Main Quest: presidential election 2024! Recorded before, during, and after our actual voting, join us during toddler nap time as we discuss voting (or not) for empire during a genocide.

• QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The rumor that you can’t take on city hall was started by city hall.”  -Audre Lorde

• RESOURCES MENTIONED: Read Manufacturing Consent! • Here is more info about the movement toward a popular vote, which Dan discusses. • Here is an article about how Marvel is just war propaganda. • Here is Addie’s recent blog about our voting decisions. • Read more about how marriage equality wasn’t for everyone. • Here’s the old essay on shorter showers Addie mentions from her actual Green Party days–even though she wants Dan to say her vote matters, she still believes that individual acts won’t save us! • Here’s an example of one of those wild anti-BDS laws Addie and Dan mentioned. • Addie is working on trying not to use ableist words when talking about people she doesn’t like. Join her, with this resource!

• CONNECT & SUSTAIN THE POD: We are @domskeac and @dgiles917 on Instagram. We’re ad-free. Visit linktr.ee/allthechildren to find ways to support.

• MUSIC THIS EP: The Carnival of the Animals - I. Lions Royal March & Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 no. 6 in G sharp minor - 'Thirds'

Join us for ep one as we mosey our way through a maze of explaining our intended structure for this show!

• QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

• RESOURCES MENTIONED: Here is the Fresh Air interview Addie heard of NYT journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones years ago that got her thinking about public education and every child’s worthiness. Addie doesn’t remember the quote correctly–read what NHJ says, cause it’s better than what Addie said. • Read all of Octavia E. Butler's books! • Try to summarize Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste on your own cause Addie refused to. • “The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance” by Robin Wall Kimmerer • Check out our 2020 pod when we didn’t like Joe, before it was cool! • Listen to Peach PRC’s “God is a Freak.” • Buy a print of “Take and Eat” the breastfeeding God work by Ben Wildflower here. • Visit Critical Resistance (for abolition organizing). • Here’s the blog Addie wrote about Andor.

• CONNECT & SUSTAIN THE POD: We are @domskeac and @dgiles917 on Instagram. We’re ad-free. Visit linktr.ee/allthechildren to find ways to support.

• MUSIC THIS EP: Lament, H. 117 & Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 no. 6 in G sharp minor - 'Thirds'

A theologian and an astronomer try to raise a good, kind, leftist human together while the world falls apart. Coming to your podcast feed soon.

📝 Notes on this episode:

• Connect with us in between shows! We are @domskeac and @dgiles917 on Instagram.

• We’re going to stay ad-free. Want to support the pod? Visit linktr.ee/allthechildren for ways to support.

• Music: Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 no. 6 in G sharp minor - 'Thirds'