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The Sauce with Maya Gurantz and Rebecca Cohen
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Drinking cocktails & ruining the stuff you love. A culture & politics podcast hosted by two feminists who are too smart for their own good, @mayagurantz.bsky.social and @gynostar.bsky.social.
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watching the biggest loser doc after listening to @saucepodcast.bsky.social's new episode and everyone involved with making that show should be in jail
September 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Interestingly enough, we already covered this on my podcast

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How are we going to survive this fascist takeover of our gov’t? Denial? Maya and Rebecca kick off new feature BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson show, unpacking what it teaches us about making spectacles out of a very bad man. (Oh wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?)
Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil
How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with C…
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July 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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July 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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People have totally memory-holed the Roy Moore debacle
The Federalist trial ballooned a defense of Roy Mooore’s predation on young girls.

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July 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Ah, his desperately shifting claims are starting to make sense now. www.wsj.com/politics/trump-...
July 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history
With Colton's conviction, that makes FOUR pardoned January 6th insurrectionists who have faced charges for solicitation of a minor or child sex abuse of some kind.
July 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We watched SEVERANCE, and we have some thoughts. Specifically about the question: Why does this show feel so resonant right now? Listen and tell us what you think...

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June 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.
Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)
As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…
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June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
With the National Guard and Marines deployed against US citizens in LA, we talk martial law and autocratic use of force wit an actual expert: Dr. Carrie Lee, a specialist in civil-military relations, who concisely breaks down the specifics -- whether to worry, why to be hopeful, and what to do next.
Martial Law (with Very Special Guest Dr. Carrie Ann Lee!)
As Trump deploys National Guard and Marines to LA in the face of widespread civilian protests against ICE raids, we talk Martial Law and autocratic use of force (and drink!) with Dr. Carrie Lee, an…
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June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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ICYMI - My podcast is back! @mayagurantz.bsky.social and I traced how right wing uproar over "free speech" actually paved the way for our current totalitarian moment.
New episode! Right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent while Trump squashes freedom of expression. Maya & Rebecca uncover how this isn't just hypocrisy - their rhetoric actually paved the way for the totalitarian suppression we're experiencing now.

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RIP Free Speech
For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for exp…
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May 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Speaking of presidents and mental decline, I highly recommend this episode of @saucepodcast.bsky.social, in which we laid out, in detail, the evidence of Donald Trump's substantial brain damage from advancing dementia.

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Trump’s Dementia
It doesn’t take a geriatrics expert to see that Donald Trump is deteriorating. Is it just normal aging, or something… else? Maya and Rebecca investigate Trump’s lapses in memory, …
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May 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New episode! Right wing free speech warriors are strangely silent while Trump squashes freedom of expression. Maya & Rebecca uncover how this isn't just hypocrisy - their rhetoric actually paved the way for the totalitarian suppression we're experiencing now.

www.saucepodcast.com/rip-free-spe...
RIP Free Speech
For years, right wingers have loudly decried supposed attacks on free speech. Yet now those free speech warriors are strangely silent as Trump punishes universities and ICE arrests students for exp…
www.saucepodcast.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Why can’t the Democrats get their shit together? Where is the The Resistance (tm)? In our latest episode, we pull apart what the opposition party is doing wrong and, drawing unexpected insight from the Drake-Kendrick feud, determine how they can get it right.

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Dems in Disarray
With Trump and Musk trampling American democracy, why aren’t elected Democrats doing more to stop the carnage? Maya and Rebecca piece together why the opposition party can’t seem to get…
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February 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Let’s ruin the Great American Novel! @mayagurantz and @gynostar are joined by Artist (and longtime listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big Jim and the White Boy, an audacious (and inspired) retelling of Huck Finn.
Ruining Huck Finn, with VERY SPECIAL GUESTS David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
Let’s ruin the Great American Novel. Maya and Rebecca are joined by Artist (and longtime Sauce listener!) Marcus Kwame Anderson and writer David F. Walker to discuss their new book– Big…
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February 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
How are we going to survive this fascist takeover of our gov’t? Denial? Maya and Rebecca kick off new feature BREAD AND CIRCUSES with Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson show, unpacking what it teaches us about making spectacles out of a very bad man. (Oh wait, I thought we were trying to do denial?)
Bread and Circuses: Michael Jackson ONE and Cirque du Soleil
How are we going to survive the fascist takeover of our government? Through a delicate balance of activism and avoidance. Maya and Rebecca introduce a new ongoing feature, BREAD AND CIRCUSES with C…
www.saucepodcast.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Voters INSIST that Democrats work with Elon Musk’s Commission on Whether International Jews Started the Los Angeles Fire and Staged the Sandy Hook Massacre to find common sense solutions that will make a difference to them at the kitchen table.
January 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Sobering but a reflection of many convos I've had in the last year:

"I used to joke with colleagues that higher education is besieged on two fronts: by fascists on one side and neoliberals on the other. As we look ahead to a second Trump administration, these two threads appear ready to converge."
Universities and the Coming Storm
It’s difficult for colleges to defend democracy if they aren’t run democratically.
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January 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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If Trump were president now, he'd be using the wildfires to extort Gavin Newsom and CA, and everyone on here knows it.

As Nicole Hemmer points out on the pod, he has a history of this, and this impulse is deeply rooted on the right.

Check out our exchange:

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January 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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my reaction to new tech like this is just so frequently "why?"
January 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Brett Favre is just interested in sending a picture of the current moment.
Google Brett Favre Sends Pictures.
Once again, Brett is simply concerned with the common good - the public welfare, if you will. Google Brett Favre and welfare to learn more.
January 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is the party Elon Musk is endorsing and will have a big streamed interview with their leader next week in X.
German AfD politicians met with militant neo-Nazis at a secret event in Switzerland in December. A German investigative reporter infilitrated the event and got photos of the attendees, which included violent neo-Nazi groups Junge Tat and Blood & Honour.
German AfD politicians meet militant neo-Nazis in Switzerland
An event near Zurich in mid-December at which two AfD politicians spoke was organized by the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat and attended by members of Blood & Honour.
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January 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Man I hope so but I’m here at #aha25 and the conversations I hear are a lot of collaborators! “Just feed all your articles into the AI and use it to organize your notes.” “Use AI to write some of your work”

It’s bleak!
I hate AI’s invasion of the humanities, but it does feel energizing to have a common enemy! Will be fascinated to see how the war against AI develops. This could all be v be clarifying for our mission.
January 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Just as the strong record of the Great Society was eclipsed by Vietnam, Biden’s domestic accomplishments were likewise overshadowed for the left by Gaza.
In general, Biden was more accommodating of the left than any Dem president in my lifetime and, to a first approximation, it got him *nothing*. No credit, no support, not even acknowledgement.
December 31, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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El más reciente episodio del #podcast “The Sauce”, conducido por @gynostar.bsky.social, permite comprender mucho el problema de la transfobia reciente en los Estados Unidos.
December 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM