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Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Democrats’ 2024 nominee? Following Obama, Biden, and Clinton’s lead, Liz Cheney claims to now support marriage equality: “Marriage is between a man and a woman…nevermind” Click here for the latest episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-tony-winner-michael?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

The Coquiés Still Sing: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250787187/thecoquiesstillsing Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin. Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-TiTvcztECX If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Michael R. Jackson had no idea that a monologue he wrote two decades ago would turn into a Broadway musical that would win countless awards, including a Tony and Pulitzer Prize. And when he criticized the political establishment, including Obama, he had no idea that Michelle Obama would be one of the countless celebrities who would flock to see the show. Nor did he imagine that Aaron Maté would fall in love with his musical and play it on loop. The musical A Strange Loop is about a Black, queer writer who has written a musical about a Black, queer writer and it’s all written by Michael R. Jackson, a Black, queer writer. Michael dishes on whether he would talk to Tucker Carlson if he came to his show, subverting the Broadway world while becoming a part of it, and how he wrote his Tony-and-Pulitzer-winning musical. Watch the interview then go see the show or listen online. And subscribe to hear the full interview where Michael talks about the culture war, racism on Broadway, and his next musical. Plus, Aaron calls Guardian journalist Mark Townsend, who recently named him the “most prolific spreader of disinformation” on Syria, to ask why he wasn’t contacted for the story. Townsend’s cowering response is a must hear. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Hear our favorite songs from “A Strange Loop” "Intermission Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_mLAYtUoI "We Wanna Know" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXR67aAABV4 "Inner White Girl" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6wra5JtEv4 "Memory Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x5HUpqiqXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRWwZaw63wA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajJmGwp7Ew 0:00 Intro 0:53 Four food groups 13:09 The Nato Squadron 16:21 Aaron calls Mark Townsend 17:09 Michael R. Jackson interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com The minimum wage was set at $7.25 in 2009. Today, the minimum wage is $7.25. With inflation up 8.5% this year, we're starting to see worker strikes and signs that the capitalist system might not hold for much longer. Professor Richard Wolff shares his analysis. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-richard-wolff-doesnt?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Author Chris Ryan, host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking, discusses how psychedelics are revered in most cultures other than our own. His conclusion is that you have a culture based upon a lie and these are substances that offer the opportunity to see through the lie. Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-sex-drugs-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/useful-idiots-media-fails-xgkMvkazDL If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full interview where Chris talks psychedelics, paradigm shifting experiences, and how the government is lying to us: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-how-sex-drugs-and?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Chris Ryan, author of Civilized to Death and Sex at Dawn, as well as host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking, wants to help you live happier. He’s studied hunter gatherers; our closest relatives in the animal kingdom; and human philosophy/history to learn why we do what we do, what makes us want to live, and what we’re doing wrong today. Of course we ask him how all this shapes media and politics, but Chris also shares practical tips for any Useful Idiot to meaningfully improve their mindset on life. These include helping others, living less alone, spending less money of stuff we think makes us happier, and saying screw it and jumping into cold rivers. He’s got the science and philosophy behind all of it. And subscribe for the full interview where Chris talks psychedelics, paradigm shifting experiences, and how the government is lying to us. It’s all this, and more, on a transformative episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 0:45 Four food groups 16:40 Stoned moment 17:26 Chris Ryan interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Author Chris Ryan, host of the podcast Tangentially Speaking, studies ancient humans to figure out what we're doing wrong today and what will really help us to live happily. Here's two tips from the fascinating interview. The full episode with Chris drops tomorrow morning.

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com "Will the hearings blow the roof off the House? Yes or no?" Rep. Jamie Raskin gets "grilled" on Jan 6 hearings and says they will make Watergate look like the work of cub scouts. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-richard-wolff-doesnt?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Gov. Newsom plans to send $1050 to Californians to help pay for the inflation. Professor Richard Wolff explains why this subsidizing idea will only make inflation much worse. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-richard-wolff-doesnt?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/monday-after-mourning-PaZEPnlLLi If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-richard-wolff-doesnt?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Finally! A Marxist economist you can show to your parents and say “See?” Class is in session with economics Professor Emeritus Richard Wolff. He’s here to teach us about inflation, what steps could be taken to tame it, and why the hell no one’s doing anything about it. He doesn’t want to scare you with the alarming future our leaders are pushing us toward, but if he didn’t, he’d be lying. So buckle in for a fantastic lecture in which Wolff uses economic history to shine a light on the dark road ahead. And subscribe for the full interview, where Professor Wolff shares what can stop inflation: “I’m gonna give you two things that we could do that will get us through the worst of it; one from a conservative Republican and one from a progressive Democrat.” Can you guess who? Plus, Biden wants you to earn the right to not get shot, Laura Ingraham discovers that mass shootings are because the kids are all smoking weed, and another Kamala stoned moment. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 3:15 Four food groups 16:39 Stoned moment 18:26 Professor Richard Wolff

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Growing up in the US, Professor Richard Wolff was always shown photos of shortages in Russia and told "See? Socialism doesn't work." Now, with shortages running rampant in the United States, no one dares utter that it might have something to do with capitalism. Full interview drops tomorrow morning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Do the Jan 6 hearings matter? Briahna and Aaron debate if the primetime case helps Democrats and democracy. See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-briahna-joy-gray?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com If you’re a woman angry about losing your reproductive rights in the US, take comfort that VP Kamala Harris is a woman, the daughter of a woman and the granddaughter of a woman. She knows so many women. See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-briahna-joy-gray?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Click here for the full episode, including the extended interview with Briahna Joy Gray, where we pick 2024 candidates, rank the squad, and Briahna and Aaron debate the importance of Jan 6 hearings: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-briahna-joy-gray?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Host of Bad Faith podcast and Rising and former Bernie Sanders press secretary Briahna Joy Gray explains why dems are rapidly losing voters: Trump gets mocked for failing to put up his wall, but his supporters watched him try the whole time, putting up pieces of wall and getting blocked. He showed them what he will do if they get him more votes. So they’ll vote harder. Democrats have given their voters failures on Build Back Better, healthcare, gun safety, and now Roe v. Wade, with little evidence of trying to fulfill these promises. Why would dems keep voting for that? As a former lawyer, Gray explains the legal side of the Supreme Court’s decision and what can be done to protect the rest of our privacy rights, like contraception and marriage equality. And subscribe for the full interview, where we pick 2024 candidates, rank the squad, and Briahna and Aaron debate the importance of Jan 6 hearings. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. 0:00 Intro 2:56 Four food groups 19:43 Stoned moment 22:02 Briahna Joy Gray

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com People make fun of Trump for failing to put up a wall, but his supporters watched him try for years, putting up sections and getting blocked with a lack of votes. His supporters will vote harder to help him achieve it. The dems, for fear of losing, don't even try. Their supporters haven't seen any attempts, so why vote harder?

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Ryan Grim quotes activist Loretta Ross's idea of calling in versus calling out, and how it will be a more productive strategy for the left to achieve their goals, grow, and unify against a more and more powerful right. See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-are-progressive?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com The Guardian declares Aaron the top spreader of disinformation on Syria. They cite no examples and did not ask him for a comment. We invite the Guardian’s Mark Townsend on Useful Idiots to discuss. See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-are-progressive?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/media-fails-PhCVPiGugm If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com The Intercept’s Ryan Grim shares his new article Elephant in the Zoom, which explains how internal struggles have progressive advocacy groups at a standstill during a critical political moment. He argues that workplace problems, while important to deal with, are distracting these groups from the issues they were created to fight for. And while progressives are doing internal evaluations, do you think Republican groups are analyzing their micro-aggressions or are they busy seizing power? Plus, Grim ‘calls out’ the left’s call-out vs call-in problem, explains why the left is ditching their anti-war stance to escalate the proxy war in Ukraine, and why journalists are fine with the recent extradition of Julian Assange, which is, of course, and attack on a free press. Subscribe and watch the full interview to get it all. Oh yeah, and Aaron’s now a top conspiracy theorist, according to the great journalists at The Guardian. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-are-progressive?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Aaron’s article on Matt Duss: https://mate.substack.com/p/on-ukraine-progressive-proxy-warriors?r=nrwh&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Elephant in the Zoom: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/13/progressive-organizing-infighting-callout-culture/ Restorative Injustice by Ryan Grim: https://theintercept.com/2022/05/08/maryland-campaign-brandy-brooks-progressive-accountability/ 0:00 Guardian labels Aaron a conspiracy theorist 10:20 Four food groups 22:04 Stoned moment 24:03 Ryan Grim interview

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Every single member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including Bernie Sanders and the squad, voted for $40 billion more dollars for Ukraine aid and weapons. Ryan Grim explains why they're ditching anti-war beliefs.

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com With 5 insane criteria, the University of Alberta named Aaron a top Russian-influenced Twitter account. His offenses? Doing things like "promoting general mistrust in institutions and elites." He proudly accepts the award. See the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-max-blumenthal-on?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Become a Useful Idiots for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Katie Halper and Aaron Maté go over the worst moments of the Sunday morning news shows that they watch so you don’t have to. Join Katie and Aaron with your questions right after the stream at Callin Just download the free app to ask a question or listen on the web. https://www.callin.com/room/more-january-6-media-fails-JEZgkvtOOz If it's Monday Morning, it's #MondayMourning

Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Interview begins at 19:15 In secret meetings and leaked emails, Paul Mason and Nina Jankowicz work to silence journalists who don’t promote the approved message. In public, they complain that journalists bully them, and do vile things like publish past things they’ve said. And who does Youtube side with? The supercalifragicensors. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal is here to explain. Leaked emails show that Paul Mason, a prominent UK journalist, privately discussed plans to collaborate with UK intelligence to “deplatform” independent journalists like The Grayzone and target UK’s Corbynite, anti-war left. As #Masongate trends on Twitter, Mason nonetheless got his wish: YouTube removed Max and Aaron’s livestream about it. So, fellow Useful Idiots, listen, learn about Mason, and then tweet the hell out of #Masongate. And hear the full interview where Max discusses deeper censorship plots, leaked emails, and a shameless 60 Minutes promotion. Plus, Aaron just got accused of being a top Russian-influenced Twitter account for such offenses as “promoting a general mistrust in institutions and elites.” It gets crazier every week. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Click here for the full episode: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-max-blumenthal-on?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web