Bonus Sample: A Master Class in Wellness Propaganda
Calley Means is one of RFK Jr’s top advisors. Alongside Tucker Carlson, Means has claimed responsibility for shepherding Kennedy into Trump’s camp. Does this former business school graduate Heritage F...
26 Touko 20257min
Brief: The Gospel of MAHA Apologetics
After being confirmed as Secretary of HHS, RFK Jr started installing his cabal of wellness influencers and contrarian doctors across the government's many public health agencies. And that means they h...
24 Touko 202534min
258: Pope Bob Vs. Trump World
The most annoying convert TradCath in the world, JD Vance, whose cherubic face belies all his bootlicking aggression, gets his moment with Pope Bob. Usha stands behind him in a black mantilla. He hand...
22 Touko 20251h 16min
Bonus Sample: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 2)
Matthew is back today for more with Ben Case: profiling Gene Sharp and the (non)politics of strategic nonviolence, plus his strange funding sources. Also: why did Erica Chenoweth speak out against ant...
19 Touko 20256min
Brief: Beyond Violence and Nonviolence (Part 1)
You may have grown up with the term “nonviolence” shining like a pole star over every discussion of how we accomplish socio-political change. But what does it really mean? And who defines violence for...
17 Touko 202547min
257: AI Gurus
The chat bot flashes its elipsis at the bottom of the screen. What is it thinking, what does it want from you, what do you want from it? Beneath those pixels lies a sea of mined data and lightning sto...
15 Touko 20251h 10min
Bonus Sample: The UFO Race-War Apocalypse is Coming!
It begins with a failed human sacrifice in Detroit in 1932. Some would say it actually starts with an evil god-scientist who created the first white people—white devils, really—some 6,000 years ago. E...
12 Touko 20255min
Brief: What Will Universal Healthcare Actually Require?
In 2022, Oregonians passed Measure 111, which amends the state constitution to declare access to affordable healthcare a right for every citizen. As it happens, this was the first ballot Derek voted o...
10 Touko 202533min
