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Three DSA candidates just won their primaries in New York — and the bipartisan meltdown has been spectacular. We break down why everyone from Sean Hannity, to Bill Maher to Jon Favreau is personally offended by the likes of Darializa Chevalier, the Afro-Latina UAW member who just became the new AOC.
Then, movement-building reporter Lex McMenamin joins to talk about the Prairieland Protestors — eight activists sentenced to between 50 and 100 years in prison for providing “material support to terrorists,” plus one man who wasn't even at the protest but was convicted for moving boxes of zines! We’ll discuss what the case means for the criminalization of protest under the Trump administration as well as the Supreme Court's ruling this week upholding discrimination against transgender people in sports.
Featuring:
Lex McMenamin, reporter at the Guardian, https://www.instagram.com/leximcmenamin/
https://lexmcmenamin.com
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This is a portion of an exclusive member-conversation with Anna Merlan. To access it, become a member on Patreon.
Did you know that 'Hanta' virus in Hebrew means 'scam'? Well it doesn't. IT DOES NOT. Chances are if you're at all on the internet you've been fooled by or even inadvertently spread some kind of conspiracy theory. Some are harmless and hilarious and others lead to RFK Jr. as our HHS secretary.
They discuss how the Epstein file release has created a whole new crop of conspiracy theorists, founded on a whole lot of damning evidence (!) and why the United States has the perfect conditions for conspiracies to run rampant: little faith in government, expensive healthcare system, and an atomized country where individualism reigns over the collective. It's part of what led to the COVID-19 conspiracy theories and the turbocharging of the anti-vax movement.
Anna explains how successful RFK Jr. was at capitalizing on the pandemic and the active health and scientific harm that he's doing now that he and a bunch of his fellow cranks are in power. What's their obsession with autism and how is it incredibly dangerous? Plus what's the 'missing scientists' conspiracy theory and the Hantavirus conspiracy theory, and how are people gaining massive followings on social media spreading these batshit crazy ideas?
Featuring:
Anna Merlan
Senior Reporter, Mother Jones
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https://www.motherjones.com/author/anna-merlan/
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Featuring: Francesca Hong, candidate for Wisconsin governor
https://francescahong.com/
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Featuring:
Paul Elia, comedian
www.watchpaulelia.comGo see Paul at The Comedy Store
https://thecomedystore.com/calendar/show/3144/2026-07-31t220000-0700-paul-eliaProfessor Richard Wolff, economist
https://www.democracyatwork.info/
https://www.instagram.com/democracyatwrk/
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Saba and Francesca discuss how rampant wage theft is finally being called such, and why the myth of immigrants taking jobs ignores how much the U.S. has always relied on cheap labor. Then, how did we collectively let the unregulated gig economy metastasize into full-blown automation and now AI. Not bringing down the hammer on Uber, Lyft and AirBnb have led to things like Waymo and Coco delivery robots. It’s like the elites want a revolution?
So how can unions better-pressure politicians into making policy that centers workers’ rights? And how will the change require ALL OF US to take some risks and get into the streets.
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Nancy Mace is out, the DOJ is investigating Gavin Newsom for being hotter than JD Vance, and Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire — built largely on government contracts he's spent his career trying to take away from everyone else.
Then, political commentator and filmmaker Josh Greene joins to (ironically) celebrate Elon Musk’s totally deserved new trillionaire status, along with (unironically) enjoying how great Iran is doing on the soccer field and at the negotiating table. MoU anyone?
Then, journalist and author Peter Beinart joins to discuss the US-Iran deal, what the war on Iran has done to the broader question of Palestinian rights, and the strange ideological company progressives now share with Tucker Carlson in opposing Israel's conduct. We also discuss his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza — his argument that American Jews must reject a narrative of permanent victimhood that has enabled the community to look away from Palestinian suffering, and what a new story might actually look like.
Featuring:
Josh Greene, political commentator, filmmaker, and host of Progressive Pulse
https://www.instagram.com/joshtheprogressive/
https://joshtheprogressive.substack.comPeter Beinart, journalist and Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents
https://beinartnotebook.substack.com
Buy Peter's book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza-a-reckoning-peter-beinart/21836185Have you ever wanted to join the Frantifa? Now’s your chance — we’re giving away a free month of Patron access, which includes our new long-form sit-down interview show, Hot Button, and our members-only AMA in June. Sign up here. Ends June 23rd. patreon.com/bitchuationroom/redeem/279DE
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Featuring:
Emma Vigeland, the Majority Report, @TheMajorityReport
Nathan Wilcox, sports journalist, https://substack.com/@natewilcoxHave you ever wanted to join the Frantifa? Now’s your chance — we’re giving away a free month of Patron access, which includes our new long-form sit-down interview show, Hot Button, and our members-only AMA in June. Sign up here. Ends June 23rd. patreon.com/bitchuationroom/redeem/279DE
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Featuring:
Katie Blankenship (47:12), immigration attorney and co-founder of Sanctuary of the South
https://www.instagram.com/sanctuaryofthesouth/
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The left has a known habit of self-sabotage. We’ve either experienced this firsthand or witnessed it from the outside, but the activists generally have a hard time beating the circular firing squad allegations. Movement organizer and strategist Yotam Marom helps us understand why in his new book For Louder Days: Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness. Yotam is a man of the movement, and very much a street soldier. You won’t see him helming a political campaign, but you might get arrested next to him at a demonstration.
Through personal stories of his own organizing, Yotam looks at how social movements in the U.S. often shy away from emboldening leaders and crafting effective strategy. Despite being passionate about confronting the oligarchs and warmongers, we’re not always as good at confronting one another in order to make strategic choices. Could it be that the lessons from the 60s and 70s still cast a shadow over our work, or is it an over-focus on things like personal identity rather than group goals?
Yotam talks about his exhilarating experiences at Occupy Wall St, but also the comedown of recognizing how quickly the movement could be repressed. He shares how he has helped organizations from CAAV in New York, to Sunrise Movement, to The Uncommitted Movement choose ‘winning over being correct’, and discusses how our movements need to grow more powerful so that we can each be powerful within them.
Finally, the two talk about how the issue of Gaza and Israel-Palestine reaffirmed the importance of how our movements must be guided by love and solidarity. Get this book and be captivated by the personal yet political lessons Yotam offers up.
Order Yotam’s exquisitely-written book here: https://thenewpress.org/books/for-louder-days/
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Spencer Pratt, Steve Hilton, and…Sam Seder’s feet? We look at unusual developments in California and beyond as the June 2 primary results unfold, with help from labor and community organizer Rachel Reyes, who's been watching all of this from inside the San Fernando Valley.
Then, Sam Seder of the Majority Report joins to break down what the primary results mean for the progressive wing of the party — from the ‘prairie populist’ Josh Turek to Sam Forstag in Montana who was backed by AOC — and specifically, the win of U.S. army doctor Adam Hamawy, who went to Gaza to help victims of Israel’s genocide firsthand.
Then, the flawed Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, and the hilariously bad AI ads from Israel-funded Susan Collins PACs. We discuss the value –or lack thereof– of ‘working with’ the likes of Marjorie Tayor Greene, and how 25% of the Republican party has an immovable desire for authoritarianism.
Featuring: Rachel Reyes, labor and community organizer and co-host of LA Podcast, https://www.instagram.com/rchrys/
Sam Seder, host of The Majority Report, https://majority.fm/report/
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He was a gardener who sold his business to become a journalist. Now he’s known nationwide for his groundbreaking and painstaking documentation of ICE and CBP raids in Los Angeles; the violence, the abductions, and the terror of Trump’s immigration armies. Memo Torres used to write about food. Now, each day with the help of his team at local Los Angeles outlet LA Taco, he writes about the out-of-shape police rejects with alimony payments known as ICE.
In this interview, Memo discusses how ICE is changing its tactics in the face of community resistance, and shuffled the deck of stooges from Kristi Noem to Markwayne Mullin. When it comes to a political response, Torres explains that despite personally meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, little has been done to stop these militias in City Hall.
They also talk about Stephen Miller’s origin story– was it a toxic Latina girlfriend?-- and why there are so many first-generation immigrants who themselves have joined the ranks of these white nationalist feds. Finally, what’s the end game with ICE’s surveillance and detention and how can we stop it?
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Recent polling has shown that Trump and his MAGA regime have been starting to lose men under 30. But don’t worry! They have a plan to win them back. Wajahat Ali of The Left Hook joined Francesca to talk about Trump is hosting a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
Surely that will get the boys on board…and if that’s not enough, what if we brought back Harambe memes? That’s right, the White House official Twitter account put out a “memorial” post commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the gorilla’s demise. We talk about why our government is basically just 4chan from 2016.
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The DNC autopsy is out and GUESS WHAT — it's a disaster! No sources, no mention of Gaza, and running counter to what the directors of both the Harris and Biden campaigns have actually said.
Meanwhile AIPAC is spending $14 million to prevent Cori Bush from retaking her seat in Missouri, with a deeply disappointing take from Rep. Jasmine Crockett. And CBS just killed Stephen Colbert’s Late Show after 33 years … will billionaire Byron Allen be an apolitical replacement? Plus Hasan Piker is subpoenaed by the FBI over a trip to Cuba, right after he discusses Elon’s election meddling with baby Mama Ashley St. Clair. Was his Starlink broadband provider and SpaceX involved? Comedian James Adomian joins to make sense of all of it — or at least make it funnier.
Then, the ADL has long presented itself as a civil rights organization — but what if that's always been the cover story? We talk to author and historian Emmaia Gelman about her new book tracing the ADL from its origins suppressing Jewish labor movements through McCarthyism, COINTELPRO-era surveillance, and its current alliance with the far right.
Featuring: James Adomian (15:56), comedian, actor, and voice actor, https://www.instagram.com/jadomian/ Watch Path of Most Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5DFrdOyig
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*This is a sneak preview of an hour-long interview that gets into everything from Francesca’s astrological chart, to the planetary parallels between current racist policies and the birth of the KKK. To get access to the full interview, please click the JOIN button and become a member on YouTube, or become a patron www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.*
What does Trump’s astrological chart have to do with how America seems to be dying on its 250th birthday….? Hmmm… And when planets change locations for the first time in decades, what does that say about how WE need to change? Why are all the psychos born on eclipses? So many questions, so many stars.
Even if you’re not an astrology fan, don’t worry it’s just astronomy for magical people. And in this episode of Hot Button Francesca brings you someone who melds politics and the planets: Chani Nicholas. Chani is an author and activist, whose brand of astrology is both personally and collectively helpful in these trying times. She has an app called the Chani App, a podcast called “Astrology for the Week Ahead” and is the author of “You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance”.
Francesca finds out about her own personal chart– hello warrior goddess–and why Scorpio moon makes her so damn intense! She and Chani discuss how transformative 2025 was, how Republicans gerrymandering the South mirrors previous moments in planetary history, the upcoming midterms, and how the astrology of the next seven years spell a critical time in world history for change. Whether it’s change for good or bad is up to us!
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A $1.7 billion “retribution” fund for Jan 6ers is set up while SNAP benefits get cut while Trump critics lose their elections — the cult is real and total loyalty is required. Plus: a California judge has permanently banned Kars4Kids from the airwaves…for being a pro-Israel op the whole time?! I coulda told you that.
Then, he co-founded Justice Democrats, helped elect the Squad, and served as AOC's chief of staff — now Saikat Chakrabarti is running for Congress in San Francisco's 11th district. We talk about being a class traitor, public ownership of AI, fighting fascism from inside Congress, and why crypto billionaires are already cutting ads against him.
Featuring: Saikat Chakrabarti (52:32), co-founder of Justice Democrats and former Chief of Staff to AOC, candidate for Congress in California's 11th district
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And how does the movement keep going?
It has been six years since the uprising over the murder of George Floyd, and yet police are still killing Americans at a terrifying rate. Less than 3 percent of the officers involved in these deaths are ever charged with a crime. And now, there’s ICE.
On this supporter-exclusive episode of Hot Button, we’re joined by activist and educator Dr. Melina who has been on the frontlines of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter Grassroots ever since 2014. She sits down with Francesca to talk about how the movement has changed shape and her hopes for the future.
How did the media warp the BLM narrative and create broader backlash? What were the missteps within the organization and organizers that led to an ugly fallout? How are chapters of Black Lives Matter Grassroots still working around the country to get justice?
Abdullah was in the formative meetings of BLM and has thoughts on how those running the 501c3 ‘hijacked’ the money and the good name of Black Lives Matter.
Beyond that, they talk about trying to defend progressive DAs in cities around the country, how Trumpism can be an opportunity for change, and the importance of coalition building even with more liberal entities like the No Kings rallies under Trump 2.0.
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Trump and a bunch of billionaires go to China to cut deals for themselves, while Chuck Schumer fumes about not being more belligerent towards Xi. Meanwhile Xi himself sneak-disses the fall of the American Empire with a reference to the Thucydides Trap. Okay, Athenian scholar!
Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report joins to talk about whether it's punching down to make fun of medically stupid MAGA supporters, and Nicholas Kristoff's latest piece for the NYTimes on systematic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners. Finally, a little look down the Kasparian-hole in her latest interview with Myriam François on how she wants to stop talking about race. Excuse us Ana, we were never sure you started?
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Two Dutch tourists and a MAHA CDC director walk into a bar… and we wonder why a pathogen always jumps to humans when Trump is in office. Mother nature knows. Commentator Jack Cocchiarella is live in studio to break down Hantavirus to the redistricting virus spreading across the South. Maybe we should have finished that Reconstruction. It’s in the name!
Plus, comedian Brandie Posey joins to talk about the Roast of Kevin Hart cutting a little too close to the bone, Trump's inflation surge, and AOC saying she won't work with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Good on her but also, can she take a stronger lead on Palestine?
Featuring: Brandie Posey, comedian, record label owner, and co-host of Lady to Lady (08:11) https://www.instagram.com/brandazzle/ Watch Milk Job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keeGXF8Ajms
Jack Cocchiarella, progressive political commentator and host of The Jack Cocchiarella Show, https://www.youtube.com/@JackCocchiarellaShow
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How can a city both be one of the most expensive in the world and broke AF? Something’s clearly not right. Los Angeles is home to 3.8 million people and 1 million taquerias. And every issue the country faces, from housing shortages to busted social services, Los Angeles has it in spades. So what’s going on and where’s all the taxpayer money going?
Francesca sat down with the person who oversees Los Angeles’ money: Kenneth Mejia. He’s a long-time housing rights activist and certified public accountant, and since 2022 when he became Los Angeles’ controller, has been putting LA’s finances on blast. Through social media, dashboards on homelessness and strategic billboards, Kenneth is showing Angelenos just where their money is going. Spoiler: it’s mostly to the cops.
They discuss everything from the exorbitant police budget that includes half a billion dollars in liability claims, to why homelessness services are not being delivered to the some 40,000 unhoused Angelenos, and the very flawed approach to “affordable housing”. Finally, how much is the Olympics going to cost Los Angeles and will it make that money back?
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