THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast

Is reading really "sexy" or is it performative? Another aesthetic to accommodate your fashion victim attire to become acquired?   Does Gen Z want "more" than the lifestyle influencers are selling them?   We'll discuss.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop/   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/colle...

J discusses MJ and Langston Hughes' negro paradox, casual racism, and ridiculous clips. 

Read Ida's book here: https://www.routledge.com/The.../Susser/p/book/9781032877938   Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest movement that baffled analysts and blurred the boundaries of lef...

Why are teen girls going all in on MAHA?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PAT...

Quinn details Haiti's Revolutionary Architecture as Stefan and Kuba look on in amazement at his doctrine Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. I...

Kuba is back..   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE:  https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497 Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined,   BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron...

I can still remember staring at the screen and listening to the verdict that the officers had been acquitted. I felt utter shock, on one hand, and deja vu, on the other. I, like millions of Americans, watched the video footage ad nauseam of the brutal beating of Rodney King at the hands of the LAPD and thought to myself there was no way these cops would get off. Yet many, including in my neighborh...

Read Ryan's article in UnHerd here https://unherd.com/.../tmz-dc-is-tailor-made-for.../   For years, Harvey Levin has been America’s high priest of low spectacle. His tabloid news operation, TMZ, has camera crews in Hollywood forever lurking for celebrity DUIs, reality-show divorces, and shirtless indiscretions on boats. Yet, in a country where politics increasingly resembles a Bravo show moderate...

Jason expands on issue 23 of the TIR Newsletter--THE TIR SOUNDOFF. Hulk Hogan, Michael Jackson, and American greatness. 

Read Lauren's article in Jacobin magazine here: https://jacobin.com/2026/03/the-making-of-the-teenager   The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/18534...

Read Hamza's article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/.../tupac-biography-black-panthers.../   Since his death in 1996, Tupac Shakur has existed less as a person than a symbol, flattened by myth, commodified by nostalgia, and recycled endlessly by an industry that thrives on decontextualized images of rebellion. A corrective is long overdue.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Pa...

The anti-imperialist movement of the latter half of the 20th century failed as a socialist project, the impulses of nationalism seeming to have little power to defeat international capital and neo-colonialism once these systems gained any subtlety. In the 21st century even the pretense of the anti-imperialist movement being socialist is dropped, and instead socialists tail peripheral and semi peri...

Someone tried to shoot the president..AGAIN!   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A P...

Dave Chappelle, feels that he has become the ire of the entertainment world not be due to his willingness to play in countries that have commited humanitarian violations, but because he's BLACK!   We'll discuss.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE:  https://www.patreon.com/collection/...

Trump is NOW saying that,"no one should use nuclear weapons.." what is the US's play here? Kuba and friends will be taking your questions.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We ap...

Follow Alex and his reading of Lenin's 45 volumes here: https://www.youtube.com/@Lenin_in_45_volumes   You know about the October Revolution, but what do you know about the February revolt? So many revolutions!   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE: https://www.patreon.com/collection/185...

Are the Raiders going to shock the world and NOT take Fernando Mendoza?   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE:  https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you...

Read Bram's series on THE CRISIS OF MASCULINITY" here: https://strangeexiles.substack.com/   Bram Gieben invites guests writers for a year long examination of what masculinity looks like in a modern era where young people are influenced by archaic misogynists, capitalisms decline, influencer "looksmaxxing" culture.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon...

Kuba is back and he's going to give you the skinny on the global situation at hand.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE:  https://www.patreon.com/collection/1853497   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the me...

J Dj's some music mentioned in the first hour, we watch some old Def Jam from the early 90s and discuss who Dave Chappelle REALLY is! Enjoy. 

Find John's music here: Find John's music here: https://lamacchia.bandcamp.com/album/thunderheads Find Mike's music here: https://dalek.bandcamp.com/ In this new Pop Life series, we’re talking to influential musicians with long, respected careers who never quite became household names. Beyond the algorithm, real creative genius still exists—and these two men embody that idea. Check out our new bi-...

Read Evenlina's article in Jacobin here: https://jacobin.com/.../recognition-redistribution...   Capitalism is only too happy to accommodate and absorb cultural challenges that don’t alter its foundations. Without economic transformations, the gains of identity-based politics are narrow — and reversible.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here: https://www.patreon.com/bitter...

More channels promoting inexperienced unsanctioned fights are popping up on social media and they gain large followings rather quickly. People want to see violent knockouts and these channels provide that--but at what cost?   We'll discuss.   Check out our new bi-weekly series, "The Crisis Papers" here:  https://www.patreon.com/bitterlakepresents/shop   READ THE WEEKLY TIR NEWSLETTER HERE:  https:...

J& MT hand out N-word passes..SIKE!

Pick up Robin's book, directly from the publisher here:  https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-complicit-lens/   This vitally necessary and carefully researched book examines the way US establishment media ran interference for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, aligning its coverage with Israeli military narratives whilst downplaying, and even condoning, the wholesale massacre of Palestinians.   Commenc...