when you dig in sewage, the fact you make next to nothing, makes you even more of a man. wow! if you work 60 hours hard labor a week...wow! so manly. Mike Rowe get on this

if you're 14 and don't want a wrestler to be preside t, you have no soul. if you're 41, you live in the real world

For anyone interested in learning a trade, every state has a non-profit workforce development office and those are the places where you can find local apprenticeship programs.

neo-cons, there's someone living in the real world for ya, and always right about everything

what about the 'reality' that there's a reason for shoplifting, because that's what this society forces some people into doing?

They also hate the service industry because those jobs are more often held by women and POC, instead of white guys they can do their masculine appeal to

Unlocked episode with more flooding updates, should be getting back to your regularly scheduled programming soon folks

Link to Baffler article: https://thebaffler.com/latest/flooding-in-the-sacrifice-zone-ray

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Aaron Good (twitter.com/Aaron_Good_), author of the newly published American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769137/american-exception), joins us to talk the state of exception, continuity of government, and whether or not Richard Nixon was based or cringe.

American Exception podcast: americanexception.com/podcast/

TrueAnon tour tickets: https://linktr.ee/trueanon

Episode 246: Deep State 102

Tarence and Tom preview the most important upcoming ballot race of this election season: Letcher County Judge Executive. Then we take a look at new developments with some old friends of ours', AppHarvest.

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Episode 260: We're All Grit In The Long Run

"Education... is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery," stated school reformer Horace Mann in 1848. "Math is the great equalizer," preached Jaime Escalante, Edward James Olmos’ character, in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. "The best anti-poverty program around is a world-class education," announced Barack Obama during his 2010 State of the Union address.

This message is everywhere, pervading political speeches, Oscar-bait films, think-tank papers, and everything in between. The key to economic upward mobility—we’re endlessly told, is education—a societal building block that is, or at least should be, accessible to every child, no matter their race, gender, or income level. It's a seductive, seemingly unassailable conceit, suggesting that we live in a meritocracy where second chances and generational wealth-building are possible, even probable, with a few simple tools.

But is there any truth to this idea? There’s a growing body of evidence showing that education level does not, in fact, necessarily translate to higher wages. Which raises the questions: Why has the idea that education is the ultimate anti-poverty tool persisted? Whose interests are served in its continuation? And who, in turn, pays the price?

On this episode, the Season Six premiere of Citations Needed, we detail and debunk the widespread conventional wisdom that education is the rising tide that lifts all boats, looking at the ways it reinforces themes of individualism and personal responsibility; obscures systemic issues like racism and worker exploitation in the labor market; and ultimately keeps people entrenched in, rather than liberating them from, poverty and low-wage work.

Our guest is Lake Forest professor Cristina Viviana Groeger.

Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals

Will and Chris host a round table of three organizers from across the country fighting to unionize Starbucks: Vic from Buffalo, Alisha from Oklahoma City, and Quentin from Portland, OR. They discuss the progress they’ve made at their respective locations, how they achieved it, and where they hope to go from there. We also discuss Starbucks’ retaliation methods (ranging from buffoonish to insidious), various legal challenges they’ve faced, and building bonds across the labor movement. Also, the most insane Starbucks orders they’ve ever seen.

Support Starbucks Workers United:
No Contract No Coffee pledge: https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H
Solidarity Fund for SBWU partners by Coworker: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/starbucksworkersfund
DSA Labor Solidarity Fund: https://laborsolidarity.com

And here is Alisha’s Jacobin piece on Starbucks use of reproductive benefits as a cudgel against organizers: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/starbucks-abortion-transgender-health-care-promises-pr-stunt-union-contract

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Bonus: Triple Shot of Starbucks Workers

"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy," insists New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. "Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount," The Guardian reports.

Though these headlines are framed as exploratory questions, news media seem to have their minds made up: the problem with Washington is that it’s chock full of geezers. In recent years, we’ve often heard that U.S. policymaking, helmed at the federal level by seventy- and eighty-somethings like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, and at the state level by the similarly aged Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Pat Leahy, is simply growing too old and out of touch with the electorate.

There’s some credence to this, of course. It’s certainly true that those occupying the most powerful positions in U.S. government, on the whole, don’t legislate to the needs of the public – whether on healthcare, policing, education – the list goes on and on. But is that really because of legislators' age? Why does age have to be the focus in this analysis, rather than policy positions and, relatedly, class interests, which exist independent of age? Who does it serve to reduce the causes of U.S. austerity politics and violence to pat, Pepsi marketing-style "generation gap" discourse?

On this episode show, we detail how "generations" analysis is ineffectual and, more often than not, misses the mark. We'll discuss how fears of a "gerontocracy" can – if not in intent, in effect – malign old age itself, stigmatize the elderly and, above all, distract from what could be a substantive critical analysis of real, more profound vectors of oppression such as class, racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ currents.

Our guest in Winslow Erik Wright.

Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse

Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Part 4 of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship book club, lots of love

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226 - Shipping Up to Costin' 09.16.22

Once a DJ, Oral Roberts University misfit and entrepreneur mindset guru, Clay Clark has become the organizer of a far-right, religious, QAnon-baiting live show with headliners like Michael Flynn and the Trump sons. Sam Kestenbaum, who wrote a piece about it for Rolling Stone, joins us to discuss this traveling gong show.

Tickets to our tour: http://tour.qanonanonymous.com

Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to the full Trickle Down 10-part miniseries and all upcoming extra series: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous

Sam Kestenbaum: https://twitter.com/skestenbaum / https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/clay-clark-reawaken-america-maga-tour-trump-1234594574/

New Merch: http://merch.qanonanonymous.com

Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

Episode 204: The Reawakening Tour feat Sam Kestenbaum

"Increasing Numbers of US Students Look for a ‘Real’ World," read a 1965 headline from the magazine Moderator. "Academics: Get Real!," the Harvard Business Review implored in 2009. "‘Defund the police’ runs into reality," the Washington Post warned in 2021. "As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon," the New York Times declared in 2022.  

We're often reminded that anyone who espouses some degree of left-wing politics – whether a student, activist, political leader, or anyone in between – is at odds with the "real world." Academics, especially those in the humanities, sit in their ivory towers. Organizers and demonstrators against state violence have their heads in the clouds. Elected leaders campaigning on elevating living standards don’t know what they're in for.

But who's in charge of determining what’s ‘realistic’? Or what "the real world" is exactly? Why is studying theory, fighting for better healthcare, or working toward poverty reduction any less ‘real’ than plugging away at a spreadsheet for a weapons manufacturer or venture capital firm? And how did this pat and folksy concept of the "real world" emerge as a go-to dunk on eggheads and activists?

On this episode, we seek to answer these questions, as we examine the canard that anyone to the left of a Goldman Sachs executive isn't living in or contributing to the "real world."

Our guest is Street Fight Radio's Bryan Quinby.

Ep168: How Faux Folksy "Real World" Advice is Employed to Limit Political Possibility and Punch Left

In this News Brief, we discuss the nominally progressive news network's lies and omissions when covering efforts to reduce the US's unprecedented jail and prison population.

News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery

We talk about some more cheating scandals, then visit a story about a Tuskegee airman landing in Loretta Lynn's childhood backyard, and finally present an exciting new opportunity for Trillbillies fans: a Trillbillies Essay Contest

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Episode 263: Fish City

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

Ep168: How Faux Folksy "Real World" Advice is Employed to Limit Political Possibility and Punch Left

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