"The issue isn't just 'Jewish supremacy.' It is where Zionism fits into imperialism. It isn't just, oh, a handful of Jewish supremacists went out there & decided to do something. It's the interrelationship between the formation of Zionism -- the formation of Zionism as a settler…Mostrar mais

‼️Zionism is Racism (w/ @comrade_kumar_)‼️ "[The Zionism is racism resolution] won with the largest mandate at the largest conference in Green Party history." After pounding the media pavement defending the controversial UK Green Party resolution, Ashok Kumar returns to Bad Fa…Mostrar mais

"[FDR] was pretty clear when he sought reelection in 1936 -- he literally said, 'the business interests & the financial elites are unanimous in their hatred against me. And I welcome their hatred. That's what I mean by courage -- that you know which side you're on. And if being o…Mostrar mais

‼️The Case for Anti-Fascist Economics (w/ @IsabellaMWeber)‼️ Leftist economist Isabella Weber is the subject of a new hit piece in the WSJ -- that's how threatening her case for anti-fascist economics is to the billionaire-backed paper of record. She joins Bad Faith to explain t…Mostrar mais

Vote blue no matter is a cause of fascism, not a solution.

I’d love a good guest on the Albania and France protests

DS: "I don't trust any of these people. Where I am more optimistic than I've been before is that you have in polls, voters saying they do not trust the Democratic Party leadership. Even liberal voters." BJG: "And should we tell them they're right and that they should vote third…Mostrar mais

"I think it's a disservice to the movement for Palestine to say 'winning is enough.' Winning is not enough. People when they get into office, they need to be held accountable. "When we talk about all that money and all the pressure, well the Zionists & the imperialists & the ph…Mostrar mais

‼️Witch Hunt (w/ @RaniaKhalek, @radiofreeamanda & @ZoeAlexandra_ok)‼️ "Knowing what a strident advocate for free speech he's been historically, I'm sure that Matt Taibbi has reached out to you for an interview." 😂 @BTnewsroom staffers targeted by a congressional investigation…Mostrar mais

Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are doing a great job explaining the problems with AI including from a labor perspective. Yang is reading @doctorow’s book on AI and summarized it well, and Roger’s ended the segment by reasoning we’ll have to have socialism bc the government will need…Mostrar mais

‼️Who's Doing the Bending? (w/ @davidsirota)‼️ Ultimate good-faith lefty reporter, David Sirota, returns to Bad Faith to discuss Zohran Mamdani's choice to retain Zionist billionaire Jessica Tisch, Abdul El-Sayed's choice to campaign with Obama & Harris, & whether there's enough…Mostrar mais

Performing a simple feat of reporting that Matt Taibbi could never do and it’s just tweeting “Israel is a threat to free speech.” www.mediaite.com/media/news/details-leak-f...Mostrar mais

"The whole world has stood by, including our elite, & happily endorsed, & indeed enabled, the murder of tens of thousands of children in living color. So I feel things have to change. This is such a defining moral moment that maybe, maybe we won't be able to brush this one off li…Mostrar mais

‼️The Great Rehabilitation (w/ @andrewmcockburn)‼️ Washington D.C. editor of Harper's Magazine & author of Washington is Burning: Corruption & Lies in the Age of Trump, returns to Bad Faith to talk about Democratic Party efforts to rehabilitate members of the establishment whose…Mostrar mais

"It's not a question of mealy mouthed terms. It's a question about precision of language so that you transmit a unequivocating message. So I said, let's use the term 'Jewish supremacy' even though in many ways it's more incendiary than Zionism bc Zionism is such a nebulous term u…Mostrar mais

Achy from a 15 mile long run this morning but looking forward to running the Gaza 5k in the AM. My legs aren’t fresh enough to PR but we can raise some money for Palestine. Link: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/7624237

DEBATE: Does Zionism = Racism? Watch @normfinkelstein & I debate the UK Green Party resolution to declare Zionism is racism, the two state solution, & whether the establishment-left would sacrifice Palestine for potholes being filled in NYC.

‼️Trading Potholes for Palestine? (w/ @normfinkelstein)‼️ On the 3rd anniversary of the Gaza genocide, preeminent Gaza scholar Normal Finkelstein returns to Bad Faith podcast to discuss the co-option of the pro-Palestine movement, betrayals by NY Mayor Zohran Mamdani, & to debat…Mostrar mais

Listening to Ezra’s interview with Bill Gates on my long run and it feels like Klein got mad that Bill was rather dismissive and belittling of his AI takes and decided to pull the Epstein card— a level of pettiness I didn’t know he had in him.

"When I see it getting co-opted so easily, and when I see Zohran being forced or choosing to bend the knee in various ways, & when I see AOC backing away from the DSA & I see so many left media figures unwilling to engage with the simple contradiction -- the obvious inconsistency…Mostrar mais

‼️Can We Stop the Co-Opt? (w/ @ajamubaraka)‼️ "There's a history of even those forces that might temporary define themselves as progressive or the left will be incorporated into the state -- into the system." Director of the Black Alliance for Peace North-South Project for Peo…Mostrar mais

"Harm reduction arguments are not wrong because harm isn't reduced when you vote for the lesser or two evils. Harm reduction arguments are wrong because they are the ticket to making sure that a Democratic Party never becomes a resistance party, & always just follows one step beh…Mostrar mais

"Why do we think that they, especially Zohran Mamdani...believe that AIPAC Shakur, who has taken more money than anybody else in the House from AIPAC, that refers to Israel as the 6th borough of NY, should be leader of the House?" -BJG "Symone Sanders said respect will be DUE to…Mostrar mais

‼️The Left Will Be Disciplined (w/ @WajahatAli)‼️ "I was very glad to hear Joy Ann Reid say in conversation with you that she no longer supports Vote Blue No Matter Who, but it does feel a little dissonant for people who were so instrumental in policing and diciplining those who…Mostrar mais

"What they are going to do now that the settlement has gone through is merge not just movie studios, but two massive media conglomerates into one in a way that's gonna kill thousands of jobs, raise a bunch of prices, & make dissenting against this government even harder on the me…Mostrar mais

‼️Being Alive (w/ @xriskology)‼️ "What is safety research all about? It's about aligning a super intelligence with our values. That's what they say. But what they mean is the values of transhumanists to long-termists." Philosopher Émile Torres exposes the philosophy driving tec…Mostrar mais

"Xavier Becerra doesn't pretend to be out there being a man of the people. He's not out there calling himself the fire breathing populist. Yet that is the game that Gavin Newsom plays online -- at least when it comes to fighting the president & his allies. So that is why I put th…Mostrar mais

"I, personally, was disappointed when President Biden came into power & he rebranded the [Yemen] war as defensive & not offensive...What does that mean? You just invented a word that never existed before in this context, & what it meant was nothing. Nothing changed on the ground.…Mostrar mais

The ice coffee thing is analogous to men using bathroom selfies on dating apps. The infraction isn't that serious, but it's a judgment issue.

"What cards does Saudi Arabia have to play right now? They can keep bombing & they can keep killing civilians -- that's what they're known for in Yemen -- but you have an entire country right now at your border which is more populous than Saudi Arabia, by the way, despite the sma…Mostrar mais

"My fear is that we'll get these machines that don't have any consciousness, but they do have a will to power because they're trained to do that because it's economically valuable. If you're hiring an employee you want one that is not going take no for an answer. You want Captain…Mostrar mais

So, there's a Prince & the Pauper switcheroo-style story with Seth Rogan & Aziz Ansari where they skewer Amazon and the gig economy & it opens with Keke Palmer trying to organize a workplace & it's on Amazon Prime?

"The extinction thing? I'm kind of frustrated by this conversation...That we're all like: 'oh is [AI] going to kill literally everybody within literally the next six years or three years?' I don't think so, but the bar is not that. The bar is: It running a risk of empowering and…Mostrar mais

"If you look closely at the letter, most if it is attacking me for my journalism, and for journalism that Israel doesn't want people to read. All the discussions that we had October 7th deceptions by the Israeli state to generate consent for genocide-- an entire paragraph in the…Mostrar mais

Watching an old Michael J Fox movie in which he can’t get a job because he’s not a “minority woman,” but ultimately, he gets one from his uncle who is the head of a huge corporation. The mantra throughout is that he’s going to “make it to the top all on my own.” 🙃

"Charlie Kirk was going through this shift in his thinking & consciousness about Israel, & his base was turning against Israel...Israel was drawing Trump into this disastrous [Iran] war & Charlie Kirk saw that coming...And he was caught between his donors, including Bill Ackman,…Mostrar mais

"I am feeling very afraid of the consequences of the sort of DSA/Democratic Party entryism and the neutering of the platform that's happening as these folks are getting into office...It feels like the effect is weakening progressive stances not changing the Democratic Party. And…Mostrar mais

Me when I heard @TheRachLindsay say she wanted to talk to someone to the left of the DSA on Higher Learning while on my long run this morning.

Marathon training is for the birds. I’m at the point where the short runs are 6 miles and the weekend long runs are 14 MINIMUM and I just can’t take it any more. Like, my Achilles weren’t built for this!

"I think that for a lot of politicians, Israel/Palestine is like BLM. Right? Where they'll go out there, they'll wear the kente cloth, they'll take the knee & put their fist up, but when it actually comes time to do something you won't do shit." - @TrueAnonPod (@ around 41 min)…Mostrar mais

Is the American left failing at its ONE job? "Practically speaking, it is very unlikely that there will be mass possibility of actual socialism happening in America, so the primary responsibility of the American left should be to lend their hand to anti-imperialist struggles lik…Mostrar mais

"There's something very telling about [AOC] being willing to apologize for 'woke 1', but not apologize for 'tirelessly fighting for a ceasefire.'" -BJG

"When we stopped doing that & just started saying -- 'okay, how do we obtain committee positions within the party, how do we maintain peace, how do we work with this party,' I think it misses the mark that this party is not actually something that is in any way shape or form an a…Mostrar mais

“As a citizen, I’d prefer to have cameras everywhere as a deterrent and to solve crime.” One finance guy to another at an airport bar. The other one: “Yeah, Google already knows everything that happens in my house.” We’re cooked.

Funny dynamic during Pod Save interview with Seth Moulton: Jon Favs asks Moulton if he is more moderate than Ed Markey. Moulton, someone defensively, says no— he’s also progressive and there’s very little daylight between them on policy. Jon argues that Moulton would do better to…Mostrar mais

"To even it call it 'woke 1' is to concede the terms. Because we're in the midst of a 'woke scare,' like a red scare. And it's aim is to discipline us vis-a-vis certain issues. So we have to reject that language." - @esglaude VIDEO PREMIERE NOW‼️: www.youtube.com/watchMostrar mais

New rule: you’re not allowed to concern troll about “defund” until you’ve said/tweeted: “I support cutting police funding bc there’s no correlation between police funding and public safety.”

Now Jacobin is preemptively writing "please don't expect DSA electeds to use their leverage to get anything" pieces. Jacobin this week: Compromise your principles, expect nothing.

It is sort of odd that Angie Nixon identifying as a capitalist is less of a barrier to DSA support than DSA member & committed socialist Kshama Sawant’s choice to run outside of the Democratic Party.

"There is growing support for a cut off of aid to Israel...We have not seen any meaningful change in that direction. I think that is the change that the Democratic Party establishment, that Hakeem Jeffries, & certainly a lot of the Republican establishment as well, are working ve…Mostrar mais