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Not Quite Communist — 69 episodes
Podcast: Anti-trans attacks come from Catholic bishops and new bill in Congress
Podcast: If we don't uphold due process, precedent could take away due process for all
Podcast: 'Why can't we have nice' immigrants, President asks
Podcast: The comedy of cringe, reclaiming the Asian American narrative
Podcast: Immigrant poet Carlos Bulosan's words remain true 69 years after death
Podcast: Administration demands ‘remigration’; another word for ethnic cleansing
Podcast: The real cost of Black Friday
Podcast: The Thanksgiving table is not overwhelmingly turkey and mashed potatoes
Podcast: Hateful rhetoric fans the flames, leads to violence; all of it has to stop
Podcast: When doing good is called fake, performative, virtue signaling
Podcast: Making Native American policy without Native American input
Podcast: The tragic betrayal of Americans against King Kalakaua and Hawaii
Podcast: The tragic betrayal of America against Chief Seattle
Podcast: The sandhill cranes arrived in Chicago today; a powerful spiritual symbol
Podcast: SNAP beneficiaries aren't lazy people who won't get a job; let's break down the numbers
Podcast: Solidarity not charity; mutual aid emerges when the system fails
Podcast: What’s the deal with all those European political parties with ‘Christian’ in their names?
Podcast: Shutting down ‘DEI’ programs in schools, colleges is degrading the intellectual rigor that built our nation
Podcast: The Penny Auctions of the Great Depression and resistance in Chicago today
Podcast: It’s time we feed every child at no cost up front; invest in human capital
Podcast: Evanston Nouveau Rotary Club thanks you for supporting Purple Pinkie beer, polio campaign
Podcast: Doubling down on Asian American Pacific Islander posts
Podcast: Eric Trump says they're saving God; amazingly, their followers agree
Podcast: Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers deserve wages that can feed their own children
Podcast: They tried to intimidate, flash guns at Ill. Rep. Hoan Huynh
Podcast: Indigenous and Two-Spirit communities can be classified as 'terrorists' in new national security rule
The eternal Pietà
Podcast: Blaming Democrats for SNAP benefits running out is insane after years of GOP gutting program
Podcast: Striking, killing Venezuelans on boats is extrajudicial murder; raising risk of war with South America
Podcast: Leaked texts show tsunami of hate speech by Young Republicans arm of official GOP
Podcast: Cubs' David Ross talks about when his adopted parents abandoned him
Podcast: ICE agents are guilty of stolen valor
Podcast: Mental Illness Awareness Week
Podcast: Kindred Spirits, Choctaw trail of tears and the Irish famine
Podcast: WGN video producer detained; just one of many press takedowns by ICE
Podcast: Waiting for his Reichstag Fire moment
Podcast: Supreme Court heard conversion therapy arguments and they sound skeptical
Podcast: They blamed immigrants for the Great Chicago Fire; we're scapegoating them again today
Podcast: LGBTQ wary as Texas troops arrive in Chicago; Oct. 8 protest planned for downtown Chicago
Podcast: Hawaiian Night Marchers meet immigrants brought by the colonizers
Podcast: When America tried to expel all Filipinos in the U.S.
Podcast: How U.S. industry hid native remains in Hawaii burial mound, pretended it was okay
Podcast: Banned Books Week is more apt now than before
Podcast: What happens after they're deported; Vietnam's grassroots Ba Lô can only help so many
Podcast: Receiving hate when posting ICIRR tips about ICE activity, locations, and hotline to report them
Podcast: GOP lies saying gov't shutdown is Dems' fault; scapegoats undocumented immigrants
Podcast: Hegseth 'War' speech was pure photo op; Trump angry at flag officers' silence during event
Podcast: Changing names, taking down statues isn't woke erasure of history
Podcast: Get your damn flu and COVID vax; here's why
Podcast: The global courage against the Holocaust
Podcast: No, DEI doesn't mean unqualified people get jobs at expense of others
Podcast: A lesson of wolves, Francis, and Ignatius
Podcast: How does the world hold the U.S. accountable if America does bad things?
Podcast: Colonialism, empire aren't just Western ideas; they're very human
Podcast: About that Nathan Hale statue on Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago
Podcast: So the rapture's supposed to happen? Here's what I think
Podcast: 53 years since Marcos' Martial Law is warning to U.S. as authoritarianism strengthens
Podcast: LBJ said we can overcome national chaos, failure; create art as protest
Podcast: They say antifa are the real fascists, which is pure stupidity
Podcast: Comedians, artists are dangerous; that's why they're being silenced
The lines at Edgewater Mutual Aid, Care For Real, other food pantries are getting longer
Podcast: The Overview Effect and the shadows of empire
Podcast: The spirit of Mexican independence cannot be silenced even with raids, detention, rhetoric
Podcast: Remembering Ill. Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican that Democrats trusted
Podcast: Let's go to Vietnam in 'She Weeps Each Time You're Born'
Podcast: Shadows of the Philippine-American War's Pulang Lupa in Gaza today
Podcast: San Patricios Martyrs of Mexico and Cavite Martyrs of the Philippines
Podcast: 9/11, Nepal, and Charlie Kirk
Sen. Mike Simmons remarks at ECRA Juneteenth Service, June 19, 2025