Orange-ya glad capitalism has lifted literally trillions of particulates out of carbon sinks worldwide? Susan and Scott talk about climate change and the wildfires carrying smoke and particulates across the northeastern US, causing New York City to have the worst air of any city in the world today. In the second half they get into the ascendancy of conservatives and the right in the culture war.

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Susan and Scott discuss job growth and greedflation, capitalism's effect on our bodies, and crime.

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Dave Kamper, a Minnesota-based historian turned labor and economic policy expert (and DSA member), is BACK to talk about the culture war and why it IS the class war.

The article Dave discusses in the episode can be found here: https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2023-05-18/william-clare-roberts.pdf

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Susan brings Dave Kamper, a Minnesota-based historian turned labor and economic policy expert (and DSA member) onto the show to talk about his journey to socialism along with the recent leftward advancements in Minnesota's state politics.

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In our Michael Jordan episode, Susan and Scott discuss the entirely fake NY Post article meant to pit the sympathetic public against displaced people as well as the state of unemployment and insufficient workers for certain industries in the US.

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Susan and Scott discuss the debt ceiling crisis, austerity budgeting in NYC, and a socialist alternative.

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Susan and Scott talk about how the Biden administration has ended or allowed to sunset all of the COVID-era social policies that the vast majority of Americans really appreciated. They then turn to the WGA strike to provide a little background on the strike as well as to invite you, the listener, to go out to the picket line for some fun and solidarity.

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Susan and Scott discuss motherhood under capitalism and share personal anecdotes about being and having mothers.

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Susan tells Scott the story of how she became a socialist and an active member of the DSA.

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Susan and Scott debrief the awful news out of Albany with one silver lining: the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA), the new law of the land in the state of New York.

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