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Episodes
Monday Aug 03, 2020
Monday Aug 03, 2020
“Do I have tits?” and other questions elicited by the state’s enforcement of nipple repression. A cop from Cohoes gets a nice early retirement after getting black out drunk and shooting at some black kids. Trump comes for TikTok because, hey! That’s American data! Only we get to sell it! And Troy DSA gets its FOIL on to uncover records of police misconduct and other issues of transparency.
Cohoes cop fires gun: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Off-duty-Cohoes-cop-fired-shots-in-disputed-15437876.php
TikTok divests from USA operations: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance-exclusive-idUSKBN24X3SK
Monitoring Russian military sites: https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/academic-project-used-marketing-data-to-monitor-russian-military-sites-11595073601
Troy DSA seeks transparency: https://www.troyrecord.com/news/national/judge-lifts-ban-on-nyclu-releasing-police-discipline-records/article_7a6a4b49-8056-5264-a8ef-c6d19d2f3235.html
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
David tells us about some tenant organizing in Troy, and the gang discusses the possibilities of collectively owned housing projects and the virtues of adverse possession, or squatting. The Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which owns many local news stations in the US, is planning on pushing a piece of conspiratorial disinformation propaganda blaming Dr. Anthony Fauci for creating COVID-19. We discuss the life and legacy of Civil Rights legend John Lewis, the modern voting rights struggle, and the politics of memorialization. For our wildflower this week, new rapid transit bus lines are coming soon to the capital region!
Do Not Eat public housing episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJbE1bvdgo
Sinclair’s “plandemic” disinformation propaganda:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html
Intercept article on John Lewis and the modern struggle for voting rights:
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/20/honor-john-lewis-voting-rights-act/
New Bus Lines for the Capital Region!:
https://www.masstransitmag.com/bus/news/21147414/ny-stations-go-up-along-blue-line-route-in-troy
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
This week we dig into the disturbing activities of federal officers in Portland as uprisings continue across the country. Of course, all of this is happening in the midst of the covid crisis, and all-time lows in our trust in institutions is making it difficult to find a path toward meaningful political change. But in Barcelona, city officials have a grave warning for landlords: fill your units or expropiado!
Federal Officers In Portland Face Rising Opposition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/portland-protests.html
CBP snatching people up:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/border-patrol-portland-arrest/
Fill the units or they’re public housing:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/to-fill-vacant-units-barcelona-seizes-apartments
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
The gang inspects our dystopic reality and asks some probing questions - Why does Elon Musk want backsies on his Ye endorsement? What if gig workers’ pay reflected their effort? What if your smart fridge ratted you out to your insurance company? What the hell is a democratic task force? This episode features a deep dive into David’s most recent essay for Real Life Magazine, which is now out in podcast form, narrated lovingly by Ironweeds’ own Britney Gil! And stick around for our first installment of Lenin’s State and Revolution.
New Orleans gorilla is expecting! https://abc3340.com/news/offbeat/endangered-gorilla-in-new-orleans-expecting-1st-baby
David’s Essay on robot bosses:
https://reallifemag.com/automatic-for-the-bosses/
Real Life Magazine Podcast RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/reallifemag/feed.xml
Target's Gig Workers Will Strike to Protest Switch to Algorithmic Pay Model:
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Britney gets Chris to sign up to volunteer for #Vision2020. Meanwhile, insurrection and subsequent blowback continue to break out across the country as tensions between radicals and reactionaries increase. In this world the problems are getting bigger and scarier but there are wildflowers in a nearby star system that is lookin’ pretty interesting to astronomists.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/close-and-tranquil-solar-system-has-astronomers-excited/
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
What a year it's been for the pod! This week we answer some listener questions about cops, desserts, boycotts, Stalin, and so much more! Thanks to everyone for your support. Here's to many more years.
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
We open this week’s episode with a report from the far-flung nation of the United States. Then the gang talks about the conspiracy theories around cops and those fireworks that are keeping you awake. Cuomo is trying to kill your grandparents, especially if you live in Troy. The dictatorship of the teen outsmarts the cheetoh-in-chief and for wildflowers we learn about a tortoise who has been a very busy boy.
Unrest in former British colony: https://www.thaienquirer.com/13861/foreign-affairs-unrest-continues-for-a-seventh-day-in-former-british-colony/
Cuomo forces nursing homes to take in Covid patients: https://www.propublica.org/article/fire-through-dry-grass-andrew-cuomo-saw-covid-19-threat-to-nursing-homes-then-he-risked-adding-to-it?token=XgFT9qOh9SrXdoACbzMzWe_PuorElToO
Nursing homes evicting residents to make room for more profitable Covid patients: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/nursing-homes-evictions-discharges-coronavirus.html
Diego the tortoise, father to hundreds and saviour of his species, finally retires: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/diego-the-tortoise-father-to-hundreds-and-saviour-of-his-species-finally-retires
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
The revolution will apparently be live-streamed on all major platforms. The gang discusses the CHAZ in Seattle, the ever-change state of the BLM demonstrations throughout the country, the tragic lack of any concessions from Louisville in the struggle for justice for Breonna Taylor, the unhoused persons’ encampment named ‘Camp Maroon’ in Philadelphia, and the politics of autonomous zones generally. For our wildflower, San Francisco will be sending in social workers instead of armed police officers for non-criminal calls!
CHAZ speaks for itself: https://caphillauto.zone/
USA Today on CHAZ: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/14/inside-seattle-autonomous-zone-black-protesters-seek-lasting-change/3179232001/
Camp Maroon: https://twitter.com/JPeters2100/status/1271846345163366401
No Justice Yet for Breonna Taylor: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/us/breonna-taylor-birthday-charges-arrests-case-trnd/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/12/louisville-breonna-taylor-law/
San Francisco stops sending cops for non-criminal calls: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/san-francisco-police-reforms-stop-response-noncriminal-calls
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
This week it’s all cops, all the time. We discuss the huge peaceful demonstration in Troy this weekend and the broader context of nationwide protests and calls for defunding and dismantling municipal police departments. Kudos to the Minneapolis City Council for moving to disband their own department! Kropotkin tells us that the 20th Century will see decentralized domestic manufacturing. Fake News! But we love him anyway. Stick around till the end to hear Wavy Cunningham’s fantastic track “All We Need is Love.”
Austin PD stages fake thank you cards: (https://twitter.com/Austin_Police/status/1269326118366183424?s=20)
Disband The Cops: (https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/)
Wavy Cunningham - All We Need Is Love: https://soundcloud.com/phil_dreisin/all-we-need-is-love-wavy-cunningham
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
This week we discuss the uprisings across the nation, including here in the Capital District. The system feels so fragile right now, and we marvel at the ordinary citizens demanding justice as well as the violent backlash from militarized police. We also discuss our pouty baby boy Trump lashing out at Twitter, and how social media platforms are simply ill-equipped to deal with misinformation and toxic content from users. Our wildflower reports some promising development in Taiwan on a potential vaccine against Covid 19.
T-shirt to balaclava: https://youtu.be/W7LjcFS3WX8?t=58
Justice for Edson Thevenin! Fundraiser link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/22jghg84
Taiwan scientists find antibody that fights coronavirus: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3941083
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