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Holiday shopping? Check out the #BestoftheLeft @bookshop.org "shelf" of curated books for the curious and politically minded people in your life! Links for this & more holiday gift ideas that keep on giving and support our independent show at the same time at www.bestoftheleft.com/holiday

You should check out @unftr.com's On the Record every week for an excellent summary of the news, but we especially appreciate the kind shout-out from Max this week, mentioning our latest #BestoftheLeft episode #1757: "Life is But a Game (that you can now bet on)" www.bestoftheleft.com/1757

NEW SOLVED! Ep. #29 - “'Don’t Be Cringe': Is Gen Z’s Humor a Political Warning Sign?,” in which the team discusses generational humor, why Gen Z might need a little #cringe, the social side effects of Mamdani's campaign, #appstinence, what comes after social media, & more! youtu.be/Pz7XTLVpNxc

NEW SOLVED! BEFORE YOUTUBE: Check out "Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" (May '24) for an enraging discussion about "personalized" pricing, our deeply flawed economic system, companies increasingly demanding access and control after we buy their products, & more. youtu.be/LxUuDGWy0yk

Maybe ditch the #BlackFriday shopping and learn about the BIG WHITE LIE of supremacy instead? Our brand new episode of SOLVED! premieres today at 4:30pm ET! youtu.be/6vZsZPI6OdQ (And for gifts that keep on giving, check out our #BestoftheLeft gift memberships & more: www.bestoftheleft.com/support)

Did you know that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was, from the very beginning, the language of propaganda? YOU DIDN'T???? Better watch this NEW ep. of SOLVED! 😀 (And if you did know, cool! Enjoy feeling better than everyone else today!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHd...

NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism. ▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY

NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism. ▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY

NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Check out Ep. #27 - “Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality” where we discuss how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that have helped bring us to the brink of fascism. youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY

There's A LOT going on...The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming. #BestoftheLeft #1751: "Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1751#BestoftheLeft#1751💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1750: "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1750#BestoftheLeft#1750🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the long history of messing with Latin America 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1749: "Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1749#BestoftheLeft#1749🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the willingness to sound the alarm 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support . . . #podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1748: "Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, & the Fight Over What America Means" 🎧 Any podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1748#BestoftheLeft#1748🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how the Left embraces the contradictions of the US 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1747: "Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1747#BestoftheLeft#1747🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how you CANNOT purchase your happiness with the misery of others 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1746: "What an actual attack on free speech looks like" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1746#BestoftheLeft#1746🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On 'Working the Refs' 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support . . . #podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1745: "Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1745#BestoftheLeft#1745🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the pattern of capitalism's social costs 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1744: "Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly" 🎧 Your podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1744#BestoftheLeft#1744🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Explaining that influencers are just infomercial hosts 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1743: "Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1743#BestoftheLeft#1743🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what Trump's lightning attack on America could mean for the future 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #politics

NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Ep. #26 - “Billionaires’ Existential Crises are Threatening Your Existence,” in which the team discusses the extreme fear of death that grips tech titans and the super-rich and how it's ruining everything, and MUCH more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vX...

Check out SOLVED! #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more. ▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es

NEW SOLVED! OUT NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more. ▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es

#BestoftheLeft #1742: "Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1742#BestoftheLeft#1742🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On authoritarianism in practice 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #uspolitics #scotus #supremecourt

NEW SOLVED! PREMIERING NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more. ▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es

Support indie bookstores and indie media at the same time, while saying 🖕 to Amazon! Check out our curated books on our #BestoftheLeft Bookshop Shop: bookshop.org/shop/left #antiprimeday

#BestoftheLeft #1741: "Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, & Nepal" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1741#BestoftheLeft#1741🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On free speech and framing 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support . . . #podcast #progressive #politics #France #Nepal #UK

Our Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming. #BestoftheLeft #1740: "Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1717#BestoftheLeft#1740💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1739: "The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1739#BestoftheLeft#1739🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the new cancel culture and bloodlust 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1738: "Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1738#BestoftheLeft#1738🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On Israel as the new Sparta 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1737: "State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before " 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1737#BestoftheLeft#1737🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what our history can tell us about our present political conflict 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast

#BestoftheLeft #1736: "Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1736#BestoftheLeft#1736🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the murder of Charlie Kirk 💙bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #democrats

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

This moment is a test. Donald Trump wants us to blink first and hand him over power. We have too much to save to give in. Protecting the American people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts.

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

“Don’t be fat, bullying is ok again, buy my book”

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#BestoftheLeft #1735: "Trump's Making Friends of Enemies & Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign & Domestic Wars)" (Aired: 9-6-25) 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1735#BestoftheLeft#1735🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On encroaching fascism & the Boston Massacre 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1734: "Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1734#BestoftheLeft#1734🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the strength of diversity that comes through in art 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #leftist #uspolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1733: "The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1733#BestoftheLeft#1733🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why regulations are written in blood 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more. ▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E 💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1732: "It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, & the Project 2025 Agenda)" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1732#BestoftheLeft#1732🎙 On the need to demand serious arguments about serious issues 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more. ▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E 💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1731: "Raw Power, the Presidency, the Courts, and Democracy in the Balance" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1731#BestoftheLeft#1731🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how fascists run interference 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more. ▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E 💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

History teaches us that the way to stand up to a dictator is to fight back against him, not capitulate to him. Surrendering to tyranny invites more of it. This moment we're in should not be met with a "moderate" response. Luckily, some Democrats starting to understand this.

NEW! SOLVED! #18 - "How to Live Under Fascism" in which the team discusses the strange banality (for most) of life under fascism, "rituals of conformity," fascism's impact on the psyche, advice for living under authoritarianism, & more. ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KREp4HjaVk#18

#BestoftheLeft #1730: "The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1730#BestoftheLeft#1730🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why humanity is better than we seem and how we can save ourselves 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

Catch up with #BestoftheLeft #1729: "Monthly-ish Mix™: Layers of Authoritarian Control and the Rising Resistance" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.com/1729 💙 Support: www.bestoftheleft.com/support

NEW! SOLVED! #18 - "How to Live Under Fascism" in which the team discusses the strange banality (for most) of life under fascism, "rituals of conformity," fascism's impact on the psyche, advice for living under authoritarianism, & more. ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KREp4HjaVk#18