NEW FREE HELL! Former NFL, @cfl.ca and @notredame.bsky.social player Michael Oriard discusses his book, "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football (@uncpress.bsky.social) Plus, the 'Moment of Truth' and this week's Question from Hell! winner. www.patreon.com/posts/new-fr...

NEW ON PATREON! Inspired by @leninology.bsky.social's "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social), Chuck rants about fascism PLUS a 2005 talk with @earthfirst.bsky.social, @ran.org and The Ruckus Society co-founder Mike Roselle. Join and listen now! www.patreon.com/posts/new-pa...

NEW FREE HELL! An in-depth talk w/@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism" (@versobooks.bsky.social). Here's the interview: thisishell.com/interviews/1... Here's the entire show: thisishell.com/episodes/1872 Support our commercial-free listener supported work at patreon.com/thisishell

This week, even FREE members get to ask their Question from Hell! for Chuck! Join now, FOR FREE! www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...

Start your week w/ 'The 9 Circles of Hell!,' the most hellish recent news you may have missed including the rich don't care about the planet, Israel's disinformation campaign recruits US media, @dhsgov.govmirrors.com racial profiling, privatization is fraud and more! www.patreon.com/posts/new-ni...

This week's Question from Hell! is... ... what would have convinced you to vote with Republicans to end the shutdown without a single thing gained?... Leave your answer below. Winner announced at end of our Wednesday, November 19, show. Our favorite gets TiH! subvertizing stickers!

Sunday Funnies (and not so funny) are up! ICE, deportation, Debs, Felix, Nazis, fascists, fear, Trump, Epstein, Democrats, 6-7 and exploding whales. Join now to keep us free and get daily bonus content! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

In today's Saturday Monring Post, Chuck engages in what he hopes will become commonly known as 'prefigurative programming,' and a more democratic This is Hell! Why wait? Let's create the future of radio/streaming/podcasting now! Join and share your wisdom with us! www.patreon.com/posts/saturd...

NEW FREE HELL! Ray D. Madoff on "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep... Keep thisishell.com free, and the show commercial-free and 100% listener-supported by joining and get daily bonus content now!

The week... IN HELL! TUESDAY: @leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social) WEDNESDAY: Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social) www.patreon.com/posts/week-i...

NEW FREE HELL!! @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). PLUS, small town old time news, this week's 'Hangover Cure,' 'Question from Hell!,' 'Rotten History.' Join to support our work. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

NEW PATREON EP! Chuck engages in participatory programming, which is good. We also share a 2006 talk with @futureofmusic.bsky.social's Peter Dicola on corporate consolidation in radio, which is bad. www.patreon.com/posts/new-pa... Join for bonus daily content and keep thisishell.com free!

THIS WEEK! TUESDAY: @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...

Sunday Funnies are up! This week, JD Vance is the new Dick Cheney, Dad joke backs @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @nypost.com hates him, Monty Python Standard Time, Trump's losing it, brand reality, ICE crimes, and a sign of our times. Join and get bonus content! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Today's post from your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host. We need to reclaim and retake our holidays from capitalism. www.patreon.com/posts/saturd... Join now and get bonus content while keeping thisishell.com free and the show completely listener supported.

Wrap up the week every Friday with 'The 9 Circles of Hell!' the most hellish news you may have missed, including some you won't see in the US. This week it's Antisemitism, Gaza, BBC, Venezuela, DEI, ICE, CBP, lies, SNAP and Marx! Join now to get bonus content! www.patreon.com/posts/nine-c...

Check out what past guest Joe Stiglitz is up to. www.bigissue.com/opinion/bill...

NEW Patreon: Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga" (@plutopress.bsky.social) Philip Kadish on "Great White Hoax" (@thenewpress.bsky.social) Brent Z. Kaup/Kelly F. Austin on "Pathogens of Finance" (@ucpress.bsky.social) Hamid Dabashi on "After Savagery" (@haymarketbooks.org) www.patreon.com/posts/new-bo...

NEW FREE POST-ELECTION HELL! Sasha Davis on “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail” (@uminnpress.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/new-el... Help us keep our thisishell.com archive free. Join us on Patreon and get weekly bonus content.

The Question from Hell! is... What would you do for a $50,000 signing bonus? Leave your answer below. We will announce our favorite at the end of our Wednesday, November 5, show. Winner gets This is Hell! subvertising stickers.

Sunday Funnies... and not so funny... posted! This week, Trump, theocracy, Christ, theft, Nazis, guns, ICE, liberals, poverty, surveillance, fascism and healthcare. www.patreon.com/posts/sunday... Join to keep completely listener supported thiishell.com free, and get daily bonus content.

NEW post from your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host. Western civilization's and philosophy's record when it comes to genocide ain't great. Maybe there's a reason for that. Join, keep thisishell.com free, and get daily bonus content before we're banned by NSPM-7 www.patreon.com/posts/saturd...

NEW 9 Circles of Hell! Trump, Venezuela, Maduro, "drug boats," UK armed Sudan genocide, UN finds acts of Israel's genocide, Bibi secretly funded Hamas, Obama library real estate scam, and Charlie Kirk critic jailed for free speech. Join before NSPM-7 shuts us down! www.patreon.com/posts/nine-c...

NEW FREE HELL! Hamid Dabashi discussed "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (@haymarketbooks.org). Pad your NSPM-7 file and get daily bonus by supporting our work today! www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

THIS MONTH! 'Extractive Capitalism' @versobooks.bsky.social), @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, 'Africonomics' (@thenewpassion.bsky.social) Bronwen Everill, 'The Cost of the Cloud' (@nybg.bsky.social) Ashley Dawson, 'Enshittification' (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) Cory Doctorow. www.patreon.com/posts/new-bo...

Brent Kaup and Kelly Austin, authors of, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (@ucpress.bsky.social). If you like, consider becoming a paying member on Patreon to get daily bonus content. Join us before it becomes a crime to do so. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

The Question from Hell! is... "Why won't the establishment media ever utter the word 'neoliberalism'?" Leave your answer below. Our favorite wins This is Hell! subvertising stickers. We will announce our favorite at the end of our Wednesday, October 29, show.

Sunday Funnies go live at sunrise (Chicago time) every Sunday. This week, why does ICE bring back memories of Tiananmen? Plus fascists, liberals, guns, capitalism and genocide. Join and get bonus content before NSPM-7 shuts us down! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

NEW Saturday column. Every @foxnews-mun-1.bsky.social and @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social fake news accusation is not only a hoax, but a confession of their own wrongdoing. Support our free speech before NSPM-7 makes it a crime! Join today! www.patreon.com/posts/saturd...

NEW 9 Circles of Hell! Tren de Aragua and 'drug boat' hoaxes, ICE recruits criminals, Hegseth loses military, Israel steals Gazans' organs (and tortures them), Georgia prison crisis, Amazon to replace a 500K workers, Pope sees AI as threat. www.patreon.com/posts/nine-c... Join for bonus content!

NEW Hell! Chuck's Antifa Halloween costume triggers his OCD. Plus, our 2005 talk with @andrewgumbel.bsky.social on "Steal This Vote" and 'the Rotten History of US Democracy' from @thenation.com's old Nation Books. Join now before NSPM-7 makes it a crime!! www.patreon.com/posts/new-bo...

NEW FREE HELL! Our guest is @philipkadish.bsky.social, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social). Support our work -- and get daily bonus content -- before we're labelled criminals under Trump's NSPM-7. www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep...

NEW FREE HELL! No membership required. @stewarthome.bsky.social on "Fascist Yoga" (@plutopress.bsky.social). Here's the show: www.patreon.com/posts/new-ep... Support us and get free daily content by becoming a member. Buy directly from Pluto NOT Amazon! www.plutobooks.com/product/fasc...

This week in Hell! TUESDAY: Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists, and the New Order in Wellness" (@plutopress.bsky.social). WEDNESDAY: Philip Kadish, author of, "The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

The Question from Hell! is... 'What would it take for you to actually believe that there is peace in the Middle East?' Leave answer below. Our favorite will be announced at the end of the Wednesday, October 22nd show. Winner gets five This is Hell! subvertising stickers.

'Sunday Funnies' are up! This week, @cbsnews.com's Bari Weiss, @democrats.org's Kamala Harris, Columbus the terrorist, ICE, Mars, Marx, SiliconArtists, GDP and MAGA. Join now! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday... Keep thisishell.com free and completely listener supported PLUS get daily bonus content

NEW special 'No Kings' column. To go or not to go, that's the question. Whether to witness history and be part of it or stay in your community to protect neighbors who can't take the risk of protesting or keep yourself safe from law enforcement violence. Join now! www.patreon.com/posts/saturd...

NEW 9 Circles of Hell!: Gaza Genocide, IDF torture, abuse and threats to gas Australians, ICE arrests US citizens, antiChrist obsessed Peter Thiel's nukes, MAGA's weird Christianity, the fight against data centers, and Trump extorts Argentina. Join for access now! www.patreon.com/posts/nine-c...

NEW HELL on Patreon! Who knew the market would not reward us for 30 years of 'Manufacturing Dissent'? Also, a February 2003 talk on the leaked and eventually defeated USA PATRIOT Act II with @publicintegrity.bsky.social's Chuck Lewis. Keep us free! Join today! www.patreon.com/posts/new-pa...

No show today but there will be Office Hours at Cary's Lounge beginning at 5:30. Drop by, get a free book and a Kennedy Prints card just for asking!

From past This is Hell! guest @paisleycurrah.com

Cory Doctorow returns to discuss, "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (@versobooks.bsky.social). If you like, please share. If you love, please consider becoming a paying member at patreon.com/thisishell and get bonus content! thisishell.com/episodes/1864

TUESDAY'S NEW FREE LIVE HELL! Cory Doctorow returns to discuss his new book, "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (@versobooks.bsky.social). www.patreon.com/posts/this-w... 10AM CDT and podcast shortly after at thisishell.com

The Question from Hell! is... 'Whose knock at the door would scare you the most?' Leave your answer below. We'll announce our favorite at the end of the Tuesday, October 14th, show. Winner gets This is Hell! subvertising stickers!

Sunday Funnies... and not so funny, goes live every week at sunrise local time in #Chicago. This week, @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy Jesse Watters' crisis actor is working overtime to that time KISS took over Cadillac, Michigan. Join to get daily bonus content! www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...

A special secret antifa message to our 216 free members. Dammit, we shouldn't have mentioned it was an AntiFascist message. We also probably should have blurred the image of the Antifascism flag! Don't tell ICE about Wednesday's meeting at 333 W. 35th... DAMMIT! www.patreon.com/posts/free-m...

NEW Saturday Morning Post from Your Bitter Blind Broke Gap-Toothed Host. Rumors of #MAGA's demise abound but its death has been exaggerated before Besides, it's not like presidents are ever held accountable for their crimes. Join to get bonus content every day! www.patreon.com/posts/saturd...

Who wants to watch the Cubs game Saturday at Cary's Lounge, 2251 West Devon? First pitch is 7:08PM.

Trump 'betray's MAGA again and they will just keep supporting him. www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...