Welcome everyone to the Bituation Room on a fantastic Friday. Again, a second course, maybe even a third course of the Bituation Room for your week rounding out this Friday, reframing myself in the camera in the image in the I have words I'll find

them later what a week oh boy we have obviously gone through what has been happening on campuses, the repression that students have been facing the misinformation.

We had a hearty bitch sesh with Max from Unfuck the Republic or Unfucking the Republic

and comedian Anthony Attaminate about real versus imagined and

as well as you know staring down the barrel of full-blown fascism we might be in sort of

of fascism

some throwbacks, given that this is some throwbacks,

given that this is some of the most heroic anti-war organizing that we've seen on

college campuses since 2003 since the Iraq War, mass movements,

maybe since Occupy Wall Street.

And then pretty, maybe the first time,

we've seen this amount of campus activism specifically around the issue of

Gaza and Palestinians and the US's complicity in it. I mean little 2003 year old me or 18 year old me would have never imagined

that divestment could have become so mainstreamed among students and how what that means I mean it means really

good things despite this being a uniquely scary time and for this conversation I have to bring in a personal

mentor of mine who I met while he was on his book tour for the book that everyone should be reading called

Revolution in the Air, 60s Radicals Turned to Lenin, Chee, and Mao, which was really taking

stock of the momentum in the 60s,

that revolutionary spirit, and what happened to it,

the incredible things about it, the pitfalls,

and as a young radical myself radical myself I was so curious about how

previous movements had tried failed what lessons they'd learned and he is also

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