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#13 - How to Make Enemies and Influence People
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2025-07-01
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#1719 The Fascist Playbook: Immigrants, Brown Shirts, and the Backlash
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2025-06-28
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#1718 On the Path to Destruction: Israel Attacks Iran as Support for War on Gaza Drops
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2025-06-25
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SOLVED! #12 - Back to the…1980s? The Power of Nostalgia and Trump’s Reaganitis
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2025-06-24
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#1717 Monthly-Ish Mix: Wealth Concentration, Knowledge Suppression, and Identity Exploitation: The Systems of Control of the Authoritarian Playbook
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2025-06-21
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#1716 The Fight for Workers: Oligarchy and its Bipartisan Enablers
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2025-06-18
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#1612 New Tech and the New Luddite Movement; Inequitable Distribution of Benefits from New Technology Always Sparks Demands from Labor and AI is Rekindling the Old Arguments (Throwback)
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2025-06-13
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#1715 The Weaponization of Antisemitism and Counterproductive Violence
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2025-06-11
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SOLVED! #11 - Culture War Distractions While the Oligarchs Rob You Blind
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2025-06-10
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#1714 Trump's Anti-Knowledge Agenda is Inviting the Next Authoritarian Dark Age
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2025-06-06
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#1597 The rise of fascism around the world driven by economic insecurity (Throwback)
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2025-06-03
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SOLVED! #10 - The Old Guard is Dying
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2025-06-02
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#1713 Yes, GOP Policies Really Are That Bad: Trump's Corruption and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
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2025-05-30
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#1712 Eugenics Redux: A Gilded Age Ideology Brought Back for the Second Gilded Age
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2025-05-27
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SPECIAL MEMBERS EDITION! Myths, Vampires, and Sinners (the movie!) - SPOILERS!
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2025-05-26
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#1355 I Can't Breathe, The Three Words That Define an Era (Throwback)
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2025-05-24
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#1711 How It Started, How It's Going- Assessing the Flooded Zone Full of Shit
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2025-05-21
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SOLVED! #9 - A Pale Blue Dot of Anxiety
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2025-05-19
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#1710 The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell
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2025-05-18
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#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings (Throwback)
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2025-05-14
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