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Nignorance from across the diaspora. We discuss politics and pop culture from a left perspective. Enjoy and tell a friend.
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May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026
4hr 41 min
J discusses MJ and Langston Hughes' negro paradox, casual racism, and ridiculous clips.
May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026
1hr 16 sec
Read Ida's book here: https://www.routledge.com/The.../Susser/p/book/9781032877938
Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of left and right.
Comprehensively exploring the meaning of “les Gilets Jaunes triompheront” (the yellow vests will win), written on the Arc de Triomphe in 2018, The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy details how people of all ages, many from the provinces and the urban periphery, rushed through the Paris streets, breaking windows and braving tear gas, challenging the ruling class in extraordinary and unpredictable ways. Avoiding hierarchy and stable organization, and claiming a right to a territory or space that is between the private and the public, these protests imagined a different form of collectivity that is not commodified but established by the social practice of “commoning” – of momentarily linking protests in the streets and other spaces.
An essential book for activists and researchers on contemporary protest movements, this book offers crucial insight into the formation of protests and popular resistance and how social movements generate their own political and ideological character.
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026
1hr 37 min
Why are teen girls going all in on MAHA?
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
1hr 36 min
Quinn details Haiti's Revolutionary Architecture as Stefan and Kuba look on in amazement at his doctrine
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
May 4, 2026
May 4, 2026
1hr 15 min
Kuba is back..
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Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
May 4, 2026
May 4, 2026
2hr 9 min
I can still remember staring at the screen and listening to the verdict that the officers had been acquitted. I felt utter shock, on one hand, and deja vu, on the other. I, like millions of Americans, watched the video footage ad nauseam of the brutal beating of Rodney King at the hands of the LAPD and thought to myself there was no way these cops would get off. Yet many, including in my neighborhood of Richmond, California, were less sanguine about the prospect of justice being delivered. Such skepticism proved well-founded. The acquittal of the officers involved in the King case set off a wave of popular unrest, the so-called LA Riots of 1992 which cost 64 lives, caused over 2,300 injuries, and resulted in damages estimated at between $800 million and $1 billion.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026
1hr 11 min
Read Ryan's article in UnHerd here https://unherd.com/.../tmz-dc-is-tailor-made-for.../
For years, Harvey Levin has been America’s high priest of low spectacle. His tabloid news operation, TMZ, has camera crews in Hollywood forever lurking for celebrity DUIs, reality-show divorces, and shirtless indiscretions on boats. Yet, in a country where politics increasingly resembles a Bravo show moderated by C-SPAN, perhaps it was only a matter of time before the gossip mongers packed up and left Los Angeles for the nation’s capital.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497
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,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?
Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)
THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
Apr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
2hr 28 min
Jason expands on issue 23 of the TIR Newsletter--THE TIR SOUNDOFF. Hulk Hogan, Michael Jackson, and American greatness.
Apr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
1hr 3 min
Read Lauren's article in Jacobin magazine here: https://jacobin.com/2026/03/the-making-of-the-teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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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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content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!
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Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)
THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine
Apr 29, 2026
Apr 29, 2026
1hr 53 min
Read Hamza's article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/.../tupac-biography-black-panthers.../
Since his death in 1996, Tupac Shakur has existed less as a person than a symbol, flattened by myth, commodified by nostalgia, and recycled endlessly by an industry that thrives on decontextualized images of rebellion. A corrective is long overdue.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497
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,
BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the
episodes, and you get MERCH!
Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?
Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)
THANKS Y'ALL
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/.../donald-trump-is-a-pro...
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/rainbow-and-machine