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May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025
1hr 48 min
Read the article here: https://jsis.washington.edu/.../06/14/abuses-in-the-air/
Every week, thousands of migrants are shackled at the hands and feet and forced onto deportation flights to destinations across the globe. While the flights are contracted by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), most are run by a shadowy network of private charter companies that operate with no effective oversight. In some cases, migrants are beaten or brutalized aboard the plane. In others, the planes transport them to situations where they are likely to experience harms as grave as torture, assault, or even enslavement. These practices violate U.S. law, international law, and written policies of the Department of Homeland Security, yet although abuses have been documented in human rights reports, described by journalists, discussed by legal scholars,aired in federal court, and reported through internal DHS mechanisms, neither DHS, nor the FAA, nor the U.S. Congress has taken any meaningful steps to stop abuses aboard deportation flights. Indeed, this remains a lucrative and largely secret business, in which contractors have billed U.S. taxpayers for over a million dollars per flight, received Covid-19 bailout funds despite operating in an industry which boomed during the pandemic, and may even receive payment whether they fly or not, under a guaranteed minimum payment scheme similar to that in place at many private detention centers.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
1hr 8 min
Get Andrew's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/.../chicago/K/bo245100866.html
In Karl Marx in America, historian Andrew Hartman argues that even though Karl Marx never visited America, the country has been infused, shaped, and transformed by him. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Marx has been a specter in the American machine. During the Gilded Age, socialists read Marx as an antidote to the unchecked power of corporations. In the Great Depression, communists turned to Marx in hopes of transcending the destructive capitalist economy. The young activists of the 1960s were inspired by Marx as they gathered to protest an overseas war. Marx’s influence today is evident, too, as Americans have become increasingly attuned to issues of inequality, labor, and power.
After decades of being pushed to the far-left corner of intellectual thought, Marx’s ideologies have crossed over into the mainstream and are more alive than ever. Working-class consciousness is on the rise, and, as Marx argued, the future of a capitalist society rests in the hands of the people who work at the point of production. A valuable resource for anyone interested in Marx’s influence on American political discourse, Karl Marx in America is a thought-provoking account of the past, present, and future of his philosophies in American society.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
May 15, 2025
May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025
2hr 17 min
For a genre and a media ecosystem that has perceived itself to be "rebellious" has cutting against the grain created an unintentional pathway to misogyny? We'll discuss.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
1hr 2 min
Read Djene's piece in Compact Magazine here: https://www.compactmag.com/.../neoliberalism-with.../...
For many Syrians, the events of December 2024 had a surreal quality. After nearly a decade and a half of brutal civil war, it had seemed that the regime of Bashar al-Assad had fended off any serious challenges to its authority. Assad and his supporters may not have been able to deliver a killing blow to the various opposition forces in the country, but they had managed to confine them to the country’s periphery. That all changed in late November, when Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist group led by former al-Qaeda militant, Ahmad al-Sharaa, launched a lightning offensive from its stronghold on the Turkish-Syrian border, which brought an end to more than half a century of Assad family rule within a matter of weeks.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
May 11, 2025
May 11, 2025
1hr 19 min
With their early exist from the playoffs, will Lebron finally call it quits? Will the Lakers part ways with their inexperienced head coach? We'll discuss.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,
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THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
1hr 16 min
Jason and J.G. watch nude scenes from "Hello Mary Lou Prom Night II" with the gang.
May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025
1hr 19 min
Watch the documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281y-3dGE1M
J.G. Michael and I sit down with director Derich Heath and discuss his behind scenes making of the cult class, "Hello Mary Lou, Prom Night II"
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
May 7, 2025
May 7, 2025
2hr 14 min
All of the TIR clan come together to have a serious talk that will be led by master Varn..
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THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned: https://kasparian.substack.com/p/the-mob-rules-celebrity-culture-and
May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
1hr 25 min
Ben and Stefan discuss where another Ben ranks on the right wing mega popular charlatan scale in his account of the history of Philosophy
Read (our) Ben's essay here: benburgis.substack.com/p/ben-shapiro-as-a-historian-of-philosophy ...and
subscribe to the Substack here: http://benburgis.substack.com/subscribe
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned Here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...