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Latest episodes
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51 min
Are Cops Part of the Labor Movement or an Existential Threat to It?
Far from all the political bluster about police being “defunded,” six years after the earth-shaking George Floyd protests swept the US and public approval for law enforcement plumm…
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54 min
Meta Chooses Sides in Brazil's Election
In the first round of voting on October 4, Trump-ally, far-right presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro came in two points ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvia. Lula supp…
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8 min
Panther Spirit in DC: Organizing Against Trump’s Fascist Push
October 22nd marks the National Day to Stop Police Brutality. Free DC and Pan-African Community Action (PACA) are two organizations in the nation’s capital engaged in building comm…
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4 min
Data centers, grocery bills, and the Epstein files: Inside the Pennsylvania swing district that could decide t…
As part of our ongoing midterm election coverage we are reporting from districts that could change the balance of power in Washington. In this episode our Capitol HIl team Taya Gra…
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1 h 59
Do Maryland's Political Leaders Serve Maryland? Post-Gubernatorial Debate Town Hall
With elections just week's away, Maryland's gubernatorial debate between Democratic incumbent Governor Wes Moore and Republican challenger Dan Cox took place on Oct. 6. In a specia…
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33 min
Trump’s war on philanthropy is a war on civil society. This donor network is fighting back.
The Trump administration continues to weaponize the federal government to attack President Trump’s critics and enact his authoritarian agenda, which includes waging war against the…
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19 min
The Black Panthers at 60: You can jail a revolutionary, but not the revolution
In the second half of this insightful conversation, former political prisoner Mansa Musa joins Black Panther Party archivist and photographer Billy X Jennings to examine the pivota…
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11 min
Tom Morello wants you to rock out and fight fascism
On Oct. 3, nearly 20,000 people filled the Merriweather Post Pavillion in Maryland (while tens of thousands joined via livestream) to watch a “once in forever” lineup of musical al…
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52 min
Trump Messed With Texas. Now, an Army of Pissed-Off Texans Are Fighting His Border Wall
President Trump has renewed his efforts to “Build the Wall” in areas along the US-Mexico Border that don’t currently have border barriers—including the Big Bend region of West Texa…
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20 min
The Black Panthers at 60: A through line of resistance from the South to California
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa interviews archivist, photographer, and veteran Black Panther Party member Billy X Jennings.Joining the Party at age 17 after…
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41 min
He Loved Working in Concrete. Now, He’s Dying from the Chemical Exposure
Because he was bullied in elementary school for being Native American, James Gardner’s friends lovingly call him “NDN.” His friends and family know NDN to be a fiercely loyal, lovi…
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7 min
The real crisis for men is capitalism: A conversation with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal
From the heinous crimes of the Epstein class to the Cornell 7, from the toxic cultures of the “manosphere” to the increase of antisocial relationships with online pornography and A…
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48 min
Trump's Plan to Swing Brazil's Election for Bolsonaro
Brazil votes this Sunday, and the Trump administration has spent months trying to tilt the outcome toward far-right presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. Tariffs. Terrorist desi…
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54 min
Want to Save the World? Start by Unionizing Your Workplace
“We are living in a pivotal moment in labor history,” Cole Rockarts writes in their new book Fired Up About Unions. “At a time when corporations have more power, profit, and politi…
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12 min
ICE Brings Terror and Violence to Maryland
Residents are shaken and demanding answers after ICE agents terrorized a quiet, suburban neighborhood in Frederick, Maryland, earlier this month. On September 4, federal agents swa…
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15 min
"Resistance Is Our Only Option": Mahmoud Khalil speaks
After being abducted by plainclothes ICE agents from his New York apartment building in March of 2025 and locked away in immigration jail for 104 days, Mahmoud Khalil has been free…
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40 min
Can This Independent Mass. Governor Candidate Rally a 67% Unenrolled Electorate?
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, the midterms edition, we take you to the Commonwealth, where Andrea James—abolitionist, author, and organizer—is currently running for governo…
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19 min
Baltimore residents fight City Council over controversial data center bill
Editor’s Note: Council Bill 26-0174 (data centers) will get another public hearing in front of the Baltimore City Council’s Land Use & Transportation Committee on the 4th floor of…
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58 min
Toledo Residents’ Lives Upended by Deadly Brent Industries Explosions
On the morning of August 18, residents living near the Brent Industries facility in Toledo, Ohio, awoke to a series of massive explosions and a towering chemical fire in their back…
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33 min
DSA leads the blue wave — will it bend to the thin blue line?
What will a DSA-led state look like — will it back defund and community control of police, or bow to the powers that block affordability? Lawrence Grandpre, political commentator f…