Happy not-mexican-july-fourth. This week we return to the story of the Magonistas, the mexican anarchists that started the Mexican Revolution. This episode we meet poet gun fighters, class traitor aristocrats, anarchist book store guys, and more.

OUTRO MUSIC from Dead Men Ride (1971)

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We're joined by Gigi Gi to discuss his article in Geese Magazine, An Autopsy of MAGA Communism: Into the Crisis of the so-called “American Communist Party”

But first, what is a dignified amount of money for a 34 year old to live off of in NYC?

Gigi's article: https://www.geesemag.com/articles/an-autopsy-of-maga-communism-into-the-crisis-of-the-so-called-american-communist-party

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We talk about Trump's latest would-be assassin, the extreme center and a little deep dive into the history of the White House Press Correspondents Dinner.

Come protest Kathy Hochul on Thursday: https://actionnetwork.org/events/governor-hochul-tax-the-rich-rally?source=dsa-calendar

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Anders talks about his favorite Sopranos episode (the one with the HUD scam) "Watching Too Much Television", the 1967 Newark uprising, which it touches on, and what it says about race and capitalism in America.

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We talk to author and illustrator Molly Crabapple about her new book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund." But first, some fun news items including the "doxxing" of a certain internet personality.

LA Solidarity Ride and Community Fest:

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&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)!

This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" and a section of Berlin Childhood.

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We chat about prestige TV and Anders' recent disruption with Climate Defiance of a Rahm Emanuel event. Then, in light of the revelations about now former Congressman and Gubernatorial candidate, Eric Swalwell, we dive into his sus as hell career.

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We discuss Sysco's buyout of the entire food supply industry and how the soviets distributed food differently before speculating about delicious possibilities, tasty futures, bomb ass utopias etc. Also rich comedians, warehouse fires, the pope, latin america, etc.

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We talk about Olivia Reingold of The Free Press's coverage of Abdul El-Sayed's "narrowed eyes", Hasan campaigning for candidates, etc. Then Anders walks us through the case for abolishing the Supreme Court.

Articles referenced:

https://catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-courts-and-american-capitalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

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Hate Speech pod, the podcast about hating things joins us to talk about Anders' mortal enemy Garrison Keillor.

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