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It's Hump Day on The Majority Report On today's program: Progressive candidate Dr. Adam Hamawy wins the Democratic primary in New Jersey's deep-blue 12th congressional district in an otherwise muted primary day for leftist candidates. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed gives a perfect response to an MS NOW reporter asking him what he would say to Jewish Americans who are anxious about his critiques of AIPAC and Israel. Ben Freeman, author and director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute, joins the show for a conversation about his piece in Responsible Statecraft on congress trying to quietly intertwine U.S. and Israeli militaries. Congress is voting on this tomorrow so call your Congresspeople to tell them to In the Fun Half: Fox News posts Wisconsin's DSA-backed candidate for Governor Francesca Hong's platform in attempt to fearmonger but it backfires because her platform is common sense and pro-worker. At a House Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) showcases just how big of a sycophant Marco Rubio is by playing videos of Trump falling asleep during Cabinet meetings, only for Rubio to flatly deny that the president is asleep in the footage. Dan Goldman gives a horrible performance in his debate against Brad Lander. Goldman tries to attack Lander on his record on Israel when the day before Goldman had marched alongside Israeli terrorist Bezalel Smotrich in the Israel Day Parade. George Santos is under investigation by the DOJ for insider trading in the least surprising news story in history. We continue our weeklong reflection upon Dave Rubin's surrounded. All that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: RITUAL: Get 25% off during your first month. Visit ritual.com/MAJORITY. WILD GRAIN:  Get up to 40% off @Ridge with code MAJORITYREPORT at https://www.Ridge.com/MAJORITYREPORT SUNSET LAKE CBD: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.

Today Chris Schaeffer is talking about three big announcements that Google has made about Google Ads and why they should matter to you. We're talking about the upcoming "upgrade" from DSA to AI Max. Also the big push to get ads in the AI mode of Google. And using AI Max for Shopping campaigns. All of this and more in today's podcast show!Try Opteo for free for 28 days - https://opteo.com/pspChris Schaeffer - http://www.chrisschaeffer.comSubmit a Question - https://www.paidsearchpodcast.com

Audra and Mason readin some headlines from May. Topics include the dangers of streaming, the Trump admin's attack on progressive voices through "Counter Terrorism," and the importance of children in the political landscape. An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson's Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted WARNING FOX NEWS Feds subpoena Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trips Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist "Extremists" WARNING NY POST Boy, 10, sent persuasive essay about electric cars to congresswoman — who responded with a scathing letter ripping his teacher Trump's $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn WARNING FOX NEWS Socialists cheer 'shockwave' primary night as DSA-backed candidates win, advance across the map List of DSA endorsed Electoral Campaigns

BTS, BONUS CONTENT AND MORE! Only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TrashTuesdayPodcast GET IT BEFORE ITS GONE - https://trashtuesday.myshopify.com/ Trash Tuesday gets political as we welcome LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman! Esther, Khalyla, and Caroline Goldfarb are asking the hard-hitting questions: homelessness, the LA fires, the 2028 Olympics, the LA jail systems, and more.We're NOT fooled by Spencer Pratt's fully manic flow state.Don't forget: June 2 is the last day to vote in person or return your ballot. Vote-by-mail ballots must be postmarked by June 2! MORE NITHYA! https://www.nithyaforthecity.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nithyaforthecity/?hl=enMORE CAROLINE!https://www.instagram.com/caroline_goldfarb/?hl=enhttps://www.tiktok.com/@businesscentershow Thank you to our sponsors:Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/9vos470a #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.*Ebb Ocean Club is NOW IN SEPHORA* https://www.sephora.com/brand/ebb-ocean-club for Khalyla's reef safe and biodegradable hair products!*Listen to Esther's New Solo Pod!* https://www.esthersgrouptherapy.substack.com FOLLOW TRASH ON SOCIALS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itstrashtuesday Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itstrashtuesday MORE ESTHER:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@esthermonster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/esthermonster/ MORE KHALYLA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/khalamityk/ Tigerbelly Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCIyIoM_Nd8HtY19fuR_ov2A PRODUCTION:Studio Ten42: https://www.instagram.com/studioten42/ Guy Robinson: https://www.instagram.com/grobfps/ Arielle Jade (Editor): https://www.instagram.com/jade.rabbit.cce/ Elisa Hernandez Kohler: https://www.instagram.com/ellie.lianna/ Megan Clements: https://www.instagram.com/egggymeg/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Approximately two years into the second Trump administration, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is at a critical crossroads. In this semi-annual check-in, we sit down with members of the Marxist Unity Group (MUG)—Cliff Connolly, Gene Allen, and Amy Wilhelm—to discuss the evolving landscape of American socialist politics.In this deep dive, our panel explores the significant shift following the passing of Resolution Seven, which officially declared the DSA's intent to transition into an independent, mass-based political party. We tackle the "New York contradictions," the limits of holding executive office without legislative support, and the struggle to maintain a revolutionary program in a "multi-tendency" organization.In This Episode, We Discuss:The Blueprint for a Party: Why the DSA is moving away from being a "political advocacy non-profit" toward a formal party structure.Executive vs. Legislative Power: Analyzing the challenges faced by elected officials like Zohran Mamdani in New York and the dangers of "shortcuts" to power.The Utility of Protests: Why street movements like "No Kings" are vital for recruitment even if they don't immediately "move the needle" on foreign policy.Building a Worker State: The development of a revolutionary program aimed at ending capitalism in the United States.Member Protagonism: How doubling down on internal democracy and STV (Single Transferable Vote) is the key to retaining the DSA's 100k+ membership.Connect with the Marxist Unity Group:Website: marxistunity.comPublications: Check out Light and Air and the Bulletin for internal and external socialist theory.Read: Cliff Connolly's latest piece in Democratic Left regarding the Security Commission's de-escalation and safety trainings.Send us Fan Mail Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,Julian

VLOG May 22 Brazil murder trial closings, US v Sikkema https://matthewrussellleeicp.substack.com/p/art-world-hit-trial-for-murder-of-661 Live Nation, states mull Ticketmaster break-up, PA FOIA filings due. Tennis union fight; @FinanceWatchOrg v Enova-Grasshopper, Revolut coming. Volker Turk's $400 a day DSA on SG junket

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a show packed with Georgia and Kentucky primary fallout. Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling, and Chris Carr all fail to make the runoff in the Georgia governor's race, which Ashe frames as three people who are going to need the time back to prepare their criminal defense. Ed Galleran defeats Thomas Massey in Kentucky with $15 million from AIPAC and a victory party of roughly 30 people. CannCon reads Massey's full legislative record dating back to Trump's inauguration and challenges anyone to explain which bill on that list they disagree with. Ashe makes the principled point that emotional investment in any of these races is exactly how people get rug-pulled. Multiple primaries going to runoffs are already producing calls for ranked choice voting from both DSA and libertarian factions, and Ashe breaks down why it is the next layer of election opacity being added to an already unverifiable system. The Maritime Cybersecurity Act would bar Chinese components from ports and grid infrastructure, which CannCon and Ashe point out explicitly does not include voting machines despite election systems being defined as critical infrastructure. Trump endorses Ken Paxton for Texas Senate and primaries Cornyn. South Carolina passes a new 7-0 congressional map.

Chuck And Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden Colorado GOP Turmoil, the Rivera Arrest, and Tina Peters' Clemency Fight Guests, Cody LeBlanc and Ashe Epp from Ashe In America Free at last! Gov. Jared Polis announces he is granting clemency to persecuted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters with a release dat of June 1st. Ashe Epp met with Tina over the weekend and joins the show. Plus Weld County GOP Chair… RINO Hunter Rivera busted and accused of soliciting a child prostitute in a police sting. Cody LebBlanc notes this did not come out of nowhere. Opening with Colorado Republican Controversy In this episode of The Chuck and Julie Show, Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden open on a rainy Monday in Colorado with a discussion of Republican Party turmoil, especially in Weld County. They focus on the arrest of Weld County Republican Party chairman Hunter Rivera, who is accused in connection with an alleged child predator sting involving the attempted solicitation of a child prostitute. Chuck and Julie frame the story as part of a larger conflict between grassroots conservatives and establishment “RINO” Republicans, arguing that Rivera had been promoted and protected by party insiders despite past warning signs. Cody LeBlanc on Weld County and Party Vetting Grassroots activist Cody LeBlanc joins the program to discuss his concerns about how Rivera rose within Weld County Republican politics. Cody says Rivera was pushed on local Republicans by establishment figures and notes that Rivera had been connected to several campaigns and political organizations, including work with Barb Kirkmeyer, Lori Garcia Sander, Yasmin Navarro, Gay Bevin, Lauren Boebert, and young Republican circles. He stresses that he is not arguing guilt by association, but says party leaders have a responsibility to vet people better, especially when they are placing them in leadership roles and asking grassroots members to trust them. Warning Signs, Grassroots Concerns, and RINO Power The discussion broadens into criticism of Weld County Republican leadership and Colorado GOP power structures. Cody, Chuck, and Julie argue that grassroots conservatives have repeatedly been dismissed, mocked, or accused of being divisive when they ask questions about candidates, leadership, or party processes. They connect the Rivera arrest to previous warnings from Scott Bottoms about child predator concerns, and they criticize Barb Kirkmeyer and others for mocking or minimizing those warnings before the arrest became public. The conversation also touches on broader frustrations over open primaries, jungle primaries, assembly problems, and what they describe as establishment efforts to control candidate selection. Party Culture, Accountability, and Bigger Questions Cody argues that the Rivera arrest should become a turning point for the Weld County GOP and the Colorado Republican Party more broadly. He says the issue is not merely one person's alleged misconduct, but a political culture in which loyalty, money, and insider connections can override principle, accountability, and proper scrutiny. Chuck and Julie agree that establishment figures should be asking how the situation happened, whether anything was missed, and how to prevent similar problems in the future, rather than focusing mainly on defending themselves from grassroots criticism. Cody closes by asking listeners to keep his grandmother in prayer as she nears the end of her life. Ash Epp on Tina Peters' Clemency The show then shifts to Ash Epp, who joins to discuss Governor Jared Polis granting clemency to Tina Peters. Ash explains that Polis cut Peters' sentence in half, making her eligible for parole on June 1, though the parole board will still determine the conditions of her release. She emphasizes that Peters' legal team is still appealing the underlying criminal conviction and the handling of the presidential pardon issue, so the clemency does not end the legal fight. Ash says Peters' immediate priorities are seeing her 97-year-old mother, rebuilding her health after prison, eating real food, and eventually reuniting with her dog, Minka, once she knows she will not be taken away again. Polis, Democrats, Election Integrity, and Prison Reform The final segment looks at the political meaning of Polis' clemency decision and the reaction from Democrats. Ash argues that Polis may be positioning himself for national office and using the clemency to present himself as more moderate or liberty-minded, even as some progressive Democrats and DSA-aligned voices react angrily. The discussion also covers Peters' likely future advocacy on election integrity and prison reform, including concerns about prison conditions, elderly inmates, food quality, and health. Ash and the hosts also discuss how the phrase “election denier” has changed politically, with Ash saying she embraces the label as protected speech and continues to challenge the reliability of current election systems.

In this episode of The Other 99% Podcast, hosts Lisa Duck and Susan Larimer sit down with Dave Grimaldi to give an inside look at how the Direct Selling Association advocates for and protects the direct selling industry. From navigating government regulations and protecting independent contractor status to educating sellers on compliance, income claims, and ethical business practices, Dave shares how DSA works behind the scenes to safeguard opportunities for direct sellers across North America and beyond. The conversation highlights the power of story sharing in influencing lawmakers, the importance of integrity in building a sustainable business, and why direct selling continues to offer flexible income opportunities for real people. This episode is a must-listen for anyone in direct sales who wants to better understand the industry, stay informed, and feel empowered about the work they do.Share your story with DSA - At Some Point, You Made a Choice. Why you chose direct selling matters.

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Chuck And Julie Show with Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden Colorado GOP Turmoil, the Rivera Arrest, and Tina Peters' Clemency Fight Guests, Cody LeBlanc and Ashe Epp from Ashe In America Free at last! Gov. Jared Polis announces he is granting clemency to persecuted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters with a release dat of June 1st. Ashe Epp met with Tina over the weekend and joins the show. Plus Weld County GOP Chair… RINO Hunter Rivera busted and accused of soliciting a child prostitute in a police sting. Cody LebBlanc notes this did not come out of nowhere. Opening with Colorado Republican Controversy In this episode of The Chuck and Julie Show, Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden open on a rainy Monday in Colorado with a discussion of Republican Party turmoil, especially in Weld County. They focus on the arrest of Weld County Republican Party chairman Hunter Rivera, who is accused in connection with an alleged child predator sting involving the attempted solicitation of a child prostitute. Chuck and Julie frame the story as part of a larger conflict between grassroots conservatives and establishment “RINO” Republicans, arguing that Rivera had been promoted and protected by party insiders despite past warning signs. Cody LeBlanc on Weld County and Party Vetting Grassroots activist Cody LeBlanc joins the program to discuss his concerns about how Rivera rose within Weld County Republican politics. Cody says Rivera was pushed on local Republicans by establishment figures and notes that Rivera had been connected to several campaigns and political organizations, including work with Barb Kirkmeyer, Lori Garcia Sander, Yasmin Navarro, Gay Bevin, Lauren Boebert, and young Republican circles. He stresses that he is not arguing guilt by association, but says party leaders have a responsibility to vet people better, especially when they are placing them in leadership roles and asking grassroots members to trust them. Warning Signs, Grassroots Concerns, and RINO Power The discussion broadens into criticism of Weld County Republican leadership and Colorado GOP power structures. Cody, Chuck, and Julie argue that grassroots conservatives have repeatedly been dismissed, mocked, or accused of being divisive when they ask questions about candidates, leadership, or party processes. They connect the Rivera arrest to previous warnings from Scott Bottoms about child predator concerns, and they criticize Barb Kirkmeyer and others for mocking or minimizing those warnings before the arrest became public. The conversation also touches on broader frustrations over open primaries, jungle primaries, assembly problems, and what they describe as establishment efforts to control candidate selection. Party Culture, Accountability, and Bigger Questions Cody argues that the Rivera arrest should become a turning point for the Weld County GOP and the Colorado Republican Party more broadly. He says the issue is not merely one person's alleged misconduct, but a political culture in which loyalty, money, and insider connections can override principle, accountability, and proper scrutiny. Chuck and Julie agree that establishment figures should be asking how the situation happened, whether anything was missed, and how to prevent similar problems in the future, rather than focusing mainly on defending themselves from grassroots criticism. Cody closes by asking listeners to keep his grandmother in prayer as she nears the end of her life. Ash Epp on Tina Peters' Clemency The show then shifts to Ash Epp, who joins to discuss Governor Jared Polis granting clemency to Tina Peters. Ash explains that Polis cut Peters' sentence in half, making her eligible for parole on June 1, though the parole board will still determine the conditions of her release. She emphasizes that Peters' legal team is still appealing the underlying criminal conviction and the handling of the presidential pardon issue, so the clemency does not end the legal fight. Ash says Peters' immediate priorities are seeing her 97-year-old mother, rebuilding her health after prison, eating real food, and eventually reuniting with her dog, Minka, once she knows she will not be taken away again. Polis, Democrats, Election Integrity, and Prison Reform The final segment looks at the political meaning of Polis' clemency decision and the reaction from Democrats. Ash argues that Polis may be positioning himself for national office and using the clemency to present himself as more moderate or liberty-minded, even as some progressive Democrats and DSA-aligned voices react angrily. The discussion also covers Peters' likely future advocacy on election integrity and prison reform, including concerns about prison conditions, elderly inmates, food quality, and health. Ash and the hosts also discuss how the phrase “election denier” has changed politically, with Ash saying she embraces the label as protected speech and continues to challenge the reliability of current election systems.

VOV1 - Trên các nền tảng mạng xã hội, nhiều tính năng như video ngắn tự động phát, thuật toán đề xuất nội dung liên tục hay cơ chế thông báo để giữ chân người dùng trong thời gian dài,... đang khiến trẻ nhỏ dành quá nhiều thời gian trên môi trường số, gây ảnh hưởng tới sức khỏe tinh thần.Trong bối cảnh đó, Liên minh châu Âu (EU) đang thúc đẩy hàng loạt biện pháp mạnh tay hơn, từ điều tra các nền tảng công nghệ lớn, siết trách nhiệm bảo vệ trẻ vị thành niên cho tới yêu cầu thay đổi cách thiết kế sản phẩm số. Liên minh châu Âu đang tăng cường giám sát các nền tảng công nghệ lớn trong khuôn khổ Đạo luật Dịch vụ số (DSA), đặc biệt liên quan tới việc bảo vệ trẻ vị thành niên trên môi trường mạng. Ủy ban châu Âu EC đã mở nhiều cuộc điều tra nhằm vào các nền tảng như TikTok, Instagram và Facebook của Meta hay Snap, xoay quanh các tính năng bị cho là có khả năng gây nghiện, như cơ chế cuộn vô hạn, video tự động phát hay thuật toán đề xuất nội dung liên tục. Theo giới chức châu Âu, các cơ chế này có thể khiến trẻ em và thanh thiếu niên bị cuốn vào môi trường số trong thời gian dài, làm gia tăng nguy cơ lo âu, trầm cảm, rối loạn giấc ngủ và giảm khả năng tập trung.Chủ tịch Ủy ban châu Âu Ursula von der Leyen cho rằng, các nền tảng công nghệ này đều đang chủ động khai thác sự dễ tổn thương của giới trẻ để kiếm lợi nhuận. “Một tổ chức bảo vệ quyền trẻ em của Đan Mạch phát hiện ra rằng gần một nửa nội dung trẻ em xem trên mạng xã hội là quảng cáo. Các chàng trai trẻ đang bị cuốn hút vào những trò chơi được thiết kế để thao túng họ chi tiêu ngày càng nhiều tiền. Các cô gái trẻ bị nhắm mục tiêu bằng quảng cáo sản phẩm làm đẹp… Đây là những lựa chọn có chủ đích của các nhà cung cấp công nghệ để kiếm tiền từ nỗi sợ hãi và những khoảnh khắc tự ti của trẻ em. Chúng tôi đang hành động chống lại TikTok và thiết kế gây nghiện của nó."Để hạn chế những tác động này, EU cũng yêu cầu các nền tảng phải minh bạch hơn về thuật toán đề xuất nội dung, tăng cường cơ chế kiểm soát quảng cáo hướng tới trẻ vị thành niên và cho phép người dùng dễ dàng tắt các tính năng cá nhân hóa nội dung. Nhiều quốc gia châu Âu đã triển khai các biện pháp kiểm soát mạnh hơn. Pháp đã thúc đẩy các biện pháp hạn chế trẻ dưới 15 tuổi sử dụng mạng xã hội nếu không có sự đồng ý của phụ huynh, trong khi một số nước khác đề xuất cấm điện thoại thông minh trong trường học hoặc yêu cầu xác minh độ tuổi chặt chẽ hơn.Việc EU mạnh tay hơn với các nền tảng mạng xã hội cho thấy những lo ngại ngày càng lớn về tác động của môi trường số đối với trẻ em và thanh thiếu niên. Đây không chỉ là câu chuyện quản lý công nghệ, mà còn liên quan tới sức khỏe tinh thần, giáo dục và sự phát triển của thế hệ tương lai. Trong bối cảnh các nền tảng số ngày càng đóng vai trò quan trọng trong đời sống hiện đại, bài toán đặt ra sẽ là làm thế nào để cân bằng giữa bảo vệ người dùng, đặc biệt là trẻ em, với quyền tiếp cận công nghệ và sự phát triển của kinh tế số./.Các nền tảng công nghệ đang chủ động khai thác sự dễ tổn thương của giới trẻ để kiếm lợi nhuận. Ảnh: Reuters

Ein Let's Play-Podcast für Das Schwarze Auge, das deutsche Fantasy-Rollenspiel. Wir spielen DSA in der 3. Edition und haben uns vorgenommen, alle Abenteuer in Reihenfolge ihrer Veröffentlichung zu spielen. Old School, gemütlich, spannend. Dies ist Folge 214: Die Verschöwrung von Gareth Teil 2

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Welcome back to the Tom Bilyeu Show Live, where Tom and Ryan break down the world's biggest stories, the policy fights nobody wants to have honestly, and the technological shifts quietly rewriting the next decade. With Drew out sick, Ryan steps in to dig into Trump's high-stakes Beijing summit — 17 of America's most powerful CEOs in tow, rare earth metals on the table, Boeing chasing a 500-jet deal, and Xi Jinping playing the long game from a position of patient strength. The conversation expands into the Cold War 2.0 reality unfolding on US soil, as the mayor of Arcadia, California admits to acting as a foreign agent of China — and Tom unpacks why this is likely the tip of a much deeper iceberg involving farmland purchases, property near military bases, and influence operations the US has been slow to confront. From there, Tom delivers a brutal real-talk audit of Mamdani's balanced New York City budget, the Pieta Terror tax, and why the Nordic model everyone keeps invoking hasn't actually existed in Sweden for decades — using a deep economic breakdown of how Sweden quietly became one of the most capitalist countries in Europe, with more billionaires per capita than America. Then things get spicy: AI is coming for female-dominated white-collar jobs first, men are quietly migrating into the trades and data center construction, and Tom argues the unexpected force creating a new wave of "trad wives" won't be religion — it'll be ChatGPT. Plus: real-life Gundam mechs in Japan, why social safety nets don't scale past 100 million people, the Thucydides Trap looming over US-China relations, post-WWII tax rates and the myth of the 90% bracket, and a sharp closing exchange between Tom and Ryan on ambition, hormones, and whether women "wearing the pants" and women being highly capable are actually the same conversation. If you want geopolitics without the cable news spin, economics without the bumper sticker slogans, and a host willing to praise his political opposite when they get something right — this episode delivers honesty, history, and the kind of clarity that's getting harder to find. 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Welcome back to the Tom Bilyeu Show Live, where Tom and Ryan break down the world's biggest stories, the policy fights nobody wants to have honestly, and the technological shifts quietly rewriting the next decade. With Drew out sick, Ryan steps in to dig into Trump's high-stakes Beijing summit — 17 of America's most powerful CEOs in tow, rare earth metals on the table, Boeing chasing a 500-jet deal, and Xi Jinping playing the long game from a position of patient strength. The conversation expands into the Cold War 2.0 reality unfolding on US soil, as the mayor of Arcadia, California admits to acting as a foreign agent of China — and Tom unpacks why this is likely the tip of a much deeper iceberg involving farmland purchases, property near military bases, and influence operations the US has been slow to confront. From there, Tom delivers a brutal real-talk audit of Mamdani's balanced New York City budget, the Pieta Terror tax, and why the Nordic model everyone keeps invoking hasn't actually existed in Sweden for decades — using a deep economic breakdown of how Sweden quietly became one of the most capitalist countries in Europe, with more billionaires per capita than America. Then things get spicy: AI is coming for female-dominated white-collar jobs first, men are quietly migrating into the trades and data center construction, and Tom argues the unexpected force creating a new wave of "trad wives" won't be religion — it'll be ChatGPT. Plus: real-life Gundam mechs in Japan, why social safety nets don't scale past 100 million people, the Thucydides Trap looming over US-China relations, post-WWII tax rates and the myth of the 90% bracket, and a sharp closing exchange between Tom and Ryan on ambition, hormones, and whether women "wearing the pants" and women being highly capable are actually the same conversation. If you want geopolitics without the cable news spin, economics without the bumper sticker slogans, and a host willing to praise his political opposite when they get something right — this episode delivers honesty, history, and the kind of clarity that's getting harder to find. Ketone IQ: Visit ⁠https://ketone.com/IMPACT⁠ for 30% OFF your subscription orderQuince: Free shipping and 365-day returns at ⁠https://quince.com/impactpod⁠Monetary Metals: Future-proof your wealth at ⁠https://monetarymetals.com/impact⁠Truemed: Check your eligibility and start saving at ⁠https://truemed.com/impact⁠AT&T Business: Switch to AT&T Business at ⁠business.att.com⁠Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: ⁠https://incogni.com/impact⁠Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at ⁠https://shopify.com/impact⁠Netsuite: Right now, get our free business guide, Demystifying AI, at ⁠https://NetSuite.com/Theory⁠Quo: Try for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months at ⁠https://quo.com/impact⁠ What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business:⁠ join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER⁠:  ⁠https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show⁠ SCALING a business:⁠ see if you qualify here.⁠:  ⁠https://tombilyeu.com/call⁠ Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox:⁠ sign up here.⁠: ⁠https://tombilyeu.com/⁠ ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast,⁠ Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook⁠ —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/⁠ Tik Tok:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en⁠ Twitter:⁠ https://twitter.com/tombilyeu⁠ YouTube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu⁠ Tom Bilyeu, Tom Bilyeu Show, Impact Theory, Tom Bilyeu live, Trump Beijing, Trump China summit, Xi Jinping, US China relations, Thucydides Trap, rare earth metals, Elon Musk China, Jensen Huang, Boeing China deal, Chinese spy mayor, Arcadia California, foreign agent China, Cold War 2.0, China farmland US, Mamdani, New York City budget, Pieta Terror tax, tax the rich, DSA, democratic socialism, Sweden economy, Nordic model, Sweden capitalism, Sweden billionaires, free market, single payer healthcare, Mark Cuban healthcare, AI jobs, AI replacing women, women losing jobs to AI, trad wives, men in trades, data centers, college degrees gender gap, Gundam real, Japan mech robot, Strait of Hormuz, Iran oil, Venezuela oil, geopolitics 2026, US economy, inequality, wealth redistribution, 90 percent tax rate, post WWII economy, social safety nets, Ryan Impact Theory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Die Salamischeiben und ihre neuen, unerwarteten Verbündeten von der Bierschinkentruppe kehren für eine Lagebesprechung zurück zum Baumhaus. Dann aber tut sich etwas Gruseliges in Frau Bramftls Garten – und das ist noch lange nicht die seltsamste Wendung.Du hörst die Kerkerkumpels, das Pen & Paper Hörspiel. Die Geschichte, die du hörst, ist live improvisiert. Ob unseren Charakteren eine Aktion gelingt, entscheiden die Würfel!Intro/Outro:Sprecherin: Carolin SabathSound- & Musikquellen:"8bit Dungeon Level" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Neon Drive" by tabletopaudio.com"Sentient Eye" by tabletopaudio.com"Weirder Things" by tabletopaudio.com"Weirder Things 2" by tabletopaudio.com"Thieves' Guild" by tabletopaudio.comAll sounds from tabletopaudio.com are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).Mehr Infos zu unseren Aktionen und Werbepartnern findest du auf https://kerkerkumpels.de/links/aktionen/Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

In this episode of Growing E-commerce, Mike Ryan and Chris Scharmueller dive into the end of an era: Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) are officially dying.While Google's new AI Max for Search currently sits at a tiny 1.5-2% adoption rate, the mandatory migration of all DSA campaigns by September will trigger an instant hockey-stick growth curve. We explain exactly what you need to expect from this sunset, how the auto-migration handles broad match and URL expansion by default, and why advertisers need to start testing AI Max immediately before the Q4 holiday crunch.We also unpack the diverging automation strategies of the tech giants and the catastrophic drop in Meta Advantage+ adoption. After peaking at 40%, its cost share has nosedived to a concerning 20%. We discuss why this downward trend calls Mark Zuckerberg's "fully automated" vision into question. Plus, we explore the latest Meta Pixel updates and why Meta wants a feed-less future while Google doubles down on structured data.Key Takeaways:The AI Max Hockey Stick: Do not be fooled by the current low adoption rate of AI Max for Search. Once the legacy DSA campaigns (which currently hold about 15% cost share) are auto-migrated in September, AI Max will become a dominant and highly relevant campaign type overnight.Meta's Automation Problem: Advantage+ adoption is on a multi-quarter decline, dropping to just 20% cost share. Without substantial product improvements, Meta will struggle to achieve the fully automated, hands-off advertising ecosystem it envisioned.The Feed vs. Feed-less Divide: Meta is attempting to offload feed management by using AI to scrape landing page data directly via the Meta Pixel. Conversely, Google relies heavily on detailed data feeds to ground its AI and maintain quality control.Resources & Links:Access all our webinars, reports, and playbooks in our Knowledge Hub: https://smarter-ecommerce.com/en/knowledge-hub/How is your industry stacking up in the market? Find out with smec's Google Ads Benchmarks:https://smarter-ecommerce.com/en/smec-market-observer/ About Smarter Ecommerce (smec):Smarter Ecommerce (smec) empowers e-commerce brands with AI-driven PPC automation that optimizes for profit and business outcomes while maintaining strategic control.The platform activates first-party data - profit margins, customer lifetime value, and key business metrics - to automate campaign optimization toward goals like profitability and efficient growth, while detailed campaign insights provide full transparency and enable PPC teams to focus on strategic oversight rather than manual execution.As a Google Premier Partner and three-time Microsoft Retail Partner of the Year, smec manages over €500 million in ad spend and drives €5B+ in annual e-commerce revenue for 350+ global retail clients including THG, Snipes, REWE, and Intersport.Make sure to follow smec - Smarter Ecommerce for more performance marketing insights:smec - Smarter Ecommerce: https://www.smarter-ecommerce.comLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/smarter-ecommerce-gmbhNewsletter: https://smarter-ecommerce.com/en/newsletter/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smarterecommerce/

Excerpts from an event sponsored by the NYC DSA's Academy for Socialist Education on the domestic and foreign aspects of Trumpism, featuring historians Nikhil Pal Singh and Greg Grandin, moderated by DSA's Gaya Sriskanthan. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

In Episode 479 of The Andrew Parker Show, Andrew Parker discusses the political and economic transformation of Minneapolis over the past two decades.Andrew examines the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the influence of Keith Ellison and Ilhan Omar, the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, policing debates, business decline, and the changing political identity of Minneapolis.The episode also highlights the upcoming Minnesota Attorney General race and Andrew's support for challenger Ron Schutz.Topics:Minneapolis politicsDemocratic Socialists of America (DSA)Keith Ellison and Ilhan OmarGeorge Floyd aftermathMinneapolis business declineCrime, policing, and city leadershipMinnesota Attorney General raceRon Schutz campaign discussionSupport the showThe Andrew Parker Show - Politics, Israel & The Law.  Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and X. Subscribe to our email list at www.theandrewparkershow.comCopyright © 2026 The Andrew Parker Show - All Rights Reserved. 

Herzlich Willkommen in der Jura-Masterclass mit Haken dran-Anwalt Chan-jo Jun! Er beantwortet eure Fragen, aber auch alle, die sich auf dem Weg ergeben, schaut mit mir auf Palantir, Chatkontrolle, Deepfakes, X und DSA. Paragraphen und Emotionen, nur hier zum Wochenende! ❗️ Diese Episode wurde bereits am Mittwoch, 6. Mai aufgenommen. Alles, was seitdem passiert ist, hört ihr bei uns also erst am Montag. ➡️ Mit der "Haken Dran"-Community ins Gespräch kommen könnt ihr am besten im Discord: http://hakendran.org

Vor Johanns Krankenhauszimmer treffen drei Elternteile unserer kleinen Detektive aufeinander und haben direkt Meinungsverschiedenheiten. Wie sich herausstellt, könnten die drei ob ihrer Vergangenheit aber dennoch nützlich sein.Du hörst die Kerkerkumpels, das Pen & Paper Hörspiel. Die Geschichte, die du hörst, ist live improvisiert. Ob unseren Charakteren eine Aktion gelingt, entscheiden die Würfel!Intro/Outro:Sprecherin: Carolin SabathMehr Infos zu unseren Aktionen und Werbepartnern findest du auf https://kerkerkumpels.de/links/aktionen/Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Greg Bluestein and Patricia Murphy answer listener questions with producer Shane Backler, starting with how competitive Democratic primaries could change the usual crossover voting patterns in Georgia. They also examine whether a recent Supreme Court ruling could trigger another round of redistricting, why Rick Jackson is already targeting Keisha Lance Bottoms, and what counted as a win in the latest Republican Senate debate. The episode also looks at DSA-backed candidates challenging Georgia Democrats, skepticism around prediction markets, and the race to replace the late Congressman David Scott. Shane shares remembrance tape from Marcye Scott and Calvin Smyre on David Scott's legacy and long ties to his district. Have a question or comment for the show? Call or text the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 770-810-5297. We'll play back your question and answer it during our next Monday Mailbag segment. You can also email your questions at PoliticallyGeorgia@ajc.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our latest installment of The UnPopulist Live took place on Friday, April 24, when senior editor Berny Belvedere sat down with Center for New Liberalism co-founder Jeremiah Johnson and New York City New Liberals political director Tibita Kaneene to discuss NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first 100-plus days in office.What follows is the full video and transcript (lightly edited for flow and clarity) of the conversation. We hope you enjoy.Berny Belvedere: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Berny Belvedere, senior editor at The UnPopulist. I'm joined by Jeremiah Johnson of the Center for New Liberalism. Jeremiah, tell us about your newsletter.Jeremiah Johnson: I write a blog called Infinite Scroll where I talk about the politics of the social internet—the ways that social media is changing culture and politics and how we discuss things. It's a little bit unserious nonsense, and a little bit very serious stuff.Belvedere: As all good cultural commentary is, so you're within the acceptable range. Tibita, why don't you introduce yourself a little bit?Tibita Kaneene: Hi, I'm Tibita Kaneene. I'm the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. Belvedere: The topic today is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As liberals, we're [naturally] interested in how he's doing as mayor. I was hoping we could start with something that Mamdani himself said at an event marking his 100 days in office, which was about 10 days ago. I have a quote from Mamdani that sets up the first question I want to think about together with you—on this issue of democratic socialism versus other types of liberalism out there today, like an abundance variant or even more mainstream liberalism.So here are Mamdani's own words: “On January 1st, I told New Yorkers that City Hall would hold a singular purpose—to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before. For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that.” And he cited achievements that he thinks fulfill that claim, such as the opening of new childcare centers and buses running faster. After he did that, he said: “That is the change that government can deliver.” And this is the critical part: “It's the change that democratic socialism can deliver.” He said: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom Mamdani brought in for that 100-day event, said: “I have been on platforms with hundreds and hundreds of mayors and all kinds of public officials. This is the first time I've ever been introduced by someone who talked proudly about democratic socialism.”I want to start on this theme. Thoughts?Kaneene: I think it's interesting that the two accomplishments he highlighted were delivering actual positive change, abundance type change. More schools, more seats in preschool—the whole idea of abundance is that we should have more good things, and that government should be functional and competent. And then the buses operating better: more and better transit is a pretty fundamental abundance issue. Belvedere: Just to follow up on that point: he promised both faster and free busing, and he's been able to deliver on one of the two—on “faster,” but not “free.”Kaneene: Yeah. There's this idea going around: “affordability in the front, abundance in the back.” Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results. I think that's what his challenge is, and what he's doing for the most part.Johnson: The grand rhetorical gestures are what they are, and he has a point of view on how he views the world. I am not a socialist, but if you are going to tell me that I'm going to have a socialist mayor, probably the variant that I would want is what has sometimes been called sewer socialism. This comes from Milwaukee. Generations ago, they had a couple of mayors who called themselves socialist, but rather than focusing on revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, they really focused on civic governance. How do we make the city work better? How do we provide public infrastructure? How do we make the sewers operate without overflowing? And by solving practical problems, they maintained their popularity.That is what I see Mamdani doing, at least in the first 100 days. He's not been all that focused on the big rhetorical flourishes, the big ideological ideas. He'll talk about them if he's asked. He'll mention it in a speech. But if you're in New York and you see what's actually happening and you see the things he's doing on the ground, a lot of it is just more like: “We've got a big sidewalk shed problem and I'm going to tackle it.” Or we had a big multi-week blizzard here in New York and he had a campaign about shoveling the snow faster than it's ever been shoveled before. Just competent, good governance stuff.I think that's what's allowed him to maintain his popularity thus far. The question is, as he moves deeper into his term, past the first 100 days, as he starts to actually focus more and more on the grand ideological projects, the publicly owned grocery stores, the free buses, all these big ideas that he has—are those going to work as well as the more basic stuff has worked? Because no matter what you call it, everybody likes it when city government functions efficiently. What comes after that is not quite as clear.Belvedere: I think a fair assessment of Mamdani would have to include that he is taking a few shots here—not just the kinds of things that might be dismissed as [Band-Aids]. They've attempted to put a plan in place for free childcare, and they're extending that to younger and younger ages—for the first time, two-year-olds are in play for getting free childcare. That's not a small thing. That's not like filling a pothole. But he is including enough of that other stuff that makes me think there's going to be a significant element of incrementalist-style change that he's going to produce, and then there will be a battle about what is driving that—is some kind of democratic socialist vision driving it, or is this mainstream liberalism or abundance liberalism dressed up as something else?“There's this idea going around: ‘affordability in the front, abundance in the back.' Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results.” — Tibita KaneeneI think all of us invested in the wider Mamdani discourse have to keep a couple of things in mind at all times. First—and this is the thing from which all other evaluative mistakes about Mamdani flow—you have to know that he is committed to the advancement of democratic socialism. It's not just something he's flirting with, it's not something incidental. Time and again, he brings this up. Now, his actions might be different, but we're just talking about how he's casting his own story and the story of his government.Every politician at this level is capable of downplaying philosophical influences. They know how to make passing nods to their past associations or affiliations while simultaneously creating distance from those views now. They all know how to do that. Mamdani could easily, if he wanted, tell a compelling story about how the ideology was critical to his formation and that he will keep with him the good parts—kind of like Obama after the Reverend Wright situation—but that he owes the people of New York a commitment to their well-being, not a commitment to a political program. Or he could say that what matters are results, not labels. There are a thousand ways for a politician to put a philosophical influence in the passenger seat, the rear seat, or even outside the car entirely. But Mamdani is fully leaning in rhetorically to the advancement of democratic socialism. So the idea that it was empty campaign rhetoric, and that he would, once in office, pivot to a rhetorical downplaying of democratic socialism's influence on his decision-making—that idea should at this point be put to bed.When we think about that, the second thing naturally comes up about Mamdani, especially for those of us who really want to analyze him correctly. There's a lot of people out there who weaponize him as a prop in their broader culture war takes. But for those of us doing our best to give his mayorship a good-faith assessment—we have to focus on the things that he's doing, not on the story he's telling about the things that he's doing. We have to not worry so much about socialism as a term. What he does matters more than what he says. That's not a grand philosophical conclusion, but I think it has particular application to Mamdani in one extra way. Given that he's rhetorically committed to advancing democratic socialism, the invocations of it will continue—those won't go away. But here's the really interesting thing: he'll find ways to frame his actions and policies—even ones that aren't exclusively democratic socialist—as though socialism is the thing driving them.Johnson: Well, yeah, this is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: “Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?”The free childcare thing, right now, is just a very limited pilot—it's like 2,000 seats. They have plans to expand it to the whole city, but for now it's very limited. The benefit of popularity is that it gives you a little bit of a leash. It lets you kick your own team to some extent. You can betray the cause a little bit and they'll forgive you. But ultimately, you do have to succeed. You do have to actually make things better. And that's the open question: Is there going to be enough funding to actually make free childcare a thing city-wide? Or is it going to remain a limited pilot?Belvedere: I agree—it's empirically going to be borne out whether he can achieve the things [he's promised]. He'll need to. We'll see in the data whether he's succeeding. But this actually happens more subtly than just, “let's check to see if the rents have gone down.” Think about the term you brought up—”sewer socialism.” That is a subtle way for him to retain the democratic socialist mold even though he's talking about things that mayors from totally different political persuasions would be doing also.Years ago, when Pete Buttigieg was first emerging as a candidate for [national political office], he went on Ezra Klein's podcast. Klein gave him a chance to talk about what he was proud of accomplishing as mayor. Buttigieg said: “filling potholes.” He expressed how it can seem silly and mundane, but that it makes people's lives materially better. He was giving an incrementalist pitch for what he was doing. If Mamdani is doing the same things, but leaning into the frame that instead encompasses all of that under democratic socialism—even when a lot of the policies are the kinds of things that candidates from other persuasions do—that's why I'm saying it's not so much the words or how he labels what he's doing but the actual things he's doing that matters.Johnson: What's interesting about that is this is very different from how democratic socialism normally operates in the United States. Because the median person who is a democratic socialist and is in a position of public power is a member of Congress. We don't have a lot of extremely far-left, explicitly socialist mayors, but we do have a lot of the Squad [in D.C.]—your AOC, your Bernie Sanders, that group of people. And the incentives when you are in Congress are frankly to just simply be as extreme as you'd like. You're in a deep blue district, probably D+70, and so you just need to be as pure and say as many outlandish things as you want to. There's no punishment for any of that.But being an executive is different. We're already seeing this with the budget hole that New York City faces. Mamdani has a budget hole that he constitutionally has to fix. New York City cannot run deficits. So he has to fix that, and there's a limited number of ways he can do it. He can't just pick the policy he wants. There are state laws about which taxes can be raised and which cannot. So he needs the cooperation of the governor and the legislature if he wants to do certain things.When he made a video about, “well, we're going to increase property taxes on second houses,” he made sure to highlight a particular person's $200 million mansion. But now that guy is upset that he got singled out and is saying, “maybe I'm going to cancel my $6 billion planned center in New York and take it somewhere else.” Actions have consequences when you are an executive in a way that they very much do not when you are a legislator. So that's something to watch—he's going to face a lot more constraints than are typical for his kind of politician.Kaneene: Yeah, that's true. I think we've seen him be very practical on policy [issues]—the biggest example would be the SEQRA reform at the state level that's been proposed by Kathy Hochul. He supported her version. If you look at it relative to other U.S. states, it's one of the best environmental review reform bills—better than California's, for example.Belvedere: What is SEQRA?Kaneene: It's the State Environmental Quality Review Act. It's an environmental review required for any project, be it housing or energy, and it generally slows things down a lot. Its purview extends far beyond things that you and I might describe as environmental, and it's a huge source of red tape. The state legislature was trying to attach a prevailing wage requirement to that bill, which would have made building housing particularly expensive. Mamdani did not support that. Carl Heastie, who's the assembly speaker, is not a DSA person—he's to the right of Mamdani. You could see a world where Mamdani would attach to that proposal in opposition to Gov. Hochul, but he did not. And it worked: just yesterday, the State Assembly removed the prevailing wage, and that battle has been won. So SEQRA will probably go through now with no prevailing wage.“Some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself. But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, ‘To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.' And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.” — Jeremiah JohnsonAnother thing—shortly after the election, a DSA candidate named Chi Ossé announced that he was going to take on Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democratic leader in the House, in a primary challenge. And Mamdani not only declined to endorse—he publicly said, “You should not run.” He went to a DSA meeting and made a speech saying, “We should not endorse Ossé.” And Ossé actually dropped out. So that is him going to bat, not for a DSA person, but for a centrist Democratic leader. He's done very practical things both on the politics and on the broad policy side that I would say deviate from purely ideological DSA framing.Johnson: I want to give the two possible paths forward if you are Mamdani, speaking in broad generalities. I think what a successful Mamdani mayorship looks like is: he essentially uses his popularity to kick in the teeth of certain special interests. Political popularity lets you do things that piss off your own side, and they'll forgive you for it. If Mamdani wants to take on certain union requirements—New York has hundreds of regulations about when you have to use union labor, and it drives up costs and there's a lot of bureaucracy around it—if he wanted to take some of that on, the left would forgive him because he's so charismatic and popular among his base, and it would lower costs. Whether it's the environmental laws that Tibita is talking about, or unions, or getting rid of the community board veto that makes it so hard to build housing—using his popularity to kill off some progressive sacred cows could let him get a lot accomplished.The other thing that could happen is that he falls into the “everything bagel” paradigm—where, “I want to maintain my popularity, so I'm not going to try to piss off anybody in my coalition. I'll give the environmentalists all the environmental regulations they want, I'll give the unions everything they want, I'll give this group and that group” … until you end up in the same place the Biden administration ended up. They passed a lot of really ambitious legislation without actually being able to accomplish any of it because of this thicket of red tape, this kind of anti-abundance approach. There's a middle ground in between, but those are the two paths I see in terms of how he actually uses and leverages his current popularity. It's an open question. It's still early days.Belvedere: So, Tibita, I wanted to bring up the piece that you wrote for us a while back, where you did a profile of Mamdani.What I thought was brilliant about that piece—and I hadn't seen it anywhere else—was that you took the abundance liberalism frame, assessed his democratic socialist tendencies and some early manifestations of what that could look like, looked at some of his projected hiring, and assessed what his mayorship was trending toward. I wanted to see if you had a follow-up to your own pre-Mamdani-in-office assessment now that he's governing. The title was: “Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?” And the subtitle was: “His policy evolution and the team he's assembling suggests that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction.” What do you think about that now?Kaneene: Sure. So that piece came out three days before the election. On election day, Mamdani came out in support of the pro-housing initiatives on the ballot. Those were very abundance-oriented. We already thought he supported them, but that was good confirmation. Then his first deputy mayor, Fuleihan, is just a very experienced, very competent person to run the city. He's not ideological—he's competent, has experience under a variety of past administrations; he's older, senior, knows a lot of people, and just helps get things done. Would be a good deputy mayor for a Democrat of a variety of political stripes. His Deputy Mayor for Housing, Leila Bozorg, is just an amazing person. She was Deputy Commissioner of HPD. Everyone there who I know thinks she's amazing. The most prominent DSA person would be Cea Weaver—she's a longtime tenant advocate. But there's really not a super ideological DSA person in the senior executive team.Then I mentioned some of the things he's done from a policy standpoint. On the rent freeze—since that piece came out, he's reconciled somewhat with the guidelines board. They're voting on May 7. They're probably going to freeze it for a year. But he has had to come up with ways to offset the rent freeze by lowering costs for landlords. He looked at the math, he has good advisors around him, and so for the first year he's going to provide some relief on insurance costs. Affordability in the front, but abundance in the back in the sense that he has to make the math work. He can't actually force landlords to lose money because many of these buildings are already underwater. What would happen is we'd just lose supply because these buildings would fail to operate.Belvedere: Let me ask you about that, because “abundance in the back”—abundance is very far in the back there. I don't know many YIMBY advocates who on this point would say the answer is to freeze rent.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—among his housing policies, it's the most problematic. That's why I focused on it in the piece. It's a price control, which reduces supply, which is counterproductive for trying to increase housing supply and thereby reduce the price of housing. Now, he has done some other positive supply-side things. For example, the ELURP—the Expedited Land Use Review Procedure—he's actually used that process to approve a housing development in the Bronx that was previously blocked by Vicky Paladino, the only MAGA city council member who, prior to the ballot initiatives, was able through member deference to unilaterally block development in her district. She even made a speech saying, “before, I blocked it; now because of this expedited process, I'm not able to block it.” So she's letting it happen. So that's a victory. He was able to green-light new housing supply within the first few months based on a new law that he has shown no shyness in using.There are a bunch of other projects. There's one in my community board district, the Bloomingdale Library, where they put out an RFP for a private developer to come in, build a new library and build a bunch of housing—mainly market rate with some affordable housing built in—at no cost to the city. He also has the Sunnyside Yards, a project in Queens above a rail yard that should produce over 12,000 homes. He famously went to see Trump at the White House and convinced him to sign on.Belvedere: I want to get to his relationship with Trump in a second. But first, you've given us good information about how Mamdani is doing on the housing front, and you've mentioned some things you wish he'd do differently. Let's move on to some of his food policies for a second. He had the food vendor reforms, and then the grocery store stuff. He wants essentially a publicly run store—one per borough?Kaneene: Yeah, one per borough.Belvedere: Maybe that's an incremental approach where he wants more over time, but the plan is for one per borough for now. Some essential goods would be at a significant discount, and not necessarily all products. The rest would be at normal price. Thoughts?Johnson: Yeah, I think this has the potential to quietly undermine … and none of this has broken ground yet, none of this is happening as of right now, but there's a plan, and the details of the plan do not fill me with confidence. What you need to know is that grocery stores, by their nature, are a very competitive, very low-margin business. This is already a fiercely competitive field. It's very hard to make money in it. And so anybody with any sort of rational expectation here should expect the publicly owned grocery stores to lose a lot of money, because they're going to be poorly run relative to traditional private grocery stores. And maybe you just don't care—maybe you're like, “I don't care if they lose money because I just value having a public grocery store.” But this is one of those things where it really easily could turn into that second scenario I talked about: he makes sure to give unions a lot of giveaways when he's building this type of grocery store, the actual building of the thing takes twice as long as we thought and twice as much money because of all the rules we had to follow.“I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that [Mamdani] can say, ‘Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,' and morally there's been no compromise at all. … he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.” — Tibita KaneeneHe's already talking about the one they want for Manhattan. They've picked out a site. It's going to be something like three years and an obscene amount of money—far more money than it should take. Thirty million dollars to build one grocery store, which is far above what it would cost a private actor. And on top of that, the original justification for this whole thing was that there are food deserts in the city. Where he's chosen to build it is not a food desert. There's like five grocery stores within a 10-minute walk of this place.Belvedere: He talks about people being priced out of essential goods. And so he would need to substantiate that in a way that justifies this kind of cost and disruption.Johnson: We have tools to address that. If people can't afford food, that's why SNAP exists, that's why food stamps exist. Giving people money is such an easier solution than trying to build an entire public-sector grocery store that is going to be terribly run. Every time anything happens at that grocery store, the media is going to pounce on it. There's going to be shoplifting. If Mamdani lets them shoplift, it turns into a national story. If he has them arrested, also a story—that pisses off the left. There are landmines all over this, and it seems to me like he's going to end up stepping on some of them. There's going to be needless scandals about how they were built, which contractors got cushy deals. If you have a limited amount of political capital, one grocery store per borough is meaningless. It doesn't do anything. Why would you waste your time on this?Belvedere: And what you were saying, when you called food assistance just the easier option—not only is it the easier option, but it's the option where there is the least amount of state intervention required to achieve the eventual goal of getting people these goods. You don't have to have a state-run market—you can give people the tool that they use to then exchange at that market. It's a more back-end kind of assistance. But it also, as you were saying, allows you to focus on a whole lot of other things you said that you wanted to do for the city, rather than engaging in something where, yes, you're connecting a campaign promise to an actual thing that you're doing—there's consistency there, you can win from that—but the potential pitfalls you noted could really be an albatross. And as a different kind of objection to just “easier”: as liberals, we want to do the least government-involved version that we can whenever we can.Kaneene: I'm a little more sanguine about it. I'm agnostic about whether we should have a state grocery store or not. The main thing for me is I don't think it's going to provide any savings, for the reasons Jeremiah said—they're low-margin businesses. This one is a 17-minute walk from a Costco. You're not going to beat the ability to use your SNAP card and order from Amazon. All that being said, this was a campaign promise he focused on. I think during the campaign he realized that these stores are not going to actually be able to provide cheaper food without the city simply taking a big loss—and that's why he kept repeating that it's going to be one per borough, it's going to be a pilot. So I think it's something that he needs to do. He'll struggle to break even, he'll do his five, and the positive side is it will actually prove that these grocery store chains, whatever you might think about them, are operating pretty efficiently. And we might have reasons to hate Amazon, rightly or wrongly, but that's actually the cheapest food you can get. So I don't think it's as terrible as maybe Jeremiah thinks.But I do share the concern of it becoming a bigger issue, where he says now we're going to have publicly owned gas stations. I don't think there's any risk of that. I would bet money there's not going to be more than five. There might not even be five.Johnson: And my thing is more just—look, this is not going to sink the city, the fact that we try this experiment with five grocery stores. This city of nine million people will be fine. But it's one of those things that if I were him, if I put myself in his shoes trying to accomplish his goals, I would not want to waste my time on this, because there are just landmines everywhere. You're going to get caught up in some extremely stupid controversy—some worker at the store is going to complain that their boss mistreated them. And all of a sudden, it becomes DEFCON 5 because you're a socialist and how can you not side with the workers? There are so many things like that that have the potential to sap away your political capital. Why would you want to spend your political capital on something that frankly does not matter? It will not make food more affordable for nine million New Yorkers. It will be a cute little thing for like a couple hundred people who live near it. Why are you wasting your time on it?Kaneene: The base wants it. So he has to—while he's doing all the efficient and effective things that we want him to do, he does have to maintain his base. There are a lot of people who, if you ask them—casual people who don't follow politics—“name three things that Mamdani says he's going to do,” they would say: freeze the rent, fast and free buses, and grocery stores. They might not know anything else about him.Belvedere: And there's a listener who just chimed in and said: “I thought the idea was to bring fresh food to food deserts, not replace grocery stores.” That tees off a question about Mamdani that we'll find out as his mayorship continues: is this incrementalist approach—this sewer socialism, now recast in a positive light as something worth doing, this more bite-sized approach to reform—is it a beginning point to a far broader vision for how things need to be organized and done? Or is it the terminal point, where he's okay with one per borough?I think that question goes to how we interpret these actions. Are they a kind of red carpet for a farther-reaching democratic socialist reconfiguration? Or something you're just sprinkling in? Some people fear that it's the prelude to a far greater push. The way they're doing childcare is in that kind of phased, gradual way—by this year we're going to hit this amount of two-year-olds, then eventually we're going to cover down to six-week-old children, etc. So are we fine with the grocery stores because of their limited nature? If they were a prelude to a greater push, would people worry about them a little more?Johnson: Well, I'm sure there are some people out there who have that view, that Mamdani is doing this and we're going to build on it, it's going to be more and more of this kind of thing until we finally reach utopia. But reality has a way of smacking you in the face. The grocery stores are not going to be very successful, and therefore you won't get many more of them. The childcare is nice right now as a pilot for just 2,000 kids, but it's also very expensive even for just 2,000 kids—the price tag is well over a billion dollars. Somebody's going to have to pay for that, and it's not going to be the city. The city absolutely does not have that money. So it has to be the state.Belvedere: Can I tell you what he said? You evaluate it—you and Tibita. What do you think about this promise? He said: if you make less than a million dollars, you don't have to worry about any further taxes. And if the tax burden doesn't increase on people making fewer than a million dollars per year, that's something that many New Yorkers will find palatable.Johnson: Well, but it's also nonsense. Like—reality will slap you upside the head. This is the thing that Democrats have been doing that pisses me off, frankly. Mamdani says it's up to a million dollars. Cory Booker is trying to introduce some bill in Congress: if you make less than $120,000, you shouldn't have to pay income taxes. Everybody's saying no tax on tips, no tax on pet products, no tax on Social Security, no tax for the elderly, no tax on property. Everybody wants to be the anti-tax party, and say only millionaires and billionaires should ever have to pay a tax of any kind.Look, I'm not on the far left, but if you want to have a welfare state, if that's a thing you desire out of your government, the middle class has to pay taxes. There is no way to make the math work, that you can just tax billionaires exclusively and have this rich, lush, Scandinavian-style social democracy. It does not work. Reality will kick you in the face. You're going to eventually have to break your promises or deal with the reality that you can't deliver. Some of this stuff is fantasy land, and that's where it ultimately will come down.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—that's the main bulwark against any expectation or fear of him really bringing on real European-style socialism, is that he's not willing to tax the middle class. And that's the real reason we don't have to expect—or worry, to put it neutrally—that we'll have any such program in the United States, because a middle-class tax increase is just politically untenable.“This is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: ‘Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?'” — Jeremiah JohnsonBut to go back to the idea of the childcare pilot—actually, if you look at it, already the numbers of new seats are behind the ramp-up he had said he was going to do. And if you look at the budget, he's not budgeting for more money for pre-K seats. There's no more money. He's not increased the money coming from the state. And other examples—like the city FHEPS, which are basically housing vouchers—during the campaign he said he would support a lawsuit to increase housing vouchers, a classic demand subsidy which, as we know, is not good for increasing housing supply or lowering prices. But he came into office and now he's not going to increase housing subsidies. Again, the reality presented itself and he's made a choice. There are things he has to continue with as pilot programs, as ideological statements, that he's not going to bust the budget for or increase taxes on the middle class for. He's at least being advised correctly that even on taxing the wealthy, there's a maximum point of revenue—there's a point beyond which if you increase the marginal tax rate, you actually bring in less money. Taxing the rich has an actual objective limit, which he has to take into account because he cannot run a budget deficit at the city level.Belvedere: I want to ask about his relationship with Trump, but in the form of a thought experiment, to put the point provocatively.Imagine we're all sitting around 30 years from now talking about this era in politics, and we're talking to people who didn't live through it, telling them about the world-historical awfulness of Trump, and threat that he was—the would-be authoritarian who did more than any other president in our annals to degrade our institutions and veer us off a liberal democratic path, even in a fascist direction. Biden famously said “semi-fascist,” some people have moved beyond that [and have dropped the qualifier]. This is the kind of figure we're talking about. The man who defied federal judges to deport hundreds of people to foreign gulags. And they're now flipping through images and footage from this era and they see Mamdani in photos with Trump. They see and hear him in interviews, maybe downplaying his awfulness. He's had a recent interview where he said he has a “productive relationship” with Trump. Trump threatened to deport Mamdani—a U.S. citizen. What do you think about his stance toward Trump? Is there any worry there? Is it refreshing that he's able to just work with him despite his awfulness? I have some issues with the way he's approached the Trump relationship. What do you guys think?Johnson: Yeah—again, this is something I've said several times here, but the purpose of popularity is that it lets you kind of stab your own team in the back, at least a little bit. If a moderate Democrat went down to the White House and shook hands with Donald Trump and took a smiling picture with him and said, “I have a productive relationship with him and we're going to work together on important things,” the left would howl in outrage about how this is an unbelievable betrayal, that this person is a Republican in disguise enabling fascism, and so on. If Mamdani does it—he's popular. He's their guy. He's so charismatic and popular among his base that they're like, “oh cool, it's a strategic play, he's doing this for us.” It lets you get away with things that you otherwise couldn't get away with. From the perspective that Mamdani's got a strategic streak to him, it makes sense that he would rather the president not be persecuting the city, and so he's going to try to make that happen.Kaneene: I'm a consequentialist. He went to the White House with a goal of getting funding for the Sunnyside Yards project. He thought making that a Daily News cover would be a means to that end. He was correct. He went down there, took a picture, came back. During this time he was asked if he still thinks Trump is a fascist. He said yes. Trump has since lashed out at him on social media saying he's terrible. I don't think that privately he's saying nice things to Trump, or that Trump has any illusion that Mamdani likes him. I think Trump is actually impressed with Mamdani and kind of respects what he did—something that Trump could never do, which is get elected mayor of New York City, winning over the kind of elite Manhattan class that never liked Trump. He realizes Mamdani has a very powerful political base that he has to reckon with.So I don't have any issue with what he's done with Trump. He's constantly opining on issues—whether it's the Iran war or tariffs—on which he disagrees with Trump, doing so eloquently and powerfully on social media.Belvedere: Take the Iran war, for example. He told a story in an interview of a woman who was being harassed because she maybe looked Iranian or Middle Eastern, and it's a powerful story about how the war is creating divisions at home. He told it through a vivid narrative. You hear it and you start to gravitate toward his side because he's telling something that matters to human beings. He's a really capable politician. I'll give him that, and I want to see how he continues to navigate what is an extremely thorny proposition, but I'm a little worried. He's been able to keep ICE off New York City streets based on whatever overtures he's made to Trump—that is a real gain, for sure. He's essentially told Trump, “You can be the FDR to my LaGuardia.” He's casting Trump as someone who is actually going to make a positive contribution to New York. It's just too glowing, for me, about a guy who's undoing a lot of what we think of as important in America.In the most prominent interviews he's given [recently], he's backed off from that strong language about Trump. That's something to think about moving forward, how he handles that relationship. I would like a little more moral clarity from him when it comes to Trump, [even given that he has to have a working relationship with him].Kaneene: I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that he can say, “Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,” and morally there's been no compromise at all. I think that in a time where we have …Belvedere: … He was asked directly, “Is Trump trustworthy?” And he said, “I'm going to keep talking to him.” To me, it's like—are we at a point where we can't say he's not been trustworthy? He absolutely has not been trustworthy. Declining to say he's untrustworthy … it's just a small warning to me that he's not willing to interact with Trump in the way Trump deserves.Kaneene: Yeah, but—it might be the case that he feels he can trust what Trump says to him in a personal meeting. That might genuinely be true. And he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.Johnson: It's just, what are you trying to accomplish? Is anyone's life better off because he called Trump a fat pig who deserves to die? What are we talking about here? It would be one thing if he was being like, “Well, Trump is going to help us fund this housing project, so we're going to help him with ICE in the city.” But he's not doing that. He's just being less than maximally mean.Belvedere: We're almost out of time, so let's get from you guys your broadest possible assessment of his mayorship so far. A hundred days in, a little more than that now, what do we think? What's your assessment?Johnson: Given what I expected out of him, seven out of ten so far.Belvedere: Tibita?Kaneene: I'd give him a B so far. A big reason—we'll see what happens with the city budget and with the rent freeze. Those are, I think, the two things for the first year. He has a chance to move to a B-minus/C-plus or up to a B-plus in the next 60 days based on those two things.Belvedere: What would it look like for him to crush the next part of the year, from your perspective?Kaneene: On the budget, on the merits, I think the city council is correct. If he came around to that, that would be a big deal. If he followed through on proposing substantive property tax reform—which I think he will do eventually—but if he did that, that would be a big deal.Johnson: That's the white whale of New York politics, actually reforming our property tax system.Kaneene: In particular, if he got rid of the tax disadvantage for multifamily homes, I think that part is doable. That would be a big deal.Johnson: If you're outside New York City, you should just know our property tax system is a mess. We have high property taxes, but beyond the fact that they're high—maybe that's fair, New York does a lot of things—the system itself is just a confusing maze. The valuations are all over the place. There's just weird stuff all over the place with our property tax system. Every mayor would love to regularize it, normalize it. And there's enough special exceptions that it's really hard to do without people getting furiously angry who benefit from the special exceptions. So if he could get that done—holy crap, yeah.Kaneene: Yeah. Speaking of pissing off some supporters—I think he has the political capital to piss off some homeowners in order to reduce the costs for apartment dwellers. I think he can do that, especially if he's seen as someone who is freezing the rent and doing the grocery stores and what have you.Belvedere: Jeremiah, one last question for you. You're a culture watcher. You spot trends and memes and people's reactions to politics. What do you think it is about Mamdani—and some of the others in his cohort—that they seem to do really well with younger people? What can liberal politicians learn from this cohort? They have vastly different characteristics—Bernie Sanders is an old white dude, Mamdani is very different—and yet they have the same kind of buzz and ability on that front. What can liberal politicians do better to match that?Johnson: Yeah, I mean, some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself.But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, “To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.” And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.Belvedere: That wraps up our time together today. Thank you guys for joining me. I'm Berny, senior editor at The UnPopulist. Tibita is the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. And Jeremiah Johnson is co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism, and his newsletter is excellent. Thanks for joining. See you next time.Thanks for reading The UnPopulist! Subscribe to support our project.© The UnPopulist, 2026Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.We welcome your reactions and replies. Please adhere to our comments policy. Get full access to The UnPopulist at www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

Gary Dorrien is spending six weeks teaching the history of Christian social ethics in America — and this week Aaron and I turned the lens on Gary himself, which he immediately identified as the worst session of the class. What followed was an hour of Gary tracing his own formation from a kid on Union Road in Midland who couldn't stop staring at the crucifix, through graduate school, liberation theology, democratic socialism, and fifty years of theological labor held together by Rauschenbusch's conviction that capitalism has overdeveloped our selfish instincts and shrunk our capacity for public ends. The crucifix, a seven-year-old on railroad tracks, and why the moral influence theory was second nature before Gary knew it was a theory Going to mass every morning at Union Seminary while reading Barth, Tillich, and Niebuhr — and the Jesuit friends who told him he was obviously a Protestant Gustavo Gutiérrez reading Rauschenbusch for the first time and asking why Americans don't talk about this treasure James Loder, a thousand-page manuscript, and the line "maybe you can find the book in here" His love Brenda — and why Gary can say almost nothing else except that his is a story of being saved by love and grace Why Hegel still grips him fifty years later — and why most people only know the wrong Hegel The six interpretive traditions of Hegel and why the theological-metaphysical one is the one most seminaries quietly abandoned William Temple, Whitehead, and why Gary became an Anglican almost entirely on the strength of one book Capitalism is bad for us and a catastrophe for the planet — a blunt response to a pastor whose congregation looks like a list of what capitalism does wherever it lands Purity politics, DSA, AOC, and why ridicule works but isn't good for us The flickering Galilean vision — and why it keeps flickering not despite being wrong but because it's right Previous Episodes with Gary or Aaron the Niebuhr You Thought You Knew What Would a New Abolition Be? Gary Dorrien on the Black Social Gospel, Ida B. Wells & Reverdy Ransom Social Ethics for This Moment What God Do They Worship In There? The Black Social Gospel and the Crisis of American Christianity Theological Ethics & Liberal Protestantism James Cone and the Emergence of Black Theology The Future of Faith & Justice  Theology for Action The Sacred, The Political, and Why We're All Vulnerable Come keep thinking with us — ⁠Theology Beer Camp 2026⁠ This is exactly what we will be sitting with at ⁠Theology Beer Camp this October 8–10 in Kansas City⁠. Our theme this year is the God-podcalypse. Cornell West is coming. So are a lot of your favorite theologians and podcasters and six hundred of your soon-to-be-favorite people. We are going to think together about what it means to be a people of faith in catastrophic times — without deodorizing the catastrophe, and without giving despair the last word. Don't wait. → ⁠TheologyBeer.Camp JOIN ⁠⁠THE CLASS - Theology for Troublemakers: Christian Social Ethics from the Margins⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This 6-week online course, led by Dr. Gary Dorrien and Dr. Aaron Stauffer, recovers the radical tradition of Christian social ethics — from Reverdy Ransom and Reinhold Niebuhr to James Cone and the Welfare Rights Movement — and asks what faithfulness demands of us right now. Weekly lectures, live Q&A conversations, guest lecturers, and an online community included.

In the US, May Day is a traditional day of solidarity with workers. Itnrecent years, support for immigrants has been a major theme, with an increased emphasis this year in opposing the attacks by ICE and in solidarity with those killed by ICE in Minneapolis. I covered two events in Albany, The first was a community solidarity picnic and rally in Washington Park, with many groups participating, including We Are Revolutionary, Palestinian Rights Committee, various DSA chapters, United Tenants, Green Party, Capital District Sanctuary Committee, and Black Lives Matter. We unfortunately lost our interview with BLM but we hear from Greg Giorgio of the Industrial Workers of the World; Pater LaVenia of the Green Party; and Saturn from the Porcupines. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

The EU escalated its DSA probe against Meta over child safety failures on Instagram and Facebook. OpenAI has effectively abandoned its Stargate JV, China suspended new robotaxi licenses after a Baidu outage, and the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off with opening arguments. The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services (Bloomberg) YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 (The Verge) Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to "build more compute" (FT) Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March (Bloomberg) OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (Wired) Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because "it is not okay to steal a charity" and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alan Skorski recently interviewed Award-winning journalist and author of the watchdog Jewish news Substack, AFTER OCTOBER 7, Kevin Deutsch, to talk about the new state of America where Jews are being targeted by both the far left and far right. The interview opened with Skorski stating that deep blue states like NY elected Mamdani for Mayor in NYC, while in a solid red state like Florida, antisemite James Fishback is running as a GOP candidate for Governor while Dan Blizerian is challenging Jewish Republican Randy Fine for his Congressional seat. According to Deutsch, the Far left began their campaign against Israel as part of their “social justice” agenda, promoting the blood-libel accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. On the far right, antisemites like James Fishback, running for Governor in Florida, exploited the left's antisemitism to advance their own vitriol against Jews. Deutsch revealed that so-called America-ONLY Fishback has received substantial donations form Democratic Muslims who support his antisemitism. According to Deutsch, the Democrats are done with Israel as was evidenced by 40 Democrat Senators who supported Bernie Sanders' bill to stop all military aid to Israel. Deutsch said that the GOP must put up a firewall to stop people like Fishback, or Israel will have no support in America, and Jews will be isolated. On drawing parallels between America today and 1930's Germany, Skorski said that Hitler created the “Nazi movement,” whereas today, movements have been created to turn the government against Israel. Deutsch said that Israel is being attacked by a professional propaganda campaign funded by Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, and supported by other left-wing NGO's that have overwhelmed Israel and their ability to fight the destructive information war. “The DSA, Democratic Socialist of America, like the Nazis, are employing a purity test” according to Deutsch, where opposing Israel, regardless of any other issue, is mandatory. The DSA is seating candidates at every level in every contest in America. Whether it's the school board or local civil rights commissions, the DSA are getting their candidates in. It's a bottom-up movement that is turning Jews into proxies for Israel. On the topic of AIPAC-TRACKER, which posts which candidates receive funding from AIPAC, the 2-person group is made up of a Marxist and Groyper. They have singled out AIPAC in order to strip Jews of their civil rights to support Israel. Kevin Deutsch talked about “tokenization,” where he cited J Street, Rahm Emmanuel, and disappointingly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who, through their public bashing of Israel, have created a “social permission structure” to the left to bash Israel, and by extension, the Jews. The Jewish Truth Bomb 29APR2026 - PODCAST

Kevin Martinez grew up in a baseball-loving family in New Jersey, and the love of the game propelled him to a career in the big leagues. An opportunity with the Seattle Mariners sent him across the country in his early 20s, and after a brief stint back east, a love of Seattle and its MLB franchise lured him back. After spending decades directing marketing with the Mariners, he became president of business operations in 2025. Jon and Kevin talk about how going to a Yankees game led him to Seattle; his experiences with Ken Griffey Jr., Ichiro and others; the excitement for the 2026 season after last year's post-season run; how technology is changing the game; the Mariners position in the community; how the team handled the Ichiro statue reveal and much more. Join us for Seattle City Makers with Jon Scholes and guest Kevin Martinez.This episode is sponsored by MCNW Advisory Partners and DSA members Matt Van Beek and Chris Jay. Join them as they host their inaugural Seattle Summer Soirée on June 4. Request access here: https://partiful.com/e/C7TNvm4KLOL4w0HnllFi

Johann sieht sich im Krankenhaus mit einem mysteriösen Besucher konfrontiert, der aus einer anderen Realität zu stammen scheint. Als Kasi und Peter zurückkehren, entspinnen sich vor ihren Augen schier unglaubliche Offenbarungen.Du hörst die Kerkerkumpels, das Pen & Paper Hörspiel. Die Geschichte, die du hörst, ist live improvisiert. Ob unseren Charakteren eine Aktion gelingt, entscheiden die Würfel!Intro/Outro:Sprecherin: Carolin SabathSound- & Musikquellen:"Neon Drive" by tabletopaudio.com"Stakeout (Music Only)" by tabletopaudio.com"Weirder Things" by tabletopaudio.com"Weirder Things 2" by tabletopaudio.com"Winter Encampment (Ambience only, no Activity)" by tabletopaudio.comAll sounds from tabletopaudio.com are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).Mehr Infos zu unseren Aktionen und Werbepartnern findest du auf https://kerkerkumpels.de/links/aktionen/Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Ralph welcomes Professor Nicholas Chater, co-author of “It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems.” Then, as most of the media turns its attention to Iran, we return to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and welcome back Dr. Feroze Sidhwa to break down his three-part series published in Zeteo called “The Truth About Gaza's Dead.”Nick Chater is Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School. He has written and co-written more than two hundred research papers and six books, including It's on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We're to Blame for Society's Deepest Problems (co-written with George Loewenstein).I was on a UK government committee as the representative of behavioural science for six years, where my role was (at least I understood my role to be) coming up with smart-aleck ideas about what individual nudges or bits of useful information we could give to the public—how that would help people reduce their carbon emissions. And I came away from that experience extremely chastened. Because almost all the interesting issues were nothing to do whatsoever with individual behavior. They were all about big systemic changes… And the shock for me was realizing that the tools that I was hoping to wield were in fact completely ineffective.Nick ChaterI think it's absolutely true that many of the things that behavioral scientists are supposedly “discovering” [are] the things that campaigners and activists and indeed people in the political world generally and journalists intuitively have long known, and indeed probably have good evidence for. It's simply— it's sort of a sad process of trailing-along-behind which I think the academic world has been engaged in, where we've been slowly realizing that things that everybody else knew initially are actually true after all.Nick ChaterOne of the most powerful things that each of us has is the ability to propagate our own perspective and to campaign for change…I think getting people pulling together and pushing for change can be incredibly powerful. So seeing ourselves as citizens who are actively able to have our voice, make our voices heard, I think that's where the real power lies. And I think that the campaigners and political activists and so on have always known this. And of course, also, big businesses have always known this too. And they certainly don't want us to be doing too much of that. They want us to be focusing on quite the opposite. They want us to be focusing on our own gardens and not worrying about the big picture. They don't want organized opposition.Nick ChaterDr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is also a humanitarian surgeon who has worked in Palestine, Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He most recently volunteered at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Gaza. He was blocked from entering Gaza by Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service in November 2025.In the first 25 days of the assault on Gaza, more children were killed than in the entire worst year of conflict that Airwars had ever studied previously, which was Syria in 2016. In the first 25 days in Gaza, between 2,200 and 2,600 children were killed in Gaza, compared to 1,900 in Syria. So again, if you adjust for the size of the population (because Syria is a much bigger country than Gaza is a territory), the rate of killing of children in Gaza was 71 to 142 times higher than it was in the worst year on record for children in conflict—Syria in 2016.Dr. Feroze SidhwaGaza is a place where infants freeze to death if they are not sheltered. Well, there are no sheltered infants in Gaza for any practical purposes. They're all unsheltered. So we have a list of the actual names of a dozen or two dozen children who have actually frozen to death…And there is shelter—ready-made mobile shelters for hundreds of thousands of people right outside of Gaza. It's in Egypt and it's in Jordan. The only thing that's stopping anybody from bringing it in is the US and Israel…This is just dastardly. We should think about it for a second—we (meaning Americans) [are] living in a country where neither political party seems to care that we are freezing infants to death.Dr. Feroze SidhwaRight now, the Israelis are blocking cough medicine from going into Gaza. And the reason (they say) is because it contains glycerin. Now, glycerin, in theory, can be used to make explosives. But it's one picogram or something—it's just part of a pill or the syrup that goes into it, right? This is children's cough medicine. The idea that Hamas or Islamic Jihad or anybody else in Gaza has the laboratory equipment and facilities that would be needed to extract the 0.01% of glycerin that's in a pill or a medical syrup to then make a bomb is beyond idiotic. Furthermore, we all know that there's (and I'm speaking literally) hundreds of tons of unexploded Israeli bombs—actually I should say unexploded US bombs—all over the Gaza Strip. That's where Hamas gets all of its explosives from. It just repurposes unexploded Israeli munitions. So all of this is just sheer nonsense.Dr. Feroze SidhwaNews 4/24/26* Our top stories this week have to do with people losing their jobs. First up, Apple CEO Tim Cook – the handpicked successor of Steve Jobs who has led the tech giant for the past 15 years – announced this week that he would transition away from the CEO role. While he will remain on as Executive Chairman, John Ternus, the company's head of hardware engineering, will take over at the helm, PBS reports. Cook's tenure at Apple has received mixed evaluations, with many applauding the steady handed executive for adding an estimated $3.6 trillion in market value to the company, while others have critiqued his supposed lack of innovation compared to his predecessor. Some hope his more technical-minded successor will put more emphasis on product development moving forward. Like many tech CEOs, Cook went to great lengths to ingratiate himself with President Trump in his second term, donating $1 million to his inaugural committee and gifting Trump a glass plaque set in 24-karat gold last August.* Meanwhile, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned this week amid “an internal investigation into her conduct,” which included “instructing staff to buy her bottles of sauvignon blanc on work trips… [stashing] liquor in her office, [encouraging] young female staffers to ‘pay attention' to her father and husband, [having] an affair with a member of her security detail, and [arranging] work travel to visit family and friends,” per Vox. For the time being, the Labor Department will be headed by Keith Sonderling, whom POLITICO calls a “quintessential Washington insider who is well-connected in the capital's Republican circles and his home state of Florida.” Sources quoted in this piece identify Sonderling as a key behind-the-scenes player in the administration whose accumulated influence “extends well beyond DOL.” The choice of Chavez-DeRemer, a former Congresswoman who was seen as perhaps the most labor-friendly Republican in the House, was supported at the time by Trump-aligned Teamster boss Sean O'Brien; her ouster therefore, represents the latest humiliating setback for his strategy of cozying up to Trump to win favorable treatment for his membership. In the words of a recent Current Affairs piece published before the downfall of Chavez-DeRemer, “Sean O'Brien Sold Labor to Trump, and Got Nothing.”* In the House, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned her seat this week, just minutes before the House Ethics Committee was set to weigh punishment for the Congresswoman, whom the panel had previously found guilty of “a slew of ethics violations, including accusations that she stole millions in pandemic relief funds and used it to bolster her 2021 campaign,” according to CNN. Cherfilus-McCormick was one of the four Members of Congress included in the proposed bipartisan expulsion deal some weeks ago, along with Representatives Swalwell, Gonzales, and Mills. With the first two gone, a tremendous amount of pressure is sure to be exerted on Congressman Mills to resign as well. Prior to resigning, Cherfilus-McCormick was already facing a stiff primary challenge from young progressive Elijah Manley. Now, it seems her seat – representing hundreds of thousands in Broward and Palm Beach counties – could remain vacant until a new member is sworn in next January, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unlikely to call a special election before then.* Also in Congress, Axios reports Representative David Scott of Georgia, a powerful Black Georgia Democrat who served in the lower house for over 20 years, passed away this week at age 80. Scott, who rose to become the first Black chair of the key House Committee on Agriculture, had filed to run again in 2026 despite rumored resistance from his colleagues. His death leaves Georgia's 13th district without representation in the House and amounts to a stunning fourth death-based Democratic House vacancy in the past year. Like the ones that preceded it, this must be seen as a bright red warning signal to Democratic leadership.* In DC more broadly, the employment picture looks even worse. According to a new report in the Guardian, the combined purging of 300,000 jobs from the federal government – the piece notes this is the “region's largest employer” – by Elon Musk's absurd Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, with another 13,000 job cuts in the private sector, has left DC with the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 6.7%. With little sign of increased hiring in the public or private sectors, there is no indication this trend will reverse itself any time soon.* Elsewhere in the DMV, this week Virginia voters approved a referendum to amend the state constitution allowing Democrats to redraw the state's congressional districts in their favor. Currently, Virginia Democrats hold six districts to the Republicans' five; under the new map, Democrats are poised to hold 10 districts and the Republicans just one. This is the latest episode in the mid-decade redistricting fight begun last year, when Texas Republicans sought to redraw the Lone Star state's maps to be more favorable to the GOP. This set off a stampede of states seeking to redraw their district lines. Now, in light of the Virginia referendum passing, Florida is threatening to redraw their maps to the detriment of Democrats there. The Hill reports House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, taking a sharper tone than usual, responded to news of the Florida redistricting attempt with a statement reading “If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump's dummymander in Texas…[he vowed] maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”* In California, the downfall of Eric Swalwell has resulted in the unexpected rise of another candidate – former Congressman, California Attorney General, and Biden-era Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Between April 10th and April 22nd, Becerra surged from a polling average of under 4% to an average of 13% – and in some polls, even moved into first place. While Becerra seeks to consolidate this spike in support, progressives are airing long-held grievances. David Sirota, former Bernie Sanders campaign advisor and founder of the Lever, cited that publication's 2021 report on how “As California AG, [Becerra] demanded the HHS secretary use existing law to lower medicine prices - and then he became HHS secretary & literally refused to do that.” Others have pointed out that, according to Transparency USA, Becerra's campaign has received massive donations from the likes of Chevron. Progressive billionaire Tom Steyer on the other hand this week received the endorsement of Our Revolution, closely aligned with Bernie Sanders, which noted that “Yes, Tom Steyer is a billionaire. But it matters what he is doing with that power: pushing for taxes on the wealthy, expanding universal programs, and dismantling corporate influence in our politics.”* In another case of politics making strange bedfellows, the Chicago Tribune reports the political arm of Planned Parenthood is making an endorsement in the race to succeed retiring Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García in Illinois 4th congressional district. Except, in this case, the reproductive rights group is not endorsing the Democrat in the race. Listeners may recall that Congressman García was sharply criticized for his maneuvering to ensure his chief of staff Patty García would be the Democratic nominee. This has forced other potential aspirants to run as independents. These include DSA-aligned Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-López and activist Mayra Macías – the latter of whom won the Planned Parenthood Action endorsement this week. The Tribune notes that Macías served on the board of Planned Parenthood Action until the beginning of this year. In a statement, Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson called Macías “a proven leader,” who “will be unrelenting in the fight to protect access to sexual and reproductive health care.”* Turning to international news, in South Africa, leftist politician and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison this week for “firing a rifle in ⁠the air at a party rally,” Al Jazeera reports. Unsurprisingly, given that the EFF is the fourth largest political party in South Africa, this case has become a rallying cry for Malema's supporters, with those same supporters accusing the prosecution of being politically motivated. Presiding Magistrate Twanet Olivier disputes this, contending that it “is not a political party who has been convicted here … it is a person, an individual.” Malema's lawyers immediately applied for – and were granted – leave to appeal, but if these appeals fail Malema could be barred from serving as a Member of Parliament.* Finally, in more positive news from abroad, Reuters reports that the much-trumpeted summit of the global Left held in Barcelona this week – designed to help progressives rally their forces to defeat modern reactionary Right-wing nationalism characterized by figures like Trump – drew over 6,000 attendees from over 40 countries. Headline speakers included Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Brazilian President Lula, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. From the United States, an ecclectic group addressed the summit, ranging from video messages of support from Hilary Clinton to Bernie Sanders to Zohran Mamdani, with an in-person address by Minnesota Governor and former Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Walz. A recurrent theme, hammered home by Isabel Allende, former Senate president ​of Chile and daughter of Salvador Allende, Chile's leftist president ousted in a U.S.-backed coup and replaced with the dictator Augusto Pinochet, was that the left has become too distant from the daily concerns of workers, stating in no uncertain terms that “It's unimaginable to fight against the right ‌if we can't ⁠get closer to ordinary people.”This has been Francesco DeSantis with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Today we've got Bethany Andres-Beck, a DSA member who is running for Congress in the 6th District of Massachusetts, on to discuss why that state and the House of Representatives could use a nonbinary trans socialist with a lot of coding experience. Enjoy!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comJake Siegel talks about his new book The Information State, which explores how government and technology joined forces over the past century to squash dissent. Siegel is an editor at Tablet, an original thinker with great writing chops (our kinda guy), and he talks with Nancy and Sarah about the tools of information warfare he saw while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, how the “war or terror” evolved into the “war on disinformation,” why Obama still has a lot to answer for, and the bizarre story of how a review of his book (on censorship, keep in mind) was mysteriously taken down. Also discussed:* Jake has the best voice* “I held my anger very dear …”* The hoax of the century, explained* Cynical v. honest deception* Why the DSA will always run your request up the comms chain* What is it that constitutes property online?* How much damn time did we spend on the Steele dossier?* Did Jake go soft on Trump?* Nancy credits Jake with getting her to report on Portland* Institutional journalism is valuable (NR: Suck it, Nick Sortor)* “The recognizable aesthetics and attitudes of American manhood by figures as diverse as Andy Griffith, Muhammad Ali, and Kurt Cobain.”* “I feel like Dallas has the best-dressed people in America.”Plus, R. Crumb comix, a movie that defies categorization, a visit to West Point, and much more!Fight the digital leviathan. Become a paid subscriber.

Welcome back to The Majority Report   On today's program:   Virginia voters narrowly vote to approve to redistrict the state which could result in flipping 4 house seats for Democrats.   Chris Rabb, who is a DSA-backed candidate running for Pennsylvania's 3rd district joins Sam to discuss his platform and campaign. Check out chrisrabb.com to learn more and find ways to support Chris.   Katie Blankenship, an immigration attorney from Sanctuary of the South, a grassroots legal services organization that provides critical, affordable legal defense to immigrant families affected by detention, deportation, and abuse, joins Sam to discuss abuses at the Alligator Alcatraz ICE detention center in Florida. To find resources or ways to help those targeted by ICE in your area you can visit Freedom for immigrants, American Immigration Council or visit the ACLU to find your local affiliate.   Lindsey Boylan, a candidate for New York City Council's 3rd district backed by Mayor Mamdani. For more on Lindsey's campaign check out Lindsey for NYC.   In the Fun Half:   Kash Patel is in a lot of hot water over his recent allegations of drinking and partying during his tenure as director of the FBI. Seems like his job is on thin ice.   Tim Pool is an idiot and that is very much exemplified in his discussion on the Virginia redistricting. Turns out his take on gerrymandering was very different when Texas did it for republicans.   All that and more.   To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: ZOCDOC: Go to Zocdoc.com/MAJORITY and download the Zocdoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. AURA FRAMES: Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at AuraFrames.com/MAJORITY. Promo Code MAJORITY BLUELAND: get up to 30% off at Blueland.com/MAJORITY. SUNSET LAKE CBD: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.

Join Audra and Mason as they sit down with DSA National Co-Chair, Ashik Siddique. We talk about Ashik's journey through political organizing and how DSA has grown over the past decade. milwaukee.dsawi.org/calendar dsausa.org/join creamcitysocial@gmail.com

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Well here we are you guys, I am so excited to dive into Proverbs again, when I studied this book it was ALL THE WAY BACK in episode 5. In todays episode we will be looking deeply into who “the simple” ones are, “the fools” and those who are wise and how Solomon categorizes these types of people. Solomon also addresses those who are these types of people, where they can go to grow from where they are at. Then in verses 23-33 a lot of people have a hard time not just acknowledging the words given but interpreting them as well, I share my thoughts of how to rationally acknowledge and interpret verses 23-33 as well as looking at great commentary by Abraham Cohen and Derek Kidner as well. Hope this study blesses you all, all my wonderful listeners!josiahmovius10@yahoo.comAbraham Cohen commentaries: https://bestcommentaries.com/author/abraham-cohen/Proverbs 1 Blue Letter Bible Hebrew manuscript:https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/pro/1/1/s_629001Proverbs 1 David Guzik commentary:https://www.blueletterbible.org/comm/guzik_david/study-guide/proverbs/proverbs-1.cfmDerek Kidner commentaries:https://www.ivpress.com/kidner-classic-commentariesWilliam MacDonald complete commentary: https://www.christianbook.com/believers-bible-commentary-second-edition/william-macdonald/9780718076856/pd/076856?utm_source=bing&kw=%2Fpd%2F&mt=b&dv=c&event=PPCSRC&p=1215904&cb_src=bing&cb_typ=search&cb_cmp=313107482&cb_adg=1241348712202415&cb_kyw=%2Fpd%2F&msclkid=f2de738a34811feb4e421a36449c4f0d&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=B_Search%3A%20NB%20Dynamic%20Search%20Ads&utm_term=%2Fpd%2F&utm_content=DSA%20detail%20pagesEdward Michael Zerr complete commentary:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M7QW9CP?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tpbk_tkinBible portal site:https://www.bibleportal.com/commentariesJohn MacArthur study Bible is just a easy search up!

In this episode, I'll give my first hand account of what happened with Trump this weekend. Also, the deal with Iran evolves and CA politics go wild. Find the video podcast of The Dan Bongino Show exclusively on Rumble at ⁠⁠https://Rumble.com/bongino⁠⁠ The Great Migration Continues ⁠⁠https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-great-migration-continues-6c5392a1⁠⁠ Far-left DSA candidates' terrifying views on LAPD – as they plot hostile takeover ⁠⁠https://nypost.com/2026/04/10/us-news/far-left-dsa-candidates-terrifying-views-on-lapd-as-they-plot-hostile-takeover/⁠⁠ Sponsors: All Family Pharmacy - ⁠⁠allfamilypharmacy.com/bongino⁠⁠ code: Bongino10 Patriot Mobile - ⁠⁠patriotmobile.com/dan⁠⁠ call 972-PATRIOT Ziprecruiter - ⁠⁠ziprecruiter.com/bongino⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This one is a preview of something I've been wanting to do for a long time — a class on the history of Christian social ethics that's actually useful for the moment we're in. Cornell West calls Gary Dorrien the greatest living Christian social ethicist, and after spending any amount of time with him, you understand why. Gary and Aaron Stoffer joined me to give people a taste of what's coming in Theology for Troublemakers, and what they gave us was a genuine history lesson that landed like a live wire. We started with Gary's own formation — a rural Michigan kid who never took a school book home until second semester senior year, who walked into a Catholic church and couldn't stop staring at the figure on the cross, who read a biography of King in ninth grade three times and went looking for the theologians King mentioned in the public library and found none of them. That kid became one of the most important social ethicists of our time. From there we moved into Norman Thomas's warning — that American populism always surges toward a dictator who scapegoats the vulnerable — and what the left's recurring failure to build cross-racial, multi-issue coalitions has to do with where we are now. Gary named the nineties as the most demoralizing decade of his life: TINA, triangulation, NAFTA, three-strikes, welfare gutted, and a Democratic Party that treated its progressive base as something to prove it could overcome. He was not gentle about Clinton, or Obama, or the way purity politics has consistently kneecapped the left's ability to organize. He was hopeful, carefully, about cooperatives, about DSA's organizing culture in New York, and about the strange opening the current moment creates for public theology. The class runs the whole history — from the Black Social Gospel and the new abolitionists to the Christian realists to Yoder and Dorothy Day — and Aaron frames it all in terms of what congregations can actually do with it. Go to homebrewclasses.com. This is the class for right now. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠UPCOMING ONLINE CLASS - Theology for Troublemakers: Christian Social Ethics from the Margins⁠⁠⁠⁠ The injustices we face are immense — but they are not unique. Previous generations confronted the same powers with theological conviction and strategic brilliance. The question is whether we'll learn from them. This 6-week online course, led by Dr. Gary Dorrien and Dr. Aaron Stauffer, recovers the radical tradition of Christian social ethics — from Reverdy Ransom and Reinhold Niebuhr to James Cone and the Welfare Rights Movement — and asks what faithfulness demands of us right now. Weekly lectures, live Q&A conversations, guest lecturers, and an online community included.

Jacobin and the DSA sow complacency to demobilize opposition to war against Iran / Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, as US media demands renewed onslaught against Iran / Trump's selective service filing prepares for activation of US military draft

This week at the Indypendent News Hour we talk to Peter Sterne from City & State for updates on all you need to know about Mamdani, DSA and more.

Lou is joined by Stu Smith, investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute, who has spent months going deep inside the DSA — Democratic Socialists of America. What he's found is far more radical than the "point of personal privilege" memes would suggest.  TOPICS COVERED: 00:00 — Intro: Who is Stu Smith and what is the Manhattan Institute?03:00 — What most people get wrong about the DSA 07:00 — The DSA's internal "right wing" — people who just believe in elections 11:00 — The Red Rabbits: DSA's new armed security task force 16:00 — The Doctor Phil clip: Black Redguard's origin story 20:00 — DSA's global travel: Cuba, Colombia, Sweden, Brazil, and beyond 26:00 — The F-35 supply chain and DSA's quasi-national security threat 31:00 — Salting: how DSA plants operatives inside companies to organize 36:00 — Zoran Mamdani, the Overton window, and how DSA took NYC 42:00 — DSA's youth wing: getting a Cornell student on Ithaca City Council 47:00 — DSA's social media machine and what the political establishment can't replicate 52:00 — The Calla Walsh pipeline: from DSA delegate to Hezbollah apartment in Lebanon 01:00:00 — North Korea tourism, tanky influencers, and where the far left is trending 01:06:00 — The Weathermen are still active — Stu has been on Zoom calls with Bill Ayers 01:12:00 — DSA's Iran statements and members rooting for the Ayatollah 01:18:00 — What to watch: Mayday, upcoming primaries, and the Socialism Conference STU SMITH:Follow Stu on X: @thestustustudioManhattan Institute: https://www.manhattan-institute.org  Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy:https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r The Lou Perez Podcast:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU TheLouPerez.com |  info@thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez#DSA #DemocraticSocialists #Mamdani #Politics #Socialism #ManhattanInstitute #LouPerezPodcast #Communism #NYC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lou is joined by Harris Sockel, lead editor at Pirate Wires — the tech media outlet that actually likes technology. They cover AI replacing doctors, humanoid robots, data center myths, California's billionaire exodus, and why the media's doom-and-gloom coverage of tech keeps getting it wrong.  TOPICS COVERED: 00:00 — Intro: What is Pirate Wires? 04:30 — AI doom coverage vs. reality: why the scaremongers won't go full prepper 09:00 — Hill & Valley DC: when Capitol Hill meets Silicon Valley 14:00 — Lou's experience using Claude AI (press kits, writing courses, contracts) 20:00 — Can AI actually replace long-form journalism? Harris weighs in 26:00 — AI chatbots, teen suicides, and Spain's euthanasia case 33:00 — Humanoid robots: sex, cooking, and charging them in the hallway 42:00 — The data center water myth, debunked 50:00 — Nuclear power's comeback and what Biden got wrong on AI regulation 56:00 — Lou's doctor pulled up ChatGPT mid-appointment 01:02:00 — Self-driving cars and the future of driving as a rich-person hobby 01:08:00 — DSA activists at a Starbucks strike (who didn't work at Starbucks) 01:15:00 — California's wealth tax, billionaire flight, and "we left because of communists" 01:22:00 — SAG-AFTRA dues, union reality vs. union mythology  HARRIS SOCKEL & PIRATE WIRES: Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com Follow Harris: @harrissockel  Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r  The Lou Perez Podcast on all platforms: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU  TheLouPerez.com |  info@thelouperez.com  Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez #AIpodcast #PirateWires #TechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanoidRobots #FreeSpeech #LouPerezPodcast #CaliforniaExodus #SketchComedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, here we are, you guys, finishing up this revised study through the book of Galatians! Yes I am aware this episode is quite longer and I do apologize but I had so much I wanted to share with you guys, no worries if you are not able to listen to the whole thing! In today's episode I wanted to really break down what Paul is saying here by applying some personal testimonies and commentaries to clear things up.josiahmovius10@yahoo.com Greek manuscript for Galatians 6 on Blue Letter Bible:https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/gal/6/1/s_1097001David Guzik commentary through Galatians 6:https://www.blueletterbible.org/comm/guzik_david/study-guide/galatians/galatians-6.cfmJohn MacArthur study Bible:https://www.christianbook.com/page/bibles/study-bibles/macarthur-study-bible?utm_source=bing&kw=john macarthur study bible&mt=e&dv=c&event=PPCSRC&p=1229929&cb_src=bing&cb_typ=search&cb_cmp=70217458&cb_adg=509378308&cb_kyw=john macarthur study bible&msclkid=913160aaa5361ee9349d0916d5670c1e&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=B_Search: NB Bibles&utm_term=john macarthur study bible&utm_content=macarthurWilliam Macdonald commentary:https://www.christianbook.com/believers-bible-commentary-second-edition/william-macdonald/9780718076856/pd/076856?utm_source=bing&kw=/pd/&mt=b&dv=c&event=PPCSRC&p=1215904&cb_src=bing&cb_typ=search&cb_cmp=313107482&cb_adg=1241348712202415&cb_kyw=/pd/&msclkid=f2de738a34811feb4e421a36449c4f0d&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=B_Search: NB Dynamic Search Ads&utm_term=/pd/&utm_content=DSA detail pagesBible Portal site:https://www.bibleportal.com/commentariesCraig Keener published by IVP “Bible background New Testament commentary:”https://www.christianbook.com/bible-background-commentary-testament-second-edition/craig-keener/9780830824786/pd/824786?en=bing-pla&event=SHOP&kw=academic-40-60%7C824786&p=1179517&p=1234080&dv=c&cb_src=google&cb_typ=shopping&cb_cmp=590197337&cb_adg=1232553569686167&cb_kyw=&snav=GMERCH&msclkid=7c1da4830e911b40fc53cd3f7fc792bd&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=B_Shopping%20Other%20-%20Top%20Products&utm_term=4580634181561190&utm_content=Other%20top%20productsMike Winger videos on Christmas being “pagan”:https://biblethinker.org/?s=Christmas+

Today we have Rep. Rick Krajewski, who represents the 188th District--entirely contained within West Philadelphia--in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A DSA member and longtime organizer, Rick primaried the longtime incumbent in 2020, and has spent the last several years learning the political ropes. We discuss the state of play in Harrisburg, what he has learned and gotten done in office, the prospects of Democrats taking full control of the state government in the elections this year, and more. Enjoy!

On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid explains being detailed by the woke leftist media in this city as a "notable Islamophobic" for his opposition to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his policies that are ruining New York City. Rosenberg then expands on The NYPD will be allowed to set up buffer zones around synagogues and other houses of worship under a controversial bill passed by the City Council Thursday — despite fierce opposition from Mayor Zohran Mamdani's DSA allies; New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, signing legislation on Wednesday to limit the use of face coverings for law enforcement, including federal ICE agents; the NYPD announcing increased security measures for Passover, which starts Wednesday at sundown; President Donald Trump saying yesterday he would sign an emergency order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggles to reach a deal to end the budget impasse that has jammed airports and left workers without paychecks; President Trump extended the deadline for negotiations with Iran and paused his threat to bomb Iranian energy facilities by another 10 days; and the Mets beating the Pittsburgh Pirates handedly yesterday in their season opener at Citi Field. Brian Kilmeade, Jennifer Harrison, Joe Tacopina, K.T. McFarland & Nicole Malliotakis join Sid on this Friday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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No matter how often Trump tries to change the subject, he keeps getting caught in his own attempted diversions. He blames Somali immigrants for importing bribery, corruption, and lawlessness while he sits behind the resolute desk taking a million dollar bribe to bitch about a new bridge. Or he showcases the US men's hockey team while his lying FBI director gets caught red-handed pretending he just happened to be in Italy when the team was playing. And the more Trump tries to run away from the Epstein case, the more blatant the administration's cover-up becomes. Plus, distancing from the craziest parts of the DSA is part of the anti-authoritarian project, Mamdani and AOC have avoided some of their fan base's worst impulses, Newsom put his name on a number of policies that will dog his ambitions, and the Dems need to reclaim improving public schools as one of their key issues.The Atlantic's Jon Chait joins Tim Miller.show notes Tim's 'Bulwark Take' on the Epstein records connected to Trump Jon on the new Michigan-Canada bridge Jon on the 2028 problems for Gavin Jon on the corrupt circumstances around Bari at CBS Tim on David Frum's podcast Tickets for our LIVE show in Austin on March 19. TheBulwark.com/Events.

Bruce Bruce joins Adam to discuss how growing up in a rough neighborhood shaped his sense of humor as well as managing a day job when he first started comedy. They get into Evander Holyfield's lost Gold Medal, house size, and how he never backed down from Mike Tyson. They conclude by talking about Quentin Tarantino's fearless writing and directing style. Be sure to check out Bruce Bruce's Netflix special which debuts on March 3rd! News Stories Covered: Trans Minnesota Dem bizarrely argues ‘queer' kids need access to porn sites for ‘educational' reasons, Somali community in MN demanding reparations over “ICE trauma”, Mamdani blasted for requiring 5 forms of ID to shovel snow while DSA opposes voter ID, Man Shot and Killed at Mar-a-LagoFOR MORE WITH BRUCE BRUCE:STANDUP SPECIAL: ‘I Ain't Playin'Available on Netflix March 3LIVE DATE:Liberty Funny Bone- Liberty Township, OH- Feb 27/28WEBSITE: Bruce-Bruce.comINSTAGRAM: @mybrucebruceFOR MORE WITH MIKE DAWSON:INSTAGRAM: @dawsangelesLIVE SHOWS: February 27 - Dallas, TX (2 shows)February 28 - Dallas, TX (2 shows)Thank you for supporting our sponsors:BetOnlineHomes.comoreillyauto.com/adamLimited Time Offer – Get Huel today with my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code [ADAM15] at huel.com/[ADAM15]. New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show! Pluto.tvSIMPLISAFE.COM/ADAMSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.