The Bitchuation Room

As suspected, Signalgate was only the beginning. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been discussing war plans on unsecure chats that have his wife and brother on them but it's all FAKE NEWS. Meanwhile, JD Vance is busy killing the pope which makes him a real Catholic now, and we remember maybe the dopest pope there ever was? Plus, Francesca bitches about 501c3s folding under authoritarianism and N...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive. Thanks to the efforts of Senator Chris Van Hollen and public pressure, the Senator was able to meet with Garcia in El Salvador. While there is hope for his release and return to the U.S., there is still more work to be done for him, and the hundreds of others illegally sent to CECOT. But some Democrats think Garcia’s detention is just a distraction. In another push t...

Fascism is upon us as Trump refuses SCOTUS orders to send home a man locked up in a death camp in El Salvador, while simultaneously pining to send Americans there as well. Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch joins to discuss the brazen and racist approach of Trump 2.0, and discuss the added facet of criminalizing Palestinians. And comedian Karinda Dobbins joins to talk the good and the cri...

The Supreme Court just ruled in a 9-0 decision that Trump’s DOJ has to “facilitate” the return of Maryland Father Kilmar Abrego Garcia for the El Salvador slave labor prison. But will this actually stop Trump from enacting his intentionally cruel immigration policies? Executive Director of immigrant rights group Al Otro Lado, Erika Pinheiro discusses the ongoing fight for immigrant’s rights in the...

The Supreme Court has thrown down with disappearing people without due process, asTrump lackeys attempt to explain the logic of sweeping tariffs. Comedian Andy Haynes joins to talk about the blue collar nostalgia of MAGA and yet another bootlicking meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Then Michael Liroff on the constitutional crisis that isn’t beginning but ending, with an unconstitutional dirty w...

It was disabled people who Hitler first put to the gas chambers. Filmmaker Cameron Mitchell discusses his new documentary “Disposable Humanity” all about the Nazi programs of exterminating those with mental and physcial disabilities, and why the echoes of it are alive and well in MAGA ideology. Then author and analyst Doug Henwood joins Francesca to talk about Trump’s ham-fisted, dum-glorithim tar...

Yale Law School has expelled a student based on an smear campaign generated by AI. And one of Elon’s baby mamas joins the sell Tesla craze because she needs the money for child support? Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins to discuss this plus another bad Utah law. Then labor journalist Kim Kelly on Trump’s brazen attacks on federal unions and whether or not a general strike is the way to go. Plus, a ma...

Dog-Killer Face-filler Kristi Noem does a photo op in front of innocent imprisoned Venezuelans, some of whom simply had tattoos. Then Marco Rubio defends sweeping students up off the streets for the crime of writing an op ed. Francesca reminds us of Argentina’s Dirty War and how much the right loves South America’s “free helicopter rides”. BUT FIRST! Drake and Deeksha of the Sunrise movement join...

What’s the rest of The Trump Administration doing? Oh, texting war plans from their private phones and accidentally including a journalist in them? Cool cool cool. Imara Jones joins to discuss the national security nightmare, and how we must understand the anti-trans attacks as the beginnings of authoritarianism. And comedian Kate Willet discusses the momentous Bernie/AOC tour and Columbia Univers...

A veritable grab bag of off the beaten hellscape stories: John Fetterman is back in Israel and Netanyahu has quite the gift for him. Kim Kardashian takes a break from selling Cybertrucks to make sure her daughter isn't hanging out with the Tate brothers. Nick Fuentes is mad about Trump becoming too swampy, and Elon Musk is trying to buy a judicial seat in Wisconsin. Finally, Trump tries to turn Ca...

An American Gestapo is taking shape as ICE continues to torture and detain law-abiding people–whether they are green card holders or protested against genocide. Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins to talk about this and the right’s dominance in online media, Chuck Schumer’s idiocy, and why social security has always been sexy. Then labor professor Eric Blanc joins to talk about how worker-to-wo...

The same week that Trump calls Schumer a “Palestinian”, Schumer gives Trump everything he wanted. Francesca streams while ten Democrats hand the GOP a wishlist budget. Then, journalist Andy Vasoyan joins to talk about the techno-fascist dream of creating tax-free autonomous cities full of HOT CHICKS. Finally, did a U.S. official get fired because of Mel Gibson? And JD Vance stays being the worst h...

Trump’s tariffs are causing a recession all while claiming to be going after Fentanyl? Francesca welcomes author Maia Szalavitz to talk about our country’s ham-fisting approach to drug policy, and what RFK Jr. could do to make it all worse. Then, Canada is BIG MAD about the trade war as the back and forth continues between Trump and Ontario’s Doug Ford. And finally, a sleepless Elon Musk is barely...

Now that Trump has thrown Zelensky to the wolves, what comes next? Anthony Bartaway of Ukraine Without Hype podcast offers a leftist analysis from Kiev of the Russian war on Ukraine. Then trouble in DOGE-land as administration officials are getting sick and tired of Elon Musk. And Gavin Newsom gives the most despicable softball interview to Christian Nationalist right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk...

The only SS Elon Musk supports doesn't dole out retirement funds. Francesca and comedian/actor Anthony Atamanuik talk about Trump going after social security, and an awesome Oscars first as the documentary No Other Land wins and brings the words "ethnic supremacy" to the Hollwood stage. Then campaign and messaging strategist badass Anat Shenker-Osorio speaks with Francesca about how to win back th...

Sad little men argue with President Zelenskyy about his lack of gratitude towards Trump, a man who tried to extort him back in 2018. BE GRATEFUL!! The embarrassing s-show had one man giddy: Vladimir Putin. The rest of us are in shock. Then, Elon's Starlink wants to take over the FAA, a body that heretofore was REGULATING Starlink. And RFK Jr. is already on his way to getting us all killed by downp...

Abortion rights are popular, but the broligarchy cannot abide. Journalist Jessica Valenti joins Francesca to talk about criminalizing women’s travel and healthcare despite a surge in infant and maternal mortality deaths. And comedian Jamie Loftus joins to talk our new deputy FBI chief who is more concerned with liberal tears than law enforcement. And Bernie Sanders is on tour again taking his Figh...

Heroes are few and far between these days but Governor of Maine Janet Mills is one of them. She stood up to Trump's anti-trans ban saying 'I'll see you in court' during a luncheon with governors in which the President threatened her with cuts to her state's funding if it didn't comply. You know, mob boss style. Then, Steve Bannon doesn't want to be left out of the Roman Salute club and throws a ve...

Elon admits the DOGE project is political. And who TF is actually in charge of the bullsh*t agency anyway? The administration can’t get their story straight, they just know he’s in charge, mmkay? Author and podcast host Paris Marx joins Francesca to understand how the breaking of the federal government is by design. You know the same designer that gave us the finger-chomping Cybertruck. Then Franc...

Climate chaos is here and only radical action will save us. Thea Riofrancos, professor and co-chair of the Climate and Community Institute joined Francesca to talk about green populism and how Biden's plans never went far enough. Then a look at how Eric Adams is willfully being extorted by the Trump administration, and the wild illegality of The Department of Justice in exchanging Adams' charges f...

Corrupt NYC mayor Eric Adams makes a deal with the devil named Donald Trump. Luckily, socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani joins Francesca to lay out a vision for New York that has everything to do with giving back to New Yorkers rather than taking them for a ride. And comedian Nato Green explains how the Musk/Trump attacks on organized labor is a challenge that must be met with every fo...

Unelected tween hackers have seized our government. Kyle Kulinksi of Secular Talk and Krystal & Kyle and Friends joins Francesca to break down the week of illegal atrocities. From sending 10 people to Guantanamo, to the seizure of the U.S. Treasury, to denying Congresspeople entry to agencies, and the executive orders against Trans people, it's an assault on every aspect of American society. Plus,...

Professor Robin DG Kelley joins Francesca to take stock of the first two weeks of the Trump administration and Elon's coup of the administrative state. How have Democrats been sleepwalking for decades to this very moment of outright attacks on people of color in the professional and governmental space. Then Francesca talks about Nayib Bukele's offer to house U.S. citizens (!) in prisons in El Salv...

It might not be Jan 6th, but an administrative coup is underway. And this times it's working. Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report joins Francesca to talk about the most fragile white nationalist billionaire commandeering the U.S. Treasury and eliminated USAID. And somehow Democrats and federal bureaucrats have allowed it to happen. Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk as a small cohort of DOGE t...

As bodies are still being pulled out of the water, Donald Trump had the audacity to blame inclusive hiring practices for the American Airlines/Blackhawk plane collision with absolutely no evidence. Beyond that, some on the left have fallen prey to the anti-DEI line as if DEI is some how a barrier to class struggle. Francesca debunks both Trump's myths, and the leftists who wrongfully collapse corp...