#1391 The Road to Sedition (Repost)
Original Air Date: 1–10-2021
Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the years and years of warning signs we have been highlighting since 2006 that collectively predict the armed insurrection against the government as the natural end point for a radicalized, conspiratorial, White/Christian-supremacist, permanently-minoritarian political movement that has lost its ability to win power by legitimate means.
Read more#1457 GOP Authoritarianism Will Likely To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Air Date: 11–24-2021
Today we take a look at the state of the ever-increasingly authoritarian Republican Party as they hack the media by being too terrible to hold to account, hack the democratic process through gerrymandering and endlessly rebrand because in their core they stand for nothing.
Read more#1391 The Road to Sedition
Air Date: 1–10-2021
Today, in our 15th-anniversary episode, we take a look at the years and years of warning signs we having been highlighting since 2006 that collectively predict the armed insurrection against the government as the natural end point for a radicalized, conspiratorial, White/Christian-supremacist, permanently-minoritarian political movement that has lost its ability to win power by legitimate means.
Read more#1380 The Coup Attempt We Saw Coming Years in Advance
Air Date: 11–13-2020
Today we take a look at the slow-motion coup that we've known was coming since 2016. The baseless lawsuits, the absurd claims and the perpetual grift. Always the grift.
Read more#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism) (Repost)
Air Date: 2–25-2020
Today we take a look at a post-acquittal, power-mad Trump taking advantage of his thoroughly-confirmed ability to do whatever he wants without repercussion and the work Bill Barr is doing to completely subvert the Justice Department in favor of using it as a tool to favor the President's friends and harm his enemies.
Read more#1370 Bernie Sanders on Trump as a Threat to American Democracy
Air Date: 9–26-2020
Today we present, instead of what was intended to be a rerun episode, Senator Bernie Sanders' major speech on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. Plus, new voice messages and a bonus clip in conversation with one of those messages.
Read more#1369 The Business Model That Ate the World (Facebook)
Air Date: 9–22-2020
Today we take a look at the rising concern over Facebook as more and more negative impacts of the site become evident to an ever-expanding group of concerned people and, more specifically, we show how it is the fundamental business model of Facebook that is at the heart of its problems.
Read more#1339 Recognizing the Signs of Fascism for What They Are (Authoritarianism)
Air Date: 2–25-2020
Today we take a look at a post-acquittal, power-mad Trump taking advantage of his thoroughly-confirmed ability to do whatever he wants without repercussion and the work Bill Barr is doing to completely subvert the Justice Department in favor of using it as a tool to favor the President's friends and harm his enemies.
Read more#1335 Worldwide Authoritarianism is Built on the Back of Islamophobia
Air Date: 2–8-2020
Today we take a look at the globetrotting trend of building and maintaining far-right, authoritarian political power by stoking fear and hatred of Muslims. We will draw the connections between the Chinese Uighurs, the Rohingya people of Burma, the Governmental policy in India to strip Muslims of citizenship and the actions taken by the US over the past decades that have helped to turbo-charge this trend.
Read more#1309 Facing Our Existential Dread Head On (Trump and Climate Anxiety)
Air Date: 10–1-2019
Today we take an unflinching look at two of the major sources of anxiety in modern life, Donald Trump and the climate crisis, and some of what we can do to find a degree of calm.
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