YouTube news commentator Jesse Dollemore joins Ryan and Adam to talk about his personal journey, the lunatics in the evangelical right and their avatar of death Pete Hegseth, the possibility of a blue Texas, how each of them understand their roles as media figures in the fight against fascism, and more.

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Independent war journalist and streamer Dylan Burns joins hosts Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri to talk about his experience embedding in Ukraine since the early months of the war. They discuss his journalistic heroes, how radically the battlefield has changed since 2022 (and what it means to be "the most transparent battlefield in history"), the politics of military and foreign policy, and Dylan's personal and professional history.

Attorney, podcaster, and political commentator Charles Star (Ugarles on Bluesky) join Ryan and Adam to discuss the Texas drag ban and the federal courts' handling of it, anti-left and anti-trans coverage in centrist media, the internal neuroses of the American elite, and more.

Resources

https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social

https://linktr.ee/ugarles

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/the-commons/600733/

Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri discuss one of Ryan’s recent videos, in which he illustrates and analyzes the left-of-center new media ecosystem using the metaphor of ocean life surrounding a coral reef.

See Ryan’s video on this here: https://youtu.be/BBVH65RdZqM?is=vxqwhVYzloivm1uK

Adam’s essay which he refers to here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/elites-need-some-emotional-distance-from-social-media/

You can also see Ryan’s video on whether liberalism still has it here: https://youtu.be/unJcEQux0hI?is=wanqyqTDKUrvOWdL

Today Ryan and Adam are joined by Joshua Eakle, Co-Founder of Project Liberal and Managing Director of Development and Communications at the Institute for Humane Studies. They talk to him about his origins in libertarian organizing, his childhood in a Pentecostal community, and his journey into the liberal, pro-democracy coalition.

Resources

https://projectliberal.org/

https://www.liberalism.org/

X @josheakle

Threads @jreakle

Bluesky @joshuaeakle.com

Substack @josheakle

Facebook /jreakle

Instagram jreakle

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and general fixture of New York City politics going back decades.

They talk about what the pro-democracy coalition can and should be doing today, what the new Congress should do next year, who should be prosecuted after Trump's term ends, whether court reform is a good idea, and how simply being a better neighbor can lay the foundations for resisting authoritarianism.

Are liberalism and socialism completely incompatible? Ryan and Adam talk with University of Michigan Lecturer in Political Science Matthew McManus and Liberal Currents co-founder and Associate Editor Paul Crider about their book, What Is Liberal Socialism?

What does each one lack that the other one offers? To what extent is it all just arbitrary boundary drawing around particular thinkers and ideas? What can liberal socialism offer in this moment of crisis that either tradition alone cannot?

The old institutions are being eroded and colonized by new media personalities. Is this apocalyptic or is it the path to a more hopeful future? Ryan and Adam talk with Sam Drzymala about this and more today. Sam is an expert on political new media, having founded and run organizations in that space such as Progressive Victory and, most recently At Dawn Campaigns.

The trio agree that streamers in particular and new media in general can and have channeled people into positive political action, but wrestle with the difficult questions of whether that energy can be built into a lasting, stable foundation.

When elected officials and members of the government are picking their actions based on how their online audiences will react, there can be few discussions closer to the heart of contemporary politics than this one.