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The CrumblingThe Crumbling E20 - Libertarianism - P1 - Mercantile? I'm MercanTIRED of ThisSophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of rightlibertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history of socialism, and how that relates to the inception of the word "libertarian," as well as the birth of the word "capitalism." More importantly, they totally don't do the song "AI SCREAM" by Japanese idol group AiScReam. Totally...2025-07-1644 min
Western KabukiPreview: After Dark Ft. Laura JedeedLaura Jedeed is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her bylines include The New Republic, New York Magazine, Politico, and Rolling Stone. She focuses on American conservative and far right movements. Today she joins us to talk about The Daily Wire's content slump.
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2025-07-1321 minWestern KabukiPreview: After Dark Ft. Laura JedeedLaura Jedeed is a freelance journalist based in New York City. Her bylines include The New Republic, New York Magazine, Politico, and Rolling Stone. She focuses on American conservative and far right movements. Today she joins us to talk about The Daily Wire's content slump.
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2025-07-0701 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E19 - Somehow Grim and Still Hopeful - P2 - Interview with Aly WaneSophia and V continue the two part interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go next. The connections between this and the prior interview with David Livingstone Smith are discussed, as well as ideas on dehumanization. The parallels between the oppression of transgender people, immigrants, and Palestinians is discussed at length, and so is how to find solidarity among us all, so that we can all achieve justice.www.patreon...2025-07-0244 min
Yeah Nah Pasaran!Laura Jedeed on The Biggest ParadesThis week we're joined by investigative journalist Laura Jedeed to talk about the biggest military parades and most out-of-control police riots, folks, they were getting out of hand, let me tell you.2025-06-2600 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E18 - Somehow Grim and Still Hopeful - P1 - Interview with Aly WaneSophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all seeing laid out before us right now, in May www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcast www.thecrumbling.beehiiv.com https://immigrantjusticenetwork.org/
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Ana H An...2025-06-1849 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E17 - It's Never the Time of Monsters - David Livingstone Smith InterviewSophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization. They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates to our ongoing epistemic crisis (or, as we like to call it, "our sense of collective reality crumbling"). This is an eye-opening interview about a topic that everyone has heard of, but not enough people...2025-06-0447 min
Attitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude May 30 2025Part 1:We talk with Harvey Kronberg, owner and publisher of the Quorum Report of Texas. We discuss Dan Patrick, who is attempting to re-criminalize the use of cannabis in opposition to the popular sentiment. In addition, we discuss the posting on the Ten Commandments in classrooms, but the refusal of passing ethics legislation for the Texan government. We also talk about the upcoming campaign for US Senate. Paxton, Cornyn are on the Republican side as candidates. On the Democratic side, there are several others: Allred, Castro, O'Roure among them. Part 2: We tal...2025-06-0354 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E16 Labor V2 The NCAA - P2 - Sometimes Nil and Sometimes NILSophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then. The connection between this kind of exploitation and past exploitations is shown clearly for the audience, and everyone is left wondering how we fix something so monumentally broken.Support the showwww...2025-05-2129 minAttitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude May 15 2025Part 1:We talk with Laura Jedeed.Laura Jedeed is a freelance journalist based in New York City whose work has appeared in places likePolitico,Rolling Stone, andThe New Republic. You can find her newsletter,BANNED IN YOUR STATE, on Substack.Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a JobHegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump"a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/why-pete-hegseth-still-has-a-job/Trump has been dismissing experienced and senior armed service officers who are not...2025-05-1557 minAttitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude May 12 2025This is a panel discussion. Our guests discuss important issues of the day.Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is the author of four books, including A Peoples History of Poverty and, most recently, ,Politics for Social Workers: A Practical Guide to Effecting ChangeSusan Milligan is a political writer and former White House and congressional correspondent for the Boston ,Globe,U.S. News and World Report, and the New York Daily News.Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. He...2025-05-1256 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E15 - Labor V2 The NCAA - P1 - Ball is Life and God is MoneyFinally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off of them, while denying them any chance at making money from their work. Also, two announcements: Tragically, Andrew has left the podcast, and so Davin and Sophia must search for a new third. In this episode, they try out a new cohost, V...2025-05-0734 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E14 - Solidarity Will Save Us All - P2 - Labor Round TableReturning for Part 2 of their deep dive into labor history. with a (mostly) serious panel discussion, Sophia and Andrew explore where we stand today, the historical impact of labor movements, and how they can help us build a future rooted in trust, authenticity, and solidarity. Join the conversation on the past, present, and power of collective action.Featuring Kim Kelly ( Author, Journalist )https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913Steve Mooser ( Labor History), Treasurer of the Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health https://connecticosh.org/ Vice President of the Greater New Haven Lab...2025-04-2346 minAttitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude April 21 2025This is a panel discussion. The panelists are:Laura Jedeed, journalist who chronicles the right-wing movement.Lincoln Mitchell, a professor of Political Science at Columbia University.Stephen Pimpare, Professor at the Vermont School of Law.We discuss various topics that are in the headlines, and some that should be.-Cuts to programs--Head Start--Medicaid--NPR--courts across the country-The Systemic destruction of US institutions--universities--media outlets--law firms--museums--cultural institutions--foundationsThis full scale assault on US i...2025-04-2156 minAttitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude April 11 2025Part 1:We talk with Attorney Joe Jaworski to talk Texas politics, JoeJaworski, grandson of Leon a third generation Texan and a former council member, mayor pro tem and mayor of Galveston, Texas, owns The Jaworski Law FirmWe discuss the chaos caused by Trump's tariff actions, and how this has affected Texas. The business community is cautious about criticizing the actions, but still worried about the effects. Texas is the largest single state to export, mostly energy in the form of refined oil and related products.We learn that Ken Paxton, the Atty General, is running...2025-04-1155 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E13 - Solidarity Will Save Us All - P1 - Kim Kelly InterviewT he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately.
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Blue City BluesThe Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate BacklashIn recent years San Francisco, widely regarded as America’s most progressive city, has experienced a far-reaching anti-progressive backlash. In 2022, voters recalled three progressive school board members and progressive DA Chesa Boudin. Then moderates took control of the city’s Board of Supervisors. Last year they won a majority on the city’s Democratic Party central committee, and in November San Francisco elected a new moderate mayor and decisively re-elected the centrist tough-on-crime DA who replaced Boudin. In a detailed, deeply reported piece in The New Republic titled “The Shadowy Millions Behind San Francisco’s ‘Moderate” Politics,” left-leaning jour...2025-04-0436 min
Laid Off and LookingMegyn Kelly Owns Her Bias. Is The Right Winning Media?Are we watching journalism evolve or just unravel? Jenna and Dom are taking a closer look.
Megyn Kelly’s launching a podcast network and calling out the “old rules” of journalism.
So what exactly are the ‘new rules’?
Then, a Media Matters report uncovers how the right is dominating online media and slipping into sports, comedy, and pop culture.
And journalist Laura Jedeed joins the pod to unpack the tech elite’s quiet power grab and why clinging to “objectivity” might be holding journalism back.
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Media Matters report on right-wing me...2025-04-0359 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E12 - Climate Change P5 - A Climate of FearThe co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of grants and other funding from the federal government that would aid research and infrastructure investments to help dull the effects of climate change on vulnerable people.
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Ana H A...2025-03-2641 minAttitude with Arnie ArnesenArnie Arnesen Attitude March 14 2025Part 1:We talk with Matt Angle, Principal of Angle Strategies and Director of the Texas Democratic Trust. He is a representative of the Lone Star Project.We discuss Texas politics, specifically elections in the big counties in Texas, Harris Co (Houston area), and Tarrant County (Dallas area). We discuss the importance of county elections, and the current push by the Republicans to displace the current mayor of Mansfield, TX. We discuss the role of County judges, which is more administrative than in other states, and powerful because of the size of Texas counties. We talk about the...2025-03-1455 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E11- Climate Change P4 - Cato is My AsBESTos Friend EverSophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry https://www.instagram.com/annamlaughs. They all continue on the climate change journey, this time discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of the Koch brothers, and another person), and we're Fox News contributors. Those men have their work put into the context about faith in scientific institutions falling among Republicans.Support the Show www.patreon.com/thecrumblingpodcastFallow al...2025-03-1246 minThe CrumblingFirst 1000! thank you!Thank you Guys for pushing us to reach our first 1000 downloads , we hope you keep listening!
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2025-03-1201 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E10 Climate Change P3 - A Tale of Bunnies and BastardsThe co-hosts continue their series on climate change, this time discussing both the mechanics of damaged caused by climate change and the escalation of disinformation in the 1970's and 1980's. Perry Como comes up, but nothing about climate change is a magic moment. Sophia loses her mind thinking about the reproductive habits of the eastern cottontail. The group has launched a site on beehiiv where you can check out all of our show notes, informational graphics, articles we'll be writing, and more. Click on our links for more!
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Liz J...2025-02-2638 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E9-Climate Change Arc P2 - At Least 1965 Was Worse The co-hosts talk about how the 1960's had such bad air quality that parts of 1965 were compared to the days after 9/11 in New York. They also learned that that year was just awful in general, and may rival 2020 and 2025 for sheer audacity in being a bad and uncertain time to live. The recurring villain makes a return trip because how could the American Petroleum Institute leave anything good and decent alone? The co-hosts learn what the PSAC is and that it sounds dirty.
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Kristen Br...2025-02-1251 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E8- Climate Change P1 - The Committee on Blowing Smoke Up Someone's Butt The hosts open the discussion on climate change. They talk about how the potentials for climate change were discovered in the 1800's, and how it was identified to be happening in the early 1900's. They go on to discuss how disinformation started very quickly, funded by the petroleum industry. The AI co-host finally reveals his secret identity: Davin DuBois. That shouldn't mean anything to you, as he's just a guy, but he's a cool guy and a smart guy, and we love him, so we hope the audience appreciates the reveal, and getting to know him better.
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The ChatterboxBehind the News: The Billionaires Killing California w/ Yasha Levine Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Behind the News: The Billionaires Killing California w/ Yasha LevinePub date: 2025-01-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLaura Jedeed, author of an article for the New Republic, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it. Yasha Levine, co-director of a new documentary, Pistachio Wars, talks about billionaire couple and self-styled philanthropists the Resnicks and their involvement in the California water crisis.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers th...2025-01-2953 min
Jacobin RadioBehind the News: The Billionaires Killing California w/ Yasha LevineLaura Jedeed, author of an article for the New Republic, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it. Yasha Levine, co-director of a new documentary, Pistachio Wars, talks about billionaire couple and self-styled philanthropists the Resnicks and their involvement in the California water crisis.
Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html2025-01-2253 min
KPFA - Behind the NewsTech bros’ plans for SF, the Resnicks and water in CaliforniaLaura Jedeed, author of this article, talks about San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it • Yasha Levine, co-director of Pistachio Wars, on the Resnicks and water in California
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2025-01-1659 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E7 Kash Rules Everything Around Me p2 - Yer a Wizard Kash, ft Laura Jedeed The co-hosts chat with journalist Laura Jedeed about the story of Kash Patel, how he got where he is, and more importantly, what he intends to do with power if confirmed. They read one of his childrens' books, which is perhaps one of the worst things ever committed to paper. The glowing poo is revealed. https://www.patreon.com/TheCrumblingpodcast https://www.bannedinyourstate.com
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Liz Jaike...2025-01-0146 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling EP5 Interview with Taylor Lorenz The co-hosts chat it up with Taylor Lorenz, in an interview that spends a lot of time talking about another interview: the one that she did with Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the account Libs of Tiktok, who used her platform to build massive harassment campaigns against queer people and their medical providers. They talk about how GamerGate laid the foundations for the current "Groomer Panic," and Taylor gives some sage and sobering advice for dealing with malicious people. They also talk about which Christmas movie characters could use plastic surgery.
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Jo...2024-12-181h 04The CrumblingGamerGate Part 4: Taking My Dawgs to the Groomer Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate set the stage for a lot of modern events, including the Groomer Panic, where people blamed the existence of queer youth on queer adults. The group talks about how this was spread largely by people like Chaya Raichik, who used her Twitter page, Libs of Tiktok, to spread mass panic across the conservative media ecosystem, and thereby people all over the world that share the ideology.
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Jacobin RadioBehind the News: Israel and the Axis of Resistance w/ Mouin RabbaniLaura Jedeed, author of a recent feature article for Lux, discusses the right’s war on North Idaho College. Mouin Rabbani talks about what’s driving Israel’s multiple wars, and the Axis of Resistance.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-11-0653 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling EP3 GamerGate Part 3: Some Jerk With a One Letter Name Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality, this time through how PizzaGate spawned QAnon. The group gives a light intro to the conspiracy theory, and how it spread through MLM mom's and a weird story about furniture. Andrew gets Q-pilled and becomes a crab rangooner. Javier is replaced with a potentially sentient AI. The group talks about the scariest and funniest consequences of the 2024 nightmare election. Some overarching themes are introduced.
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2024-10-3159 minThe CrumblingGamerGate part 2, Cern of a Vich Sophia continues the story of how GamerGate gamed our collective understanding of reality. Sophia resents that Mike Cernovich is a main character of anything, but the episode has a lot of content about him and his unambiguously pro-violence blog. The cohosts chat about crystals that stop 5G poisoning or something. Anonymous co-host goes by Javier for the episode. They still don't have any sponsorships related to sweets. https://youtu.be/ULI6UcHWvSQ
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Emilia Bolin Ra...2024-10-2356 minThe CrumblingThe Crumbling E1 - Intro, and Gamergate-P1 Sophia and Andrew introduce themselves to the audience, and the anonymous co-host decides not to, and to go by Julian for the episode. Sophia starts to tell the story of GamerGate and why it has everything to do with how we have no collective sense of reality anymore. Andrew explains that he's a cat guy, and insists on a sponsorship deal. Julian talks about how he has a sword. The cohosts discuss when and where to use air horns
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Laura JedeedThe Leopards Are At It AgainI like Matt Taibbi. I don’t like everything he’s done, I definitely do not like what he’s become, but I respect him. I hate to use the g-word—it’s gauche and pretentious and there can really only be one—but the fact remains: there just aren’t many of us left. Football season is over. Gonzo—more like gone-zo, am I right?Taibbi had that thing, he had that voice, he was iconoclastic and delightful to read. It’s comparatively easy to write an article about a Republican national convention or right-wing musical theater that reads...2023-04-1424 min
Laura JedeedOn Protest Trolls and Finding OutIt’s unclear exactly how this altercation started. The girl says my friend started hitting on her. My friend insists he was just asking her a question. It wouldn’t be the first misunderstanding to happen here at Victoria’s (Secrets? Sharky’s? I can’t remember names or faces but my knowledge of Fayetteville strip clubs remains encyclopedic). It’s about 1:30 AM, we are all very drunk, today was payday, and we’re having a great time wasting money on b******t because when you’re in the Army you mostly have food and shelter covered and also your life sucks...2023-04-0314 min
JENerational ChangeVETERANS PANEL: Revisiting The Iraq Invasion 20 Years LaterWe'll be speaking with Iraq War Whistleblower Special Agent Colleen Rowley, Col. Greg Daddis and Iraq War Veteran & journalist Laura Jedeed as we look back on invasion of Iraq 20 years later. But first, we'll be speaking with Andy Madtes of Teamsters Local 769 who is running to be the next Democratic Party Committee Chair of Broward County.
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Laura JedeedRoger Stone Makes a Decent MartiniThe official location for this party landed in our inboxes just a couple hours ago and we weren’t supposed to tell anyone but of course somebody told someone and so the sidewalk outside this restaurant in Little Italy contains about 10 intrepid protesters enduring the New York City rain to shout at the people going in. They have identical black signs that say something, I can’t remember what, I am busy not making eye contact and navigating towards the entrance.“Go downstairs and celebrate a cop-killer!” one of them yells as I descend the steps. “You’re supportin...2023-03-1213 min
Laura JedeedDown and Out in East PalestineHere are a few things that happened in the last couple weeks* Biden has made no public statement on the recent East Palestine derailment. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg waited days to acknowledge the disaster * Donald Trump went to East Palestine and handed out burgers and water * Libs are now making fun of Trump for giving out burgers and waterIt’s like they WANT the Republicans to win the 2024 electionI understand why Biden travelled to Ukraine instead of East Palestine last week. I get it. That trip wa...2023-02-2408 min
Laura JedeedNot Trump, Nor Desantis, But A Secret Third ThingBecause I never shut up about politics people sometimes ask me questions about what I think will happen next, possibly because they’re curious and possibly because they’d like to talk about literally anything but whatever socially-inappropriate stream-of-conscious contrarian inside-baseball rant I’ve screaming about in public. One of the questions I get most often these days is the same question anyone even peripherally interested in right-wing politics gets: DeSantis or Trump?The answer might surprise you: neither.The follow-up question is obvious and the answer is that I have no idea and ne...2023-02-0512 min
Laura Jedeed"They're Trying to George Floyd Me"Today’s New York Times headlines include a nightmarish Russian airstrike on Ukraine and riots in Brazil, affirmative action on life support and how a romance author faked her death online. Biden gave an MLK speech today which they tell me was lackluster: I did not watch and do not care.WaPo has linked George Santos to Russian oligarchs — because don’t all roads lead back to Russian oligarchs? — and also provides “9 facts about MLK that may surprise you.” Today is Martin Luther King day, after all, where we celebrate the life of a man likely murdered by the FBI w...2023-01-1717 min
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksEmbedding in a right wing “Constitutional Defense” training camp w/ Laura JedeedOn today’s episode, Laura Jedeed joins us to discuss her experience embedding with a right-wing “Constitutional Defense” and handgun training camp in Texas, about which she recently wrote an article for The New Republic. Laura Jedeed is an investigative and features journalist based in New York City. She often writes about housing justice, military interventionism, and the American far right.
Check out the article discussed in today’s episode: https://newrepublic.com/article/169563/patriot-academy-right-wing-constitutional-defense-training-camp
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Refuse FascismThe GOP: Fascist, Nothing Semi- About ItOn the occasion of our 125th episode, RefuseFascism.org editorial board members Coco Das and Paul Street share recollections on the mission and analysis of the organization. Follow Coco Das on Twitter @Coco_Das. Read the statement Coco co-authored which was published in The New York Times as a full page advertisement days after the 2020 electoral defeat of Donald Trump here. Get Paul’s latest book, This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals and the Trumping of America.
Plus: Sam Goldman shares commentary on what some are calling Joe Biden’s “1860 speech” and his recent use of the phrase “semi-fasci...2022-09-0448 min
Laura JedeedThe Airing of Grievances and DelightsIt is 6:15 PM on Tuesday, February 15th and I have tried 3 different ideas for this Substack and all of them have fallen apart. I now have exactly 5 hours and 4544 minutes to figure it out.So I’m offloading the responsibility onto other people.And so, out of options and time and ideas, I present the airing of grievanc–Ok fine also the airing of delights, at the end.The Airing of Grievances1. Writer’s BlockWhy not start here.I could blame this writer’s block on...2022-02-1615 min
Laura JedeedThis Is Not About Joe RoganJoe Rogan is under attack, stabbed in the back by a thousand knives he painstakingly forged over 12 years of shooting the s**t with some of the worst people on the planet. There’s the compilation video of Rogan saying the n-word repeatedly. The video of Rogan laughing with guest Joey Diaz about coercing woman comics into sex. Comparing a Black neighborhood to Planet of the Apes. The clip where Rogan’s guest talks about how Black people have a gene that predisposes them to violence because "If you think about like white European Asian ancestors as we kind of m...2022-02-0912 min
Laura JedeedProject Veritas: The Musical!Sometimes, I lovingly craft the articles you find here. I think about a subject, research it, write an outline, turn it into prose, then fiddle with the wording until it’s just right. I record the audio in as many takes as needed, lovingly put the work together, and then hit “publish” with confidence and a feeling of accomplishmentThis is not one of those times.On Saturday, January 29th, I attended the Project Veritas Book Release Party in Miami Beach, Florida. James O’Keefe promised an “unforgettable performance” and I have to say, the man delivere...2022-02-0106 min
Laura JedeedWe All Have Long COVID NowThis is a content warning. There is content. You have been warned.There are two wide white hallways connected by three shorter wide white hallways to form two squares. There is a nurse’s station in the center of one square that creates a panopticon for the rooms that surround it. My room is 4B. There are windows with blinds behind glass. Stand far enough away from them and you can see the city outside, enormous and forever. The closer you get, the more the blinds obscure your vision until if you want to see the...2022-01-2512 min
Laura JedeedStewart Rhodes is in Prison. Why is Enrique Tarrio Free?On Friday, January 14th, Proud Boy Chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio Jr. left the DC Central Detention facility with a plastic garbage bag full of his belongings, an armful of paperwork and, as the Daily Mail tastefully pointed out, an unzipped fly.Tarrio’s sentence ended 25 days early for reasons no one seems able to explain. The court denied his November petition for compassionate release. And yet here he is, presumably enjoying his life as a free proud western Chauvinist who refuses to apologize for creating the modern world, without a single January 6th criminal charge.Tarrio...2022-01-1811 min
Laura JedeedSave the Males 3: Online Feminism is TerriblePart 1Part 2Why aren’t I talking about race, class, etc?–Have you ever tried living as a man in our society and found yourself emotionally dysfunctional, unable to live up to an impossible standard of masculinity, and struggling to even articulate why you feel so broken?Well guess what? You can fix all of that with Online Feminism, the fantastic new product that lets you leave masculinity behind! With Online Feminism, you’ll be able to check your privilege, throw it into a dumpster, and light it on f...2022-01-0413 min
Laura JedeedSave the Males Part 2: Devil's BargainPrefer to read it? You can do that hereRead part 1 hereKaufman’s amazing article is hereThe Weekly is a substack about whatever I want. Sometimes it’s like this. Sometimes it isn’t. Subscribe and get one every Tuesday.This Substack is free, but Patreon and donations make it possible. Feel free to donate/join if you would like to! (Please do not feel pressured to do this if it would even slightly make your life more difficult. I’m just happy you are here) 2021-12-2911 min
The Marianne Williamson PodcastTHE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: An Effort to More Deeply UnderstandRouting the Taliban from Afghanistan was a successful exercise in brute force. But keeping them out - and helping the Afghans keep them out - was something that required skills not currently in America’s tool box. If anything, we proved the ultimate futility of endless violence. We succeeded at waging war, but we failed miserably at providing the conditions of a sustainable post-war state of peace. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: An Effort to More Deeply Understand, is compiled from interviews that provide meaningful reflections on the war. The individual interviews can be found here: https://mariannewilliamson.subst...2021-09-2833 min
No Easy AnswersEpisode 39 - Afghanistan Meant Nothing with Laura JedeedIn this episode, Jules speaks with Laura Jedeed about her latest article, "Afghanistan Meant Nothing".
You can unlock the video for this episode at our Patreon.
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Afghanistan Meant Nothing by Laura Jedeed
Laura Jedeed WAPO Article
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Vanessa Guillen, soldier at Fort Hood
The Nayirah Testimony
Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder
Outro Music: Derek Clegg, "Hanging By A String"
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The History Voyager PodcastAfghanistan War Veteran and Journalist Laura JedeedLaura Jadeed was in Intelligence in the Afghanistan War. She is now a journalist who covers the far right, housing inequality and other issues.
If you want to get in touch with me
thehistoryvoyager@gmail.com
@theskullpodcast2021-08-271h 26
The Bob Cesca ShowInevitability[Explicit Language] The withdrawal from Afghanistan and the inevitability of the Taliban's return. Fox News and "showing strength." Joe Biden's enormous steel balls. The American people and the Afghan people want this. The press and its outdated script. Loitering for politics. Laura Jedeed's thread. The RNC deleted the web page about Trump ending endless wars. Trump and Pompeo telegraphed all of this to the Taliban. Trump's freeing of 5,000 Taliban prisoners and Mullah Ghani. The Taliban and Camp David. The spike in reckless driving and unruly airplane passengers is real. Safe home, Fez Whatley from the Ron & Fez Show. With...2021-08-171h 14
Living With LibertyEp. 80 An Afghanistan War Veteran's PerspectiveIn this episode, I cover an Afghanistan War Veteran's perspective on U.S. involvement there, as well as another Ryan's Rant.
Dreher/Jedeed articles: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/kabul-afghanistan-end-of-road-laura-jedeed-pat-buchanan/
The blame game begins in DC: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/567966-taliban-seize-power-as-washington-debates-what-went-wrong
Biden can't be bothered to respond to Afghan withdrawl crisis: https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-admin-faces-bipartisan-criticism-over-collapse-of-afghanistan_3949755.html
Biden says its not his fault: https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-responds-to-afghanistan-collapse-this-did-unfold-more-quickly-than-we-anticipated_3950696.html
2021-08-1725 min
No Easy AnswersEpisode 28 - Decoding the Alt-Right with Laura JedeedThe fabulous Laura Jedeed joins Jules for a conversation about the alt-right. In an effort to decode the alt-right, and examine their psychological workings, Jules and Laura flex their empathy muscles (but not too much) - because these fuckers aren't deserving of too much sympathy beyond that required of gaining an understanding of their motives and how they operate.
About our guest…
Laura Jedeed's website, Twitter
*Laura should be coming back to Twitter around 4/20/21
Laura Jedeed's YouTube channel
"How I Got Here" by La...2021-04-121h 24
Yeah Nah Pasaran!Laura Jedeed on Protests, Police & PressThis week we spoke to Laura Jedeed, a freelance journalist in the United States, about her experiences covering far-Right protests.2020-11-2600 min