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Unf*cking The Republic

Omnibus (5-9-26).

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Politics, Government, News

4.8758 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Max and 99 are back for another episode of Omnibus. They hit headlines on vitamin K refusal, abortion pill access hanging by a thread, Germany asking Israel for jet fuel, and a robotic companion with AI surveillance built in, then tackle listener emails on deflation, data center slowdowns, and book recommendations. They rank their Top 5 brands to support and close with some light bullshit. Enjoy!

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:08

Headlines: 00:05:49

Emails: 00:30:48

Top 5: 01:09:33

Beyond the Bullshit: 01:22:49

Memberships: 01:25:52

Outro: 01:26:35

Resources

ProPublica: Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

Mother Jones: Supreme Court Reinstates Access to Abortion Pills—For Now

SCOTUSblog

OilPrice.com: Germany Seeks Israeli Jet Fuel As Hormuz Disruptions Cripple Airlines

The Verge: The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

Book Love

Samuel Farber: Before Stalinism: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy

Paul Kriwaczek: Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Rachel Cockerell: Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Peter Joseph: The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression

Clara E. Mattei: Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States

Daniella Mestyanek + Amy Reed: Young: The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them

Yuyi Morales: Dreamers

Michael Hudson: J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years

Stephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Astra Taylor + Naomi Klein: End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World

Top 5

Mother Jones

ProPublica

PBS

The Marshall Project

Dr Bronner’s

Bookshop.org

Wear The Peace

Greyston Bakery

UNFTR Resources

Video: Milei Promised Miracles, Delivered Chaos—Trump Is Next

Video: Canada’s Working Class Under Attack: Carney’s Economic Update Decoded

Video: They Hide These Economic Words From You—Here’s Why

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to Omnibus.

0:10.0

I'm Max here with my esteemed colleague, co-host, and buddy 99.

0:16.0

Say hello to the good people, 99.

0:18.0

Hello, good people.

0:20.0

Well, there you go. We are here today, as we do on the weekend, in the omnibus episode where we just shove

0:28.4

10 pounds of shit in a five pound bag to catch everybody up, talk to the people who have

0:34.8

the questions or the comments or the concerns or even the suggestions,

0:39.1

which we have a bunch of today, go through some headlines that we feel are important,

0:44.4

some of which are right on the nose, directly political and economics. Some are adjacent

0:49.4

and a little bit off topic, but all relevant to the daily life of an unfucker in the world. Happy to be

0:56.2

with you. Happy to get after it. Excited to be here. 99. Are you feeling it? As feeling it as I can be.

1:03.4

Okay. Well, then let's get to it. Hey, we start off every omnibus with housekeeping. Then we get into headlines.

1:12.6

We do some feedback, specific type of feedback that will go over,

1:16.6

a little bit of beyond the bullshit, and then we thank our members.

1:19.6

Now, in the housekeeping section, because we're not in a fundraiser period,

1:23.6

but we are thanking everybody once again for everything that they did to support

1:27.9

us. We want to talk a little bit about what's coming up because we have some changes just for

1:33.3

next week and then we'll be back on a regular schedule. Next week you'll see a YouTube drop,

1:39.1

the newsletter as usual, and on the record. I think we have a macro take going up on Midas.

1:45.3

For Discord, for office hours, for our members, I'm only going to be there for the first half hour.

1:52.0

99 is not going to be there at all. But we encourage everybody to get on board during office hours. We can tee up the conversation and then you continue.

2:00.0

That's because somebody,

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