Tribunus Plebis Podcast

Of course we had to pull out of Afghanistan. Let's explore why. Link to mentioned CIA Paper: https://bit.ly/3jtFA2i Link to mentioned "Afghanistan Papers": https://wapo.st/3DzKlPN __________________________________________________ Please, if you have a moment, take a second to rate and review on Apple! It's the single best way you can help us grow aside from word of mouth! Apple Podcasts: https://...

Should we? Can we? Will we? Please join me as we discuss prison abolition - The what, when, and how. This isn't about making better cages. This is about no more cages The goal, in fact, is not just to disappear prisons, but to actually make them unnecessary. ------------------------------------------- Please, if you have a moment, take a second to rate and review on Apple! It's the single best way...

It is OK to demand change, at all levels, from local to systemic, even if we aren't quite sure HOW to make those changes. Also, the past is clear to see, and the future is predictable, or at least we think it is. These perspectives are the easiest for us to take.  The most difficult is to deal with what we are actually doing RIGHT NOW. Right now is the tyranny which we must deal with, and we...

Mike Gravel was the rare person who attained power and maintained his morals and ethics. He is most famous for reading the Pentagon Papers into the public record via Senate sub-committee and for screaming truth into the face of power. Mike Gravel was a real one. Rest In Power. If you enjoy these podcasts, please take a second to rate and/or review on Apple Podcasts by following this link:  ht...

Zach and bread_theory invited me on their stream to help break down and contextualize chapter 12 from the seminal anarchist work "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin. The chapter was a bit longer than others so we broke it into two seperate streams. The first half was previosuly released as Episode 32 of this podcast.  For more from bread_theory, please check these links out: bread_theo...

Eugene V. Debs - Labor organizer, socialist, warrior for the working class. “Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not fr...

Bread_theory invited me on their stream to help break down and contextualize chatper 12 from the seminal anarchist work The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin The chapter was a bit longer than others so we broke it into two seperate streams. Part two should release about a week after part 1! For more from bread_theory and Zack, please check out his linktree account HERE :   https://linktr.e...

You've all heard the complaints and excuses...  "These lazy bums just need to get back to work!" or "We can't find anyone to fill these jobs!" Tune in to learn why, and how, these statements are bullshit. Fight for good pay. >>> Please click through HERE to Apple Podcasts to leave a rating and/or review! It is the single best thing you can do to help spread the word! Oh, and don't fo...

A nation-state attacking an open air refugee prison. When you get right down to it, it really isn't that complex. A big reason why most of us can't see how uncomplicated it really is, is the media and how they drive the narrative and bend our minds to see things a certain way, through a certain lens. The charities I mentioned: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund ( https://www.pcrf.net ) United Nati...

Kyrsten Sinema just tells you the truth, for once. Then we talk about free speech in this country. No, not the Social Media stuff, but real freedom of speech issues. Issues like the government making speech and assembly illegal. Criminalizing protest. Legalizing murder. You know, all the fun stuff. __________________________________________ If you have a moment, please click this LINK to our Apply...

The Pro Act has passed the House and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. It is the single biggest and most pro labor bill to ghet this close to passing in decades and has a real chance to help claw back some of the power from corproate interests and help revive unions in the United States. We also touch briefly on the Amazon union vote, and a few anecdotes from a failed union drive at my workplace....

Eight people, six of them Asian, die at the hands of a racist in a hate crime and the world tries not to admit that. The newest COVID relief bill gets broken down and pulled apart and we find that it's, shockingly, not entirely terrible. Governor Cuomo may soon become the next sacrifice on the altar of Public Satiation. ---------------------------------------------------- Web: https://bit.ly/2ZkPY...

In unsurprising news, the government sucks and they've spent the past two months proving it to us day after day. Kyrsten Sinema, along with seven other Democrats, sinks to new low with her thumbs down to poor people as she condemns millions to years more of poverty. I hate this planet. But if you like this podcast, please subscribe and leave a rating and review using this link to Apple Podcasts: h...

Joe Biden, along with the entirety of the Democratic Party are failing their voters and the administration is already falling into a nosedive of ineffectiveness. Andrew Cuomo and Neera Tanden collapse in political death spirals of their own makings. Don't feel bad for any of these people, they deserve their political and social pains, they've earned every bit of it. And we, as voters and human bei...

A historic union vote is taking place at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, AL, a vote which could help alter and shape the American labor movement for an entire generation. Amazon has fought tooth and nail to prevent this vote and has lost at every turn. Please share this episode or do anything else you can to help promote this issue! Meanwhile, in Texas, political and corporate choices to prioriti...

Reddit Trader Bros squeeze some shorts. America falls in love with terrible people. The world spins on. Ranked Choice Voting: https://anchor.fm/tribunus-plebis/episodes/Save-the-Postal-Service-and-a-Primer-on-Ranked-Choice-Voting-ei2qhl  ----------------------------------------- Web: https://bit.ly/2ZkPYyT YouTube: https://bit.ly/2Zhw2gA Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Fa69IA Anchor: https://bit...

More thoughts on the Capitol riots - They were worse than I initially thought. Pied Pipers and how they lead us astray and how we need to do better as we suss out the difference between accurate diagnoses of problems and which path to follow to fix that problem, fascism or unity. _______________________________________________ Please, if you have a moment, take a second to rate and review on Apple...

Trump was more important to you than whatever idealized view of America you held. You're worshipping a false idol, a dictator in waiting, a fascist pig. This country sowed hatred. It sowed contempt, it sowed division. It sowed discord and racism and anti-intellectualism and anti immigrants and anti everything not born or built in America. It sowed hatred of the media, of anyone not towing the part...

TL;DR - Too late, and not enough. While there are good aspects to the newest COVID relief legislation, it is 8 months too lates and isn't even half a solution. Hell, it's not 1/16 of a solution. More cruelty just for the sake of cruelty.  ============================== Web: https://bit.ly/2ZkPYyT YouTube: https://bit.ly/2Zhw2gA Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Fa69IA Anchor: https://bit.ly/35gjXM...

Executions are barbaric, cruel, and little more than pointless spectacles of power. Think about the fact that we currently provide the government the power to use murder as a method for manipulating society and as a tool of vengeance. Seriously, take a few seconds and Really ponder that for a moment. Now take another moment to think about the fact that the government will argue vehemently to maint...

On January 11, 1912, mill owners in Lawrence, Massachusetts began shorting the pay of their already destitute workers. The resulting strike was massive and quickly became a national sensation. The city and states responded with extreme violence and authoritarianism. The workers responded with solidarity. Join me for a brief history of one of the most significant strikes in the history of American...

This episode starts with with some Alan Watts followed by some more thoughts about the election and the Democratic Party and then slides smoothly into a discussion about work, freedom, and liberty... We have, essentially, been co-opted into a system which requires us to rely on involvement with industrialized mass-production for our own basic survival. How many people truly want to work as I defin...

It looks like Biden won. It's good if Trump is gone. But Biden is not our hero.  We have to fight them even harder now.

So, what exactly is it that we are chasing when we talk about choice? Is it freedom? Because Freedom is, in fact, exactly what the establishment politicians are pushing at us when they talk about ‘choice’. For them, being able to choose between multiple options equals freedom. This idea seems to many to be intuitively correct on its face; if we can choose between twelve different brands of running...

This is a Tribunus Plebis Podcast Special Edition episode... I’ve tried to be reasonable… I’ve tried to be kind… I really have… I was not planning on even talking about the first presidential debate, but the insanity, the foolishness, and the abject cruelty kind of exposed the raw nerves. Biden is the same milquetoast goober as he was 6 months ago and Trump just highlighted his own ignorance, lack...