278147.30.1_1.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a931_2c83.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

https://bsky.app/profile/khuddleston.bsky.social/post/3lmaiaxi7f226

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/03/18/516185/hpd-says-their-stance-on-immigration-enforcement-hasnt-changed-despite-recent-turnover-to-ice/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/cea-chairman-steve-miran-hudson-institute-event-remarks/

https://apnews.com/article/china-response-us-tariffs-104-d40d497f6e07ee4163d88443cb75ab3f

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James talks to @glenpyle about sudden cardiac arrests in young athletes, what science can tell us about them, and why they’ve become a hot topic for anti vax conspiracies.

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James discusses the last three years of immigration policy and what they mean for people seeking refuge in the USA.

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Robert, James, and Gare sit down to discuss Trump’s indictment and what it means for the future.

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Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.

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Mia talks with Tylor Fellini and Alex Gage, two organizers involved with the New Seasons Labor Union about the incredible success of their union and the wave of large independent unions sweeping across Portland.

https://nslu.org/ 
https://www.gofundme.com/f/new-seasons-labor-union-solidarity-fund 

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Mia and James attempt to explain why Tim Walz consistently deployed state violence against protesters by taking a journey back through the history of the welfare state.

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We talk about the recurrent scam run by Democratic Party consultants in Texas to convince people to give money to doomed campaigns promising to "flip" the state and about how to actually make things better in the state.

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Mia talks with Crystal and Elizabeth, two members of UE Local 696, about the struggle of healthcare workers at Planned Parenthood after the fall of Roe

@ppwpunion on Twitter

 https://www.instagram.com/ppwpunion/?hl=en

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-western-pennsylvania/get-involved/donate/vivian-campbell-fund

https://www.wpafundforchoice.org/

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Planning for a general strike Robert sits down with labor journalist Kim Kelly to discuss UAW President Shawn Fain's plan for a 2028 General Strike.

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Robert sits down with Dr. Karena Avedissian to discuss anti draft protests in Dagestan.

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Andrew and Mia discuss the effects of colonization on the formation of nations and the psychological consequences of colonial rule on both the colonizer and the colonized.

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Mia and Garrison talk about how a Nazi paraphernalia collecting billionaire bought off the Court and how there's nothing to stop them.

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This episode we discuss the question of unmarked grave sites at the Old Prison Farm property, and propose methods of carrying out further historical research.

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James and Mia discuss the history of UNIFIL, and the role it plays today as Israel keeps threatening UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.

Sources:

https://unifil.unmissions.org/unifil-ground-operations

https://www.total-slovenia-news.com/politics/5322-timeline-of-security-incidents-involving-slovenian-troops

https://unifil.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/unifilpresskit.pdf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/syrian-golan-crossing-israeli-military-quneitra

https://x.com/UNIFIL_/status/1845470755015762208

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Mia talks with comedian, political satirist, and writer Justine Wanda about the movement against Kenya’s 2024 Finance Bill and how massive tax hikes on basic goods have driven Kenyans into the streets. 

Instagram/TikTok @fakewokewithjustine, Twitter @officalFWWJ @justinewanda

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1. Kamala Shuts Down the DNC
2. Imane Khelif and the Co-option of the Mexican Terfs
3. Transnational Repression of Sikh Independence Activists
4. Political Cults: The Democratic Workers Party feat. Andrew

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James returns with part 2 of his series on title 42, in this episode we hear from asylum seekers in San Ysidro and learn about the human impact of CBP’s inhumane detention practices.

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Margaret reads you stories about demons and moon maidens.

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Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children.

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The saga of Latin American anarchism continues as Andrew explores the 19th and 20th century history of anarchism in Chile.

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Robert and Mia look at the wave of self-immolations in Tunisia and its role in workers protest in 2020's China.

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James and robert interview journalist WF Thomas about the Black Hammer cult and the recent fatality at one of their “Hammer Houses”

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Minutes before Biden dropped out of the election, Mia talked with trans policy expert Corinne Green about a series of disturbing anti-trans moves by the Biden administration and Democrats in congress.

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Mia walks through the history of a curious kind of guy responsible for vast swaths of the devastation wrought over 500 years of colonialism in America

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Palestinians are denied a time slot on the DNC stage as Gov. Walz reclaims Freedom for the democrats.

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We discuss the influx of “grooming” accusations levied against queer people in recent months alongside “kink at pride” discourse.

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The gang get together to discuss White House plans to make Donald Trump king, house migrants in a prison James visited in Panama, and Make America Healthy Again by making it harder to access medicine. We also catch up with Elon Musk, as apartheid's favorite son continues his rampage through the federal government.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675

https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration

https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5

https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies

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Robert sits down with James and Gare to talk about the nuts and bolts of Ron's disastrous campaign.

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We discuss Post-Manifesto Terrorism as related to the recent Highland Park mass shooting and how the aesthetics of research are used to manipulate you.

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Mia Wong talks with Tori Tambellini, an illegally fired Starbucks union organizer about Starbucks' anti-union crusade, organizing Starbucks workers, and her personal experience with their crimes and depredations.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/wrongfully-terminated-market-square-supervisors?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer 

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/starbucksworkersfund-tw 

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Mia talks with Alex Chan, an organizer for the UAW, about the union's attempts to break her staff union and how it hurts both UAW organizers and the workers they organize.

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We give updates on some of the topics covered on the show during the past few months, including the UC Strike, anti-Queer rhetoric, and the midterms.

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Garrison and James discuss how a doxing campaign is targeting student visa and green card holders for alleged ties to pro-Palestine protests.

Sources: 

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8 

https://archive.ph/20250316111414/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/nyregion/columbia-student-kristi-noem-video.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-university-protester-chung-deportation.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/columbia-student-ice-suit-yunseo-chung.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/cornell-student-momodou-taal.html 

https://apnews.com/article/social-media-immigration-applicants-handles-dhs-f67b480abebff7e451056be17572593d 

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-trump-admin-spies-on-social?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7677&post_id=160081190&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1aiy5i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

https://apnews.com/article/georgetown-trump-deportation-immigration-homeland-security-21fc205cebbbbba2ed260050df04702a 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-detained.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/israel-gaza-student-protests-canary-mission.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/israel-betar-deportation-list-trump 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346 

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f 

https://x.com/janashortal/status/1905759411248734353 

 https://dailyegyptian.com/120974/news/international-siu-student-has-visa-revoked-confirms-university-admin/ 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGz224raVR8mHMzC6q-6EUiNcBKD6BSK/view 

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In this crossover episode with Hood Politics, Prop joins us to discuss Kanye West’s religious political projects and recent antisemitic controversy.

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Margaret reads Mia a sci-fi story about what people will do for free power and war. And about hacker clowns.

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With the LA wildfires of January 2025 still fresh in Californians' minds, a number of little considered issues popped up. Not least of which is, where does the water to fight fires come from? Wait… someone owns the water?! This episode is about the privatization of utilities and how we got here.

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Mia and James discuss how Democratic lawmakers are using national deployments and rafts of anti-crime laws to run a crime panic fueled authoritarian crackdown.

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The crew looks at a truly bizarre conspiracy theory about a coup against Xi Jinping that took social media and India mainstream news by storm

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Queen Dead! The gang goes over a list of bad things the Queen did (when she was still alive) & why the royal family is not very good.

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The gang talks about ETA’s assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco and kicks off assassination week with a bang.

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Andrew joins us to talk about the history of regional cultures and how they developed.

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James, Gare, and Shereen talk about the “merchant of death,” prisoner swaps, the international arms trade, and Bout’s weird home videos.

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Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.

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We walk through Libs of TikTok and Matt Walsh’s campaign of terror against trans kids and Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Andrew sits down with the gang to explain the history of resilience and community that helped Barbuda overcome centuries of colonial incompetence.

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Margaret reads you a story about where personal grief meets climate grief.

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James is joined by Ruth Kinna to discuss lifeboats, Kropotkin, and how we can all take part in mutual aid.

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James and Robert sit down with members of the Anarchist Black Cross and the campaign to free Marius Mason to discuss solidarity with incarcerated anarchists”

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In part three of his series on the Darién Gap, James talks about what drives Venezuelan and African migrants to make the journey through the Darién Gap.

Sources:

https://www.notiparole.com

https://www.instagram.com/p/DAaDkSwh1Jk/?igsh=bmgyanBteW10czd5

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/20/archives/a-new-canaldug-by-atom-bombs-nuclear-energy-is-the-key-to-replacing.html

https://www.themanual.com/outdoors/darien-gap-feature/

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/18/panama-darien-gap-jose-raul-mulino

https://americasquarterly.org/article/the-darien-gaps-fearsome-reputation-has-been-centuries-in-the-making/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/10/27/the-darien-gap-a-deadly-extension-of-the-us-border

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/jmhs.pdf

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/20/snakes-swamps-whisky-british-explorers-went-ultimate-boys-adventure/

https://www.strausscenter.org/publications/asylum-processing-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-august-2024/

https://www.gob.mx/inm/prensa/el-gobierno-mexicano-y-el-inm-articulan-corredor-emergente-de-movilidad-segura-para-el-traslado-de-personas-extranjeras-con-cita-cbp-one

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-23/kidnapping-and-escape-of-95-ecuadorian-migrants-in-chiapas-if-you-continue-informing-we-will-return-them-in-bags.html

https://humanrightsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Asylum-Policies-Harm-Black-Asylum-Seekers-FACTSHEET-formatted.pdf

https://respondcrisistranslation.org/en/newsb/cbp-ones-obscene-language-errors-create-more-barriers-for-asylum-seekers

https://www.msf.org/lack-action-sees-sharp-rise-sexual-violence-people-transiting-darien-gap-panama

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We talk about the state of street resistance against the police in the wake of the footage of police murdering Tyre Nichols.

EARTHQUAKE DONATION LINKS:

The White Helmets

whitehelmets.org/en/

The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) Foundation

sams-usa.net

Doctors Without Borders

doctorswithoutborders.org

Kurdish Red Crescent

heyvasoruk.org

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Garrison talks to Robert about a new Fashwave video shared by a DeSantis staffer and the campaign’s finance trouble.

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Margaret and Jamie report back from DinoCon in the year 2054.

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Mia and James discuss the recent release of videos showing the HPG shooting down Turkish drones, as well as the arrival of MANPADS in Myanmar. 

https://gerilla.tv//newroz-piroz-be-20_mart_2024_696b1e257.html 

https://www.ciedcoe.org/index.php/reports/technical-reports/197-0011-20161222-report-improvised-batteries-for-manpads-v2/file 

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Shereen and James are back to go through the Deir Yassin massacre and history of the Nakba, or “the catastrophe,” and how this violent expulsion and destruction of Palestinian society in 1948 still has devastating repercussions 75 years later.

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1. Hurricane Conspiracy Theories

2. The 2028 General Strike and Climate Change
3. Israel's History with UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon
4. Anarchism In Argentina, Pt. 1 feat. Andrew
5. Anarchism In Argentina, Pt. 2 feat. Andrew

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Mia walks through the components of China's Belt and Road Intuitive, its origins in efforts to resuscitate a flailing Chinese economy, and what both liberal and radical accounts get wrong about it.

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James and Mia talk to Sarah, a mutual aid organizer facing felony littering charges in Asheville, NC.

Venmo: @/AVLdefendantfund

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The 2022 World Cup has been incredibly significant for the Arab and Muslim world for many reasons. Shereen highlights the beautiful outpouring of support we’ve seen for the Palestinian cause during the tournament and how this has been the driving force of a renewed unity for the Arab world.

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Mia and Gare examine the terrifying rise of Pinduoduo, the Chinese predecessor of Superbowl famous shopping app Temu, and its former CEO Colin Huang.

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The end of the world already happened, but we haven't yet arrived at our new reality. Hyperobjects can help us along the path.

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Mia talks with Janis Yu from CCED and Anahy, a tenant organizer at Hillside Villa, about their organizing against their landlord and the deal LA politicians, bureaucrats, and DSA council reps negotiated behind their backs to sell them out.

Follow: @hillside_villa

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James and Shereen are joined by Saskia Popescu and Kaveh Hoda to discuss the huge risk of an infectious disease outbreak in Palestine.

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Jake Hanrahan hikes through a forest in Eastern Europe to meet with anarchist Partisans attacking trains in Putin's Russia.

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Robert sits down with Garrison and James to talk about the hype surrounding AI, and how popular AI news stories are nearly all lies.

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Robert sits down with Mia and Gare to discuss the recent Mossad attack on Hezbollah using pagers and radios impregnated with explosives. It turns out this is an incredibly easy thing to do, an attack that opens a massive pandora's box with the potential to change daily life for all of us in terrifying ways.

Sources:

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog (bunniestudios.com)

We still don’t know how the Lebanon pager attack happened. Here’s what we do know about our own electronic devices | CNN Business

Study reveals robust performance in aged detonator explosive (lanl.gov)

What is the PETN explosive used by Israel in walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah? Can dogs detect them? (msn.com)

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers - The New York Times (archive.is)

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Andrew joins us to talk about what an anarchist society would actually look like and how it would function

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Robert sits down with Garrison to trace the ideological development of JD Vance and how Peter Thiel helped enthrall him to a branch of neo-monarchist right-wing ideology.

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In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret Killjoy reads “Babang Luksa,” a short story by author Nicasio Andres Reed, to Mia.

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James talks to Kevin McDonald about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the history and future of peacekeeping there.

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Robert, James, and Gare discuss the question of fleeing the country, various demographics under threat, and the politics of escape.

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We discuss Texas Governor Gregg Abbott's disruption of cross border trade and its implications for future leftist blockades

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As construction for Cop City is set to begin imminently, a referendum to let Atlanta voters decide the fate of the facility faces voter suppression.

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James sits down with two members of Bread Bloc to talk about mutual aid, how to set up your own mutual aid project, and the increasingly hostile environment for unhoused people in San Diego and California after the Grants Pass decision. 

Sources:

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/homelessness-and-housing-instability-among-lgbtq-youth-feb-2022/

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/camping-ban-ordinances/
https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps-funding-bdaf5719847e11daf8cca06c62737994
https://www.sandiego.gov/police/services/neighborhood-policing-division/unsafe-camping

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James talks to Meghan Bodette of the Kurdish Peace institute about the recent elections in Turkey, the Van uprising, and aggression against Kurdish people in Europe and in Kurdistan.

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Garrison and Robert look into the curious case of Justin Mohn, the self published author and musician who beheaded his father to start the war against Biden.

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We talk with Kyle Flannery from Strange Matters about the implicit and sometimes explicit politics hidden in board games like Settlers of Catan.

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Mia sits down with Robert and Garrison to discuss perennial right-wing boogeyman George Soros, what he actually did and what he didn't do, and why conservatives won't shut up about him.

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Mia and James discover the meaning of democracy and why democracy and riots are more similar than you might think.

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Mia talks with Mira, a freelance journalist and union organizers, about McDonalds and what we can learn from an eventually failed union campaign there.

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