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Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Dark Money w/ Jarrod Shanahan Sep 01, 2025

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Jarrod Shanahan returns to the show to talk about his new book, Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help. But first, we are owed dark money where is our dark money Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a dense and complex portrait of a decade of protracted social crisis. Jarrod Shanahan reports from the ground. On the streets in 2014, from the depths of the Rikers Island penal complex, inside the alt-right underground and the carnival of Trump rallies, and in the line of fire in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, among other scenes that Shanahan accessed not as a credentialed observer but an active participant: prisoner, infiltrator, activist. The resulting essays outline the pitfalls and opportunities facing those seeking to reverse the suicidal course of capitalist society and build a liberated world. JARROD SHANAHAN jarrodshanahan.com MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(PREVIEW) Dreadtube: Tomorrow's Draculas Aug 28, 2025

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Marshall Macluhan, Dracula, and a children's TV show called Tomorrow's Pioneers. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Karl Marx: Texas Ranger w/Andrew Hartman Aug 25, 2025

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Historian Andrew Hartman tells us about his fascinating new book "Marx in America" but first we talk about the Minneapolis DFL Party reneging its endorsement of Omar Fateh and Jake's ass getting frozen and continentally drifted over on "Ice Age 4" Twitter. Andrew's book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo245100866.html Come to Laff Bloc: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laff-bloc-comedy-against-ice-tickets-1583014321449?aff=oddtdtcreator Subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(preview) John Jacob Gavin Andrew Smith Aug 21, 2025

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We discuss what Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, and to a lesser extent, Eric Adams are up to on the internet. FULL EP AT patreon.com/poddamnamerica

The Weapon is the Message Aug 19, 2025

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BIG ASS SPOILER ALERT: Second half of this podcast is about the movie Weapons (2025), but first, a millennial saint? a zoomer's take on AI? Holy Moly ANDERS' MOVIE https://partiful.com/e/i1akP15eUFHnZZN9yTBY PAID PROTEST https://qedastoria.com/products/paid-protest?event=2025-08-21T19:30:00 LAFF BLOC https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laff-bloc-comedy-against-ice-tickets-1583014321449?aff=oddtdtcreator MERCH patreon.com/poddamnamerica PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(preview) For Whom The Wheel Rolls Aug 15, 2025

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We discuss Trump's authoritarian clamp down on Washington DC as well as Marc Maron, and wheelies.f FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

The Organization w/Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks Aug 12, 2025

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We talk with Jake Ephros and Joel Brooks who are both DSA backed candidates for Jersey City City Council. They tell us about their campaigns and give us an overview of NJ's fascinating political scene, a sometimes mobbed up, always motley band of characters including Jersey's own disgraced former Governor turned Mayoral candidate, Jim McGreevy. DONATE TO JAKE AND JOEL https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jakeandjoelforjc SIGN UP TO CANVASS https://joelforjc.com/volunteer https://www.jakeforjc.com/volunteer SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BONUS FEED Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(PREVIEW) Reading Rainblow: Blackshirts and Reds Aug 09, 2025

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Let's talk about Michael Parenti's 1997 book Blackshirts and Reds FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Trash Podcast w/ Ross Benes Aug 04, 2025

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We are joined by Ros Benes to talk about his new book, 1999:The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. But first, we talk about bald culture and whether you should do Jubilee shit. ROSS BENES Ross Benes is the award-winning author of three books. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Lincoln Journal Star, Nation, Omaha World-Herald, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, and more. A native of Brainard, Nebraska, he now cheers on the Huskers from New York. @rossbenes BOOK https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638574/ MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/poddamnamerica

(preview) A Decade Since Syriza Aug 01, 2025

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It's been 10 years since Greece elected a radical left government that shook its fist at the EU and IMF in January only to fold in July. We talk about Syriza's moment, the mystique of Yanis Varoufakis and, of course, some armchair socialist counterfactuals. For the full episode subscribe to our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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