Unf*cking The Republic UNFTR Media

Max takes aim at NYU professor Scott Galloway who recently appeared on CNN to criticize student protests with the most bizarre analysis that smacks of laziness and propaganda. While “takedowns” and “gotchas” aren’t Max’s favorite thing, he makes an exception for Galloway because of the space he occupies in the media ecosystem and on the spectrum of white male bro-influencers with independent platforms that are poisoning the media. Max also provides closing thoughts on the rise of anti-Semitism and the dangers of conflating Judaism with the far-right ruling government in Israel. 

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:34

Section One: 00:11:05

Section Two: 00:17:11

Section Three: 00:19:01

Section Four: 00:20:25

Section Five: 00:25:40

Post Show Musings: 00:39:30

Outro: 00:48:32

Resources

CNN: Why NYU professor says instructors who are protesting should be fired

ACLU: Know Your Rights: Students in Higher Education & the First Amendment

ACLU: Defending Speech We Hate

Axios: Over 2,000 protesters arrested at college campuses across the U.S.

Los Angeles Times: Striking deals to end campus protests, some colleges invite discussion of their investments

PBS: Protests and Backlash

Niche.com: Most Conservative Colleges in the U.S.

Common Dreams: Israeli Finance Minister Denounced for Calling for 'Total Annihilation' of Gaza

Haaretz: They Incited Rabin’s Murder. Now They’re Murdering Israel’s Democracy

Vox: TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.

The Baffler: Parting Waters: Passover at the Columbia encampment

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 get into many spirited discussions inspired by Unf*cker feedback—from climate change to faux intellectual influencers. Additionally, they touch on some topical headlines relevant to the Over The Borderline Series and Point of Pride Phone A Friend. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:34:25

Outro: 01:30:00

Resources

Phone A Friend: Jeff Main, Executive Director of Point of Pride.

Point of Pride Resource Library

Erin Reed Substack, @erininthemorn on Twitter and TikTok

 @pointofprideorg on Instagram, @pointofpride on Facebook

BBC: José Raúl Mulino: Stand-in for convicted candidate wins Panama presidency

New York Magazine: Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control

Phone A Friend: Tad Delay, author of Future of Denial.

UNFTR Episode: A (Mostly) Vegan World.

UNFTR Episode: Building the Climate Industrial Complex.

Highland Lakes Canine Rescue (HLCR)

@hlcaninerescue on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

Unf*cker Recommendations

George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier

Jacobin Radio: Behind the News: Criminalizing Protest w/ Adam Federman

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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One half of one percent of Americans identify as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth. And yet our state legislatures found the time to propose more than 550 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2023, with over 80 passed into law and nearly all focused narrowly on restricting trans rights. According to Human Rights Watch, since the Transgender Day of Remembrance in November of 2022, at least 33 transgender and gender non-conforming people have been killed in the United States. In 2024, state legislatures are on pace to drop even more legislation.

To help us wrap our minds around the challenges facing the trans community, I spoke with Jeff Main, executive director of Point of Pride, an organization dedicated to helping trans youth and adults access necessary, life-saving health and wellness services. Point of Pride’s vision is a world where trans and gender diverse people see a bright future for themselves—living their authentic truth.

Resources

Point of Pride

Point of Pride Instagram

Point of Pride Facebook

Mercury Stardust Instagram

Alluring Skull Instagram

Erin Reed Substack

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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Our third and final installment of Over The Borderline stays below the U.S. southern border to look at the economic factors that contribute to mass migration from Central and South American countries specifically. We look at the root economic causes of migration, the U.S. failure to meaningfully partner with LAC nations to promote mutually beneficial economic conditions and the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Latin America and the geopolitical impact that’s having on our relationships.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:01

Chapter One: 00:02:45

Chapter Two: 00:10:19

Chapter Three: 00:22:16

Chapter Four: 00:31:02

Post Show Musings: 00:38:18

Outro: 00:53:01

Book Love

Alan McPherson: A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carol Wise: Dragonomics: How Latin America is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China’s International Development Strategy

Tad DeLay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

Imperialism, Neoliberalism, And Social Struggles in Latin America

Resources

El Pais: Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim Takes Stock of the last six years…

Congressional Research Service: Central American Migration

U.S. State Department: Dollar Diplomacy

World Population Review: Country Rank by GDP

World Bank: Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review (LACER); April, 2024 

Council on Foreign Relations: China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative

UNFTR Episode Resources

 The Washington Consensus

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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In today's Show Notes, Max and 99 review Unf*cker feedback from the Over The Borderline series and the recent Phone A Friend with Tad DeLay. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:20

Emails: 00:08:55

Instagram Shout Outs: 00:43:09

Member Shout Outs: 00:46:28

Outro: 00:47:04

Resources

Phone A Friend: Tad DeLay.

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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Welcome to Phone A Friend. Today we’re speaking with Tad DeLay, the author of the newly released book Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. Tad Delay is a philosopher, religion scholar and interdisciplinary critical theorist. His books include Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?, The Cynic and the Fool, and God is Unconscious. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Baltimore. I positively devoured this book and am anxious to dig into his previous titles as well. There are so many intersections that speak to the work that we do on UNFTR that I know it will resonate with you. Philosophy. Theology. Science. And even the dismal science. Future of Denial takes a multidisciplinary approach woven together with factual anecdotes and projections of science fiction. It is at once deeply intellectual and approachable; a delicate feat. Marx and Engels in dialogue with Freud and Greta Thunberg concluding with the words of Rosa Luxemburg…obviously I was in pure heaven digesting this work.

Access the transcript.

Resources

Tad DeLay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

Verso: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

TadDelay.com

Tad on Facebook

Tad on Twitter

First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

John Tyndall: Heat considered as a Mode of Motion

Karl Marx: Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3

John Bellamy Foster: Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

Erik M. Conway + Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change

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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com) and Hold Fast (holdfastband.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.

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