The first-ever podcast to use comedy while discussing Australian politics. A groundbreaking innovation in the experience commonly known as ”talking”, this podcast is set to replace all entertainment and journalism.
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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
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Expertly-curated progressive politics, news, and culture produced by leftist humans, not algorithms or AI. This is an award-winning podcast that dives deeply into a wide range of national and international issues facing society and governments. We draw from hundreds of sources of progressive news and commentary. Est. 2006. Save time by listening to a range of perspectives on a focused topic in each episode and be introduced to new sources you will not have come across on your own!
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This podcast is designed to help unify the political divide between us by having pure conversations about today's society. Please join us to help create a more perfect union.
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A podcast focusing on American politics and culture from the ideological left with hosts Colter, Caleb, and Sheldon (the Leftist). We talk about each week's news, go on unhinged rants, and dive deep into the topics that matter most. Like and subscribe on your favorite podcast service.
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Leftist and Chill is the show you never knew you didn't need but still can't live without. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-w-simpson/support
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Mike and Mitch sit down to discuss current and past films from the leftist political perspective.
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democratizing the space between your ears
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Discussing the Horn of Africa regions current events,political philosophy and social/cultural commentary from a Leftist perspective
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#1707 Tariffied: Exposing Trump's Artless Deal
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3:18:59Air Date 4/29/2025 The economic and political fallout of Trump’s misguided tariffs, exposing his self-proclaimed deal-making prowess as a fraud and his grasp of the relevant issues to be childlike at best. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email [email protected] Full Show Notes | Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Su…
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Ep 18 - Let's Stop Giving Cover To Terrible People
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1:00:31A distributed crew share thoughts and ask questions about the dogsh*t response to the ANZAC Day booing, the efficacy of Australian democracy and democracy in general, and this limp election campaign. We have fun don't we gang. If you have a question, comment, clarification, correction, or controversial lefty take shoot us an email at ALPDOTGOV@prot…
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Introducing Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson: Break the Generational Patterns Holding You Back (How to Build Confidence, Responsibility, and Emotional Resilience) from On Purpose with Jay Shetty. Follow the show: On Purpose with Jay Shetty Can you remember the first time you felt truly in charge of your own decisions? What’s one thing you picked u…
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SOLVED! #8 - PART 1: Drowning Men Will Clutch at Straws: Masculinity in a MAGA world
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23:43Air Date: 4-28-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Why the “manly” manufacturing jobs Trump and MAGA want are never coming back - Why incels love Trump’s tariffs - The sad flails of the “Make America Manly Again” movement - The “Sigma grindset” guys’ obsession with - and complete misunderstanding of - disturbing fictional movie charact…
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#1706 Trump's Kafkaesque Deportation Nightmare is the Shame of the Nation
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3:38:23Air Date 4/26/2025 For those of us who knew that Trump was lawless and deeply racist in his desire for mass deportations of brown people, we're getting exactly what we expected. For others, at least the lawlessness is coming as a bit of a surprise, and yet, here we are. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@Be…
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#1705 Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies
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3:06:26Air Date 4/22/2025 George W. Bush proposed privatizing Social Security and didn't succeed. But, as with appointing Justices that would eventually overturn Roe V. Wade, groundwork was being laid as part of a multi-decade effort that would, they hoped, pay off in the future. So don't be surprised when they come for your earned benefits programs just …
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#1704 Weaponization and Capitulation: Trump vs Immigrants, Universities, and Media
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3:57:14Air Date 4/18/2025 Before the election, I heard interviews and statistics about Trump supporters responding to his stated desire to weaponize the government against his political enemies. Their response was that 1) they didn't want him to do that and 2) didn't think he would. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email …
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Ep ⁿ√ - An Interview with Tara Burnett, Greens candidate for Cooper
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1:02:02This interview is sick, Tara is a legend. We chat about her recent forum apperance alongside friend of the pod Kath Larkin and functionary of horrible things Ged Kearny, the AUKUS and defence spending proposal by the Greens that got us steamed the other week, and the importance of identity, class, material conditions, and her thoughts on being an A…
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The gang's all here! Except for Mitch! Who does return. This week on the show - how this Australian election seems to somehow be both cooked and boring, the importance of history and heritage, and how to get your workmates keen as all hecking flip to join their god damn fkn union. If you have a question, comment, clarification, correction, or contr…
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#1703 The Broligarchy and the Rise of Techno-Feudalism
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2:54:05Air Date 4/14/2025 Everything, it turns out, is a double-edged sword. Democracy and freedom are great but it also contains the keys to its own destruction. Love is pretty good but it turns out that only love can break your heart. And technology, which has freed people from countless hours of menial labor also has the power to subsume our economy, o…
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Ep 16 - Going On Strike Was The Best Day Of My Life (ft. Kath Larkin from Vic Socialists)
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1:01:56Kath Larkin from the Victorian Socialists joins us on the pod, to chat about their election campaign in Cooper, how cool it is to put boots on the ground, and where she sees the left heading politically. It's a great chat. If you want to get involved with the Victorian Socialists campaign, get involved here! Heads up comrades, this ep has some mino…
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#1254 Israeli right-wing politics has lead to some strange, fascist bedfellows (Throwback)
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1:02:45Original Air Date: 3/5/2019 From 2019: Today we take a look at how the illiberalism of the Israeli government has alienated the vast majority of democratic nations and individuals who support human rights, leaving the country with some of the most far-right, fascist, white-supremacist, anti-Semitic people in the world as their only remaining allies…
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#1702 Destroying Education, Boosting Christian Nationalism: Rewriting the Past and Hamstringing the Future
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3:06:00Air Date 4/5/2025 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. And with Trump in place, the Christian Nationalists are looking to rewrite history to their liking in order to create the dystopian future they desire. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email [email protected]…
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Ep 15 - If You Don't Know, Don't Worry About It
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58:01Another episode? So soon? Instead of worrying about that maybe you should be asking why labour is represented by the value of its product and labour-time by the magnitude of that value. The gang talks about referendum and the lack of imagination in our politics, before answer a bunch of sick questions sent in by some amazing listeners. Seriously, y…
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#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need
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3:14:05Air Date 4/2/2025 Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them into an opposition worthy of the moment we face. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or e…
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#1700 Dehumanizing Trans People is Always the First Step for Fascists
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4:10:13Air Date 3/28/2025 You might not be trans yourself but that's just like how coal miners aren't canaries because when they saw that the canaries were under threat, they knew the danger was all around them. Fascists always start with those who are the easiest to dehumanize but they never stop there. ANNOUNCEMENT: Watch, like, subscribe & comment on o…
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No Mitch on the ep, but Mitch in the description, haunting it like a Victorian-era ghost in a manor, or like a link you would be directed to. And also in the ep a bit. But post-ep recording. Diachronically speaking, is someone "on the pod" if they're not there for the primary recording, and don't interact with the hosts, but are annoyingly unavoida…
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#1479 Torturing Children and Families in the Name of Protecting Them (Trans Rights Throwback)
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1:08:36Original Air Date: 3/29/2022 Today we take a look at the current iteration of the cynical culture wars being waged by conservative Republicans against LGBTQ kids for political gain. The current wave of anti-trans and anti-gay legislation sprouting across the country is not about protecting kids and is absolutely nothing new. Be part of the show! Le…
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Ep ⁿ√ - An Interview With Greg Larsen (ft. Greg Larsen of The Greg Larsen Show) BONUS EP
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1:07:09Get tickets to Geggy HERE! Check out The Greg Larsen Show podcast Comedian Greg Larsen is on the show, chatting about being a lefty comedian, the now impossible redemption arc for Pauline Hanson, Prawn Jesus, and the most sublime of all art forms; nu metal. He's also got a show at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, called Geggy (f…
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SOLVED! #3 - Common Sense Is Not So Common
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22:18Air Date: 3–24-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - Our new game Satire Showdown - The authoritarian takeover of the term common sense - How Americans actually feel about DEI initiatives - The right’s turn on Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett - A deep dive on the theory of a multiracial Right and how Democrats should respond FOLLO…
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#1699 A Government Of the People, By the People, and Weaponized Against the People
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3:04:48Air Date 3/21/2025 If you've been paying attention, the weaponization of the government against Trump's political and ideological enemies is exactly what you would have seen coming and now it's here. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email [email protected] Full Show Notes | Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support …
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Ep 13 - It's Not Weird You're Weird Just Listen To It
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25:46Welcome back! To a totally not weird episode of the Radical Online Leftist Pipeline Podcast! It's a totally normal podcast, where "we" discuss the Labor party's disgusting new proposal - interest-free loans, but only for those people who can least afford to go into debt! Hooray! Then "we" discuss Tanuki's decision to agree with Mitch. ...and leave …
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Bonus Edition #341 - SOLVED! Like a Flame in the Night
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25:33Air Date: 3–19-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - A special little ditty Jay put together - The legitimate problems that helped birth the damaging MAHA movement - Sherrod Brown’s OpEd on how the Democrats lost their way - What Jay learned from India’s railway engineers - An interview with Ro Khanna that sparked some hope FOLLOW US ON:…
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#1698 Resistance is Not Futile: Support the collective revolt against Trumpism (Special Podcasthon!)
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3:04:54Air Date 3/18/2025 In this special Podcasthon episode, we're joining thousands of podcasts around the world in taking the opportunity this week to support a cause or organization that we believe in. In this time of fighting fascism, Best of the Left has chosen to support Indivisible, the grassroots organizing team that's working to resist Trumpism …
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#1697 The Trump World Order: Are we the Baddies?
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3:33:24Air Date 3/15/2025 It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop foreign and economic policies. Allow us to list the ways. Be part of…
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Ep 12 - That's Not Fair To The Monkey
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1:06:51We're back! Time is an illusion and we're sorry. We chat about the ICC doing something, Kneecap, extropicalcycloneaflred, with the bulk of the episode then exploring some examples of local, state and federal governments all doing their bit to ensure Australia becomes just a little bit more fascist. And what you can do about it! Alex McKinnon's blog…
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#1696 Monthly Mix: Ethnic Cleansing Gaza, Mass Deportations, Deconstructing the State, Trump's Corruption
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3:27:43Air Date 3/12/2025 The (Approximately) Monthly Mix is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at the future for Gaza, Trump's plans for mass deportations, the decline of the US on the international stage, the wrecking crew dismantling the federal government, RFK Jr. and the threat to public health, an…
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Bonus Edition #340 - SOLVED! Prophetic Voices from the Past and Hope for the Future
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32:51Air Date: 3–9-25 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - The Founding Fathers’ prophetic concerns that we don’t ever talk about - FDR VP Harry Wallace’s op-ed on American fascism from 1944 - Philosopher Richard Rorty’s chilling predictions from 1998 - A few reasons - with caveats - why U.S. Democracy might make it through Trump 2.0 - Some hop…
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#1695 Trump's Corruption As A Matter Of Course and a Strategy to Hold Power
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3:25:50Air Date 3/7/2025 Corruption, for those who indulge, isn't just a perk of power, it can also be a method of maintaining it. Trump is not bothering to hide the corruption he's working to facilitate or how it's geared toward supporting his desire for unchecked power. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfT…
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#1694 Unhealthy Discourse: RFK Jr. and the Anti-Science Movement Endangering Global Health
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2:23:48Air Date 3/4/2025 An old proverb says that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and we're all about to see how dangerous as know-nothings and science skeptics take over the government agencies staffed by doctors and scientists with the goal of keeping the population healthy. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or emai…
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