(Pictured above, Westlake in the conflict-free days 20 years ago) Greg shares with us a tale of friendship before we dive into the Seattle Times’ Jon Talton’s tale of woe. It’s a study of contrasts, deconstructed and made palatable for you the listener!
Chuy is back to tell us about some exciting news out of the LA Sheriff’s Department and to give an important Texas update.
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Munya catches us up on the latest trials & tribulations in the world of F1 racing. And Brian asks what’s been going on in Seattle while he was away in sunny Los Angeles… only to discover that Seattle still sucks.
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For more on the Charleena Lyles inquest, check out the reporting from the South Seattle Emerald
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They’re coming for us. The supreme court has taken away your very bodily autonomy, and they won’t stop there. The Fed is engineering a recession to further proletarianize you. It’s a class war, folks, and we know what side we’re on.
Read Jenny Brown’s Without Apology
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The gang is back in their individual bunkers contemplating the burning questions of our day: Is Donald Trump simply too macho? Will blue haired egirls at Columbia declaring that they are bi turn Michael Cera into a Nazi? And what’s Hillary Clinton up to these days?
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The gang is back on the boat to take a deep dive into the Fed Chair’s monetary policy and how we were all turned into foam for the jumbo jet of finance to crush on the runway of life. Part 1 of 2.
For more on neoliberalism and the 1970s economic turn check out the work of David Harvey, Lily Geismer, Kim Phillips-Fein, Tim Barker, and Melinda Cooper
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This week the boys are back in town, and on the boat, and defending our phony baloney jobs. We get serious and talk love, marriage, faith, and most importantly: divorce. Also, Madison (@AetherUnbound) fills us in on the ongoing struggle for LGBTQ rights at SPU.
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Join us and our BFF of the show @MareshkaEvanova to talk about the recent election in the Philippines that has brought back both the son of Ferdinand Marcos and the daughter of Rodrigo Duterte to power, all on the the eve of the 50th anniversary of marshal law.
Recorded on Thursday morning, Brian and Greg go over what we know about the mass shooting in Uvalde, the role of the police, and the fantasies politicians are concocting in response.
For an explanation of why our schools are already flooded with police, see Brian’s article: “A History of Police in School”
Here is a Twitter thread of teachers discussing active shooter drills
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In the first half of our dive into private equity firms and the exciting world of leveraged buyouts, we take a deep dive into Elon Musk’s efforts to buy Twitter. For part two, make sure to join our Patreon (patreon.com/mechanicalfreak).
Listen to our 2021 episode on the meteoric rise of Tesla here
We take a moment to remember PNW native Randy Weaver in connection with the recent shooting in Buffalo and discuss what the Democrats response to white supremacist violence was in the 1990s. Then we take a dive into the politics of gentrification and discuss the “Minneapolis miracle.”
For more on how the Democrats turned popular fear of white supremacist violence into more state executions of mainly poor black men, see Brian’s article “Militia Madness”
Check out this collection of population charts for a selection of Midwest cities here
Read the UM report on gentrification in South Minneapolis here
Also, read a collection of articles on gentrification and the murder of George Floyd here
For more on the construction of the Minneapolis greenway, see Melody Hoffman’s Bike Lanes are White Lanes
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This one is a downer. We’re still rambling on about abortion rights because we can’t help it. For flavor there is also both a Boeing update and a Star trek update. Both involve the inevitability of WWIII.
With the recent leak of a draft decision indicating that the Supreme Court plans to reverse Roe v. Wade later this summer, the guys take a trip down memory lane and trace how the anti-abortion movement evolved from an extreme minority position to an extreme minority position with billions of dollars in funding and the support of both parties. We finish by suggesting things that you can do that are more useful than voting.
You should definitely read Jenny Brown’s argument linking the anti-abortion movement to capitalism’s desire to control population growth from her book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now