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Did you know that the phrase "ethnic cleansing" was, from the very beginning, the language of propaganda? YOU DIDN'T???? Better watch this NEW ep. of SOLVED! 😀 (And if you did know, cool! Enjoy feeling better than everyone else today!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSHd...
Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality (SOLVED! #27 - 11-14-25)
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November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism.
▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NEW SOLVED! Ep. #27: "Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality" in which the team discusses how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that helped bring us to the brink of fascism.
▶️ https://youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Check out Ep. #27 - “Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality” where we discuss how language impacts both personal and society-wide perspectives, while supporting the systems that have helped bring us to the brink of fascism. youtu.be/gSHdOVCsMOY
Watch what you say! How Weaponized Language Changes Our Reality (SOLVED! #27 - 11-14-25)
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November 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There's A LOT going on...The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming.

#BestoftheLeft #1751: "Institutions Fall, Reality Breaks, Empire Rises"

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November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1750: "America's Backyard" - The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the long history of messing with Latin America

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1749: "Democracy: In Theory, In Practice, and Under Threat"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the willingness to sound the alarm

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#podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1748: "Patriotism in Peril: Democracy, the Military, & the Fight Over What America Means"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how the Left embraces the contradictions of the US

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1747: "Racism in the United States, it turns out, is a problem"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On how you CANNOT purchase your happiness with the misery of others

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#podcast #progressive #politics
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1746: "What an actual attack on free speech looks like"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On 'Working the Refs'

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#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1745: "Fake New World: The Age of AI Slop, AI Education, and AI Fascism"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the pattern of capitalism's social costs

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#podcast #progressive #politics #USPolitics
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1744: "Sell Outs, Shills, and Scandals: Saudi Arabia and Israel are buying the credibility they can't earn honestly"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Explaining that influencers are just infomercial hosts

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November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1743: "Trump and Project 2025: Blitzkrieg Against America"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what Trump's lightning attack on America could mean for the future

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#podcast #politics
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEW SOLVED! premiering now! Ep. #26 - “Billionaires’ Existential Crises are Threatening Your Existence,” in which the team discusses the extreme fear of death that grips tech titans and the super-rich and how it's ruining everything, and MUCH more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vX...
Billionaires’ Existential Crises are Threatening Your Existence (SOLVED! #26 - 10-25-25)
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October 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Check out SOLVED! #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW SOLVED! OUT NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1742: "Captured Court, Captured Nation: SCOTUS Serves Trump's Authoritarianism"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On authoritarianism in practice

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#podcast #uspolitics #scotus #supremecourt
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
NEW SOLVED! PREMIERING NOW! Watch Ep. #24 - “Trump’s Media Oligarchs & the Assault on Free Speech," where we discuss the state of U.S. media consolidation as a symptom of neoliberalism, Trump’s media oligarchs, the assault on free speech, some hopeful notes, & more.
▶️ https://youtu.be/UK6MSkeM2es
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Support indie bookstores and indie media at the same time, while saying 🖕 to Amazon! Check out our curated books on our #BestoftheLeft Bookshop Shop: bookshop.org/shop/left
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1741: "Global Uprisings: Dissatisfaction Roiling France, the UK, & Nepal"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On free speech and framing

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#podcast #progressive #politics #France #Nepal #UK
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Our Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming.

#BestoftheLeft #1740: "Monthly-ish Mix: The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without—America's Two-Fronts"

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October 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1739: "The Charlie Kirk Assassination and the Plans to Weaponize It"

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the new cancel culture and bloodlust

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#podcast #progressive #politics #uspolitics
October 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1738: "Escalations: Russia, Israel, And What We Are Allowed to Say About It"

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1738

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On Israel as the new Sparta

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#podcast #progressive #politics
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1737: "State of the Resistance: Labor, Anger, and Knowing That We've Been Here Before "

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🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On what our history can tell us about our present political conflict

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#podcast
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#BestoftheLeft #1736: "Not the Opposition Party the Country Needs Right Now"

🎧 Your fav podcast app, or https://www.bestoftheleft.com/1736

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the murder of Charlie Kirk

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#podcast #progressive #politics #democrats
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM