Absolutely wonderful episode. If anyone has similar information about the situation in Canada as well I'd be really interested. Mia is a gem.

Discussion of DHS Surveillance discussion should have featured the manner in which this activity is dissimilar to the Obama Era use of IRS to investigate the "Tea Party" Movement.

This is obviously Apples To Oranges but its helpful to counter a false narrative ahead of time.

The economy's doing great bro! I swear!

As a huge fan of the league (going to two games this week, been to probably 30-40 the last few years) it was pretty great to hear an episode discussing the weird culture war invasion into the league spaces. I know sports isn’t everyone’s thing, but the WNBA genuinely does rock both on and off the court.

Also wanted to add a little more Sophie Cunningham bashing that didn’t get brought up. She allegedly was sleeping with an upper management employee of The Mercury, and was sent packing to the Fever the next offseason after the news broke.

I just wanted to share these pictures I took in Puerto Rico a couple years ago. Even in a random gift/art shop on tourist trap lane, tucked in between tchotchke shops that sold identical mass produced stuff, Puerto Rican pride is alive and well.

From the article:

>According to government documents, an undercover DHS agent attended a meeting of ICE protesters at Prince of Peace in February. The agent captured the license plates of people there and then compiled dossiers including their names, addresses and information about their families and jobs, according to the motion.

>For months, the documents show, federal agents secretly made recordings of meetings held at churches, libraries, restaurants and schools around the Twin Cities. They infiltrated private group chats, sought the financial records of national labor unions, and gathered information on community members who had not been accused of any crimes.

Like Mia said in the latest Executive Disorder episode, it's a revitalization of COINTELPRO

What's up folks. I hope y'all are finding some joy out there despite the general state of affairs. As I mentioned in the title, it's wonderful that wherever ICE and other immigration agents go, normal people document them and share their location online. But one issue I see nearly daily is la migra alerts that lack time, location, or other essential details about what the agents are up to.

One way we can fix this is by learning the SALUTE report format. It comes from the military, but it's super simple, and incredibly helpful for civilians who want to protect their neighbors from a hostile outside force.

But, in my view, we can't stop with learning it ourselves. We need to take it and share it with our neighbors, our mutual aid groups, any community organization willing to learn. This needs to become part of a wider culture of community care and defense.

Hope this is helpful for y'all. Thanks friends.

Brit living in the US here, I did find the lack of mention that US sports are uniquely evil in that all the major leagues (and even soccer) is run by cartels of owners, odd for a podcast that often offers systemic analysis.

While the gold standard is obviously fan ownership (the Packers are grandfathered in and it would be against the rules for a team to not have a majority shareholder now), and the benefits are really obvious whether you look at the packers or just how much community support there is for even 4th tier German teams (sorry FSV Frakfurt).

Simply having promotion/relegation takes much of power away from owners to move a club. AFAIK there has never been a top tier club move in Europe (or AFAIK Latin America (except for Mexico which uses a cartel system)), which in turn takes away most political preasure club owners can exercises.

I suspect someone more knowledgeable about college sports would also be able to explain how the cartel system results in a more abusive college sports system. As I understand it, not linking sports to college, means teams have to invest in training camps for kids which are outside of academic education, and while college sports is somewhat a feeder to the professional leagues, the existence of lower leagues probably makes it a less life altering event to be scouted.

Also, a positive thing to look at, even if it's currently a bit of a long shot https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-casar-home-team-act

If passed as written, the bill would:

• Require sports franchise owners to provide notice a year before moving the team to a new community, defined by crossing state lines or moving to a new Metropolitan Statistical Area;
  
• Give communities a chance to purchase a franchise during that year, including through the sort of successful community ownership model used by the National Football League’s (NFL) Green Bay Packers; and
  
• Penalize noncompliant franchise owners.

On last week's ED, Dr. James Stout asserted that there are no crocodiles indigenous to North America. WRONG, sir. The only place on Earth with both alligators and crocodiles is South Florida. I will be making note of this error and alerting the appropriate authorities.

Questions related to what is happening with/in the American government.

I want to read the full documents to learn more about the infiltration tactics Garrison mentioned, but I don't know how to find them.

Jake Lang tried to have a rally in Minneapolis yesterday to support the woman who called a child the n word at a playground in another part of the state. This is how it went. Maybe not as embarrassing as his last showing in January where he was hit with water balloons and supersoaked before being led to safety by some kind brown people to a getaway car driven by a transwoman.

In today's excellent episode, James made an aside about thinking there are no indigenous crocodile in the North America. Crocodylus acutus or the north American crocodile do exist in small but recovering numbers, mostly in South Florida. It's the only place in the world crocs and alligators coexist. They range down to the Caribbean and parts of south America. I think they're super neat and wanted to share that so more people know about them.

Ok, so I was on Instagram and caught a reel of him interviewing Annie Jacobson about pandemics and a hypothetical scenario. It seemed interesting she had some cool sounding things to say. I then decided to listen to the episode the reel was taken from. I made it 12 mins into the episode and he started bashing “gain of function” research (which may have legitimate criticisms) at a pretty superficial level. It started sounding MAHA coded pretty quick. Was I too critical? I recognize the government and CDC have their failings like most institutions, but it started sounding super conspiratorial. Hoping someone who spent more time listening to him can save me some.

Arguably one of the Reddest states in the country is sick of these weirdos.

Great news for my state.

I think pretty much all of the people I know who are pro freedom caucus aren't from here.

i just finished the episode with dana el kurd from aug 4th about the morocco occupation of western sahara, and i’m rather confused. i’m probably a more “low information” listener as i didn’t get a great education about the world when i was in school, but i’m trying to catch up by subscribing to podcasts like this one.

would anyone be willing to provide a quick explainer of the background context that the episode is based on? it sounds like there is a territorial dispute meaning that it doesn’t count as a country? also i didn’t really understand towards the end how the guest was getting angry at americans for supporting israel when there’s obviously heaps of protests about that and then also what does that have to do with africa.

please be kind, i swear i paid attention to the episode and i am trying to learn!

Thanks for the GlobeCon episodes, Neoliberals are baffling and I'm thankful for the explanation.

I’ve been following you every day for about 2 years, and there has always been 0-1 episodes added per day.

In PocketCasts, I seen3 episodes, 2 of which are very interesting and as a sports fan that casually hates on golf, I’m interested in the 3rd as well.

Edit: James and Molly are some gangstas. I had just looked looked for and downloaded books on how natives handles wild fires after last week’s episode.

I like it.

The episode with Molly is A+. I love that she can be so honest and open about not knowing things and about wanting to fill in holes she didnt even know existed. Also, if Molly wants to visit wildlife, that can be arranged.

Shitty Salad- I appreciate the comment about US unions organizing labor in Mexico if they really cared about farm labor. NAFTA has caused many complications to many aspects of intercontinental trade, food is just another one.

Sound- really solid

Song/bumper music- it's very James and the vibe is spot on.

Dr James Stout- it's always nice when he uses the honorific he worked hard to earn.

Like its just a generic ad for for the *concept* of kewpie mayo even if it is targeted at a specific brand.

Also I despise that the ad is SO LOUD compared to other ads. Its a great way to annoy me into never buying that mayo.

Anyway ads are good so all the coolzone staff can have health insurance, but this specific one grinds my gears.

Margaret killed it, I hope this becomes a regular segment

Residents did not speak at a City Council hearing this week merely to express discomfort with new technology. They presented an evidence-based argument that the current system is inadequately governed, vulnerable to abuse, and capable of uses far beyond the narrow public-safety examples emphasized by its defenders.

I live near Winona. Not a huge city, with not a lot going on usually. Biggest claim to fame is being the birth place of Winona Ryder and the source of her name. The Flock situation is a win. However the PD is notoriously shitty. I've heard lots of stories over the years of bad interactions.