Best Left Of Lansing Podcasts (2025)

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322: Friday Short: MAGA Inflicts Pain On Working Class To Protect Trump-Epstein 4:28

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#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentShutdown #MikeJohnson #WorkingClass #Economy #Authoritarianism #Michigan #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 24, 2025. Millions of workin…

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321: No Kings, Political & Corporate Corruption, and Populism Is Popular 41:59

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#podcast #progressive #politics #Michigan #Democrats #NoKings #Republicans #MAGA #CorporateGreed #Corporate Corruption #GovernmentCorruption #Trump #MikeDuggan #Oligarchy #DonorClass #WorkingClass #WealthInequality #Farmers #Education #LisaMcClain #Tariffs #WorkRequirements #Economy #NoKings #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #DirtRoadDems #Left…

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320: Monday Musing. "No Kings" Protests Were Both Anti-Trump & Pro-Worker 5:55

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#podcast #politics #progressive #workingclass #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #MAGA #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentGreed #Michigan #NoKings #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #GenZ #Immigration #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 20, 2025. Last weekend's "No Kings" protests were a ringing success…

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Listening to the Planet - Writers' Perspectives on Nature, Place & Interconnectedness 12:31

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How do our environments shape who we are and how we care for the world and each other? There are many solutions to climate change, inequality, and poverty around the world. How can we learn from them and transform our society? Eiren Caffall (All the Water in the World) discusses the importance of embracing complexity and emotional flexibility in fa…

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319: Friday Short: Tech Oligarchy Gobbles-Up Media To Control Our Free Speech 5:18

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#podcast #progressives #politics #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #MAGA #CorporateCorruption #CorporateAuthoritarians #CorporateGreed #GovernmentGreed #Michigan #KristiNoem #GovernmentShutdown #LarryEllison #FreeSpeech #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #WorkingClass #HealthCare #NoKings #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" f…

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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism & Why it Matters with CHRISTINE WEBB

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“There are many ways in which I think human exceptionalism has seeped into the sciences, but one of the many ways is through the methodologies we use when we compare the intelligence of humans and other species. In particular, in my field, I’m a primatologist by training, comparing the cognitive abilities of humans with the abilities of our closest…

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318: Michigan's New Marijuana Tax For Roads: Another Working Class Gut-Punch 42:13

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#podcast #politics #Progressives #ProgressivePolitics #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Michigan #Marijuana #MarijuanaTax #PotForRoads #WorkingClass #Economy #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentGreed #MarijuanaPolicyProject #KarenOKeefe #Racism #LawAndOrder #Crime #SmallBusinesses #Medicaid #HealthCare #ArgentinaBailout #Farmers #Trump #Au…

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317: Monday Musing: Trump Gets Vaccines While Blocking Others From Doing Same 5:00

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#podcast #politics #progressive #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #HealthCare #Kennedy #Vaccines #Covid #Medicaid #Economy #WorkingClass #GovernmentCorruption #JeffreyEpstein #Authoritarianism #Democracy Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for October 13, 2025. Dear Leader Trump apparently received both the COVID and flu vaccines last week. …

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316: Fair Way To Fund Michigan Schools w/ Jess Newman of Invest in MI Kids Ballot Initiative 47:13

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #MikeJohnson #Education #PublicSchools #InvestInMIKids #WorkingClass #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentCorruption #Housing #Teachers #Oligarchy #Inequality #Authoritarianism #Democracy #BadBunny #WhiteChristianNationalists #FreeSpeech #LeftofLansing Here's…

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315: Monday Musing: Trump Regime's Occupation Of American Cities 5:53

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314: Friday Short: Another Mass Shooting In Michigan 4:40

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #GunViolence #Guns #MassShooting #GrandBlanc #CharlieKirk #Democracy #GunControl #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for October 3, 2025. Michigan experienced another horrific mass shooting last weekend when a man rammed his pick-up truck into the Church o…

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313: Budget Showdowns, Haley Stevens' Napa Getaway, and Ranked Choice Voting w/ Joe Spaulding 54:04

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Vance #RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #VotingRights #Mamdani #BudgetShowdowns #WorkingClass #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #HealthCare #Medicaid #Immigration #Gaza #GarlinGilchrist #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's the 1…

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312: Monday Musing: Ezra Klein Is Right About Expanding Map; Wrong On How To Do It 6:01

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#podcast #politics #Progressives #Democrats #Michigan #EzraKlein #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #AbortionRights #LGBTQ #WorkingClass #RedStates #Economics #ProgressivePoliciesWin #Democracy #MAGA #Trump #Republicans #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 29, 2025. Center-Left commentator …

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311: Friday Short: Americans Bailout MAGA Argentina While Farmers Suffer 3:57

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#podcast #progressive #politics #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Michigan #Farmers #WorkingClass #Tariffs #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #Economy #Agriculture #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 26, 2025! Michigan farmers are feeling the brunt of the failed Trump Econo…

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310: People-Centered Politics w/ Lansing Mayoral Candidate Kelsea Hector 51:31

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#podcast #politics #progressive #Lansing #Michigan #KelseaHector #Democrats #WorkingClass #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #KamalaHarris #Economics #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #Oligarchy #GunViolence #Inequality #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #LeftofLanisng Here's Episode #149 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast…

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309: Monday Musing: Trump Regime Backs CANADIAN OIL Over Michigan! Is That "America First?" 4:49

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Line5 #Oil #FossilFuels #GovernmentCorruption #Michigan #Great Lakes #WorkingClass #Jobs #CleanEnergy #Economy #Trump #Enbridge #Environment #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 22, 2025. In a shock to NO ONE, The Trump Regime is backing Canadian Oil …

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How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH 38:26

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“Poetry is like one of the great loves of my life, and I think it's probably the longest relationship I'll ever have. I read a lot of poetry. I also wrote these short stories even when I was pretty young, like in second grade, and the stories kept getting shorter and shorter. My family used to go to Damascus in Syria and Lebanon every summer for th…

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Book 5: Episode 10 - I Fell In Love With A Ghoul (And I'm Her Doctor, also?! 1:18:04

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The end of another book and another weird moment with Hattie and pregnancy. Really weird, slap-stick ending but now we are pumped as h*ck for the next book. New book-club-style episodes will be released every other week, with periodic deep-dives into fun topics like Dispensationalism, the rise of the Religious Right, and unhinged Evangelical TikTok…

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308: Friday Short: U.N Declares Israel Guilty Of Genocide In Gaza, But Why Aren't More Democrats? 4:06

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#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #DemocraticSocialist #MAGA #Republican #GovernmentCorruption #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #BernieSanders #Michigan #RashidaTlaib #Democracy #War #Palestinians #Authoritarianism #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 19, 2025. A United Nations commission released a report in which…

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307: Capitulation Is Never A Solution To Authoritarianism 51:21

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Whitmer #WorkingClass #Economics #Tariffs #MAGA #Republicans #Authoritarianism #GunViolence #PoliticalViolence #PoliticalThreats #JimmyKimmell #Trump #CharlieKirk #Farmers #RuralAmerica #TransRights #LGBTQRights #GenderAffirmingCare #WhiteChristianNationalism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing 00:00-20:…

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Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO 43:40

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“My book is called Empire of AI because I'm trying to articulate this argument and illustrate that these companies operate exactly like empires of old. I highlight four features that essentially encapsulate the three things you read. However, I started talking about it in a different way after writing the book. The four features are: they lay claim…

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306: Monday Musing: MAGA Uses Tragedy To Advance Authoritarian Goals 5:16

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#podcast #politics #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CharlieKirk #GunViolence #Authoritarianism #GovernmentCorruption #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Extremism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the September 15, 2025 edition of the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing." This week's "Monday Musing" examines how, despite all evidence to…

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305: Friday Short: MAGA Uses Kirk Assassination To Shut Down Progressive Speech 4:37

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#podcast #progressives #politics #freespeech #politicalviolence #Democrats #Republicans, MAGA, #Trump #Charlie Kirk #GunViolence #Democracy #Authoritarianism #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 12, 2025. Pat Johnston explains how, as predicted, MAGA Republicans are using the Charlie Kirk assassination to shut-down…

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304: Mallory McMorrow's Confusing Campaign. Fake Electors Escape Law & Order. Charlie Kirk Murder. 48:05

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#podcast #progressives #Michigan #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentGreed #MalloryMcMorrow #Election2026 #Gaza #AIPAC #Israel #WorkingClass #Tariffs #HealthCare #CharlieKirk #Authoritarianism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 147 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-09:58: Charlie…

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Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis: ETGAR KERET on Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - Highlights 19:13

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“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice that we make, because this story will affect all the other choices.” Etgar Keret is one of the most inventive and celebrated short story writers of his g…

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Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET 1:08:23

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“When I write my stories, I don't want to solve things in life. I just want to persuade myself that there is a way out. Maybe I am in a cell, maybe I'm trapped. Maybe I won't make it, but if I can imagine a plan for escape, then I'll be less trapped because at least in my mind, there is a way. I think that my parents are survivors. They always talk…

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Arabic Literature, Palestine & The Art of Translation with HUDA FAKHREDDINE

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“I'm Lebanese. I grew up in Lebanon during the Civil War, and I came to the United States as a graduate student with the intention of going back. I never wanted to stay here. I really thought that my life would happen in Beirut, in a city that I loved and hated in the healthiest of ways. My investments, both literary and intellectual, were rooted t…

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Book 5: Episode 9 - Apollyon Means Plan (ad-free) 1:43:22

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We continue with the horrid swarm of sexy locust accosting the non-believers across the world. We really have no idea what is going on but I think that makes it better. Deeper Reading - https://revelationscriptures.com/7-trumpets/5th-trumpet-1st-woe-locust-bible/ https://www.moonlightrequisition.com/post/locusts-of-revelation-an-ai-experiment https…

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303: Monday Musing: Michigan MAGA Transgender Bathroom Ban Seeks To Divide 6:16

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#podcast #politics #progressive #transgender #LGBTQ #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Oligarchy #GovernmentCorruption #CorporareGreed #CorporateCorruption #Authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalist #WorkingClass #MattHall #Trump #Fascism #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 8, 2025. MAGA Michigan …

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302: Friday Short: Trump Regime Sinks Foreign Student Enrollment, and Michigan's Economy 4:57

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#podcast #politics #economy #workingclass #HigherEducation #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Democrats #FreeSpeech #InternationalStudents #Michigan #Whitmer #RickSnyder #Tariffs #Jobs #Authoritarianism #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for September 5, 2025. A story in Bridge Michigan today explained how The Trump Regime's policies …

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301: People-Powered Politics w/ Denzel McCampbell-Democratic Socialist Candidate For Detroit City Council 49:15

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#podcast #politics #progressive #Democrats #DemocraticSocialist #Republicans #Michigan #Detroit #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #GovernmentGreed #DenzelMcCampbell #WorkingClass #Authoritarianism #GovernorWhitmer #Vaccines #HealthCare #Trump #MAGA #KarenWhitsett #RashidaTlaib #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 146 of Michigan's Premier Progressive P…

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300: Monday Musing: The Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Trump Regime 5:08

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#podcast #politics #progressives #workingclass #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Unions #Medicaid #Michigan #Economy #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Democrats #Democracy #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for September 1, 2025. On this Labor Day 2025, Pat Johnston reviews how the Trump Regime has enacted …

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299: Friday Short: Guns & Men--A Unique American Problem 5:32

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Michigan #MAGA #Republicans #Guns #GunViolence #SchoolShootings #ToxicMasculinity #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 29, 2025. MAGA Republicans are trying to blame the entire Transgender community for the school shooting at a Catholic Church in Minneapolis this week in wh…

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298: MAGA Michigan's Budget Insanity; Whitmer's Special Election Error 43:36

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#podcast #politics #Progressive #Democrats #MAGA #Republicans #Trump #Budget #WorkingClass #Medicaid #HealthCare #DanaNessel #GretchenWhitmer #Detroit #KarenWhitsett #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Gaza #Israel #Election #Fascism #LeftOfLansing Here's Episode 145 of Michigan's Premier Progressive Podcast! 00:00-17:23: MA…

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What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis with MALCOLM HARRIS

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“One day, I woke up with this concept of oil being tied up in our lives in ways that we don't talk about. It’s sort of a value-theoretical approach to climate change and the climate crisis. Something that's impersonal and goes to the root of our entire social metabolic structure.” In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor Davi…

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The Poetics & Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde &Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College w/ DANICA SAVONICK 42:56

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“As I was reading Hooks and Freire, a colleague recommended Adrian Rich's essay "Teaching Language in Open Admissions." It was in that essay that I first read about her experiences teaching at CUNY during open admissions, learning that she taught alongside June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara. Eventually, that essay led me to their archi…

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Book 5: Episode 8 - The Many Woes of Greasy Ernie 1:46:08

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Things get so intense in these chapters in a way we have yet to see! This is the good stuff. The stuff that made us want to re-read these books. We are talking about real messed up horse bugs and it feels so good. New book-club-style episodes will be released every other week, with periodic deep-dives into fun topics like Dispensationalism, the ris…

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297: Monday Musing: Michiganders Learning (A Second Time) How Trump Doesn't Care About Them 4:20

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#podcast #politics #progressives #Democrats #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #Authoritarianism #GretchenWhitmer #Rural #HealthCare #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Immigration #Labor #Inflation #WorkingClass #LeftOfLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Monday Musing" for August 25, 2025. Dear Leader Trump forgot Governor Gretchen …

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296: Friday Short: Mike Duggan Sides With Authoritarianism 5:31

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#podcast #politics #Michigan #Detroit #MikeDuggan #Democrats #Republicans #Progressives #CorporateGreed #CorporateCorruption #GovernmentCorruption #Crime #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Democracy #WorkingClass #Moderates #LeftofLansing Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for August 22, 2025. Today, The Trump Regime's FBI raided the home of The Re…

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295: Kelli van Ginhoven, Democratic State Senate Candidate on Rebuilding U.P's Blue Wall 56:31

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#politics #podcast #Michigan #progressives #Democrats #Lansing #KellivanGinhoven #Republicans #MAGA #GovernmentCorruption #CorporateCorruption #CorporateGreed #RuralVoters #DirtRoadDems #Escanaba #Democracy #WorkingClass #MikeDuggan #Detroit #GavinNewsom #MAGAMurderBudget #PublicSchools #unions #Voting #RankedChoiceVoting #LeftofLansing 00:00-16:46…

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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN

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“The origin was really trying to make sense of that 2016-2017 moment and to ask whether the alt-right was, as we were being told, a return to the 1930s, a kind of awakening of the sleeping beast of white supremacy armed in the streets in the United States. There are many explanations, but I decided to take this kind of curious route in with the dis…