no no NO! how fucking disappointing....not you, too...! sex is NOT a commodity!!!

Anybody in this comment section smoke weed

Jesus Christ, Is this done just to spite sex-workers? What the fuck.

the word "rehabilitation" gives me the creeps for sure\

Goddamnit you're fucking right. Listening to this podcast made me so angry is the best possible way. Opressing marginalized people under the cover of "decency" or whatever is pure fucking evil.

come on, this is sooo not true, in a way that people who defend trans rights are often not defending workers rights at all (it is even corporatist strategy), but still you right to some extend

Abolishing capitalism and building socialism will consist of workers in their workplaces and industries getting together to improve and take ever increasing and finally total control over their industries, transforming them and likely making them totally unrecognizable in the process. Many sex workers are repulsed by the exclusionary "leftists" they see misunderstanding and seeking to control them, just like everyone else tries to. Thankfully sex workers don't need leftists they already organize better than many other industries outside of the traditional labour relations framework. SWERFs please consider a new hobby. Fun fact: almost every ""anti-traffiking"" organization is just a newly renamed anti-prostitution org, often religious. Fuck the nordic model and FOSTA/SESTA they literally do the opposite of what they say they intend, they put workers at greater risk and poverty and precarity, as fucking par for the course.

Joe's out, Kamala's in; Netanyahu is given a standing ovation in Congress for killing over 100,000 people; the attempt on Trump's life has been virtually forgotten (lmao)

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Episode 353: Scaring The Joes

Brace sits down in the studio with Matt Farwell for a very loose chat about CIA old boy Frank Wisner, plus much more.

Read Matt's writing at The Hunt For Tom Clancy: https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/

Episode 397: The Hunt for Frank Wisner

The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein stops by to discuss his extensive new piece investigating the ever-ballooning U.S. international sanctions regime. Despite Biden recently bragging he’s leaving office with the U.S. not involved in any foreign conflicts, the U.S. now has sanctions in place in over a third of all nations around the world, including more than 60% of “developing” nations. Jeff walks us through this increasingly central policy of worldwide economic coercion, how it shapes American imperial aims, and some intended & unintended consequences of the exponential expansion of sanctions in the 21st century. Then, we take a quick look at the state of the Veepstakes, Josh Shapiro’s whole deal, and of course, RFK Jr. and the road-kill bear.

Check out Jeff’s sanctions investigation here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanction-countries-work/

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856 - Bear Market feat. Jeff Stein (8/5/24)

In this public News Brief, we discuss a new, detailed media survey by Zach Siegel that shows how news outlets mindlessly parrot police "accidental fentanyl overdoes" misinformation.

                              

News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

Originally published 6/17/24
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We sit down with Max Read (maxread.substack.com/) at the Genius Bar for a round of wifi-enabled smart nootropics and talk AI, AGI, OOMs, super intelligence, things of this nature.

UNLOCKED: Episode 387: A/G/I?

We’re joined by video doc king Jon Bois to discuss some of his recent projects with Secret Base, specifically REFORM!, a history of Ross Perot and the Reform party. Jon shares his fascination and research into this bizarre eddy of American electoral politics, the various cranks and characters that populated it, and how the Reform Party prefigured a swath of our current political landscape. We also touch on James Rebhorn’s character in Independence Day, slipping on banana peels, and the best and worst of Olympic sports.

Part 1 of the REFORM! Series is on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqaW1LrMTY

Subscribe to Secret Base on Patreon for all of their premium content: https://www.patreon.com/SecretBase

Rick Perlstein's POW/MIA piece Amber recommended: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/enduring-cult-vietnam-missing-action/

858 - That’s Not Entirely Accurate feat. Jon Bois (8/12/24)

We head to a Democratic Creators talent show, get Pod Saved, and are driven into a minor psychosis due to being served Democrat by Girliepops

DNC DAY TWO

We assemble at midnight to bring this convention to a close—Paul Blart, Kamala Harris, lethality and liberalism ascendant…

RSVP: The Right to Resist in the Era of Imperialist War: 

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/BVMoyR0PfB+DoTEfFph7APG3-dimN0NKNDPr42zHh5w/embed/

DNC DAY FOUR

This one has a really great story in it. But you have to suffer through one entire hour of world building to get to it. Rest assured it's worth it!

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Episode 356: Securus Maximus

The Chapo 2024 Elections team returns to the pod to look at the state of the presidential race post-Democratic National Convention. Kamala’s positioning in the election remains strong, but what does her convention performance tell us about a potential Harris administration? Is the Trump GOP really bungling this? Exactly how shitty is JD Vance as a VP pick, and is Tim Walz committing Dog Fraud? And just how much can the Democrats cover their ears and pretend Gaza doesn’t exist after the convention? All this and more discussed in today’s ‘sode.

Find Dave’s reporting at Semafor here: https://www.semafor.com/author/david-weigel
Find the Ettingermentum newsletter here: https://www.ettingermentum.news/

862 - The Donkey Show feat. Dave Weigel & Ettingermentum (8/26/24)

Will and Virgil talk to writer, podcaster and sex workers' rights advocate Conner Habib and Tai, a self-described "whore of all trades". They discuss sex workers' labor issues, the atrocious SESTA/FOSTA bill, various models of sex work decriminalization, and why you can no longer use phrases like "lusty hands" on certain web forums. 

Sex Workers Outreach Project
http://www.new.swopusa.org/

SWOP Behind Bars
http://swopbehindbars.org/

Lysistrata
https://www.lysistratamccf.org/

Follow Conner here: @connerhabib
Find his podcast here: patreon.com/connerhabib

Bonus: SEX! Now that we have your attention: Work

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