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Numbness now seems to be the emotional default for so many of us — the result of living in a deranged reverse panopticon, where everything bad happening everywhere in the world (plus the fever dreams of robots) is beamed directly into your eyeballs all day long by our pitiless overlords. Jay joins poet, journalist and author Mark Abley to talk about confronting and escaping the brain-mushing machine (and Mark’s new book, Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm).
Show Notes
Order Numb from Baraka Books
Mark’s other books
About Mark Abley
The Quagga
Is This AI?
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The boom in AI datacentres is part of an anti-everything endgame strategy for capitalists who want to permanently win capital’s war against labour and complete, once and for all, the enclosure of the commons and the privatization of all stores of value, down to the last bytes of information. Roger and Erica join Jay to discuss the widespread, grassroots, and bipartisan surge in opposition to these enormous datacentre infrastructure projects. We also talk about the Pope’s encyclical, the psychospiritual ramifications of AI, and the Protestant work ethic versus Catholic social teaching versus whatever the fuck is going on with the new breed of neofascist techlords.
Show Notes
Fighting Against Another Federal Prison in Appalachia
Economic Struggle in Appalachia (Appalshop)
How Portland DSA and SIOs Shaped Socialism’s Win in the Suburbs
Oregon Candidates on Data Centre Moratorium Pulled
Myrna Munoz Unseats Senator Janeen Sollman in Key Democratic Primary
‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon to pay $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon nitrate pollution
Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence by Pope Leo XIV
Richard Lewontin
Erica’s IG
Roger’s IG
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In Episode 97 Clementine and Jay kick it with Bebe Montoya, Portland’s best and most cancelled socialist zinester. We talk about Bebe’s new zines, gender politics with normal characteristics, and the final (girl)boss of neoliberal identitarianism. This is a paywalled episode; to listen to the whole thing, become a paid subscriber at fuckingcancelled.com.
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Joey Santore from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t joins Jay to rant at length about the spiritual depravity of the wilting non-native hedges lining the empty parking lots copy-pasted across North America.
Show Notes
Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - Main Website
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the podcast
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the YouTube channel
Frederick Law Olmsted
Mesquite trees
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A few weeks ago the NDP held their party convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they elected a new party leader and a new executive slate. Intrepid reporter Jay went to Winnipeg to check things out so you didn’t have to. Everything you never wanted to know about party politics, and more!
Show Notes
The NDP
The CLC
The CCF
Avi Lewis’s platform
Morris Lewis
By the way: friend of the pod Molly' Crabapple’s book on the Jewish Labour Bund is now available for sale.
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Roger and Erica join Jay to commiserate about the excruciating experience of watching Louis Theroux’s new documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’. Is the Red Pill more of a reactionary social movement or a Patreon-based pyramid scheme? Is the Manosphere the new face of neo-Nazi propaganda or The Secret for Zoomer men? Can you escape the Matrix by becoming a…
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In the midst of historic cuts to public services in Quebec, workers are fighting back. Jay sits down with Kiersten and Adam from Alliance Ouvrière (Workers Alliance; the organization that successfully unionized the Amazon warehouse outside Montreal) to talk about their Nos jobs, nos services campaign, which seeks to react to austerity by radicalizing workers, mobilizing fighting unions, and revitalizing the political strike as a weapon of the working class.
Show Notes
Alliance Ouvrière
AO on Instagram and Facebook
Contact AO
Nurses’ sit-in at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital
The SAAQclic debacle
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A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitarianism and the trials and tribulations of exit…
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The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stupidity that is the Quebec political class. Plus: Chris reveals the secret behind Montreal’s comically (some might say criminally) bad roads.
Show Notes
Christopher Curtis on Instagram
The Rover
Bill 1 (Québec Constitution Act 2025)
The CAQ (Coalition Avenir Quebec)
The PQ (Parti Québécois)
Laïcité (French secularism)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Patriation
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In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zionist Jews (and other socialists) an inspiring example of bravery and committed internationalism in the face of impossible odds. In Episode 90, author and artist Molly Crabapple joins Jay to talk about her new book on the Bund, Here Where We Live is Our Country. In the process of researching this fantastic book, Molly taught herself Yiddish and pored through original sources originally belonging to her great-grandfather, himself a Bundist in his youth. We also discuss the state of antisemitism, real and imagined, in the wake of the Gaza genocide.
Show Notes
Here Where We Live is Our Country
Molly’s website
Molly’s Instagram
Defiance by Loubna Mrie
Theodor Herzl on Wikipedia
The Pale of Settlement on Wikipedia
Yiddish on Wikipedia
History of Liberia on Wikipedia
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In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike.
Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.
Show Notes
Erica’s IG
Episode 82 with Erica Thomas
Roger’s IG
Episode 74 with Roger Peet
Tom Homan
The Glooper
Carney’s speech at Davos
Join DSA
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni
All Fours by Miranda July
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In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick in labour organizing in North America, including high-profile union drives at Starbucks and Amazon, and what workers are doing to win these struggles. We finish off with a little discussion of Young Cardamom, AKA Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City.
Show Notes
Eric’s book We Are the Union
Eric’s Substack, laborpolitics.com
Eric’s Instagram
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)
Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Points the Way Forward, by Eric Blanc, in Jacobin
More articles by Eric Blanc in Jacobin
An update on the Amazon situation in Quebec
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On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital.
Show Notes
Transition Montreal’s website
Transition Montreal’s Instagram
Craig’s Instagram
Sergio’s Instagram
Cult MTL on the election
TVA calling Sergio’s neck tattoo controversial
The Charbonneau Commission
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In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws.
Show Notes
The ‘Strong Borders Act’
Bill 5, the ‘Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act’
Quebec’s new law limiting strikes
Jay’s article ‘Green’ Elites vs Left Green Populism
René Lévesque
Maurice Duplessis
Quebec’s Quiet Revolution
Isaac Peltz on Instagram
Isaac Peltz on TikTok
Isaac’s LinkTree
Isaac’s Substack
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The first real, proletarian resistance to the second Trump administration kicked off last week in LA as thousands of working people flooded the streets, responding to the increasingly brutal terrorism they are being subjected to by US security forces. Returning guest Cecilia Guerrero joins us to discuss the LA rebellion, the state of organized resistance to Trump in the US, the socialist position on mass migration, and why you need to learn Spanish immediately. Cecilia is an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, where she works with A Luta Sigue, the Tennessee Drivers’ Union, Nashville People Power and the Southern Youth Solidarity Network.
Show Notes
Cecilia on Episode 72: Organizing the South
David Huerta, President of SEIU California
Trump ends ‘humanitarian parole’ for citizens of 4 countries
What is imperialism?
The Mexican-American War
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Award-winning author and historian Sarah Schulman joins us in Episode 84 to talk about her new book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. We talk about what solidarity means in the context of today’s neoliberal hellworld and how to be in solidarity across differences in power. We also talk about Sarah’s process of debrainwashing from Zionism, how she has learned to be in solidarity with Palestinians, and the importance of telling the truth no matter what.
Show Notes
Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman on Twitter
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah Schulman
alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society
ACT UP
Conflict is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman
Pride (2014)
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As the tech oligarchs dream of subjecting us all to their sick fantasies and their pet governments pave the road to hell with bad intentions, the sycophantic press breathlessly praises each new ‘advancement’ in dystopian tech — and each new phony scam as well. In Episode 83 we’re joined by Paris Marx, technology critic, author and host of Tech Won’t Save Us, one of the most important podcasts of the Canadian Left. We discuss technopessimism, fully-automated luxury space communism, whether sentient AIs will ever be a thing, and what, behind all the smoke and mirrors, the evil techlords are actually trying to accomplish.
Show Notes
Tech Won’t Save Us
Disconnect
Parismarx.com
Paris on Instagram
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation by Paris Marx
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Red Enlightenment with Graham Jones
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As the masked goons of the MAGA nanny-state continue to disappear students for holding views upsetting to hysterical Zionists and their sweaty, senile leader continues to rule by deranged imperial decree executive order, we sit down with Erica Thomas, a union organizer, professor and artist, to talk about what’s going on in our increasingly unhinged southern neighbour, the USA. We talk about the Portland police force’s weird attempt to join the Oregon labour movement, the enshittification of higher education and everything else, and the state of Palestine organizing on campuses today. We also talk about union art, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the possibility, at long last, of the emergence of a true third party in US politics.
Show Notes
Erica’s website
Erica’s IG
Portland’s police union is trying to use the labor movement to avoid budget cuts
Five Things I Did This Week by Laurie Wimmer
The Palestine Exception by Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee for new unionization support and general how-to-union basic education
Jane McAlevy
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
General Strike 2028
Join DSA
Bread & Roses - the Marxist caucus of DSA
The Bread & Roses reading list
The Bread & Roses blog
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Free Pre-K in Oregon
Councilor Mitch Green, District 4, Portland
Portland city councilor threatens PSU project funding over response to pro-Palestinian library takeover
Federal investigation into 5 universities for “antisemitism” which targeted Portland State and 4 others
IHRA definition of antisemism
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Depressing but true: we’re hurtling toward human-caused climate collapse and our political-economic system, captured by capitalist elites intent on squeezing out profits until the day our civilization collapses, is effectively incapable of responding by itself. It must be forced: but how? Petitions haven’t worked. Rallies haven’t worked. Posting on Instagram hasn’t worked. And ****ing up pipelines, sexy though it might be, hasn’t worked. So while purists call for mass eco-insurgency and liberals circulate change.org petitions, the A22 Network has responded by organizing and mobilizing huge numbers of committed militants around the Western world, using large-scale civil disobedience as a tactic to push governments to adopt basic climate policies. These tactics have been controversial but successful: Just Stop Oil, the British branch of A22 perhaps best known for throwing soup at a Van Gogh, recently disbanded itself because its main demand — that the UK government cease approving any new oil and gas exploitation projects — has been adopted. In Episode 81 we chat with Laura Sullivan, a spokesperson for Last Generation Canada, which is the Canadian branch of the A22 Network. We talk about Last Generation’s demands, the tactics used by the group, combating the freeze response often provoked by discussions of climate collapse, and preparing for revolutionary conditions as things inevitably deteriorate.
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lastgenerationcanada.ca
Last Generation’s Instagram
Last Generation’s Facebook
a22network.org
The Guardian - ‘Just Stop Oil to “hang up the hi-vis” after three years of climate action’
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Plagued from a young age by disturbing intrusive thoughts and unable to control dangerous compulsive behaviours, 3 Body Problem screenwriter and best-selling author Rose Cartwright was immensely relieved to learn that she had a disease called OCD, which was caused by a chemical imbalance in her brain and could be easily treated with a pill. She became the UK’s poster girl for recovery from OCD, and even wrote a book called Pure—later adapted into a TV show—about the success of the psychiatric model in treating her disorder. But years later, having sunk back into chronic suicidality, she struggled with the fact that this model hadn’t really produced any kind of long term relief. Then she discovered something astounding: that there is no biological basis for most of the disorders in the DSM, and the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of mental illness had been quietly discredited years ago. She embarked on a quest to understand what was going on, resulting in her groundbreaking book The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, Trauma, and Our New Path to Mental Health. In Episode 80, we talk to Rose about her story and her research, getting into the failures of the medical system to treat mental illness effectively, the amazing properties of psychedelics in this field, and the question of how to give working class people access to these new, important tools.
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Rose Cartwright’s website
Rose’s Instagram
Her book The Maps We Carry
Her BBC radio series on psychedelics and trauma
Study about dance and depression
Gabor Mate’s book The Myth of Normal
Ecstatic dance
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