watching the biggest loser doc after listening to @saucepodcast.bsky.social's new episode and everyone involved with making that show should be in jail

Interestingly enough, we already covered this on my podcast bsky.app/profile/sauc...

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People have totally memory-holed the Roy Moore debacle

Ah, his desperately shifting claims are starting to make sense now. www.wsj.com/politics/trump-...

it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history

We watched SEVERANCE, and we have some thoughts. Specifically about the question: Why does this show feel so resonant right now? Listen and tell us what you think... www.saucepodcast.com/severance/

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

ICYMI - My podcast is back! @mayagurantz.bsky.social and I traced how right wing uproar over "free speech" actually paved the way for our current totalitarian moment.

Speaking of presidents and mental decline, I highly recommend this episode of @saucepodcast.bsky.social, in which we laid out, in detail, the evidence of Donald Trump's substantial brain damage from advancing dementia. www.saucepodcast.com/trumps-demen...

New episode! Right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent while Trump squashes freedom of expression. Maya & Rebecca uncover how this isn't just hypocrisy - their rhetoric actually paved the way for the totalitarian suppression we're experiencing now. www.saucepodcast.com/rip-free-spe...

Why can’t the Democrats get their shit together? Where is the The Resistance (tm)? In our latest episode, we pull apart what the opposition party is doing wrong and, drawing unexpected insight from the Drake-Kendrick feud, determine how they can get it right. www.saucepodcast.com/dems-in-disa...

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel! @mayagurantz and @gynostar are joined by Artist (and longtime listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn.

How are we going to survive this fascist takeover of our gov’t? Denial? Maya and Rebecca kick off new feature BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson show, unpacking what it teaches us about making spectacles out of a very bad man. (Oh wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?)

Voters INSIST that Democrats work with Elon Musk’s Commission on Whether International Jews Started the Los Angeles Fire and Staged the Sandy Hook Massacre to find common sense solutions that will make a difference to them at the kitchen table.

Sobering but a reflection of many convos I've had in the last year: "I used to joke with colleagues that higher education is besieged on two fronts: by fascists on one side and neoliberals on the other. As we look ahead to a second Trump administration, these two threads appear ready to converge."

If Trump were president now, he'd be using the wildfires to extort Gavin Newsom and CA, and everyone on here knows it. As Nicole Hemmer points out on the pod, he has a history of this, and this impulse is deeply rooted on the right. Check out our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1900...

my reaction to new tech like this is just so frequently "why?"

Brett Favre is just interested in sending a picture of the current moment. Google Brett Favre Sends Pictures.

This is the party Elon Musk is endorsing and will have a big streamed interview with their leader next week in X.

Man I hope so but I’m here at #aha25 and the conversations I hear are a lot of collaborators! “Just feed all your articles into the AI and use it to organize your notes.” “Use AI to write some of your work” It’s bleak!

Just as the strong record of the Great Society was eclipsed by Vietnam, Biden’s domestic accomplishments were likewise overshadowed for the left by Gaza.

El más reciente episodio del #podcast “The Sauce”, conducido por @gynostar.bsky.social, permite comprender mucho el problema de la transfobia reciente en los Estados Unidos.

WATCH: “They asked me if I wanted my medication or if I wanted my TODAY show interview to run.” United Health denied his life-saving medication until it was about to become a national story. A cruel, broken for-profit system. 🇺🇸 #MedicareForAll Full: www.democracynow.org/2024/12/20/h...

We're back! @saucepodcast.bsky.social is joined by @guybranum & @gracefreud.bsky.social, who help us break down the Trump campaign's transphobic messaging this past election season. Why was it so effective? Is there any good way to respond to these right wing demonologies?

This thread is a perfect encapsulation of everything fun about @saucepodcast.bsky.social

Well, when put it that way…

Okay, Skeeters. What's your strategy for dealing with relatives who, shall we say, have different politics than you? Do you try enforce a "no politics at family gatherings" rule? Just ignore them? Dump all the gravy in their lap and storm out? It feels like every approach has a down side.

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

On my podcast we talked about how America's politics got so broken - and it definitely didn't start with Donald Trump.

Welp, America chose fascism. But the rejection of liberal democracy didn’t start with DJT; it’s been taking shape for decades. @mayagurantz & @gynostar sort out how things went so horribly wrong, in this election cycle and over the last 40 years. Is our political system broken? What do we do now?

WHY ARE WE BACK HERE? Why did America elect a patently unfit fascist... again??? We found some answers by revisiting our episode on the Trump Cult, how it operates and why it's so effective. Listen & tell us how you're coping with living among so many cultists. www.saucepodcast.com/the-trump-cu...

JD Vance & Tim Walz represent stark contrasts, not just in donut-ordering skills. In our latest ep, Maya & Rebecca compare performances of masculinity embodied by each, how their rhetorics/politics reveal gender assumptions, & why right-wing attacks on Walz fail. www.saucepodcast.com/vance-walz-a...

Trump's deterioration is obvious, but is it normal aging or something more concerning? In our latest episode, Maya & Rebecca dive deep into the medically defined symptoms of dementia and examine how they match up with Trump's speech, language & behavior. www.saucepodcast.com/trumps-demen...

In our latest episode, we dive into JD Vance's seemingly endless self-owns, why couch jokes are funny, what it's like to watch Trump and his campaign melt down in real time, and why it's such an effective strategy to call them out for being so fucking weird. www.saucepodcast.com/maga-meltdown/

at 6:12, CDT on 7/21/24 I proposed Tim Walz as veep on @saucepodcast.bsky.social 's discord. Just saying...

Our latest episode! Maya & Rebecca dive into the real-life procedural drama of Trump's first criminal trial - from the defendant nodding off (and farting himself awake), to the defense team’s dumbest moves, to the electoral implications of 34 felony convictions www.saucepodcast.com/the-trump-ve...

Dune is Rebecca’s favorite novel, but Maya has never read it. We watched Denis Villeneuve’s massively popular adaptation of this legendary sci fi epic to see if we see any of the same things. Does it work as a movie series? As a book adaptation? Both? Neither? www.saucepodcast.com/the-dune-mov...

The brutal crackdowns on campus protests shouldn't be surprising, as College presidents are under increasing political pressure from a sustained right wing attack on higher ed - which we talked about with the brilliant @brownphdgirl.bsky.social in this episode.

Our latest episode! Maya and Rebecca catch up on Trump’s troubles: legal, political and especially financial. How fucked is he? How worried should we be? What’s the most productive way to direct our anxiety between now and November? Listen & tell us your thoughts. www.saucepodcast.com/trump-fucked/