For this movie episode, I invited Evan of Left of the Projector Pod on to discuss the 1996 Will Smith blockbuster, Independence Day.

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In this episode, I cover three Texas Tribune articles (linked below) about the Texas State Takeover of Houston ISD in 2023, and their current plan to ship out and segregate their disabled students.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/11/federal-special-education-monitoring-report/

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/16/tea-hisd-takeover-texas-houston-schools/

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/08/houston-schools-special-education-investigation/

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You may know Brandon Durden from his podcast, The Powerless Pod, or from his metal band, Dead Inside, but did you know that he is a special education teacher by day? In this episode, he explains the state of public special education in the greater Chicago area. We also chat a bit about music and the current state of... everything.

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Re-edited and uploaded to the main feed

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In this episode i am reading five works of Ho Chi Minh:
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence

12 Recomendations

Lenin and the Colonial Peoples

The Path Which Led Me to Leninism

Some Considerations of the Colonial Question

The first half of chapter 8 of R. Palme Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution

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Look, we all know that electoralism alone is not a path to liberation, BUT on the local level, there are good candidates worth supporting and bad candidates worth stopping. In February, I interviewed local activist couple Susanna Ledesma Woody and her husband Roy Woody Jr. Susanna is now in a primary runoff election for Travis County Commissioner precinct 4 against a man who was a LITERAL COP for 27 years. The choice should be clear, but if you still aren't convinced, allow me to read you their platforms, followed by the February interview.

Early voting is May 18-22

Election day is May 26

https://www.votesusanna.net/

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I talk with writer and native Austinite, David Griscom, about his new book, The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South

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Originally recorded for Patreon in November of 2025, here is my re-edited reading and explanation of chapter 7: How Fascism Came in Austria.

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Originally recorded as a Patreon only episode in November 2025, here is a re-edited reading of R Palme Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution chapter 6.

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