Shulem Deen was a 22-year old and ultra-religious, a Hasidic Jewish person, when he bought a computer and signed up for America Online in 1996. Until then he'd never had a real conversation with someone outside his community. Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the internet ruined his life and how it might save it.

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#23 Exit & Return, Part I

Robbie Martin interviews journalist Yasha Levine about his new book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet with Yasha Levine

The term "Western civilization" has long been a staple of the American Right, but with the recent resurgence of white nationalism, it is having something of a comeback. Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are hosting a two-week Mediterranean "cruise thru history" to "explore the roots of Western civilization." The Intellectual Dark Web's Jordan Peterson tells us “The West is Right,” while The Daily Caller and Fox News are busy “celebrating the West." Neo-Nazi Matthew Heimbach hails “Youth for Western Civilization." Both the traditional and so-called alt-right ground their worldviews in a fictional moral arc of "The West” that bares little resemblance to reality.

Learning from the past and applying those lessons to the present is a good thing. But in pop political discourse, the Classics have been misused and abused to promote an origin story that never was - a white Greco-Roman world birthing our noble, so-called “Judeo-Christian” American empire to gloss over a history of exploitation, imperialism, slavery and conquest.

On this episode, we’ll explore the right-wing obsession with the ancient world, it’s influence on neoconservative empire-building and alt-right white nationalism alike, and how our common cultural understanding of the ancient world has been perpetually white-washed to promote a clash of civilizations narrative and racist pseudo-science.

We are joined by Dr. Sarah E. Bond, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, and Dr. Cord Whitaker, Associate Professor at Wellesley College.

Episode 82 - 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity

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intro/// Christine Lewin - Juicy Fruit

Ben and I had Felix and Brandon on the pod to talk about internet freaks but we all spent like 45 minutes talking about the people who had the biggest influences on us as younger people and "internet activists". 

outro/// Wally Badarou - Back To Scales Tonight

UNLOCKED SD 6: Boys' Chat feat. Felix Biederman & Brandon Wardell

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We talk through the events of the past week and take stock of the civil unrest sweeping the nation

Episode 73: Phase III (teaser)

This week, PJ looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes him back to the beginning of the QAnon scam, and to the message board trolls who started it.

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#166 Country of Liars

On A Very Special Episode of Swampside Chats, Jake, Ezri & Grant jack back into The Simulation with Jean Baudrillard for one last trio adventure in "The Divine Left", and come back one member short. Remember: if you die in The Simulation, you die in real life. 
 
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#126 - “The Divine Left”

The election is finally over I think? We talk about it and make some predictions about the future. Me and Anders get into an argument. Alex does a Strong Bad impression. America listens.

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our fat titty ex-president put out a really pathetic playlist the other day full of shit he probably doesn't even listen to because he's a POSER

intro/// Cara Stewart - What Time Does The Last Moon Leave? (1957?)
outro/// Hirth Martinez - Altogether Alone (1975) 

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SD 38 - Obama Gone Pitchfork

In the final episode of the second season of #RedHacks Joana Ramiro speaks to Laurie Macfarlane about the necessity of an economic journalism that challenges the status quo.

#RedHacks - Economic journalism and the end of neoliberalism w/ Laurie Macfarlane

Ventura, California. Covid denialists, MAGA dead-enders, religious extremists, Q supporters and a live Jazz band gathered outdoors to "Recall Gavin Newsom". Travis View was on the scene. So was RSBN, a pro-Trump network having issues with Judy Mikovitz of "Plandemic" 1 & 2 infamy — how were they supposed to broadcast her speech without getting banned from Youtube for the medical misinformation it contained?

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Episode 131: Do You Believe In Q After Trump?

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