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Both liberals and conservatives have their heads up their asses on homelessness and housing. They let the market run the table no matter the fact that there are half a million unhoused people on any given night in the U.S. Associate professor at the University of Washington Gregg Colburn joins to talk about his new book “Homelessness is a Housing Problem” which re-affirms the real cause of homelessness and offers concrete solutions. Comedian Katrina Davis joins to talk about the first Amazon union (!) in the country and the incredible organizing efforts of ALU at a warehouse in Staten Island. Also, nearly eight hours of missing Trump call logs from January 6th points to only one thing: burner phones, Mr. White. Finally a Will Smith-inspired slap bracket game called “March Slapness” on who deserves to get slapped the most. And of course a Bonus Bish all about the freaky anti-choice extremist who was found to be storing 5 fetuses in her freezer. Coooooool. Get it by becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.FeaturingKatrina Davis, Comedian https://twitter.com/katrinasivadGregg Colburn, Associate Professor University of Washington https://twitter.com/ColburnGreggRead his book/research, “Homelessness is a Housing Problem" here: https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/homelessness-is-a-housing-problem/The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A week of double standards: SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on the one hand grilled to shreds by seething Republicans, and the wife of 30-year conservative veteran Clarence Thomas outed as a Stop the Steal rally organizer. You couldn’t have scripted it better. Comedian Gianmarco Soresi joins to talk about the KBJ hearings and the latest revelations about Ginni Thomas. Will Clarence have the decency to resign or be impeached? Plus if prisons actually worked, why, in the most carceral country on Earth do we still have crime in America? Huh. Author and journalist Victoria Law joins to discuss her book “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration and why prison reform is often expansion in disguise. Finally, PROPAGANDA FAIL out of North Korea and a Patreon-only Bonus Bish about Applebee’s bosses relishing in higher gas prices. Why? Become a patron to find out: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.Featuring: Victoria Law, https://twitter.com/LVikkiml Gianmarco Soresi, https://twitter.com/GianmarcoSoresiThe Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take it from Muslim Americans: America’s counter-terrorism has done little more than criminalize innocent people. And now those same bogus tactics are being used to root out far right extremists, like the news that the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor was an FBI sting operation. Is this the best way? Leena Al-Arian, director of Coalition for Civil Freedoms joins the podcast to explain. Plus, the sweet-taking “liberal redneck” comedian Trae Crowder on America running out of Covid money and abortion rights being trampled in states across the country. Finally, an all con-artists edition of Sext Elect Overthrow with the Tinder Swindler, Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes. It’s way harder than it sounds. As always, join the Patreon for this week’s bonus story: the latest drama between Disney and Desantis over the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida. Nothing a gender non-binary fox can’t solve.The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/franifio and Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gas prices, the Kardashians, and working toward prison abolition from inside City Hall. A special LIVE episode from the Bell House in which Francesca is joined by comedian Matt Lieb and Sam Seder to break down and bitch about the week's shenanigans, including a look at how the right wing is blaming Greta Thunberg for Putin's war on Ukraine, and Kim K on why nobody wants to work! Least of all her. Then the insightful NY Councilmember Tiffany Cabán joined to discuss her time in office, the importance of electoral politics even as radicals, and how to move the needle on changing a carceral and police-based justice system in America. We get into it all in front of a tremendously warm Brooklyn audience. Please support the show by becoming at Patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom. Featuring: Sam Seder, The Majority Report https://twitter.com/SamSederTiffany Cabán, NY Councilmember https://twitter.com/tiffany_cabanMatt Lieb, Comedian https://twitter.com/mattliebThe Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST onYouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Music Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A third week of Russia's assault and threats of nuclear war make us wonder why any given madman should be able to end the world? (And it's always a man.) Francesca is joined by Nomiki Konst and comedian Chloe Hilliard to break down the latest in Ukraine and the insane new dimensions this war is taking. Including an WNBA player being held hostage?! Does Russia think the U.S. cares about female athletes that much? Plus, the State of the Union features Biden throwing the BLM movement under the bus and Texas’ anti-trans pushers have got students protesting in the most beautiful way. Finally a Patreon-only bonus bish on REI retail workers in Manhattan successfully unionizing, after seeing right through the most corporate "woke-washing" campaign imaginable. Get access by joining the Frantifa: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.Featuring: Nomiki Konst, https://twitter.com/NomikiKonstHost of the Nomiki Show, www.youtube.com/c/TheNomikiShow Chloé Hilliard, https://twitter.com/chloe_hilliardComedian and author of Fuck Your Diet, https://www.chloehilliard.com/The Bitchuation Room Streams LIVE every Sunday at 5/8pmEST onYouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE Music Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ukrainian President Zelensky might be a former comedian but Putin is the real clown. Unhinged, erratic and currently trying to do regime change Ukraine, things have gotten very scary for everyday Ukranians, many who have fled the country while others take up arms. Francesca, Wajahat Ali and Andy Kindler break down the various aspects of Russia's war on Ukraine, from Zelensky's heroism to the hypocrisies of the American media and security apparatus to the sad lack of a united international antiwar movement to say nothing of a functional United Nations. Not a lot of jokes abound, but hey, war is hell. Finally in honor of the nomination of Kentaji Brown Jackson, the panel picks their Supreme Court nominees to grow the bench and support her! PLUS a Patreon-only Bonus Bish on Charlie Kirk’s hilarious stumble into defending socialism.Featuring:Andy Kindler, https://twitter.com/AndyKindler: Get Andy’s album “Hence The Humor” Wajahat Ali, https://twitter.com/WajahatAli: Check out Wajahat's new book: Go Back to Where You Came From, And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American. Suggested Articles on Ukraine: A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/a-letter-to-the-western-left-from-kyiv/Join the Franifa and become a Patron today: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroomFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVECheck Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast. Find Francesca On:Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifioYouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifioTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FranifioInsta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ (edited)  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWER AT RAM RANCH!! Francesca and Karinda dig into how lefty Ottawans turned a gay anthem into a brilliant anti-vaxxer trolling technique. There's only so many niceties Canadians will regale you with before they get MAD. Do not underestimate them. Listen to the whole bonus episode by going to www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does Putin really really really really really wanna zigga zig ah? Anatol Lieven, author of Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry, joins Francesca to discuss the probabilities and the calculations of all sides when it comes to war in Ukraine. Weapons manufacturers are happy, while Putin wants to exert influence and get a better bargaining chip against NATO. And Tucker Carlson’s AOC obsession reaches peak thirst and creepdom, while a critical Biden policy sunsets and plunges millions back into poverty. Thanks to the Manchin Sinematic universe! And finally, a no fly list for unruly passengers? Yes please. Which activities should get you banned? BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE: A bonus bish all about the hilarious trolling of Ottawa protesters known as the “Ram Ranch Resistance”. You gotta hear this. Become a patron to listen: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom. Featuring: Karinda Dobbins, https://twitter.com/KarindaDobbins, https://karindadobbins.com/ (Check out Karinda’s NEW album! https://www.blondemedicine.com/bm073-black-blue) Anatol Lieven: https://twitter.com/Lieven_Anatol Read his books: Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry and Climate Change and the Nation StateJoin the Franifa and become a Patron today: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom Follow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPod Get your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.com Thanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra Ornes Music Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeod Support The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biden can regain Americans’ approval if he’d only make an enemy out of the one percent. Does he have it in him? Max Moran of The Revolving Door Project joins to discuss a new study about how both Republicans and Democrats want a crackdown on corporate crime. Plus the Canadian Truckers blockades come to an end … for now. Who was behind the faux working-class movement? And the Trump White House toilets were allegedly perpetually clogged with classified documents. You thought your deuces were incriminating! Finally, another edition of The Cringeys, featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene, Dave Chappelle, and Joe Biden. PLUS: A bonus bish all about the “crack pipe” hysteria and how the right is tanking harm reduction during a time of massive drug overdoses. Get it by becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom Featuring:Dhaya Lakshminarayanan https://dhayacomedy.com/https://twitter.com/DhayaLive Max Moran, The Revolving Door Projecthttps://twitter.com/MaxMoranHi Join the Franifa and become a Patron today: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroomFollow The Bitchuation Room on Twitter @BitchuationPodGet your TBR merch: www.bitchuationroom.comThanks to Paige Oamek, Maximillien Inhoff, Alexandra OrnesMusic Credits: The Cannery by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4485-the-canneryLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSupport The Bitchuation Room on: Venmo: @TBR-LIVE Cash-App: @TBRLIVE  Check Out The Bitchuation Room Podcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/iTunesbitchuationSpotify: http://bit.ly/spotifybitchuation Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stitcherbitchuation Find Francesca On: Twitter: https://twitter.com/franifio YouTube: The Bitchuation Room’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/franifio Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/franifioFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/FranifioInsta: https://www.instagram.com/franifio/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices