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Re-Air Date: 04-07-26
Original Air Date: 1-15-2025
Elon Musk is leading the way for his class of tech broligarchs anxious to take over the MAGA movement and shape it to their own ends of deregulation, tax cuts, and lucrative government contracts. The disappointment that is inevitable for the MAGA populists is coming even faster than expected.
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KEY POINTS
KP 1: The long con of America's ultra-wealthy elites - The ReidOut - Air Date 1-2-25
KP 5: Elon & Vivek's H1-B Crash Out - Bad Faith - Air Date 1-2-25
KP 6: Our Moment is Approaching - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 12-31-24
KP 7: Weekly Roundup Jimmy Carter vs Elon Musk - Straight White American Jesus - Air Date 1-3-25
KP 8: The Oligarch Class - Left Anchor - Air Date 1-3-25
(55:36) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the rehashing of the anti-democratic argument for extreme wealth for the benefit of humanity
DEEPER DIVES
(1:07:48) SECTION A: OLIGARCHS
(1:35:31) SECTION B: THE MAGA FRACTURE
(1:51:12) SECTION C: GLOBAL INFLUENCE
(2:21:52) SECTION D: ORGANIZING
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Description: Composite image of a close-up of a MAGA hat with a tag attached that says "Made in China". The hat has cracks and the head of Elon Musk pokes out through a tear in the fabric. Trump's eyes are visible below the hat brim.
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Air Date: 4/3/2026
Today we examine how decades of U.S. policy toward Cuba set the stage for the current crisis, we explore the human cost of the U.S. oil blockade on Cuba's 11 million people, and how the U.S. justifies an illegal siege while claiming to act in Cuba's interest using time-tested propaganda tactics.
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TOP TAKES
KP 1: Explainer 509 Is Cuba Next on Trumps Hit List - The Foreign Desk - Air Date 3-18-26
KP 3: Will President Trump Act on His Threat to Take Cuba Part 1 - Fresh Air - Air Date 3-24-26
KP 4: Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba Part 1 - Current Affairs - Air Date 3-21-26
(00:49:58) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
The Word "Sanctions" Is Hiding a Blockade — US Propaganda Hides Human Rights Abuses in Cuba
DEEPER DIVES
(01:00:46) SECTION A: HISTORY
(01:35:03) SECTION B: CURRENT CRISIS
(02:20:27) SECTION C: SOLIDARITY
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Air Date: 3–31-2026
Today we examine how money and power have captured American sports from every angle — gambling platforms operating as unregulated casinos, private equity turning franchises into financial assets, leagues suppressing player pay while selling access to politicians, and a sports media apparatus too compromised to report any of it. It's almost all the problems with America on display in one industry.
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TOP TAKES
KP 3: World Cup CHAOS As Trump And FIFA Abuse Iran - The Ring of Fire - Air Date 3-21-26
KP 4: ESPN & the Death of Journalism - Drew Gooden - Air Date 3-3-26
KP 5: This WNBA CBA Deal Is Bigger Than Basketball… - The Women's Hoops Show - Air Date 3-24-26
(00:46:46) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Sports Expose Everything Wrong With America — And Fans Have More Power Than They Think
DEEPER DIVES
(00:58:11) SECTION A: SPORTS ARE POLITICS & CULTURE
(01:58:11) SECTION B: GAMBLING ON EVERYTHING IS BAD IDEA
(02:30:27) SECTION C: THE WOKE NBA, NOT THAT WOKE
(03:08:12) SECTION D: THE BILLIONAIRES ARE ALWAYS THE PROBLEM
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Air Date: 3–26-26
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Best of the Left #1779: Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided
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SOLVED! #5: Keep Your Birch Rod Handy: Puritan influence, dictator bosses, & FDR zingers (4-15-25)
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Air Date: 3/27/2026
Today we examine the relationship between labor education, moral ambition, and the possibility of a better world. We'll hear about IWW members building a "Philosophy 101" for organizers, a historian's argument that humanity is fundamentally cooperative rather than selfish, and why getting labor history into public schools may be one of the most important organizing projects of our time.
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TOP TAKES
KP 1: A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman) Part 1 - Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso - Air Date 10-25-20
KP 2: 73 Ben Fletcher, Part 1 - Working Class History - Air Date 6-5-23
KP 3: Striking At Kings Part 1 - Labor Heritage Power Hour - Air Date 2-12-26
KP 4: The Unsung Women of the Labor Movement with Jenny Kaplan Part 1 - The Bright Side - Air Date 9-2-24
KP 5: Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation Mikaela Loach Part 1 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 8-6-25
KP 6: Are We Trapped In Meaningless Jobs (With Rutger Bregman) Part 1 - Lever Time - Air Date 12-18-25
(00:49:56) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Solidarity Isn't a Feeling — It's a Structure (And Bosses Know It)
DEEPER DIVES
(01:01:40) SECTION A: HISTORY
A1: Restoration, Revolution and English Enlightenment - The History of England - Air Date 11-9-25
A2: 73 Ben Fletcher, Part 1 Part 2 - Working Class History - Air Date 6-5-23
A4: The Unsung Women of the Labor Movement with Jenny Kaplan Part 2 - The Bright Side - Air Date 9-2-24
(01:40:45) SECTION B: ORGANIZING
B1: Eugene Debs' Winning a World Speech, 1904 - Bucckeyye Historin - Air Date 9-28-24
B2: What Does It Mean To Be Member Run Part 1 - One Big Podcast - Air Date 6-6-21
B4: What Does It Mean To Be Member Run Part 2 - One Big Podcast - Air Date 6-6-21
B5: Are We Trapped In Meaningless Jobs (With Rutger Bregman) Part 2 - Lever Time - Air Date 12-18-25
(02:24:47) SECTION C: EDUCATION
C1: IWW Education and Organizing in Higher Ed Part 1 - One Big Podcast - Air Date 1-17-26
C2: Striking At Kings Part 2 - Labor Heritage Power Hour - Air Date 2-12-26
C4: IWW Education and Organizing in Higher Ed Part 2 - One Big Podcast - Air Date 1-17-26
(02:55:10) SECTION D: VISION
D1: A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman) Part 2 - Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso - Air Date 10-25-20
D3: The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism - Second Thought - Air Date 10-8-21
D4: Climate Justice Through Collective Liberation Mikaela Loach Part 2 - This Is Hell! - Air Date 8-6-25
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Air Date: 3/24/2026
Today we explore what happens when people reject religious dogma but still hunger for ritual, meaning, and the concrete benefits of community. We'll hear from secular assemblies building "church without creed," atheist Quakers finding silence sacred, and a Caribbean thinker designing a naturalistic pagan practice built around science and seasonal ritual — all asking what religion can be when you strip away the supernatural.
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TOP TAKES
KP 1: GOD IS NO-THING - Pete Holmes - Air Date 3-3-26
KP 2: Non-religious Americans Seek Community - All Things Considered - Air Date 1-28-24
KP 3: Why Atheists CAN Be Quakers. - Quake It Up - Air Date 8-30-25
KP 4: Why Are Black People Still Christian? - Garrison Hayes - Air Date 4-7-24
KP 6: Its Time To Rethink Religion Part 1 - Andrewism - Air Date 3-11-26
(00:49:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the Left's Community Crisis and What We Can Learn from Megachurches
DEEPER DIVES
(01:00:06) SECTION A: LIBERATION THEOLOGY
A1: Cornel West: Can Socialists Reclaim Christianity? - Jacobin - Air Date 3-4-26
A2: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation - The Magnificast - Air Date 10-30-23
A3: Brief: US V. Liberation Theology (Part 1) - Conspirituality - Air Date 11-1-25
A4: Visions of Freedom — Liberation Theology and Advent - Soul Search - Air Date 11-27-24
(01:44:22) SECTION B: WHY IS AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY SO CONSERVATIVE_
B1: How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity - Second Thought - Air Date 9-24-21
B2: America's Christian Death Cult - Michael Burns - Air Date 12-15-25
B3: American Jihad - Conspirituality - Air Date 3-12-26
B5: Holy Sh*t We're Doing a Holy War - Side Burns - Air Date 3-5-26
(02:24:24) SECTION C: RELIGIOUS FORMS
C5: Its Time To Rethink Religion Part 2 - Andrewism - Air Date 3-11-26
(03:11:01) SECTION D: BELIEF, WITH AND WITHOUT RELIGION
D3: The World Is Always Ending - The Magnificast - Air Date 1-13-26
D5: Red Star Ministry: Marxism, Theology, & The Human Condition - Rev Left Radio - Air Date 8-12-25
D6: Liberation Theology The Cold War - The Cold War - Air Date 9-6-25
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Air Date: 3–18-26
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REFERENCES
David Sirota Explains How Money Rewrote American Democracy - Current Affairs
The Left Is Losing Because We're Not Confrontational Enough - (From 2022) Current Affairs
Searching the Globe for Answers to America's Thorniest Problems - Current Affairs
BACKSTAGE
U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon," Return of Jesus - Jonathan Larsen (Substack)
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ARTICLE: JD Vance and SCOTUS Case - Rolling Stone
BOOK: "Hostile Takeover" by David Sirota
BOOK: "Another World is Possible" by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
ARTICLE: How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash - The New York Times
ARTICLE: "The Huge Billionaire Election Influence In Numbers—Nearly One-Fifth Of All Donations" - Forbes
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Air Date: 3/19/2026
Today we explore the long history of technological disruption — from the Industrial Revolution to the rise of software engineering — and ask whether AI is genuinely different this time, all while autonomous weapons dissolve accountability for the militaries using them and capitalism prevents AI companies from maintaining their ethical aspirations.
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KP 1: How Long Until AI Takes Your Job - Consider This - Air Date 2-23-26
KP 2: Is AI Coming for Our Jobs - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 2-18-26
KP 3: AI Goes to War Part 1 - Today, Explained - Air Date 3-4-26
KP 4: The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here Part 1 - On The Media - Air Date 3-6-26
KP 6: Don't Download Claude, Either. - Why, America with Leeja Miller - Air Date 3-4-26
(00:51:47) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On Why AI Won't Ruin Your Life — Unless We Let It
DEEPER DIVES
(01:04:45) SECTION A: LABOR FUTURE
A1: Is AI Coming for Our Jobs Part 2 - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 2-18-26
A3: How Work Got So Bad Part 1 - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 3-4-26
A5: How Work Got So Bad Part 2 - Confronting Capitalism - Air Date 3-4-26
(01:47:01) SECTION B: WARFARE
B3: Anthropics AI Ethics Vs. the Pentagon Part 1 - Brian Lehrer A Daily Podcast - Air Date 3-5-26
B4: The AI-Powered War Machines Are Here Part 2 - On The Media - Air Date 3-6-26
B5: AI Goes to War Part 2 - Today, Explained - Air Date 3-4-26
(02:27:37) SECTION C: SURVEILLANCE
C4: Anthropics AI Ethics Vs. the Pentagon Part 2 - Brian Lehrer A Daily Podcast - Air Date 3-5-26
(02:57:16) SECTION D: CORPORATE POWER
D1: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology with Gita Jackson Part 1 - Tech Won't Save Us - Air Date 3-12-26
D2: Don't Download Claude, Either. Part 2 - Why, America with Leeja Miller - Air Date 3-4-26
D3: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology with Gita Jackson Part 2 - Tech Won't Save Us - Air Date 3-12-26
D4: We Need a Moratorium on AI Data Centers NOW. Heres Why. - Senator Bernie Sanders - Air Date 3-11-26
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Air Date: 3/15/2026
Today we examine how a century of foreign intervention created incompatible national memories between the US and Iran and how Netanyahu exploited that history to maneuver Trump into a war he didn't understand, promising a quick decapitation strike while knowing full well it would become a months-long regional conflict, at minimum.
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TOP TAKES
KP 1: Understanding America's Complicated Relationship with Iran - Velshi - Air Date 3-1-26
KP 3: Who Gets to Have Nuclear Weapons and Why? | Start Here - Al Jazeera English - Air Date 7-30-25
(00:46:57) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Bombs Don't Liberate: How War Destroys Iran's Real Democracy Movement
DEEPER DIVES
(00:56:48) SECTION A: BOMBS AWAY (AGAIN)
A1: Mehdi Slams Trump's Illegal Iran War - Zeteo - Air Date 3-5-26
A3: John Mearsheimer: No Winning in Iran for the U.S. - Daniel Davis / Deep Dive - Air Date 3-8-26
(01:21:15) SECTION B: JESUS WANTS A FIGHTER JET
B3: The Myth of "Judeo-Christian Values" EXPOSED - The Kayse Melone Show - Air Date 1-25-26
(01:51:35) SECTION C: HOW WE GOT HERE
C1: The Iranian Revolution (1979) - The Conflict - Air Date 10-30-24
C2: The Iran-Iraq War, Mapped - Johnny Harris - Air Date 5-31-24
C3: How Iran and the US Went From Friends to Bitter Foes - BBC Africa - Air Date 2-28-26
C5: How Israel Was Created - AJ+ - Air Date 5-15-23
C6: Zionism: From an Idea to Genocide - TRT World - Air Date 10-8-25
(02:45:45) SECTION D: THE THREE-WAY COLD WAR
D2: The Middle Easts Cold War Explained - Vox - Air Date 7-17-17
(03:11:57) SECTION E: ISRAEL'S BORDERS? WHAT BORDERS?
E1: The Origins of 'Greater Israel' - Middle East Eye - Air Date 2-24-26
E2: Huckabee Endorses GREATER ISRAEL Triggering Diplomatic Crisis - Breaking Points - Air Date 2-23-26
E3: Why "Greater Israel" Is No Longer A Fantasy - AJ+ - Air Date 10-30-25
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Air Date: 3/11/2026
Today is episode 1776, in the year of our nation's 250th birthday, and we thought the occasion called for something big. So, we're tracing the full arc — from the constitutional compromises that made this country possible to the authoritarian vanity project that those compromises eventually also made possible. We're talking about the history, the structures, and the insecure current-but-temporary president who thinks a $400 million ballroom and a coin with his face on both sides will make him a pharaoh.
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TOP TAKES
KP 1: The Fight for a True Democracy Part 1 - 1619 - Air Date 8-23-19
KP 2: THE BROKEN CONSTITUTION with Noah Feldman Part 1 - Political Philosophy Podcast - Air Date 11-30-21
KP 3: Black History Month Is Different This Year Part 1 - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 2-19-26
KP 4: Will Trump Turn Americas 250th Birthday Into a MAGA-fest Part 1 - The Bunker - Air Date 3-3-26
KP 5: Trumps Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power Part 1 - Reveal - Air Date 12-10-26
KP 7: Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution Part 1 - Democracy Paradox - Air Date 8-15-23
(00:55:00) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On Why America's Coat Doesn't Fit and Why They're Erasing History to Hide It
DEEPER DIVES
(01:07:08) SECTION A: CONSTITUTION
A1: Slavery in the Constitution Part 1 - Teaching Hard History - Air Date 11-4-25
A2: #699 - No Kings - Dogma Debate - Air Date 7-4-24
A3: Slavery in the Constitution Part 2 - Teaching Hard History - Air Date 11-4-25
A4: THE BROKEN CONSTITUTION with Noah Feldman Part 2 - Political Philosophy Podcast - Air Date 11-30-21
A5: The Fight for a True Democracy Part 2 - 1619 - Air Date 8-23-19
A6: Cass Sunstein on Interpreting the US Constitution Part 2 - Democracy Paradox - Air Date 8-15-23
(02:05:58) SECTION B: TRUMPLAND
B2: Trump Reportedly Pushing for His Name on 2 More Landmarks - ABC News - Air Date 2-6-26
B4: Will Trump Turn Americas 250th Birthday Into a MAGA-fest Part 2 - The Bunker - Air Date 3-3-26
B5: Trump Builds Personality Cult as Democracy Crumbles - Mary Trump Media - Air Date 12-29-25
B6: Trumps Gilded White House Makeover Is All About Power Part 2 - Reveal - Air Date 12-10-26
(02:51:18) SECTION C: AUTHORITARIAN NOSTALGIA
C2: Black History Month Is Different This Year Part 2 - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 2-19-26
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