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In one single day, since Joe Biden announced he was stepping down as the Democrat’s nominee, VP Kamala Harris has raised over $150 million for her presidential campaign. She has also gained the endorsements of a large number of Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons. But how realistic are her chances of winning against Donald Trump and how should the Democrats be shaping her campaign? Steve Israel, a former chair of the Democrat’s Congressional Campaign Committee - who has plenty ...
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Since 2007, Weird Medicine has been "the first and still only uncensored medical show in broadcast radio history" on SiriusXM. Now, the same crew that continues to shock, horrify, entertain and inform the satellite airwaves is producing a weekly podcast! This is a medical show for people who would never listen to a medical show on the internet (or anywhere else). If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, call the voicemail line at 347 766 4323 (347 POO HEAD) any time. Remember, ...
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HBO's House of the Dragon is covered by an academic and a stand-up comic. Formerly the hosts of the Electric Bookaloo pod, Steve and Anthony talk about the most compelling elements of each episode. Also featured: professors of medieval studies who are experts on the real history that inspired the series.
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Observational Podcast hosted by Michael Anthony. Michael is often accompanied by a wide variety of guests from music, film, literature and sport to discuss different topics. Guests include David Chase, Ken Loach, Steve Van Zandt, Chazz Palminteri, Rupert Everett, Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle, Pete Doherty, Mikey Shuman, Bryan Robson, Jaap Stam, John Barnes and many more. Out some Wednesdays/Thursdays. Listen to it.
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AT Banter Podcast

Rob Mineault, Steve Barclay, Ryan Fleury, Lis Malone

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AT Banter’s goal is to celebrate and share stories of disability. Join Rob Mineault, Ryan Fleury, Steve Barclay, and Lis Malone as they talk with advocates and members of the Disability Community to educate and inspire better conversations about disability.
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Finally, a chance for you to hear some people recording their thoughts about movies! In Revenge of the '90s, Steve DiMatteo and Anthony Fabiano, along with some very special guests, take you on a journey through the most glorious decade of film. Get more at https://www.robotbutt.com/
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4Kids is the company that brought Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Shaman King, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ultraman and more to English speaking audiences. This retrospective podcast about the 4Kids era of television as told by the people who were actually there. Hosted by voice actress Tara Sands and podcaster/artist Steve Yurko! Tara and Steve go behind the scenes and interview the actors, directors, writers, translators, editors and more responsible for bringing these shows to life. Tara ...
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hive with us podcast network: Real Estate, Land and Business

Daniel Esteban Martinez & Anthony Gaona- Hivemind CRM

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Join us on The Hivemind podcast as we discuss real estate, entrepreneurship, and creative strategies for land investing. Hear testimonials from successful minority business owners and catch bonus episodes. Hosted by Daniel Esteban Martinez, Anthony Gaona, and Frank Spaulding. New shows every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with bonus content dropped randomly. Plus, join our free FB group, Hivemind CRM. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hivemindcrm/support
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The RegenNarration podcast features the stories of a generation that is changing the story, enabling the regeneration of life on this planet. It’s ad-free, freely available and entirely listener-supported. You'll hear from high profile and grass-roots leaders from around Australia and the world, on how they're changing the stories we live by, and the systems we create in their mold. Along with often very personal tales of how they themselves are changing, in the places they call home. With a ...
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Julia La Roche brings her listeners in-depth conversations with some of the top CEOs, investors, founders, academics, and rising stars in business. Guests on "The Julia La Roche Show" have included Bill Ackman, Ray Dalio, Marc Benioff, Kyle Bass, Hugh Hendry, Nassim Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, David Friedberg, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Galloway, Brent Johnson, Jim Rickards, Danielle DiMartino Booth, Carol Roth, Neil Howe, Jim Rogers, Jim Bianco, Josh Brown, and many more. Julia always makes the ...
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The CALI DEATH PODCAST is hosted by Anthony Trapani (Odious Mortem/Severed Savior), Joel Horner and KC Howard (Odious Mortem/Decrepit Birth) and Josef Kay (To Violently Vomit/Transcend the Realm). We’re bringing you long-form discussions and interviews with legends and contemporaries of Death Metal and its encompassing musical sphere.
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Citation Needed

Citation Needed Media

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The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we’re experts. Because this is the internet, and that’s how it works now.
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Breaking Green

Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor

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Produced by Global Justice Ecology Project, Breaking Green is a podcast that talks with activists and experts to examine the intertwined issues of social, ecological and economic injustice. Breaking Green also explores some of the more outrageous proposals to address climate and environmental crises that are falsely being sold as green. But we can't do it without you! We accept no corporate sponsors, and rely on people like you to make Breaking Green possible. If you'd like to donate, text G ...
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"Beam aboard for an exhilarating voyage with Energize, your go-to podcast for all things Star Trek! Join Sci-Fi enthusiast Anthony McLemore and Star Trek aficionado Steve Truitt as they delve deep into the latest episodes from "Strange New Worlds", "Picard", "Lower Decks", and "Discovery". Get ready for captivating analysis, character breakdowns, and lively debates that will warp your understanding of each episode. With special guest appearances and sneak peeks at what's next, Energize guara ...
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The Guru Viking Podcast specializes in in-depth interviews with remarkable figures in the world of meditation, spirituality, and self development. Steve travels internationally teaching somatic practices and meditation, and leads explorations in contemplative, mystic, & relational realms.
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The Block Party

Tampa Bay Lightning

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Greg Wolf and Braydon Coburn host the Block Party, presented by Jai Alai IPA, to talk Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey, the NHL and life in general with great guests from all aspects of hockey. New episodes drop every Wednesday during hockey season.
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DJ Czezre The Return Volume 1

DJ Czezre The Return Volume 1

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Playlist: 1. Groove Assassin - Share Your Love 2. Jerome Syndenham, East 4A, DJ Jinwook - In The Barbershop 3. Kerri Chandler - Back To The Raw(Ruff Mix) 4. Ivan Dbri - Nebula 5. Josh Wink ft. Ursula Rucker - Sixth Sense(Louie Vega Remix) 6. Cajmere, Gene Farris - Gimme Your Love(Original Mix) 7. DJ Czezre - Aeon Flux(Original Mix) 8. Ash Paine - That System(Original Mix) 9. Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym(O&A Remix) 10. Agua Sin Gas, Antoine Clamaran, Hatiras - Good Vibration(Hatiras Remix) 11. ...
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Nick Bowman presents The Future Underground Show. Listen and download the monthly show here on Podomatic. Previous guests on the show include: Sasha, Mauro Picotto, Ellen Allien, Audio Injection, Cari Lekebusch, Joel Mull, Alan Fitzpatrick, Gary Beck, Nic Fanciulli, Paul Woolford, Mark Broom, DJ Dextro, Deepgroove, Thomas Schumacher, Heckmann, Electric Rescue, Israel Toledo, Tom Hades, Dolby D, Stefano Noferini, Daniel Portman, Hobo, Hans Bouffmyhre, Markantonio, Fabio Neural, Kai Randy Mich ...
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Stand up comedian veteran Steve Byrne (writer/director of "The Opening Act", "Sullivan & Son", multiple hour specials) comes to you each week from New York City with a rotating panel of stand up comedians and entertainers as they watch stand up comedy clips together, rate them and crown a winner. The clips spur on a vast array of conversations but most importantly, lots of laughs. Tune in each week to see who will join Steve and who will win Comedy Pinata!
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Welcome to Tell Us Your Story, the podcast that tells the diverse stories of businesses, leaders, and influencers throughout Northern California. Our mission is to ignite inspiration, foster education, and bring our community together. Join us as we unravel the path to achievement, discovering how these remarkable businesses and leaders navigated obstacles, conquered hardships, and transformed failures into success. Their stories will leave you reinvigorated and inspired with invaluable lead ...
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Failing Forward is a podcast all about the times when everything goes wrong. Some stories are funny, some are sad, and some are motivational. And sometimes they're even heartwarming. Whoever the guest, comedian Steve Hofstetter will take you on a journey through failure, rejection, and sometimes...thankfully...success. We wanna make the podcast even better, help us learn how we can: https://bit.ly/2EcYbu4 For advertising opportunities please email PodcastPartnerships@Studio71us.com Privacy P ...
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Innova.buzz

Dr Jürgen Strauss

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The InnovaBuzz Podcast explores the minds of innovators, entrepreneurs and creatives. You’ll learn about values, strategies, tactics and mindset from some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. Join internationally recognised transformational marketing strategist, speaker and podcaster, Dr Jürgen Strauss, The World's Best Human-Centred Podcasting Coach , as he chats with awesome guests who are committed to innovation, service and modern marketing. Each episode is a conversation with i ...
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Radiation Island

Christopher Conatser & Steve Poggi

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A podcast hosted by comedians Christopher Conatser, Steve Poggi, and a menicing artificial intillegence called "Acron". Covering conspiracies, stories, lies, nefarious activity and other hot nonsense. We encourage you to visit, just don't disturbe the soil. Recorded on the streets of San Francisco
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This is the CPG Troublemakers, the place where brands and makers, food and beverage nerds, and investors all gather to cause a little bit of mischief. We welcome industry leaders, white space thinkers, and channel partners to come together to turn problems into opportunities or at the very least have a little fun along the way.
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Eddie Trunk, the most well-known name in hard rock and metal music, brings his insight, commentary, reviews, discussion, and in-depth interviews to the podcast world! Join Eddie and his famous friends in rock and entertainment every week for a rollicking good time.
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Orlando Magic HQ

Orlando Magic HQ, Bleav

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Orlando Magic HQ your destination for all of the latest Magic news and updates. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook for all of the latest Magic news, updates and commentary. The Orlando Magic HQ podcast is a weekly Orlando Magic podcast hosted by Anthony Velez and Al Grullon. Each episode we share our thoughts and opinions on our beloved Orlando Magic in a genuine and authentic way on a variety of on-court and off-court topics. Our goal is to keep Magic fans up to date on all the la ...
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Your Round Podcast

John Lebbon, Anthony Ellis, Chris Forshaw

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From rugby stars to porn stars, discussing life & current affairs with a host of interesting people. Hosted by John Lebbon & Anthony Ellis. Produced by Chris Forshaw.
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The Shuli Network is a network of podcasts featuring organic, in the moment, comedy. Comedian Shuli Egar and friends The Reverend Bob Levy and Mike Morse anchor the flagship Uncle Rico Show, a live, on the spot roast show, dedicated to Stuttering John Melendez. Every Uncle Rico Show the guys are handed a package of Stuttering John clips that they watch and react to in real-time. Never personal, never planned…just funny!
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Directors Anthony and Joe Russo and actors Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie discuss their new film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The film finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Hosted by Alistair Plumb at the Apple Store, Regent Street in London.
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Conversations With The Chiefs

Michael Delisle & Steve Doan

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Michael Delisle and Steve Doan are founders of Upwell Search Partners and they have a combined experience of 30+ years in executive search. In this podcast, they will converse with executives across many industries so that you can see what goes on in the life of a Chief.
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Welcome to Unofficial Intelligence! My name is Steve and each week my friends Ben and Anthony come by so that I can justify having more than one couch in my living room. We talk about the things that matter most in life, like who just got cast for a show based on a video game or why it’s better to order unsalted fries from McDonald's. Point is we hope all the random things we’ve learned through bizarre personal experiences or late night YouTube worm holes can help you in some way. Who knows ...
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Comedian, Broadcaster (and former political adviser) Matt Forde presents The Political Party, the show where renowned politicians and experts open up and give their most honest, revealing and often hilarious answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Inside the Minds of Success

Ryan Burnett (Ryan Anthony's Head Start Fund)

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Inside the Minds of Success is about diving into business owners' minds from various industries and backgrounds. We get to see how they got their start, learn about some of their mistakes and cheer on all of their successes.
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Our guest in this episode is Daniel Den, a trailblazing founder of Ideas That Influence and co-creator of the X Factor Effect Methodology. Daniel’s innovative approach to marketing and differentiation has made a significant impact in helping businesses stand out in a crowded market. His interactive book box experience exemplifies his commitment to …
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Vice-President Kamala Harris has secured the support of a majority of Democratic delegates to become the party's nominee for president. We answer your questions on how she’s gone from playing a backseat role, to the forefront of the party’s hopes in the election. Plus - how will the Republican campaign respond? What’s George Clooney doing for the D…
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Why is ominous music playing over the Rhaenyra-Mysaria kiss? Double Dragon is a House of the Dragon podcast. It features a stand-up comic and the author of two books on Game of Thrones. It also features university professors who specialize in medieval history and literature. Intro music by Tobias Sjögreen, check out his band's webpage: Heiko. Hey t…
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Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915) was an American anti-vice activist, United States Postal Inspector, and secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV), who was dedicated to upholding Christian morality. He opposed obscene literature, abortion, contraception, masturbation, gambling, prostitution, and pate…
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Rob, Ryan, Steve, and Lis gather together for a full house this week to welcome author LK Bowen to talk about her debut novel, “For Worse”. They discuss the novel’s origins, how the choice was made to make the protagonist share LK’s eye condition of retinitis pigmentosa, and the importance of representation and agency in literature and media. Show …
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In this episode of the Hive With Us Podcast, hosts Daniel Martinez and Anthony Gaona discuss their mission of creating affordable housing through land investments. They delve into the significant impact that land investors can have on the housing market, the strategies they use to create affordable housing, and the broader economic benefits of thei…
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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…
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Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public? We tell the story of George Gall…
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Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’…
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The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' book History and Memory in …
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In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the hu…
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China’s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Contemporary observers and historians alike have attributed these inequalities to distinct stages of China's political economy: the dualistic economy of semicolonialism, rural-urban divisions in the socialist perio…
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Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives of left-wing Soviet refugees who fled the Cold War to settle in Australia, and uncovers how they adjusted to life under surveillance in the West. As Cold War tensions built in the postwar years, many o…
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The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic battles in modern military history occurred on the steppes of eastern Europe. Stalingrad and Moscow are names known to most but less well-known are the vast battles that occurred in Byelorussia. By June 1…
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Today I talked to Ben Kaplan about his new book (co-authored with Danny Parkins) Pipeline to the Pros: How D3 Small-College Nobodies Rose to Rule the NBA (Triumph Books, 2024). Jeff Van Gundy. Brad Stevens. Frank Vogel. Mike Budenholzer. Tom Thibodeau. Sam Presti. Leon Rose. Before you knew his name, before he drafted your favorite player, before h…
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In this episode of 4Kids Flashback Talkback Number 4, Tara Sands is joined by Actor and Voice Director Darren Dunstan! They answer 18 of the messages YOU left at Speakpipe.com/4KidsFlashback Darren is best known for voicing Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Pegasus in Yu-Gi-Oh!! He also Voice Directed a ton of shows at 4Kids including Po…
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Send us a Text Message. A number of you have said last week’s episode was one of the best, with legendary Bioneers founders Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel. So in honour of that, and in case you missed it, or haven’t heard through to the end, this week’s release is an excerpt of the last 20 minutes or so of a very rare public conversation with the tw…
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Your hosts, Mike Peron and Rob Galloway, are here to bring you another exciting episode of Things, Adventure, and People, all Tahoe-related, for your listening pleasure. The highlight of today's show is our exclusive interview with Grammy Award winner Shaggy, the headliner of the Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival happening from Saturday, August 3, through…
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Is there anything better than a summer blockbuster? Obviously not, and there wasn't a better decade for summer blockbusters than the '90s, so we're going to rank some of our favorites from the decade. Quick disclaimer: We talk a little about our favorite movies of this summer, but this was recorded this before seeing the glory that is Twisters! Be …
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Macro trends blogger and economist David Woo @DavidWooUnbound, CEO of David Woo Unbound, a global forum devoted to the promotion of fact-based debates about markets, politics, and economics, joins Julia La Roche on episode 186 for a wide-ranging conversation on economics and politics, including the attempted assassination on former President Trump …
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Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of A Semiotics of Muslimness in China (Cambridge UP, 2023). About the book: A Semiotics of Muslimness in China examines the semiotics of Sino-Muslim heritage literacy in a way that integrates its Perso-Arab…
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In January 1945, the final year of the Pacific War, Japanese-held Hong Kong became the site of coordinated attacks by the U.S. Navy on Japanese warships and aircraft. Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War (Osprey, 2024) by Steven K. Bailey tells the story of what those air raids were like for the men who lived through them. Targ…
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In this elegantly written study Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales (Penn State University Press, 2024), Dr. Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedde…
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Bombarded with the equivalent of one Hiroshima bomb a day for half a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. Well before climate change became a global concern, nuclear testing brought about untimely death, widespread diseases, forced migration, and irreparable destruction to the shores of Oceania. In The Ocean on Fi…
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Suddenly, the Sight of War: Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s (Stanford UP, 2016) is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed…
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"Everyone assumed that in a more open, interconnected world, democracy and liberal ideas would spread to the autocratic states. Nobody imagined that autocracy and illiberalism would spread to the democratic world instead". So writes Anne Applebaum in Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Double Day Books, 2024). Applebaum's new b…
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Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial–often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated, especially in terms of specific films and film-makers. In British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction…
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In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics, and institutions could liberate disabled Americans from economic reliance on the state, and demonstrated the growing belief th…
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Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of politica…
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.…
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Roczen is back on the bike and also back on the show. He comes on to talk about his recovery and possible return date to the track. Chiz is on to talk about training and testing as well as growing up in Florida with his elite training partners over the years. Darkside comes on to clear up him posting and then deleting song lyrics on X. Ryder D is o…
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In one single day, since Joe Biden announced he was stepping down as the Democrat’s nominee, VP Kamala Harris has raised over $150 million for her presidential campaign. She has also gained the endorsements of a large number of Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons. But how realistic are her chances of winning against Donald Trump and …
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In this episode of the Hive With Us Podcast, host Daniel Martinez and co-host Kyle Thompson sit down with young and successful land investor, Clay Hepler. They discuss Clay's journey into land investing, his strategies for success, and insights into the land market. Clay shares his transition from house and multi-family investing to land, emphasizi…
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Has fascism arrived in America? In Fascism in America: Past and Present (Cambridge UP, 2023), Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascis…
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The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of kno…
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There are some topics that historians know not to touch. They are just too hot (or too cold). The assassination of JFK is one of them. Most scholars would say either: (a) the topic has been done to death so nothing new can be said or (b) it’s been so thoroughly co-opted by nutty theorists that no sane discussion is possible. Thank goodness David Ka…
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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles.” So begins The Graduate (1967), which everyone loves but which many of us loved for one reason when we were younger and one when we became a little more seasoned. “Plastics” is a great joke when you’re 20; how does it sound decades later? The movie hasn’t changed, but we hav…
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Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It has sought to influence education, commerce, music, art, architecture, communications, food, and every other corner of society. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nati…
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In an unusual episode, we listen back to field recordings that co-host cris cheek made in 1987 and 1993 on the island of Madagascar. It’s a rich sonic travelogue, with incredible musicians appearing at seemingly every stop along the way. Mack interviews cris, who discusses the strangeness and surprises of listening back to the sounds of that other …
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A new book reveals an incredible slice of Cuban-American history that’s been all but forgotten until now. Lisandro Perez‘s Sugar, Cigars and Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York (NYU Press, 2018) tells the story of a vibrant Cuban émigré community in 19th-century New York that ranged from wealthy sugar plantation owners investing their fortunes…
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By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s (Routledge, 2024) and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s (Routledge, 2024)—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy ac…
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In Christian Collier's debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a famil…
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Shama Tatler Shama was the Labour candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green and almost unseated Iain Duncan Smith just a few weeks ago. Had it not been for an independent candidate standing in the seat, Shama would almost certainly have won. Shama describes her experience in full, including the abuse she faced and the misinformation spread about he…
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What a July it's been (and still going to be) for the Cleveland Guardians. There's a little something of everything going on with this team, and it should only get better as the stretch run continues. Let's take stock of the team out of the All-Star break and start looking towards the trade deadline. Be sure to follow us on social @calpenalpod. Lea…
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