We discuss the new Jordan Peele movie, Nope, which is kind of just the movie Tremors but in the sky.

Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gender degree in your hand? A lesson in Modern Monetary Theory. Paying taxes to forgive others of their sin (of learning things). What's the deal with currency?

Everything you ever wanted to know about cryptocurrency but were afraid to ask your friendly neighborhood marxist.

Anarcho-Radlibs in the DSA debate the gender politics of hurricanes. Ontological tribalism, epistemic primitivism. Put the glasses on! Magical thinking. A snowflakes' chance in hell. Conservatives on the left. Black boxes and disembodied demons. Downwardly mobile millennials. Justice or revenge? Autonomous opinions. The burden of culture. Fearlessness and the paper tiger.

A world without emotions. DSA and the pod people of the new left. Is AOC a body snatcher? Is Bernie? Is Invasion of the Body Snatchers praxis? Can you body snatch the body snatchers? Plus, some cultural and political differences between 1956 and 1978. Adolph Reed, "The Whole Country is the Reichstag" | https://nonsite.org/the-whole-country-is-the-reichstag/

A spectre haunting your podcast stream. Karl Marx's ten-step program to becoming a better revolutionary. A dramatic reading of the Communist Manifesto. How the old left became the new left. Plus, the one weird trick capitalists don't want you to know about!

Teaching as a stand-up routine. Discipline and leadership. How the working class moves through institutions. Race in schools. Sports team comradery and class solidarity. Pedagogical tools to fight inequality.

Driving through the forgotten parts of Chicago. Blues Brothers Jump the Draw Bridge. The day Dave Matthews pooped on Chicago (and was invited back). Designer hippies. Edward Vrdolyak's palace. The multi-ethnic working class. The Memorial Day Massacre (1937). The Martyrs in the Fight for Industrial Democracy. The South Steel Works. T he Future is Condos!

Discussing labor law, unionization, strikes, and the workplace. Links to free legal aid: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/ https://www.carpls.org/ Links to unionizing info: https://aflcio.org/formaunion https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union https://uaw.org/organize/no-union-no-rights/

Discussing labor law, unionization, strikes, and the workplace. Links to free legal aid: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/ https://www.carpls.org/ Links to unionizing info: https://aflcio.org/formaunion https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/your-right-to-form-a-union https://uaw.org/organize/no-union-no-rights/