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EPISODE · May 28, 2026 · 2 MIN

Saving the California Shithole

from Dumpster Fires · host Barret Baumgart

As California’s gubernatorial candidates, tech executives, and mayoral hopefuls continue to contemplate the mass unemployment anticipated from continued advances in artificial intelligence, they would do well to look back at the state’s landmark 1850 legislation as a potential roadmap for handling large-scale unemployment throughout the Golden State.There is no reason that the bulk of California’s population of 39.5 million could not be arrested and compelled into similar productive service for Silicon Valley’s elite and the state’s top 200 billionaires through a similar piece of progressive legislation.It is my hope that in the coming years we will all learn to accept governance and protection with equanimity and walk quietly into the peace of a voluntary human extinction.Signed, COOL broThe human commons taken without consent, compensation, or negotiation, processed into proprietary infrastructure owned by a handful of private entities, then sold back to the people who produced it as a service they must pay for… Great long-standing business model. That’s called colonialism. Anyways, I forgot to dispose of this little malcontented bit of video content on Dumpster Fires last month but it’s more relevant than ever today.Enjoy this delightful mini documentary about California’s very first law, the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians. Dumpster Fires is beacon of hope in a world of trash and sorrow. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Dumpster Fires at dumpsterfires.substack.com/subscribe

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Indian Fairy Book by Henry R. Schoolcraft Loyal Books These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and around the Great Lakes for thirty years in the first part of the Nineteenth Century and wrote many books about them.When the story-tellers sat at the lodge fires in the long evenings to tell of the manitoes and their magic, of how the little boy snared the sun, of the old Toad Woman who stole the baby, and the other tales that had been retold to generation after generation of red children, time out of mind, Mr. Schoolcraft listened and wrote the stories down, just as he heard them.In 1856 this collection of his stories was published by Mason Brothers in New York City. A small brown book with quaint engravings for pictures, it is now only to be found here and there in families that have always treasured its delightful contents. It is republished, with revisions and with ne The Devil's Party Anthony Oliveira THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE!! Explore the key works of Christian literature through a queer scholarly and pop culture lens!Join award-winning writer, literature PhD, and dumpster raccoon Anthony Oliveira as they delve into these mega-influential texts and their religious and cultural afterlives without all the clutter and dogma that so often obscures their meaning - tackling Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, the Gospels of Mark and John, and now THE REVELATION OF JOHN!www.anthonyoliveira.com("Pair of Dice Tossed" music theme by Matthew Willcott; Podcast art by Andy Bennett)

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