The Bitchuation Room

Five years after the George Floyd uprisings we reflect on how police killings are up along with the copaganda. Then, will GOP Senators tank Trumps MAGA Murder Bill because they’re… principled?! Comedian Mike Drucker joins Francesca to talk about all that and the bizarre search of Democratic party to find the ‘Joe Rogan of the left’... or of neoliberalism. Then we interview Malcolm Harris, author of "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis" about a unifying approach to addressing climate change. Oh and the Gaza horrors continue. Download the 5 Calls app and call your reps to tell them to renounce all Israel lobby funds.  Featuring: Malcolm Harris, author, https://x.com/bigmeaninternet https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/whats-left/9780316577434/ Mike Drucker, comedian,  https://x.com/MikeDrucker https://mikedrucker.substack.com/ LIVE SHOWS LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom.  *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this white nationalist fanfic we’re living in, Trump has put birthright citizenship on the chopping block. Traci Feit Love, President & Executive Director of Lawyers for Good Government joined Francesca to talk about Trump’s battle against the American constitution. And journalist and producer of  THIS VERY SHOW Paige Oamek came by to talk with Francesca about Trump’s pay to play crypto dinner where the vibe was ‘sketch’. Plus Theo Von on Gaza and perhaps the most racist meeting with a foreign head of state as Trump goes full white genocide conspiracist.  Featuring: Traci Feit Love, President & Executive Director, Lawyers for Good Government: https://lawyersforgoodgovernment.org Paige Oamek, The Bitchuation Room producer and writer: https://paigehtml.github.io/all.html Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com. Try Factor Meals today. Get started at www.factormeals.com/bitchuation50off and use code bitchuation50off to get 50% off plus FREE shipping on your first box. ** LIVE SHOWS LOS ANGELES- May 30th- LOS ANGELES -- The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Biden's cancer To MAHA's eugenics, we're talking about the politics of healthcare... again. Beatrice Adler-Bolton is back to talk Medicare and the cruel budget that Republicans are poised to pass, but how Biden also oversaw the removal of millions from the program during Covid as well. Speaking of Covid, Dave Anthony is here to bitch about the vaccine only being available to the elderly and immunocompromised, and comes in hot with some hard truths about Biden's cancer diagnosis. Blue MAGA is out in full force tone policing anyone who asks us not to sympathy wash the former President, and they happen to have a lot in common with those blame anti-genocide demonstrators for his loss.... hmmmm coincidence? Featuring: Dave Anthony, The Dollop Podcast https://www.dolloppodcast.com/podcast  Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Death Panel https://www.deathpanel.net/  Read Health Communism  LIVE SHOWS PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom.  *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Policing is deadly but it’s also making us less safe and sicker. Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez are the authors of All This Safety Is Killing Us, a book that collects clinicians and organizers and activists who believe in abolition – getting rid of a ruinous policing system – and building a healthier society for all.  Then, is Diddy going to get a pardon from Trump? Sean’s team is certainly trying to make it happen. You know these abusers have to stick together. Maybe they can work on a new crypto scam together, since apparently the entire U.S. government is green lighting the crypto takeover. Bad boy for life, indeed. Featured: Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez, All This Safety Is Killing Us: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771429/all-this-safety-is-killing-us-by-carlos-martinez-and-ronica-mukerjee/ Contents: -All This Safety Is Killing Us, with Ronica Mukerjee & Carlos Martinez -P Diddy is trying to get a pardon from Trump - Mike Johnson is cool with insider trading -Trump's Crypto Scam Continues - Senate Democrats Also Cool With Trump’s Crypto Scam - Ms. Rachel is standing up for the children of Gaza - Kristi Noem citizenship reality show Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com Try Factor Meals today. Get started at www.factormeals.com/bitchuation50off and use code bitchuation50off to get 50% off plus FREE shipping on your first box. ** LIVE SHOWS PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES- May 30th- LOS ANGELES -- The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A peek into the Wednesday May 15th bonus episodes you missed in which Francesca talks about Republicans' Medicaid cuts, David Hogg and DNC drama, RFK Jr. swimming in poop and a Luigi Mangioni musical. Become a patron at www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom and get access to these stories and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Trump unleashes ICE on workers, grandmothers, judges and mayors, what does solidarity look like. Comedian River Butcher joins Francesca to talk about these brownshirts gone wild and Stephen Miller explaining how the administration is trying to suspend habeas corpus. Also, a small victory in the battle for trans rights in Maine isn't going unnoticed by Republicans still hell bent on focusing on the wrong one percent. Then Jaz Brisack formerly of Starbucks Workers United joins to talk about their new book "Get On The Job and Organize" and how we should organize under a Donald Trump presidency. But first, Matt Lieb stops by to talk about the Trump administration re-igniting ceasefire discussions with Hamas. The proof is in the pudding but neither he nor Francesca are convinced. Featuring:  River Butcher, comedian https://www.riverbutcher.com/ https://www.instagram.com/rivbutcher  Jaz Brisack, union organizer  Get their new book "Get On The Job and Organize" is out now: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Get-on-the-Job-and-Organize/Jaz-Brisack/9781668080795 https://www.insideorganizerschool.com/ LIVE SHOWS PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom.  *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trump effect crushes another right-wing candidacy, this time in Australia. Canadian comic John Hastings joins to make sense of it all and to talk about the imminent re-opening of Alcatraz likely based on Trump's late-night PBS (?!) viewing. Then creator of The Financial Diet, Chelsea Fagan joins us to talk practical and macroeconomic look at what Trump's pigheaded tariffs regime means for our lives. John Hastings, comedian: https://www.thejohnhastings.com/, https://x.com/thejohnhastings  Chelsea Fagan, CEO and Co-Founder of The Financial Diet:  https://thefinancialdiet.com/, https://www.tiktok.com/@faganchelsea *** LIVE SHOWS SAN FRANCISCO- May 7th - Francesca and Matt Lieb are coming to Cobb’s Comedy Club San Francisco. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ImZ_W42k_U PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom.  *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ICE Director Tom Homan is threatening to arrest sanctuary city mayors. But don’t worry! Democrats are not taking this lying down… Actually, they are. Hakeem Jeffries thinks that Dems need to put a halt to going to El Salvador to rescue the migrants illegally sent to CECOT. Who is fighting for immigrant rights? Well, a Trump appointed judge in Texas ruled that the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezualens is illegal so that's something. Francesca also discusses Israel’s continued war crimes, this time attacking a humanitarian boat bringing aid to Gaza. Speaking of Israel, John Fetterman’s crash out is hitting all time lows according to a recent New York Magazine article. We are talkin’ refusing to wear a seatbelt on a plane level of meltdown. *** LIVE SHOWS SAN FRANCISCO- May 7th Francesca and Matt Lieb are coming to Cobb’s Comedy Club San Francisco. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ImZ_W42k_U PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES - May 30th- The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom *** Get 20% off SUNSET LAKE CBD with code FRANTIFA at check out. Explore all their organic, vertically-integrated craft CBD products including tinctures, gummies, smokables, salves and more: https://www.sunsetlakecbd.com *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A snippet of the Bonus Bish from Wednesday April 30th talking about Trump admitting goods will be more expensive and less accessible. Join the patreon at www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to support the show and hear other stories like: -Mohsen Mahdawi is free! -Trump does not understand his own propaganda -Greg Abbott threatens Texas town over ceasefire resolution. -Venezuelan migrants spell out SOS from detention. -Marjorie Greene bought Palantir stock just before ICE contract. -MAGA influencers get their own private press briefing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ratings are in the golden toilet for the Trump sequel and we’re here to both laugh and cry at the authoritarian incompetance. Comedian Josh Gondelman is along for the show to talk Canada’s nice nationalism and the terrifying Zionist mobs in Brooklyn heralding extremist security minister Ben Gvir. Then historian and author of Informed Comment Juan Cole joins to talk how the Trump effect is impacting the U.S.’ role globally from Gaza to Yemen to Iran and more.  Josh Gondelman, comedian, https://www.joshgondelman.com/ https://x.com/joshgondelman Juan Cole, author, professor and Editor in Chief of Informed Comment https://www.juancole.com/ *** LIVE SHOWS SAN FRANCISCO- May 7th - Francesca and Matt Lieb are coming to Cobb’s Comedy Club San Francisco. Get your tickets here: https://tr.ee/ImZ_W42k_U PASADENA - May 21 - New World Disorder at The Ice House featuring Francesca with Curtis Cook, Subhah Agarwal, Bryan Cook and Matt Lieb. Tickets: https://www.showclix.com/event/New-World-Disorder-05-21-25-7-45-pm LOS ANGELES -- May 30th-The Bitchuation Room will be LIVE in Los Angeles on May 30th at The Elysian Theater. Get tickets here: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/bitchuationroom.  *** Support The Bitchuation Room by becoming a Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to get special perks and listen/watchback privileges of the Wednesday *BONUS BISH* ** Give the Show your feedback, by answering a quick survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=AafO2sMvE7gB&ver=standard ** Tip the show via Venmo:@TBR-LIVE Cash-App:@TBRLIVE Music by Nick Stargu Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod, Instagram: @BitchuationRoom , TikTok: @BitchuationRoom Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices