Float On, Freedom Flotilla & Eric Adams' Synagogue Fit

Oh God, I got hungry.

I let myself get hungry again.

I thought I had a little girl dinner,

but that wasn't enough food.

And now I have to talk about the fucking war in Iran.

So just in case there's anyone out there

who gets all of their news from this podcast,

you really should not.

You are awesome, actually.

No, yours you definitely should.

You got to get this party started.

Happy birthday, Jamie.

Oh my God, thank you.

I didn't remember to wish Jamie a happy birthday

until she texted me while I was going to bed.

And she said, you know, it's not too late to wish me

a happy birthday.

So I did.

I did.

You got it right under the buzzer.

Was that passive aggressive of me?

No, it was, you know, it's got to be done, you know.

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to remind

say I'm when Jamie's birthday is.

That's true.

Well, you did such a good job of remembering last year.

You did like two good at job

because you told everyone how fucking old I was.

She's 33.

So, you know, I thought maybe that would happen again.

Minus the number because you learned your fucking lesson.

And then I was going to post today.

And then I was like, it's too late.

I'm going to overthink this for like three minutes

until I'm immobile.

And then I'm going to my attention span will go elsewhere.

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Welcome to party girls.

I'm your host, Sam Beard.

And I'm the birthday girl.

And I think we haven't done a news episode for a while.

We have not.

We have not.

Interesting.

Don't you want to know how what I did on my birthday?

I do want to know what you do.

Ask me over text and I was like, save it for the pod.

Let's save it for the pod.

What did you do over your birthday,

which technically, legally according to the government

was yesterday?

Well, the good news is my birthday last a while, actually.

So I can't you not everyone's does.

Yeah, I got to do a few things for it, generally speaking.

I mean, I didn't go all out like I did last year

when I got like six of my friends

to go on a trip to Mexico with me.

But I still had fun.

The weekend was a little hectic.

I got some friends together and we went to medieval times,

which.

Wow, I always wanted to do it.

I never I never did before.

I was like, that seems like a fun silly birthday thing to do.

And it was fun.

It was silly.

It seems deeply serious.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they like they like two people fight to the death

in front of everyone.

There was no actual violence, I don't think,

or blood or anything.

We were all like mad.

It wasn't more violent, I think.

But then eventually it did like it was just most of the time

they were just like walking around.

The horses were just like prancing around

and they were presenting all the nights and everyone.

And I'm like, this is boring.

And then then finally, there was only like half an hour left.

They like lowered this mesh scrim over the arena.

I'm like, all right, now shit's about to get real.

And that's when they had like the jousting

and the sword fighting and shit.

And that was cool.

It was very theatrical.

I will say there was a bit of a problematic age gap

between the queen and the king.

She was probably like a child bride

who got traded to the realm in exchange

for some kind of diplomatic deal.

Well, historically accurate.

But you got it.

No, it's true.

Little too accurate.

Yeah, but she was good.

She was pretty badass.

There wasn't that much exciting shit that happened.

But it was fun to watch the sword fights.

That was fun.

And then I went to a Goth dance party

afterwards as is my tendency.

And indeed, and I got owned.

I thought I was getting hit on by a really hot,

really my type guy who complimented me on my goblet.

Look at this spider goblet that my friend got me.

He brought that into the bar.

Yeah, I was drinking my drinks out of it.

My spider goblet spilling all over the place

because a goblet is not practical for the dance floor.

I don't think so.

But I was like, ooh, he likes my goblet.

Am I having a meat cute right now?

I even smoked a fucking cigarette with him.

I click still coughing from that because I don't smoke.

No, you don't.

I don't particularly like cigarettes,

unless I'm like really high on other drugs.

But yeah, then we danced a little.

Then he was like, oh, just so you know,

I have a girlfriend.

But you look amazing though.

Break up with her.

I was like, cool, I'm going to go home

and then come myself now.

Bye.

So that was like, no, I told that to my comedian friend,

Breck, and she was like, they're calling it

the most TVI thing to ever happen.

It was very true.

Oh, yeah, and then he told me to check out his band.

That's the Dakota to that, so.

Oh, wow, that's a really intense marketing scheme.

Yeah, I guess so.

Lead women on and then direct all of their frustrated

feelings.

Right to your band too.

Your, yeah, no, I mean, your music's not that good, dude.

Sorry, but that was, that was kind of,

that was what it was.

I'll say that, but then my real birthday

was extremely chill.

So there was the chaos and then there was

the chilling.

I went, we're having a real full spring here in New York City.

I don't know if you know about this.

It was like 70 degrees today.

Yeah, we had that yesterday.

I must have like blown over to you.

Or is that how that works?

Probably.

This isn't a weather episode.

I heard some good feedback that you liked my weather episode.

That's not what this one is.

This is back to Jamie and I don't know what the weather is

episode.

No, it was like, it was record highs yesterday here in Chicago.

Yeah, it was kind of warm here yesterday.

And then it was really warm here today.

So thank you for sending that weather over to me.

I went to a place called Bathhouse.

I went to the Shfitz.

I went to the Shfitz.

Wait, I'm literally looking at Bathhouse Williamsburg

and because I'm going to New York this weekend

and I'm getting put up in a hotel for one day

and they said, where do you want your hotel to be?

And I found a bathhouse and said,

right by that one, right there.

Oh, you're staying in Williamsburg for one day.

Wow, nice.

All right, well, we should go to Bathhouse.

I fucking love that place.

Amazing.

It's got a pool on the roof.

It's a great place to watch the sunset.

It has an amazing view.

The pool is very warm right now because it's been cold.

And we soaked, we shfitzed.

We had delicious snacks.

And then we went out, we had a little tendon.

We had a little wine.

I had some oysters.

I had grilled fish with an herbicide salad.

Love a grilled fish with an herbicide salad.

And it was just a very fun chill day

with just a couple of my good friends

shout out to Sophie and Joseph.

And yeah, it was a great birthday.

And the even better news is it's not over yet

because my birthday lasts until I've celebrated it

with every single person that I know.

So get ready for more of my birthday when you come.

Love a birthday month.

Yeah.

Huh.

I, yeah, I've been going to New York City a lot

for Luigi Mangione's support work.

And I can't really talk about all of it right now,

not until a couple projects come out that are in the works.

But, you know, I don't think I've said this

until before we started our podcast, but big things come in.

Oh, boy, wouldn't you like to know what they are?

It'll be pretty cool, I think.

I think y'all are going to like it.

I think you're going to like it.

Well, let's jump in.

We got some good news to kick off our episodes today, don't we?

Besides, you being one year younger

and having a wonderful birthday.

Indeed.

This is perhaps the best birthday present I could have gotten.

We have an update.

Remember, you guys remember our comrade Jack Miseric?

Free Jack StopCop City of the free Jack, Jack's.

Yes.

Well, his case has finally concluded.

This is very good, because he was dealing with a lot of shit.

He was caught up with the system.

They were making him do all kinds of annoying bullshit.

I mean, he was in jail for the first, what, six weeks?

Why was he in jail?

What did they accuse him of?

Well, he hadn't been convicted of anything, but he was accused of arson,

or arsoning a bunch of police motorcycles, which obviously he didn't do it,

but whoever did is a hero.

But what happened?

He agreed to an Alfred plea to a reduced charge of criminal damage to property.

And this kind of plea is cool, because it allows the defendant to enter a

technically guilty plea while maintaining their innocence.

Because they just want to wrap that shit up.

So he did get 10 years of probation, and that is annoying.

But no jail time, besides, of course, the time that he already spent in jail.

And then after that, under house arrest and under creepy police surveillance.

And oh, don't forget the terrifying SWAT raid, where they woke him up by pointing a gun

in his face and scare the shit out of everyone who lived in the house.

Yeah, they dragged a female housemate out and sat her down without a shirt

or bra on, and the freezing cold winter outside on the curb.

Yeah, like this, all of this stuff very clearly was meant to punish him for

being a part of this movement before he'd even been convicted of anything.

Because guess what?

They knew those charges probably weren't gonna stick, and they didn't.

So they just wanted to put everyone through as much torment as possible

before this was over.

So the bad news, okay, so the judge Judge Richardson, in this case,

said that he has to stay away from quote,

any activities, movements, rallies, or protests, outwardly expressing or

proclaiming anti-government sentiment for the next decade.

Which is incredibly vague, right?

Like, what does that even mean?

Is he allowed to go to like a punk show?

Right, activities that express or proclaim anti-government sentiment.

I mean, that's, everybody hates the government right now.

What activity are you supposed to do where that is not expressed?

No, it's like whatever they want.

It's just, they're trying to scare them.

They're trying to scare everybody who's been involved with this movement

away from doing anything ever again to try to make the world better.

So, and they're trying to isolate people from one another.

Also, he agreed not to associate with Defend the Atlanta Forest,

which the prosecutor called a group, but which was in reality,

a social media account used to broadcast messages about the movement

with no defined membership, as we know.

Crazy.

Yeah.

Crazy.

Well, I guess luckily for Jack Defend the Atlanta Forest,

the movement to Defend the Atlanta Forest, which again is not a group,

is kind of, it's kind of done.

Like they bulldozed the forest, and they built the police trading facility there.

But who knows, who knows what that social media account may be used for in the future?

I don't know.

Anyway, you can read a statement from Jack at freejack.co.

And here's a quote that I like.

He said, this case was never about bringing so-called justice to a perpetrator

for an alleged crime.

It was about instilling fear in a strong movement that shook the city to its core

and exposed its dirtiest inner workings.

Cop City will forever be a stain on the pages of the city's history marked

indelibly by the courage of those who resisted it.

Hmm.

Yeah, snaps to that.

I mean, there's a few more on this page than I could read to.

Yeah, I'd like to hear them.

OK.

This is the big deal.

The ones they got, the ones that made it to the infographic.

I'll read those at the bottom.

Let's see.

Oh, yeah, this one's pretty intense.

The glow of red dots scanning my living room before finding their home

in my forehead still haunts me.

Many nights, I still hear the flashbangs.

I think of the masked men who charged into my dining room and how they went home

to have dinner after and that it was just another day at work.

The depravity of the world is held up by those who are just following orders.

Damn.

Yeah.

So this was like one of the, I mean, folks will recall.

I mean, there's still ongoing a sprawling stop cop city case with domestic

terrorism charges.

The 61 RICO charges were thrown out.

But it's expected that the prosecution is going to appeal that.

There's been many other movement related charges that people are still fighting

to this day, including things like, you know, smaller, smaller violations.

But then this one sort of existed separately from these larger, more sprawling cases

where the prosecutor and the government had alleged that they found like a smidgen

of a pigeon of DNA that could be Jax on a bottle that they said was fashioned

into some sort of incendiary device at the scene or something like that.

And it's just like the, all the DNA experts that they brought in,

it's just like, well, actually the type of DNA sample is extremely inconclusive.

And it's not even a complete set of DNA.

And it could actually belong to a lot of people in the world and does.

So the whole thing ended up crumbling down.

Yep.

I got one more quote for you.

Right.

Great.

Great.

And yet, despite all of these attempts to break me, I stand here before you with my head

held high.

I stand here because when I stand here, I know that it is not just my flesh and bones

that hold me up, but something much bigger, a body stronger than any I could ever inhabit.

I know that I am not alone.

I know that my friends, family and comrades hold me up.

And I know that I come from a long line of brave people who have fought, died and been

imprisoned in this struggle for a better world.

I stand here strong because I owe it to them.

Damn, Jack.

That goes hard as fuck.

That's so moving.

I know.

Apparently he got like thousands of letters from people all over the place, including

like everyone he's ever known, telling him what they, what he means to them.

So that's very heartwarming.

Also he's a dad now.

Congratulations.

Congratulations, Jack and Jack's partner on multiple fronts on so many, so many fronts.

Great.

Yeah, I feel like this is one of the last cop city cases to be wrapped up and it seems

like they're not really sticking.

Like you said, the Rico case just got thrown out pretty recently.

Jack is not going to spend any time in jail.

So is this caused to be cautiously optimistic, perhaps?

I mean, I think so.

I mean, the main thing that is like, there's two things that I think are the reasons for

that cautious optimism.

One is all these charges are fake and everything that they're saying in regards to the people

being domestic terrorists for getting caught at a protest and wearing a black shirt and

black pants and black shoes at the same time makes them some sort of terrorist or getting

tackled at a music festival that had children and Fay Webster playing there and all the sudden

like the hyper raid happens and random people get arrested and charged with domestic terrorism

and racketeering charges and like all these other things.

They don't have a case in the first place.

So that's one reason.

And the second reason is there is a really widespread national and international support movement

behind the stock cop city defendants.

There's this group fire ant movement defense that's really been sort of like making cutting

edge advancements and what it means to provide prisoner and defendant support as politicized

charges are unfolding, hoping we can get some of them on the show sometime to talk about

the work that they do.

But for those two reasons, I'm cautiously optimistic.

That is not a reason to let up part of the follow through of the movements that were involved

in.

And this is for everybody that's, you know, either involved in a movement or considering

getting involved in a movement is standing by the people who get swept up in legal consequences

for alleged actions pertaining to their movement activities.

We're kind of going to circle back to this topic at the end of the episode as we provide

an update for the prairie land defendants that just kind of came out today.

But yeah, it's all, all of our struggles are interrelated and the struggle don't end

until all of us are free.

Well said.

So another cool thing happened today and this week is another Gaza solidarity flotilla

was announced today.

For folks who might not know what I'm talking about, these flotillas are sort of our

mod of boats that are trying to break the sea, break the illegal blockade of Gaza by delivering

aid on the Mediterranean to the shores of Gaza.

And it's been, you know, I just want to read their announcement today.

The global Samud flotilla spring 2026 mission.

The global Samud flotilla GSF announces the launch of its spring 2026 mission, a historic

escalation in civilian led maritime action to break the illegal blockade of Gaza moving

beyond previous aid delivery efforts.

This mission represents a strategic shift towards a sustained civilian presence and the

establishment of a replicable model grounded in international law and Palestinian leadership.

A primary focus of the 2026 mission is the deployment of a specialized medical fleet,

carrying more than 1,000 health care professionals and stocked with lifesaving medicines and equipment

this fleet aims to stabilize Gaza's health care system and support the efforts of local

medical teams who have endured two years of genocide.

The GSF is independent, international and unaffiliated with any government or political

party by creating a humanitarian corridor not dictated by the oppressor.

The mission asserts Palestinians sovereignty over their own land and water.

This intervention serves to catalyze global civil society in a direct uprising against

apartheid, colonialism and international complicity.

Sounds good.

Can we go?

Should we go on the flotilla?

We can go.

How do you fare on boats?

You don't know.

It may not surprise you that I get horrible seasickness.

That is the least surprising.

I kind of knew the answer to that even though I didn't know the answer to that already.

Well, bring six months supply of drama mean and gobble that shit up in a couple weeks

and you'll be good.

So there have been sort of long-standing attempts to deliver aid to Gaza via the sea.

The first freedom flotilla happened in 2010 with six ships during that first official

freedom flotilla operation.

Ten people were killed by the IDF simply for trying to deliver life-saving aid to the Palestinians

they have in the largest open air prison on planet Earth, you know the story.

It's important to note that prior to that and for a long time people had been delivering

aid to the Holy Land via boats.

But in 2011 was Freedom Flotilla number two followed by Freedom Flotilla number three

in 2015.

There have been some things since then but fast forward to last year, 10 years later,

this tactic of the Freedom Flotilla began to receive global attention when the Madlene

mission was intercepted in June of last year and young social activists Greta Thunberg

was kidnapped off of the boat by the IDF and made to do humiliating things on camera.

Last year there was also the Hendala mission and then finally the global Samud flotilla

last year with 52 boats that tried to break the blockade and made it extremely close before

being intercepted by the IDF.

If you want to learn more about the next upcoming flotilla or get involved go to globalsamudflotilla.org

based.

Look, I know that I would hate every second of it but it still seems like a valuable

thing to do.

We have some comrades that were in the global Samud flotilla last year on one of those

52 boats.

There's so many components of this that are so deeply moving but one of them is that it

just is such a testament to the human spirit and ingenuity and solidarity to load up 52

boats and this next one might be 100 with supplies and amateurs and experts and people

who believe in Palestinian solidarity and sailing the fucking seven seas to break an

illegal blockade that the Israelis are holding over the Palestinians.

There's like an ancient resonance with conducting your life this way on a boat sailing across

the Mediterranean to try to save people who are being genocide in the holy land.

It's astounding and it's worth our support and even if you're listening and you're like

I can't go on that, learn about it and let me know what you think because it's infatuating

to me.

It's inspiring.

Yeah, for sure and it takes real bravery.

Like you know, you're probably going to get intercepted and sent to an Israeli torture

prison before they send you home again, possibly like beaten up like what happened to Chris

Smalls or just made to do humiliating shit like Greta Tuenberg and they're doing it anyway.

I mean, it kind of feels like it counts as a nonviolent direct action, a lot of ways

because yeah, it's like actually the opposite of violence to sail on a boat with life-saving

supplies.

Right?

Yeah.

And then you're knowingly submitting yourself to maybe probably getting arrested and getting

a horrible shit done to you by the Israeli occupying forces.

So that in and of itself is it's very brave.

I do wonder what it would look like for one of those boats to defend itself, shall we

say?

Yeah.

But that would make it into something different.

Another thing that stands out to me is just to read another part of this.

A primary focus of the 2026 mission is the deployment of a specialized medical fleet

carrying more than 1,000 healthcare professionals in stock with life-saving medicines and equipment.

The fleet aims to stabilize Gaza's healthcare system.

Healthcare is everywhere right now.

There just was a report out that when ice came, Minneapolis residents created underground

health networks, obviously healthcare has been a big issue on this podcast ever since

the December 4th tyrannoside of the CEO of United Healthcare and the free Luigi movement

that happened in the wake after they alleged him to be connected to the incident.

To me, there's like this notion of the right to health.

And I think about this and it feels so, I don't know, like it's easy to gloss over.

Sometimes it sounds a little liberal or something to me.

And then I really think about it and it's like being healthy is the fundamental building

block for literally every other possibility in your life.

So the fact that they're focusing on going there and trying to stabilize Gaza's healthcare

system.

Now, yeah, I mean, everyone has the right to health, no matter where they live.

It's very simple.

And there is a population that's being oppressed, that's being denied the right to health,

very explicitly for many decades now.

So yeah, also, I'm going to come out as being pro rights like there's been a bit of

discourse on the ultra left.

Some people don't like the bourgeois, they think rights are a bourgeois concept.

These individual rights because they were part of so many bourgeois revolutions, you

know, you want to think about the bill of rights and all these human rights that liberal

capitalist society allegedly defends and enshrines.

But I would say not to throw the baby out with the bath water.

I would say communism is about defending those rights, but for real, you know, because

I think we have seen that those rights are not actually a foundational part of capitalist

society and, in fact, are incredibly contingent on the needs of the system.

So I mean, I also like to think of it in terms of like collective rights too.

So it's less individualist, but it does feel like a little like splitting hairs.

But it's also true, like our fates are linked, our fates are connected, you know, none of

us are free.

Until all of us are free, none of us have our rights protected until all of us do.

And I really believe that.

Yeah.

To me, rights feel like a sort of battle line where, you know, a government tries to assert

dominion and power and authority and control over people's and those people sort of draw

a line in the sand and they say, you're not going to take this from us in the second

that you do, you're a tyrannical government and we are going to fight back.

Yeah.

All right.

We're pro rights here.

We believe in rights.

I believe in civil rights and social rights and environmental rights and, you know, the

right to health, the right to health.

As others, I'm sure, you know, feel free to DM me with rights.

DM us your rights.

DM us your top five favorite rights.

Top five favorite rights.

And we'll read them on the podcast.

Yeah.

We'll read you your rights.

That's sad, dude.

Wrong.

Yeah.

But anyway.

There's some more shit that happened.

I don't know.

This is like, definitely mostly like Twitter news, but I thought it would be fun.

We like some tabloids, a little comic relief to talk about some Twitter news because this

is trending, apparently, this, this shipbird at the free press at Barry Weiss's publication

that now is like the in charge of CBS or whatever.

She tried to, I guess, manufacture a scandal.

They just really can't handle that we have a Muslim democratic socialist as the mayor in

New York, no matter how nice he is, no matter how much he smiles, you know, they're never

going to stop trying to take him down.

Oh, they're also mad at him for having Mahmoud Kuleel over for dinner, for holiday dinner

to the mayor's mansion, which like, I don't know, cry harder, you fucking little piss babies.

But yeah, so they attempted to manufacture this scandal about tweets that his cool hot

wife liked about October 7th, including one debunking or tweets, Instagram posts, it

was Instagram posts, yeah, including one that debunked the claims of mass rape on October

7th, the homostead mass rapes, which we know now is false, like she was correct to like

that post.

Yeah, the Zionists tried to turn it into a scandal.

This strange looking lady, who is that ad-hom, I don't know, she's a terrible person, fuck

her.

She went through all of her likes, I guess, and made a video about it where she acts

scandalized.

Do you want to play that shit?

Zoran Mondani's wife, Ramadjawaji, liked a post calling October 7th a mass rape hoax.

That was only one of more than 70 anti-Israel posts I found, liked by Mondani's wife.

One post from October 9th, 2023, just two days after October 7th, characterized the terrorist

attack as a defensive action against a quote, system of oppression.

Many of the post-traffic and anti-smetic claims, including Holocaust conversion.

One post, liked by Duwaji, refers to a controversial Israeli prison as a quote, concentration camp.

This is what the post says.

The concentration camp has a singular aim to exterminate Palestinians and destroy their

resistance.

The mayor responded to a reporter's question on this yesterday, but that was before I uncovered

70 plus other posts for the free press.

My wife is the love of my life, and she's also a private person who has held no formal

position on my campaign or in my city hall.

It's no secret that Duwaji, who's an illustrator, is a supporter of the Palestinian cause.

Much of her artistic portfolio revolves around the war in Gaza.

What is new is the evidence suggesting her strong bias against Israel, which is depicted

as evil, morally bankrupt, and genocidal in the post-liked by Duwaji.

As of today, the likes still remain up.

I think my full story in the free press sounds like everything she liked was true.

Yeah, it sounds like it was true and good, and not even controversial outside of these

Zionist, his baby circles, I mean, she says, or she says she liked the post that said

October 7th was a defensive action against the system of oppression.

That's a fact.

That's a thing.

Then this shipper is calling these things anti-semitic themes that are not anti-semitic,

like holocaust inversion.

Right.

What the fuck was that, holocaust inversion, that's like that's the best you've got.

I mean, doesn't that imply that the Palestinians did the holocaust to the Jews, which

demonstrable not what happened?

It seems to be saying that there's no way that the Jewish people, and I don't want to

call them Jewish people, yeah, they're Jewish, but there's no way that the Israelis, because

they're Jewish, would be able to do something similar to the holocaust because the holocaust

happened to their ancestors, some of their ancestors in the past.

It's like, I don't, you don't even need to say that's a logical fallacy, that's just

like, that's the logic of like a three-year-old throwing a temper tantrum, like it has no bearing

on anything.

Okay, it's like, well, if the FNO state didn't want to be accused of doing the holocaust

to people, they shouldn't have done a fucking holocaust to people, I don't know what else

to tell you, lady.

She's also mad that they called a, quote unquote, controversial Israeli prison, a concentration

camp.

I mean, it is.

People need to like learn their definitions of what a concentration camp is, it is a,

it is a facility that a government concentrates a bunch of people from one type of sociological

category in, period, that's what it is.

Yeah, she's also acting like she found a scoop here when she says, well, everyone knows

that she supports Palestine, but what is new is that she's against Israel, which is like,

dude, all right, so you think it's possible for someone to support Palestinian liberation

and not be against the FNO state, sending in the way that like, what are you doing?

My favorite part was, it's no surprise that Dawashi, an illustrator, supports the Palestinian

cause.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know, they need to make up their minds if she's like a cosmopolitan

art hoe, or if she's like a sharia law, Islam is extremist, I don't know, anyway, no one

really seems to give a shit about this, which is cool, like, I guess Zoran did have to

mention it briefly at a press conference, but like, yeah, no one really gives a shit

that the mayor's wife liked these Instagram posts, which honestly feels like progress from

even what it would have been like a few years ago.

Totally.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of liked his, you know, I mean, it was a bit of a political answer

because he didn't, you know, he didn't use it as an opportunity.

He didn't say the posts were good and true.

And he didn't use it as an opportunity to call for Palestinian liberation.

He didn't use it as an opportunity to call out the genocidal ethno state of Israel.

But I did sort of like the firmness of his answer, he was like, she's the love of my

life, and then he just like glares at the journalist, and she's a private person, like, leave

her alone, bro.

And it's like, I only respect that for politicians that I like, you know, politicians that I don't

like, not like, terrorize their whole fucking family.

It's fine.

Yeah.

Look, when the revolution comes and we have to depose all elected officials, we're going

to be so nice about it with Zoran, all right.

And he's going to go along with it because he'll be like, oh, cool.

You guys are, you're taking us one step further to where we need to go.

I mean, maybe not, but the point is no one will harm my hair on that man's head.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

After this year, when he, you know, approves raising the fucking NYPD budget, we'll see,

you know, how I feel about him.

Yeah.

It's just nice having a mayor who's not a total piece of shit.

I realize that's probably recuperation, but whatever, you know, a party girl, you can

have a little recuperation of the treat once in a while.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Yeah, I don't know.

The Eric Adams published literally anything.

I'm just like, dude, he's so funny, your, your, your brain is cooked.

I liked him when he told us to make babies during the Blizzard.

Like he was talking about like there was this, you know, attempted bombing by two young

people who allegedly said that they support ISIS in New York outside of Mamdani's crib

the other day.

Oh, yeah, that was crazy.

I forgot to even mention that.

Yeah, I think it's fine.

But like Eric Adams posted some tweet or posted something on, I think Facebook about

it, like comparing that to like the killing of Brian Thompson, and it's like, you're

fucking idiot, dude.

Don't ever change, Eric Adams.

He gets, and he's doing what I wanted him to do.

He's like hanging around and like say crazy shit and just like be a weird guy.

And doing like anti-Semitic crypto rug pulls on crypto bros.

Oh my God, that was so, that was funny.

Did you see the outfit that he wore to some synagogue?

I forget if it was in connection with this or not, but it was like, it was so funny.

You just wore this outfit that it was just like covered in stars of David.

Oh, dude, that's sick.

Holy shit.

I'm looking ahead.

This is really good.

Bro, that's crazy, bro.

What the fuck?

Well, he's trying to stop anti-Semitism.

That's how you do it.

That's crazy.

Everyone go look it up.

Yeah, I just looked up Eric Adams synagogue outfit.

So it's, it's really good.

What was I going to say?

Oh God, I got hungry.

I got myself get hungry again.

I got it.

I had a little girl dinner before we recorded, but I opened a tin, a tin of fish.

I had been saving as a treat.

You're a fucking cat.

Meow meow.

That's right.

But now I, that wasn't enough food and now I have to talk about the fucking war in Iran.

So good luck to me.

Yeah.

We mentioned the war in Iran.

If you all haven't listened to last week's episode, by the way, the interview with

just Robinson on his book.

The revolt eclipses whatever the world has to offer, of course.

You definitely should go back and listen to it, but we mentioned this briefly at the top

of the episode last week, the Iran War and impending World War III, and then we quickly

glossed over it to get into our episode.

So today we're going to quickly gloss over it, but just less quickly this time.

I feel like we should really bring on a guest if we're going to talk about it in depth.

I agree.

But just in case there aren't, there's anyone out there who gets all of their news from

this podcast.

You really should not.

Awesome.

Actually, no years, you definitely should.

If you don't listen, what would happen to your mental health if everything you learned

about the state of the world you got from our show?

I mean, I feel like it's less depressing than the average political show because we actually

have some ideas for how to fix it.

Yeah.

And we're like connected with and actively doing things to try to make the world better

ourselves.

And we're not just like sitting here, like in our mom's basements, like lamenting about

the state of the world.

Yeah.

Like if all we were doing was reporting all the bad shit in the news, I would probably

put a gun in my mouth, but that's not what we're doing here.

We're, I mean, we still don't get me wrong.

We talk about a lot of depressing shit, but we also talk about inspiring shit.

I think the last episode was really inspiring for me, hearing Idris's takes on revolution

and Black liberation and anti-colonial violence and all that good stuff.

So yeah, there's, there's, I don't know if we're going to win in the end.

I don't know if we're just fucked, but I feel like we could win.

Otherwise, I would be, I don't know, just focusing on stuff that's really fun all the

time.

Yeah.

And if you want to win, the best thing that you can do right now is go to www.patrion.com

slash party girls and sign up for a subscription to help us win.

Wow.

That was a great little work in of the plug.

Thank you.

All right.

What's going on in Iran?

I've, I think I've heard, but I, well, are people yelling at each other again?

Well, yeah.

I mean, look, if you're one of those people who's like, maybe you're procrastinating reading

an Al Jazeera article or two about what's going on with the word Iran, well, you're welcome.

I did it for you.

And I'm going to tell you just a few things that I've learned.

For instance, oh, we have an undeclared war with Iran.

It's in its 11th day now.

It will probably be about the 13th day.

By the time you listen to this, it's so far as of Tuesday, March 10th, the U.S. and Israeli

attacks have killed more than 1,200 Iranians, including more than 160 children killed when

a school was bombed and yeah, and seven American soldiers have also died.

But analysts argue Trump and his administration have clearly never, have never clearly explained

how they want this word to end.

Fun, fun, fun, probably because it wasn't their idea in the first place and Israel started

that shit, which is not to say that they didn't want to do it anyway, right?

Right.

They definitely did, but the call was made by Israel when they took out Iran's supreme

leader, Ali Kamehni.

So just a few ideas from Al Jazeera of what Trump might be trying to get out of this

here based on things he said.

The Trump regime was betting that the Iranian government would collapse or be very weakened

when its leader was taken out, Ali Kamehni.

They thought that people would revolt, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

However, on Sunday, Iran announced a successor as the supreme leader, Kamehni's 56-year-old

son, Majtaba Kamehni, which is like, okay, we have seen some noises from various neocon

circles.

I don't know if liberals are really doing this.

Maybe like the worst neocon lives are saying, well, it's good because they took out a bad

guy who was like a brutal dictator and didn't respect the rights of women, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm just thinking like what would Americans be doing right now if someone came in and

killed Donald Trump and JD fans, but also like a bunch of school children and civilians,

right?

Like, people might be happy that Trump got killed, but we would be in a civil war if

that happened.

If there was a foreign power that wanted to destabilize the imperial corps, that's all

that they would have to do.

Yeah.

I don't think about, you know, we have enough dead school children every year, just, you

know, foreign power who's considering this, that's not going to change any American feelings.

So don't do it.

Just don't bomb the school because it's actually not going to accomplish anything because

we're used to dead kids, so just leave the school alone, please.

Yeah, true.

But like, yeah, people would probably feel on the one hand, I mean, at least the people

who don't like Trump would be like, ha ha, he got killed.

But at the same time, they would be fucking terrified because civilians were being killed

in our country was being bombed.

So I imagine it's a similar situation over there.

What else did I find out?

Okay.

Oh, yes.

This should reassure nobody that from the moment that the so-called Operation Epic Fury

was launched.

Jesus.

Yeah, that's what they're calling it.

We live in a Mr. B episode.

This is insane.

If Elon wasn't on the yachts right now, I would blame that name on him because it sounds

very like 2010 epic bacon memes, but yeah, since then, Trump's messaging has oscillated

between deal making, right, the art of the deal and the destruction of a run.

So that's fun.

He wants to destroy Iran's military capabilities.

Obviously, Iran doesn't have nukes, otherwise we would not be attacking them, but he's sending

a lot of mixed messages.

So following the February 28th, airstrikes that launched this war, airstrikes on Iran,

Trump said, quote, to the great people of Iran, I say that the hour of freedom is at hand.

When we are finished, take over your government.

It will be yours to take.

That fucking crazy, bro.

Yeah, especially that the US has literally done regime change in the past to governments

that, I mean, governments all over the world, but including Iran, that the people set up

for themselves.

So, yeah, obviously, he didn't really mean it, okay, because he has since insisted that

he was not into the new selection, Mojtaba Khameini, as Iran's new leader, and demanded

that he had a direct say in choosing the leader.

So so much for that.

Then on March 6th, he posted on Truth Social, this is crazy, that this is how we get geopolitical

statements.

He posted on Truth Social, demanding surrender, quote, there will be no deal with Iran, except

unconditional surrender, he wrote that last two words in all caps, of course, adding that

after the regime surrenders, great and acceptable leaders must be selected.

So of course, Tehran's response to Washington's shifting demands has been consistent.

No surrender, no negotiations as long as the US and Israel are bombing them and no externally

imposed leadership.

Trump's also been considering getting the Kurds involved, but he doesn't want to piss

out.

Turkey, which is a NATO ally, that would suck if he got the Kurds involved, I don't want

that to happen.

No.

I mean, I know that there's already some mixed reports about the libertarian socialist

experiment with the Kurds in Syria, but this would be another level, this would be

this would suck, but there's no indication at this point that that's going to happen.

So great, there may or may not be a US ground invasion.

Trump doesn't want to fuck with an unpopular ground war, but you know, he is very unpredictable.

You know, the accelerationist in me is like, you know what, fucking do it.

Send the boys in, because I just bring back the draft, bring back the fucking draft.

I don't want any more dead Iranians.

I don't even want any dead American soldiers.

But in the event that there were dead American soldiers, I think that would make anti-government

sentiment get even higher than it already is.

And that would be like just, I think, an effect from that.

Yeah.

Well, and depending on if you like the government or not, that could be a good or a bad thing

in your eyes, but if you're listening to this podcast, I'm guessing you don't like

the government.

You know, I think there's a lot of people out there who just, you know, are trying to

figure out what they believe in this confusing world.

And if that's you, and if you've stumbled on to party girls podcast, and you've made

it 53 minutes and 59 seconds, 54 minutes and two seconds into this episode, then go to

patreon.com slash party girls.

Sure.

Once again.

I'll stop.

I'll stop.

Excellent plug.

So Americans may be thinking, but what about me?

I think that every day.

Well, you're not the only one.

It's a very American sentiment.

I re-joked around on the last episode about how this that might be the last ever episode

of party girls, because we might be in World War Three.

And do we actually have anything to fear from this?

So time magazine also wanted to find that out.

The interview Donald Trump, they asked him if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating

against Americans on U.S. soil.

President Trump responded, I guess.

What?

You said, I guess he continued, but I think they're worried about that all the time.

We think about it all the time.

We plan for it.

Yeah, I'm like, I actually can't sleep at night because I'm like, there's an imminent

Iranian ground invasion happening in Chicago.

Yeah, wait, there's more.

You guys, but yeah, you know, we expect some things.

Like I said, some people will die when you go to war.

Some people will die.

Bro, that's life.

Like you said this thing on the episode last week that like life is so cheap here.

Okay, Trump, you're not helping with that sentiment, by the way, when you say that should, man.

He's just like bored, I think.

I think he's, yeah, he's like already bored with this war.

Yeah, he's bored with being the president, I think.

I have real interesting psychology there, but yeah, so that's all we're going to monitor the situation needless to say.

We are monitoring the situation by which I mean reading articles on Al Jazeera from time to time,

trying to see what the fuck is up with this crazy, undeclared war on Iran.

I saw like the Drake meme and I was like Netflix and chilled and Drake's like, nah, Al Jazeera and anxiety and Drake's like, yeah.

Yeah, that's the five, that's the five of now very much very now.

But you know, wars, unpopular wars make strange bedfellows and I just came across this like right before we recorded.

So I don't even know if you've seen this shit.

Tucker Carlson has made some anti-war merch and I hate to say it, but it goes pretty hard.

Yeah, that's great, that's great.

Oh my god, I'm reading it now and I'm just like, yeah, it's gay.

It is gay, which is a good thing to be contrary to the people who would use it as an insult.

And it's not just anti-war merch, like he's got the hat with NYC and the sea is a hammer and sickle.

Yeah.

That's so cool.

He's got one that says Neocons are gay for war.

It's got one that says Neocons are gay for Israel.

Come on.

I mean, he's probably an anti-Semite.

So he's like coming at it from a slightly probably definitely an anti-Semite.

He has hats one in white and pink and one in navy and white that says nation building is gay.

What does nation building mean in this context?

I think it's meant to signify like regime church.

That's kind of what I thought seems that seems like it.

He's got one about a pack.

What does that say?

Uh, an offer you can't refuse.

Refuse.

Again, he maybe actually is anti-Semitic, but it's still like show me the lie.

Show me the lie on this hat.

I never considered him being anti-Semitic.

He just had figured he wants to be on the right side of this thing, but.

I don't know.

There's not many things that I've looked at Tucker Carlson and been like, oh, it seems like he wants to be on the right side of that issue.

I mean, he's a white nationalist for sure for sure.

Yeah, the fucked up thing about all this is like Tucker Carlson has really been.

He's like rebranding a lot in this way that like it almost causes even like I've been following Tucker Carlson's bullshit for like like 14 years.

And like he there was a period in my life where I understood Tucker Carlson to be the most damaging single person in the country.

Because I knew people who watched him every day.

And they would just like and he's so good at what he does.

He's so fucking good at speaking and making arguments and making like really, really, really, really, really fucked up things sound common sense and things like that.

And now I look at this thing and it's like Neocons are gay for Israel.

It's so good.

Sciop critic. I feel like his marketing team was like, oh, we actually want this to go viral and the people who are going to make this go viral is actually the left.

Oh, yeah, they knew what they were doing.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. But like we are not going to give him any of our money.

No, there are a few people already who are like bootlegging this merch,

although only for like a few days at a time because they're afraid they're going to get sued.

Yeah, maybe I'll buy some and then I'll say the package never arrived and then get a refund.

You know, I don't think I can't bring myself to buy something from the Tucker Carlson network.

No, you should not do that. You should not give them your money.

That's a that's a that's a spiritually unsound activity.

Also, you must remember when you buy a hat from Tucker Carlson saying Neocons are gay for war.

It's not coming from a play a left critique. He's he's a paleocon. It's like what are paleocons gay for all kinds of bad shit too.

No, I wouldn't paleocons are gay for theocracy. Is that better?

I'm actually like to stylish and mature to think that wearing a Tucker Carlson had ironically is remotely a good idea.

No, but you know the people who would like like who would do that shit.

Oh, yeah.

And listen to come town. Yes.

We don't have to believe that out because we're just a regular podcast. I saw you know the these guys are getting so fucking famous.

This is like a complete digression, but I saw Stavros. I saw our boy stov on like real television the other night on late night with Seth Meyers.

Oh, wow. Yeah, because he's in Bagonia. Check out our episode on Bagonia by the way with Brian Quimbee. It's only for patrons until such time as we unlock it.

But Seth Meyers said come town and they had to bleep the first syllable. And I thought that was very funny.

I like and I don't I know this is going to sound crazy to like probably 85% of the listeners out there unless you're really been paying attention to my life.

But I'm like I have this like goal of trying to get on the Tucker Carlson show at some point and have fun with that.

I just like don't actually know if I should do that. I mean I say like I don't it's not like I have the option in front of me right now immediately.

But it wouldn't surprise me if at some point that became a possibility and it's like or something similar right just like that that's just like that's like the gold standard of like enemy territory or whatever.

You know, it's like it doesn't get any bigger than that sort of thing. So I've fantasized about it. But like I'm just like what would.

I just be scared of making him look good.

You know, well, that's why that's the only reason they would invite someone like that like us on to their show is to try and own us.

No, that's not even what I mean. I don't mean try to own us. I mean try to find common ground with us and look good and reasonable as a response.

Yeah, that's also bad.

Like that's like the scary thing. And specifically I'm talking about like conversations about the moral questions that are related to, you know, Luigi Mangioni's alleged tyrannicide of Brian Thompson.

Also, by the way, if you don't know what the word tyrannicide is and you're wondering why I said it twice, it means the killing of a tyrant. There's a word for what happened that day.

Well, did you know that I've been invited on Fox News multiple times, but I was always too scared to go.

Well, maybe now, you know, I've done a hostile interview. I did Cuomo. So maybe I'm ready.

I think you're ready.

And you and I have different styles when it comes to that shit too. You sort of stand your ground and you like raise your voice a little bit and you, you know, you just sort of like push back.

I just like smile, not in spin, you know, just smile and spin. That's all I got to do.

It takes all strategies that it does.

I just like, I don't know. I just get pissed with someone's being a jerk to me. I'm going to be a jerk back and I forget whatever strategy I was supposed to be pursuing because I pissed.

The second I get pissed, I like blackouts.

All right, I'm going to, I'm going to wrap us up here. I wanted to end this episode on a, another important update as it pertains to movement defense.

So folks might recall the prairie land defense center episode that we did and you might have heard about the prairie land defendants.

If you didn't check out that episode that we made or go to prairie land defend.

Oh shit, what's so fucking URL.

Yeah, prairie land defendants.com. I knew that I shouldn't have second guest myself. It's very straightforward.

And, but basically July 4th of 2025 last year, there was a noise demo outside of a ice detention facility in South of Dallas, Fort Worth metro area and people were shooting fireworks and they were spray painting cars.

And something happened and shots were fired and a police officer was struck in the neck with a bullet allegedly and over the next several months.

There were dozens of house raids on activists and 19 people were locked up and are still locked up to this fucking day.

And since July of last year are still locked up as they await trial because they have $5 million bond saying that they provided material support for terrorism because they showed up to a noise demo.

Same thing is the stop cop city shit, you know, showing up to a music festival being called a domestic terrorist, you know, just like the same fucking thing.

The last 10 days, business days or whatever, there's been a federal trial ongoing and on Tuesday of this week for this for one of the defendants.

There's been a federal trial ongoing and on Tuesday of this week, the prosecutors, so the government in this in the prairie land rested their case, meaning they're like, we're done talking.

And recently after that, the defense protecting the defendants did the same thing, what that mean and they rested their case.

So that means that the first trial, the first federal trial for the prairie land defendants is over.

And now the jury is going to deliberate starting on Thursday, the day this episode is probably going to come out.

So today, Tuesday, the 10th day of this federal trial for the alleged attack on prairie land attention center last year, the very last cooperating witness, Nathan Bowman explained his role that night of the protest.

Operating witness, wait, wait, wait, what's that? What's a cooperating witness? That, my friend, is a snitch, it's a rat, it's a fucking rat.

John Thomas, Susan Kent, Seth Sykes, Lynette Sharp, and Nathan Bowman are the names of the rats in the prairie land case.

These are people who showed up to the noise demo or were related to it in some fashion. And then after the arrests, they took cooperating plea deals.

So in an effort to sort of try to save their own hide and get a less severe sentence or less severe charges and convictions, they decided to snitch and rat on their fellow activists to the Trump administration government.

There's, there's very few things that are lower than snitching on activists to the Trump administration.

And the line that people that I like look up to a lot on the, in general, they're the line on this that I'm hearing around the country is these people do not deserve our support.

So when we talk about movement defense, strong movement defense, the integral fucking keystone of strong movement defense is everybody recognizes that their fate is tied up in everyone else's fate in the case. And we all have to be in this together.

And when people collaborate with the state in an effort to undermine the sanctity of that bond that you hold with your fellow activists, you actually just fuck over everybody else and the movements and the craziest thing is the plea deals that these fuckers signed still could get them 15 years in prison.

What for attending like and it's just like they're not, it's not that they're not getting rich. They're not even getting off potentially. Okay. So I digress. I was not supposed to go on that long about the snitches, but it's a big deal. We'll probably talk more about this another time on the podcast.

Perhaps there's some infographics coming out that we'll be sharing around that have been circulating just there's some pretty good text out there about this whole thing.

TLDR don't snitch.

TLDR don't snitch. If you want people to love you, don't snitch. Period.

So this peri land thing like the stop cop city trial, like the J 20 trial at Donald Trump's person migration has been nothing but a political circus with extraordinarily dire consequences for both the real people swept up in this sprawling trumped up case.

And for all political activity in the US, especially at a time where we need to push hard harder than we ever have before in order to stop fascism.

Just like in wrapping up this 10 day of trial, this 10 days of trial, the prosecution has presented over the past 10 days zero evidence that this thing that they've been calling an ambush by an antifa terror cell was anything close to that whatsoever.

Remember, this is the first trial of the nine defendants all nine still face state charges and three more defendants still face separate charges still.

The cooperators have not taken state deals yet. These were sort of federal deals. We will keep you abreast of the jury's outcome. We don't know how long they're going to liberate it could be quick. It could be a long time.

I have a few takeaways from here, just as we wrap up this segment.

It's sort of exactly what everyone's been saying from the start. This is a sham trial. It is political persecution. It is rigged from the very start.

It doesn't matter what the verdict will be. This is just the beginning of the fight for these defendants and for our movements getting stronger.

The state's case crumbled in coherent political attacks snitches and cops both lying relentlessly under oath. That's the other thing is all these snitches stories don't add up.

They're all just like spewing a bunch of nonsense. Several of them broke down sobbing. Several of the snitches broke down sobbing on the bench because they feel like shit for what they're doing to people that they once cared about and who once cared about them.

Oh, good. They should cry. They're going to be crying even harder when they get stitches. Yeah.

There's a lack of any evidence in this case. There's key inconsistencies in the so-called facts and the whole fucking thing once again has been rigged from the start.

And normal people, the Texas public, the jury, the press have consistently shown that they're not buying this bullshit.

They oppose ice. This was an anti-ice protest. They oppose ice. They support the second amendment. If someone wasn't if a cop was indeed shot at that protest, it could have been another cop shooting them.

But if they were indeed shot by somebody else, that doesn't fly that way and you know in Texas people support the second amendment. They think that it's righteous to fight back against fascism and they don't want to see political repression take this nasty and aggressive of a leap forward.

So I'm this is a really, really big deal this case. It is really fucked up shit. It is very scary. All of these defendants need our support.

So check it out at prairieland defendants.com. Yeah, we will keep on monitoring the situation on this as well.

And yeah, spread the word. I feel like a lot of people don't know about this case who should. Yes, totally, totally spread the word.

And you know, I just want to end our episode giving a little shout out to our Patreon subscribers.

This show is, you know, we don't have ads. We don't we got banned from YouTube.

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Thank you all. So Jamie, what do you get if you subscribe to the Patreon besides yours and minds forever loyalty and love?

Well, as if that wasn't enough, we give you access to the discord community, just like a little chat room with a bunch of chat rooms within a chat room where you can talk about things with each other and with us.

I'm often in there. Like, am I help someone wants to talk to me today so I can put off doing whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing.

Help me procrastinate, guys. I'm lonely. I need someone to talk to.

We also have some bonus content. I would say we've been releasing it at a rate of about one or two a month, but we're planning to step it up.

We're stepping it up. We are stepping it up.

There is a lot of bonus content that's already accumulated that you can listen to if you subscribe.

You get them all at once. We got our cultural Marxism series where you talk about movies and TV usually movies from obviously a leftist perspective.

What else do we do? I don't know.

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Thank you all to our Patreon subscribers. Thank you to all of our listeners who have not yet subscribed.

We love you almost as much just kidding. We love you as much as everybody else.

Really glad that Jack's not convicted and is not going to serve any jail time.

We shout out to Jack, shout out to everyone who supported Jack through all of this.

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Until next week.

Oh, wow. That was abrupt. Sorry. I ruined it. You were trying so hard to say the end thing and I fucked it up.

Well, now I have to say it. Okay. Okay, boys and girls and they, thems at the video land. Until next time. Party on.