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New York Times environmental journalist David Wallace-Wells returns to Bad Faith to discuss his latest article about the enormity of Biden's latest climate betrayal: an oil project in the arctic that severely undermines the much-touted gains of the Inflation Reduction Act. What does the left go next? Do they have even less leverage than they did in 2020, and would the presence of a real Democratic primary change that?
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Following Briahna's super viral interview with Bethany Mandel on Rising, America once again debated the meaning of "woke" and why it matters. This week on Bad Faith, Brie welcomes back Freddie deBoer, author of the recent Substack essay "Of Course You Know What 'Woke' Means," along with New Republic contributor Osita Nwanevu to dig in to the #discourse.
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Briahna recorded this episode with Matt Stoller last Friday as news was emerging about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank -- the 20th largest bank in the US. We discuss the roots of that crisis along with how antitrust factors into the disaster in East Palestine & prospective merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Finally, at the end of the episode, Briahna get's Stoller's take on Matt Taibbi's claim that the FTC's investigation into whether the Twitter Files disclosures compromised private user data is a witch hunt of sorts. We tackled a lot in this one. See you tonight on Callin to discuss.
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On this week's premium episode, Briahna presses Representative Ro Khanna about his vote condemning socialism, whether legislation proposed to address the crisis in East Palestine goes far enough, whether his endorsement of Biden's 2024 campaign is premature in light of more progressive-aligned entrants into the race, his thoughts on Sy Hersh's reporting that the US was behind the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, whether the US should support an independent UN investigation into the sabotage, and more.
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With new legislation being advanced in Congress that's ostensibly designed to address the regulatory failures that led to two Norfolk Southern train derailments in Ohio this year, it's important to understand the causes of that accident and what would authentically help. Glenn Kessler's Washington Post fact check along with some other mainstream coverage suggest that a narrative is emerging that limits the cause of the accident to just one issue -- overheating wheel bearings. Is there a risk that defining the cause narrowly will curb legislation that addresses more systemic problems, like meager staffing lax regulations for hazardous materials? David Sirota and The Lever have done the most comprehensive reporting to date re who is responsible for the crash. Together, we walk though Kessler's fact check, fact check it in return, and discuss the mainstream media disinformation campaign to punt blame.
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This week, Briahna interviewed Matt Taibbi about a narrow concern she's had with the Twitter files archive: Despite the obvious value that Matt and other twitter files reporters have created by exposing links between the intelligence agencies and online censorship, is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why? Unlike Musk, most whistleblowers are not the heads of the organizations they're informing on. Does Musk's investment in and control over Twitter demand more journalistic scrutiny? Is it possible to characterize the files reviewed so far without making broader claims about about the total archive that, at this point, can't be substantiated? Has there been sufficient inquiry into bias against the left, and has their been sufficient disclosure about the limitations Musk has put on the journalists who've been given access to the archive? It's a difficult and nuanced discussion. Let's debrief tonight on Callin.
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This might be the best conversation unpacking this week's student debt SCOTUS oral arguments you'll hear. Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman returns to the pod and gets some healthy pushback from Student Borrower Protection Deputy Executive Director Persis Yu. The expertise on display here is extraordinary, as the two go back and forth over the Supreme Court's likely holding with respect to Biden's student debt policy based on a close reading of the oral arguments, and whether Jed's amicus brief, referenced by Kavanaugh during oral arguments, correctly raises concerns about an over-expansion of executive power. You won't want to miss this one.
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Briahna speaks to John Jay College Professor of Economics Christian Parenti about why the left should support the Republican-driven efforts to interrogate bias within the FBI & restrain its powers, the Sy Hersh article alleging US responsibility for the Nord Stream sabotage, the controversy around the Rage Against the War Machine anti-war rally, and more. A great interview with an intellectual who isn't afraid to dive deep into sensitive subjects that, nonetheless, are crucial for the left to work out.
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Harvard Law & Economics Professor (and Briahna's favorite teacher) Jon Hanson joins Bad Faith to offer a firsthand lesson on the legal theories, economic principles, and social psychology that explain how our legal system and our democracy became so corrupted. In a sweeping conversation, Hanson explains how low liability standards all but ensure disasters like the East Palestine derailment occur, and what could be done to change that reality. As Briahna has mentioned on the podcast time and time again, Professor Hanson's Corporate Law & Tort Law classes were formative moments in her political evolution. She's thrilled to share some of those lessons on today's pod. She paid 180k for law school so you could get these lessons for free.
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Briahna enlists the help of Nathan J. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of Current Affairs and author of the new book Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments to push back against common right-leaning arguments that have emerged in the wake of the East Palestine train derailment and other current events. Is regulators' failures proof that government is corrupt and we're better off without it? Also, should AOC debate Majorie Taylor Greene, and if so, how would Nathan prep her? Should Briahna debate Ben Shaprio? And if yes, what would hep her reach the best result for the left? Also, what's the libertarian socialist take on covid vaccines?
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Briahna got tons of feed back on the Richard Wolff episode about the debt ceiling debate from Modern Monetary Theory heads who objected to Wolff treating the US economy like a household budget. So Briahna asked the foremost MMT economist & author of "The Deficit Myth," Professor Stephanie Kelton, on to explain what the left's approach to the debt ceiling discourse should be in her view. Also, Professor Kelton, who advised Senator Sanders in 2020, talks about her frustration with Bernie's reliance on "pay for" rhetoric, and argues that the left can't avoid teaching the public about MMT forever.
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This week, Briahna is joined by an all-star group for Bad Faith's first co-ed dating panel. Movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin, YouTube phenom FD Signifier, and podcast co-host extraordinaire Katie Halper return to the podcast, while Jason Myles from This is Revolution Podcast joins Bad Faith for the first time. We get immediately into the drama and cover interracial dating, Leonardo DiCaprio & the age question, and other concerns facing leftists in the dating world.
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Briahna speaks to Kamau Franklin, founder of Community Movement Builders and a long-time organizer/attorney/writer in Atlanta who has been working against Cop City and around policing broadly, and Matthew Clair, a Stanford professor of sociology with a focus on how race and class inequalities in the criminal legal system are embedded in and reproduced through the attorney-client relationship. The panel discusses the proposed cop training development known as Cop City, the recent murder of Cop City protester Manuel "Tortuguita" Páez Terán by the police, the murder of Tyre Nichols and debates over whether "racism" could have played a role in the killing of a black man by black police officers. The panel then debated the utility of framing criminal justice reform as a "black" issue, the failures of the Biden administration's criminal justice efforts, and the role black mayors play in affirming the status quo.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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Professor and iconoclast Norman Finkelstein's long-awaited book is finally out! He and Briahna discuss chapters on Ta-Nehisi Coates & Kimberlé Crenshaw in the wake of news that those authors and others have been omitted from the African American AP curriculum. Does the cancel culture critic have a defense of these figures being canceled despite his substantive agreement with them? Also, what does Norman, a staunch advocate of Palestinian rights, make of Ilhan Omar's ejection from the Foreign Affairs committee? The critic of identity politics weighs in on the choice to defend Ilhan as "a black woman." Finally, Norman gives his takes on the Bernie movement, the future of electoralism, and everyone's favorite topic -- Marianne 2024.
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Briahna interviews Marxist economist Richard Wolff about the debt ceiling negotiations that started this week and the progressive solutions to the debt crisis that are never put on the table, including taxing the rich, cutting the military budget, and minting the coin. The conversation eventually turns toward the subject preoccupying the left: the future of the left, Marianne 2024, and the leadership void left by Bernie Sanders. Is there hope for a "Draft X" movement? Who is Wolff's dream candidate?Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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Part two of last week's conversation with popular Twitch streamer Vaush is here. During the first half, we have some really promising simpatico about doomerism on the left, before we get derailed in the FTV quagmire again. Is Brie right to want some accountability from left media figures who thwarted one of the few opportunities for the left to leverage real power over the last few years? Or is there a good faith reason to want to let it go?
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After Briahna and Vaush met on the set of Rising last week, Briahna decided to reach out to Vaush and invite him to discuss a number of critiques he's leveled against her over the years. The two have a substantially good faith -- if at times fiery -- conversation about whether Briahna enables fascists by acknowledging when conservatives occasionally have a good point, the merits of Marjorie Taylor Greene's push to abolish the FBI, Vaush's defense of "vote blue no matter who" as a strategy, and more. This is part one of a three hour interview. Part two, largely focusing on Force the Vote, will air on Monday at patreon.com/badfaithpodcast. Don't miss it.
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An all-star panel of left leaders -- Kshama Sawant, Imani Oakley, & Shahid Buttar -- discuss 2024 and the state of the left. The Freedom Caucus validated the efficacy of Force The Vote just weeks after the Democratic Party consigned crushing a rail road strike, and now some of the few consistent left voices remaining are looking forward to 2024 and having a serious conversation about what's next. No prevaricating. No doomsdaying. No punting to abstractions. Kshama Sawant also explains why she's leaving the Seattle City Council after a decade.
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President of Intercept Brazil Andrew Fishman & Jacobin columnist Branko Marcetic join Briahna for a deep dive into Brazil's version of 1/6. Was it, in fact, a legitimate coup attempt? And what role did social media play in the storming of Brazil's capital? Then we pivot to a philosophical conversation about the role Brazil's speech laws, which allow for many more constraints on speech than our own first amendment does, are a better match for a country that has recently experienced an actual military coup. Is the commitment to free speech absolutism so common in America a product of political naivety in a country that's never really experienced the full potential consequences of home grown fascism? Does the first amendment provide protections that sincerely protect minority views, or does it just create the perception that speech is free at the same time that tech platforms, news papers owned by billionaires, and corporate campaign spending neuter dissident voices? Are Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of limitations on speech occurring in Brazil overly reliant on a US lens/speech framework? Or is there a there there?
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Briahna speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the good faith leftist (v.s bad faith liberal) critiques of the Twitter Files, censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, the Brock Bot army's media attacks on the left, the "free speech right" and its apparent indifference to speech restrictions that threaten trans people, and criticism Glenn has gotten that he doesn't push back enough against the right on platforms like the Tucker Carlson show. We also discuss recent events in Brazil, comparisons between Brazil's 1/9 and DC's 1/6, and more.
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This week Briahna speaks to William McGee -- a Senior Fellow for Aviation at the American Economic Liberties Project -- about the root causes of the Southwest Airlines meltdown that left two million Americans stranded over the holidays. How much is Mayor Pete to blame? Should the US nationalize the airlines already rather than bail the out again and again? And how did things get this bad to begin with? A deeply knowledgable guest and a terrific conversation.
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This week, a philosophical conversation about the environmental movement with eco-philosopher Timothy Morton. We discuss the Stop Oil soup/Van Gogh protest, the value of political performance, Don't Look Up, meaninglessness as an attribute, & more. (Some Glass Onion spoilers!)
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Whenever something crazy is going down in Congress, Thomas Frank is here to talk about it. We chatted while the Capitol was stormed on 1/6, and now the historian, writer, and populism expert returns to Bad Faith as the House Republicans struggle to meet the 218-vote threshold to elect a Speaker. Inside: discussions about the parallels between this historical moment and the ones Frank has written about, the wisdom of Force The Vote, and whether Briahna is right to be jealous of the rogue Republicans in this moment.
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This week, Jennifer Briney of Congressional Dish returns to the podcast to discuss her read on the 1/6 congressional hearings and report which she's been reviewing for one of her deep-dive podcast episodes. Some on the left have seen these hearings as somewhat of a distraction from more substantive, material issues. But is that a mistake? She explains what we should know and whether a populist movement must consider the "normie' appeal of holding Trump accountable.
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Briahna speaks to Security Policy Reform Institute co-founder Stephen Semler, about his thorough and viral analysis of the 2023 Omnibus bill. No. one is breaking down military spending like Stephen. We discuss how the bill undermines Biden's climate "victories," increased spending on the Ukraine/Russia conflict, the complacency of elected progressives, and whether the American dream exists outside of the military.
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Last time he joined Bad Faith, Steven Donziger explained how he was victim of a corporate prosecution: After wining an unprecedentedly large judgement against oil company Chevron for polluting the Ecuadoran Amazon and positing thousands of indigenous people, Chevron took revenge on Steven, mounting a corporate prosecution that landed him with 45 days in prison and a combined total of 993 of house arrest. Now he's out and talking about how draconian sentences against environmental protestors are being used prevent activist from doing what he did and more.
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Elon Musk is having a normal one on Twitter -- banning journalists who reported on the "Elon Jets" account that posted information about the location of his private plane, prohibiting links to sites like Mastodon & Instagram, and issuing polls asking the public whether he should step down from Twitter. (As of writing, more than 8 million have voted -- and he's losing.) It's a perfect time to talk to internet policy expert Evan Greer about legislation pending in congress that might help ensure some degree of the consistency and transparency that Elon promised, but has not yet provided. We discuss Parler, PayPal, & app store tyranny; the hypocrisy of Alejandra Caraballo's condemnation of right wing violence after calling for SCOTUS members to be "accosted," post-Dobbs, and more.
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Author, pundit, & professor Marc Lamont Hill returns to Bad Faith to reflect on (Kan)Ye West, Kyrie Irving, and why Black Hebrew Israelites hold such appeal for these big name Black American celebs. Was Van Jones right to apologize to Jewish people on behalf of Black Americans? Are Black folks being held collectively responsible in a way that differs from what is demanded of other group members when one of their own transgresses? What is it about the Hebrew Israelite ideology that's considered de facto anti-Semitic? And does Dave Chappelle's thesis, that anti-Blackness isn't treated with the same gravity as some other types of bigotry, hold up? If it does, what do we do about it?
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Consumer activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on whether the Squad betrayed rail workers, the corruptive influence of the Congressional Black Caucus, what Hakeem Jefferies means for progressives 'inside game,' the reordering the Democratic Primary, whether Dems will hold SBF accountable, Kyrsten Sinema's party switch, Tesla's quality issues, the unprecedentedly large pentagon budget, the electoral landscape for 2024, and more.
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Seattle city councilmember & Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant joins Bad Faith to debate the strategy, adopted by most of the squad, to vote for the union-crushing tentative agreement that averted a legal railworkers strike. Ryan Grim has been accused of "running cover" for the squad members' strategy, while Kshama Sawant argued their vote for a union voting bill was a clear betrayal. Is Ryan right to say it made sense for the squad to follow the advice of some union members who wanted them to adopt that strategy? Or is Kshama right to call that "political gaslighting?" Ryan joins the conversation about half an hour in, and it's a hot but productive conversation. you wont want to miss it.
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This week, Briahna speaks to Teddy Schleifer, a journalist who covers Silicon Valley billionaires for Puck News, about Sam Bankman-Fried, the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, and his obsession with media. Why does he keep exposing himself via high profile interviews (and DM exchanges) that amount to free depositions for the SEC and DOJ -- both of whom are investigating him? Was his emphasis on "effective altruism" part of his effort to charm the media into seeing him as a good faith actor in an unregulated financial sector primed for fraud? Is it possible to be a "good billionaire?" This conversation took a philosophical turn. Come for a play by play of his NYT DealBook interview, stay for a materialist analysis of billionaire philanthropy.
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An all-star labor panel convenes to break down how the "most labor-friendly president since FDR" backed management & abandoned rail workers, how the media ran cover for Biden's betrayal, and how the so-called progressives in the House once again tried to use technocratic tools to obscure their complicity. Union train engineer Ross Grooters returns to the podcast along with The Real News' Maximilian Alvarez, and Bad Faith newbie and co-host of Well There's Your Problem Justin Roczniak. Every political & angle is covered, complete with Max's unbeatable sermons. You're not going to want to miss this one.
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This week, Briahna spoke to political economist Clara Mattei about her new book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. She explains the invention of austerity politics, how it's been sold to the masses historically, and breaks down a recent Obama interview in which he carries water for what he calls, "inclusive capitalism" when presented with the possibility of transitioning to a more equitable economic system. How does austerity play into the conflict in Ukraine and various "democracy building" neo-colonial endeavors across the world? And what are the alternatives Obama found so difficult to imagine?
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This week, Briahna has a heated but productive conversation with Joe Cirincione, former president of the Ploughshares Fund -- a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution -- about the controversy surrounding the CPC letter pushing for peace in Ukraine. Every argument you've seen against the letter is competently raised by Joe. Briahna responds. Let us know what you think.
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This week, Intercept D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim returns to Bad Faith to explain everything we need to know about Nancy Pelosi stepping down from her leadership position in the house. Why, two years after force the vote, have progressives still not contemplated a left candidate for leadership? Will likely minority leader Hakeem Jefferies be a bigger threat to progressive interests than Nancy Pelosi? Why are conservatives so willing to openly fight for leadership, while squad members continue to fall in line? Why wont progressives ever Force The Vote?
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Democrats avoided a red wave and held onto the Senate, but they didn't avoid a red wave in New York. If they had, they, they might have held on to the house as well. New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani and journalist on the NY beat Ross Barkan rejoin Bad Faith podcast to explain the bloodbath in NY. Who is at fault? DCCC chair Sean Patrick Maloney, who pushed Mondaire Jones out of his district and then lost? Is the the state party's fault for dropping the ball on the redistricting battle that caused Maloney to flee his own district? What role did Kathy Hochul's pivot right on crime play? And will there be any accountability for blue dog malfeasance?
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Briahna speaks to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters about his recent spate of powerful, controversial media appearances about American foreign policy. How has he managed to use his fame to go where most progressives aren't allowed, and how has he managed to stay the course after so much pushback from the establishment?
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In a break from the horserace, Briahna speaks to writer, podcaster, and conservative Black intellectual Coleman Hughes about Kanye, Candace, & the state of Black conservatism, the Defund movement, identity politics, white guilt, Elon Musk, censorship, and more in an intimate, free flowing conversation.
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Grayzone journalist & Useful Idiots co-host Aaron Maté joins Jacobin staff writer & author of Yesterday's Man Branko Marcetic to discuss the fallout from last week's Joe Cirincione interview, and answer tough questions about when and if the United States should intervene in a humanitarian crisis, whether what is happening in Ukraine constitutes genocide, whether Russia's possession of nuclear weapons means the American left is always for "appeasement," and whether the term "appeasement" is a useful one.
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Reporter Brittany Gibson broke a huge story about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams that parallels the revelations reported earlier this year about the misuse of BLM funds. Fair Fight Action, the nonprofit founded by Abrams, paid her close friend and ally’s law firm $9.4 million in 2019 and 2020, with two more years of billing yet to be disclosed. Gibson joins the pod to fill us in on the details, similarities, and dissimilarities to the BLM national org's grift.
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This week, Briahna has a heated but productive conversation with Joe Cirincione, former president of the Ploughshares Fund -- a public grant-making foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution -- about the controversy surrounding the CPC letter pushing for peace in Ukraine. Every argument you've seen against the letter is competently raised by Joe. Briahna responds. Let us know what you think.
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This week, Brie speaks to a reporter who broke the story of the leaked tape posted to Reddit, which revealed racist remarks by LA city council members and a pattern of racial infighting over redistricting plans. Much of the coverage has focused on the racially charged statements, but we dig into the politics of the city, the political stakes, and how it all affects the left.
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This week, Briahna speaks to co-host of This is Revolution Podcast Pascal Robert about the extreme unrest in Haiti. Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is implicated in the assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moïse, is calling for international forces to help suppress paramilitary "gangs" in the country, and the US state department seems all to willing to oblige. But the people of Haiti feel differently -- still distrustful of the US for, among other reasons, it's connection to the assassination of Moïse, and the UN's introduction of a cholera epidemic after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Pascal walks us through the players and interests on the ground in Haiti so that we can follow the story knowledgeably as it progresses. We also touch on the Black diaspora's response to the Queen of England's death, and the reactionary, listless posture of the left in the US.
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It's spooky season, but millions of Americans who have been haunted by student debt for years will be able to shake that scary specter this month now that the student debt cancellation application is live. Briahna speaks to The Debt Collective's Astra Taylor and Sparky Abraham about the status of ongoing lawsuits intended to thwart debt relief, the open application process, and a debt strike for all of those who don't qualify, and who will still have thousands of dollars of debt even after Biden's plan comes into effect. This is one you're going to want to share widely: Comrades don't let comrades leave money on the table.
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This week, Briahna speaks to Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson about last week's viral protest of AOC over her votes for Ukraine funding and silence on pushing for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Were the protestors fair to say Tulsi Gabbard has gotten to the left of the squad on this issue? Is it fair to say voting for military aid is voting for World War III? Did the protestors really shout down a deaf constituent, or is AOC weaponizing disability to avoid answering legitimate questions? We also discussed the climate protestors who threw soup at a Van Gough on Friday: Is this a legit protest or cringe? Weigh in on the debate tonight on Callin.
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This week, Briahna spoke to friend of the show (and star of Rising Mondays) Olayemi Olurin about the compounding Kayne West scandals that emerged this week. Was his "Death Con 3" tweet enough to finally "cancel" him? Apparently not for Candace Owens, who mounted a full defense on her podcast earlier this week. We tackle it all, from the Tucker interview to the Sarah Silverman tweet, and engage in a health debate about the merits of watching right wing media at all.
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After Briahna interviewed Dr. Vinay Prasad last month, some listeners -- along with tweeters from further afield -- recommended other COVID experts to offer a different view. This week, Briahna interviews one of those people: Dr. Justin Feldman, a social epidemiologist from Harvard's School of Public Health. She's also joined by Jamie Seltzer, Director of Scientific and Medical Research at #MeAction. I asked them about Prasad's central claim that advice around boosting requires more nuance as we learn more about the limitations of vaccines, how long COVID factors into policy planning, and what it even means these days to "trust science" now that the CDC has gotten so much wrong.
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Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)This week, Briahna speaks to Paolo Gerbaudo, sociologist and political theorist based at King’s College London about newly elected Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Is she part and parcel of a wave of right wing "fascists" that have been sweeping the globe, or is the "f word" an overreach in this case? Is her win a win for women everywhere, as Hillary Clintons suggested? Or is there good reason to be concerned about her "focus on the family" style speeches which highlight an alleged war on traditional values. What conditions on the ground lead to her rise to power, and what hope is there for Italy's left?
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Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)Brie speaks to Sabrina Salvati, Nick Cruse, & Compton Jay of the Revolutionary Blackout Network about their discontent with electoral politics, and specific concerns about whether more affluent members of the left media sphere are too credulous about the possibility of success via the "inside game." Is there critique fair? Is investing in electoralism at all a waste? This panel holds nothing back. It' a good one.
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Produced by Armand Aviram. Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)This week, Briahna speaks to hematologist-oncologist and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco Vinay Prasad for a leftist's critique of COVID policy & the CDC. Has the left let the issue of pharmaceutical overreach be coopted by the right at its own peril? Is there any logic in young people without risk factors getting COVID boosters? How have the risk/rewards changed as variants have changed and risk of death has declined. Should colleges still be requiring young men who are at relatively high risk of myocarditis to get vaccinated? They talk about all this and more.
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This week Briahna sppeaks to DNC member, senior advisor to Jesse Jackson, & founder of the Arab American Institute James Zogby about the DNC's latest betrayal: Their failure to even debate a resolution, introduced by Dr. Zogby, to get dark money out of Democratic Party primaries. After seeing how hostile the Democratic Party is to progressives from Jesse Jackson to Summer Lee, does Zogby still see the Democratic Party as a party in which progressives can effect change? Briahna asked him about the structure of the DNC, whether he'd support the "dirty break" strategy, and what it would've looked like if Bernie went 3rd party in 2016.
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This week Briahna interviews Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman about his recent article in The Atlantic which warned that Biden's student debt cancelation plan is likely to fail a legal challenge at the Supreme Court level. Was all the celebration over Biden finally "doing something" for naught? And did the Biden administration just goof, or is this another instance of Democrats supporting a policy in theory that the know will be struck down for procedural reasons?
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This week, Briahna has an intimate, soulful conversation with one of America's top public intellectuals, and a favorite guest of the pod: Dr. Cornel West. They discussed Biden's "MAGA Republican" speech and the utility of calling voters fascist, whether Biden also qualifies as one, how the left should handle the calls to abolish the FBI, the Mississippi water crisis and more. This is a top 10 all time Bad Faith ep.
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Breaking Points & Kyle Krystal & Friends co-host Krystal Ball joins Bad Faith to talk 2024 horse race, the future of the Breaking Points media empire, and accusations that hosting a show with a conservative formalizing a type of "red-brown" alliance that hurts the left. The pair wrestle with questions Briahna has discussed at length on Callin: how does one expand the left audience into non-left spaces without throwing vulnerable constituents or important left issues under the bus? What is that personal line? How does one maintain a moral litmus test without it turning into an unhelpful purity test? Also, can the left get behind a candidate like Marianne Williamson in 2024? Or is the left fundamentally divided on the question of whether to support progressives running on the Democratic Party ticket. Also, the pair debate whether Biden will run for reelection at all. What do you think?
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This week, Briahna speaks to Representative Ro Khanna about Biden's commitment to some student loan debt cancellation, and what the progressives plan to do to get full cancellation. Will they use this moment to push Bernie's legislation to make public colleges tuition free? Why do corporate Dems like Tim Ryan get to undermine Biden's policy agenda on student debt without being attacked as "Trump lovers," while the left maligned again and again? How did Biden decide on the 10k number? What does Khanna think about the messy redistricting that pit progressives against progressives and establishment dems against establishment dems? Should Yuh-Line Niou run third party on the WFP line? What does Ro make of Yang's third party pitch, and is Yang stepping on Ro's own midwest messaging as a tech-focused first generation politico with strong silicon valley? Are democrats going to start pressing for medical debt cancellation?
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This week, Briahna invites her libertarian Rising co-host Robbie Soave to have a good faith conversation about the limits of COVID policy. He's joined by journalist and co-founder of Opt Out Media Walker Bragman, who has been covering what he argues is a failure of the government to offer mitigation interventions that could save thousands of lives. Has the left conceded unnecessary ground to the right as it dismisses libertarian concerns about mask mandates and vaccines? Is it unrealistic to keep schools closed with limited child care support for parents, and education delays holding kids back? Or is that a false trade off given how little has been done to make returning to school as safe as it could be, with clear masks, ventilators, and testing? This might be the good-est faith conversation about the failures and limits of COVID policy you've heard yet.
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Briahna speaks to New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan about Tuesday's primary results out of New York state. Redistricting gone awry threw incumbents against each other in newly composed districts: progressive against progressive, blue dog against blue dog. What happened to Mondaire Jones & what's the deal worth Yuh-Line Niou? Did Jerry Nader beat Carolyn Maloney because of her panda obsession? And might Democrats actually fare well in midterms?
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Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, and Alex Karakatsanis, civil rights lawyer and co-founder of Equal Justice Under Law, join Briahna to discuss how the left should respond to the new conservative call to abolish the FBI. What could be done from a left perspective, and is it more important to potentially stick Trump with a crime than to take down an organization that has long targeted the left?
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If you think you know everything you need to know about the Inflation Reduction Act, I hate to tell you: You're wrong. Few people know more about the procedural maneuvers that keep Americans docile than The Lever's David Sirota. On today's episode, he explains aspects of the parliamentarian maneuver that were new even to Brie, and unpacks the side agreement between Manchin & Schumer that secured Manchin's vote, but which might also spell climate doom.
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This week, Briahna speaks to India Walton, winner of last year’s Democratic primary in Buffalo New York who was railroaded by a write in campaign by the establishment incumbent. She's part of a campaign to stop Biden from running for president in 2024. Briahna asked her about that movement, who she'd like to see in office instead of Biden, and why she's still invested in electoralism.Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube to access our full video library. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod).
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We take a break from politics this week to talk about Jordan Peele's latest film with two of our favorite cultural critics, Leslie Lee III & Trevor Beaulieu. Is Nope a yes?
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The "inflation reduction" reconciliation bill has now passed. How should the left feel? Brie speaks to Matt Bruenig of the People's Policy Project about what the climate provisions really mean in the broader context of the fight against climate change, whether or not it actually addresses inflation, & why Joe Manchin finally got on board with a reconciliation bill after over a year of being pressured. Also, are they going to really end the student loan moratorium at the end of the month? And why are we experiencing historically low unemployment if high interest rates were supposed to depress business growth?
Next, an interview with Brent Welder -- lawyer and former congressional candidate in Kansas's 3rd district -- about the recent victory for abortion advocates in the state who defeated a ballot measure that would alter the state constitution to curb abortion rights.
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This week Briahna speaks to environmental activist, author, & journalist George Monbiot about the state of nature: that is, the global warming, the left's growing frustrations with electoral solutions, the tension between individual "green" choices and the scale of industrial pollution, and why George doubts Marx can help with this one.
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This week Brie speaks to Dr. Steven Thrasher, author, assistant professor of journalism, & scholar of the criminalization of HIV/AIDS about monkeypox, stigma, and all the lessons we haven't learned from the last two years of COVID pandemic.
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Marxist historian, commentator, author, and executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Vijay Prasad joins Bad Faith this week to talk about what global revolutions in Sri Lanka, India, Colombia, and other locales around the world can teach Americans trying to cultivate a left revolution here at home. How should the left put pressure on captured union leadership, and how can it hold left politician's accountable? Does the left "eat itself," or is it in a necessary processes of developing a more adversarial theory of change? How does Vijay believe he will see revolution in his lifetime even as he observes the enormous structural barriers to change?
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Briahna's favorite sparing partner, author and activist Norm Finkelstein, returns to Bad Faith to discuss chapters from his upcoming book pertaining to Roe v. Wade, the Dobbs opinion, free speech, and "woke" culture. Is the Right right about their being no constitutional basis for abortion rights? Is the left dodging the question of when life begins, or is it actually morally unnecessary to pin that down (or peg abortion rights to viability at all)? Finkelstein also weighs in the recent debate over whether the left should support Twitter bans for hate speech, and opines on whether it's a "slur" to label someone a bigot.
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This week, Briahna speaks to psychologist, neuroscientist, & Columbia professor Dr. Carl Hart about drugs. The author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups, Dr. Hart explains what everyone gets wrong about drugs and addiction, makes a powerful argument for decriminalization, advises Briahna on what drugs she should try first, weighs in on WNBA player Brittney Griner's imprisonment in Russia for drug charges, & offers his take on Euphoria. Stick through until the end, where he also has some thoughts on the epidemic of cop fentanyl "overdoses."
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North Carolina Senate candidate Matthew Hoh is enduring an all out attack from the Democratic Party to get him off the ballot. Why? Because he's running as a Green Party candidate. He got more than enough signatures, but the state wont certify them. And Hillary Clinton's lawyer is involved in a cold-calling campaign in which agents representing themselves as Green Party members are trying to get people to remove their names from the ballot petition. It's a mess, but Hoh-- a former Marine with big-time anti-interventionist credentials, isn't given up. He's joined by 2016 Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein to discuss the barriers Greens face, and why they should have the full support of the left.
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This week, Briahna speaks with Washington Editor of Harper's Andrew Cockburn about his book The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine. Why does acknowledging any of the historical antecedents to Russia's invasion of Ukraine draw accusations of being "Putin's puppet?" What is that history, and how should it inform our thinking about how to unwind this quagmire? Why are people blithely talking about the nuclear "option" like it's an option on the table? Why does it sound like some people would rather see nuclear war than concede anything at all to Putin? Cockburn is an expert on nuclear risk, war profiteering, and the pernicious reach of the military industrial complex, and he brings all that expertise to bare in this must-listen conversation.
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This week, Briahna convenes an all-star panel of guests to break down the economic and philosophical roots of the housing crisis, and how to solve it. Rebecca Parson, a candidate for Washington's 6th congressional district, brings her personal experiences with homelessness to bear, along with observations from her district, while Canadian attorney and Global Director of THE SHIFT housing initiative, Leilani Farha, offers a global perspective. Finally, sociologist, anthropologist Dr. Dan Souleles joins from Copenhagen to apply his work on financial capitalism, and the role private equity has played in the housing market. The conversation spans the practical to the philosophical, and only deepens as it progresses. Stick around till the end, and join Briahna on Callin later this evening to discuss.
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This week, Marxist economist Richard Wolff returns to the podcast to answer all of your inflation questions, to weigh in on Krystal Ball's face off with Bill Maher, and to tie domestic politics to the labor activism in the UK and recent leftist victories around the world.
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Last week, Sam Adler-Bell's provocative New York Magazine piece on the problem with contemporary "wokeness" discourse launched a thousand Twitter threads and response pieces. Many were critical, but does he have a point? Is there something toxic about how resistant some on the left are to talking to people who don't already agree with us? And if the goal is to reach a wider audience, doesn't that require us to use different language than we do when preaching to the choir? At what point does changing our language implicate the underlying morals and values? And does abandoning woke language mean abandoning the populations it's meant to serve? Pascal Robert of This is Revolution & Freddie deBoer of his eponymous blog join Briahna to talk Lizzo's lyric change, that NPR tweet about "menstruating people," the viral "What Is a Woman" film, and more.
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This week, journalist, activist, & blogger Cory Doctorow destroys right-wing (and lib) lies about inflation, explains what can and should be done about gas and food prices, and offers one of the most digestible explanation of how the US budget actually works. This is one episode you're going to want to send to that one uncle.
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The self-described "Black godfather of BreadTube" joins the podcast today to talk about his latest viral video on the mass shooter phenomenon and the role internet culture plays in radicalizing disaffected youth. F.D. Signifier wrote his master's thesis on mass shooters and also thought young boys -- many of whom took their own lives -- and brings a unique perspective as a very online elder millennial who has done his fair share of book-learning on the subject. The conversation expands to a critique of the left's own recruiting prowess -- especially when it comes to Black leftist. Be sure to check out F.D.'s latest, "Dissecting the Manosphere," as well as the other videos on his YouTube channel.
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Briahna speaks to Samar Al Bulushi, UC Irvine professor with a focus on imperialism, East Africa, & geopolitics, about Biden's choice to recommit troops to Somalia following Trump's withdrawal. It's everything you really wanted to understand about US imperialism in Africa that you can't get from seven minute news segments.
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This week, Briahna was joined by host of The Funky Academic, Irami Osei-Frimpong, to do a deep dive into Great Replacement Theory and the manifesto written by the Buffalo shooter. They acknowledge that on some level Tucker Carlson was right: Democrats have long been vocal about their hope that "the browning of America" will inure to their electoral benefit. But where is the line between observing geographic trends as disadvantageous, and seeing immigration as a form of genocide? Who is responsible for the liberal discourse getting so nonsensical that it is easily co-opted and flipped by conservatives? What are the parallels between America's preemptive military "invasions" and the mass murders conducted by those who see themselves as soldiers in a race war? And is Irami right that there is a serious "white culture" problem afoot?
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What started off as a conversation about free speech, Section 230, Elon Musk's Twitter buy, and the antitrust solutions to social media censorship became an energetic debate about the nature of American exceptionalism, identity politics, & patriotism vs afro pessimism. Matt Stoller, anti-monopoly expert behind the substack BIG & author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy returns to the pod for a fun and unexpectedly rigorous debate.
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This episode goes beyond an examination of Alito's reasoning in the now famous leaked draft Supreme Court opinion reversing Roe v. Wade. Law professor Eric Segall returns to the podcast along with professor Caroline Corbin of University of Miami School of Law to discuss the longer project of writing the establishment clause (e.g. separation of church and state) out of the constitution, & how the Satanic Temple might save us all. Also, in addition to abortion, are all the other rights that depend on the right to privacy now at risk? The right to use contraception? Gay sex? Interracial marriage? Alito says no, but does the way he distinguishes those cases really hold up? This might be the most informative and entertaining discussion on the end of Roe you've heard yet.
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Given how salient this conversation is to the leaked Supreme Court decision draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade, we're unlocking this episode. Do you agree with Professor Bowie that we should weaken the courts? Or does a direct democracy scare you?
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Last summer, the country was engaged in a robust conversation about how Democrats could reform the court to compensate for the last 40 years of conservative judicial dominance which culminated in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. But Biden punted on the question of court reform, vowing to host a commission on the subject instead. Well, the commission happened last week, and while it was mostly theatre, the question of court reform remains an important one. This week, we brought two ideologically diverse law professors who testified on the Biden commission together to discuss their preferred approaches to court reform, along with friend of the show Eric Segall, Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law at Georgia State; Niko Bowie, Assistant Professor at Harvard Law; and Ilan Wurman, associate professor at Arizona state join us for a spirited debate about how to improve the court, whether we should even have a constitution, and the Hungarian judicial system. It's a good one.
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A couple of weeks ago, Briahna joined Brown professor Glenn Loury on his podcast to revisit their viral conversation on Bad Faith. It was so good, we're sharing it here on the free feed. What do a Black (Brown) conservative economics professor and a Black (and red) socialist have in common? Besides loving that Loury's wife loves Bernie? Listen and find out.
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After Biden teased "significant" student debt relief last week, Republicans and corporate Dems lost their minds coming up with bad faith arguments against student debt cancellation. Briahna caught up with consumer debt attorney and debt jubilee advocate Sparky Abraham about where we are in the fight for student debt cancellation, and what the best arguments are against means testing student debt reform. How should Briahna handle the "Harvard" question: e.g. why did you choose to go to an elite, expensive school? Why are liberals alighting with Laura Ingram and Mitt Romney on student debt cancellation? Are Democrats intentionally dangling 10k of debt cancellation because they know that's a better deal (for banks) than extending the moratorium? And why is no one talking about usurious interest rates?
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Bernie 2020 Deputy Campaign Manager Ari Rabin-Havt is back to discuss his new tell-all book about the 2020 campaign: The Fighting Soul: On The Road With Bernie Sanders. The book is well timed to speculation about Bernie running in 2024, and concerns voiced by many progressives that he didn't take the movement far enough. I asked Ari about a potential Bernie run, the Congressional Progressive Caucus endorsement of Nina Turner's corporate opponent Shontel Brown, and whether the left has been too easy on Bernie -- rationalizing his inflexibility as an inextricable part of his admirable consistency. Also, Ari dishes on Facebook's attempts to control the sitting senator's messaging, how Bernie's Facebook page was killed by the algorithm, and why he once had to secretly dispose of towels soaked in Bernie's blood.
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Briahna speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the relationship between billionaires and the media. Will Elon Musk buying Twitter benefit the platform, or are free speech advocates overly optimistic about the valence of his prospective influence? How did Glenn safeguard editorial independence as he co-founded The Intercept with eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar's funding, and what happened when that independence lapsed? What does Glenn make of the recent Vanity Fair piece alleging that Peter Thiel is attempting to fund the "post left," and does one need to be consciously "bought off" to advance the interests of tech billionaires? Are the incentives set by the algorithm enough to lead even the best intentioned person astray? Also, we discuss the recent controversy over Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz's viral article about Libs of TikTok. What does Glenn make of arguments that he's the one who doxxed the account owner, not Taylor? And what does he make of accusations that he is unfairly targeting Taylor for criticism?
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This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Smalls' Tucker Carlson appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist Alternative, how and why Kshama stays accountable to Socialist Alternative (and how the left could keep the squad accountable), whether the Congressional Progressive Caucus's endorsement of Shontel Brown was the final straw for leftists hoping to change the Democratic party from with in, Socialist Alternative's position on Russia/Ukraine, and more. It's a rich, deeply reflective conversation, and you're going to want to listen through to the end.
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Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls joins the podcast to discuss the Staten Island Amazon unionization victory, recent controversy over his Tucker Carlson appearance, the online dust-up with AOC, why Staten Island was successful when Bessemer, AL wasn't, the problem with "professional" organizers, and more.
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This week, Briahna speaks to climate scientists and activists Peter Kalmus & Rose Abramoff about what to do when marching is not enough. Both were involved in a direct action event that resulted in their arrests earlier this month, and are encouraging a turn to non violent direct action as a way to push world-saving climate reforms. I asked them whether they feel groups like Sunrise that emerged as super radical have ultimately helped to cover for the Biden administration's failures, whether strategic property damage falls within the "non violent" category of activities, what the latest IPCC report warns, extreme Don't Look Up moments from the mainstream media, and whether there's finally some willingness in the mainstream to criticize Biden. It's a climate episode that will inspire you, not depress you.
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This week, Briahna spoke to two progressive congressional candidates hoping to make a difference in Northern Virginia & Washington DC -- Ally Dalsimer & Rev. Wendy Hamilton respectively. Hamilton, formerly Andrew Yang's Director of Spiritual Outreach, is hoping to unseat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has been DC's House Delegate since 1991. Ally Dalsimer, an environmental activist, is hoping to unseat Gerald Connolly, who has been occuping his seat in the 11th district since 2009. Briahna asked the candidates not only what it will take to win, but whether they've considered how to overcome disaffection for electoralism on the left, and why anyone should commit their hard earned dollars to a congressional campaign when so may elected progressives have been disappointing as of late. Also, Briahna asked how can the left hold their candidates accountable -- using as an example the tension between Jamaal Bowman and the DSA. Do organizations influence candidates or do they kowtow to them?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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