Pod Damn America

We talk to civil rights attorney Keegan Stephan about the Mahmoud Khalil case and what it portends for the U.S. Palestine solidarity movement. But first, Cuck Schumer caves to the MAGA budget and Anders digs up some interesting stories about his...imaginary friends. Subscribe to our bonus feed for full episode catalog at Patreon.com/Poddamnamerica Vanquished Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VanquishedPodcast

Labor Studies Professor and author of We Are The Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big joins us to talk about labor organizing! ERIC BLANC EWOC: www.workerorganizing.org Become a salt: bit.ly/saltnow Support federal workers: go.savepublicservices.com My new book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are-the-union/paper (Listeners can get a 50% discount by putting in the code UNION50) My substack: www.laborpolitics.com MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica

Andrew Cuomo has announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City and Anders Lee is mad as hell about it. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Maxelle Talena from Dysphoria joins us to discuss the top shortage and whether political economy can be applied to people not wanting to fuck each other. All wealth is created by the bottom class, etc. MAXELLE TALENA @MaxelleTalena on twitter @Maxelle_Talena on IG https://www.maxelletalena.com/ DYSPHORIA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dysphoria/id1588672792 MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica PAID PROTEST 3/7: bit.ly/PAIDPROTESTMAR

Inspired by our guest this week (Chill Goblin)'s excellent video on the man who is currently lying about having invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, we decided to try to figure out who invented Mountain Dew: Baja Blast, and in the process, learned some DISTURBING things. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Video essayist Chill Goblin joins us to talk JFK, Epstein, Clinton, pizza gate, and more! CHILL GOBLIN https://www.youtube.com/c/ChillGoblin https://www.patreon.com/ChillGoblin @Chill_Goblin MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica PAID PROTEST 3/7 bit.ly/PAIDPROTESTMAR

Anders reads from Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction to answer the pervasive question: is fascism when government? But first, is it illegal to jack off in Mississippi? Jake investigates. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

We discuss Trump's BORDER CZAR, Tom Homan, and the various AI programs that the surveillance inudstrial complex is contracting out to the government to determine your THREAT LEVEL. MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica YOUTUBE youtube.com/poddamnamerica

The anarchist vegan rationalist trans cult that (accidentally?) won the cultural appropriation murder game. FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

Alex Gendler joins us to talk about his new piece in The Point on Luigi, tech guys, futurism, etc. Also it is yet again a podcast that we record before the Super Bowl for some reason ALEX GENDLER AlexGendler.com https://thepointmag.com/politics/homo-algorithmicus/ MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON + DISCORD patreon.com/poddamnamerica