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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist David Dayen. To get access to the full interview by becoming a member by joining the Patreon.

David Dayen has a really good brain. He's been tracking and unpacking how corporations have used our government as a door mat for years. In this discussion he, joins Francesca to explains how favoritism and bribery have replaced regulation during Trump 2.0, and how the regime fits the textbook definition of fascism, i.e., corporate control and government authoritarianism. 

He also explains the state of antitrust cases under Trump, assesses what could have been done under Biden, and mulls over whether progressives should have pushed further under Biden—and what worked under his administration, until it didn't. 

They discuss the serious real-world impacts on the defunding of Medicare, SNAP and WIC and how the 'vengeance budgeting' of the Trump administration has disproportionately defunded blue states. Dayen breaks down what the Zohran Mamdani administration is doing right, and how interventions like city-run grocery stores 'utterly disrupt' the late-stage capitalist hell we find ourselves in.

Featuring:

David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect

https://prospect.org/

Read Francesca’s columns from The American Prospect

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JD Vance is on an absolute epic run of terrible campaign speeches, recently comparing the U.S. economy to the Titanic and insulting an Iran war widower. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders campaigns in Florida for Angie Nixon, and Abdul El-Sayed beats back the Islamophobic plants in Michigan. Francesca is solo discussing the state of the midterms race, James Carville’s revelatory rant on The Bulwark--an outlet no one should listen to--and the recent white nationalist line when it comes to protests in France. 

Then, we’re joined Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden administration over Gaza, to talk about the lessons the Biden Administration isn't learning from supporting a genocide and the olive harvest violence in the West Bank. Greenberg Call is ready for Kamala to start apologizing for enabling genocide—but that still won't mean she wants Harris ‘28.

Featuring:

Lily Greenberg Call, former Biden administration appointee and first Jewish-American political appointee to resign over Gaza.
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The latest blonde press secretary has come and gone but we press on. Francesca and Matt Lieb were in Philadelphia, bitching about how much those cheesesteaks just sit in your stomach, huh? Joined by organizer and activist Nelini Stamp and labor journalist Kim Kelly, much hay was made over an American Idol going full Karen on a local art store in Brooklyn. Then a little Shane Gillis shade and why the Amish are spreading a disease that was eradicated in the year 2000.

Plus, Trump is fully in his gay period while the GOP continues to parrot anti-trans insanity. And the media can’t let go of the idea of having a Muslim Senator in Abdul El-Sayed by virtue of their raging Islamophobia.

And what do we need to keep in mind as leftists as Democrats appear poised to at least take the House come 2027? Kim Kelly and Nelini discuss their wishlist for democracy in the years ahead. Finally a Matt Lieb-produced round of "Two News and a Lie: Netanyahu Edition".

Featuring:

Kim Kelly, journalist and author 

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Nelini Stamp, organizer of fandoms & formerly WFP

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Matt Lieb, Bad Hasbara Podcast

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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with podcast host Jennifer Welch. To get access to the full interview become a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.

Jennifer Welch has had it. With Bible thumpers who vote to disappear their neighbors, with incompetent weirdos in the Trump White House, and with Democrats who refuse to fight fascism or oligarchy. A former interior designer turned political podcast host, Jenn and her co-host Angie "Pumps" Sullivan, have struck a necessary chord in the pundit space. There's a brilliant and unfiltered quality to their work, and the kind of refreshing wonk-free speak that so many Americans are responding to. In fact she wrote a book about it called "Not Today, Fascists" that is out now.

Francesca and Jenn talk about how she got her star on BravoTV, the success of the Republican Party in red states that Democrats had given up on, and why it's okay to make fun of whatever is happening to RFK Jr.'s throad or Trump's cankles. Having grown up in the Bible Belt, Jenn speaks about what she calls the "recreational cruelty" of the wealthy that the Republican Party caters to. Sure on paper no one wants to look elitist or classist, but behind closed doors they're voting to take away rights from the poor and people of color.

Jenn and Pumps have made headlines in their interviews with Democratic leadership like Senator Cory Booker or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, specifically over the question of AIPAC money and Gaza. There's a soothing aspect to Jenn's frankness and it's not just her Oklahoma accent. There's righteousness, conviction and most of all a wicked sense of humor.

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Trump told a Nebraska rally that letting Iran "take out" Los Angeles or San Diego would be "a very small price to pay" — incredibly normal! We break down that bit of light treason alongside why Ms. Rachel and Hasan Piker are both right on Gaza, Tom Morello wrongly getting dragged for saying he didn't vote for Harris in 2024, and Vanity Fair getting reamed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris for glazing tech oligarchs who "want us all dead."

Then, Democratic strategist and Bernie Sanders campaign veteran Chuck Rocha joins to break down the Texas elections: why James Talarico is closing in on Ken Paxton, why Gina Hinojosa has a real shot at beating Greg Abbott, and why the state's ICE militarization backfired even on Latino Trump voters who wanted border security but got random kidnappings.

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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist Aaron Cantú. To get access to the full interview become a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.

No state has been hit harder by skyrocketing oil prices under the war on Iran than California. It is heavily reliant on both fossil fuels and foreign oil, and simultaneously hit with unprecedented fires and droughts every year. This paradox seems to be lost on the Democratic Supermajority in the state. Because while California talks the talk on stopping climate change, it does not walk the walk. Large renewable energy projects sputter out, private energy companies keep jacking up prices, all while their negligence has led to massive fires like the ones in Los Angeles. 

Aaron Cantú is a climate journalist for State & Main. He writes about climate change and climate policies in California. How do so many of California’s climate failures trace back to Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s AB 32 bill that overly relied on market solutions. This has led to things like cow runoff pits that get turned into tax incentives for factory farmers. What about getting rid of factory farms and moving to regenerative farming? And why are any large-scale projects–from public transit to renewable energy– always put on the back burner? 

CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:50 - Doing Climate Journalism

00:02:52 - Why is California STILL So Fossil Fuel Dependent?

00:07:18 - Why Is California So Reliant on Foreign Oil?

00:12:50 - Why Renewable Projects Have Stalled

00:20:58 - Who's Most Impacted By Climate Collapse

00:25:29 - Holding Climate Culprits Accountable

00:30:27 - When Do The People Take Over the Grid?

00:35:58 - California's Datacenters Are Untenable

00:43:18 - A Way Out of This Mess

00:45:30 - Hot Button Question!

Featuring: 

Aaron Cantú, journalist

https://capitalandmain.com/author/aaron-cantu

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An egregious campus sexual assault case at Cornell is back in the news, with a woman allegedly assaulted by seven fraternity brothers over seven hours, just as the Department of Education guts Title IX protections.

Meanwhile, Xavier Becerra refuses to rule out taking corporate money in his California governor bid, and Rahm Emanuel — architect of NAFTA, the 1994 crime bill, and the death of the public option — declares the DSAs "not Democrats" as he eyes 2028. Comedian and union organizer Nato Green joins for the roundup.

Then, Movement Voter Project's Kristee Paschall joins to talk about the ground game heading into the midterms: why we can’t just count on a blue wave, how to reinvest in Black political power in the South after redistricting losses, and why the DSCC is slow-walking support for Angie Nixon's Florida Senate campaign even as she out-organizes her opponents in the primary.

Featuring:
Nato Green, comedian and union organizer, https://www.instagram.com/natogreen/
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Kristee Paschall, Director of Civic Engagement at Movement Voter Project, https://movement.vote

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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with former Congressperson Jamaal Bowman. To get access to the full interview and the rest of the Hot Button series, become a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom

Jamaal Bowman has been busy. For four years he was a Congressman for NY's 16th district, after ousting a long-time incumbent Eliot Engel in 2020, joining a new class of "The Squad". But in 2024 he lost his re-election after AIPAC poured $24 million into his opponent George Latimer's race. But since, he has been helping progressive candidates win their primary elections and get rid of corporate Democrats. He's also written a book: UNpolishED, a memoir of his life and a political memoir for where we need to be headed as a nation.

In this interview, Francesca and Jamaal discuss what he misses about Congress and what he does not. (The gym apparently is sub par.) He recounts how the play by play of how centrists in the House and Senate tanked the most transformative parts of the Biden agenda, which included a call from the boss himself: Joe Biden. Is the Squad doing enough to push a progressive agenda, and should Hakeem Jeffries be speaker should Democrats take back the majority?

After that disillusionment, Bowman took a trip to Israel/Palestine. Oh boy. There he saw apartheid first hand and understood that the 'two-state solution' was a lie. Francesca and Bowman discuss the morally urgent question of Palestine, how the lobby preys on Black lawmakers and districts, and why Democrats will never do right by their voters if they continue to support Israel. 

And most importantly, will Bowman run again?

Featuring:

Jamaal Bowman, Frmr Congressperson

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Netanyahu addresses an empty hall at the United Nations, where he name checks Hasan Piker?! Francesca is joined by Wajahat Ali to break down the protests, the ironies and the AI bros speaking at the UN General Assembly.

And Kamala Harris gives Abdul El-Sayed a little boost in Michigan in a meeting about Black maternal health. But when reporters ask him about his support for the Uncommitted Movement, things get testy. Plus, Renee Nicole Good’s mother is a Trump voter? Say it ain’t so.

Then Matt Stoller joins to break down the no good very bad Paramount-WB merger settlement, and how Democrats caved to billionaires once again. Will we remember the handout he gave the Ellisons when Newsom asks for our vote come 2028?

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Wajahat Ali, The Left Hook

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Matt Stoller

https://www.organizedmoney.fm/

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

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We’re being run by a bunch of billionaires who don’t even believe in the human race. Author Naomi Klein returns to discuss End Times Fascism, her new book co-written with Astra Taylor. How can local community-building stop the doomsday clock that psychos like Theil, Musk, Vance and Trump have accelerated?

Plus, ICE shoots a DoorDash driver twice in the back in Austin, while Zohran Mamdani wins DoorDash drivers back pay in New York. Mamdani also met privately with Trump this week and finessed him on a whole new level.

And 15 years after the Occupy Wall St. movement popped off, organizer and author Yotam Marom talks about the openings and limitations of electoralism, and how to maintain political imagination amidst a wall of state violence and repression.

Featuring:
Yotam Marom, organizer, facilitator, and author of For Louder Days
https://yotammarom.net
https://thenewpress.org/books/for-louder-days/

Naomi Klein, author and UBC professor of climate justice
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