Support the show at Patreon.com/LeftReckoning and get the postgame and Sunday bonus episodes.

Jacobin Staff writer Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) joins us to talk about how the FBI & US govt are already active in their attempts to silence the left on Twitter & other social media platforms & why we have to take that threat seriously. You can read Branko's piece here:  https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-files-censorship-content-moderation-intelligence-agencies-surveillance 

 Plus Matt & Dave break down, once again, how the claims that the GOP represents a new shift to working-class politics is marketing and bad marketing at that.   

COME SEE US LIVE IN NYC ON JAN 2023 - https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315?pl=cegpresents&REFID=clientsitewp&edpPlParam=%3Fpl%3Dcegpresents

David and Matt end the year by awarding Bum Steer of the Year and induct an old favorite into the Bum Steer Hall of Fame

Adult film stars Xander Corvus (@xcorvus777) & Summer Hart (@SummerHartxxx) joined us to talk about worker's rights and free speech in their industry, and how workers are doing mutual aid working in Las Vegas (@SWAIDvegas). 

 https://swaidvegas.org/ 

Matt & David also break down how Brian Kemp and the GOP are targeting protesters in Atlanta.   C

OME SEE US LIVE IN NYC ON JAN 2023 - https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315?pl=cegpresents&REFID=clientsitewp&edpPlParam=%3Fpl%3Dcegpresents MERCH STORE IS LIVE - https://leftreckoning.com/store------- 

Get our booklist here: https://bookshop.org/lists/left-reckoning-big-book-list/ 

Left Reckoning goes live Tuesdays @ 7 Central. Along with the main show, there is a Griscom stream every Thursday afternoon.    To get access to all the bonus episodes, including more Hitchens conversations & deep dives into radical US history, Lenin, James Connolly & more support the show at patreon.com/leftreckoning - for just $5 you help make the public show possible and get double the bonus content.   

Support us on patreon.com/LeftReckoning  Twitter: @LeftReckoning - @mattlech - @davidgriscom  Instagram: @LeftReckoning Check out our Twitch streams at Twitch.tv/LeftReckoning

Matt & Dave are joined by comedian Mike Recine (@mikerecine) to evaluate the claim that comedy is now a right-wing field.  Plus the TwitterFiles and Man's Search for Meaning.

  Follow Mike's work here and on Instagram: https://linktr.ee/mikerecine

instagram.com/mikerecinecomedy

David & Matt share their updated thoughts on the disastrous rail strike decision by Joe Biden and Congress. Then Kurt Hackbarth (@KurtHackbarth) joins us to break down how the NYT uses omission to mislead their readers. 

Read Kurt's coverage here: https://jacobin.com/author/kurt-hackbarth

Lastly, Benjamin Case (@benjamscase) joins us to talk about ballot initiatives and how they can be used to win progressive policies and some of their pitfalls.  

Read the report Majority Rules by Benjamin Case & Michael McQuarrie here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14aIMY2YeHeiNOu96FPPvsS4uHcXMdJBX/view

The Left Won Big on Ballot Initiatives. That’s Why They’re Under Attack - https://jacobin.com/2022/11/state-ballot-measures-abortion-marijuana-medicaid


COME SEE US LIVE IN NYC ON JAN 2022 - https://www.ticketweb.com/event/this-is-revolution-left-reckoning-cutting-room-tickets/12706315?pl=cegpresents&REFID=clientsitewp&edpPlParam=%3Fpl%3Dcegpresents

Matt & David break down the Democrats absolute failure to show up for working people and their attempts to try to break a rail strike.   Then Sam Goodman (@SamGRuta) senior communications, of larutadelclima.org  joins us to break down what did and didn't happen at COP 27.

Danny Bessner returs to talk about the ideological interests the Pentagon has in videogames and Matt and David talk about VC guys admitting the crypto con as it happened.

Support the show and get the postgame and Sunday episodes at patreon.com/leftreckoning

Matt & Dave break down a huge labor fight in Austin, TX in response to Musk's Tesla plant abusing workers.  

 Then Nick Marcil (@marcilnick) of Debt Collective joins to talk about Biden's student loan forgiveness failures, the fight against debt, and how you can push back.  

Then Ryan Zickgraf  (@RyanSmithWriter) joins us to talk about their piece from Jacobin "On Halloween Night in 1891, Tennessee Miners Made Righteous Mayhem"  

Get more info on Debt Collective here:  https://debtcollective.org/ 

more links:  https://linktr.ee/debtcollective   

Follow Ryan's work at Jacobin and on substack:  https://thethirdrail.substack.com/

This is a teaser of this weekend's member's only show, available for subscribers at patreon.com/leftreckoning

Matt and David talk Vonnegut, Chapo's "Normal Whites" theory, Musk on Twitter and your calls and IMs!

We are joined by Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) of the Majority Report & Cale Brooks (@calebroooks) from the Jacobin Show to talk about last night's midterms!