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Nov 24, 2025 • 1h 31min
EP. 814: END OF THE ROAD FOR THE GRIFTER?
Is it over for the online influencer? Probably not, but we've got some stuff to say either way!
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://substack.com/@jmylesoftir
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-wa
Nov 22, 2025 • 2h 55min
BEYOND THE RED ZONE: DON'T SHOOT YOUR FINGER GUN IN THE B HOLE!
It's been awhile and the boys are back in town! Let's go!
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 21, 2025 • 1h 8min
EP. 813: BRUCE LEE AND THE ASIAN IN AMERICA ft. JEFF CHANG
Get Jeff's book: https://www.amazon.com/Water-Mirror-Echo.../dp/0358726476
Water Mirror Echo—a title inspired by Bruce Lee’s own way of moving, being and responding to the world—is a page-turning and powerful reminder. At the helm is Jeff Chang, the award-winning author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, whose writing on culture, politics, the arts and music have made him one of the most acclaimed and distinctive voices of our time. In his hands, Bruce Lee’s story brims with authenticity.
Now, based on in-depth interviews with Lee’s closest intimates, thousands of newly available personal documents, and featuring dozens of gorgeous photographs from the family’s archive, Chang achieves the nearly impossible. He reveals the man behind the enduring iconography and stirringly shows Lee’s growing fame ushering in something that’s turned out to be even more enduring: the creation of Asian America.
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Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://substack.com/@jmylesoftir
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-wa
Nov 20, 2025 • 44min
EP. 812: THE LIMITS OF FAMILY ABOLITION ft. EVELINA JOHANSSON WILÉN
Read Evelina's piece on the limits of family Abolition here: https://jacobin.com/.../family-abolition-capitalism...
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 19, 2025 • 2h 5min
EP. 811: LAND OF WOLVES: SICARIO FILM REVIEW ft. RALPH LEONARD
Read Ralph's review here: https://thelastdvd.com/land-of-wolves/
It’s become a joke, a rather well-worn one by now, to say that Donald Trump has been getting ideas about fighting the war on drugs from Denis Villeneuve’s film Sicario. That film, and its vastly inferior sequel, depicted clandestine paramilitary operations that go beyond usual police measures used by the US government agencies against the Mexican drug cartels in the border region. In the real world, the American state has accelerated the para-militarisation of the war against the drug cartels.
Earlier this year, Trump ordered the State Department to declare the Latin American drug cartels as “terrorist organisations.” In August, Trump signed a directive permitting the Pentagon to use military force against those cartels. Mexico is the target most people will have in mind. But it also included Venezuela, Guatemala, and El-Salvador.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
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Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 18, 2025 • 1h 11min
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE PEOPLE EP. 94: FATE AND DESTINY IN DUNE AND THE NORTHMAN
Stefan and Quinn discuss the role of fate and destiny in two recent films, and how they reflect ongoing human concerns going back to Hamlet and Oedipus
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
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Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-
roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 17, 2025 • 1h 2min
EP. 810: WHY ULTRA LEFTISM WON'T SAVE PALESTINE ft. ERIC BLANC
Read Eric's interview here: https://www.laborpolitics.com/.../ultra-leftism-wont-help...
Two years after October 7, public outrage against Israel is widespread, yet the US grassroots movement in solidarity with Palestine is nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be. While Trump’s ceasefire plan might provide relief from Israel’s genocidal onslaught, Gaza has been decimated, and the proposed deal would codify a vastly deteriorated situation for millions of Palestinians.
To discuss how American organizers might more effectively fight to support Palestinians’ rights to freedom and self-determination, I spoke with Bashir Abu-Manneh, who is writing a book provisionally entitled Disposable Palestinians, and Hoda Mitwally, a member of New York City Democratic Socialists of America and LSSA/UAW Local 2320 speaking in a personal capacity.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
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Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@jmylesoftir
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was...
Nov 16, 2025 • 1h 32min
EP. 808: THE LAST DAYS OF POPTIMISM ft. SAM JENNINGS
Read Sam's article here: https://unherd.com/2025/10/the-last-days-of-poptimism/
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 14, 2025 • 55min
EP. 809: WHAT THE LEFT GETS WRONG ABOUT IMMIGRATION ft. DUSTIN GUASTELLA
Read Dustin's piece in Damage Magazine here: https://damagemag.com/.../between-moral-and-political.../
Immigration is the toughest issue for the Left to solve. And the future depends on it.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
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Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Nov 13, 2025 • 10min
POP LIFE EP. 59: THE JOHNSTON GANG MURDERS: THE TRUE STORY BEHIND AT CLOSE RANGE
For paid YouTube subscribers and Patrons we'll be viewing the Academy Award nominated film "At Close Range" the true story of criminal family in Appalachia and the lengths people go to stay out of prison--even to family! At times there can be a glorification of organized crime as a rebellious life--this movie shows the real life underbelly of that "rebellious" reality.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?
Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (speciallyYouTube!)
THANKS Y'ALL
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-mylesRead Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/


