#1740 Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts
Air Date: 09-30-25
The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we track the dangerous convergence of domestic collapse and international chaos by looking at political violence and martyrdom accelerating division, institutional capture from the courts to the media, the dismantling of voting rights and public health infrastructure, military deployments at home and wars abroad, plus the resistance movements fighting back through town halls, labor organizing, and revolutionary art despite overwhelming odds.
Read more#1741 Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, and Nepal
Air Date: 10-3-2025
People around the world are angry, often for different reasons and even more frequently based on falsities - though not always. For instance, the Right in the UK and France are upset about immigration, though most of those who are angry are wrong about the facts. But there's also widespread dissatisfaction with national governments and pessimism about their ability to make life better over the short term, which is leading to much less predictable politics.
Read more#1526 A History of Political Violence in the US (Throwback)
Original Air Date: 11–15-2022
Today, we take a look at our extremely steady history of political violence from the Revolution, through the Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, into the Civil Rights era, the Militia Movement and domestic terrorism, and now to our current once-again-radicalized, right-wing movement willing to use and tacitly condone violence as a political tactic.
Read more#1739 The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It
Air Date: 9-23-2025
All that is happening in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination was quite predictable because we've actually seen this game plan play out before. The only thing we didn't know was what would be the catalyst to really put the autocracy into high gear.
Read more#1738 Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It
Air Date: 9-20-2025
The escalations are happening so fast now that even though this episode is about Russia increasing tensions by violating NATO airspace in Poland with drones and Israel intensifying their belligerence by bombing inside Qatar, those aren't even the most recent incidents now that Russian jets have entered NATO airspace in Estonia and Israel has launched a new attack on Gaza City while Netanyahu says he wants Israel to become like the doomed city-state of Sparta, which was weird.\
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