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Episodes
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
Tuesday Mar 09, 2021
This week we’re having a free-wheeling chat about everything from girl boss Kyrsten Sinema to a potential grid down situation to bitcoin (what even is it?). We also catch up with MAGA revolutionary Richard Barnett, who is not having very much fun in jail. And finally, New Zealand is set to outlaw conversion therapy!
Barnett has courtroom tantrum:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/03/04/capitol-riot-richard-barnett-pelosi/
Banning conversion therapy: https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/02/new-zealand-to-outlaw-conversion-therapy-practices/
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Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
It’s the holiday season in 2021 and Andy Cuomo has some gifts to share with his staff. Truly, the Cuomo government has been a trash fire of corruption, incompetence, and abuse. Meanwhile, the moratorium on evictions is ending, with no relief in sight, and millions of New Yorkers face losing their homes. And one landlord just couldn’t keep patient--he had to kidnap his tenets out of their beds and leave them for dead in a cemetery. Luckily they survived! And lastly, Illinois has become the first state to fully eliminate the cash bail system!
Albany landlord kidnapped tenets:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-landlord-tied-up-evicted-sleeping-15972981.php
Cumo’s history of abusing staff: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/For-Cuomo-a-legacy-of-intimidation-hardball-15972208.php
Courts responding to evictions:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/On-first-day-of-lifted-eviction-stay-Albany-15982793.php
Illinois eliminates cash bail: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/illinois-eliminates-cash-bail/
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
This week we’re playing catch up on some happenings in the news--the freezing conditions in Texas that have led to horrendous prison conditions and skyrocketing energy costs, as well as the abysmal mismanagement of the Biden stimulus package and general incompetence of the democrats. But hey, at least Rush Limbaugh is dead.
Texas electric bills: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/texas-storm-electric-bills.html
Reality Winner’s prison conditions: https://theintercept.com/2021/02/20/reality-winner-prison-cold-texas-freezing/
“Limbaugh loosed a dark and ichorous ooze of anger and resentment into our political groundwater, one that has polluted American politics and culture. His legacy is a civic Superfund site, an untreated hog lagoon that continues to spill its poison into the cracks in our democratic foundation.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/161405/rush-limbaugh-racist-sexist-conservative-media-worse?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1613762607
Read David’s article on “authentic cities”: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2021.1882947
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Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
This week we’re joined by Amanda Yee to talk about anti-Chinese propaganda in American media, and the murky funding flows between government and private intelligence services, thank tanks, publications, and self-styled activist movements. Covid 19 has only ramped up anti-Chinese sentiment, and powerful players work behind the scenes to ensure that American media consumers get a very one-sided narrative of what is happening in China. In a bit of good news, some new embryos just dropped--the extinct white rhino may just have a shot at a comeback.
Follow Amanda on Twitter! https://twitter.com/catcontentonly
New York Times on WHO scientists’ experience in China:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-health-organization-coronavirus.html
Scientists fire back: https://twitter.com/theakfischer/status/1360590441817772034?s=21
Inside Falun Gong:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518
Baby baby white rhinos:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-conservation-germany-white-rhin-idUSKBN29V1OQ
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Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Once again, we are blessed with a guest: activist, organizer, and candidate for Troy City Council Kiani Conley-Wilson! We talk about Kiani’s platform and her vision for the city, from policing to sustainability to building stronger relationships between the city and people caring for vacant properties. We also talk about how our old friend Norlite Plant is wafting tiny knives into our lungs, how ICE is threatening to kill people with Coronavirus, and how some Aussies are saving depraved platypuses by letting wetlands be wet.
Norlite silica: https://www.wamc.org/post/environmental-activists-warn-new-threat-cohoes-norlite-plant
ICE threatens asylum seekers with COVID: https://theintercept.com/2021/02/06/ice-covid-threat-asylum-deportation/
Nature is returning: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-07/walker-swamp-blue-gum-plantation-transformed-back-to-wetlands/13110128
Go to Kiani’s website! Follow them on social media! Volunteer for the campaign! Donate (if you’re in Troy!): https://kiani4troy.com
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
This week we are blessed with a guest: Gizmodo staff writer Shoshana Wodinsky! We talk about all kinds of fun stuff like how tech behemoths follow you around everywhere you go and look at your stuff and read your secret Star Trek group chats all so they can sell you butt flap pajamas. Chairman Sanders raises a ton of money for Vermont charities (who says posting isn’t praxis?) and the jewel of Troy, activist and organizer Kiani Conley-Wilson is running for City Council! If you’re local to Troy, please lend the campaign any help you can.
Follow Shoshana on Twitter: https://twitter.com/swodinsky
Articles we discussed on the episode:
https://gizmodo.com/this-was-whatsapps-plan-all-along-1846060382
https://gizmodo.com/google-continues-to-promise-its-bid-to-end-cookies-isnt-1846124668
https://gizmodo.com/googles-finally-giving-the-little-guys-a-cut-1846099900
Kiani 4 Troy!
https://twitter.com/kiani4troy
https://www.instagram.com/kiani4troy/
https://www.facebook.com/kiani4troy
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
It’s all labor and the environment this week folks. While produce market workers in the Bronx won a 70 cent pay raise, Lyft drivers are stuck with the new “priority mode,” which they’re calling poverty mode. Take the best parts of the exploitative gig economy and mix em up with race to the bottom and you’ve got a whole new recipe for modern day feudalism. Biden has snatched the permits on the Keystone pipeline, and both Canada and Louisiana are having a sad time about it. Incarcerated people in New York State are seeing massive spikes in Covid cases and deaths. For a bit of good news, Biden has reversed one of Trump’s worst Covid-related policies by redefining what “suitable” work conditions are. We’ll take what we can get over here at Ironweeds.
Produce Market Strike ends: https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/22/22245520/hunts-point-produce-market-strike-tentative-settlement-bronx
Cop runs into protesters in Tacoma, Washington: https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/24/tacoma-police-washington-run-over-crowd-pedestrian/
Giving Lyft drivers a “raise” by… paying them less: https://www.cnet.com/news/lyft-test-program-offers-drivers-more-rides-in-exchange-for-10-percent-pay-cut/
Louisiana sad about pipeline decision: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/our_views/article_24de81b0-5bff-11eb-a1b5-f3581880512d.html
Justin also sad: https://news.yahoo.com/trudeau-stresses-disappointment-keystone-xl-030726282.html
Covid cases grow in New York State prisons: https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/1/18/22237488/new-york-prison-covid-cases-grow-inmates-vaccines-cuomo
Biden reverses Trump decision to kick workers off unemployment: https://www.dailyposter.com/p/biden-moves-to-reverse-one-of-trumps
-Compelled to choose between economic survival and risking infection, workers headed back into unsafe workplaces, and federal data tracked how workers’ requests for safety inspectors’ help consistently preceded a spike in COVID-related deaths.
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
This episode we’re reviewing some of what we’ve learned about the January 6th Capitol Building debacle in the last week. Some are surprising, like how well organized their funding was, and some are less surprising, like how many cops were present and how stupid they were for livestreaming their failed coup. We also discuss the violence that broke out in Albany on the 6th. And of course, we ask ourselves the most important of questions: If you died today and you went to heaven, can you look George Washington in the face and say that you’ve fought for this country?
The building’s yours: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/the-buildings-yours-search-for-clues-in-capitol-riot-reveals-a-stand-down-moment/
More cops ceding ground at the capitol: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-riot-arrest-officer-handshake/2021/01/15/0c3dd658-5748-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/01/15/capitol-riot-investigation-focuses-police-first-responders/4165762001/
How the Capitol riot was funded:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/us/capitol-riot-funding.html
Why you don’t take treason selfies:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/selfies-social-media-posts-making-it-easier-fbi-track-down-n1254522
Snitches on Bumble (critical support): https://www.businessinsider.com/bumble-removes-political-filter-encouraged-find-capitol-rioters-evidence-2021-1
Albany Proper Coverage of Capitol Fight in Albany https://www.albanyproper.com/proud-boys-start-fight-that-leads-to-stabbings-arrests-in-albany/
518 Independent coverage: https://518independent.com/articles/arrested-during-counterprotest-activist-warns-of-white-supremacist-violence-and-police-bias/
Legal fund for Alex Stokes:
cashapp: $SamsonContompasis
paypal: samsoncontompasis@gmail.com
venmo: samson-Contompasis
Legal fund for Alexis Figuero
Cashapp: $UntitledAndFree
Free Joe the Pigeon: https://apnews.com/article/australia-joe-the-pigeon-faae5a66c336c8b2dc902b1ed4270345
Calling all anarchist creators! Apply for IAS grants:
https://anarchiststudies.org
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
We talk about the chud assault on the Capitol Building. That's it. That's the episode.
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
We’d sure like to undo a lot of stuff. Like all of 2020. We discuss the Nashville Christmas bombing and conspiracy theories, the case of a Troy woman who has been kicked out of her home by a Dickensian villain, and how the NY State Legislature has come to renters’ rescue by creating a form to fill out. Then, it’s all Covid all the time, bby. And what a mess it’s been. Between vaccine rollout nightmares and Congress members enriching themselves on the backs of dying Americans, 2021 is shaping up to be more of the same. Except in Illinois, where 500k cannabis arrest records have been expunged.
Nashville bombing: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/
Chasity’s story:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Capitol-Insider-15829646.php
NY Senate passes Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act:
https://www.nycourts.gov/covid-eefpa.shtml
Cuomo imposing penalties for vaccine line skipping, fraud:
Members of congress get PPP loans: https://www.rollcall.com/2020/07/08/14m-in-relief-funds-find-members-and-family/
Covid-19 Vaccine’s Slow Rollout Could Portend More Problems: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccines-slow-rollout-could-portend-more-problems-11609525711
Illinois expunges cannabis arrest records