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Pat Johnston's Progressive Podcast covering Michigan politics and pop culture!

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This week, Erica Payne from @patrioticmillionaires.org stopped by to talk about taxing the rich to strengthen the working class. Hear the complete interview and episode! audioboom.com/posts/887016...

05.03.2026 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

03.03.2026 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1569    πŸ” 440    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 20

Third Way et al have made a, to be fair, defensible fetish of courting "working class" voters. Trouble is, those voters are figuring out it's the brokeness not the wokeness that's fucking them over. Third Way is trapped on a dead end street.

03.03.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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At a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, Donald Trump spent more time talking about his new ballroom than the recent deaths of at least six US service members amid his attack on Iran.

03.03.2026 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 354    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 11

There’s always money for war. War never needs to answer how it pays for itself.

02.03.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, Iran wasn’t an imminent threat, nor has it ever been an imminent threat, to the U.S. This is Israel telling America to start a war on its behalf. 6 Americans are dead for Israel & Saudi Arabia. I thought MAGA was America First?

02.03.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, Iran wasn’t an imminent threat, nor has it ever been an imminent threat, to the U.S. This is Israel telling America to start a war on its behalf. 6 Americans are dead for Israel & Saudi Arabia. I thought MAGA was America First?

02.03.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, and also understand how it's the Epstein Class's way of declaring war on the working class. The Epstein Class doesn't expect to be held accountable, and not only expects the working class to fight its wars for profit, but believes there's nothing we'll do to stop them.

02.03.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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But they said he was β€œThe peace president.” πŸ₯΄

01.03.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14549    πŸ” 6704    πŸ’¬ 1141    πŸ“Œ 546

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

28.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 7402    πŸ” 1830    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 56
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Tudor Dixon supports the genocidal Israeli regime. She supports YOUR kids to fight & die for Israel's wars. She supports YOUR tax dollars being spent on Israel's wars instead on the American working class. She's doesn't support an America First agenda. Let that sink in.

28.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe organizing principle of any society is for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.” The release-and covering-up-of The Epstein Flies is making me realize Mr. X wasn’t off-the-mark by much.

28.02.2026 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Michigan MAGA Republican Party is celebrating war today. But MAGA told me Dear Leader Trump was the β€œNo new wars” president. No money to fund rural hospitals, but plenty of money for billionaire defense contractors to profit from Israel’s wars. You guys are pathetic.

28.02.2026 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œClear and present danger to the United States.” Just tell the truth, and stop treating us like we’re dumb. Just say we’re using our military to fight Israel’s wars. Iran posed ZERO danger to the U.S.
ICE poses a serious danger to American citizens. Not Iran.

28.02.2026 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hakeem Jeffries is not it. He, and many other Democratic Party leaders, complain about process. But They support war with Iran even though the majority of their base does not.

28.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Working Class Movement w/ Michigan State Rep. Dylan Wegela #podcast #progressive #Democrats #Michigan #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Politics #News #DemocraticSocialism #DylanWegela #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #GordieHoweBridge #Eps...

Check-out this week's episode w/ Democratic State Rep. @dylanwegela.bsky.social. We talk Democratic Socialism, the fights against ICE concentration camps and hyper-scale data centers in Michigan. Plus, as a sports fan, I have my take on U.S. Men's Hockey & Trump.
audioboom.com/posts/886641...

27.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK.

The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party.

Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

27.02.2026 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7721    πŸ” 1300    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 85

Keir Starmer, again, is Welsh for "Gavin Newsom."

27.02.2026 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

NBC with a powerful story on the nightmare at America's concentration camp for children.

β€œI’m calling from the Dilley immigration center in Dilley, Texas. I’m calling for a little kid going through respiratory distress.”

β€œHe’s a 6-year-old male.”

β€œSixty?”

β€œSix-year-old.”

27.02.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

24.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3757    πŸ” 777    πŸ’¬ 223    πŸ“Œ 43
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They Haven't Even Started Spending Yet The terrifying math of money in politics.

All of the political power that billionaires have in America is only a small fraction of what they could have if they really start spending money.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-haven...

24.02.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Refuse to watch #SOTU tonight. No point. For those who do, keep an eye which Democrats either stand-up and clap, or applaud while sitting, when Dear Leader threatens war a/ Iran. Suddenly, Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t that bad for some Dems.

24.02.2026 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why did the BBC not bleep it out later? It bleeped out someone saying β€œFree Palestine.”

24.02.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The City of Romulus just passed a resolution against ICE’s new detention facility. Huge win for Michiganders. This is what it looks like when the People stand up. And we won’t stop pushing until ICE is abolished.

24.02.2026 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 16
Holding sign with paper cut images including: no secret police in USA 80% of the people ICE has arrested have NO criminal record fuck ICE

Holding sign with paper cut images including: no secret police in USA 80% of the people ICE has arrested have NO criminal record fuck ICE

Ramp up to city hall where no one is being let in signs including Vers Fight Fascism

Ramp up to city hall where no one is being let in signs including Vers Fight Fascism

Red sign with white stripes lyrics 

White Americans want nothing better to do. Won't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too. Icky Trump

Red sign with white stripes lyrics White Americans want nothing better to do. Won't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too. Icky Trump

Sign with Minnesota, Michigan in a heart solidarity with our sister

Sign with Minnesota, Michigan in a heart solidarity with our sister

Met someone today whose Dad was a medic in WWII and was in the first wave liberating a concentration camp.

Met someone else who lives across the street from where they want to build one in Michigan.

Met a lot of good folks fighting the good fight in Romulus tonight.

Fuck ICE.

24.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Monday Musing: Michigan Dems Must Oppose Data Centers in '26 #podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Michigan #datacenters #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovenmentCorruption #BigTech #AI #WorkingClass #YousefRabhi #Authoritarianism...

Here's my take on why Michigan Democrats MUST oppose data center expansion. #Michigan #politics #progressive #DataCenters #TechBillionaires #Authoritarianism #workingclass #Election2026 #democracy #leftoflansing audioboom.com/posts/886472...

23.02.2026 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is giving a speech in front of an american flag and says there are literally no words ALT: a woman is giving a speech in front of an american flag and says there are literally no words

So the U.S. men’s hockey team won gold for the first time since before I was born (I’m 43) & to celebrate they got drunk with the FBI director (πŸ€”) & laughed their asses off when the rapist in chief made a joke about β€œhaving to invite the women’s team” (who’ve won MORE gold than them) to SOTU?

Wow.

23.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4

So many people still believing in 2026 that Pete Buttigieg’s appearances on Fox News are helpful says a lot about liberal media illiteracy

23.02.2026 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

Anytime professional Detroit athletes tried to endear themselves with Dear Leader Trump, the teams descend into a mighty slump. I've waited nearly a decade for Red Wings playoff hockey. Why tempt fate, Dylan?

23.02.2026 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hoping Dylan Larkin of Detroit Red Wings sticks-up for the U.S. Women's Hockey Team, and refuses to attend the #SOTU, which will also be given by someone who continues to provide cover for billionaire buddies in the #EpsteinFiles.

23.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0