Unf*cking The Republic

Today we have a special episode for you—a Manny & 99 takeover. While Max is away the minions will play! We run through some listener feedback and share some behind the scenes details of our recording process. Enjoy! Unf*cker ResourcesSwing LeftIndivisible Manny + 99's Podcast RecommendationsNews BeatHip-Hop Can Save AmericaLouder Than A RiotCode SwitchStuff You Should KnowLast Podcast on the LeftAmerican ScandalHow Did This Get MadeComedy Bang BangU Talkin’ U2 2 Me (Plus REM + Talking Heads)Song Exploder -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max, typically and distributed by 99. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The showwwwww noteessss. In this experiment, we break out show notes into their own unf*cking minisode so we can spend more time answering y'all Unf*ckers. Listen to the main episode accompaniment here. Resources from Unf*ckers Bobby McD on Instagram and Facebook Jacobin: Can We Criticize Foucault? Josh Mitchell: The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by this guy and distributed ova' there. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Because inflation is on everyone’s minds and the media can’t seem to get this right, we dive even deeper into the inflation narrative to dispel both propaganda and myth. Surprise, surprise, the real story of inflation is wrapped up in corporate America’s rather impressive year. We’ll talk about how increasing rents, pain at the pump and higher consumer prices went back into the pockets of large corporations and Wall Street and explain why it only happened in America. Chapters Intro: 00:00:25 Prologue: 00:01:23 Chapter 1: 00:07:21 Chapter 2: 00:15:30 Chapter 3: 00:19:20 Chapter 4: 00:27:37 Closing Thoughts: 00:39:52 Show Notes: 00:41:48 Book Love: 00:52:44 Outro: 00:53:43 UNFTR Beer Partnership McFleshman's Brewing Co. Become a UNFTR Insane Level Member Resources Reuters: Japan's inflation hovers around 2-year high, BOJ flags price pressure Pew Research: As national eviction ban expires, a look at who rents and who owns in the U.S. ProPublica: When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord Rent.com: A monthly look at average rent price trends across the United States. EIA: Short-Term Energy Outlook Barron's: How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia. Statista: Daily demand for crude oil worldwide from 2006 to 2020, with a forecast until 2026 CGT: Top 100 Consumer Goods Companies of 2021 Tyson: Annual SEC Report ‘21 Nestlé: Nestlé reports nine-month sales for 2021, raises full-year organic sales growth guidance Procter & Gamble: Annual SEC Report ‘21 Book Love Binyamin Appelbaum: The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Pod Love Pitchfork Economics: Debunking deficit myths (with Stephanie Kelton) UNFTR Episode Resources Peak Oil. Fox in the Outhouse: Invasion, Immigration & Inflation. Labor Unions. Modern Monetary Theory. F*ck Milton Friedman. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by this guy and distributed ova' there. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re hitting the pause button in honor of our 50th full episode. Quite the milestone and we wanted to celebrate together. And in true UNFTR fashion, we celebrate by running through 2021 from a congressional perspective. What did we actually accomplish and why? How? We top it off with some ways for Unf*ckers to get involved and make change in their communities so that come end of ’22 we can (hopefully) tell a different story. Chapters Intro: 00:00:38 Chapter 1: 00:01:47 Chapter 2: 00:08:46 Chapter 3: 00:15:54 Chapter 4: 00:23:10 Chapter 5: 00:28:16 Show Notes: 00:31:17 Coffee Updates: 00:33:49 Max's Musings: 00:38:23 Emails + Shout Outs: 00:41:33 Outro: 01:09:00 Bonus FIFA Breakdown: 01:12:19 Resources The New York Times: Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections Congressional Progressive Caucus: Congressional Progressive Caucus Calls for Senate Passage of Build Back Better by State of the Union The Washington Post: Evaluating the success of the Great Society Miller Center: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Domestic Affairs Public Leadership Institute: Model Bills The Intercept: Anti-Trans Bills Are Moving Through State Legislatures With Remarkable Speed Tom McGovern on Instagram Pod Love Best of the Left: Episode 1468, Winning battles against the forces of neoliberalism around the world The David McWilliams Podcast: Breaking down the metaverse & why we we need to disconnect Canadaland: Commons UNFTR Episode Resources A (Mostly) Vegan World. Libertarians Are Exhausting. Holiday Quickie. The Itsfuckedforsure Bill. U.S. Progressivism from 1912 to 2021. Californication. Manufacturing Dissent (Rupert Murdoch). F*ck Milton Friedman. The Beatification Of Ronald Reagan. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by trouble in the Suez and distributed by suckin' on a chili dog. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oil is everywhere. It’s all around us. It’s in everything and it makes the world go around. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that renewable energy will comprise 27% of the world’s energy production by 2050, all things being equal. Pretty great, right? Not really. Based upon population and economic growth trends, the EIA also predicts that the use of liquid fuels will continue to increase over the same period. So as much as we think we might be getting ahead, we’re really not. But there’s another side of oil that most people rarely think about and that’s its value as a currency. Yes, a currency. We tie in good ol’ Milton Friedman again to discuss how trading this ubiquitous fuel went from commodity to casino, making it more difficult to break this habit than one might imagine.  Chapters Intro: 00:01:31 Prologue: 00:04:35 Chapter 1: 00:05:19 Chapter 2: 00:13:53 Oil Rundown: 00:19:54 Skit: 00:24:39 Chapter 3: 00:28:27 Chapter 4: 00:41:23 Chapter 5: 00:50:58 Show Notes: 00:57:22 Book Love: 00:57:44 Pod Love: 00:59:46 Emails + Shout Outs: 01:18:14 Outro: 01:29:32 Resources World Population Review: Richest African Countries 2022 Trading Economics: Corruption Rank by Country | Africa Worldometer: Equatorial Guinea Oil Democracy Now!: African Dictatorships and Double Standards U.S. Energy Information Administration: International Energy Outlook 2021 Book Love Peter Maass: Crude World- Required reading for anyone interested in the dark underbelly of the oil and gas trade.  Leif Wenar: Blood Oil- Not my favorite. A little overreaching in the historical and socio-political connections it tries to make but contains some solid anecdotal insights to support a broader thesis of corruption.  Morgan Downey: Oil 101- A fundamental book to understand the product itself and the markets that move it.  Dan Dicker: Oil’s Endless Bid- Pedestrian but informative account of what it’s like to be a commodities trader and what went wrong with the business.  Leah McGrath Goodman: The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market- If you’re really into this topic, this is the book for you. I came to it late as it came out in 2011 but it’s an excellent, deep narrative dive into a world that very few people know or understand. Bernard Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets- We’ve talked about Harcourt a lot. The first few sections of the book are very inaccessible but provide an invaluable history of the impact of Enlightenment thinking on the new class of free market promoters.  Emily Lambert: The Futures- Possibly one of my favorite business books of all time. A great read told in fun and engaging anecdotes that helps anyone access and understand the bizarre world of the markets.  Pod Love American Scandal: Enron UNFTR Episode Resources F*ck Milton Friedman. The Climate Industrial Complex. The Global Order of Money. A (Mostly) Vegan World. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Daniel Plainview and distributed by wildcatters. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s alliterative Quickie is brought to you by the letter “i.” In typical Quickie fashion we delve into three distinct but related topics: Invasion, Inflation & Immigration, as seen through the lens of Fox News. We’ll tie in some prior themes and set the table for a couple of future episodes in this barn burner of a Quickie featuring the worst people on television. For those listening and not just reading, after a heartfelt message toward the end of the episode Max has a rather ugly and uncharacteristic meltdown in show notes over Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. 99 and Manny pick up the pieces to bring it home and send Max for a nap. All this and more on another rousing edition of Outagamie’s number one podcast, Unf*cking the Republic.  Chapters Intro: 00:00:47 Segment 1: 00:01:45 Segment 2: 00:07:20 Segment 3: 00:18:12 Segment 4: 00:27:29 Show Notes: 00:31:56 Emails + Shout Outs: 00:32:51 Outro: 01:01:19 Resources ThoughtCo: History and Principles of the United Nations The Intercept: As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden of Fueling a Crisis New York Times: U.S. Economy Grew 1.7% in 4th Quarter, Capping a Strong Year Pew Research Center: Amid the pandemic, a rising share of older U.S. adults are now retired Trading Economics: United States Labor Force Participation Rate Matt Stoller: Corporate Profits Drive 60% of Inflation Increases UNFTR Episode Resources F*ck Milton Friedman. Labor Unions. Libertarians are Exhausting (Part One). Libertarians are Exhausting (Part Two). -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by nunya and distributed by bidness. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two of “Libertarians are Exhausting” we’re still talking about freedom and liberty. Economic freedom, personal liberty and the next important concept we need to unpack: The Rule of Law. Plus we'll take a look at the masters of the libertarian universe (aka the brains, money, economists and lawyers) behind the nouveau American style fiscal-anarcho-capitalist-minarchist-neoliberal-objectivist cauldron of bullshit we know as modern day libertarianism.  Chapters Intro: 00:00:07 Prologue: 00:03:02 Part One Recap: 00:04:44 Segment 1: 00:05:58 Segment 2: 00:12:05 Segment 3: 00:15:43 Segment 4: 00:22:01 Segment 5: 00:25:47 Segment 6: 00:29:40 Segment 7: 00:36:20 Show Notes: 00:45:45 Book Love: 00:47:04 Pod Love: 00:47:20 Emails + Shout Outs: 00:48:24 Outro: 01:06:57 Resources The New Republic: How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality Forbes: This Secretive Billionaire Is One Of America’s Biggest Conservative Donors SourceWatch: American Legislative Exchange Council Brookings: ALEC’s Influence over Lawmaking in State Legislatures Libertarian Party: Platform Book Love David Boaz: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right H. L. Mencken: Notes on Democracy Thomas Paine: Rights of Man Bernard E. Harcourt: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History Pod Love Straight White American Jesus News Beat: MLK's Last Month: Memphis Pitchfork Economics Economic Update with Rick Wolff Best of the Left The David Pakman Show UNFTR Episode Resources The American Propaganda Machine. Ayn Rand Was a Dick. Dear Rebekkkah Mercer. F*ck Milton Friedman. Manufacturing Dissent. A (Mostly) Vegan World. Libertarians are Exhausting (Part One). -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Bear’s Son and distributed by bluebirds. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Libertarians can be exhausting. Because libertarianism has so many attractive features and strong statements about “freedom” and “liberty” they have a lot of perceived political high ground when arguing with them. The problem with libertarianism - as it is with Marxism, capitalism and so many other philosophies - is that it’s entirely theoretical. Trying to construct an actual framework around the concepts they hold dear is like arguing over how Santa Claus fits down the chimney. That said, there’s a lot to like about some of the principles of libertarianism and its acolytes are growing in numbers every day. So let’s have at it. In part one of this two-part series we’ll unpack the origins of the philosophy, its dark beginnings and define several strains of the discipline.  Chapters Intro: 00:00:38 Prologue: 00:02:45 Segment 1: 00:04:41 Segment 2: 00:13:37 Segment 3: 00:23:53 Segment 4: 00:30:27 Show Notes: 00:40:36 Book Love: 00:41:17 Pod Love: 00:41:34 Emails + Shoutouts: 00:45:13 Outro: 01:06:46 Resources Libertarian Party: Platform National Archives: Brown v. Board of Education ThoughtCo: The Declaration of Independence ThoughtCo: America's Most Influential Founding Fathers ThoughtCo: Laissez-faire Versus Government Intervention ThoughtCo: What Is Free Trade? ThoughtCo: Economics ThoughtCo: Atlas Shrugged Quotes ThoughtCo: History and Principles of the United Nations Too Good To Go Book Love David Boaz: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right H. L. Mencken: Notes on Democracy Thomas Paine: Rights of Man Pod Love Straight White American Jesus Pitchfork Economics: How the Radical Right Weaponized Ideology (with Nancy MacLean) UNFTR Episode Resources The Prosperity Doctrine. Ayn Rand Was a Dick. Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part I): Financial Fuckery and Tax Evasion. Corporate (Ir)Responsibility (Part II): Deregulation and Catastrophe. F*ck Milton Friedman. Procedural F*ckery. Building the Climate Industrial Complex. U.S. Progressivism from 1912 to 2021. Capitasociafascilibdemarxism. -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Neo and distributed by liberalism. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As many of you know, we’ve had this on the pod-docket for months. It’s finally time to unf*ck our food system and talk about veganism. We decided not to pursue this topic from a moral or ethical perspective, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a story about justice. 40% of the world’s working population is in some way employed in the food and agriculture sector. A third of all food is wasted. 50% of the earth’s land has been cleared for livestock and farming. Overfishing and chemical runoff is destroying marine life. In our pursuit to feed the world, we’re killing the planet and ourselves in the process. Today’s episode examines the cycle of madness that is the industrial agriculture and food supply chain. So while there are no tips on how to “go vegan,” the conclusion (spoiler) is that we all better figure out how. Chapters Intro: 00:00:39 Prologue: 00:03:08 Segment 1: 00:05:22 Segment 2: 00:13:26 Segment 3: 00:18:29 Segment 4: 00:31:48 Segment 5: 00:37:06 Segment 6: 00:45:30 Show Notes: 00:52:24 Resources: 00:52:45 Book Love: 00:53:17 Pod Love: 00:53:49 Emails + Shoutouts: 01:03:20 Outro: 01:13:30 Resources On the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus UN: Food Systems Summit UN: Food Systems Statement of Action EPA: Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences: Plant-Based Diet Research Rodale Institute: Farming Systems Trial FAIRR: Protein Producer Index The EAT: Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health Book Love Nicoletta Batini: The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal Pod Love Eat the Rich: Episodes 104 and 105 on the United Fruit Company Outrage & Optimism: Setting the Table for a Food Revolution Our Hen House Total Liberation Podcast The ChickPeeps  Brown Vegan Podcast Doc Love Forks Over Knives Game Changers Vegan Influencers @VegaNzinga @BigBoxVegan @IyeLovesLife @NotUrTypicalVegan @TheKoreanVegan @TraderJoesGoesVegan @QueerBrownVegan @Vegan_Abolitionniste @JewishVeg @BlackForager -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by tofurkey and distributed by honey bees. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our little Unf*cking team wishes the Unf*cking community a safe and healthy holiday season. We'll be back on January 8th with a new drop but here's a Holiday Quickie to tide you over. In this Quickie we examine three positive things that have occurred since Biden took office. (We had to look pretty hard for these, but wanted to end on a positive note.) Then we offer thanks and praise to Joe Manchin for taking a giant shit on the poor. What a guy. Happy, Merry and all that crap. See you in the New Year! Chapters Intro: 00:00:07 Skit: 00:01:27 Segment 1: 00:04:36 Segment 2: 00:10:59 Segment 3: 00:13:16 Segment 4: 00:16:27 Show Notes: 00:26:28 Emails + Shoutouts: 00:32:21 Outro: 1:02:20 Resources The Intercept: The Mysterious Case Of Joe Biden And The Future Of Drone Wars FiveThirtyEight: How Biden Is Reshaping The Courts The New York Times: Extreme Poverty Has Been Sharply Cut. What Has Changed? Common Dreams: Displaying 'Inhuman Disdain' for Working Families, Manchin Said Child Tax Credit Would Be Used for Drugs Time: ​​The House Just Passed Biden’s Build Back Better Bill. Here’s What’s In It Brookings: What does the Build Back Better Framework mean for BIPOC communities? -- If you like #UNFTR, please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com. Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee at shop.unftr.com. Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic on Substack at unftr.substack.com to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week. Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP. Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list. Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility. Unf*cking the Republic is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by delta and distributed by omicron. Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, ‘Unf*cking the Republic.’Support the show: https://www.unftr.com/membershipsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.