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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E374. A Revolution Against Tech Is Coming - Mike Solana

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Mike Solana joins Bridget for a fascinating conversation about America's shifting political fault lines, why critiquing tech is critiquing power, and the coming Luddite backlash. They discuss Mamdani's Marxist housing advisor calling for the seizure of private homes (especially from the white middle class), and then crying about it when confronted with questions, the social justice ideas that escaped academia, why Solana thinks that "real leftism" is coming, and why social media is probably n...

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0:00.0

I'm with Mike Solana, everybody. Welcome to Watkins. Welcome. Can you explain what you're talking about

0:04.8

when we just jumped into conversation? The top, I mean, the story for me right now that I can't

0:09.7

look away from is you've got this, she was, I believe, a housing policy advisor for Zora Mumdani,

0:15.9

who's now the mayor when he was running, and maybe even like kind of right after he's running.

0:20.0

Now she's like a, they're calling it like a tenant advocacy position inside of his administration.

0:27.4

A ton of her tweets were got new attention.

0:31.7

I mean, they kind of like were things we talked about before.

0:34.0

I'm surprised they, a lot of stories are like this where there are things we've talked

0:37.2

about for a while, but then suddenly they catch fire. This was one that came up

0:41.2

a while ago, but what is her name? I'm blanking right now. The poster who, anyway, a person

0:51.2

online collected all of her tweets and shared them. And they were crazy.

0:56.2

It was like it was people, it was like, you know, people are going to have to get used to not

1:02.4

having private property type stuff. And like, yes, private homes are going to have to be seized as

1:07.0

people get more comfortable with the new way, our new approach to the concept of like collective

1:12.0

property. She talked about white people specifically, the white middle class specifically being targeted,

1:16.9

which is like the natural way that this should happen. And it's a whole long, it was Michelle

1:21.0

Tamler. So Michelle Tamler collected this whole long list of these of these tweets, which are like

1:27.1

completely insane. I't even say insane

1:30.7

because i think this woman believes it she's a marxist and these are her you know beliefs um like

1:35.2

i don't think that she's irrational i think she's like very rational but she just wants something evil

1:40.1

and uh she then it caught fire.

1:45.0

And now it's all over the Daily Mail, the New York Post.

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