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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with journalist David Dayen. To get access to the full interview by becoming a member by joining the Patreon.
David Dayen has a really good brain. He's been tracking and unpacking how corporations have used our government as a door mat for years. In this discussion he, joins Francesca to explains how favoritism and bribery have replaced regulation during Trump 2.0, and how the regime fits the textbook definition of fascism, i.e., corporate control and government authoritarianism.
He also explains the state of antitrust cases under Trump, assesses what could have been done under Biden, and mulls over whether progressives should have pushed further under Biden—and what worked under his administration, until it didn't.
They discuss the serious real-world impacts on the defunding of Medicare, SNAP and WIC and how the 'vengeance budgeting' of the Trump administration has disproportionately defunded blue states. Dayen breaks down what the Zohran Mamdani administration is doing right, and how interventions like city-run grocery stores 'utterly disrupt' the late-stage capitalist hell we find ourselves in.
Featuring:
David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/
Read Francesca’s columns from The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/author/francesca-fiorentini/
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JD Vance is on an absolute epic run of terrible campaign speeches, recently comparing the U.S. economy to the Titanic and insulting an Iran war widower. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders campaigns in Florida for Angie Nixon, and Abdul El-Sayed beats back the Islamophobic plants in Michigan. Francesca is solo discussing the state of the midterms race, James Carville’s revelatory rant on The Bulwark--an outlet no one should listen to--and the recent white nationalist line when it comes to protests in France.
Then, we’re joined Lily Greenberg Call, the first Jewish-American political appointee to resign from the Biden administration over Gaza, to talk about the lessons the Biden Administration isn't learning from supporting a genocide and the olive harvest violence in the West Bank. Greenberg Call is ready for Kamala to start apologizing for enabling genocide—but that still won't mean she wants Harris ‘28.
Featuring:
Lily Greenberg Call, former Biden administration appointee and first Jewish-American political appointee to resign over Gaza.
https://www.instagram.com/lilygreenbergcall/
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The latest blonde press secretary has come and gone but we press on. Francesca and Matt Lieb were in Philadelphia, bitching about how much those cheesesteaks just sit in your stomach, huh? Joined by organizer and activist Nelini Stamp and labor journalist Kim Kelly, much hay was made over an American Idol going full Karen on a local art store in Brooklyn. Then a little Shane Gillis shade and why the Amish are spreading a disease that was eradicated in the year 2000.
Plus, Trump is fully in his gay period while the GOP continues to parrot anti-trans insanity. And the media can’t let go of the idea of having a Muslim Senator in Abdul El-Sayed by virtue of their raging Islamophobia.
And what do we need to keep in mind as leftists as Democrats appear poised to at least take the House come 2027? Kim Kelly and Nelini discuss their wishlist for democracy in the years ahead. Finally a Matt Lieb-produced round of "Two News and a Lie: Netanyahu Edition".
Featuring:
Kim Kelly, journalist and author
https://www.kim-kelly.com/
Nelini Stamp, organizer of fandoms & formerly WFP
https://www.threads.com/@nelstamp
Matt Lieb, Bad Hasbara Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/@Badhasbara
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This is a portion of Francesca’s interview with podcast host Jennifer Welch. To get access to the full interview become a patron: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom.
Jennifer Welch has had it. With Bible thumpers who vote to disappear their neighbors, with incompetent weirdos in the Trump White House, and with Democrats who refuse to fight fascism or oligarchy. A former interior designer turned political podcast host, Jenn and her co-host Angie "Pumps" Sullivan, have struck a necessary chord in the pundit space. There's a brilliant and unfiltered quality to their work, and the kind of refreshing wonk-free speak that so many Americans are responding to. In fact she wrote a book about it called "Not Today, Fascists" that is out now.
Francesca and Jenn talk about how she got her star on BravoTV, the success of the Republican Party in red states that Democrats had given up on, and why it's okay to make fun of whatever is happening to RFK Jr.'s throad or Trump's cankles. Having grown up in the Bible Belt, Jenn speaks about what she calls the "recreational cruelty" of the wealthy that the Republican Party caters to. Sure on paper no one wants to look elitist or classist, but behind closed doors they're voting to take away rights from the poor and people of color.
Jenn and Pumps have made headlines in their interviews with Democratic leadership like Senator Cory Booker or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, specifically over the question of AIPAC money and Gaza. There's a soothing aspect to Jenn's frankness and it's not just her Oklahoma accent. There's righteousness, conviction and most of all a wicked sense of humor.
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LIVE SHOWS:
Philadelphia, October 13th: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb, co-headline The Punchline: https://www.livenation.com/event/vvG1FZ_uLomA9S/francesca-fiorentini-the-bitchuation-room-live
Philadelphia, October 14th: The Bitchuation Room LIVE! At The Punchline. https://www.livenation.com/event/vvG1FZ_uLomA9S/francesca-fiorentini-the-bitchuation-room-live
Brooklyn, October 15th: Francesca and Matt Lieb Co-headline The Bell House
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064F43E85608

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Trump told a Nebraska rally that letting Iran "take out" Los Angeles or San Diego would be "a very small price to pay" — incredibly normal! We break down that bit of light treason alongside why Ms. Rachel and Hasan Piker are both right on Gaza, Tom Morello wrongly getting dragged for saying he didn't vote for Harris in 2024, and Vanity Fair getting reamed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris for glazing tech oligarchs who "want us all dead."
Then, Democratic strategist and Bernie Sanders campaign veteran Chuck Rocha joins to break down the Texas elections: why James Talarico is closing in on Ken Paxton, why Gina Hinojosa has a real shot at beating Greg Abbott, and why the state's ICE militarization backfired even on Latino Trump voters who wanted border security but got random kidnappings.
Featuring:
Chuck Rocha, founder of Solidarity Strategies, https://x.com/ChuckRocha
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LIVE SHOWS:
Philadelphia, October 13th: Francesca Fiorentini & Matt Lieb, co-headline The Punchline: https://www.livenation.com/event/vvG1FZ_uLomA9S/francesca-fiorentini-the-bitchuation-room-live
Philadelphia, October 14th: The Bitchuation Room LIVE! At The Punchline. https://www.livenation.com/event/vvG1FZ_uLomA9S/francesca-fiorentini-the-bitchuation-room-live
Brooklyn, October 15th: Francesca and Matt Lieb Co-headline The Bell House
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/300064F43E85608

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