Incredible and brilliant author Dean Spade (Mutual Aid, Love In A F*cked Up World) joins the podcast to talk about the early fight for trans rights, the history of organizing as a long-term project, and the community care-based ways of living he's experienced in other countries. It's a wonderful and far-reaching conversation. We can't afford to throw people away.

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Aleksandra Vaca of Transitics talks about being a 19-year-old independent trans journalist and three trans legislative stories that the mainstream media isn't covering well or at all.

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Disability advocate Annie Segarra joins the show again to speak more broadly about the groundbreaking Olmstead Act, the dangers of Medicare cuts, and the eugenics of disability decisions by politicians.

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Accessibility advocate and long-time YouTube friend Annie Segarra joins the show to talk about the stories of children with disabilities who are in ICE custody and the ways it is easier for disabled people to be disappeared during fascism. Gabe once again goes on his horror movie ableism rant and Annie talks about the effects of COVID to this day. (Vaccine tea.) We end on Halloween...

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Photojournalist Tom Hudson joins the show to give testimony about the ICE surge at the Geo Group prison Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ this month. We discuss the myriad reasons to document this violent dissent into fascism. Tom explains New Jersey state police's collaboration with ICE and where legacy media is failing us.

Note for the listener:

At 39:19 Tom's dog barks lightly in the background and there are also lovely bird chirps in the background toward the end because Tom was outside on a porch in Virginia

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Rachel and Jamie from the "Debt Heads" narrative/investigative podcast joins the show to get back to Gabe's Bad With Money roots. The trio discusses the bigger implications of debt in the larger US political and economic system. Plus, Gabe shares some debt that happened after he was attacked in his car in 2024.

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This man has STORIES. Career photojournalist Nick Stern shares how he got into photographing ICE and DHS raids and stories of being press during a time when even local law enforcement shoots and arrests reporters.

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Maebe A. Girl (Maebe Pudlo) joins the show to talk running for state Senate in California (election is on 6/2), why she runs for office in drag, and having the conviction to be truly progressive despite roadblocks.

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Please don't break your jaw with a tiny hammer. What a fantastic conversation about men and the Internet. I love this one! Please listen if you like smart people like Aidan! Writer Aidan Wharton of Gay Buffet, joins the show to talk about tech, human connection, and the male loneliness epidemic. Gabe grapples with the misconception he had about working for himself, when he realized he actually works for social media. (And I get it, okay Millennials whateverrrr).

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This one is important! Ballots are out! Rev. Rae Huang, the future Mayor of Los Angeles if anyone has any sense, joins the podcast to go step-by-step through her ideas for a better Los Angeles. 

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