The Skeptical Leftist Podcast Living in the Empire of Crisis
This week, Nick Girard joins me to dig into another week of manufactured emergencies and systemic collapse. From Trump’s military occupation of DC, to Romana Didulo’s arrest, to the slow-motion disaster of AI harms and ecological breakdown, it’s all crisis all the time. We also talk about capitalism’s state-capitalist mask slipping and the shifting views on socialism in the U.S.
Nick is also sending out his book for free. Just reach out to him on Instagram at @nickdgirard or email me at mindofaskepticalleftist@gmail.com and we’ll get you a copy.
Solidarity is the strategy.
Sources
https://globalnews.ca/news/11391128/saskatchewan-rcmp-richmound-investigation/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rcmp-richmound-didulo-1.7624038
https://leaderpost.com/news/sha-declare-queen-of-canadas-compound-a-threat-to-public-safety
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/09/07/60-of-land-area-is-now-out-of-the-safe-operating-zone/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/we-are-all-dc-tens-of-thousands-march-to-white-house
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-antitrust-order-1.7623824
Mutual aid shoutouts or action items
Support KJ’s fight against a brain tumor — donate to the GoFundMe campaign for Eric’s nephew: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kj-with-his-battle-against-a-brain-tumor
Regina Cathedral Community Fridge — volunteer-run, 24/7 mutual aid fridge in Regina; feeding local neighbours every day. Help them here: https://www.cathedralcommunityfridge.com/https://linktr.ee/reginacommunityfridge
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) — offering medical care, food, and humanitarian aid to children and families in Gaza and the West Bank: https://www.pcrf.net/donate
Taylor Mcnallie is an activist and organizer from out of Calgary Alberta who has a number of pages to help support others and also she needs help with legal fees after being targeted by the Calgary police for her activism https://linktr.ee/taylor_mcnallie
SomeRandomG33k gives a lot of their income to people in need so you can either donate to them through streamlabs https://streamlabs.com/somerandomg33k/tip or check out their charity links page https://charitylinks.page/
Check out Nick’s book In the Beginning
Buy Nick’s book in Canada https://a.co/d/bbtJsT4
Buy Nick’s book in the US https://a.co/d/czu4Maw
Nick on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nickdgirard/
My links: https://linktr.ee/skepticalleftist