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Iran and China are adjusting policies in response to mass protest–even if they won’t admit it. Meanwhile, rail workers are forced to accept a bad contract or carry out a wildcat strike. A sweet grandma’s home is raided and ransacked by a Denver SWAT team, and the new AI chatbot taking the internet by storm gives us our wildflower–a police reform executive order that is meh at best, but what do you...

Elder millennials yell at clouds this week as we discuss the deadliness of American car culture and the general trend of people not caring for those around them. Massive stockpiles of cannabis are going bad as New York struggles to begin its rollout of dispensaries. The movement to legalize psychedelic mushrooms is gaining steam, and the presumed extinct Pheasant Pigeon has been spotted in Papua N...

With DJT once again given an enormous platform on the bird site, we take a trip down memory lane to review the love-hate relationship between Musk and Trump. Rich people believe that their greatest legacy may be leaving behind a bunch of genetically superior babies who will one day rule the earth. COP 27 agrees to create a fund for the poorest countries most affected by climate change, but does no...

A nine year old girl was reported to the police for destroying invasive lanternflies in her neighborhood. According to her neighbor and former Republican city council member, the “little black woman” was scary to him. An FBI raid on an ABC news producer has resulted in him being disappeared in more ways than one. And workers at a California Medieval Times theater have won their vote!   FBI raid on...

The internet is getting worse, the midterms are going to be a faceplant for the Democrats, and your recycled plastic is probably sitting in a warehouse somewhere. But feel free to feed seagulls alka seltzer, they’ll be fine.   Terracycle: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-terracycle-tom-szaky/?leadSource=uverify%20wall   Chris goes on Skeptical Leftist- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/164469805...

In times like these, the news is scary enough amirite?! Nuclear war, assassination attempts, Kanye… all very spooky stuff. You know what else is spooky? Ozone-depleting CFCs. Thankfully Brandon is on the case! Happy Halloween friends, give the kids candy and save the drugs for people who will actually appreciate them.    Kigali Emendment: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23373026/kigali-amen...

Despite some technical difficulties, we’re here to bring you the quality content you’ve come to expect from Ironweeds. Musk has a plan for peace in Ukraine, but it’s going to require a lot of your tax money. He’s kind of strapped. The New York AG is suing Norlite over their hazardous materials site in Cohoes, where residents are advised to keep their windows shut lest the airborne microscopic glas...

What will the world’s richest man do with Twitter if and when he acquires it? Based on his text messages, some extremely stupid things. The Uvalde School Police have been nixed, and specialty police forces are proving themselves to be good at one thing: not utilizing any of their supposed extra training in a crisis. Howard Schultz is, like, super sad about all this unionizing guys. He had no idea...

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Get ready for milk made from yeast! As long as we only make girl synthetic microorganisms we should be fine. The Oathkeepers have a novel defense in their sedition trial: it’s not illegal if the president tells us to do it. And we didn’t do it if we went to Olive Garden. Florida and the Caribbean...

We regret to inform you that the cops are, once again, behaving badly. A woman who was abandoned by Colorado police in a cruiser parked on train tracks is expected to survive after being hit by a train. A judge has been removed from his post for repeatedly bragging about pulling his hand gun on a “big black man” while presiding in court. A Glens Falls woman is being denied a crucial medication for...

Absent Britney, who is down flat from the covid booster, the boys tread into lots of local stories, including an update on the Albany Central Warehouse, the Rensselaer County Elections Commissioner getting arrested for voter fraud, and Albany med nurses being trafficked by the hospital. We also talk about the bigger human trafficking story dominating the news, what NYC influencers do on a normal d...

In one of our more casual episodes, Britney and David are back from the Ren Faire with stories. David went on TrueAnon to talk about cities and the trends that ruin them. The Queen is dead. It is (was) 9/11. Credit card companies are beginning to tag all firearm sales and track purchasers. And a non-profit discount grocery store is coming to one of Troy’s biggest food desserts!    Visa, Mastercard...

This week we’re missing David, but are joined by previous guests/friends of the show Sean and Ashley to talk about local union organizing, the potential of a national railroad strike, the weirdo ex-CEO spending millions of dollars to prove that Trump won in 2020, the Albany Police Review Board’s requests for more power and funds, and Germany’s program to cut fuel dependency with cheap rail transit...

There’s more than one way to discipline a worker, but the sack may be the most effective. Manhattan is further infecting upstate with a bar targeted at lobbyists. UFOs are not only real, and not only non-human, but they are an exponentially growing threat. Apparently. An Alabama Pastor was arrested for watering his neighbors flowers. And a bald eagle caught a baby falcon for lunch, but ended up ra...

Men, am I right? Oof. This week we’re talking about two real gems of masculinity–violent misogynist Andrew Tate and violent fake liberal CEO Dan Price. Also, did you know Brandon massively scaled back the drone war? Us neither. I wonder why… Then, a father who took a photo of his toddler’s penis to consult with a doctor has had his entire Google account deleted. And for our wildflower, retail sale...

We’re back, baby! Hope you didn’t miss us too much. We catch up a bit before getting into such topics as minor league baseball, guns, Trump’s beautiful safe, a DEA agent who murdered his neighbor with no consequences, an update on the Capital Roots unionization effort, and a bit of good news about the Great Barrier Reef. Keep your eyes peeled for our episode on the Albany Warehouse, coming soon to...

The venerable Star Trek universe is really the only major pop culture property that can be claimed as certifiably leftist. But how do the newest batch of shows hold up? In a special crossover episode, Lyta Gold of Art for the End Times teams up with a lively panel of fellow podcasters and Trekkies— David Banks and Britney Gil ( Iron Weeds ), Leslie Lee III ( Struggle Session ), and Aaron Thorpe (...

Something is rotten in the state of New York. A vicious attack on Representative and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin feels suspiciously like a set up. On the other side of the fence, one family has donated $300k to Kathy Hochul’s campaign, with an impressive ROI of $637m. Republicans are having a really tough time with the whole gay marriage issue, so please send thoughts and prayers. And for o...

A story sandwich this week–good stuff, bad stuff, and good stuff to leave your palate cleansed. Congressional staffers are unionizing! But the climate is actively killing us and our poor, poor grass. We’ll show them tho, by using plastic grass! Progress! Arizona has effectively outlawed filming the police. But David wrote an essay on psychedelics and architecture! And the good folks at the New Jer...

We got a real grab bag for you this week. A Goop smores station gone wrong, a horrifying I Voted sticker, a cartoonist’s regret over not killing his stepson, the most ambitious assassination in recent history, and much more. Check out our Patreon for the final part of our MK Ultra series at patreon.com/ironweeds !    Fire at the Goop Store: https://news.yahoo.com/2-men-hospitalized-explosion-gwyne...

After a rough week of news, we chat about the Supreme Court’s stranglehold on civil rights and what comes next (not good!). The FBI is doing its favorite thing–manufacturing an extremist group, this time with Satan! Q is back in business baby. And a cute little bird from Florida is getting some help from Audubon to increase their numbers in the wild.    Q Returns! https://mashable.com/article/q-qa...

We have an Ironreads for you this week, courtesy of the Times Union’s Chris Churchill. Stop letting Andrew Cuomo live rent free in your head! The J6 hearings aren’t convincing swing state republicans to switch teams, and are in fact further entrenching both sides. The Fed has decided that workers have had it too good for too long and need some disciplining. A bitcoin mine in the Finger Lakes has e...

This week we’ve got some local and national stories that are certain to restore your faith in the democratic system. J/k, this is Ironweeds, you know what you’re in for. District 2 City Councilor Kim Ashe-McPherson has resigned after pleading guilty to felony ballot fraud. Local activists have been arrested after protesting police brutality at the Albany courthouse and releasing cockroaches into t...

We’re in a New York State of mind this week. The end of the legislative session brings with it no significant action on climate, power, or tenant protections. With a years-long super majority, the failure of Democrats in one of the most liberal states in the union to take bold action is alarming. They did, however, put a moratorium on granting new permits to fossil fuel burning cryptocurrency mine...

This week, we’re doing what we do best–hating cops. From the tragedy of the Uvalde shooting and the cowardice of local police, to a drunk driving cop who lied about dealing with the deer, to Albany detectives hiding evidence in a sexual abuse case, there can only be one conclusion: all cops are bastards. Also, the boys report back on the latest city council session where everyone yelled at our cou...