Mainstream protests against Trump echo an old idealism, dating back to Bakunin, up through the New Left, and recently Graeber and Sanders. Meanwhile MAGA has appropriated the vanguard-building of Lenin for fascist ends. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-graeber-bannon-anarchism-leninism

It was okay for Mamdani to call Trump a fascist and also accuse him of funding genocide because none of that matters to capital. #mamdani #trump #fascism #antifascism

Trump is making the f-word acceptable. He is destigmatizing the concept of "fascism". This is in line with the criminalization of "antifascism."

Antifascism, Religion, Longevity in Struggle youtu.be/R8pjqxYmXbc

Starting to think of MAHA wellness projects as part of the fascist (and therefore hopeless) yearning for relief from alienation. youtu.be/g7u5zMRH2Vc?...

Remember When Prophecy Fails? Where Leon Festinger et al showed how a UFO cult doubled down on their preaching after their predictions flopped, because... cognitive dissonance? Turns out they made a lot of sh*t up. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/284-when-prophecy-science-fails-thomas-kelly

New episode of Antifascist Dad out this morning w/ David Inczauskis, S.J., the liberation theologian who is helping lead the faith-based protest movement against ICE in Chicago. youtu.be/SKRjcBcDCt0

Talking about Capitalism with (Global North) Kids Using Procedural Generation as a Metaphor. youtu.be/KZ4F6-3N8RY

Antifascist parenting: depression and hope. youtu.be/mwRYk2h5y64

Definitions from Paxton, Griffin, Jason Stanley, Johnson, and Jeanelle Hope & Bill Mullen. Tracing fascism’s roots through capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. The myth of the “exceptional” fascist leader. The liberal tendency to normalize or appease. youtu.be/1fH7iA1ICMY?...

RFK Jr's advisor, Calley Means, has repeatedly fabricated the story of Abraham Flexner and the birth of the modern medical system. Derek looks into his historical revisionism and what it could mean for the MAHA movement. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-does-calley-means-get-anything-right

Full interview with @cybelecanterel.bsky.social! youtu.be/40aEQVrCniU

“Who’s the Joe Rogan of the left?” Meh. Who's the Steve Bannon of the left? youtu.be/rCbrWtPlQQE

Mamdani and Platner and anti-Trump masculinities. Oh, and Scott Galloway. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/283-guys

Antifascist Dad Podcast 6 now live! A Dare Wrapped in a Joke Wrapped in a Void w/ @cybelecanterel.bsky.social! Exploring the swirling online subcultures where memes, irony, nihilism, and fragmented identity collide with rising fascism.

Pt 2 of my conversation with Ben Case. To punch or not punch Richard Spencer. "Little" vs "big" violence. Fight training as metaphor for political life (from a retired pro Muay Thai guy). TFW you have to act without knowing the outcome. antifascist-dad-podcast.castos.com/episodes/unl...

On Swift and parasocial chiaroscuro. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-taylor-swift-goes-maga

Galloway's liberal-centrist spiritual consolations: youtu.be/QkgfQDJw_6w

An emerging soup kitchen network in Portland. Fighting ICE with muscle and phones. Mamdani drawing 90K volunteers behind socialist proposals. The birds are still nesting in old Kropotkin's beard. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/282-mutual-aid-against-ice

FULL REVIEW: Scott Galloway's Notes on Being a Man. A new book about how young men are abused by capitalism (Galloway doesn't *quite* say it like this), but how things could get better for them, especially sex, if they got better at capitalism. youtu.be/IhmxZla67T4

Galloway Book Tour Gem: Service in the IDF --> good mental health outcomes for youth. Scott Galloway is promoting his new book: Notes on Being a Man. I'll have full review up tomorrow on Antifascist Dad Podcast and the YouTube channel.

Boosting If We Burn by Vincent Bevins as folks discuss protest strategy and architecture and wonder how all the spontaneity and euphoria can gain traction. youtu.be/cPfsz2cWSV0

Part 2 of my interview with antifascist historian-in-exile Mark Bray: antifascist-dad-podcast.castos.com/episodes/unl...

Freire said, “People teach each other, mediated by the world.” We can walk through the online forest with kids together. The danger is capitalism. The internet concentrates it. Love and good attachment dissipates it. youtu.be/Ap6h4XuVuRg

The CIA funnelled cash and inspo to Evangelicals in Latin America starting in the 1960s to undermine Liberation Theology. The Vatican low-key approved. But now, Pope Leo is leaning hard on Liberation Theology to counter Trumpism. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-us-vs-liberation-theology

From Catholic clergy ICE protestors to letters from Rome slamming capitalism, there's definitely something going on globally with Liberation Theology: youtu.be/7AD-50K0xq4

Take 2 (apologies): an Antifascist Reading List, with a solid litmus test: youtu.be/THOc0jb66O0

Ben Case, author of Street Rebellion, joins me to talk about the many meanings of courage in an age of rising fascism. On all pod players, and YouTube too. antifascist-dad-podcast.castos.com/episodes/4-c...

Platner: a black box for the contemplation of masculinity, recklessness, red flags, trauma, accountability, Marks of Cain, internet vs. public identities, and the status of trust in the spectacle. youtu.be/DO8_07GVV2M

Via Ben Case, my guest this week on Antifascist Dad Podcast: "Uncomfortable as it may be, we can no longer afford the convenient untruth that real-world resistance to tyranny can escalate solely through peaceable demonstrations." convergencemag.com/articles/mag...

Big difference between Compliant Parenting and Support Parenting. I've done both. One pathway leads away from fascism. youtu.be/lJUv9KBRZl8

Social media has been filled with clips of Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of NYC. He's been proving quite the foil for Andrew Cuomo's attempt to upset Zohran Mamdani. But who is this man, exactly? @julianwalker.bsky.social and I discuss. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

Cults mimic socialism, and that should tell us something. youtu.be/S08JM0I0KDM

For me guys like Thiel are walking proof that revolution is inevitable. That's part of why he really loves using Rene Girard's Antichrist concept to represent anyone who would challenge his narcissism. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/280-peter-thiel-is-definitely-not-the-antichrist

Mark Bray is my guest today on Antifascist Dad Podcast and he said something very clarifying (for me, I'm slow) about how the NYT can carry water for Israel (to take one example) while also running solid journalism. youtu.be/g3INwfJgSjw

Mark Bray is my guest today on Antifascist Dad Podcast and he said something very clarifying (for me, I'm slow) about how the NYT can carry water for Israel (to take one example) while also running solid journalism. youtu.be/g3INwfJgSjw

I hope everyone has a passionate day out there at #nokingsday. Also: it's time for a little review of Chenoweth. Remember that “3.5 % peaceful protest” rule? There are problems with it. Movements that changed history weren’t polite or orderly. youtu.be/NvGHjNBzooc

About that strange little man from Santa Monica. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-weird-stephen-miller

Hard to stop thinking about John Welwood and Walter Benjamin. youtu.be/fhe--xr1bww

Reflecting on how good religion stands up. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/279-ice-shooting-at-priests

Who's doing the purity testing really? youtu.be/hxX3fSrsvw4

Watch out for liberal outlets accepting the Trump TPUSA framing of "antifa". I'll be publishing my interview with Mark Bray on 10/22. youtu.be/NIwzhCAE99c

Vance's "cat lady" moment gave the game away. Plenty of het-norm parents feel claustrophobic in their unpaid care commitments, so of course they are jealous and resentful. youtu.be/Pxjw0HF5yt8

Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York a servant of white European Christendom, and left transformed by the radical, suffering, and liberatory presence of Black Jesus. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-antifascist-christianity-black-jesus

An analogy about capitalism and long-term, multigenerational work: youtu.be/UwgY-T7QU3A?...

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

Sorry, but most of our grandfathers did not have the opportunity to really be ANTIFA. youtu.be/TEGX-2UFdmA

Trump is trying to criminalize everything we talk about. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/278-this-podcast-is-illegal

Today's the day! If you search "antifascist dad" in your pod app you'll find Ep 1 with singer and activist @nathanevansfox.bsky.social, laying out the word and spirit of "yallidarity."

So yeah the official launch day is Wednesday but if you search “antifascist dad” on your pod player you should find something special…