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In today's Saturday Monring Post, Chuck engages in what he hopes will become commonly known as 'prefigurative programming,' and a more democratic This is Hell!

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Saturday Morning Post, November 15, 2025: Help Us Help You Help Us! | This Is Hell!
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November 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
NEW FREE HELL!

Ray D. Madoff on "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).

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NEW EP! US Tax Code Creates Aristocracy | This Is Hell!
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November 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The week... IN HELL!

TUESDAY:
@leninology.bsky.social on "Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization" (@versobooks.bsky.social)

WEDNESDAY:
Michael Oriard on "Sanctioned Savagery: A History of Violence in American Football" (@uncpress.bsky.social)

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THE WEEK IN HELL! Nationalism and Football! | This Is Hell!
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November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEW FREE HELL!!

@biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

PLUS, small town old time news, this week's 'Hangover Cure,' 'Question from Hell!,' 'Rotten History.'

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NEW EP! 'The Prison Industry' IS Human Trafficking | This Is Hell!
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November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
NEW PATREON EP!

Chuck engages in participatory programming, which is good.

We also share a 2006 talk with @futureofmusic.bsky.social's Peter Dicola on corporate consolidation in radio, which is bad.

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NEW PATREON EP! Good Radio, Bad Radio | This Is Hell!
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November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
THIS WEEK!

TUESDAY: @biancatylek.bsky.social, co-author with @worthrises.bsky.social of, "The Prison Industry" (@thenewpress.bsky.social).

WEDNESDAY: Ray D. Madoff, author of, "The Second Estate: How US Code Made American Aristocracy" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social).

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November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sunday Funnies are up!

This week, JD Vance is the new Dick Cheney, Dad joke backs @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @nypost.com hates him, Monty Python Standard Time, Trump's losing it, brand reality, ICE crimes, and a sign of our times.

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Sunday Funnies (and not so funny) for November 9: From Dead Darth's Successor to Chicago's Rebellion Against the Empire | This Is Hell!
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November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Today's post from your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host.

We need to reclaim and retake our holidays from capitalism.

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Saturday Morning Post from Your Bitter Blind Broke Gap-Toothed Host, November 8: Decolonize the Holidays! | This Is Hell!
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November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wrap up the week every Friday with 'The 9 Circles of Hell!' the most hellish news you may have missed, including some you won't see in the US.

This week it's Antisemitism, Gaza, BBC, Venezuela, DEI, ICE, CBP, lies, SNAP and Marx!

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Nine Circles of Hell!, November 7: Antisemitism, Gaza, BBC, Venezuela, DEI, Chicago, CBP, Lies, SNAP and Marx! | This Is Hell!
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
NEW Patreon:
Stewart Home on "Fascist Yoga" (@plutopress.bsky.social)
Philip Kadish on "Great White Hoax" (@thenewpress.bsky.social)
Brent Z. Kaup/Kelly F. Austin on "Pathogens of Finance" (@ucpress.bsky.social)
Hamid Dabashi on "After Savagery" (@haymarketbooks.org)

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NEW BONUS PATREON EP!: What We Learned in October (part 2) and How We Broke a 2002 War Crimes Story | This Is Hell!
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November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW FREE POST-ELECTION HELL!

Sasha Davis on “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail” (@uminnpress.bsky.social).

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NEW Election Day Special: 'Replace the State' with Sasha Davis | This Is Hell!
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Question from Hell! is...

What would you do for a $50,000 signing bonus?

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We will announce our favorite at the end of our Wednesday, November 5, show.

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November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sunday Funnies... and not so funny... posted!

This week, Trump, theocracy, Christ, theft, Nazis, guns, ICE, liberals, poverty, surveillance, fascism and healthcare.

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Sunday Funnies... and not so funny... for November 1, 2025: Trump, Theocracy, Christ, Theft, Nazis, Guns, ICE, Liberals, Poverty, Surveillance, Fascism and Healthcare | This Is Hell!
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November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NEW post from your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host.

Western civilization's and philosophy's record when it comes to genocide ain't great.

Maybe there's a reason for that.

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Saturday Morning Post, November 1, 2025: Our Genocidal ‘Civilization’ | This Is Hell!
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November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
NEW 9 Circles of Hell!

Trump, Venezuela, Maduro, "drug boats," UK armed Sudan genocide, UN finds acts of Israel's genocide, Bibi secretly funded Hamas, Obama library real estate scam, and Charlie Kirk critic jailed for free speech.

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Nine Circles of Hell! for Friday, October 31: From Trump's War on Narcoterrorists Being Good for Drug Dealers to Charlie Kirk's War On Free Speech | This Is Hell!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
NEW FREE HELL!

Hamid Dabashi discussed "After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization" (@haymarketbooks.org).

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NEW EP! Western Civilization's and Philosophy's Legacy of Genocide | This Is Hell!
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October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
THIS MONTH!

'Extractive Capitalism' @versobooks.bsky.social), @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, 'Africonomics' (@thenewpassion.bsky.social) Bronwen Everill, 'The Cost of the Cloud' (@nybg.bsky.social) Ashley Dawson, 'Enshittification' (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) Cory Doctorow.

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NEW BONUS PATREON EP! October in Review (part one) and a 2005 Nazi Warning | This Is Hell!
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October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Brent Kaup and Kelly Austin, authors of, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (@ucpress.bsky.social).

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October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Question from Hell! is...

"Why won't the establishment media ever utter the word 'neoliberalism'?"

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October 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sunday Funnies go live at sunrise (Chicago time) every Sunday.

This week, why does ICE bring back memories of Tiananmen? Plus fascists, liberals, guns, capitalism and genocide.

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Sunday Funnies... and not so funny! for October 26, 2025: From Losing Liberty to Losing Our Minds | This Is Hell!
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October 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
NEW Saturday column.

Every @foxnews-mun-1.bsky.social and @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social fake news accusation is not only a hoax, but a confession of their own wrongdoing.

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Saturday Morning Post, October 25, 2025: Fake Fox News and Real Trump Hoaxes | This Is Hell!
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October 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
NEW 9 Circles of Hell!

Tren de Aragua and 'drug boat' hoaxes, ICE recruits criminals, Hegseth loses military, Israel steals Gazans' organs (and tortures them), Georgia prison crisis, Amazon to replace a 500K workers, Pope sees AI as threat.

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Nine Circles of Hell! for Friday, October 24: Tren de Aragua and Drug Boats Hoaxes, ICE Recruits Unvetted, Hegseth Loses Military, Evidence Israel Stole Organs, Gazans Tortured, Georgia's Planned Pris...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEW Hell!

Chuck's Antifa Halloween costume triggers his OCD.

Plus, our 2005 talk with @andrewgumbel.bsky.social on "Steal This Vote" and 'the Rotten History of US Democracy' from @thenation.com's old Nation Books.

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NEW BONUS PATREON EP! An Antifa Halloween PLUS Undemocratic US Democracy | This Is Hell!
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October 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM