DOOMED with Matt Binder

Journalist Eli Knesol joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss how the far right is looking to blame the LGBTQ+ community for the new viral disease outbreak, Monkeypox (MPV). Plus on the post-show: listener phone calls, comments, questions & more! (Episode from the 7/26/22 livestream show.) Check out Eli's piece in Left Wing Right Watch here: FAR-RIGHT MEDIA WANTS TO PIN MONKEYPOX ON LGBTQ+ PEOPLE...

It's the FULL LIVE COMMENTARY of Thursday's primetime Jan. 6 hearing. Matt Binder did a livestream during the entirety of the show and then took calls about the hearing and more after. Originally, I was going to edit this down, but being that I did not have the time, you all get the WHOLE 4 HOUR SHOW...patron only post-show included! It's a great time to SUBSCRIBE to the Patreon too btw! http://ww...

Craig Harrington, research director at Media Matters, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss today's January 6 hearing which featured Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and right wing YouTube pundits. We'll also discuss how the hearings have been going and Fox News' reaction to them. Plus on the post-show: listener phone calls, comments, questions & more! (Episode from the 7/12/22 livestream show.) Suppo...

Matt takes a look at the shooting at the parade in Highland Park, Illinois on July 4th and the shooter, Robert "Bobby" Crimo III who also went by the name Awake the rapper and how Crimo represents a different type of right wing extremist: one seemingly not motivated by traditional right wing ideologies but of nihilism and doomerism. BONUS: Included in the usual free version of the podcast is two s...

Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Q's sudden return to 8kun after disappearing for 563 days, why Q has returned now, what QAnon believers think of the return, the differences between 4chan Q, 8chan Q, and the latest Q drops, how Q has already messed up hiding their tracks...

On the latest DOOMED livestream, Matt Binder dedicated the full show to taking listener phone calls. One listener, Brian from Alabama, shared his experience going from a fairly apolitical person to a right wing conspiracy theorist. During the earliest days of the COVID pandemic lockdowns, Brian discovered conspiracy theorists like David Icke on YouTube. He soon after was recommended Jimmy Dore by...

Independent journalist Alissa Azar joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss her firsthand account in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho where an annual Pride month family event, Pride in the Park, was interrupted by anti-LGBTQ+ right wingers and white supremacists. We discuss the groups that were there, how the police arrested 31 white supremacists with the group Patriot Front who were hiding in the back of a U...

DOOMED host Matt Binder takes a look at his recent exclusive reporting on fake and forged screenshots of social messaging platforms Discord and Telegram claiming to show "grooming" of the shooters in Buffalo and Uvalde and the trolls that are spreading them online. (Episode from the 6/7/22 livestream show.) Read Matt's reporting: https://mashable.com/article/buffalo-uvalde-shooter-discord-messages...

Lance of The Serfs invited Matt Binder to join him in a debate / conversation with self-described centrist YouTubers Sitch & Adam: the four discuss the "Libs of TikTok" account, the right targeting trans people, CRT and race, guns and mass shootings, what issues "actually" matter, and more! (Episode from the 5/31/22 livestream.) Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Devin Burghart, Executive Director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his group's latest report on the far right's growing membership in state legislatures across the country, what kind of Facebook Groups these legislators engaged with and joined, just how many far right legislators there are and how many in each state, and much more...

Matt Binder was the guest on the Tim Pool IRL show on Monday, May 16. On the Tuesday, May 17 livestream episode, so many listeners and viewers called into the show, the stream ended up going 5 and a half hours long. Here is the first hour and a half of that stream. For the rest of the breakdown and calls: http://www.youtube.com/mattbinder . Support the show: http://www.patreon.com/mattbinder

Nandini Jammi, co-founder of Check My Ads, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to break down how your privacy is intruded on by adtech companies that collect your online data and what this means in a U.S. where abortions may soon become illegal in certain states. Also Nandini will discuss Check My Ads' work in holding internet advertising firms accountable for helping the far right monetize their conten...

You may have seen the recent viral clip of a young man challenging Ben Shapiro on "wokeism" at a Young America’s Foundation event at Iowa State University. That man, recent grad Ben Schneider, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss. Ben talks how it went down, what the demographics of the event were, what the event was talking about, the right's infatuation with race, we listen to his "debate" w...

Lance of the popular Twitch channel The Serfs joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk's plans to buy Twitter, how conservatives are spiking the football over Musk's "free speech" claims, but will the deal actually go through?, will Musk actually do what he says?, more on Libs of TikTok and how a new report from Matt unraveled at least one outright fake story that anti-LGBT account is sh...

Taylor Lorenz of the Washington Post joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the viral right wing "LibsOfTikTok" account and how Taylor uncovered the person behind it in her latest WaPo report, the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric Libs of TikTok spreads, how TikTok has become a new point of fixation in politics, and eThIcS iN jOuRnAlIsM. On the patron-half of the show: listeners call in to share their thought...

Abner Häuge, editor in chief of Left Coast Right Watch (LCRW), joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss his experience at the "Defeat the Mandates" rally in Los Angeles this past weekend, which saw speeches from anti-vaxxers, white supremacists, and other far right figures (as well as Jimmy Dore and Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones). We discuss who attended, what they spoke about, how...

Dr. Eric Osgood MD, who left Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) returns to DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the brand new Ivermectin study that's haunting anti-vaxxers and COVID conspiracy theorists. Why? Because it found that ivermectin is ineffective when it comes to COVID-19. Dr. Osgood will dive into details of the study, why ivermectin was thought to be effective, the people...

Journalist Nazmul Ahasan joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to break down his investigation into some of the largest right wing "Freedom Convoy" Facebook groups, which uncovered exactly who is running these communities....ecommerce internet marketers from overseas looking to sell t-shirts?! Plus on the patron-only half of the show: DOOMED fan Steven Crowder uses a clip from the show in his latest video...

Journalist Steven Monacelli joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss how he actually debated Steven Crowder earlier in the day on a college campus in Texas. Why was Crowder there? Because trans people are playing sports. Who brought Crowder? The same people on the right behind fomenting anti-trans hate on college campuses in the state. Monacelli breaks it all down. Plus on the patron half of the s...

Zachary Petrizzo, media reporter with The Daily Beast, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to bring us all the latest from his experiences on-the-ground following the right wing "freedom" "trucker" People's Convoy in the U.S., what they're doing in DC, who makes up the convoy, how Canada's anti-mandate convoy inspired them, what do they want?, the failures of other U.S. convoy attempts, and much more! T...

Live from Moscow, Russian socialist writer Egor Kotkin joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to break down Putin’s thinking on war in Ukraine, what's missing in so much western analysis on the situation, how the American conservative movement has influenced Russia, and how some U.S. leftists are getting the moment wrong. Plus Matt discusses his heated moment on Majority Report earlier that day re: indepen...

Independent journalist and activist based out of Portland, John the Lefty, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss the far right shooting in Portland at a justice for Amir Locke march that left one activist dead and many more injured. John breaks down what happened at the protest, how the shooter Ben Smith was identified by activists before Portland PD, how the furry community helped out the far...

Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins Matt Binder for the big 200th episode of DOOMED! Matt and Sam discuss parenting during COVID, the Joe Rogan / Spotify controversy, how it's not "cancel culture" to boycott, why Rogan wouldn't have Sam on his show, right wingers pretending to be "on the left," and much more! Can you believe it's Sam's first time on this show? Plus on the second half of the sho...

Hey DOOMED listeners, Matt's new show is here! For a taste of what's in store, episode #1 of Scam Economy. (We won't be crossing the feeds too regularly, so be sure to subscribe to Scam Economy too!) Welcome to the Scam Economy: Episode #1 with our first guest cryptocurrency journalist and author, David Gerard. Cryptocurrency? Bitcoin? Ethereum? NFTs? Proof of work? Proof of stake? What does this...

Jason Campbell, senior researcher for Media Matters, joins DOOMED with Matt Binder to discuss Steven Crowder and YouTube's policies. How does Crowder always manage to accumulate strikes, yet doesn't get banned? Tune in and find out. Also on the patron half of the show: Nick Fuentes gets subpoenaed for his role in the storming of the Capitol, a libertarian Crowder fan calls in, a caller breaks down...