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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 02/05/2026

NEW SOLVED! Ep. #40: "Is the Constitution America's Biggest Obstacle to Progress?" in which we discuss how the government’s “checks & balances” actually work against us, accepting that America is not a democracy, but what if we tried to make it one anyway...and more. ▶️ youtu.be/EgCWeIgORFg

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

Your energy is limited. Don't #boycott alone. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborRights

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

Organizing is the "tractor" in the garden of activism. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborRights

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

The tragedy that transformed U.S. labor rights. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires #TriangleShirtwaistFire

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

The REI boycott reminds us there are no purely "good" companies under capitalism. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

People fought for labor rights and won before - we can do it again. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 01/05/2026

What Galloway should have done instead. From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 30/04/2026

What does labor solidarity really look like? From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & The Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc... #bestoftheleft #podcast #progressive #MayDay #LaborMovement #SolidarityForever #WorkersOverBillionaires

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 30/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1787: "The American President vs The American Pope: Leo XIV, Trump, and the MAGA-Catholic Rift" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Leo vs. Trump: The Catholic Opening Democrats Are Blowing 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 30/04/2026

Watch SOLVED! #39: “Why You Should Care About Prisons in the Fight for a Better World” We discuss the state of our carceral state, including why victims of crime prefer rehabilitative approaches to justice, the fight over a proposed Arkansas mega-prison, & more. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watc...

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 28/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1786: "Defeating Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Authoritarian Playbook Worldwide" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Trumpism Won't End With Trump, Here's What Comes Next (More: youtube.com/@BestOfTheLeft) 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 23/04/2026

"We are spending our children's $$$ to take the lives of other people's children." - @democracynow Featured in #BestoftheLeft #1785: "Iran & the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)" 🎧Your fav pod app, or bestoftheleft.com/1785 💙bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 20/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1785: "Iran and the Chain Reaction: The War Nobody Thought Through (Or, Bomb First, Think Never)" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Eisenhower Warned Us: Trump's $1.5T Military Budget Is Gutting America 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 18/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1784: "Who Gets to Be American, Who Gets to Vote, and Who Decides" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Conservatives' Judicial Originalism Isn't Principle — It's a 40-Year Political Project 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #BirthrightCitizenship

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 18/04/2026

NEW Almost SOLVED!: "The Cuba Crisis & What It Means to Be American Right Now" ▶️ youtu.be/LBjEIWOPOos 💙 SUPPORT OUR WORK! bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 18/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1783: "The Ideology of a Cancer Cell: AI, Surveillance, and Silicon Valley's Psychopath Problem" 🎧 Your fav #podcast app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: AI Isn't Taking Your Job — But Your Boss Wants You to Think It Is 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 11/04/2026

NEW SOLVED! Ep. #38 - Keepin' It Class-y: How Class Structure and Wealth Inequality Keep Us Stuck" ▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: youtu.be/paDVRrFl4Z0 💙 Support our work! Get ad-free shows, early and EXTENDED audio of SOLVED! right in your podcast feed, and more: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 10/04/2026

PREMIERING NOW! NEW SOLVED! Ep. #38 - Keepin' It Class-y: How Class Structure and Wealth Inequality Keep Us Stuck" ▶️ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE: youtu.be/paDVRrFl4Z0 💙 Support our work! Get ad-free shows, early and EXTENDED audio of SOLVED! right in your podcast feed, and more: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 10/04/2026

Jay explains the pitfall of focusing on individual action vs. collective action. ⭐ From SOLVED! #37: "Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & the Labor Movement We Need" ▶️ WATCH: youtu.be/Kxjdet4ZRkU 💙 Get ad-free shows, an early & EXTENDED version of SOLVED!, & more: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 07/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1782: "Cuba's Crisis: Trump's Deadly Embargo, Blackouts, and Dream of Regime Change" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or bestoftheleft.com/1782 🎙 EDITOR'S NOTE: The Word "Sanctions" Is Hiding a Blockade — US Propaganda Hides Human Rights Abuses in Cuba 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 04/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1781: "Your Team Is a Hedge Fund Now: How Gambling and Billionaires Captured American Sports" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Sports Expose Everything Wrong With America — & Fans Have More Power Than They Think 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 04/04/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1780: "Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Solidarity Isn't a Feeling — It's a Structure (and Bosses Know It) 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 04/04/2026

NEW SOLVED! OUT NOW! Check out Ep. #37 - “Solidarity Forever: Boycotts, Strikes, & the Labor Movement We Need ” ▶️ youtu.be/Kxjdet4ZRkU 📣 Be sure to find out how to get involved in the May Day National Day of Action on May 1st at maydaystrong.org 💙 Support: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 31/03/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1780: "Cynicism Is a Scab: Hope, Solidarity, and the Labor Fight That Never Stopped" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or www.bestoftheleft.com/1780 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Note: Solidarity Isn't a Feeling — It's a Structure (And Bosses Know It) 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 26/03/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1779: "Community After God: Why the Left Needs What Church Provided" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the Left's Community Crisis and What We Can Learn from Megachurches 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 25/03/2026

Check out SOLVED! #36: “Bribery Jazz: Corruption is the Water We Swim In” in which we discuss the dark history of #moneyinpolitics (aka: CORRUPTION!), what the Left must do to actually win, how to turn this corrupt ship around, & more. ▶️ youtu.be/JWC7Eh0-mEA 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 25/03/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1778: "AI, the Pentagon, Labor and Capitalism: The Fight Over Who Controls the Future" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On Why AI Won't Ruin Your Life — Unless We Let It 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 25/03/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1777: "How Christian Nationalism, Oil, and Zionism Built The War Against Iran" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Bombs Don't Liberate: How War Destroys Iran's Real Democracy Movement 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 24/03/2026

For #BestoftheLeft episode 1776, in the year of our nation's 250th birthday, we're tracing the full arc — from the constitutional compromises that made this country possible to the authoritarian vanity project that those compromises eventually also made possible. 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 24/03/2026

#BestoftheLeft Edition #1775: "Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition and the Remaking of American Politics" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Don't hate the game, change the rules (YouTube: www.youtube.com/@Bes... 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 23/03/2026

Check out SOLVED! #36: “Bribery Jazz: Corruption is the Water We Swim In” in which the team discusses the dark history of #moneyinpolitics (aka: CORRUPTION!), what the Left must do to actually win, how to turn this corrupt ship around, and more. ▶️ youtu.be/JWC7Eh0-mEA 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 26/02/2026

Here at #BestoftheLeft, we remember the past and choose to repeat it! THROWBACK! Ep. #1540: "The Grift of Life (Scam Culture™ and the Economy it Has Built)" (Originally Aired: 1-31-23) 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 24/02/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1773: "How Big Tech Captured Attention, Kids, and Democracy" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.co... 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 21/02/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1772: "From Fragile to Fascist: How Broken Masculinity Feeds Authoritarianism" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or bestoftheleft.com/1772 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: The Manosphere Correctly Diagnoses Some Problems, But Their Solutions Are a Con 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 20/02/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1771: They Need You in the Dark: Information, Journalism, and the Fight Against Fascism 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: Why authoritarians are so afraid of the media (More: www.youtube.com/@Bes... 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 17/02/2026

Remembering civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84 years old today. If you haven't watched his 1984 DNC speech, it's very much worth your time in these dark times.

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 14/02/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1770: "Getting in the Fight Against ICE and Authoritarianism" 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.co... 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the war on empathy 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support #podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 09/02/2026

With 20 years of relevant archives, at #BestoftheLeft we remember the past *and* choose to repeat it. 🌀 THROWBACK #BestoftheLeft #1128: "Confronting Fascism in the Land of Free Speech" (From 8-25-17) 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or www.bestoftheleft.co... 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 04/02/2026

Check out SOLVED! #32 - “How Progressives Are Always Right Too Soon (With Receipts),” in which the team discusses (yup) how the progressive Left always gets it right too soon, why that isn't "fun" for us, The Cassandras' Trump warnings, The Anti-Alarmists, & more. ▶️ youtu.be/vY7TkBNM71o

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 02/02/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1769: "Politics Beyond the Ballot Box: Elections and the Movements that Power Them" 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.bestoftheleft.com/1769 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the role of community and friendship in fighting fascism 💙 bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 02/02/2026

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 31/01/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1768: "The End of an Era: The International Rules-Based Order Gives Way to Trump's Might-Makes-Right Plutocracy" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or www.bestoftheleft.com/1768 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why might-makes-right is evil 💙🎂 FINAL DAY of 20% OFF: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 30/01/2026

FIND A LOCAL MINNESOTA ORG, OR NATIONAL IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ORG, AND DONATE. YOU CAN FIND GREAT OPTIONS AT www.standwithminnesota.com #nationalshutdown

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 30/01/2026

FINAL DAYS OF OUR ✨20th✨ BIRTHDAY SALE! Get 20% OFF FOR THE LIFETIME OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP! Sign up at bestoftheleft.com/support Members get ad-free shows, an early and extended audio version of SOLVED!, convenient chapter markers, and the warm and fuzzy feeling of supporting indie media!

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 29/01/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1767: "Wars Are Won By Teachers and Trump is Attacking Them Like a Foreign Adversary" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.com/1767 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the American and Chinese Cassandras of authoritarianism 💙🎂 20% OFF Memberships in Jan: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 27/01/2026

Best of the Left is on @upscrolled.bsky.social! If that's your thing, follow us there, too. You can learn more about the app here: www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 24/01/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1766: The Fragility of State Violence: The ICE Occupation, Renee Good, & the Minneapolis Uprising 🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: From the Boston Massacre to Renee Good: How the State Demonizes Its Victims 💙🎂 20% OFF MEMBERSHIP: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 24/01/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1765: "AI Capitalism Will Not Deliver an AI Utopia" 🎧 Your fav podcast app, or www.bestoftheleft.com/1765 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On why capitalism is the biggest problem of AI 💙🥳🎂 20th Birthday Sale! Through Jan, get 20% OFF MEMBERSHIP: bestoftheleft.com/support

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Best of the Left @bestoftheleft.com · 23/01/2026

#BestoftheLeft #1764: "Wealth Inequality is Bad for Society and There's No Good Counterargument" 🎧 Your fav pod app, or www.bestoftheleft.com/1764 🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On all the reasons we need to squash wealth inequality 💙🥳🎂 Get 20% OFF MEMBERSHIP through Jan: bestoftheleft.com/support

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