Party Girls

Friend of the show Jake Flores joins the program to discuss the news of the day, including: erotic asphyxiation and other wholesome 4th of July activities. The discourse around Maine Senate candidate and noted piece of shit Graham Platner. Is Mitch McConnell dead, and is his wife a Chinese spy? Stephen Miller cries about birthright citizenship being upheld. Donald Trump almost dies of heat stroke...

Jarrod Shanahan joins us to discuss his latest book, " Every Fire Needs A Little Bit Of Help: A Decade Of Rebellion, Reaction, And Morbid Symptoms ," out now on PM Press. After some fond reminiscing, Jarrod discusses his writing practice and how he incorporates criticism of cultural products like Hellraiser , Mad Max , and The Walking Dead into his work and life. We also get Jarrod's tak...

Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast joins Jamie to discuss the news of the day, including: Prairieland defendants sentenced to decades in prison each for protesting a concentration camp. DSA electoral did some stuff. Some thoughts on the Montreal shooting. Why a drone warfare guy went on the GOOP-cast; Gwynocide Paltrow and the rise of "quirky fascism." Plus: Jamie wiped...

Jamie is joined by Jensen, an activist who was on the ground for the most intense portion of the anti-ICE actions at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, NJ. They discuss the history of the privately-run GEO group facility and how it developed to this point of crisis. What tactics were used by prisoners inside the facility and protesters outside, and what limits did they come up against?...

Jamie is joined by Terry, an anonymous fellow traveler, to discuss the news, including: the latest billionaire space rocket explosion and why we need to keep our attention on Earth. The anti-ICE protests both inside and outside of the privately run Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, which, as of publication, show no signs of letting up. Between the flaming barricades, a sitting Senator g...

Friend of the show Sophie Weiner joins Jamie for a hybrid Cultural Marxism/news ep. Up top: the new musical "Cats: the Jellicle Ball" (it's good), the latest attempt to assassinate Trump (if we can even call it that) and the battle to free the Park Slope Food Coop from Zionist control (the anti-Zionists won!). In the second half we discuss Boots Riley's new film "I Love Boosters,&qu...

It's Sam's last episode for three whole months! To see him off on his backpacking trip through Asia and Europe, the PG crew covers some good news, like the Luigi Mangione legal fund hitting $1.5 million [Jamie already talked about this with Tony, but she forgot], Idris Robinson getting his job back, and Green Scare victim Marius Mason's release from prison. In other backpack-related news, some of...

Sam is joined by Eric King, an anarchist writer, antifascist organizer, and former federal prisoner whose new memoir, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, offers a firsthand account of incarceration inside some of the most restrictive prisons in the United States, including ADX Florence, Alcatraz of the rockies, the federal supermax sometimes described as the mo...

Jamie and guest cohost Tony Boswell look back on the life of Ben Morea, a towering yet humble figure on the anarchist left. From his days of causing trouble with Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker in the late 1960s, to decades spent living underground in the American southwest, to his return to New York in the post-2000 era, his contributions will not soon be forgotten. The second hal...

The Iranian regime has mobilized the language of “anti-imperialism” in an effort to crush leftist movements, as well as worker and student struggles for decades now. Dr. Arya Zahedi joins the PG team to discuss Iranian-leftist history, the revolution, idealism, and what is to be done. In this episode we talk about a text called The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Ir...

The PG crew revisits two evergreen themes: art under capitalism, and the evils of Big Tech. Specifically: Is Boots Riley a SELLOUT for using CAPITALIST MONEY to make COMMUNIST ART? We discuss. (We almost talked about the Strokes' political art at Coachella too, but we ran out of time.) And in the tech arena, we've got Facebook/Meta banning the word "antifa" because it considers it "...

Class consciousness is spreading across the globe like wildfire, sometimes in the form of literal wildfire. Chamel Abdulkarim, you are hotter than that toilet paper warehouse that didn't pay you enough to live as it mysteriously burned to the ground. If only that DoorDash grandma (frownie face) had your verve. In related news, Sam Altman's house was attacked twice and workers are burning shit down...

Communist geographer Phil Neel, author of ' Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict ' and ' Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory ,' joins us to discuss his latest essays on the party, ' Theory of the Party ,' published in Ill Will Editions, and 'What May Come' from the forthcoming issue of Heatwave. How should communists think about organizational forms in this...

It's finally spring in NYC and Chicago! Too bad the world is ending. In this episode, the PG crew tackle the Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway, the death of OnlyFans owner/top AIPAC donor Leonid Radvinsky (rest in piss), the soon-to-be-built largest data center on planet earth, more extreme weather, and the January 6 insurrectionists' lawsuit against the Capitol police. And how could we resist discuss...

In the wake of the Prairieland verdict, Sam and Jamie speak with Alex and Blue, two comrades engaged in support work for the defendants. How did this ridiculous show trial, in which evidence included possession of a feminist essay on the movies of Ari Aster (yes, you read that right) result in convictions for the defendants on almost all counts? The invention of "Antifa" as a domestic te...

The PG crew discusses news including: No jail time for Atlanta comrade Jack Mazurek! The next Gaza freedom flotilla. The shitbirds at the Free Press try and fail to manufacture a controversy over Rama Duwaji's likes. Our undeclared war with Iran (seems bad, idk). And an update on the Prairieland defendants. Also, it's Jamie's birthday so she gets to look at Eric Adams' synagogue outfit. SIGN UP NO...

Jamie and Sam are joined by author and philosopher Idris Robinson to discuss his new book, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has To Offer , a collection of essays on revolution. How is the project of overthrowing capitalism wedded to that of black liberation, and why must we move past the politics of intersectionality? Civil war, martyrdom, and other concepts white people have trouble with. T...

Jamie is joined by special guest Jake Flores to discuss the news of the week, including: Melania shadow-banned in NYC, the unfortunate Tourette's incident at the BAFTA Awards, and NYPD efforts to turn a snowball fight into a scandal for Zohran, who should never have given them an inch to begin with. Check out Jake's podcasts: Pod Damn America Why You Mad SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygir...

Jamie and Sam return for a classic Party Girls news episode covering such burning topics as Pam Bondi's crashout, the progress of the Prairieland trial, and what the crew did on Valentine's Day. Also: the legacy of Jesse Jackson. And is it just us, or is the guy who stole all those skeletons low-key mogging in his mugshot? SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus conte...

Something terribly wrong has been unfolding in the aftermath of a July 4, 2025 solidarity demonstration outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, TX. Sam is joined by Alex and Blue, two supporters of the Prairieland Defendants, some of whom begin trial next week on Feb. 17th. On July 4th, around a dozen people gathered to make a display of noise and fireworks to express solidarity w...

Journalist Sean Morrow joins the program to discuss the DOJ's latest Epstein files dump, as well as the story writ large. Sean gives his thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein's connections to Israeli intelligence, his infamously sketchy "suicide," and what kinds of opportunities this creates for revolutionaries who want to overthrow the gang of sick pedophiles who run the world and the system that...

In this patrons-only bonus, the PG crew discusses Thomas Friedman's latest baby-brained op-ed, in which he wins an award for false equivalencies by comparing ICE to Hamas. Plus, Sam gives a scientific explanation for how the polar vortex that just dumped a bunch of snow on you is being caused by climate change. SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get the full version of this episode,...

Jamie and Sam discuss ICE's second high-profile killing of a US citizen this month. Who was Alex Pretti, and what has the response been from the people, the politicians, the media, and the "business community"? Trump to erstwhile border patrol commander Greg Bovino: "You're fired!" Marjorie Taylor Greene tells MAGA crowd enough is enough, warns them they're being incited to civ...

Jamie and Sam are joined by a member of the Crimethinc editorial collective to unpack Sam's viral hot take about agent provocateurs. Are there, as Hasan Piker and many others believe, FBI agents and other nefarious actors trying to escalate modern day protests into brick-throwing riots? Or is this a conspiracy theory that serves only counter-insurgent purposes? Our guest helps us separate fact fro...

Jamie and Sam discuss ICE's cold-blooded murder of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good last week in Minneapolis: how it went down, who she was, and details on the pig who killed her. ICE as pathetic losers trying desperately to assert their fragile masculinity. Some of the other people ICE has killed. The responses from the Democrats and Republicans, the robust response from protesters,...