Brief: Taylor Swift Goes MAGA?
Taylor Swift: Nazi sympathizer, freshly-minted racist, MAGA trad wife. Or so proponents of a recent conspiracy theory would have it. For years, the most successful female recording and performing arti...
8 Nov 202543min
282: Mutual Aid Against ICE
When restaurants and cafes in Portland and elsewhere link into networks of food pantries and soup kitchens, will mutual aid feel real in the US? When regular folks come out of their houses to shame an...
6 Nov 20251h 4min
Bonus Sample: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 2)
Listen to the full episode on Patreon Part 2 follows the money flowing from US agencies and interests to anti-Liberation Theology figures in Latin America. We meet Jesuit operator Roger Vekemans, who...
3 Nov 20255min
Brief: US v. Liberation Theology (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part deep dive into how U.S. foreign policy stared down the political threat of Liberation Theology by promoting Evangelical Christianity in Latin America. The CIA and USAID...
1 Nov 202539min
281: Jeffrey Tucker, MAHA Dandy
“Meet the man who built RFK Jr’s kitchen cabinet” goes the title of a recent investigative article in Politico. Yet that man, Jeffrey Tucker, is much more than that. In fact, you can make the case, as...
30 Okt 202553min
Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!
Earlier this year, a spate of news stories told of chatbot users travelling through the looking-glass right into Conspirituality. Paranoid conspiracies, spiritual awakenings, even falling head-over-he...
27 Okt 20256min
Brief: The Man Who Lives With 16 Cats
Social media has been filled with clips of Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of NYC. He's been proving quite the foil for Andrew Cuomo's attempt to upset Zohran Mamdani. But who is this m...
25 Okt 202533min
280: Peter Thiel is Definitely Not the Antichrist
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel is no cuck philanthropist. The co-founder of Palantir is leading his company at the bleeding edge of mass surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, and AI-ass...
23 Okt 20251h 8min
