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Upstream ( @upstreampodcast.bsky.social ) Podcast "[UNLOCKED] How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason ( @jasonhickel.bsky.social ) Hickel" Robert ( @robpertray.bsky.social ) Ray podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

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NEW EPISODE! we spoke with cory doctorow about the big tech con and why it feels like every single tech product you use is trying to screw you over listen anywhere you get your podcasts! 🎧

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just published! we spoke w/ Josh Sykes about the Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism and why it's crucial to understand revolutionary theory if our revolutionary movements are going to be successful

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Only 20 minutes in and already feeling like this should be required listening for everyone and probably also included in all library and info science curriculums

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out now! we spoke with ex-IDF soldier and ex-Israeli Meital Yaniv about Zionist indoctrination, Israeli apartheid, Palestinian liberation, and how to heal from zionism

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OUT NOW on PATREON!

an incredibly important and jaw-dropping analysis of how Israel functions as a client state to U.S. empire. Max is always such a powerful and mesmerizing guest—couldn't be more excited to share this one with you✨

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"The U.S. has always accepted killing children. People... know about the settler-colonial history, they know about Vietnam. But I sometimes think that people haven't fully internalized that the fuel of this machine is dead children."

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OUT TODAY! 🎧 we spoke w/ Dr. Cornel West about the role that righteous indignation and love play in his politics, what it means to dismantle the U.S. empire, and why he's running for president

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i talked to the great @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, author of "the undertow: scenes from a slow civil war," about the state of america 2024, how our media continues to fail us, and his thoughts on alex garland's "civil war" and why the people who don't like it are wrong (ok that last bit may be me)

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I wrote about Biden, Bannon and Joan Didion, plus World War Z, in order to figure out what I think Is to Be Done.

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"What to Do About Trump? The Same Thing My Grandfather Did in 1930s Vienna.
Historical analogies are always flawed, but some moral principles shine eternal" By Liel Leibovitz www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

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We chatted with author Nathan Thrall about his Pulitzer-winning book that tells the story of one Palestinian family living under Israel occupation.

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Best of the Left Podcast "#1635 Democracy on the Decline: The US is not alone in facing threats to democracy and others countries that are farther along are showing how democracies fail." www.bestoftheleft.com/1635

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Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred.” Thich Nhat Hanh #quote #quotes 2/2

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“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind.... 1/2

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It's what the founding era leaders* would have wanted King George

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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided

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Roberts, Alito and Thomas all cut their teeth in a Reagan administration eager to expand the outer limits of executive power. Kavanaugh did the same under George W. Bush who tried to make the unitary executive a reality.

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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

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Please get the lawyers off television. I swear to God. We need people who understand how to do POLITICS.

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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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