acab

Get ready for this mouthful - I bring my trans, disabled, communist, queer friend onto the podcast to talk all things ACAB. 

Links -- 

Timeline: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/27/jesse-baird-luke-davies-alleged-murder-complete-timeline-beau-lamarre-bodies-found-van-nsw-police-gun

Mardi Gras: https://www.mardigras.org.au/history-of-sydney-mardi-gras/#:~:text=The%20Original%201978%20Mardi%20Gras,public%20meeting%20had%20been%20held.

Karen Webb: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-27/nsw-sydney-karen-webb-taylor-swift-lyrics/103515052

Lachlan: https://www.instagram.com/lachlanjeffkins/

My Links: https://linktr.ee/cryingonpurpose

In episode 1595, Jack and Miles are joined by author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Vincent Bevins, to discuss… The Spirit of 1968, Could Raider Nation Help Win A Proletarian Victory? Fascism Playbook, Is Social Media Part Of The Problem? One Universal Truth Seems To Be ACAB and more!

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In episode 1567, Jack and Miles are joined by stand-up comedian behind the new sketch comedy album Funny Songs & Sketches, Joe Kwaczala, to discuss… BS Cop Science Is Starting To Be Debunked, New Orleans Inadvertently Made The Case For Defunding The Police, Fridge Manufacturers To The Public “F*CK YOUR G*DDAMN MAGNETS” and more!

1. How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons
2. California bans 'excited delirium' term as a cause of death
3. Why Are Shootings Plummeting in New Orleans?
4. Editorial: New Orleans violent crime drop is welcome, but there's more to be done.
5. Police didn't get defunded but many large departments are shrinking
6. By recruiting at Baptist seminary, NOPD hopes to inch toward ambitious staffing goal
7. Mayor Cantrell presents spending plan that includes a cut to NOPD budget
8. Despite staffing shortages, Bridgeport police say violent crime has dropped since last year
9. Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped.
10. Police shortages reported nationwide amid record-low morale and recruitment
11. Homicides are trending down, and we don't know all the reasons why. But do we need to?
12. Fridge Manufacturers To The Public “F*CK YOUR G*DDAMN MAGNETS”
13. Disney movie ‘Prom Pact’ freaks out audiences with ‘horrendous’ AI extras

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In this edition of Tucker CarlsTrend/Don LemTrend Out!, Jack and super producer Becca discuss the departures of Tucker Carlson from Fox and Don Lemon from CNN, some destructive viral videos, the Police being the Plug, the Wes Anderson TikTok trend, and Meghan Trainor's thoughts on teachers!

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The corporate-funded American police state is a true nightmare. Anyways: here's Robocop!

CW: discussions of police brutality, gun violence, sexual assault, rape, american exceptionalism

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In episode 1404, Jack and Miles are joined by host of Smart Mouth, Katherine Spiers, to discuss… How Low Can George Santos Devolder Anthony Macchiato Go? Shockingly, It Turns Out That Tesla’s Autopilot Demo Was Faked, I’m Shocked. Dolly Parton Is Really Making That Rock Album, Sorry Jeopardy--Mounties Are Trash and more!

1. How Low Can George Santos Devolder Anthony Macchiato Go?
2. Shockingly, It Turns Out That Tesla’s Autopilot Demo Was Faked. I’m Shocked.
3. Dolly Parton Is Really Making That Rock Album
4. Dolly Parton adds new baking mixes to Duncan Hines lineup
5. Dolly Parton is working on a rock album — but says she has "no intention" to "ever tour again"
6. Dolly Parton Says Her Rock Album Will Feature Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Pink, and More Legends
7. Sorry Jeopardy, Mounties Are Trash
8. The RCMP was created to control Indigenous people. Can that relationship be reset?
9. Sports World Reacts To Embarrassing Celebrity Jeopardy! Moment
10. As the RCMP deny systemic racism, here’s the real history
11. You know the Canadian myth about Mounties always getting their man?

How To Eat LA: howtoeatla.com

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Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco are army crawling towards 2023 with the help of White Lotus, a hopeful reformation of the Electoral Count Act, and the schadenfreude of watching a crypto bro fly too close to the sun. Then, Jena Friedman and Megan Gailey join to talk true crime, from copaganda to genuine ACAB content. Finally, we close it out with a Sani-Petty — but with all Sani, no Petty, because we’re treating ourselves during this year-end chaos!

Show Notes

True Crime Story: Indefensible
Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera by Jena Friedman
Ladykiller
r/idahomurders

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In episode 1382, Jack and Miles are joined by journalist, comedian, and host of The Bitchuation Room, Francesca Fiorentini, to discuss… ACAB Includes Whatever the F*ck these Robots Are in San Francisco, Biden Christmas Decorations = Satanic Plot? 

1. ACAB Includes Whatever the F*ck these Robots Are in San Francisco
2. Police Use of Robot to Kill Dallas Suspect Unprecedented, Experts Say
3. First lady Jill Biden chooses ‘We the People’ as theme for White House holiday decorations
4. Hunter Biden’s love child snubbed again in White House stocking display
5. Hunter Biden agrees to pay child support to Arkansas woman, avoids contempt hearing
6. Is the White House really a dump?
7. White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire
8. Obama's 'drag queen' ornament

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It's tough to balance the interests of public safety with the need for real criminal justice reform--and because politicians only want simple answers, the frequently get their solutions wrong, with devastating impact. Andrew and Jerry are joined by David Safavian, General Counsel for the American Conservative Union, for a deep-dive into just how to strike that balance--keeping communities safe while properly reforming a criminal justice system that is in dire need of change.

But they start with a discussion of the strange place free speech is in--from the unfolding Joe Rogan controversy to the attacks on recent AJSTW Guest Ilya Shapiro, circling back to their conversation with Eugene Volokh from last week and talking about Ira Glasser's appearance on Bill Maher's program, talking about the ACU policing the language of potential clients--instead of defending the principles of everyone's speech.

Then we're joined by criminal justice expert, David Safavian for a wide-ranging conversation about criminal justice reform and policing in America.  What needs to be done, why so many people get it wrong, and just what that means for America.  Plus, we get a preview of CPAC, happening in Orlando, FL later this month.  Andrew and Jerry share CPAC memories--and after David leaves, they talk about one of Jerry's favorite books and a movie Andrew is enjoying, "The Tender Bar".

We've got one minute of episode per page in this chapter.

It was quite short.

In a breathtaking return from Hiatus, the centrist crew smashes facts and logic like we have never seen before. Pol Pot mentored the unibomber and we prove this using STARTREK. In this premier of season 2, we have achieved an even purer crystalized centrism to serve in these anarchobidenist times. So sit back, scoop some of our steaming takes into your earholes, and join the Centrists in our crusade against coherent ideology. Read about the topic episode here https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Paradise_(episode)
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MOVIE DISCUSSION:

Melvin & Dan discuss the latest entry in the Candyman franchise, a series whose first film is far more artful than its horror-icon counterparts. Candyman (2021) continues its original's themes of uniquely racial struggles and readopts them for the modern age in a thoroughly complex manner, covering topics as wide as gentrification, art exploitation, Black self-exploitation, and a continued theme of cultural gaslighting that sits comfortably beside the original's narrative. Tune in to hear more about the first of many horror flicks we're reviewing this spooky season! Also, both our cats make an appearance! Meow!

Topics: 

• Melvin talks about how rap and hip-hop has been maligned for being inappropriate by certain white communities (specifically Christians, and also the Gen X and Boomer generation), and how often the reality is that "rock-and-roll" is incredibly crass, sexual, and violent. Meanwhile artists like 2Pac, while often transgressive as well, also have albums like "Me Against The World" that are deeply thought-provoking, chillingly sad, and exemplify a cry of suffering, a want for change, and the gaslighting of the black community against white systems of oppression. 
• Daniel talks about calling pets babies. 
• Introducing Candyman (2021) [13:26] 
• For Daniel, Candyman (2021) wasn't scary, but its an effective creepy story. 
• Candyman (2021) isn't overtly pioneering off BLM or ACAB, it's merely a thematic evolution of the first film's themes. From ghetto/project community to gentrification, from a white-woman's thesis to a black man's artistic muse, Candyman (2021) feels natural as a sequel that continues the legacy of its predecessor. 
• Melvin felt Candyman (2021) succeeds in being scary, and a lot of that is due to the presence of the Candyman as an intimidating horror icon. 
• Daniel reminisces about the first time he saw the original Candyman. 
• Candyman (2021) is fairly heavy-handed at times in expositing its themes, which reminded Daniel of a review by Angelica Jade who feels the film is essentially written for a white audience, specifically in that it explains details that otherwise would be intrinsically known by Black audiences. 
• Yet, the frustrating reality of systematic issues is that, often times, they are bold as day. Thus, no matter how much clearer they become, there are still people unwilling to believe them even if they're explained to them in the simplest most basic of terms. 
• How the ending abruptly happens and it's kinda mehh, but that's alright. 

Recommendations:   

• Joel Beeke's "Revelation - eBook" 
• 2Pac's "Me Against the World" 
• Patton Oswalt's "Silver Screen Fiend" 

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