Mechanical Freak

We call in the Texas Sucks crew for an emergency podcast, asking what the hell is going on with the Texas power grid? Will we be able to fix it in time for the next winter storm? Tune in to find out.

Texas Tribune article on the Texas power grid

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Greg, Brian, Cassidy, and Colin talk about the possibly very good PRO Act, and Biden’s recent support for it, however slurred, as well as how all of this relates to the ongoing $15 Minimum Wage fight and Amazon warehouse unionization efforts, before concluding by offering their first candidate endorsement of the upcoming 2021 general election.

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Greg, Brian, and Munya are joined by Eben Mudede to discuss the history of Zimbabwe, British/Rhodesian settler colonialism, and the esoteric white grievance online from the aftermath of the Bush War.

End of Empire (1984) - essential video to get a full overview of the fall of Rhodesia

Goodbye Rhodesia (1979)

Robert Mugabe’s 1980 Victory

A Brief History of Robert Mugabe - fair history of Robert Mugabe

Becoming Zimbabwe - A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008

Ironing the lawn in Salisbury, Rhodesia | Zimbabwe | The Guardian

Drawing of Ian Smith that looks like the work of a 10 year old

“On the 11th of November, an independent state…”

“Today’s history books try to make it a race thing. Some of it was, but…”

Cartoon of USSR, USA, and China all uniting against Rhodesia

Rhodesian Golfer Photo

Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin talk about the end of the Donald Trump impeachment drama, snow and high jinks at the East Precinct, an arrest of 2018 Seattle Firefighter of the Year related to the ongoing harassment of Kshama Sawant, a scheme to incarcerate the unhoused in Mercer Island (and exurban elsewheres), and German design and engineering’s attempt at solving homelessness with sleep pods.

Read Erica C. Barnett’s story about Mercer Island’s planned homelessness ban in PubliCola

Gaze upon the German Solution

To learn more about the Greater Seattle area’s solutions for homelessness read “Island Nightmares” and “Seattle and its Discontents” on Mechanical Freak

Read Brian’s latest piece, “Militia Madness”

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Greg, Munya, and Colin talk about the City Council’s recent resolution, endorsed by Teresa Mosqueda and Kshama Sawant, calling for collaboration with, and possible aid from, Cuba, a move that Munya celebrated on Twitter to the ire of My Northwest’s mascot and Heckin’ Werepupper, Jason Rantz, and the Amazon warehouse unionization vote, the first of its kind, which kicked off yesterday, in Bessemer, Alabama.

Read about the Seattle City Council’s appeal to Cuba in Granma

Learn more about Amazon’s union busting in this thread from More Perfect Union

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