Antifascist Dad Podcast

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  UNLOCK 42.1 Friendship (is not easy) 09.08.2026 43min

  An excerpt from the audiobook of Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times — Chapter Eight, Friendship Is Not Easy. I'm putting this out as a companion to my interview with Carsie Blanton because she models in her touring life exactly what I'm trying to articulate in this chapter: solidarity as the antidote to the individualism capitalism enforces on artists, activists, and everyone else. The chapter draws on D.W. Winnicott's incommunicado core, Aristotle's three types of friendship, and David Graeber's everyday communism to build the case that real, horizontal friendship is already a form of non-capitalist life.  Sources: Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times — Penguin Random House D.W. Winnicott — The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment — Karnac Books Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII–IX (on friendship) — MIT Classics David Graeber — Debt: The First 5,000 Years — Melville House David Graeber on everyday communism — Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology — Prickly Paradigm Press Prefigurative politics — concept overview — SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory Carsie Blanton — official site Bluesky matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram @matthew_remski YouTube @antifascistdad TikTok [@antifascistdad] Patreon antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK: 41.1 The Anti-Vance Would Like a Word Pt 2 w/ Nathan Evans Fox 02.08.2026 45min

  Part 2 of my convo with Nathan Evans Fox, going deeper into the psychological and theological architecture of what JD Vance is actually doing in his new memoir, and what it costs him and everyone else to do it. Nathan reads Communion as a work of apologetics built on the logic of accumulation: prestige, then money, then virtue, with each step more abstract and less obviously empty than the last. Nothing is enough for this guy. He traces Vance's Catholicism to a pragmatic need to authorize whiteness and hierarchy. We discuss the SSPX schism, the conformist-older-brother archetype in abusive family systems, why buying into whiteness at the expense of solidarity destroys your capacity to grieve, and what imperial theology does when it cannot satisfy itself. SOURCES Nathan Evans Fox, "Do Not Read JD Vance's New Book. Read This Review Instead." Nathan Evans Fox — Heirloom, Free Dirt Records Anti-Confederate Southern History Reading Club JD Vance, Communion — HarperCollins Walter Brueggemann — The Prophetic Imagination Dietrich Bonhoeffer — The Cost of Discipleship Ta-Nehisi Coates — Between the World and Me Marion Massacre — North Carolina labor history Order Antifascist Dad SOCIALS matthewremski.bsky.social @matthew_remski @antifascistdad @antifascistdad antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  42. Keep the Little Flame Alive w/ Carsie Blanton 29.07.2026 1h 1min

  I sit down with socialist singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton to explore how unstructured freedom — from schooling, the music industry, and institutional religion — became the soil for her political and artistic radicalization. A stack of jazz records from her grandfather led to countless gigs, poltical organizing, and eventually to the Global Sumud Flotilla, where she and her comrades used dialectical materialism to assess risk—when they weren't singing "Little Flame". NOTE: This is the finale of season 1! I'll be catching up on rest and taking more family time for August but will be back on September 9th.  Sources: carsieblanton.comYouTube — Carsie BlantonInstagram @carsieblanton TikTok @carsieblantonmusic Spotify Patreon The Nation — Rich People and the Music BusinessNina Simone — "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (official audio) Ken Burns Jazz (PBS) Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism (Zer0 Books) Elizabeth Gilbert on creative work "choosing" the artist — Big Magic People's Forum, New York The Burning Hell (band) Global Sumud Flotilla — Freedom Flotilla Coalition Artists Against Apartheid Adam Phillips on boredom — On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (Harvard University Press) Bluesky matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram @matthew_remski YouTube @antifascistdad TikTok [@antifascistdad] Patreon antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 40.1 Episodic and Thematic Thinking and Feeling 26.07.2026 19min

  Picking up a on thread from my interview with Nora Loreto interview: a coda on the tension between zooming in on the daily news cycle and zooming out to a coherent analytical framework. I draw on Shanto Iyengar's 1991 research on episodic versus thematic framing in television news, and on Wendy Brown's concept of responsibilism, tracing how mainstream media's default mode — treating each crisis as a disconnected event — structurally prevents systemic critique from forming.  SOURCES Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues — Shanto Iyengar Undoing the Demos — Wendy Brown Arundhati Roy — "Another World Is Not Only Possible" Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist — Open Mic podcast Centre for Inquiry Canada Order Antifascist Dad SOCIALS matthewremski.bsky.social@matthew_remski -- Insta @antifascistdad -- YouTube @antifascistdad -- TikTok antifascistdadpodcast -- Patreon Order Antifascist Dad
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  41. The Anti-Vance Would Like a Word w/ Nathan Evans Fox 22.07.2026 52min

  JD Vance's Communion presents itself as a spiritual memoir but functions as a rebranding operation: It's the same narcissistic trick he played with Hillbilly Elegy. Who better to sit down with to sort this out than Nathan Evans Fox — country musician, seminary graduate, board-certified hospital chaplain, and actual Appalachian? His review of this gnarly book is one of the sharpest pieces of cultural criticism to emerge from the Trump era. Nathan and I cover Vance's blogboy Catholicism, his apologetics-disguised-as-memoir, the aesthetic function of tradcath whiteness, and what it means when a hillbilly chooses empire over solidarity. Plus: Stephen Miller's physiognomy lecture at the Rubio terrorism hoedown, and what antifascist parenting looks like when the street goes quiet. SOURCES Nathan Evans Fox, "Do Not Read JD Vance's New Book. Read This Review Instead." Nathan Evans Fox — Heirloom, Free Dirt Records New America — Terrorism in America After 9/11 CSIS — Left Wing Terrorism and Political Violence in the United States ADL — Murder and Extremism in the United States NSPM 7 — Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence JD Vance, Communion — HarperCollins Order Antifascist Dad SOCIALS matthewremski.bsky.social @matthew_remski @antifascistdad @antifascistdad antifascistdadpodcast
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  UNLOCK 39.1 Epistemic Injustice 19.07.2026 21min

  Years ago, I failed to understand my autistic son's needs. Instead of fully taking in his distress at school, I projected my own story, values, and experience on him. He'll manage. He'll get used to it. He'll toughen up.What does this have to do with a British judge sentencing Palestine Action activists as terrorists? More than I expected. In this coda to my interview with Lisa Matthews (stepmother of Finn Collins, facing trial in February as one of the Filton 25), I trace a fault line that runs from parenting failures, to failures to support young people during the encampments of Spring, 2024, through to the courtroom where Justice Johnson ruled that six young people could not tell a jury why they acted, then sentenced them as terrorists under a provision he'd concealed. Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Miranda Fricker, and Marsha Linehan all describe this injustice: through postcolonial, philosophical, and psychological lenses: how the authority or parent erases a subject's self-account and replaces it with lies. SOURCES Free the Filton 25 — campaign site Support Finn — GoFundMe (Michael Collins) Re: Rajiv Menon KC — contempt ruling, full text Edward Said — Culture and Imperialism (1993) Miranda Fricker — Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007) Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Aimé Césaire — Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Stuart Hall et al. — Policing the Crisis (1978) Eqbal Ahmad — Terrorism: Theirs and Ours (2001) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak — Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988) Marsha Linehan — Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (1993) SOCIALS Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  40: We Live on This Planet to Do Good Work w/ Nora Loreto 15.07.2026 1h 8min

  Today I sit down with Nora Loreto, a Quebec City-based journalist and labour organizer, to discuss her five-volume Canada in Decline series — a forensic history of the dismantling of Canada's social democracy by the forces of capital. We discuss her wide-ranging, independent beat: Volume 1, The Social Safety Net (2024), traces the forty-year erosion of the welfare state. Volume 2, Corporate Control (2025), documents the privatization of Crown corporations and the financialization of housing and care. Volumes 3, on Canadian democracy, 4, on culture, the far right, and religion, and 5, on the security state, are on the way, and might even be out before Canada slides into full fascism. We were also both pretty shocked to discover some uncanny biographical symmetries: we were both church organists, both our dads were teacher-librarians and our moms were English teachers. Throughout, we discuss how the zoomed-out coherence of a long-form project keeps the fragmentation of daily journalism in meaningful focus.  SOURCES Sandy and Nora Talk Politics Nora Loreto's Substack The Social Safety Net — Canada in Decline Vol. 1 Corporate Control — Canada in Decline Vol. 2 The Hatchet podcast with Arshy Mann Is Anyone Responsible? — Shanto Iyengar SOCIALS matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 38.1 Gramsci’s Wars of Position, Wars of Maneuver 12.07.2026 33min

  Antonio Gramsci, writing in a fascist prison in the early 1930s, distinguished between wars of position—the slow struggle over culture, values, and consent—and wars of maneuver, or direct confrontation with capitalist power. It's useful for thinking through something I've been sitting with: the contradiction between feeling genuinely nourished by Pope Leo XIV's liberation theology posting on Twitter and his AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, and worrying that the moral register he's working in — however beautiful — leaves capitalism structurally intact and keeps radical energy locked on position, while fascists run maneuvers at will. SOURCES Pope Leo XIV on Twitter/X Magnifica Humanitas — full text Mercy Mutemi and the Meta content moderation lawsuit in Kenya Adrienne Williams, UC Berkeley — ghost work and AI labor Prairieland ICE detention center protest convictions Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution, 1899 André Gorz — non-reformist reform DSA New York primary results 2026 Darializa Avila Chevalier campaign SOCIALS matthewremski.bsky.social @matthew_remski @antifascistdad [@antifascistdad on TikTok] antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  39: Supporting the Filton 25 w/ Lisa Matthews 08.07.2026 57min

  In August 2024, six Palestine Action activists breached Elbit Systems UK's newly built facility in Filton, Bristol, and used sledgehammers to sabotage drones, computers, and manufacturing equipment. Elbit is Israel's largest private defence contractor, and supplies armaments to the IDF used in their genocidal attack on Gaza. Twenty-five activists were charged under a "joint enterprise" provision in relation to the direct action. Four have been convicted and sentenced as terrorists, under a provision the judge concealed from the jury. My guest this week is Lisa Matthews, step mother of Finn Collins, one of 19 defendants still awaiting trial. Finn faces criminal damage and violent disorder charges, with his trial scheduled for February 2027. Lisa walks me through the retroactive use of counter-terror powers against activists who acted before Palestine Action was proscribed, the judicial rulings that stripped the defendants' right to explain themselves, and what it's like to hold an antifascist family together when one's vision is clear but one's future is uncertain.  SOURCES Free the Filton 25 — campaign site and legal timeline Support Finn — GoFundMe (Michael Collins) Geoffrey Robertson KC on the Filton Four — Free the Filton 25 Re: Rajiv Menon KC — contempt ruling, full text Menon KC closing speech, Trial 1 — Real Media Inside the Palestine Action trial that could redefine protest as terrorism — openDemocracy Palestine Action activists sentenced as terrorists — Novara Media Amnesty International and lawyers condemn terrorism sentencing — Peace Brigades International Canada Gaza toll could exceed 186,000 — Lancet letter, Al Jazeera Prairieland defendant sentenced to 30 years for moving a box of antifascist zines — The Intercept SOCIALS Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 37.1 Enough is Enough, Again w/ Dean and Matt of Magnificast (pt 2) 05.07.2026 48min

  Part 2 of my convo with Dean Dettloff and Matt Bernico of the Magnificast podcast, digging into the forensic heart of their great new book, Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology. We work through Walter Benjamin's fragmentary essay on capitalism as religion, the liberation theology critique of GDP as a modern idol, what degrowth actually looks like in practice, and the difference between retreat and cooperation. We close with an urgent question: would the Berrigan brothers be sabotaging data centers today?  Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad SOURCES Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology — Bernico and Dettloff, Fortress Press The Magnificast podcast Walter Benjamin, "Capitalism as Religion" — fragment, 1921, available via Verso Franz Hinkelammert — theology and economics Pablo Richard — Chilean liberation theologian Ignacio Ellacuría, "The Crucified People" — in Mysterium Liberationis Sebastian Kappen — Indian liberation theologian The Iona Community A Theology of Liberation — Gustavo Gutierrez Laudato Si — Pope Francis
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  38. Radicalized at 15 by Climate and Corporate Greed w/ Emily Lowan 01.07.2026 1h 4min

  Today I'm sitting down with Emily Lowan, leader of the BC Green Party and the first GenZ leader of a major political party in Canada. Emily was radicalized at 15 during the 2016 US election while on a cross-country school trip. She built a decade of movement work through climate organizing, Wet'suwet'en solidarity, and pipeline fights, then won an insurgent party leadership campaign in two weeks at age 25. We talk about heat domes, Kristi Noem advising a BC mining company and American oligarchs buying up 1.2M acres in the interior. Emily also shares a visualization practice for doing this work without burning out that she learned from an ecosocialist movement elder.  SOURCES Emily Lowan on Instagram BC Green Party Harsha Walia, Border and Rule National Farmers Union BC Corporate Mapping Project, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Climate Action Network Canada Stan Kroenke landholdings — investigative background Wet'suwet'en land defenders and Coastal GasLink resistance Jewish Faculty Network report on CIJA Rifflandia Festival Michelle Remembers — background matthewremski.bsky.social @matthew_remski @antifascistdad [@antifascistdad on TikTok] antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 36.1 Asking Liberals: “Do You Condemn Imperialism?” 28.06.2026 22min

  Following up on my conversation with Toronto comedian Nour Hadidi: I'm haunted by one detail from the harassment campaign against her.It's about how she posted the clip of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh refusing Christiane Amanpour's question, "Do you wish Hamas had never committed October 7th?" by dismantling its premise entirely. I look at Adam Johnson's research on the "Do you condemn Hamas" formula as a media disciplining strategy, Frantz Fanon's analysis of the colonized intellectual required to perform Western values before being heard, Charles Cobb's history of the nonviolence demand inside the civil rights movement, and communications scholar Zohar Kampf's empirical study of adversarial ethnopolitical interviews. Kampf identifies six options for interviewees facing the condemnation ritual, and only one of them doesn't feel like caving.  Sources Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Slammed CNN — YouTube Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi — Citations Needed podcast Noura Erakat — Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine — Stanford University Press Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth — Grove Press Charles Cobb — This Nonviolence Stuff'll Get You Killed — Duke University Press Zohar Kampf — "Do You Condemn?" chapter in The Discourse of Indirectness — John Benjamins Edward Said — Covering Islam — Penguin Random House Ramzy Baroud — My Father Was a Freedom Fighter — Pluto Press The Onion — Dying Gazans Criticized for Not Using Last Words to Condemn Hamas Order Antifascist Dad Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  37. Enough is Enough w/ Dean and Matt of The Magnificast, pt 1 24.06.2026 56min

  I'm joined today by Dean Dettloff and Matt Bernico, co-hosts of The Magnificast podcast and the authors of a brilliant new book, Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology, out now from Fortress Press. We start with some basics: what the Magnificat is and why secular leftists should care about it, what "enough is enough" actually means across its political, economic, and spiritual dimensions, and why working within a contradictory religious tradition might be a lot like keeping one's faith in leftism. Also: was St. Francis of Assisi a proto-socialist? Was he neurodivergent? And how about the Global South rise and Global North suppression of liberation theology? In this era of Pope Leo: does the church still metabolize radical ideas into liberal poetry?  Cool stuff for anyone trying to understand the antifascist religious left that JD Vance doesn't want you to know exists. Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad SOURCES Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology — Bernico and Dettloff, Fortress Press The Magnificast podcast Christianity on the Spectrum podcast A Theology of Failure — Marika Rose, Fordham University Press Vampyroteuthis Infernalis — Vilém Flusser, University of Minnesota Press The Silencing of Leonardo Boff — Harvey Cox People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism — Penny Lernoux A Theology of Liberation — Gustavo Gutierrez Laudato Si — Pope Francis
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  UNLOCK 35.1 “AI for All” of Carney’s Friends 21.06.2026 22min

  Update episode on the Carney government's national AI strategy, "AI for All," released June 4, 2026. The document's most-used word is "sovereignty" — appearing 51 times — while "emissions," "climate," "consent," "Palantir," and "Amazon" appear nada. I trace the political etymology of "sovereignty" from First Nations liberation discourse through working-class populism to its current deployment by the Davos class as branding for capital accumulation. I also examine AI Minister Evan Solomon's performance on CBC Front Burner, where he dodged nine accountability questions in thirty minutes using the word "trust" as a revolving door. Finally, a look at Dr. Jason Edward Lewis's Indigenous AI epistemology framework and the concept of "data colonization." Because the familiar crime now reanimated against Indigenous communities through AI infrastructure is a template for what is coming for us all. Sources Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All CBC Front Burner: Minister Defends Canada's New AI Strategy — Transcript DeSmog: Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company Project Ploughshares: Setting the Record Straight on Canada's Arms Exports to Israel CJPME: Canada's Record-Breaking 2023 Military Exports to Israel APTN News: What's Behind Canada's Sovereign AI Plan? Intercontinental Cry: Ancestral Intelligence — How Indigenous Knowledge Informs AI and Data Ethics Policy Options: AI Threatens Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Digital Self-Determination Assembly of First Nations: Brief to Parliamentary Committee on Bill C-27 Canada's National Observer: Three Quarters of Data Centre Sites Planned in Alberta Are in High Water Stress Areas The Intercept: Philly Cops Admit They're Tracking First Amendment Activity Critical of AI Abacus Data: Canadians Split on AI Data Centres Abundant Intelligences Project — Dr. Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University matthewremski.bsky.social @matthew_remski @antifascistdad @antifascistdad antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  36. Stand-up for Gaza w/ Nour Hadidi 17.06.2026 1h 11min

  I sit down with Jordanian-Canadian comedian, writer, and podcaster Nour Hadidi to talk about standup as survival, solidarity with Gaza, and what it means to do political comedy in a liberal industry that wants your watermelon emoji but not your actual politics. We discuss her journey from a finance 9-5 to standup, to standup in a radical register that helped her discover who she was and what her values are. She also tells few jokes. Sources Nour Hadidi — The Noursletter on Substack Nour Hadidi Podcast on Spotify Comedians for Palestine on Instagram Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh Slammed CNN — YouTube Vivian Silver Impact Award — New Israel Fund Canada Palestinian Youth Movement Toronto — Instagram Global March to Gaza — Coalition Against Israeli Occupation Anera — Gaza humanitarian aid UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency Order Antifascist Dad Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 34.1 Looks Like Jonathan Haidt Did a Moral Panic 14.06.2026 15min

  Jonathan Haidt recently padded his bestselling career by telling worried parents that their kids' anxiety was caused by smartphones and social media — and that the fix was bans. I always thought the argument was depoliticized, correlational, and suspiciously convenient for parents who'd rather blame a device than interrogate the world they've handed their children. Now the research is catching up. Psychologist Jen Lumanlan's challenge in Psychology Today exposed the romanticized and racially selective "golden age" childhood Haidt keeps gesturing toward. A major NBER working paper from Allcott et al. studied over 1,300 US schools using Yondr pouches and found near-zero academic effects. A Dutch study by Vanluydt et al. in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence found that full bans may actually undermine school belonging, especially for girls. Meanwhile, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas does what Haidt won't: it plants digital technology inside a structural critique of platform capitalism. That's the conversation I want to have. Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad SOURCES Jen Lumanlan, "What Research Really Shows About School Phone Bans," Psychology Today, July 2025 Hunt Allcott, E. Jason Baron, Thomas Dee, Angela L. Duckworth, Matthew Gentzkow, and Brian Jacob, "The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches," NBER Working Paper No. 35132, April 2026 E. Vanluydt, R. van den Eijnden, L. Vonk et al., "Disconnect To Reconnect: How Variations between Types of Smartphone Bans Influence Students' Well-being and Social Connectedness in Dutch Secondary Education," Journal of Youth and Adolescence 55 (2026): 551–569 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, "Phone Bans in Schools Are Spreading Worldwide as the Policy Debate Rages On," March 2026 Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (encyclical on artificial intelligence and human dignity), May 2026 Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Press, 2024)
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  35. Antifascist Tooth Fairy w/ E.V. Debs 10.06.2026 33min

  Joining me today is E.V. Debs (not their real name!) an antifascist community organizer from Seattle to talk about their new tabletop game, Antifascist Tooth Fairy, now getting funded on Kickstarter for a November release. Throw hands, collect teeth, manage charges, build mutual aid networks. It's a ton of fun as it guides players through the moral, legal, and strategic weeds of community self-defense. We cover the game's origins, the ethics and limits of physical confrontation, "anarchist calisthenics," and why games are a legitimate form of political education. I close with a passage from my book on Thi Nguyen's theory of games as the art of agency. Sources Antifascist Tooth Fairy Kickstarter anteefa.org Games: Agency as Art — C. Thi Nguyen, Oxford University Press matthewremski.bsky.social IG: @matthew_remski @antifascistdad on YouTube @antifascistdad on TikTok antifascistdadpodcast on Patreon Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History 07.06.2026 22min

  I wanted to trace the century-old roots of Maren Forsberg's antifascist self-defense work, so I dug into three overlapping histories. First: the German Bund's use of Körperbildung — body education through eurythmics — as both a resistance philosophy and a cover for anti-Nazi organizing. Second: the Jewish Labour Bund's Morgenstern athletic club in interwar Poland, which united boxing, gymnastics, swimming, and internationalist youth camps under the banner of do'ikayt, the right to belong wherever you are. Third: the Austromarxist Workers' Olympiad of 1931 in Red Vienna, where 25,000 athletes gathered to demonstrate that the worker athlete and the militant soldier for socialism were one and the same. I close with a passage from my book on bully culture in mainstream phys ed, and what it can feel like to step in and stop violence. Follow Maren Forsberg on Instagram and find her self-defense workshops through her page. Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: @antifascistdad Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Antifascist Dad — Penguin Random House Mark Roseman, Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund Julius Deutsch, Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture, ed. Gabriel Kuhn (PM Press) Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table Bread and Puppet Theater
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  34. From the Street to City Hall w/ Diana Chan McNally 03.06.2026 53min

  Diana Chan McNally has been unhoused, a teen mother, a museum curator, a college instructor, a harm reduction worker, a frontline homelessness advocate, and a DJ. Now she's running for Toronto City Council in Ward 4 Parkdale–High Park.  We trace the through-line connecting all of it: organizing, interpreting, and showing up for people. Diana explains why governments allow homelessness to persist and grow, what our laws can and can't do for the unhoused, and why protest must be disruptive to be effective. She also tells me about being served a lifetime ban from the Ontario legislature, code-switching to write for the Toronto Sun, and what her first mentor Bob Rose taught her about relationship-based community work. SOURCES Diana Chan McNally for Ward 4 Parkdale–High Park The Shift — Housing as a Human Right National Housing Strategy Act, Canada City of Toronto Housing Charter Ontario Bill 6 — Safer Municipalities Act Waterloo encampment Charter ruling, 2023 Maggie Helwig — Encampment (Toronto Book Award) St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church Maytree — Diana Chan McNally Fellow First United Church — Amanda Burrows, Vancouver Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Order Antifascist Dad
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  UNLOCK 32.1 What Tommy Douglas Knew & What We All Know about Socialized Medicine 31.05.2026 22min

  In a coda to episode 32, I reflect on what socialized medicine means not as culture or sentiment but as raw material security and the basis for working-class solidarity. I draw on Beatrice Adler-Bolton's analysis of American healthcare as organized abandonment, and personal accounts of a near-fatal DVT and an emergency C-section that would have meant financial ruin for us in the US. But where I see Tommy Douglas's strategic insight that Medicare must expand or be destroyed most vividly is in our autistic son's daily experience of exclusion. For me it grounds Robert Chapman's argument that neurodivergence is a class war issue. Sources Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat Beatrice Adler-Bolton — Health Communism Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism — Robert Chapman PANS/PANDAS — PANDAS Network Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada — Gordon Lawson The Telepathy Tapes — Conspirituality critical analysis Socials Bluesky: matthewremski.bsky.social Instagram: @matthew_remski YouTube: @antifascistdad TikTok: [@antifascistdad] Patreon: antifascistdadpodcast Pre-order Antifascist Dad