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Jeffery Epstein (news) is back from the dead??? Why won't this fuckin ICE melt??? Time to go biking i guess jesus christ https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

Jamie is joined by Julia Gwiazdowski, a library worker and strike captain with District Council 33, to talk about the historic municipal worker strike that (probably) just ended in the great city of Philadelphia. How did things get so bad that these essential workers are making an average of just $46,000/year? What role has racism played in how this predominantly black union gets treated by the ci...

Happy flag burning day! Jamie and Sam are back from their glamping trip and ready to discuss developments in the news. Bad: Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is poised to kill thousands. Better: Zohran Mamdani won the primary. Best: some anarchist kids in LA have gotten ICE kicked out of every hotel they’ve tried to stay at. Be safe out there and remember to use an accelerant. *** SIGN UP NOW at https:...

After being banned from YouTube, Jamie and Sam talk platform censorship and their next moves. They then do some report-backs and analysis from the recent anti-ICE protests in their cities. What would need to happen for these to go off as hard as they did in LA? Lastly, they discuss the NYC mayoral race. PLUS: Jamie discovers a folk hero on her block. *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygir...

The long awaited Bonus to our ‘Apply Heat, Melt I.C.E.’ episode. Jamie and Sam share some in-depth analysis on the developments in LA. *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on ALL the socials! Except YouTube! Who CANCELLED us! Instagram: @party.girls.pod TikTok: @party.girls.pod Twitter: @partygirlsp...

LA went up in smoke last weekend in response to Trump's I.C.E. raids. The community fought back and defeated five robo-taxis and countless pigs. Sam and Jamie cover the developments in LA and talk about what it could look like for the movement to spread. In the second half of the episode, the Party Girls offer a practical how-to guide on protesting. What should you wear? What should you bring? Wha...

Jamie and Sam are reunited for a classic news ep. Five years after the burning of Minneapolis’ third precinct, what’s changed and what hasn’t? How are the cops dealing with their trauma? Also: the latest Israel/Palestine news, the shooting of two Israeli diplomats, the attack on a Zionist group in Boulder, CO, Greta’s freedom flotilla, and the viral clip of Irish MMA fighter Paddy McCorry beating...

Jamie is joined by Gita Jackson of the worker-owned video game and culture website Aftermath to discuss Andor, the Star Wars Rogue One prequel TV series starring Diego Luna. What’s it saying about imperialism and the fight against it? Is it possible for a Disney property to actually be subversive? How did Diego Luna get so sexy? Should Jamie watch the other Star Wars? Check out Gita’s essay in the...

In honor of the impending month of LGBT pride we are about to enjoy, Jamie vibes on a number of LGBT-adjacent topics with her friends Tony (Boswell, of Minion Death Cult) and Maxelle (Talena, of Dysphoria). Topics include: the White Night Riots, the FBI raids the Double Scorpio poppers factory, straight people are drinking poppers, what’s up with Buck Angel, and the astro-TERF group Gays Against G...

Sam and Jamie continue their conversation with Dean Spade, going deeper into the book as well as beyond. What is the romance myth and how does it work at cross-purposes to radical movements? How do we fight the atomization and predetermined relationship structures capitalist society wants to enforce on us? And just how close should we be with our comrades? All this, plus our new friend Dean counse...

Sam and Jamie speak with Dean Spade about his new book, Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together . Why did Dean decide to write a self-help book geared towards organizers, and what are the stakes of this work? Why has neither Sam nor Jamie ever seen an accountability process succeed? What openings does he see for the left to take up self-improvement a...

Greetings, Kim Stanley Robinson heads! This week we are cross-posting Jamie’s appearance on Pod Damn America in which she and Jake Flores talk about The Ministry for the Future , which Jake has now read and has thoughts on. We’ll be back next week with our regularly scheduled programming. *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout...

The official legal defense fund for Luigi Mangione has surpassed a million dollars just in time for his 27th birthday! Jamie and Sam talk about what it means to pass this milestone, give some updates on the case, and have a wide angle discussion on the state of the movement. *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the po...

Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe ( @afrocosmist ) of The Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast to discuss the latest season of Black Mirror, from the dark, Luigi-coded first episode to the lighthearted, “Star Trek”-inspired closer. Note: contains spoilers for Severance. Additional note: Jamie mistakenly refers to Chris O’Dowd as Owen Jones for some reason, whoops. Check out Aaron on Trillbillies: https...

Jamie Peck speaks with Jamie Merchant, author of the book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline, about the current state of things. As recently as the early 2000s, technocratic elites had come to a consensus around a fully globalized neoliberalism, but the crash of 2008 touched off a shift back towards economic nationalism that nobody could’ve predicted (except for Marx and people who’v...

Sam and Jamie are back with a classic Party Girls news episode, and there’s much to discuss. The Party Girls pour one out for Pope Francis, and another for the pope of anti-state communism, Jacques Camatte. Trump wages war on higher education. Emrata calls out Katy Perry for taking a ride in Jeff Bezos’ douche-rocket. Endnotes in the New York Times(!) All this, plus Jamie got too high on 420. In m...

Things have started to feel real for the Party Girls ever since the Feds visited Sam at home. All of Jamie’s and Sam’s predictions have come true — Mahmoud was just the beginning, next they came for the ‘homegrowns.’ Trump welcomes the “World’s coolest dictator” into his home as the two reveal a shocking plan: build 5 new hyper prisons and begin to deport and imprison American citizens. But don't...

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force visits Party Girls’ Sam Beard at his house. To discuss this recent visit, and the developing federal repression of activists, Sam and Jamie are joined by renowned investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein. What is old about these nefarious deep state activities, and what is new? What does Ken make of the politicized charges against Luigi? Does the word “terrorism...

A little peek behind the paywall for last week's bonus episode, in which Zhana and Jarrod answered the Party Girls’ juiciest questions. What do we make of lone wolf acts of resistance, against, say the most powerful health insurance CEO in the world? What kept the summer of 2020 from becoming a full blown revolution? How did Stop Cop City represent an advancement for the anticapitalist left? All t...

A classic case of Sam Beard ranting about the constitutional crisis. Andrew Callaway brings on his podcasting mentor, Benjamen Walker from Radiotopia’s Theory of Everything to discuss the CIA’s infiltration of art, writers and counterculture. Then James Kim from Overtones Media joins to discuss his latest piece of audio fiction and how Andrew helped to adapt it for YouTube, check that out below!!...

What happens when politically underdeveloped abolitionists team up with ladder-climbing non-profit directors and big money philanthropy? Nothing good, that’s what! Jamie and Sam are joined by Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan to discuss their new book “Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City” and the heartbreaking, cautionary tale about how a fight to shu...

As the Trump Administration crosses yet another Rubicon and begins revoking Green Cards for political speech, real life Naruto ninjas offer a potential way out. Chelsea Manning speaks out on the Luigi Mangione case, as the movement against the richest man in the world continues to ramp up. All this, plus a special guest joins the Party Girls to talk about the newest Stop Cop City speaking tour com...

Jamie is joined by Indica Dominant ( @DominantIndica ) a.k.a. Olive, adult performer/sex worker and co-host of the Dysphoria podcast, to discuss director Sean Baker’s anti-Cinderella story Anora (2024), which just won the Oscar for Best Picture. Is it possible to combine a screwball comedy, a hooker exploitation film, and a twee Sundance indie into one movie? What does Anora have to say, or not, a...

In dark times like these, it's vital to shine light on signs of life, revolting against the order of things. Today, March 5, marks the two year anniversary of the 5th Week of Action to Stop Cop City, when hundreds of activists took direct action at the Cop City construction site. Party Girls Riot Tracker returns with a spotlight on Greece, when last Friday, Feb. 28 hundreds of thousands of Greeks...

In this PATREON PREVIEW, Sci-Fi Legend Kim Stanley Robinson explains his true feelings about cryptocurrency, some things would would have done differently in Ministry For the Future if he wrote it today, and the influence of How To Blow Up a Pipeline. Watch the full interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/we-need-w-kim-122570852 *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of...