Pod Damn America

In honor of the recently late musician and anarchist Pete Ventantonio aka Jack Terricloth we discuss his band The World/Inferno Friendship Society. TW/IFS, in addition to being a band, could be and often was described as performance art, a community, or even a cult. We are joined by A.M. Gittlitz from The Antifada and later, Ted Leo of punk legend, to discuss their respective eulogies of Pete/Jack, anarchism, Temporary Autonomous Zones, comedy and how it all comes back to punk. A.M. GITTLITZ @spaceprole @the_antifada https://hardcrackers.com/jack_terricloth/ TED LEO @tedleo https://www.tedleo.com/ (his piece is posted on the main page of his website) SOUNDTRACK (IN ORDER) W/IFS - I am sick of people being sick of my shit W/IFS - Zen and the art of fucking up everything in this room Sticks and Stones - Contempt MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON FOR BONUS EPISODES Patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

We discuss Larry Krasner, the people's D.A. of Philadelphia, who just won the primary in his re-election race. For reference we discuss a lot of this through the lense of PBS' new documentary series Philly D.A. Also we get really xenophobic against Italians. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/philly-da/ FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

We are joined by journalist, podcaster and documentarian Abby Martin to discuss this whole thing that's happening in Palestine this week you might have heard about. We also talk about ska music. Honestly I almost called this episode "The Mighty Mighty Palestones" but I couldn't bring myself to because it seemed disrespectful. Just imagine I did. ABBY MARTIN Gazafightsforfreedom.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s&t=1186s @empirefiles @mediarootsnews @abbymartin.org MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/poddamnamerica

We talk about the coolest campaign website of all time and also the mind wracking banality of Elon Musk's SNL episode. If you live in Philly, look out for this guy, he seems dangerous!: https://www.perutoforda.com/meet_a_charles

Greetings my precious ....dammers. This week we take on the most chaotic, the most vile, the most ubiquitous and malevolent of all topics on the internet. The bane of the discourse, the black hole from hell's heart, the god damn albatross around my neck. I'm getting fucking furious just typing about it. I am losing my god damned motherfucking mind. We are joined this week by Jacobin writer and Zero Books author Ben Burgis to talk about his new book, Canceling Comedians While The World Burns. While we may not agree 100 percent with each other, we actually had a rather pleasant debate about cancel culture and whatnot probably because it didn't happen on twitter. Enjoy, yell at us, idk, who cares whatever i'm gonna go play video games. BEN BURGIS @benburgis benburgis.com @deadpundits @GTAA_SHOW https://redemmas.org/titles/34877-canceling-comedians-while-the-world-burns--a-critique-of-the-contemporary-left PDA MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON (BONUS EPS AND DISCORD) patreon.com/poddamnamerica

Happy Cinco de Mayo. This week marks the 10 year anniversary of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden by the coward Barack Hussein Obama. We discuss the event as well as legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's controversial debunking of it, along with the film Zero Dark 30 which portrays the events according to the "official" story. Aye aye aye. FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Amber, Charlie, and Daniel from NYC DSA's Ecosocialist Working Group join us to discuss their campaign for public power, that is, to make the utilities we use publicly instead of privately owned. While this particular fight is happening here in New York, this is likely a stepping stone to a national Green New Deal. GET INVOLVED AND LEARN MORE: Email your reps: publicpowertoday.com Phone bank, Wednesday 4/5 at 6pm: http://bit.ly/poddamnphonebank More info and a buffet of different actions, phonebanks, canvasses, and more: https://ecosocialists.nyc/join-us/ @NYCDSA_ECOSOC MERCH podddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

We're joined by Lance from youtube's The Serfs to discuss canadian/midwestern socialist history, Walter Mondale, reactionary freaks, and a whole lot of online bullshit. THE SERFS @TheSerfsTV on everything weareserfs.com http://youtube.com/theserfstv http://youtube.com/theserftimes http://twitch.tv/theserfstv FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

It's a CLASSIC podcast episode. No guest, no movie, no freakin concept. Just RIFFS and HOT TAKES about the NYC MAYOR's RACE and the freaking PRO ACT. LINKS, K CHACHI?: proact.dsausa.org socialists.nyc to learn how to volunteer for city council members actblue.donate.ACABall for tix to the Paid Protest zoom comedy show STUFF WE TALKED ABOUT: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/22/unions-senate-democrats-pro-act-484280 https://www.workplacefairness.org/blog/2020/10/09/how-unions-can-bridge-the-gap-between-climate-and-labor-movements/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/nyregion/andrew-yang-gays-stonewall.html https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/2021-04-elon-musk-twitter-covid-19-meme-tesla-ceo-16118139.php MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartelcom PATREON FOR BONUS EPS AND DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

Anders tells us about the career of popular race science guy Andrew Sullivan and we discuss his stupid ideas that are unfortunately very popular. I fucking hate science. FULL EPISODE AT Patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica