people have a tendency to think that assigned reading in school is to teach children to like reading, when really your school assigns the great gatsby because it’s got a lot of prominent and obvious symbolism. Shakespeare is for learning to push through confusion and pick up context

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One thing I can say to promo this episode that I think really goes for the Workers' Lit pod in general: We deal with some horrific stuff here and go into some dark topics, and yet we work hard to make it a pleasant listening experience. We want to make you think and learn, but NOT to rob your joy.

elon musk going all in on "the odyssey being woke due to casting black people and a trans man in roles" is one of the most embarrassing things i've seen in a minute. conservatives genuinely think they took over the cultural zeitgeist, and that their ideology of hate became mainstream

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One thing I can say to promo this episode that I think really goes for the Workers' Lit pod in general: We deal with some horrific stuff here and go into some dark topics, and yet we work hard to make it a pleasant listening experience. We want to make you think and learn, but NOT to rob your joy.

Go listen to Workers' Lit!! Like, in general, but also listen to this episode (featuring meeee) in 2 days!

Does nobody see anything the least bit odd about people going to WAR on APPLE devices over the BEAUTY of the character of HELEN?

Coming Monday, July 20 We are joined by @revolutionaryth0t.bsky.social to talk about the great Angela Davis' 1981 proletarian feminist classic, "Women, Race, and Class." Learn about a heroic woman, confront dark truths of American history, and listen to us beg Angela Davis to come on the podcast.

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Hear ye, hear ye! Time for our monthly patron video ep! Topics include: A self-described "loser ass white girl" propositions all of us (but mostly Jen), animals that bully each other, how to turn your conservative coworker into a comrade, toxic old rich gay men, disgusting erotica, and more!

There’s exactly 1 joke in the entire film of The Odyssey but to its credit the theater cracked up at it

We also explain what we’d like to change about history (Karl Marx moves to Texas? Germany gets split into a third part? Jacob becomes General Secretary after Lenin?) and our dream pod guests

Hear ye, hear ye! Time for our monthly patron video ep! Topics include: A self-described "loser ass white girl" propositions all of us (but mostly Jen), animals that bully each other, how to turn your conservative coworker into a comrade, toxic old rich gay men, disgusting erotica, and more!

People are mad at Trump but what if he’s just in his flop era

Bro is just making up new types of corruption off the dome💀

Free tip for any musicians: this audio clip could go pretty hard if remixed and put through an insane sound filter in a queer heavy metal track

A lot of people are mad at this but keep in mind this is his reasoning

BREAKING: President Trump commits to quintuple 18 wheeler-caused fatalities by January of 2027.

Shocked and humbled by these surprisingly intelligent responses from Gen Z Trump voters

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Smoking that shit that makes me wonder if John Calvin was cooking with the “total depravity” business

I thought GA Political ads were bad, but they’re even worse in Tennessee. Commercial after commercial of literally only footage of Trump looking “epic,” AI liberals with blue hair crying, and then the candidate’s name at the very, very end Call me a lefty elitist, but it’s slop for illiterate hogs.

“Low-T” is only a meaningful insult if you mean “low The workers’ liT podcasT”

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

ME: Okay—back on track... How do you feel about the modern takes on the Odyssey? HOMER: Show me Grindr again. Show me again now.

A lot of people are mad at this but keep in mind this is his reasoning

1. When we call hormone interventions for cis people “gender affirming care” we should be certain we use that term descriptively rather than pejoratively. Hormome treatments are not a punchline, despite any irony involved. 2. This is being forced on people, therefore not exactly “care.”

They wanted me to make chips but I had other things on my mind

@rareandradiant.bsky.social used this loophole to secure billions for the podcast

Why did you transition, right answers only? We decided the podcast name “The Socialist Shelf” made people think we primarily covered theory/only dyed in the wool lefties would enjoy the show. Wait, this is about podcasts, right?

The old “Your friends hate yooouuu 🤭” mental disruption technique, a classic.

Mr. Diaz-Canel sir you have the Workers’ Lit Podcast’s permission to turn Miami into a crater

I (Jacob) like the Atlanta Falcons and yet being a Star Wars fan is even more humiliating

MANHUNT

That escalation? You guessed it. Dropping more bombs. The Iranians will never see it coming

They’re going to play our entire episode on The Magician’s Nephew (while the press sits silently) as evidence

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

Everything is gender except gender which is woke

Fun fact: Mike Johnson shares his DC Residence with Steve Berger, my former pastor and his “spiritual advisor.” This is a recent ad for Berger’s podcast. Berger is also instrumental in the “Judeo-Christian Zionist Conference,” believes war with Iran is Bible prophecy, and covered up…

Killing this merger is a moral and epistemic imperative

The oracle. The seer. The visionary.

AI take podcasts

Fun fact: Mike Johnson shares his DC Residence with Steve Berger, my former pastor and his “spiritual advisor.” This is a recent ad for Berger’s podcast. Berger is also instrumental in the “Judeo-Christian Zionist Conference,” believes war with Iran is Bible prophecy, and covered up…

Woke up in a cold sweat realizing there are people who still don’t know about Zakalwe

With this budget they can *MAYBE* repress the Workers’ Lit Podcast. It’ll be a tough blow to the American left but they’ll be broke after that