Hey, everyone, just popping me really quick to kind of set up the context of this discussion.

This is me going on the Workers Lit Pod to talk about current events, the information landscape,

the war on Iran, and lots of different topics.

The conversation is organic, it's funny,

it's open-ended, and we have a really good time. These comrades are long-time friends at this

point. We've collaborated with them many times. They used to operate under the name of the

socialist shelf. So you probably, if you're a long long time Rev Left listener, probably heard some of our

collaborations in the past. They've switched to Workers Lit Pod. And it's the same, more or less,

the same group of characters. I think they reformed a little bit with some of their membership.

But anyways, great comrades, wonderful human beings. And we have a wide-ranging, organic, free-flowing

conversation on so many relevant

topics. I also want to point out that I am recovering from a respiratory infection, so

my voice throughout this conversation might be a little dry or give out a little bit, so I

apologize for any congestion or anything like that. I also wanted to remind people that here in Omaha,

we're running a second iteration of our socialist night school six-week program

where, you know,

last year we had 40 plus participants coming in once a week for six weeks,

learning, you know, core elements of theory and practice from Union, the Omaha Tenants United,

free farm syndicate, I taught classes on historical materialism. And we just had a really

great time and really a great success. We brought a bunch of different people from different

organizations together. We provided free food and free child care, and we wanted to do it again, and we wanted

to make it even better and refine it, and we've been doing that.

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