Name: News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn by Citations Needed Podcast
Duration: 53 min 33 s
Description: In this public News Brief we discuss how American media's general indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice Daniels, is an activist currently incarcerated in Illinois state prison in Joliet, IL.

I remember a few articles that was pushing the idea that the green river killer would be released...essentially Willie hortonizing the whole idea

Bryan tags in for my absentee cohosts and Matt & Felix stop by to talk TV and tease their new Stitcher Premium show: "Time For My Stories" 

Time For My Stories:
https://www.stitcher.com/show/time-for-my-stories

Episode 189: Chaos Walking, The Kurt Sutter Story(w/Bryan Quinby, Felix Biederman, & Matt Christman)

"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us.

For decades, the United States has very often appeared to have "ended" wars that do not, in fact, end at all. Open-ended jargon like "residual counter terror forces," "Vietnamization," "military advisors," along with deliberately ambiguous timetables, process criticisms––all are used to confuse the average media consumer. America's politicians know the American public broadly dislikes war and empire––and thus wants to see it restrained––but these same politicians don't really want to end wars so they have a frequent PR problem: How do you make it look like you’re ending a war or occupation without really doing so?

To solve this conundrum, American political leaders have perfected the art of fake-ending a war. Which is to say, announcing a war is going to end, typically around election time, only to––once the headlines make a big splash––backtrack, obfuscate, claim the "situation on the ground has changed" or the military involvement will only be in a "limited" or "defensive" capacity, shuffle troops around or find other thin pretexts to continue the war or occupation.

In this episode, we discuss the United States' history of fake-ending wars, who these pronouncements are meant to please, why troops levels are often impossible to know, and why so many of our so-called "wars" are not really wars at all, but military occupations that are never really meant to end.

Our guest is Shireen Al-Adeimi, assistant professor at Michigan State University.

Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

For Dolly's birthday we're unlocking this very special episode on the structural and engineering integrity of Dollywood and of amusement parks/roller coasters in general, featuring Justin Roczniak of the Well There's Your Problem (@wtyppod) engineering podcast.

Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPxHg4192hLDpTI2w7F9rPg and support them here: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod

And of course you can hear more premium episodes like this by supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

**UNLOCKED** The William Tell Experience (w/ special guest Justin Roczniak)

We have Private Detective & radio host Ed Opperman (twitter.com/oppermanreport) on the program to talk about the connection between JonBenet Ramsey’s murder and a DEA raid to snatch Hunter Biden’s laptop—plus stuff on OJ, Giuliani, and a ton of other crooks.

patreon.com/oppermanreport

UNLOCKED! Episode 124: Pills And Women

In this public News Brief we break down L'Affaire GameStop and what lessons can be gleaned from about psychological gamesmanship of the stock market and finance media's goofy, reverse-engineered moral pretext for being outraged by #GME. With guest Jacob Silverman.

News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall St's Game Rigging

Author of the Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins, comes on to talk about the cold war and the influence of America's #1 rag tag gang of friends, the CIA.

Research for the episode:
Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Poisoner in Chief by Steven Kinzer
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot

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Your Pal The CIA w/ Vincent Bevins

“We need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics,” declares presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “AOC Kills Jobs Middle America Would Love to Have,” proclaims The Washington Examiner. Amy Klobuchar insists she’s a “voice from the heartland,” while The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin tells us, “[Bernie Sanders] is not going to sell in Middle America. You have to WIN Middle America.” 

Everywhere we turn in American political discourse, the terms “Heartland” and “Middle America” are thrown around as shorthand for “everyday” men and women somewhere between the Atlantic Ocean to the East, Pacific to the West--homespun people who are supposedly insufficiently represented in media and Beltway circles. Those evoking their status presumably are interjecting these true Americans otherwise overlooked needs into the conversation.

But terms like “Heartland” and “Middle America” are not benign or organic terms that emerged from the natural course of sociological explanation, they are deliberate political PR products of the 1960s, emerging in parallel with a shift from explicit racism into coded racism. Their primary function is to express a deference to and centering of whiteness as a post-civil rights political project.

On this episode, we explore the origins of the terms “Middle America” and “Heartland,” what they mask and reveal, why they’re still used today and how conversations about “whiteness” as a political ideology would benefit greatly from clarity, rather than relying on code words to vaguely allude to the subject of political “whiteness,” while still trying to obfuscate it.

Our guest is Professor Kristin Hoganson of the University of Illinois.

'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media’s Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance

In this public News Brief we discuss how American media's general indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice Daniels, is an activist currently incarcerated in Illinois state prison in Joliet, IL.

News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn

Apologies for the terrible audio quality on this. If you were a fan of our early work then you'll be able to appreciate it.

We cover Britney, Joe Biden's Civilian Climate Corps, JD Vance investing in Parler, and this week's Speak Your Piece

Support us on Patreon:
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Episode 185: The Democrat Destroyers

On this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of people's relationship with their government into our cultural understanding of taxation, public spending and social services.

Our guest is Raúl Carrillo, Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School.

News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"

We’re joined by authors and educators Aaron Leonard and Connor Gallagher, coauthors of Heavy Radicals, A Threat of the First Magnitude, and the Folksinger and the Bureau. We take a closer examination on the assassination of Fred Hampton, operational differences between the FBI & the police, and what we can learn from it.

Music by Kyle Dixon

A Threat of the First Magnitude: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564701/a-threat-of-the-first-magnitude-by-aaron-leonard/

Episode 141: Snitch 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.

News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn

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