Long form articles, blogs, podcasts and YouTubers

Hey since the pol thread is full of tweets, let's post links to blogs, articles, podcasts and videos worth reading/listening/watching.

What do you keep up with?

Also feel free to promote your own work and features too.

 

youtubers (they're all on twitter too, just go to their about page):
ContraPoints
Mexie
Shaun
hbomberguy
DemocraticSocialist01
BadMouseProductions
Kevin Logan

blogs/outlets:
Democracy Now! | Democracy Now!
Alternet - Home
Jacobin
Current Affairs | Culture & Politics

people to follow on twitter:
Eiynah --- (@NiceMangos) | Twitter
Sam (@halaljew) | Twitter (he's really good about MENA stuff)

podcasts:
Delete Your Account Podcast by Delete Your Account on Apple Podcasts
Champagne Sharks

rebuttal articles/videos:
Current Affairs | Culture & Politics (response to Shapiro)
Nice Mangos: Professor Jordan Peterson: Charlatan Conservative Christian Perpetually Paranoid about Pronouns & Postmodernism
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tagging @Wharf Rat @Dominick @dylan @Contender @Victor Eremita @scott

 

Love this. I was gonna ask for some podcast recommendation in the General chat but this makes it way easier. Thanks!

 

Yeah it's just way too busy and not a good place to rec stuff, at least it's easier to navigate and clear up here lol :)

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also tagging @Spencer Control

 

subbin

 

would rec champagne sharks (on which @Dominick has guested) in terms of podcasts

 

added to the list ty :D

 

Currently writing on my phone and will come up with an actual list later, but Briahna Gray is a someone I'd recommend following on twitter. She's a contributing editor at Current Affairs and does work for the Week too along with freelance work. She also has a podcast called SWOTI (Something's Wrong on the Internet). It's a mixture of a political/current events and relevant pop culture info.

NeoliBro Antagonist (@briebriejoy) | Twitter
The Politics of Shame | Current Affairs

 

“Just an Ass-Backward Tech Company”: How Twitter Lost the Internet War

 

I am not too active on youtube and podcasts, and don't have twitter, so these are probably pretty random but I enjoy this podcast called Michael and US. It seems like a couple of leftist Canadians started out reviewing Michael Moore movies, and have moved onto other mostly bad movies.
Michael and Us

I enjoy Chris Hedges. Can be read here:
Stories by Chris Hedges

I was enjoying Under the Skin because I find Russell Brand highly entertaining but recently he's had on some real dirtbags (Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson) and didn't challenged them enough imo:
Under The Skin Podcast - YouTube

Surely I enjoy more things than this so I'll be back.

Also, thanks for making this thread. I'll definitely be checking out the recommendations in here.

 

@Victor Eremita i pmed u but the way Russell responded to Sam in much of that convo I found atrocious and is the exact liberal parody the rw makes people like him out to be. and is why so many people, ESPECIALLY MENA minorities, hold onto the right wing here as a form of defense. They see people like Russell as a continued threat to their existence, when we've already been through enough.

Theocracy and genocide is not anti imperialist, it's reactionary. Dismissing its effects gets you more enemies, not allies. the anti imperialist framework through which we are continuously ignored lacks the nuance these people so desperately expect from everyone else.

(I don't need to be lectured about Sam's ignorance on some of these things. It goes both ways and that's a problem here.)

 

Take a listen:
Collective Responsibility — Delete Your Account Podcast — Overcast

 

I don't use ipod/apple products so I'll use non itunes sources for most of mine. I used to work as a driver, listening to tons of podcasts. I honestly only have two real recommendations that I listen to weekly, but I can give some others and my experience with them.


Pod Save America is super popular among liberals, as is much of crooked media (their podcast company). PSA is the highlight, topical politics review every couple of days, but some would likely be more interested in their Pod Save the People or Pod Save the World (global affairs podcast). I'm sure they're popular enough that most people in the politics thread listen to them, but may as well list them.
PSA:
Pod Save America
Home | Crooked Media

I also listen to bilingual news podcast, a half/half english/japanese (one person speaks each language for a discussion about random bits of news). Interesting to get an international/asian perspective on things. One of the most popular podcasts in Japan, might be worth listening if someone is really bored even if they have no Japanese knowledge. (They're a bit too hyped on Elon Musk for me, but eh.)
バイリンガルニュース (Bilingual News) (podcast)

Rundown of some other common political podcasts and my opinion on them :
Political Gabfest - Slate's political gabfest. Mostly only worth listening to for Emily Bazelon.
FiveThirtyEight Politics - Fivethirtyeight's podcast. Great polling knowledge and analysis, weaker political and cultural analysis.

Stay Tuned with Preet - Stay Tuned with Preet. Preet Bharara, a former federal prosecutor's show. Unfortunately he does it on thursdays, and most big legal news drops on Fridays, so his legal analysis, while good, is usually well known by the time you hear it. Plus you know, Federal prosecutor.

On the Media - On the Media. It's kinda silly navelgazing at times, but well produced and occasionally has really good pieces on under represented parts of media.

KCRW's Left, Right & Center - Left, Right, and Center. It's ... listenable. If I want a conservative view point, I'll listen to this. The issue with it is its primary conceit, having all sides, is very hard when one of the sides is no longer defensible by rational human beings.

 

Podcasts:
Black Agenda Radio
Citations Needed
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Revolutionary Left Radio

 

Been all about citations needed lately. Maybe my favorite podcast tbh

 

follow Longreads (@Longreads) | Twitter they have some interesting stuff from time to time.

 

The N.R.A. Lobbyist Behind Florida’s Pro-Gun Policies

 

Want to Know How the Cops Actually Trace a Gun?

 

Brainstorm Podcast: Atheism and The Right with Eiynah Nicemangos

 

I don't understand the surprise in this podcast of atheists embracing these popular right wing speakers. This has been happening since the beginning of the new atheist movement. I probably should have stopped listening after the Canadian atheist award introduction though.

 

Lol I enjoyed the podcast otherwise I wouldn't have posted it haha

 

Podcast generally is good but @Wharf Rat is citing this new ep-
Ep. 28: The Asymptotic ‘Two State Solution’ (Part I) — Citations Needed — Overcast

 

The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses

 

Posted this in the general thread yesterday but thought it was a good resource:
Prison Culture » White People Hate Protests – A Zine