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As Sam tries to get back in the swing of things as a podcaster again, the Party Girls team explores some of their favorite topics. Luigi Mangione acted alone, what does that say about our society? Is Medicare for All worth fighting for? As some liberals like to insist, does he actually have anything in common with the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin? Why do leftists project their politics onto the pointedly apolitical Dolly Parton (Rest in Power?) And finally, no PG episode would be complete without Sam rambling about extreme weather and the American Southwest. All this and more...

Sam is back from his three-month-long trip through Asia and Europe just in time to discuss Luigi Mangione's guilty plea. Sam and Jamie provide their analysis of what they think happened and unpack their thoughts. What has this trial revealed about the mindset of Americans, and what needs to happen next in order to honor Luigi's sacrifice and deliver on the right to health that we all know we have?

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Friend of the pod and veteran of the posting wars Sophie Weiner joins us to discuss the latest round of wokeness discourse touched off by AOC in her recent interview with ABC in which, in grand ableist fashion, she declared Woke 1 to have been "crazy." Mass protests against racist police violence, silly tweets, and other things people stupidly conflate when they talk about Woke 1. What is actually good about being woke, and what should be left in the past? The need to defend police and prison abolition as core tenets of communist thought. Plus, Jamie's thoughts on why revolutionaries...

Jamie speaks with Tom Sexton and Tarence Ray, of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast, on a variety of subjects, including AI pastors, JOI vids, wildfire prediction markets, Sam Altman's beliefs on the future of work, the Singularity, and the Israeli prison that had to scrap its plans for a crocodile moat over animal welfare concerns. Also: Tarence tells us about fatherhood, and the trio muse over why a vial of donor sperm costs $2000.

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Sam has been AWOL for the summer and he offers us a peek into why. He has been traveling around Asia solo, visiting Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. Hear about his escapades as he visits Buddhist temples, tropical Islands and the densest urban neighborhood on planet earth. Deep in the jungle of Southern Thailand, what are the karaoke bars like? Did Sam end up visiting the Great Wall of China? Did the Communist Party of China's propaganda museum work on him? And what does Sam hope he can learn from Buddhist tendencies from the other side of...

Jamie gets some of the LA gang (Jake Flores, Lena NW) back together to talk about writer/director Curry Barker's runaway hit 'Obsession,' in which an incel dude makes a wish that violates his female friend's consent. What's going on with young people today such that this movie is speaking to them so deeply? Is it something new, or the same old horror? And what does any of this have to do with Luigi Mangione? The gang expounds.

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Jamie is joined by honorary party girl Maxelle Talena, of the Dysphoria podcast, to talk of many things. Women over 40 are having more babies than teenagers for the first time in US history, for both good and bad reasons. The cyclospora outbreak is ruining summer for salad people. Heroes are tracking and disabling Flock surveillance cameras in cities across the country. Haha, Lindsey Graham died and now we get to hear his gay sex secrets. What's up with those gross kratom drinks they sell at the gas station? Plus: Maxelle talks about her mom.

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Friend of the show Jake Flores joins the program to discuss the news of the day, including: erotic asphyxiation and other wholesome 4th of July activities. The discourse around Maine Senate candidate and noted piece of shit Graham Platner. Is Mitch McConnell dead, and is his wife a Chinese spy? Stephen Miller cries about birthright citizenship being upheld. Donald Trump almost dies of heat stroke to own the libs. Confirmed: Waymo cars are cops. And more!

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Jarrod Shanahan joins us to discuss his latest book, "Every Fire Needs A Little Bit Of Help: A Decade Of Rebellion, Reaction, And Morbid Symptoms," out now on PM Press. After some fond reminiscing, Jarrod discusses his writing practice and how he incorporates criticism of cultural products like Hellraiser, Mad Max, and The Walking Dead into his work and life. We also get Jarrod's take on a number of issues of the day, including organizational forms, the recent DSA victories, and those darling sweethearts who climbed the Empire State Building. Plus: did Lil' Wayne write the most honest prison...

Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast joins Jamie to discuss the news of the day, including: Prairieland defendants sentenced to decades in prison each for protesting a concentration camp. DSA electoral did some stuff. Some thoughts on the Montreal shooting. Why a drone warfare guy went on the GOOP-cast; Gwynocide Paltrow and the rise of "quirky fascism." Plus: Jamie wiped the floor with Chris Cuomo again.

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Jamie is joined by Jensen, an activist who was on the ground for the most intense portion of the anti-ICE actions at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, NJ. They discuss the history of the privately-run GEO group facility and how it developed to this point of crisis. What tactics were used by prisoners inside the facility and protesters outside, and what limits did they come up against? The feckless behavior of local Democrats like Newark mayor Ras Baraka. The implications of state repression. And why is migrant defense a strategic area for revolutionaries to intervene in?

Jamie is joined by Terry, an anonymous fellow traveler, to discuss the news, including: the latest billionaire space rocket explosion and why we need to keep our attention on Earth. The anti-ICE protests both inside and outside of the privately run Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, which, as of publication, show no signs of letting up. Between the flaming barricades, a sitting Senator getting pepper sprayed by ICE, and Greg Bovino threatening to "handle it himself," Delaney is becoming a key flashpoint in the fight against Trump's deportation machine. What can we learn? Plus: Trump talks shit...

Friend of the show Sophie Weiner joins Jamie for a hybrid Cultural Marxism/news ep. Up top: the new musical "Cats: the Jellicle Ball" (it's good), the latest attempt to assassinate Trump (if we can even call it that) and the battle to free the Park Slope Food Coop from Zionist control (the anti-Zionists won!).

In the second half we discuss Boots Riley's new film "I Love Boosters," an eye-popping tale of shoplifting, teleportation, union drives, dialectics, and...a demon who sucks your soul out through your pussy? It do be like that sometimes. Boots Riley, come...

It's Sam's last episode for three whole months! To see him off on his backpacking trip through Asia and Europe, the PG crew covers some good news, like the Luigi Mangione legal fund hitting $1.5 million [Jamie already talked about this with Tony, but she forgot], Idris Robinson getting his job back, and Green Scare victim Marius Mason's release from prison. In other backpack-related news, some of the evidence collected from Luigi's backpack will be suppressed while two key pieces, the gun and the notebook, will not be. We go over the shadiness of the missing bodycam footage. The crew...

Sam is joined by Eric King, an anarchist writer, antifascist organizer, and former federal prisoner whose new memoir, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, offers a firsthand account of incarceration inside some of the most restrictive prisons in the United States, including ADX Florence, Alcatraz of the rockies, the federal supermax sometimes described as the most secure prison in the world.

Eric, like many, was further radicalized during the Ferguson Rebellion in 2014, and since that time has devoted his life to abolitionism. On this week’s episode Sam and Eric talk life...

Jamie and guest cohost Tony Boswell look back on the life of Ben Morea, a towering yet humble figure on the anarchist left. From his days of causing trouble with Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker in the late 1960s, to decades spent living underground in the American southwest, to his return to New York in the post-2000 era, his contributions will not soon be forgotten.

The second half is a classic Tony and Jamie messaround, with such important news items as: Luigi Mangione legal fund hits $1.5 million, United Healthcare drops pre-authorization requirements by 30%, Chris...

The Iranian regime has mobilized the language of “anti-imperialism” in an effort to crush leftist movements, as well as worker and student struggles for decades now. Dr. Arya Zahedi joins the PG team to discuss Iranian-leftist history, the revolution, idealism, and what is to be done. In this episode we talk about a text called The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran, which can be found in Heatwave Magazine Issue two.

“Despite the anti-imperialist demagoguery, the Islamic Republic has always been willing to be integrated into the international bourgeois community. The idea that the United States...

The PG crew revisits two evergreen themes: art under capitalism, and the evils of Big Tech. Specifically: Is Boots Riley a SELLOUT for using CAPITALIST MONEY to make COMMUNIST ART? We discuss. (We almost talked about the Strokes' political art at Coachella too, but we ran out of time.) And in the tech arena, we've got Facebook/Meta banning the word "antifa" because it considers it "violence and incitement," and Big Tech's attempt to further dismantle our healthcare system and erode workers' rights with "Uber for nurses." Luckily, nurses' unions are no joke.

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Class consciousness is spreading across the globe like wildfire, sometimes in the form of literal wildfire. Chamel Abdulkarim, you are hotter than that toilet paper warehouse that didn't pay you enough to live as it mysteriously burned to the ground. If only that DoorDash grandma (frownie face) had your verve. In related news, Sam Altman's house was attacked twice and workers are burning shit down in India. It's gonna be a long, hot summer! Plus: the latest "alarming" teen trend, and Jamie and Sam respond to comments from listeners.

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Communist geographer Phil Neel, author of 'Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict' and 'Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory,' joins us to discuss his latest essays on the party, 'Theory of the Party,' published in Ill Will Editions, and 'What May Come' from the forthcoming issue of Heatwave. How should communists think about organizational forms in this tumultuous age? What is revolutionary subjectivity, and why is it important? How should we be organizing, both in between moments of rupture and during the moment of truth, and who even are "we"? One thing's for...

It's finally spring in NYC and Chicago! Too bad the world is ending. In this episode, the PG crew tackle the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway, the death of OnlyFans owner/top AIPAC donor Leonid Radvinsky (rest in piss), the soon-to-be-built largest data center on planet earth, more extreme weather, and the January 6 insurrectionists' lawsuit against the Capitol police. And how could we resist discussing the no-longer-secret kinks of Kristi Noem's husband, Bryon Noem? As a person of bimbofication experience, Jamie gives you a kink-shaming pass.

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In the wake of the Prairieland verdict, Sam and Jamie speak with Alex and Blue, two comrades engaged in support work for the defendants. How did this ridiculous show trial, in which evidence included possession of a feminist essay on the movies of Ari Aster (yes, you read that right) result in convictions for the defendants on almost all counts? The invention of "Antifa" as a domestic terrorist group. The various ways the Trump administration put its thumb on the scale for the prosecution and the implications for dissent in the Trump 2.0 era. How this case dovetails with Trump's...

The PG crew discusses news including: No jail time for Atlanta comrade Jack Mazurek! The next Gaza freedom flotilla. The shitbirds at the Free Press try and fail to manufacture a controversy over Rama Duwaji's likes. Our undeclared war with Iran (seems bad, idk). And an update on the Prairieland defendants. Also, it's Jamie's birthday so she gets to look at Eric Adams' synagogue outfit.

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Jamie and Sam are joined by author and philosopher Idris Robinson to discuss his new book, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has To Offer, a collection of essays on revolution. How is the project of overthrowing capitalism wedded to that of black liberation, and why must we move past the politics of intersectionality? Civil war, martyrdom, and other concepts white people have trouble with. The black leadership vs the black avant-garde. How the Beckys of the world might yet become traitors to whiteness. And what the hell are destituent politics?? Idris explains.

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Jamie is joined by special guest Jake Flores to discuss the news of the week, including: Melania shadow-banned in NYC, the unfortunate Tourette's incident at the BAFTA Awards, and NYPD efforts to turn a snowball fight into a scandal for Zohran, who should never have given them an inch to begin with.

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Jamie and Sam return for a classic Party Girls news episode covering such burning topics as Pam Bondi's crashout, the progress of the Prairieland trial, and what the crew did on Valentine's Day. Also: the legacy of Jesse Jackson. And is it just us, or is the guy who stole all those skeletons low-key mogging in his mugshot?

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Something terribly wrong has been unfolding in the aftermath of a July 4, 2025 solidarity demonstration outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, TX. Sam is joined by Alex and Blue, two supporters of the Prairieland Defendants, some of whom begin trial next week on Feb. 17th. On July 4th, around a dozen people gathered to make a display of noise and fireworks to express solidarity with immigrants and ICE detainees who face the threat of deportation under Trump’s sweeping anti-immigration crackdown. The state’s narrative about what happened that night is dubious and full of inconsistencies.

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Journalist Sean Morrow joins the program to discuss the DOJ's latest Epstein files dump, as well as the story writ large. Sean gives his thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein's connections to Israeli intelligence, his infamously sketchy "suicide," and what kinds of opportunities this creates for revolutionaries who want to overthrow the gang of sick pedophiles who run the world and the system that enables them.

CORRECTION: It was Ezra Klein who said that Epstein's pedophilic sex trafficking and networking with the elites were two separate spheres of his life. LOL.

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In this patrons-only bonus, the PG crew discusses Thomas Friedman's latest baby-brained op-ed, in which he wins an award for false equivalencies by comparing ICE to Hamas.

Plus, Sam gives a scientific explanation for how the polar vortex that just dumped a bunch of snow on you is being caused by climate change.

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Jamie and Sam discuss ICE's second high-profile killing of a US citizen this month. Who was Alex Pretti, and what has the response been from the people, the politicians, the media, and the "business community"? Trump to erstwhile border patrol commander Greg Bovino: "You're fired!" Marjorie Taylor Greene tells MAGA crowd enough is enough, warns them they're being incited to civil war. What's going on in the Trump coalition? Are Republicans actually concerned about moderate swing voters?

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Jamie and Sam are joined by a member of the Crimethinc editorial collective to unpack Sam's viral hot take about agent provocateurs. Are there, as Hasan Piker and many others believe, FBI agents and other nefarious actors trying to escalate modern day protests into brick-throwing riots? Or is this a conspiracy theory that serves only counter-insurgent purposes? Our guest helps us separate fact from fiction.

ALSO: Sam gives a reportback from his recent trip to Minneapolis, and Jamie gives a brief history of COINTELPRO and COINTELPRO-adjacent ops.

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Jamie and Sam discuss ICE's cold-blooded murder of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good last week in Minneapolis: how it went down, who she was, and details on the pig who killed her. ICE as pathetic losers trying desperately to assert their fragile masculinity. Some of the other people ICE has killed. The responses from the Democrats and Republicans, the robust response from protesters, and why this is not the time for performative identity politics. Is America headed for a new Civil War, and is civil war necessary for revolution? Plus: Some constructive criticism for Hasan Piker.

The PG crew is back together and boy, is there news to discuss. Jamie and Sam unpack the Trump administration's brazen kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores: the news from over the weekend, the political context, new president Delcy Rodríguez, the responses from various quarters, the politics of dancing, and the petty reason Trump didn't install opposition leader María Corina Machado. Is "The Donroe Doctrine" the most postmodern thing ever invented by a dying empire as it frantically thrashes about? How should anti-state partisans orient ourselves towards moments like these? Wha...

Jamie welcomes the illustrious Jake Flores to the program to discuss Richard Donner's very eighties take on A Christmas Carol, 'Scrooged' (1988). In this modern retelling, Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross, a selfish and greedy TV executive who cares only for his bottom line, until he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, who...you know the drill. We discuss the movie's insanely stacked cast (Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, David Johansen of the New York Dolls!), its take on corporate media, and its political message. Is A Christmas Carol revolutionary, or merely reformist? Plus: What our boy Marx...

Join Sam and Reverend David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago for this year's Christmas Special as the two explore the meaning of Christmas and what it has to do with fighting the good fight. Was Jesus a revolutionary, if so what kind? What does it mean to be a human? And what can the holiday spirit teach us about this humanity?

All this and more in this year's Christmas Special.

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Jamie is having a comically bad month and the news is grim. Please indulge the Party Girls in a chill, lowkey episode where they examine a number of human interest stories, including: the meaning of Christmas, the Pisces Co-worker, the anti-sharing movement, MFs getting tattoos under anesthesia, and Jamie's page on Canary Mission, which links to her Onlyfans. They also read and reply to some listener comments for their new "mailbag" segment and say a few words about Asad Haider.

Emerge Presents: Asad Haider on Communist Politics In Our Time (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9...

Jamie is joined by Bryan Quinby, formerly of Street Fight Radio and currently of Guys: With Bryan Quinby, to discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' latest piece of wackypants cinema. In this remake of the 2003 Korean film "Save the Green Planet," a wingnut named Teddy (Jesse Plemons) kidnaps girlboss big pharma CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone) because he thinks she's an alien who's killing the bees. Themes of paranoia, atomization, niche internet culture, and...Stav?! Bryan uses his PhD in guy-ology to determine what kind of guy Teddy is.

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Exactly one year after the killing of United "Healthcare" CEO Brian Thompson, the PG crew looks back on one year of Luigi Mangione. They recap what's happened in the case so far, shout out Luigi's biggest supporters, and give updates on what's happening in Luigi's trio of court dates this week. At issue is the evidence police collected from Luigi's backpack upon his arrest in Altoona, PA, which the defense is moving to have excluded because the police did not read him his Miranda rights as required by law.

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Socialism is in the news this week! The PG crew breaks down the bizarre Trump-Mamdani summit during which the president made it very clear that he has a crush on the democratic socialist mayor-elect of NYC. What the heck was that, and will it ultimately be a net positive, negative, or neutral? Meanwhile, 86 Democrats voted for the house bill condemning socialism, an idea that "only" one third of Americans support, according to recent polling. PS: We remembered to read the patrons' names this time. :)

Curtis Sliwa doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blkCy52KUBE

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Sam and Jamie tackle news of the day, including: tidbits gleaned from the latest drop of 2,300 Epstein-related emails. Megyn Kelly: "'technically it's ephebophilia." US State Dept designates four European "antifa" groups foreign terrorists. Dasha gets dropped. We introduce a "mailbag" segment wherein we respond to comments on our past episodes.

Rest in power to our friend and comrade, Leslie Lee III. Donate to the fundraiser to help his family with funeral costs: https://www.gofundme.com/f/lleeiii

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