Apologies for the rough sound on Ben's part. 

Suggested Reading: 

    The Metaverse Is Going to Suck for Queer People - https://www.them.us/story/metaverse-queer-lgbtq-users-harassment-discrimination-facebook

    The Worst Part of Che Diaz Was Seeing Myself in Them - https://www.them.us/story/che-diaz-retrospective-nonbinary-representation


intro/// Eternity's Children - Mrs. Bluebird (1967)
outro/// Rashid Beybutov - В Сад Пошел За Виноградом (1973)

SD 118 - the nuclear option

"Let the Culture Wars Begin. Again," The New York Times announces. "How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy," warns Politico. "As The Culture Wars Shift, President Trump Struggles To Adapt," NPR tells us. "Will Democrats Go on the Offensive in the Culture Wars?" Vanity Fair wonders.

Over and over, we’re reminded that so-called culture wars are being waged between a simplified Left and Right. Depending on who you ask, they tend to encompass issues under very broad categories: “LGBTQ rights,” “abortion,” “funding for the arts,” “policing,” “immigration,” “family values.” While there is some validity to the label of “culture war issue” – say, Republican opposition to an art installation, or tantrums over the gender of M&Ms – most of the time, the term is woefully misapplied.

Despite what much of the media claims, LGBTQ rights, police violence, abortion, and so many other issues aren’t just “culture war” fluff in the same league as the latest Fox News meltdown about a cartoon character. Nor are they both-sides-able matters of debate. They’re matters of real, material consequence, often with life-and-death stakes. So why is it that these are placed under the “culture war” umbrella? And what are the dangers of characterizing them that way?

On this episode, we discuss the vague nature of the term “culture war”; how this lack of clarity is weaponized to gloss over and minimize life-and-death issues like police violence and gender-affirming healthcare; and how the only consistent criterion for a “culture war” seems to be issues that impact someone other than the media’s default audience, i.e., a white professional-class man.

Our guest is The Real News Network Editor-in-Chief Max Alvarez.

Episode 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues

This week we take a look at the hottest new publication to hit the streets since at least Martin Luther's 95 Theses. That's right, we're talking about Compact Magazine, ostensibly a collaboration between some guys with ideas. They're some bad hombres, in other words.

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Episode 243: A Couple of Bad Hombres

In this episode: capitalism makes you crazy; numbers shrinking; relationships spiraling; losing family; giving up on touring; the beginning of the end.

Interviews with James Riotto, Samantha Crain, and Danielle Goldsmith.

Featured tracks: "Fangless" by Sleater-KInney, "Paint" by Samantha Crain, and "Harlequin Press" by John Vanderslice.

UNLOCKED — Keep The Dream Alive Part 4: Gruesome Details

Welcome to the fifth and final chapter of TrueAnon Presents: Keep the Dream Alive.

In this episode: facing the inevitable; the sacred and the profane; falling in love with LA; opening in Oakland; embracing digital; on the road again.

Interviews with Merrill Garbus, John Congleton, and Tabor Allen.

Featured tracks: "cracked pass words" by John Vanderslice, "If" by The Dodos, "Coast to Coast" by Tune-Yards.

UNLOCKED — Keep the Dream Alive Part 5: After It Ends

Will talks to president of the Amazon Labor Union Chris Smalls about the successful effort to unionize the JFK8 Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island.

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UNLOCKED: Will interviews Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls

An episode about how bored and wealthy philanthropists are using your DNA to solve their favorite true crime cases

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Episode 244: The Digital Broadform Deed

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We bring brothers Howie and Ben onboard for the first of our three part series on the Boston Bombing. We go over the Tsarnaev family, the bombing, plus the manhunt and aftermath.

Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1) [trailer]

This unlocked episode is the first in a 10-part series brought to you by the QAA podcast. To get access to all upcoming episodes of Trickle Down as well as a new premium QAA episode every week, go sign up for $5 a month at https://patreon.com/qanonanonymous

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In the early 20th century a psychologist named Henry Herbert Goddard aimed to prove that “feeblemindedness” was a hereditary trait. His work, fueled by the frenzy of eugenics research at the time, focused on the family line of an institutionalized girl named Emma Wolverton, but which he named “Deborah Kallikak” in his publications. Goddard’s 1912 study on the supposedly degenerate Kallikak family won him fame and acclaim. It was printed in textbooks and cited in a Supreme Court case that permitted the involuntary sterilization of people in institutions. But decades later the truth was eventually acknowledged by every honest academic: Goddard’s research, which was validated by heights of authority and power, was completely worthless from top to bottom.

Written by Travis View. Theme by Nick Sena (https://nicksenamusic.com). Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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REFERENCES:

Carlson, Axel Elof ( 2001) The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea

Smith, David J. and Wehmeyer, Michael L. (2012) Good Blood, Bad Blood. Science, Nature, and the Myth of the Kallikaks.

Smith, David J. and Wehmeyer, Michael L. (2012) Who Was Deborah Kallikak?
https://meridian.allenpress.com/idd/article/50/2/169/14846/Who-Was-Deborah-Kallikak

Smith, David J. (1985) Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and the Legacy of the Kallikaks

Zenderland, L. (1998). Measuring minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the origins of American intelligence testing.

UNLOCKED! Trickle Down Episode 1: Bad Seed (Part 1)

Beloved TikTok laywer David Pourshalimi of P&P Law Firm in LA joins us to break down his wins in court, to answer some listener questions, and to get a brief rundown on Jacques criminal history.

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TikTok at Pandpfirm2.0
Instagram at pandpfirm

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Let's Gooo! with David Pourshalimi

In this Live Interview from 5/20, we are joined by Layla A. Jones of the Philadelphia Inquirer whose report, "Lights. Camera. Crime." brilliantly documented the White Flight origins of the "action news" genre and how it dehumanized⁠—and thus helped lawmakers gut⁠—black communities throughout the country.

                              

Live Interview: "Action News" & the Rise of Anti-Black Local "Crime" Reporting . w/ Layla A. Jones

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod