Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News
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1:13:49Feb 4, 2026
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364 episodes
News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism
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39:34Jan 30, 2026
Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy
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1:24:28Jan 28, 2026
News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis
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43:18Jan 22, 2026
News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian
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25:11Jan 17, 2026
News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota
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27:42Jan 7, 2026
Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
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1:29:03Dec 10, 2025
News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
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44:48Dec 3, 2025
Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms
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1:17:44Nov 26, 2025
Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour
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1:41:11Nov 19, 2025
Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism
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54:40Nov 10, 2025
News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value
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22:49Oct 29, 2025
News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock
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31:29Oct 22, 2025
News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028
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29:50Oct 13, 2025
Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo!
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2:06Oct 6, 2025
Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport
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1:14:00Oct 1, 2025
Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise
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1:24:32Sep 24, 2025
News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition
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40:14Aug 27, 2025
Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)
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1:33:52Aug 13, 2025
Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)
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1:08:20Aug 6, 2025
Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'
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1:04:21Jul 23, 2025
Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage
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1:11:52Jul 16, 2025
News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani
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38:24Jul 1, 2025
News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza
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29:01Jun 19, 2025
News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days
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32:09Jun 17, 2025
News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran
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30:21Jun 13, 2025
Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — 'Abundance' Pablum as Counter to Left Populism
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1:25:52Jun 11, 2025
Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves
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1:21:29Jun 4, 2025
Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism
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1:08:10May 28, 2025
News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing
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23:08May 22, 2025
News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform
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36:49May 7, 2025
Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels
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1:21:06Apr 30, 2025
Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class
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1:15:34Apr 23, 2025
Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes
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1:13:21Apr 16, 2025
News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents
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28:09Apr 2, 2025
Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
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1:03:20Mar 26, 2025
News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance
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33:11Mar 19, 2025
News Brief: Israel Kills Over 400 in 12 Hrs, Media Unsure if This Counts as Violating the 'Ceasefire'
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19:35Mar 18, 2025
News Brief: The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil and the Phony 'Campus Safety' Panic
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34:15Mar 12, 2025
Episode 216: Sunday Morning News Shows and the Problem With 'Agenda Setting' Court Stenography
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57:53Mar 12, 2025
Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World
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1:06:10Mar 5, 2025
News Brief: Silicon Valley Patronage, How To Subtly Drift Right, and the New Conservative Media Ecosystem
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35:09Feb 12, 2025
News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "Cost-Cutting Effort"
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24:30Feb 5, 2025
News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist
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35:35Jan 29, 2025
News Brief: Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Became Too Big To Fail
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36:00Jan 22, 2025
Episode 215: "Bipartisanship" as High-Minded Rhetorical Cover for Pushing Rightwing Policies
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1:11:56Jan 15, 2025
News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squeamishness Over the "G" Word
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31:08Jan 8, 2025
Episode 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern' - How US Media Helped Distance Biden From the Gaza Genocide
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1:13:20Dec 11, 2024
Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians
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1:19:41Dec 4, 2024
Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy
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1:15:50Nov 20, 2024