Podcast Episodes

Beyond the Fascism Checklist, Sweetiepie

Season 9 Episode 36

You’ve seen the checklist. It’s been screenshotted, shared, color-coded, made into TikToks, and dropped into Reddit threads like gospel. “The 14 Signs of Fascism,” courtesy of Umberto Eco—saint of ac…

Published on 6 months ago

Nudge Me Harder, Mistress

Season 9 Episode 36

Sources:

Salon: Deliberative democracy: Sounds boring — but it just might save us

Stanford: Could deliberative democracy depolarize America? Stanford scholars think so

"Pedagogy or Programming? The Mora…

Published on 6 months ago

The Law Isn't Your Mum

Season 9 Episode 35

The Supreme Court, the Rolex, and Why the Tallest Poppy Gets Cut

There’s a meme making the rounds: a giant dust storm barreling toward a city, its face replaced with that of a fluffy dog. It’s labeled…

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Trump is America's Cold Sore

Season 9 Episode 33

Trump Isn’t the Disease—He’s the Cold Sore
What if the bull in the china shop is just what 70% of the country asked for?

I don’t know how “good” Trump is as a legislator. Doesn’t matter. What is real i…

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The Death of Neutrality in Modern Warfare

Season 9 Episode 30

No Medics, No Press, No Mercy: Modern War Doesn’t Believe You Anymore

In theory, war has rules: press badges, medics, the Red Cross, the Geneva Conventions. But in practice—on the battlefield, on the…

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Trump's Spite War and the Empire in Denial

Season 9 Episode 29

American Foreign Policy: In Search of Monsters to Destroy

How meme warfare, judicial chokeholds, and moral exhaustion paved a runway straight to Tehran

Donald Trump is not a shadow lurking at the edge …

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America's Perpetual Hunt for Monsters

Season 9 Episode 27

America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy — 2025 Remix
By Chris Abraham
A Republic, If You Can Drone It

Original 2005 article: America Does Not Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destr…

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Trump's Spite War

Season 9 Episode 25

When Trump Couldn’t Deport, He Bombed
Tariffs blocked. Deportations sandbagged. So he reached for the B‑2s.

It’s easy to see Trump’s June 2025 bombing of Iranian nuclear sites as yet another episode of…

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Escalation's Inevitable Path

Season 9 Episode 23

Trump didn’t come back to bomb Iran. He came back to slap tariffs on China and build a domestic economy around mass deportation. That’s not hyperbole—it’s his vision of American greatness: inward-loo…

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America's Israel

Season 9 Episode 21

Last night, America sent B-2 bombers into Iranian airspace, dropped massive ordnance, and reasserted a worldview that goes far deeper than current events. While analysts dissect escalation ladders an…

Published on 6 months ago