In case you missed it, then Bitchuation Room is on maternity leave for the next few weeks...
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“The St. Louis police literally are a continuation of a slave patrol. There’s no debate about that.” says Robert Evans (
@IwriteOK
). Evans has an entire podcast, Behind the Police, dedicated to understanding the origins of American policing. He explains a bit here:
AIPAC and AIPAC-aligned groups spent millions against
@ninaturner
back in 2021 and 2022. Now, they are coming for all progressive leaders. Watch our full interview here:
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“A big part of what you’re doing is culturally fighting the idea that qualified immunity should exist. Even if the specifics of the reform are moderate, pushing that conversation is extremely important.”
@IwriteOK
explains a crucial part of federal police reform: ending impunity.
Are you done with COVID after working “so hard” on it before? If so, you just might be the self-canceled former New York Times op-ed columnist Bari Weiss. Instead of lifting up the most privileged, let's protect the most vulnerable.
Full Podcast here:
Why do centrist Democrats think they can have their cake and eat it too? This week Francesca is joined by co-host of The Majority Report,
@EmmaVigeland
and
@NatoGreen
to talk about the watered down yet critical stimulus bill passed by a very undemocratic body: the Senate.
This afternoon at 1/4pm ET‼️
Gas stoves, George Santos, and Moderna’s greed with
@franifio
and comedian
@BillyWayneDavis
+ An interview with
@ElieNYC
on how doomed democracy is under our current Supreme Court.
Watch LIVE on Youtube and Twitch:
Thanks to *zero* Republicans, the Covid rescue plan is “a good-to-very-good bill” says
@EmmaVigeland
of
@majorityfm
. Especially given Democrats’ record of half-way responses to moments of economic crisis.
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@NatoGreen
@franifio
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Full clip here:
TOMORROW (July 8) at 1pm PT/4pm ET, we’re chatting with
@SamSeder
of
@majorityfm
about the right’s extremist agenda leading us towards a real-life Handmaid’s Tale & the very funny
@Byoussef
on doing comedy in a dictatorship. LIVE on YouTube & Twitch.
As Columbia suspends classes and arrests students,
@franifio
asks Rep. Ro Khanna why he voted to condemn the "from the river to the sea" pro-Palestine slogan.
Watch full interview here:
This episode was 🔥after 🔥. From Supreme Court shenanigans, to the right’s bad satire, to a game of “Sext, Elect, Overthrow” featuring centrist Dems,
@Byoussef
and
@SamSeder
of the
@majorityfm
brought their best. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch back on YT.
As
@GrimKim
says, 2/3rds of folks who have a union contract are women and/or people of color.
It's called the multiracial working class... let's organize it & read Kim's new book to learn more!
Watch the NEW international workers' day full ep here:
Last week, eight more women sued Texas saying the state's abortion ban (after six weeks!) is life-threatening.
Threaten👏Greg 👏 instead 👏!
Full episode here:
What makes a “maverick”? Is it being an independent thinker with convictions, or just being a massive pain in the ass?
@EmmaVigeland
of
@majorityfm
discusses the mind of Joe Manchin.
Full clip here:
Will we ever truly understand how corrupt the Trump administration was? Probably not, but former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics
@waltshaub
gave us some idea:
Full clip:
Whatever happened to 'don't be evil'?
@franifio
spoke with Mohammad Khatami, an organizer with
@NoTechApartheid
, about why Google workers occupied offices to demand the company end their contract with Israel.
AIPAC attacks on progressive politicians will only ramp up as we inch closer to 2024.
We talked about elections and Gaza with
@usamahandrabi
of Justice Democrats on yesterday's show.
Listen back here:
TOMORROW (12/19) 5/8ET, this Christmas forget the elf, it's Build Back Better that's been shoved on the shelf.
@MollyJongFast
joins to discuss. Energy journalist
@AntoniaJuhasz
talks rising oil prices & avoiding a climate apocalypse. LIVE on YT & Twitch!
TODAY ⏰🚨
We're live this afternoon with
@SamSeder
and
@Maebe_A_Girl
! Talking MTG, RFK, and drag queens FTW!
Stream it on Youtube or Twitch at 1/4pm ET:
Rogan said that "humans are definitely having an effect on [climate change], but a small effect compared to uhhh cows"
@johniadarola
and
@franifio
say it's time to deal with these selfish climate catastrophe-causing cattle! 🐮
FULL NEW EPISODE HERE:
Justice Breyer not retiring to make way for a younger liberal nominee to the Supreme Court is a distressing and absurd act of narcissism, according to
@SamSeder
of
@majorityfm
. And yet we've been here before👀
Full clip here:
Tucker Carlson is grooming his audience for Orban-style Christian nationalism, claiming that Hungary should be a model for the U.S. There are more than a couple problems with that.
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@natogreen
@franifio
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Full clip here:
"Left to their own devices, this will be a one-term administration." -author
@NaomiAKlein
takes The Bitchuation Room to church in this special bonus episode. We talked neoliberal economics buried under the Texas snow, stopping Trumpism & Modi's crackdown on activists in India.
When people say "mass farmers movement" in India they're talking 250 million strong, with rural villages asking families to send members to reinforce encampments around New Delhi. Writer and activist
@HarshaWalia
explains the scale & depth of the organizing.
We’ve given the Biden Administration time to unpack their suitcases, find the best White House bathrooms, etc. Now we’re over a month in, and we have yet to see this administration really stick its neck out for working people.
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@franifio
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Full clip:
Ronald Reagan: the origin story of every neoliberal politician that history has finally proven was wrong about everything.
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@Barvonblaq
@franifio
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Full clip here:
George W. Bush is re-appearing in public to say he’s now a painter and has absolutely NOTHING to do with stoking the Republican party’s hatred of immigrants. And when has he ever lied?
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@TheSofiya
@franifio
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Full clip here:
Trump has executed more people while giving less clemency than any president since the 1800s. And those he is pardoning reads like a Who's Who of neoconservative crooks & war-mongers. Professor of History
@TejNagaraja
joined the podcast to explain the significance.
Where did all the money we spent in Afghanistan go? To private contractors who didn’t even finish the job... According to the Inspector General, billions of dollars were spent on projects in Afghanistan that were never completed. One of them was a $40+ million gas station. 😱
“Social movement can’t let Democrats f*ck it up. Because they will f*ck it up.” -
@NaomiAKlein
on the importance of continuing to pressure Democrats in the face of an ever-more dangerous and smarter Republican nationalism.
Full clip here:
A monstrous episode of the podcast, with the insanely delightful
@jamieloftusHELP
and the Bob Woodward of twitter
@kenklippenstein
. We talked Amazon, Matt Gaetz, and who’d make a better prez: large CG lizard or large CG gorilla?
In times like these we need principled comrades and committed organizers to help us through! Grateful that we got to process it all with
@BillFletcherJr
and
@natogreen
. Don’t miss it.
Anti-choicers’ beliefs aren’t JUST unconstitutional and hypocritical, they’re also wrong. Life begins long after conception, according to
@franifio
:
Full clip here:
The obvious nepotism or her ridiculous takes on identity politics aren’t great, but our issues with Meghan McCain certainly don’t stop there.
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@franifio
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Full clip on nepotism in the media here:
What must Biden do to reverse Stephen Miller’s immigration obstacle course from hell? And why Republicans have no idea who Jesus was. The geniuses
@ErikaAndiola
of
@RAICESTEXAS
and comedian
@JohnFugelsang
joined me for a 🔥episode.
Peeking under the hood of Exxon Mobil lobbying in Washington has
@Byoussef
wondering what “great American democracy?”
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@SamSeder
@franifio
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Full clip here:
These train derailments are the perfect storm of corporate greed and deregulation.
We talked about this and more with
@elizaskinner
on The Bitchuation Room, watch it back here:
Fans, cultists or a massive 70 million-person sect? Whatever you call them, the fact is way too many people voted for Trump, though not enough to win him the election.
@FunnyAida
and
@BenjaminPDixon
joined The Bitchuation Room podcast to discuss Trumpism and a lot more.
With a signature, the Biden administration could provide more than a trillion dollars in economic stimulus by abolishing student debt. Writer and activist
@astradisastra
joined
@natogreen
and me to discuss on The Bitchuation Room Podcast.
Democrats must change the institutions of democracy themselves -- more proportional representation, ranked choice voting, ending the electoral college & expanding the Supreme Court. Great piece by two former guests of the podcast
@_waleedshahid
&
@NelStamp
“Puerto Ricans in Orlando voted for Biden cause they remember how Trump threw Bounty at them.”
@FunnyAida
on how we need to fully understand the Latino vote in all of its many different races, ethnicities and regions.
From the flawed mission to the wasteful spending, Americans did the opposite of “winning hearts and minds” in Afghanistan.
Catch
@franifio
’s full analysis here:
Corporate power is terrified of renewable energy because it's more democratic, says
@NaomiAKlein
. Solar and wind are everywhere, unlike fossil fuels which are concentrated in the hands of just a few.
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@franifio
@natogreen
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Full clip here:
Tomorrow night 6/9EST. The Bitchuation Room podcast LIVE welcomes the wonderful
@milesofgray
of
@DailyZeitgeist
, and Alexandra Rojas of
@justicedems
to talk about Trump grifters finally (maybe) leaving the White House, and how to grow the progressive squad in Congress. Don’t miss
Remember the Trump cronies who got those first PPP loans? Now that McConnell and Mnuchin are offering an even worse relief plan than the one Pelosi and Schumer capitulated to last week, what’s the point of negotiating with these bloodsuckers?
“I’ll get you next time.” -Coronaviruses to humanity. And they might! If we don’t stop climate change.
@franifio
explains why she’s already scared about the next pandemic:
Full clip here:
"My vision of LA is housing for all, tenant protection, and creating more supportive housing…” says
@EunissesH
, a grassroots organizer now running for LA city council representing District 1.
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@franifio
@reynoldsgareth
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Tomorrow at 5/8EST journalist
@kenklippenstein
and comedian
@jamieloftusHELP
are joining us to talk about Gaetzgate, the online mean girl known as Amazon, and more! Watch LIVE on Youtube and Twitch!
Bill Maher (Cornell ’78) continues to parrot reactionary talking points by mocking higher learning as being nothing but “advanced racism spotting.” Ok, boomaher.
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@franifio
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Full clip here:
Thanks to stimulus and unemployment bennies, Americans for the first time have a little bit of “fuck you money” and are choosing not to walk back into exploitative jobs.
@DougHenwood
explains:
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@natogreen
@franifio
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Full clip here:
“We’re at a point where we may still have enough leverage to keep it from reaching a temperature where it cuts civilization off at the knees. That’s what the next decade is about.” -
@billmckibben
Full clip here:
This week, former director of the Office of Government Ethics,
@waltshaub
, talked about corruption in the executive branch especially under Trump (it’s even worse than you could imagine), as well as ideas for how to stop it.
Catch the full stream here:
In what world is it fair that vaccinated Americans in need of life-saving surgeries are being turned away because hospitals are overrun with the unvaccinated fighting Covid-19? Only in America.
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@franifio
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Full clip here:
Before Afghanistan it was Vietnam, when America knew it would lose the war and chose to keep fighting. Many will weaponize the latest attack in Kabul to keep fighting, while refusing to acknowledge America's interventionist mistakes.
“If you support the police on the right, you should support this guy for doing his job,” says
@bretterlich
of
@TheYoungTurks
about the right’s hypocritical vilification of Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol officer who shot insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt.
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama says he can’t be sued for inciting the Jan 6th insurrection. His reasoning is the definition of corruption.
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@franifio
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Full clip here:
Friendly reminder that we must ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER. Also a reminder of what the filibuster is for all you amateur wonks. And how Ted Cruz is a perfect Jared Fogle stand in.
The right's latest gripe is with "critical race theory". They much prefer "trivial race theory" or "race theory I can yell from my car."
@franifio
and
@natogreen
discuss.
Whether or not UPS goes on strike, they've changed the game!
Check out our full interview with
@TeddyOstrow
of
@upsurgepod
on The Bitchuation Room
Watch here:
Newsflash for Manchin: successful, fair “bipartisanship” is a pipedream. When Democrats are in power, they barely inch the needle left. Republicans play so dirty, they break the scale.
@JayarJackson
of
@TheYoungTurks
breaks it down:
The Supreme Court just ruled that states can criminalize homeless with impunity.
We discussed on the podcast with
@paigehtml
and
@rohanmontroro
what the high court's ruling on Grants Pass might mean.