For this latest installation of the Year Zero series we're joined by long time researchers, teachers, and prison abolitionists Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, to help us think through the carceral state: what it is, where it's heading, and how we can change it.

Please read Ruthie's book, Golden Gulag: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag

And Craig's Real Cost of Prisons graphic novel, from which today's episode art was taken: http://www.realcostofprisons.org/prison_town.pdf

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Sorry for late episode this week gang, and also NO EPISODE NEXT WEEK. Sorry

Today we play fast and loose on Ukraine, then talk about the exciting new bitcoin mining operation planned for our county

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We lick our wounds after being snubbed for an important award, talk about how Gayle Manchin is trying to whack Sleepy Joe, and make a brief-but-aborted attempt at understanding the coming "vibe shift"

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This week we discuss a cop getting his feelings hurt about a song; our senile congressman being inappropriate with his colleague; and the ways in which emojis can both solve and explain racism in America

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This week we serve up a full course meal of articles: one about China, one about Canadian truck drivers (sort of), and finally, for dessert, one about a CIA guy getting called honky

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We spend most of the episode discussing the new NFT initiative planned for our great state of Kentucky. Pictured: canklehorse NFT

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This week we observe the tragic cognitive effects of drinking radioactive fracking fluid; explore the genealogy of Joe Manchin; propose a new film for filmmaker Chloe Zhao; and sound the alarm on all the fairweather capos now turning on Biden

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On this week's episode we cover: another one of the government's baffling attempts at COVID communication; a scientist who is running for Congress; Kentucky police trying to get exempted from paying state income taxes; and the hot new economy all the kids are talking about known as The Great Reset

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On the one year anniversary of January 6th, Tanya, Tom, and Aaron examine how many liberals must be feeling on the occasion through the lens of Thomas Friedman's latest for the paper of record, and try to rightly divide who amongst the marauding hordes are true fash, and who were run of the mill people with trash politics.

For our last episode of the year we're joined by comedy duo Rajat Suresh and Jeremy Levick (@rajat_suresh and @jeremylevick on Twitter) to discuss trauma plots, divorce, and the most dangerous question of 2021.

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