Thursday, February 15

Ep 779 The Professional Left Podcast: The Jon Stewart Blowback

 



Sorry Jon Stewart, both siderist nonsense when it Mango Mussolini versus Grandpa Joe just doesn't cut it in 2024.  We also celebrate an anniversary and a milestone.  This week marks when Driftglass and Blue Gal met face-to-face for the first time sixteen years ago (thanks, Shakespeare's Sister!) and this week will also bring our seven millionth download for this podcast.  Fran studies Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Lent, and Driftglass is SURE that David Brooks is trolling him.  (Twitter definitely is.)  Thanks so much to our listeners!  More at proleftpod.com.

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Tuesday, February 13

Ep 778 No Fair Remembering Stuff: Watts


In this thought-provoking episode, join us as we, two admittedly white midwesterners who were Pre-K at the time of the event, nevertheless take a look back at a significant event in American history – the 1965 Watts Uprising.  This leads us to think about how technology, particularly cell phones, and demographic change have significantly changed how police brutality is experienced and confronted.  And we talk about how white anger and "law and order" voting is echoed in the MAGA backlash against the first Black President.  More at proleftpod.com.


Link for this episode:  CBS report on the Watts Riots, 1965
https://youtu.be/Xg6HYwZ_ePQ?si=xlzvcaf5PnFtOox_

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