Pod Damn America

We talk about Ukraine's airstrike on a Russian bot-farm as well as big tech's impact on the Brazilian election, ICE, Zohran and Tisch and Anders' deep dive on NYPD and Minneapolis Police Department reformer Tony Bouza. ALSO Jake interviews Anders about his new movie Kitchen Conversations.

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Outro Music: Close to Me by Little Sun

Anders talks to journalists and co-hosts of the Sacre Bleu podcast, Olly Haynes and Marlon J. Ettinger about the student uprisings in France and Melenchon's odds in the upcoming French Presidential election.

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In this, the conclusion to the Magonistas series, we follow the PLM through the demise of the Porfiriato, the drama of The Mexican Revolution, and to great unknown of death.

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OUTRO

Corrido a Ricardo Flores Magon by Ignacio Cardenas

ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

Proletarian, go to the fight not to elevate anyone Proletarian, go to the fight to elevate your class Proletarian, go to the fight to elevate your class. These words were spoken by a noble revolutionary Flores Magón by surname and his first name is Ricardo Flores Magón by surname and his first name is Ricardo. I have made the revolution alongside other Mexicans And words he spoke I will sing As a sincere tribute To Ricardo Flores Magón. They want to subdue us with knives and bullets It is foolish to respond with the code in hand Let us subdue them too with knives and bullets. Mexicans to war Our hair held high For our rifles, impatient, lie hidden To shine proudly under the sun of battle. Because he never wavered, his libertarian ideals remained unchanged. Despite imprisonment, torture, and the passing years, the Yankees cowardly murdered him without mercy. I have died an anarchist, with his head held high, always faithful to his ideals and fighting passionately. In prison, he wrote as his epitaph: Here lies a dreamer, or a madman when he dies. Some may say so, but no one will dare to say, "Here lies a coward, and a traitor to his ideals."

We discuss new revelations about the Biden Administration's Gaza policy and also the antisemitism controversy in this place called New York City.

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We talk to national security journalist and comic book writer Spencer Ackerman about 25 years of the War on Terror, its wide-ranging impact, Bush era liberalism, the Iran War, writing for Marvel and more. But first, the country tune sweeping "America B."

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Ciarán from the Corner Späti podcast joins us to talk about recent German elections, Die Linke (the Left Party) winning in Berlin, AFD (the fascist one) gaining elsewhere, European nativism vis avis the US, Mélenchon's chances and more!

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Anders is joined by Matt Lieb and Daniel Mate from Bad Hasbara, the world's "most moral podcast", to discuss a fascinating cultural artifact: HaMisarad, Israel's version of famous docu-comedy series, The Office.

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Our service industry series returns with a look at the WTC restaurant that was destroyed on 9/11, Windows on the World. Union/ownership friction, cocktail menus, mobbed up elevator operators and more.

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Jake talks to Chat Pile singer Raygun Busch about the band's new album Who Loves The Sun and about how everything feels like you're staring at a wall in a penis mall for minimum wage. But first, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, Elephant Graveyard, and more!

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&ers Lee &ndy & a special SECRET guest (Jake Flores) compare some Zoomer 9/11 takes (via the Daily Wire) and the post-9/11 hot takes that got Susan Sontag, Amiri Baraka in some trouble.