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SOLVED! #8 - PART 1: Drowning Men Will Clutch at Straws: Masculinity in a MAGA world
Episode 8
Air Date: 4-28-25
Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss:
- Why the "manly" manufacturing jobs Trump and MAGA want are never coming back
- Why in…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation
Episode 1706
Air Date 4/26/2025
For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getti…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies
Episode 1705
Air Date 4/22/2025
George W. Bush proposed privatizing Social Security and didn't succeed. But, as with appointing Justices that would eventually ove…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media
Episode 1704
Air Date 4/18/2025
Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the gov…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Broligarchy and the Rise of Techno-Feudalism
Episode 1703
Air Date 4/14/2025
Everything, it turns out, is a double-edged sword. Democracy and freedom are great but it also contains the keys to its own destru…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback)
Episode 1254
Original Air Date: 3/5/2019
From 2019: Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of demo…
9 months ago
Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future
Episode 1702
Air Date 4/5/2025
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. And with Trump in place, the Christian Natio…
9 months ago
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need
Episode 1701
Air Date 4/2/2025
Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism …
9 months, 1 week ago
Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists
Episode 1700
Air Date 3/28/2025
You might not be trans yourself but that's just like how coal miners aren't canaries because when they saw that the canaries were …
9 months, 1 week ago
Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback)
Episode 1479
Original Air Date: 3/29/2022
Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans agains…
9 months, 2 weeks ago