To permit protests or not to permit protests? (The answer is obvious.) Hunter Dunn (no relation), of the 50501 Movement's press officers, joins the show to talk about youth in politics, queerness in the Bible and how we use religion to convince across party lines, and bringing liberals and Dems into leftist organizing. Hunter and Gabe reminisce about some of the more bizarre aspects of LA government they've experienced this fall.

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Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, Gabe talks about what happened at a House Oversight Committee meeting he attended and reflects on what his grandmother told him about surviving the Holocaust.

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Historian Prit Buttar, author of “Into The Reich joins the show to draw parallels between the specifics of World War II and our lives now. It’s much more complex than even your host could believe. Check this out if you want not only a soothing British voice but also a history lesson between two obsessives.

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Original Air Date: May 6, 2025 

Gabe is thrilled to speak to Kathryn Kellogg, a spokesperson for the zero waste movement, about overconsumption’s impact on the environment and on ourselves.

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Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, he notes that the State Department has changed the sex marker on the passport website about 4 times in the last few weeks.

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Activist Catie Laffoon joins the show to talk about the largest ICE detention center in California, which has garnered almost no media attention, and the example of California City becoming owned by ICE. Catie and Gabe traveled two hours outside LA to what they believe to be a future "slave city" to find scandals, horrors, insanity, and corruption. They discuss their theories and research on how cities will be taken over by the federal government and military.

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The world wasn't always organized through capitalism, and viewing that economic system through only a Eurocentric lens won't provide the entire picture. Harvard professor and historian Sven Beckert joins the show to talk about how capitalism started and how we got here. Plus, gender and racial roles in capitalism and why we view the stock market as a mystical god.

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Ever make a doctor's appointment to trick them into learning about trans people? Uncloak's Kalvin Byrd joins the podcast to talk about his work testing doctors on how they treat trans male reproductive healthcare and connecting them to other safe, vetted doctors and trans patients, using himself as a guinea pig to be the first trans man a doctor has ever seen, and his commitment to healthcare access to save trans lives. Kalvin's an absolute delight and such a fantastic advocate for trans patients.

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Candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney Aida Ashouri joins the show to talk about how much power the city attorney has. It is A LOT. Like maybe more than the mayor. It’s crazy. Aida talks about what she would do in that pivotal position. 

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Taylor Smith, one of Gabe’s fellow activists on the ground in LA, calls in to the show from the federal building as we all await the verdict of our friend on trial against DHS. They discuss the ways we can use humor and memes to fight fascism (the Portland frog) how trolling the officers creates humanity and dispels fear and power, and ways to show up that confuse and disarm.

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