Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

A Guide to Surviving Life, Love, and Capitalism. By Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts. Find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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    135. USAID -- Pt. 1

    This week, Madeline and David discuss USAID! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/pickmeupimscared/posts SOURCES: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/02/14/usaid-controversy-live-updates-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-temporarily-restore-foreign-aid-funding/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-trump-administration-from-canceling-foreign-aid-awards-in-place-before-his-inauguration/ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP74B00415R000300070019-8.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA -RDP79T00975A027700010040-0.pdf https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=hmong-studies_hohp https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00875R001000080025-2.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00875R001000080025-2.pdf https://www.newsweek.com/lefts-goal-usaid-reform-finally-accomplished-trump-opinion-2029951 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/04/report-u-s-aid-used-hiv-program-in-cuba-to-foment-rebellion/ https://apnews.com/music-general-news-548798feb950406d8e23186e77359f8f https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/u-s-secretly-built-cuban-twitter-stir-unrest-ap-reports-n70531 https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-usaid-c0c7799be0b2fa7cad4c806565985fe2 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest https://apnews.com/general-news-5de7cd8b5aab4294aaef93aa06fd6fda https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-hillary-clinton-militarized-us-policy-in-honduras/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/04/usaid-latin-americans-cuba-rebellion-hiv-workshops https://apnews.com/music-general-news-7c275c134f1b4a0ca3428929fcece82d https://web.archive.org/web/20240622164647/https:/www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2023-01/Disinformation-Primer.pdf https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/trump-reorganization-of-usaid-will-not-change-its-promotion-of-exploitation/ https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20250212/117881/HHRG-119-JU00-20250212-SD003-U3.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/musk-doge-usaid/ https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/9-121-14-002-p.pdf https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-struggle-for-middle-east-democracy/ https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea https://2017-2020.usaid.gov/georgia https://adst.org/2016/02/winning-the-peace-usaid-and-the-demobilization-of-the-nicaraguan-contras/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170815101734/https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/Foreign%20Assistance%20Act%20Of%201961.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/159742?read-now=1&seq=16#page_scan_tab_contents https://web.archive.org/web/20180527183738/https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/stabilization/ https://web.archive.org/web/20031119001121/http://www.usaid.gov/policy/ads/400/fsa.pdf https://afsa.org/usaid-60-enduring-purpose-complex-legacy https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/13/teaching-torture-the-death-and-legacy-of-dan-mitrione/ https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01601R000800260001-8.pdf https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_0156_CELESKI_SPECIAL_AIR_WARFARE_AND_THE_SECRET_WAR_IN_LAOS_AIR_COMMANDOS_1964_1975.pdf https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/vietnamArchivedContentFromFSJ008.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56201575

    1 h 45 min
  2. 13 JANV.

    131. The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

    This week, Madeline & David talk about the Los Angeles fires, prison labor, and climate change! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared/posts SOURCES: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14269289/arsonist-arrested-starting-la-kenneth-fire.html https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/10/27/87883221.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock&pageNumber=13 https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-malibu-wildfire-history/ https://malibutimes.com/article_be86d151-e381-5db5-9a85-66cc05586070 https://retrospectjournal.com/2023/11/26/the-flammable-nature-of-malibu-beach-a-brief-history-of-californias-wildfires-in-the-early-20th-century/ https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/article/10545036/californias-calabasas-malibu-fire https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/11/los-angeles-fires-california-updates-palisades-eaton-kenneth/ https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/eaton-fire-still-raging-in-southern-california-saturday-as-santa-ana-winds-pick-back-up/ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ewe4p9128o https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/us/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california.html https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/nx-s1-5254122/inmate-firefighters-california-wildfires https://www.vera.org/news/from-fighting-wildfires-to-digging-graves-incarcerated-workers-face-danger-on-the-job https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-californias-inmate-firefighter-program-180980662/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/california-incarcerated-firefighters-prison

    2 h 15 min
  3. 6 JANV.

    130. The Potato Famine - Pt. 2!

    This week, Madeline & David wrap up part 2 of our series on the Potato famine! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared/posts SOURCES: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p6qp8j https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006815 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27724246 https://www.jstor.org/stable/175367 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43920279 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/27/jane-ohlmeyer-ireland-served-as-a-laboratory-for-the-british-empire/ https://the-past.com/feature/the-tudor-conquest-of-ireland/ https://daily.jstor.org/britains-blueprint-for-colonialism-made-in-ireland/ https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/bc386j919 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch1169-1799.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006740?read-now=1&seq=8#page_scan_tab_contents https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=srhonorsprog https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27533643.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Abb408c83fba772ab72430ebed8a32c86&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24399137 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006772 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006355 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24340829 https://marxist.com/irish-potato-famine10122007.htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247758541_A_Million_of_the_Irish_Toilers_A_Marxist_Approach_to_the_Great_Irish_Famine https://daily.jstor.org/when-language-started-a-political-revolution/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Easter-Rising https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/the-legacy-of-eoin-macneill-the-man-who-tried-to-call-off-the-rising-1.1579668 https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/irelandHouse/documents/0111-0126_PoliticsOfTheIrishLanguage.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/43670669

    1 h 58 min
  4. 11/11/2024

    129. The Potato Famine, Pt. 1

    This week, Madeline and David talk about the history of the colonization of Ireland leading up to the potato famine! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1p6qp8j https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006815 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27724246 https://www.jstor.org/stable/175367 https://www.jstor.org/stable/43920279 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/27/jane-ohlmeyer-ireland-served-as-a-laboratory-for-the-british-empire/ https://the-past.com/feature/the-tudor-conquest-of-ireland/ https://daily.jstor.org/britains-blueprint-for-colonialism-made-in-ireland/ https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/bc386j919 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch1169-1799.htm https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006740?read-now=1&seq=8#page_scan_tab_contents https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=srhonorsprog https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27533643.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Abb408c83fba772ab72430ebed8a32c86&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24399137 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006772 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30006355 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24340829 https://marxist.com/irish-potato-famine10122007.htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247758541_A_Million_of_the_Irish_Toilers_A_Marxist_Approach_to_the_Great_Irish_Famine https://daily.jstor.org/when-language-started-a-political-revolution/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Easter-Rising https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/the-legacy-of-eoin-macneill-the-man-who-tried-to-call-off-the-rising-1.1579668 https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/irelandHouse/documents/0111-0126_PoliticsOfTheIrishLanguage.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/43670669

    2 h 2 min
  5. 04/11/2024

    128. The Politics of Horror, Pt. 4!

    This week, Madeline and David wrap up our 4-part series on the politics of horror by talking about horror movies and disability, plus horror movies and the domestic space! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/pickmeupimscared/posts SOURCES: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/ https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/10/08/one-of-us-tod-brownings-freaks-disability-culture-and-the-criterion-for-inclusion/ https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/how-horror-movies-have-changed-since-their-beginning/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/431308?read-now=1&seq=8#page_scan_tab_contents https://daily.jstor.org/the-horror/ https://medusacreatives.com/2020/10/31/normal-people-dont-scare-me-a-history-of-ableism-in-the-horror-genre/ https://collider.com/horror-movies-transphobia/ https://wildezine.com/3806/opinion/its-not-about-the-dress-a-brief-history-of-transphobia-in-horror-movies/ https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transpop-suicide-press-release/ https://cinema.usc.edu/spectator/37.2/5_Miller.pdf https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/female-victimization-in-horror https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/revealing-horrors-problematic-past-the-black-guy-dies-first/ https://www.frieze.com/article/unmasking-hollywood-horrors-racial-stereotypes https://baltimorebeat.com/three-decades-later-the-people-under-the-stairs-is-unsubtle-unsung-and-unbelievable/ https://medium.com/@jaredcharles/american-capitalism-the-implications-of-class-and-race-in-horror-9c990639b32f https://grlmag.com/2022/02/28/the-final-girl-feminist-icon-or-misogynistic-martyr/ https://thefilmsmith.com/2010/03/20/why-arent-we-killing-the-poor/ https://dailydead.com/editorial-jaws-is-a-political-piece-with-some-serious-teeth/ https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/pod-people-legacy-invasion-body-snatchers https://dainealmaclean.medium.com/the-american-home-invasion-film-and-the-history-of-racial-and-social-exclusion-in-the-pursuit-of-87d02c6f514d

    2 h 46 min
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