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Episodes
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
This week we devote the entire episode to the most troubling and destabilizing conflict in the Western World: The War on Christmas.
Links from our war correspondents:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/christmas-and-the-left/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/us/war-on-christmas-controversy.html
https://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/04/newt-gingrich-bitten-by-a-penguin-120698
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
This week we face the disturbing news that the Tri-City Valley Cats may end up being stray cats if another league doesn’t step up to the plate. Cheap plastic trinkets, even the very cute ones, may help to temporarily ease the aches and pains of capitalist alienation, but it’s ultimately unsustainable. David, our official Parler correspondent, fills us in on what Bill Mitchell and his ilk are up to in the right wing leper colony. We tease our NXIVM episode on Patreon with a discussion of the cult’s political connections here in Rensselaer County. And finally, a very adorable old British man gets one of the first vaccines in the world.
Vamos Gatos!: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Churchill-Vamos-gatos-Chuck-Vamos-gatos-15793278.php
Funko Pops: I just think theyre neat!: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55269779
Martin Kenyon wants to see his grandchildren: https://mashable.com/article/martin-kenyon-uk-coronavirus-vaccine-interview/
FBI told Sarah Edmonson the brandings “seemed consensual” : https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Former-slave-Sarah-Edmondson-told-Albany-FBI-15665977.php
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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Hope you can pay your rent with Joe Biden’s understanding, because that’s what you’re gonna get! And Pelosi didn’t make a mistake by passing a “stimulus” package with no checks, that was a decision. And how dare you ask! Meanwhile, India is seeing the biggest mass strike in history and Albany nurses had a one day strike for better PPE and wages. And finally, the only good politician, the Mayor of Flavortown, is redistributing funds from the rich to the poor better than our government.
Nurses strike and targeted harassment: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Albany-Med-s-McKenna-says-nurses-union-billboard-15778566.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Spotlight
Take us to Flavortown baby! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/guy-fieri-flavortown-mayor-raises-21-5-million-for-workers-bloomberg-50-2020
250 Million strike in India: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/general-strike-india-modi-bjp-cpm-bihar
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
This week we dig into the late Mark Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle” and the ways online attacks and witch hunts have grown since his writing seven years ago. Meanwhile, Troy DSA makes demands for changes to policing, and a massive coral reef spire is discovered off the coast of Australia.
The Vampire Castle: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
Sign the petition! https://defundtroypd.org/
That’s a big reef ya got there: https://www.worldatlarge.news/coffee-break-reads/500-meter-high-reef-discovered-next-to-great-barrier-reef
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Though we are apart, the gang soldiers on with remote podding as covid cases rise. This week we discuss the Biden cabinet and the myth that liberals ever had any interest in working with progressives, or that the Biden administration could be pushed left. Why should we cancel student debt? So many reasons! Just do it! How can we re-imagine the future of work and the balance of practicality and joyfulness? Child labor: good or bad? Our answer might surprise you! And we find a bit of good news from a foreign shore--Guatemala, where the fires are hot and the guillotines are shiny!
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Parler users urged to protest the Georgia Runoff: https://www.newsweek.com/parler-pro-trump-call-georgia-runoff-boycott-threatens-mitch-mcconnells-plan-restrain-biden-1549282
Rahm Emanuel possible cabinet pick: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/rahm-emanuel-transportation-secretary/index.html
Other possible Biden cabinet members: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/joe-biden-cabinet-picks-possible-choices-433431
Guatemala protesters make their voices heard: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/22/guatemala-protesters-set-congress-on-fire-during-budget-protests
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
You are the news now.
Nothing can stop what's coming.
This is the Calm before the Storm.
You have more than you know.
Future proves past.
Where we go one, we go all.
Travis View on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/the-cult-of-qanon-zvxtct/
Very long Imgur post from a believer, "The Coming Storm": https://imgur.com/a/DTeK7
Adrienne LaFrance’s Atlantic piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
How to help loved ones trapped in Qanon conspiracy with Steve Hassan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/08/26/how-to-talk-with-and-maybe-help-someone-who-believes-in-qanon-and-other-conspiracy-theories/#7c4352c6412d
Credit for spooky, mysterious music to Maurice "YoungBlaze" Clopton: https://freesound.org/people/mrrap4food/sounds/501111/
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
We hope you’ll indulge our election post mortem and the stunning discourse around who actually won this absolute squeaker for Biden. We also discuss Israel’s demolition of a Palestinian hamlet in the West Bank on election day. A huge congrats to Cori Bush on her win in Missouri. And please enjoy, after a much-too-long break, the conclusion to Chapter 4 of Lenin’s State and Revolution.
Atmospheric Disturbances: https://reallifemag.com/atmospheric-disturbances/
Israel buldozes palestinian hamlet: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/04/931379662/israel-uses-cover-of-us-election-to-destroy-palestinian-homes-critics-say
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Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
This week we are blessed with two, count ‘em, TWO guests, Brett and Rob from the Dumb & Awful podcast! We discuss the uprisings in Poland in response to new abortion restrictions, a fabulous new sector of gig work in which you can help evict your fellow working-class citizens, and the strategic ways reactionaries frame democrats as left-wing radicals. Of course, you know we gotta throw a little election garbage in there, but hey, it’s almost over and then everything will go back to normal! Right? Right?? For our wildflower segment, we celebrate Chile’s overwhelming vote to create a new, less crappy constitution.
Check out Dumb & Awful! https://twitter.com/dumbawfulshow
Subscribe to their Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/DumbandAwful
Patreon? Hey, we have one of those too: https://www.patreon.com/Ironweeds
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
Happy episode 69! A hearty congratulations to the people of Bolivia and the success of MAS! Mitch McConnel is rotting before our eyes and Zombie Giuliani is increasingly relevant. The NYPD is, as always, showing their asses, stealing PPE and shouting Trump 2020 at passers by. Kanye goes on Joe Rogan with a spectacular swing and miss. Never cross a union man, or you’ll end up haunted by a vengeful communist ghost. And for a spot of good news, the British government is repatriating thousands of ancient artifacts to the people of Iraq.
Zombie Giuliani on Bandcamp: https://zombiegiuliani.bandcamp.com
The ghosts of the Molly Maguires: https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/molly-maguires-haunted-jail-for-sale-pennsylvania-irish-miners-pinkertons-jim-thorpe-20180816.html
Artifacts returned to Iraq: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/10/iraq-artifacts-kadhimi-british-government-return-looted.html
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020