"Fascism threatens humanity. We are the resistance. The time has come for each of us to finally STAND UP and be counted." - Anonymous 2 totally cool white guys who dare to fight the power. Listen as they GO FOR WOKE!
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With the best of intentions, the narrator of this poetic, seriocomic, three-part podcast, Miss Experience White, summons the Demon of White America, Tyrannosaurus Wonderbread, and his Pearly White Retinue. These magical efforts lead her to an uncomfortable moment of reckoning. Immersive sound design by Earwax Productions plunges the listener into the surrealism of the poetry. Written and performed by Milo Starr Johnson, produced by The Tea Club and Jim McKee. Featuring the music of It Thing, ...
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Lefty news and politics, posted irregularly and irreverently.
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There's an energy, an electricity. Arcing from heart to heart, mind to mind, heart to mind, mind to heart. KAMALA, KAMALA.
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TRUMP's very suspicious photo-op...um "assassination attempt" is already in the rearview mirror. Politics waits for no one, least of all that tiny-handed rapist. (Isn't it strange that a rapist would have such tiny hands?) Biden unveils a new program that awards rainbow ribbons for COVID-19 survivors. Another home surgery botched.…
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Biden's solid - and some even say impressive - debate performance somehow touched off a strange controversy about Biden's fitness for the office...(?) and his ability to beat Trump in the general election...(?). All this smacks of Trump interferance in the election process - which by the way is probably a federal crime or something and should be ad…
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No question self-immolation is woke. The question is, what's the best way to do it.By PAT DIXON
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GOODBYE, SCOTT. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. NEW SEXUALITY FOR VLADIMIR. MIGRANTS SO SO SO WELCOME.By PAT DIXON
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Like Being God.By PAT DIXON
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He checked for the bone. Mammals are different.By PAT DIXON
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Roundup Minisode: Trump, The Tick-Tock of Tech, and Tools
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Andi (@Pamphleteer), Ty and Brent jump on to quickly run down a few stories. No one says the "G Word" so we managed to keep it under an hour, for once.By Political Fun Time Happy Hour Deluxe
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A Whole City of Cops AND Financial Dominos
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Andi (@Pamphlet_tyr) and Ty finally talk through Cop City in Atlanta and the future it portends, then cackle as tech bros play Jenga with the economy. Show Twitter: @pfthhdBy Political Fun Time Happy Hour Deluxe
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Contemplating Jan 6, 9/11, how to finish this life in the best possible way, doing the maximum good with minimum ability, racism, transphobia, islamophobia, problems and solutions.By PAT DIXON
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Brandon, Barricadia, and Bros, Bro.
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Andi and Ty catch up, hit a little bit of the electoral circus, interrogate the state mechanisms of exclusion and extraction (and their ultimate limits), then dare to ask the question: “Dudes, seriously?”By pfthhd
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Pro Se Protocols and Pyratical Progressivism
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Are robo-lawyers even more soulless than the regular kind? Are there algorithmic upsides? What about pyrates? Ruthless, uncivilized brigands, or visionary forebearers of a democratic revolt against expanding state power? All this, a little too much imbibing, and more!By Political Fun Time Happy Hour Deluxe
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Republican Roundup, Coy George, and a little Lula Livre!
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It’s Andi (@pamphlet_tyr), Ty (@WhyThatTyGuy), and Brent (toocoolfortwitter) going back to our roots. We catch up on activities across the right, ranging from McCarthy’s historical inability to speak for the House to Brazilian January 6th (on January 8th). We bemoan how our heroes have fallen and try to trace the mysterious republican congressman f…
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We'll never stop being thsi way, we'll never stop being this gay.By PAT DIXON
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Racism as Religion & America as Britain's Greatest Sin (ft. @sophie_frm_mars)
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Brent, Andi (@pamphlet_tyr), and Ty (@WhyThatTyGuy) run through a terrifying article from @LCRWnews that ties all too well into the second half of our conversation with Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars), wherein we discuss why it’s all Britain’s fault, cowboy Christians, and sci-fi antidotes to fascism.Show Twitter: @pfthhd Show E-mail: PoliticalFunTimeHap…
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Puritans, Pyramids, and Patriots (Oh My!) (ft. @sophie_frm_mars)
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Ty and Andi (@pamphlet_tyr) are joined by @sophie_frm_mars for a wide ranging discussion about the religious right, the left’s relation to religion, the dangers of millenarianism, whether pre- or post-, and how to tell the future through racist archaeology. Too much good stuff for a single episode, so tune in next week for the shocking conclusion! …
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In what may be a new record, Andi (@Pamphlet_tyr) gets to a Graeber reference in under 5 minutes, but we mostly start with Twitter/Elon, bemoan the wrongs done to our man Matt Binder, and then elegantly solve Karl Popper's dilemma of tolerance. Show Twitter (womp womp): @pfthhdBy Political Fun Time Happy Hour Deluxe
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Pipeline Explosions (That We Totally Don't Endorse)
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The Gang (@pftthhd) is back, with Andi (@Pamphlet_Tyr), Brent, and Ty. It's a bit of MTG, a bit of Musk, then a deep dive into climate discussions centered on Andreas Malm's work (How to Blow Up a Pipeline and Fossil Capital), Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, and a bit of Oreskes/Conway's Merchants of Doubt as anchor points.…
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Political Fun Time 2.0: More Politics! More Fun! More Time! OR The Listener Loyalty Experience
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The old gang is back in action, as Andi, Brent, and Ty rejoin their forces to talk through the last year, or at least the last week, diving deep into the West/Jones/Pool/Fuentes arc, hashing out what we can glean from the acceleration of right wing violence and intimidation, and generally revisiting just how right we were.…
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NEVER APOLOGIZEBy PAT DIXON
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KANYE - BIDEN - PELOSI - BROOKES THESE ARE THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT WE CALL "SHOW." BLUE NO MATTER JEW!By PAT DIXON
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EQUITY. BACHELORETTES. ORAL SEX. TAKE A SIP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE, AS THE BOYS DO WELL BY DOING GOOD.
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WITH PAPA JOE AT THE HELM, THERE'S NO TWEETING, NO PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH RUSSIA, NO ANTAGONIZING NORTH KOREA, NO FBI INVESTIGATIONS, NO SPECIAL COUNSEL...JUST A PRESIDENT QUIETLY DOING THE WORK.By PAT DIXON
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NAZIPUNCHRRR HAS RETURNED FROM INDIA WITH STORIES OF DOGS AND HOLINESS. STILL, WE FRET.By PAT DIXON
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NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, NO PROBLEM
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Ukraine. Off-beat wedding. More.By PAT DIXON
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This episode is a DIFFERENT type of episode, and you should be ready to heed the call when you hear it. We mean BUSINESS!!!By PAT DIXON
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The music, the fascism, the Vice President, tha God, the OmNIcron, the news, the hate. We're very liberal. And we're changing the world. The Buddha said, "For he who has nothing, the world is filled with temptation. But for he who is tempted, nothing can stand in his way." How did they know I had a mouse inside my apartment? Buddha got a little dic…
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Find out if YOU'RE a M.E.D. man! 2w2f is inspired by so many brave women, girls and men of color, and we share this inspiration with our spiritual sibling from another birthing person: he is radical, revolutionary, singer, poet, actor, author, anti-racist, ally and living threat to everything phony, commercial and tame, Henry Rollins. This episode …
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Admiral Levine. RIP Colin Powell. Government doesn't make rules, it explains reality. AOC and Bernie - "legitimately friends." Mit-ta Floyd. SUPPLY. DEMAND. AND THE PANDEMIC. My friend, Scottt.By PAT DIXON
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Buttery Smooth Barry Obama. Let's Go, Brandon. Throwin' Shade. Which Side R U On?By PAT DIXON
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good news today! From Afghanistan to Covid19 to becoming a Unicorn, everything is going amazingly.By PAT DIXON
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...don't ya wanna go! And that's alright! Going to a group home Obama Dollars Jay Z fingers Donnie DobbinsBy PAT DIXON
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Put this in your earbuds, lay back and take a break with your eyes closed. You earned it, for all I know. Of course, "you earned it" is something we should never say, because the concept of EARNING is designed to support white supremacy. Everything was created to support white supremacy. We have to burn it down. AGAIN.…
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In the 11th episode of the 3rd season, these two discuss Joe Biden and how great he is, remind us how terrible Trump was, and delve into the most dangerous type of rage, which is the opposite of a beautiful kind of joy.By PAT DIXON
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Black joy is a counteraction for the immense amount of pain black people must endure. As People of Color, and black people in particular, are literally hunted down like dogs in the street, lynched, terrorized, drawn and quartered, tarred and feathered, ridden out of town on a rail, stuck with the check, fined unnecessarily for parking violations th…
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Miss Experience White | Part III: The Other Feast
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"The Other Feast,” the final episode of the award-winning, poetic, seriocomic, surreal audio drama Miss Experience White, features a phantasmagoric battle against Tyrannosaurus Wonderbread, the Demon of white supremacy, juxtaposed with real-life stories about othering and recognizing privilege. Is the core of the White American experience a fundame…
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GET WITH IT. THE WORLD DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU ANYMORE. THE WORLD BELONGS TO US NOW. CUT YOURSELF.By PAT DIXON
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Big magical GeorgeBy PAT DIXON
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