Best of the Left

#BestoftheLeft #1741: "Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, & Nepal"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1741

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On free speech and framing

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support
.
.
.
#podcast #progressive #politics #France #Nepal #UK

Our Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming.

#BestoftheLeft #1740: "Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1717

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1739: "The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1739

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the new cancel culture and bloodlust

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1738: "Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1738

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On Israel as the new Sparta

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1737: "State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before "

🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1737

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what our history can tell us about our present political conflict

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast

#BestoftheLeft #1736: "Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now"

🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1736

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the murder of Charlie Kirk

💙bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics #democrats

(next to a map of the 2,100 peaceful protests planned for October 18) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June.

It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map.

We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

This moment is a test. Donald Trump wants us to blink first and hand him over power.

We have too much to save to give in. Protecting the American people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts.

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

“Don’t be fat, bullying is ok again, buy my book”

AI Data Centers Use a Lot of Energy. You May Be Paying for It AI data centers are pushing up energy costs all over the US. On today’s Big Take podcast: an investigation into who's footing the bill.

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers.

In Virginia, it’s 37%.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#BestoftheLeft #1735: "Trump's Making Friends of Enemies & Enemies of Neighbors (Foreign & Domestic Wars)" (Aired: 9-6-25)

🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1735

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On encroaching fascism & the Boston Massacre

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #politics

#BestoftheLeft #1734: "Where is the Revolutionary, Anti-Fascist Art?"

🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1734

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the strength of diversity that comes through in art

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics #leftist #uspolitics

#BestoftheLeft #1733: "The Impossible Promise of Make American Healthy Again: MAHA vs MAGA"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1733

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why regulations are written in blood

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more.

▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E

💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1732: "It's Never Just About the Kids (Online Censorship, Age Verification, & the Project 2025 Agenda)"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1732

🎙 On the need to demand serious arguments about serious issues

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more.

▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E

💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1731: "Raw Power, the Presidency, the Courts, and Democracy in the Balance"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1731

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how fascists run interference

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

#podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics

NEW! SOLVED! Ep. #23 - “‘Buy Now Pay Later’ & Mass Consumer Manipulation” in which the team discusses the new culture of "buy now pay later," & much more.

▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: https://youtu.be/U8AQewmYi0E

💙 Support: https://www.bestoftheleft.com/support

Does that mean you don't think Trump uses rhetoric that scares his supporters in order to empower and enrich himself?

As for your accusation, I wonder why you assume to know more than me about the nature of fascism? I've done quite a bit of research on the topic in the past ten years.

I can understand why you’d think that. Do you understand why I would use those exact words to describe Trump’s relationship with his supporters? And I mean literally word for word.

Thanks for your input, we didn’t come up with our tagline for no reason.

Robert Reich The Failures of “Centrism”

History teaches us that the way to stand up to a dictator is to fight back against him, not capitulate to him.

Surrendering to tyranny invites more of it.

This moment we're in should not be met with a "moderate" response.

Luckily, some Democrats starting to understand this.

NEW! SOLVED! #18 - "How to Live Under Fascism" in which the team discusses the strange banality (for most) of life under fascism, "rituals of conformity," fascism's impact on the psyche, advice for living under authoritarianism, & more.

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KREp4HjaVk

#BestoftheLeft #1730: "The Axis of the Dark Personality Triad: Unfit Leaders and the Suffering They Cause"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1730

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why humanity is better than we seem and how we can save ourselves

💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

Catch up with #BestoftheLeft #1729: "Monthly-ish Mix™: Layers of Authoritarian Control and the Rising Resistance"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.com/1729

💙 Support: www.bestoftheleft.com/support

NEW! SOLVED! #18 - "How to Live Under Fascism" in which the team discusses the strange banality (for most) of life under fascism, "rituals of conformity," fascism's impact on the psyche, advice for living under authoritarianism, & more.

▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KREp4HjaVk

#BestoftheLeft #1728: "The Lawfare Presidency: The Case of Trump v. Journalism"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1728

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the threat of billionaires to democracy and society as a whole

💙 Support:bestoftheleft.com/support

#BestoftheLeft #1727: "Super-Powered Men For Good and Ill: Fascism, Media, and the Manosphere"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1727

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why supporting the rich and powerful is pathetic

💙 Support: bestoftheleft.com/support