Not all progressives agree on police or prison abolition, but the conversation is breaking through to the mainstream. Movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin joins Francesca to discuss the overblown crime narrative and how to begin thinking about both defunding and divesting from the prison industrial complex, and also imagining something different. Also in the room is comedian Jena Friedman, whose new true crime show Indefensible breaks through sensationalized murder stories and with a bit of necessary comedic relief to boot. And Francesca gives her take on the Qatar World Cup in all of its problematic contradictions, plus a BONUS BISH about unprecedented protests in China. Listen/watch here: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom
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Jena Friedman, https://twitter.com/JenaFriedman
Olayemi Olurin, https://twitter.com/msolurin
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Toward Prison Abolition with Jena Friedman & Olayemi Olurin (Ep 160)

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Google arrests and fires its workers for protesting their contracts with the IDF, while elite universities work with cops to arrest and suspend protesters demanding divestment. It's a regular police state fuckery from coast to coast. Former Google employee and activist with the No Tech For Apartheid Campaign Mohammad Khatami joins Francesca to talk about Project Nimbus and the silencing of tech workers. Then Comedian Nato Green joins to discuss Passover traditions in the midst of genocide and Trump's criminal trial. Finally, why a Volkswagon union drive in Tennessee is so momentous and what Elmo and Big Bird have to do with it.  

Featuring: 
Nato Green, comedian & union organizer
https://www.instagram.com/mrnatogreen/

Mohammad Khatami
No Tech for Apartheid Campaign

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Don't Be Evil with Nato Green & Mohammad Khatami (Ep 228)

Rep. Ro Khanna of California wants to be the future of the Democratic 
Party. But do his policies and votes speak to the base? Francesca asks 
the Rep. about his vote to condemn the slogan "from the river to the sea
Palestine will be free", his worrying support for Prime Minister Modi 
of India, and what his vision of "progressive capitalism" would look 
like. 

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Rep. Ro Khanna On Palestine, Modi, & Big Tech

Remember when Republicans were going to "IMEACH BIDEN"? Whatever 
happened to that? Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins to explain the 
indicted informant, the 1023, and the absence of evidence not being 
evidence of absence or whatever Rumsfeld used to say. Then, Iran's 
strike on Israel has us all wondering if we're on the brink of WW3 and 
whether Biden has finally reached his limit with genocide. Then, Javier 
Milei and Elon Musk have a meeting of minds and dicks in Austin and we 
try and imagine "a worse duo."

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Sam Seder
Host of The Majority Report
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Impeachment Interrupted with Sam Seder (Ep 227)

The rich coalesce around their bronzed boy in November, out of fear they would pay a cent more in taxes, despite having more money than God. Francesca breaks down just how and why the tax code is so skewed in billionaires' favor in an edition of "Class War." And comedian DeAnne Smith joins to talk about AI genocide and the attacks on DEI. Then journalist Arun Gupta breaks down the Israeli first responder/propagandists The Zaka Group, and why the story of "mass rapes" have been debunked but never retracted. Fun! 

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DeAnne Smith
Comedian

Arun Gupta
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Trump's Billionaires and Zaka Propaganda with Arun Gupta & DeAnne Smith (Ep 226)

Biden is feeling the heat after Gaza aid workers targeted, Trump is losing weight but not in his ego, Roseanne Barr is a wine-drunk QAnon grandma, and Francesca's best attempt at a Joe Biden impression. Think animatronic squirrel. 
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Toward Prison Abolition with Jena Friedman & Olayemi Olurin (Ep 160)

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