The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen

watching the biggest loser doc after listening to @saucepodcast.bsky.social's new episode and everyone involved with making that show should be in jail

Interestingly enough, we already covered this on my podcast

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People have totally memory-holed the Roy Moore debacle

Ah, his desperately shifting claims are starting to make sense now. www.wsj.com/politics/trump-...

it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history

We watched SEVERANCE, and we have some thoughts. Specifically about the question: Why does this show feel so resonant right now? Listen and tell us what you think...

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Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!) As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!) As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…

With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.

ICYMI - My podcast is back! @mayagurantz.bsky.social and I traced how right wing uproar over "free speech" actually paved the way for our current totalitarian moment.

Trump’s Dementia It doesn’t take a geriatrics expert to see that Donald Trump is deteriorating. Is it just normal aging, or something… else? Maya and Rebecca investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, …

Speaking of presidents and mental decline, I highly recommend this episode of @saucepodcast.bsky.social, in which we laid out, in detail, the evidence of Donald Trump's substantial brain damage from advancing dementia.

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RIP Free Speech For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for exp…

New episode! Right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent while Trump squashes freedom of expression. Maya & Rebecca uncover how this isn't just hypocrisy - their rhetoric actually paved the way for the totalitarian suppression we're experiencing now.

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Dems in Disarray With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get…

Why can’t the Democrats get their shit together? Where is the The Resistance (tm)? In our latest episode, we pull apart what the opposition party is doing wrong and, drawing unexpected insight from the Drake-Kendrick feud, determine how they can get it right.

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Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big…

Let’s ruin the Great American Novel! @mayagurantz and @gynostar are joined by Artist (and longtime listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn.

Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with C…

How are we going to survive this fascist takeover of our gov’t? Denial? Maya and Rebecca kick off new feature BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson show, unpacking what it teaches us about making spectacles out of a very bad man. (Oh wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?)

Voters INSIST that Democrats work with Elon Musk’s Commission on Whether International Jews Started the Los Angeles Fire and Staged the Sandy Hook Massacre to find common sense solutions that will make a difference to them at the kitchen table.

Universities and the Coming Storm It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.

Sobering but a reflection of many convos I've had in the last year:

"I used to joke with colleagues that higher education is besieged on two fronts: by fascists on one side and neoliberals on the other. As we look ahead to a second Trump administration, these two threads appear ready to converge."

If Trump were president now, he'd be using the wildfires to extort Gavin Newsom and CA, and everyone on here knows it.

As Nicole Hemmer points out on the pod, he has a history of this, and this impulse is deeply rooted on the right.

Check out our exchange:

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my reaction to new tech like this is just so frequently "why?"

Brett Favre is just interested in sending a picture of the current moment.
Google Brett Favre Sends Pictures.

This is the party Elon Musk is endorsing and will have a big streamed interview with their leader next week in X.

Man I hope so but I’m here at #aha25 and the conversations I hear are a lot of collaborators! “Just feed all your articles into the AI and use it to organize your notes.” “Use AI to write some of your work”

It’s bleak!

Just as the strong record of the Great Society was eclipsed by Vietnam, Biden’s domestic accomplishments were likewise overshadowed for the left by Gaza.

El más reciente episodio del #podcast “The Sauce”, conducido por @gynostar.bsky.social, permite comprender mucho el problema de la transfobia reciente en los Estados Unidos.

UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree murder as an act of terrorism. Thompson’s assassin...

WATCH: “They asked me if I wanted my medication or if I wanted my TODAY show interview to run.”

United Health denied his life-saving medication until it was about to become a national story. A cruel, broken for-profit system. 🇺🇸 #MedicareForAll

Full: www.democracynow.org/2024/12/20/h...

TRANS PANIC! (Election 2024 Edition) with Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud After a nice long stretch of denial, Maya and Rebecca dip our toes back into political waters with Very Special Guests Guy Branum and Grace Freud, who bring queer and trans perspectives to the tran…

We're back! @saucepodcast.bsky.social is joined by @guybranum & @gracefreud.bsky.social, who help us break down the Trump campaign's transphobic messaging this past election season. Why was it so effective? Is there any good way to respond to these right wing demonologies?

This thread is a perfect encapsulation of everything fun about @saucepodcast.bsky.social

Well, when put it that way…