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Hey! Another episode of The Check-In with my friend Danielle Moodie . Today we discuss white supremacy and a whole host of other poisonous worldviews that are serving to keep all of us imprisoned in a world of exploitation and suffering and how we must overcome all of that to realize something better. Appreciate Danielle and appreciate everyone who tunes in. Dispatches From A Collapsing State desp...

Whew. This Check-In, like so many others, was so needed. Danielle Moodie and I talked about the vibes (spoiler: they’re bad) heading into the Fourth of July and the 250th anniversary this weekend. The realization that we have been scammed and are presently being scammed, as well as the ongoing gaslighting by political and economic elites, is a jarring thing, but we discuss the need to not only do...

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Oh, man. As the Democratic Party and corporate centrists everywhere freak out over Tuesday’s primary results, Danielle Moodie and I talked about the wake-up call that the party is either going to have to heed or face a fairly uncertain future. Here, we discuss the trajectory of the Democratic Party over the past few decades, wrestle with the popular fictions and myths the leaders both revel in and...

It’s been way too long since I sat down with my friend Sarah Kendzior and got a lay of the land. We start things in a different place in this iteration. After a decade of discussing the gathering dangers of authoritarian kleptocracy, we began by sharing the signs we’re seeing of popular discontent and hope, including the rejection of traditional political narratives that obscure the actual conditi...

Man, I needed today’s talk with Danielle Moodie . In this episode we talk about continued revelations regarding Democrats hanging out with Peter Theil and his secret society and the desperate need for many Americans to give up on comforting fictions, including a lot of what is being peddled by liberal corporate (and “independent”) media, in order to get into the fight before it’s too late. This co...

It was a joy to welcome David Roth of Defector back to Dispatches From A Collapsing State . David and I started the discussion with the abysmal and dismal UFC 250 event at the White House, the palpable lack of joy among Trump and his benefactors and how capitalism is just stripping the meaning from everything, the harvesting of organic happiness by corporations and the wealthy, and what we can lea...

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Thanks for everyone for coming out for this latest episode of The Check-In with myself and our beloved Danielle Moodie . Whole lot to get into this week. Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support. This project is not supported by any corporate patrons and refuses to go down that road. If this work means something to you, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today This...

So, a few days ago I received an email from a subscriber who didn’t know I also hosted The Muckrake Podcast , which, honestly, was a mistake on my part because I hadn’t really advertised it on here. Anyway, I wanted to rectify that, so here is a special crossover episode of The Muckrake in the hopes of introducing listeners over there and readers over here to one another. In this episode, my co-ho...

Listen. Danielle Moodie and I came in hot today. We’ve both had it with not only the fascists but the enablers who made fascism possible in the first place. Today we talk about how many Americans are refusing to give up their comforting delusions and self-soothing lies and are, both consciously and unconsciously, ensuring that authoritarians will continue dismantling everything. I can’t tell you h...

Danielle Moodie is back and so is The Check-In . In this episode we discuss the embarrassment and shame of the fascist regime and get into the fairytales and stories that have held up capitalism, white supremacy, and that got us into this mess. Finally, a discussion of the difference between being active politically and questioning the powerful and finding comfort and catharsis in participating in...

When I read Jon Greenaway’s piece on the horrors of Jimmy Fallon in Common Dreams last week, I knew I needed to get him in front of a microphone and talk. Then, I worked my way through Greenaway’s excellent book Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination and I couldn’t wait to record this conversation. Here Jon and I discuss, first, our thoughts on the...

Danielle was traveling, so no Check-In this week (no worries, we’ll be back next week), so I held the time space and did another one of these Dispatches Mailbag Live episodes. I usually keep these mailbags for subscribers, but I want to open them up a bit. In this episode, I discuss the idea that there are no “good billionaires” and that they’re perpetuating systems of exploitation and hurting dem...

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Thank you to everyone coming out today for another episode of The Check-In with me and my friend Danielle Moodie . Today we got in-depth about the feelings of rage emanating from living in a time of fascism and unvarnished white supremacy. I really needed this talk and it went everywhere, which, how could it not? Come out every Wednesday at 12pm eastern to watch live and if this resonates with you...

Thanks to everyone who came out live. I’m still experimenting with doing some of these Dispatches Mailbags live onstream when they’re usually for paid subscribers. Good questions today from you, the readers, spanning the gamut from the betrayals of the Neoliberals and members of the lanyard / political class, the real material motives and allegiances of the political parties and how the Democratic...

In this episode of The Check-In , Danielle Moodie and I go over the recent white supremacist actions of the wealth class and get in touch with the need to carry on the fight of our ancestors who fought and died for the rights that are being taken from us. We discuss the needed dismantling of the exploitative capitalist, fascist system, the lessons we can take from the past, the dangers of the whit...

Thanks for everyone who came out for this livestream version of the Dispatches Mailbag. I usually do this for subscribers, but wanted to try it out in this venue. In this livestream, I answer questions from you on the topics you want me to cover. I discuss the preparations I’m taking as the economic crisis starts to really hit, the end of Knowledge Fight and the toll of studying extremism and fasc...

I was so happy to welcome Rev. Angela Denker of I'm Listening to Dispatches From A Collapsing State . Here, Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus , and I discuss the recent turn towards Christian Nationalism by the Far Right, as well as the general heresy being used to destroy democracy, oppress women and minorities, and fuel the ongoing rise of fascism. I always enjoy our conversations and I...

Today Danielle Moodie and I talked about something a lot of us are feeling: the pressure of living in a time of deep uncertainty and danger. We got into how this feeling, especially as things ramp up and many crises intertwine and worsen, we have to look in the mirror, decide who we are and what we believe and want, and start preparing our revolutionary selves for the fall of fascistic regimes and...

Today’s episode of The Check-In was exactly the kind of conversation I wanted to have when Danielle Moodie and I started this project. We got into leaving behind the feeling of inevitability that fascists want us to feel and rediscovering agency, or the ability to make change and create the world we actually want and actually deserve. Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your suppo...

Checking in from the road for this week’s episode of The Check-In . Danielle Moodie and I discuss the growing tension within the United States, but also the feeling of revolutionary energy taking over. With all this madness and the self-destruction of fascism, it’s time to look ourselves in the mirror and decide to live better, all while rejecting the awful exploitation of the past that got us now...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jaredyatessexton.substack.com Man alive, Tuesday was a mess. I wanted to record something going over the farce of a ceasefire - surprise, surprise, it was a disguised surrender for the U.S. - and what to expect now. For all the corporate coverage, we’re not hearing about the deeper politics of what is occurring with the U.S./Israel/Iran...

Very grateful, as always, for this conversation with Danielle Moodie following the madness of the last couple of days. We discussed Trump holding the world hostage, the “ceasefire,” which was a surrender and disguise and likely won’t hold, and, perhaps more importantly, a conversation about what we can all do to get ready for the next stage of imperial collapse. Dispatches From A Collapsing State...