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We bring together leaders from SAR teams across the country to discuss creative solutions to universal problems. From member retention to fundraising to team training - we’re all about bringing the community together and crossing county lines to elevate the SAR profession. Presented by Base Medical.
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An ongoing call to action for movement work and mutual aid efforts around the country. Kelly Hayes connects with activists, journalists and others on the front lines to break down what’s happening in various struggles and what listeners can do to help.
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Everyday Anarchism

Graham Culbertson

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The core idea of this podcast comes from David Graeber, who wrote that our everyday life is mostly run on anarchism, and at the same time people believe that anarchism doesn’t work. One of these is wrong. I hope to illuminate how our communities already depend on Mutual Aid, in big and small ways. I'll do that by excavating the historical events and cultural trends you already know about, but have never thought about in terms of anarchism. Find me at https://www.everydayanarchism.com
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International Conference of Secular Alcoholics Anonymous - atheists, freethinkers & agnostic in AA stories, panels, speakers, meetings... This is the podcast page for ICSAA recovery #addiction #recovery #atheism #freetinkers #ICSAA #secular #secularAA #alcohol #self-help #mutual-aid #irreligious #sobriety #sober curious
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Exhausted, burned out, and isolated in your chaotic life? Self-care isn’t enough. Hoorf! Podcast host Elle Billing is a disabled artist and caregiver on the other side of burnout. In each episode, Elle and her guests discuss the challenges of living compassionately with honesty and humor. Honoring Angela Davis’ definition of the word radical – that “grasping at the root” – we are digging at the roots of systemic problems in a conversational format, getting to know our neighbors, and using cr ...
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Disrupting Peace

World Peace Foundation

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Disrupting Peace explores why peace hasn’t worked, and how it still could. In each episode, Bridget Conley, research director at the World Peace Foundation, speaks with a researcher specializing in one obstacle to peace, and an activist who’s changing systems from the ground up. Together they explore what worked, what didn’t, and why we shouldn’t give up.
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The State Between Us

The State Between Us

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My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!
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Art.coop invites listeners to Remember the Future together by listening to the stories of artists and culture bearers who know that the practices of the Solidarity Economy are not some new technology, but actually are ways of being in relationship with people and planet that are as old as time. They are our ancestral practices. In this series listeners learn: You don’t have to be a starving artist or a sell out. You can find work where you joyfully live your values and pay the bills. We meet ...
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Join feminist coaches Taina Brown and Becky Mollenkamp for casual (and often deep) conversations about business, current events, politics, pop culture, and more. We’re not perfect activists or allies! These are our real-time, messy feminist perspectives on the world around us. This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions like: • Why is feminism important today? • What is intersectional feminism? • Can capitalism be ethical? • What does liberation mean? • Equity vs. equality ...
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It Could Happen Here

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

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It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.
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Microsolidarity

Microsolidarity

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Microsolidarity is an open research network developing patterns and practices for mutual aid communities. This is not a podcast exactly, more like an audio diary for people participating in the research. If you prefer video to audio, you can find many of these recordings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOjcWjpjOqzbV9T3tSR6O7z_eic-Puqaa More info at https://www.microsolidarity.cc
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White Bird Clinic is a nationally recognized, people-centered non-profit organization providing trauma-informed healthcare and social services in Eugene, Oregon for over 50 years. Host Hana Francis speaks with employees and volunteers of White Bird Clinic and other community-centered organizations about how they work, why they matter, and how you can get involved. Hosted, written and edited by Hana Francis. Theme music by Eugene local musician Kiki Soda. For more information about White Bird ...
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Finance bros are out, #RichGirls are in. Join Money with Katie and her guests for conversations about where the economic, cultural, and political meet the practical personal finance education that everyone needs. Listen weekly on Wednesdays.
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Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

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Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to ch ...
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Hosted by Reverend Riot This ain’t your Sunday school sermon. Punk Rock Parish is a fiery, soul-stirring podcast where radical love meets righteous rage. Hosted by Reverend Riot—a battle-scarred street preacher with a mohawk and a mic—we explore the sacred rebellion at the heart of punk, ska, and reggae. Each episode breaks open a tenet of our anarchist gospel: a creed of defiance, dignity, and DIY salvation. From calling out oppression to celebrating community, from smashing systems to hono ...
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had originally been published in 1890-96 as a series of essays in the British monthly literary magazine, Nineteenth Century. Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley’s Nineteenth Century essay, The Struggle for Exis ...
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United Relief

Odd Conduit Media

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In Portage County, Ohio—like so many places across the country—food insecurity isn’t just a statistic, it’s a lived reality. This podcast follows two brothers as they return home to uncover the complex web of causes, challenges, and grassroots solutions shaping the fight against hunger in their community. Through intimate interviews and on-the-ground reporting, we explore the local food ecosystem—from county officials and food bank leaders to rural mutual aid groups and policy influencers. A ...
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The Comrades Classroom Podcast

thepeoplescoalition

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The Comrades Classroom is a political education project that has but one purpose: to raise political consciousness and encourage our listeners to form study groups that evolve into political cadres engaging in direct action. Political Education. Survival Programs. Mutual Aid.
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A journey through a diverse collection of remarkable communities and movements figuring out how to build power, solidarity, and connection in a world beset by disasters — both natural and human-caused. From hurricanes to wildfires to reactionary politics and more, The Response's audio documentaries and interviews highlight some of the most inspiring stories of response and pave a path towards the better world we know is possible.
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Rebel Steps

Amy & Liz

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A podcast about taking political action guided by the concepts of direct action, solidarity, autonomy and mutual aid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jupiter's Ghost Official

New Ellijay Television

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Welcome to the future Follow the crew of the Starship Jupiter's Ghost as they navigate the outskirts of a crumbling Intergalactic Utopia. Their mission of mutual aid and cultural exchange leads them to new worlds and strange adventures, and brings them face to face with the challenges and rewards of solidarity. Jupiter's Ghost is a community run, creative commons Share Alike licensed podcast set in a far future intergalactic society. If you've ever wanted to join the crew of a starship, now ...
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Kouts Fire Podcast

Kouts Fire

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The Kouts Fire Podcast is recorded and Produced by the members of the Kouts Fire Department. We introduce our members and their stories. We also talk with our mutual aid departments and their members, local business owners, and community leaders.
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Discordian Pope, Anarchist, Discussing the philosophy of Abandoning the Most Dangerous Religion, Statism. Focusing on Inter/Extrapersonal Relationships, Community Building, and the benefits of Mutual Aid. The Meditations series is more of a "How To" guide on the path to self sufficiency and sustainability. Providing the information to create a complete, livable off-grid experience.
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The GWORLZ Room

Erica Irving, Rasheed Ajamu

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Sometimes we talk about sex, sometimes we talk about pop culture, and sometimes we talk about politics. Either way, it’ll be a kiiiiii. The Gworlz Room is an open forum about everything featuring Philly-based chosen siblings, Erica (@thicccorita) & Rasheed (@sheededonem/@phreedomjawn). Our reoccurring segments include: (1) “What’s Tea” (a review of interesting trending news), (2) “It’s Giving” (a mutual aid call-to-action), and (3) “Holla At Ya Gworl” (main discussion). Follow us on all soci ...
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Brought to you by Loughborough University’s Anarchism Research Group (ARG), Anarchist Essays presents leading academics, activists, and thinkers exploring themes in anarchist theory, history, and practice. For more on the ARG, please visit https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/arg/ and follow us on Twitter at @arglboro
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The Friends of Recovery Podcast

Friends of Recovery Dedicated to Others

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The Friends of Recovery Podcast is a recovery based podcast that embraces all pathways to healthier living. The show focusing on stories of strength, hope and health as well as education and understanding. Friends of Recovery Dedicated to other is a non-profit in Upstate New York that operates 3 home based centers which assists those in recovery with mutual aid support groups, recovery coaches, events and a safe place to exist.
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"Closer Look with Rose Scott" brings you the issues that impact where we live, how we interact, and how we can all thrive. It’s not just about Atlanta; it’s a program for Atlanta. Rose connects with community leaders, CEOs, policymakers, and people who don't often get a platform, and she brings you in on the conversation.
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How do we better create a culture of mutual aid, reciprocity, co-operation, and collaboration in our cities? How can more public social eating spaces be made and how can they be more inclusively designed? At a time when public services are increasingly under threat, can we create an entirely new one? Join members of the NFS as they chart the struggles and triumphs in the campaign to create a National Food Service.
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Despite an "international coalition of good intentions" hand-outs aka. 'aid' have not lived up to their promise but have become involved in maintaining a structure of illegitimate government and ugly mismanagement. By challenging the aid dogma, better approaches based on sustainable development and mutual self-interest can develop through internal change, rather than external manipulation.
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A cross-cultural conversation between friends, hosted by JoHanna ”J” Thompson and Diane Tate. In these times of great struggle and possible shift, we ask ourselves, why do we give a f&$k about any of it? How does the lens we see the world through, impact what we see, and what do we do about it?
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Revolution.Social

Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath

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A podcast about the future of social media and reclaiming our digital communities. Revolution.Social is hosted by technologist and community advocate Rabble, a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath — who was Twitter’s first employee and hired Jack Dorsey. In weekly interviews, Rabble will interview thought leaders, technologists, academics, and more about the need for a new social media "bill of rights." Just as the original Bill of Rights protected individual freedoms from government overreach, we need f ...
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UnTextbooked | A history podcast for the future

The History Co:Lab and Pod People

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UnTextbooked is brought to you by teen change-makers who are looking for answers to big questions. Have you ever wondered if protests really can save lives, why assimilation required Native American kids to attend boarding schools, how Black-led organizations for mutual aid began, how the fear of communism led the United States to plan the overthrows of many leaders in Latin America, or why Brazilian cars run on sugar? Or maybe you've questioned when Asian Americans will stop being seen as " ...
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The News with Paul DeRienzo

The News with Paul DeRienzo

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Award Winning News with Paul DeRienzo. Identified by Peace Action New York State for showing up consistently to cover stories ignored by mass media. Honored at the William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Peacemaker Awards 2022.
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Tufts University and Shareable.net present Cities@Tufts, a free series exploring community innovations in urban planning. The live discussions are moderated by professor Julian Agyeman and the podcast is hosted by Shareable's Tom Llewellyn. The sessions will focus on topics such as Environmental justice vs White Supremacy in the 21st century; Sacred Civics: What would it mean to build seven generation cities; Organizing for Food Sovereignty; From Spatializing Culture to Social Justice and Pu ...
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On November 20, 2025, we hosted activist, organizer, and writer Dean Spade to lead a Mutual Aid 101 session about navigating conflict. So many of our mutual aid groups and solidarity economy projects are dealing with burnout, conflict, and the pressure of doing real care work with limited capacity. We currently find ourselves in a particularly " ho…
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Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson has been spearheading the district since August 2024. Under his leadership, the district that serves just under 50,000 K-12 students has focused on improving student achievement. Johnson talks with “Closer Look” program host Rose Scott about the current state of public education. He also talked ab…
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How do you intentionally build a strong team culture? And why? Chris Ruch (VP of the Mountain Rescue Association and chief of Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group) discusses how culture can impact team performance, the importance of defining and assessing team culture, and the need for a shared mission. Together, we explore practical strategies for addr…
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When restaurants and cafes in Portland and elsewhere link into networks of food pantries and soup kitchens, will mutual aid feel real in the US? When regular folks come out of their houses to shame and chase ICE thugs out of the neighborhood, will that feeling of power from below catch on? Will it create some craving for a different way of doing th…
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Buckle up, this is a long one! J gives us an update on how things are in Jamaica in the wake of hurricane Melissa, offering resources for helping people rebuild and clean up. She is not on the island, and she shares how hard it is to be apart from her neighbors, and how we can best support through mutual aid. They talk about the difference between …
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Election Day is just around the corner, and Esther and Ben are back to remind Mainers to protect absentee voting by casting a “no” vote on Question 1. On the other statewide referendum, Question 2, they are voting “yes” to make it easier for law enforcement to remove firearms from people who pose a danger… The post Podcast: Absentee voting, gun saf…
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It's Emmajority Thursday on the Majority Report On Today's Program: As Republicans at the Federal and State level refuse to use existing reserves to fund SNAP benefits tens of millions of Americans stand to lose their benefits. The GOP is using hunger as tool for negotiations. Mexican journalist, staff writer and podcast co-host at Venezuelanlysis,…
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In this essay, Alexandria H., Juan Verala Luz, and Charles W. draw distinctions and connections between two important aspects of social movements: organizing and mutual aid. They argue that practicing mutual aid inside organizing campaigns and the mass organizations that sustain them can prefigure the kinds of social relationships that will truly l…
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Today I talk with Professor Nisrin Elamin about the situation in Sudan, where we find both a war between rival factions and these same factions continuing counter-revolutionary campaign against pro-democracy forces. We discuss how regional actors such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have contributed to the repression of democracy, and …
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Emma and Chloe critique mutual aid from a socialist perspective and discuss Dean Spade's 2020 book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (And the Next). While mutual aid might feel good, we argue that it can't meet the needs of working class people, can't challenge the capitalist state or the bosses, and won't help us build the sociali…
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In this first of a two-part series, I dig into a century-long debate within revolutionary politics—one that now shapes the fault lines between MAGA authoritarianism and the fragmented resistance against it. How did the American far right end up using Leninist strategy more effectively than the American left? And what does that say about our own mov…
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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Challenges Facing the Mamdani Administration - Nick Fuentes Explains Pornography to Tucker Carlson - The Conde Nast Union Busting Purge - Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #42 You can now listen to all…
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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report On today's program: The October job numbers, as far as they can be trusted, are not looking good. Trump's polling continues to plummet over immigration, inflation and healthcare as reported by both Fox News and CNN. Six Democratic lawmakers release a video reminding service members that they must not follow…
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The gang weighs whether Bubba is a horse or a president and discusses the vote on the Epstein files, a furry revelation about the Trump assassin, four “Antifa” groups designated as foreign terrorists, and the quiet recession. Plus, updates on gerrymandering and ICE activities. Fundraiser: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2767DBRL5LDSX Sources:…
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It's an Emmajority Report Day today On Today's program: Trump cannot stand to hear the word affordability anymore even as his polls plummet over the economy. He's getting ornerier with everyone these days as he publicly chastises treasure secretary Scott Bessent over Jerome Powell. Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News joins Emma to discuss …
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Fritz takes a peek under the disgusting rug of the news and finds a long historical chain of apocalyptic lunatics and klansmen crawling underneath the recent shooting in Minnesota of Democratic state representatives. We get to know William Brahnam, his KKKompanions, Gordon and Freda Lindsay, and many more strangebad folks! Like it? Share it! Connec…
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In 1954 a doomsday alien cult headed up by Chicagoland housewife Dorothy Martin was waiting for the cataclysmic flood that would herald the arrival of spaceships to transport her and her followers to safety. When the hour came and went and nothing happened, she and her followers made up a Bible’s worth of excuses, saying that the group's penitence …
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Designer, community-builder, and Flickr co-creator George Oates is now the executive director of the Flickr Foundation, which is working to preserve the platform's 21 years of photos for the next 100 years. She helped create Flickr's community guidelines, designed its nested privacy controls, and launched the Flickr Commons program, which partners …
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Dana El Kurd speaks with professor, author, historian, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Palestine Studies Sherene Seikaly. They discuss the importance of producing knowledge and learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid. Sources: Journal of Palestine Studies –…
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Today I have the immense honor and privilege to speak with Ellen Schrecker, who has been referred to as “the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians.” Well known for her classic studies of McCarthyism, today Schrecker explains how much worse Trump’s regime is than what we saw in the 1950s and 60s. A fierce defender of democracy, Ellen explains t…
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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is trying to combat the challenges of accessing affordable housing. He recently announced his $5 billion Atlanta Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative, which includes a $1.3 billion plan to subsidize affordable housing projects. He aims to extend existing tax allocation districts to fund community investment projects, wit…
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It's hump day on the Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump is growing increasingly angry as the Epstein files continue to dominate the news cycle. During a press conference with Mohammed bin Salman, Trump erupted at a reporter who questioned the ethics of his family business working with Saudi Arabia, MBS's role in the killing of a journ…
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In this week’s episode, Becky and Taina dive straight into the deep end of real-life mess: school-district politics, equity vs. “equality,” the exhausting reality of advocating inside systems designed to fail kids, and the tender, complicated terrain of queer marriage, desire, and boundaries. This one is personal, raw, a little chaotic, and very us…
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For true fans of the over-a-decade-long Christian fiction series, Left Behind, and it's apocalypse addicted author, Tim LaHaye. Follow Timmy's political and cultural rise, evangelical influences, and the birth of the New Right's gray eminence, the Council for National Policy. Then, Fritz reviews Timothius' unfortunately impactful series of books an…
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Fritz digs even deeper into the cultural crater left by the Regnery family with the unending Fash Fic novel, Mister, written in 2009 by soon-to-be Alt-Right darling, the insufferable Alex Kurtagic. This 500-page self-published fashy rant is both pointless and terrible, and so is the perfect x-ray image of the 'New New Right' brain and its cringe-co…
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As a medical student, Flo believed policy was the path to fixing the deep inequities she saw in the healthcare system. But God called her into serving like Jesus, through proximity and relationships. In this episode, Dr. Flo shares her journey in medical service and advocacy tracing how her understanding of care transformed as she served the people…
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John McGowan joins me to discuss Liberty as Independence, Quentin Skinner's new book about the way that our ideals of liberty were formed in in 17th and 18th century debates. The book covers legendary figures, such as Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Swift, Paine, and Jefferson, as well as many lesser-known figures that they engaged with. For more from John …
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At this point, the annual “Plan with Me”-style episode feels like a sacred ritual. In today's show: Thinking through major tax changes, including why I finally ponied up for a CPA and what they’ll be doing Estimating and planning with irregular income Identifying new retirement contribution targets Revisiting the slush fund concept for covering lea…
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Mia talks with Alma Avalle, a former staffer at Bon Appetite and VP of the News Guild of New York, about her firing in the wake of Conde Nast’s Teen Vogue purge https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-conde-bosses-to-reinstate-the-fired-four-reverse-the-suspensions-and-end-the-union-busting @goodbyealma @picnic_mag See omnystudio.com/listener for …
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A quote attributed to Hippocrates says “all disease begins in the gut.” No surprise, then, that gut-heal tea is a major part of our practice! We work with this formula – or better said, this schema for creating individualized formulae – very, very often. It’s not only a ‘digestive’ blend, it’s also a nervine formula: it operates at the nexus betwee…
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It's News Day Tuesday on the Majority Report On today's program: Rep. Mike Johnson (D-LA) is happy to pass the Epstein buck over to John Thune (R-SD) and the Senate, allowing them to hamstring the release of the files. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a presser organized by Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie, alongside a group of Epstein su…
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J and Diane discuss a wide spectrum of topics in this episode including climate catastrophes and how they impact people in a wide array of ways from Jamaica to Gaza and how important infrastructure is to the long term survival of those impacted. They touch on the COP 2025 UN Climate Summit that is happening right now in Brazil and talking about the…
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Rabble and Alice Chan, Revolution.Social’s host and executive producer, talk about the launch and overwhelming reception to diVine, a new social video app that resurrects the six-second looping format of Vine and features archived original Vine content. This time, however, the app is built on open protocols and a promise to focus on real content ma…
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Garrison and Robert examine Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson’s debate over OnlyFans, the incel mindset, and the role of men and women in marriage during their interview. Sources: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/11/08/hochul-a--no--on-mamdani-s-free-bus-plan---yes--on-statewide-universal-childcare https://thebaffler.com/latest/paying-for-i…
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Diana Martha Louis is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan. In her new book, Louis seeks to reframe some of the historical stories about Black people and mental health in the 19th century. The book is titled “Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and the Politics of Mental Health in the 19th Century.” Combi…
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It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report On today's program: National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett has been making the media rounds, spreading misinformation by claiming that prices are falling across the board and that there is no job crisis. Instead, he insists we're simply in a "quiet time," arguing that AI has made current employee…
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Fritz, following some leads in episode 15, picks up a novel written by turn-of-the-century Secretary of State, John Hay: The Bread-winners (1884). The book follows Arthur Farnham, military-industrial exemplar of the 'American Race', as he woos the ladies and puts down labor rebellions led by conspiring socialist agitators. It's not as gross as fash…
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Bursts of The Final Straw joins Fritz to reflect on the HBO miniseries created by David Simon (Homicide, The Wire, etc.), The Plot Against America (2020), based closely on the novel of the same name by Phillip Roth in a counterfactual 1940s USA where the Nazi-loving aviator Charles Lindbergh becomes president. The series follows a middle-class Jewi…
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They offered initiation into ancient Christian mysticism, ritual communion with the spirits, an understanding of reincarnation, and the destined transition to inhabiting a "solar-body" in the Sirius star-system. But it all ended in murderous blood sacrifice and fire—and 74 dead believers. What is this dark preoccupation with sacrifice and ritual ki…
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