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Feb 26, 2026 • 50min
EP. 847: IS HUMAN REPRODUCTION A POLITICAL ACT? ft. EVELINA JOHANSSON WILEN
READ EVELINA'S ARTICLE IN JACOBIN HERE: https://jacobin.com/2026/01/birth-rates-children-pronatalism-gender?fbclid=IwY2xjawQKndtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJWZTNiYW9FS21sOUxWT3RXc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHia0kX_t5tdZE7S92zJhMpKAnSPg6Meo6yMDcxB6ZMkg1Fs3x6mu9JZRf04P_aem_xjDp8eLRvImgXKjZ-ZJXtg
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 25, 2026 • 2h 12min
EP. 846: THE RIGHT CAN'T LET GO OF WOKE
Read Jason's response to UnHerd Magazine's "Woke 2.0" here: https://open.substack.com/pub/jmylesoftir/p/the-crisis-papers-issue-15-even-though?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
There has been no contemporary slang term more misused than woke. It means everything and nothing all at once. It’s a term whose vagueness is its political utility.
Woke has become shorthand for “liberal outrage” and identity politics. I am not, and have never been a fan of woke in that sense. But, the term has been applied to so many different things that when someone starts complaining about wokeness, you have to guess what they mean.
Pronouns? Bathrooms? Civil Rights?
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 24, 2026 • 1h 44min
EP. 845: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JESSE JACKSON ft. ADOLPH REED JR.
You can read Adolph's book on Jesse Jackson here: https://www.amazon.com/Jesse-Jackson.../dp/0300035527
How did Jesse Jackson – who had never run in an election and had only recently registered to vote – become the black candidate for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination? What does his campaign show about the dynamics that drive Afro-American political activity? What is the true political legacy for the man that trained under King and had Al Sharpton as a protege?
We'll discuss with Adolph Reed, Jr. who wrote about Jackson's first presidental campaign.
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 23, 2026 • 1h 13min
DUDES IN THE CHEAP SEATS EP. 9: BODY SLAM (1987)
J.G. and J. discuss the 1986 pro wrestling classic featuring Rowdy Ronnie Piper and more, followed by a viewing of the film for patrons and paid YouTube subscribers!
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Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 20, 2026 • 1h 7min
EP. 844: A COLD WAR ON 5 CONTINENTS
You can find Dr. McCoy's book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/.../2631-cold-war-on-five...
Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.
McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanizing the history of the Cold War—a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.
As today’s great powers devote humanity’s scarce resources toward ratcheting up a “new cold war” in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy’s history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine: 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/
Feb 19, 2026 • 1h 42min
EP. 843: INFLUENCERS AND A.I. WILL THE MEDIA VOID ft. RYAN ZICKGRAF
READ RYAN'S ARTICLE IN UNHERD MAGAZINE HERE: https://unherd.com/.../influencers-and-ai-will-fill-the.../
With print journalism on the decline who will pick up the slack? Influencers who care not for fact checking since engagement means more than accuracy? Many magazines are using A.I. writers as well--what challenges does this pose for a hypolitized public?
We'll discuss.
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 16, 2026 • 1h 31min
EP. 842: PLAYING DEAD UNDER CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM ft. MIKE WATSON & ADAM TURL
Read the Mike's article in the Revol Press Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/revolpress/p/playing-dead-under-totalitarian-capitalism?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Revol founder Mike Watson on left-wing critique, strategic silence, and how commentators and critics become sock puppets
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 13, 2026 • 2h 55min
BEYOND THE RED ZONE: VENTURE CAPITAL IN YOUTH SPORTS, SUPER BOWL RECAP, AND MAC & J RELIVE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
Youth sports brings in more money than the top 3 professional sports in the United States making it venture capital's next frontier for exploitation. What does this mean for youth athletics moving forward?
We'll discuss.
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
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/
Feb 12, 2026 • 2h 3min
CHAMPAGNE ROOM: EXPOSING KARE TO CONVICT CUTIES AND BALLOON POP FOOLISHNESS
Kari Ferrell joins J. for some TIR shenanigans.
Feb 12, 2026 • 1h 8min
EP. 841: TECHNO FEUDALISM, MONOPOLY, AND AMAZON ft. STEVE MAHER & SCOTT AQUANNO
Is Amazon a monopoly, or something more? What does Marx tell us about this? We'll discuss!
Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop
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THANKS Y'ALL
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/
Twitter: @TIRShowOakland
Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland
Substack: https://jmylesoftir.substack.com/.../the-money-will-roll...
Read Jason Myles in Current Affairs Magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/donald-trump-is-a-pro-wrestling-villain
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/


