Trump might try and be king, but the billionaires who back him and far more concerned with their reign. Someday Donald Trump and the movement that got him elected will be gone. And the billionaires who back him won't care. Because they have other plans. This is the story of how deeply un-american the billionaires who buy our politicians are, from their disregard for democracy, their freak-outs over equality, or the fact that they want to secede from the United States altogether. The broligarchy ...
Jun 19, 2025•30 min
What happened to the peace candidate, Donald Trump? [He never existed.] Who could have seen Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran? [Everyone]. Francesca talks World War 3 and the absolute insanity that we all know is Israel’s nuclear doublespeak. Then the war on the working people of Los Angeles continues, as ICE rounds up American citizens and cops shoot people in the stomach. BUT FIRST: Rent freeze, free buses, community grocers? New York might be poised for greatness if Zohran Mamdani wins the d...
Jun 14, 2025•2 hr
State repression is operating on all cylinders whether in Los Angeles or Gaza. Trump salivates at the chance to deploy the military to a blue city by painting anti-ICE protesters as violent rioters, while the Israeli military captures 12 activists aboard the humanitarian flotilla. Francesca breaks it all down with Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, who’s dedicated his content liberation for Palestine despite the de-platforming. Then, chair of Africana studies at Brown, Noliwe Rooks joins to talk about...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 49 min
The worst kind of Democrats with the worst ideas, taking the wrong lessons from 2024 and getting billionaire backing to do it. Do they want to lose to fascism this hard? A near 2-hour bonus episode complete with discussions of Trump's failing economy, Israel's bad faith negotiations, the alleged antisemitic attack in Boulder, and Karine Jean Pierre is now an independent!? To get access to these stories, become a patron at: www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Jun 05, 2025•5 min
An up-and-coming representative from Arizona isn't backing down on bearing witness to ICE's lawlessness. Francesca speaks with Rep. Yassamin Ansari all about her trips to El Salvador, detention facilities, and whether Democrats have it in them to fight this fascism. And Greta Thunberg sets sail on another Freedom Flotilla while right wingers salivate at the possibility of her demise. Also, former State Department head Matt Miller agrees Israel's committed war crimes, Bernie's getting real about ...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 27 min
It’s a super special LIVE edition of The Bitchuation Room in Los Angeles and we’re talking Elon’s exit but not without drug-fueld love triangle drama. Then, Zionists in LA-city government? No wonder pro-Palestine protesters are demonized and brutalized. Then, can LA refuse to be ground zero for even more displacement by refusing the Olympics? Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez of District 1 joins to discuss how her first term has left her more invested in people power than ever. And Denton Cohen o...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Five years after the George Floyd uprisings we reflect on how police killings are up along with the copaganda. Then, will GOP Senators tank Trumps MAGA Murder Bill because they’re… principled?! Comedian Mike Drucker joins Francesca to talk about all that and the bizarre search of Democratic party to find the ‘Joe Rogan of the left’... or of neoliberalism. Then we interview Malcolm Harris, author of "What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis" about a unifying approach to addressing cl...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 40 min
In this white nationalist fanfic we’re living in, Trump has put birthright citizenship on the chopping block. Traci Feit Love, President & Executive Director of Lawyers for Good Government joined Francesca to talk about Trump’s battle against the American constitution. And journalist and producer of THIS VERY SHOW Paige Oamek came by to talk with Francesca about Trump’s pay to play crypto dinner where the vibe was ‘sketch’. Plus Theo Von on Gaza and perhaps the most racist meeting with a for...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 42 min
From Biden's cancer To MAHA's eugenics, we're talking about the politics of healthcare... again. Beatrice Adler-Bolton is back to talk Medicare and the cruel budget that Republicans are poised to pass, but how Biden also oversaw the removal of millions from the program during Covid as well. Speaking of Covid, Dave Anthony is here to bitch about the vaccine only being available to the elderly and immunocompromised, and comes in hot with some hard truths about Biden's cancer diagnosis. Blue MAGA i...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 43 min
Policing is deadly but it’s also making us less safe and sicker. Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez are the authors of All This Safety Is Killing Us , a book that collects clinicians and organizers and activists who believe in abolition – getting rid of a ruinous policing system – and building a healthier society for all. Then, is Diddy going to get a pardon from Trump? Sean’s team is certainly trying to make it happen. You know these abusers have to stick together. Maybe they can work on a new...
May 17, 2025•2 hr 7 min
A peek into the Wednesday May 15th bonus episodes you missed in which Francesca talks about Republicans' Medicaid cuts, David Hogg and DNC drama, RFK Jr. swimming in poop and a Luigi Mangioni musical. Become a patron at www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom and get access to these stories and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 15, 2025•7 min
As Trump unleashes ICE on workers, grandmothers, judges and mayors, what does solidarity look like. Comedian River Butcher joins Francesca to talk about these brownshirts gone wild and Stephen Miller explaining how the administration is trying to suspend habeas corpus. Also, a small victory in the battle for trans rights in Maine isn't going unnoticed by Republicans still hell bent on focusing on the wrong one percent. Then Jaz Brisack formerly of Starbucks Workers United joins to talk about the...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 30 min
The Trump effect crushes another right-wing candidacy, this time in Australia. Canadian comic John Hastings joins to make sense of it all and to talk about the imminent re-opening of Alcatraz likely based on Trump's late-night PBS (?!) viewing. Then creator of The Financial Diet, Chelsea Fagan joins us to talk practical and macroeconomic look at what Trump's pigheaded tariffs regime means for our lives. John Hastings, comedian: https://www.thejohnhastings.com/, https://x.com/thejohnhastings Chel...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 30 min
ICE Director Tom Homan is threatening to arrest sanctuary city mayors. But don’t worry! Democrats are not taking this lying down… Actually, they are. Hakeem Jeffries thinks that Dems need to put a halt to going to El Salvador to rescue the migrants illegally sent to CECOT. Who is fighting for immigrant rights? Well, a Trump appointed judge in Texas ruled that the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezualens is illegal so that's something. Francesca also discusses Israel’s continued war cri...
May 03, 2025•1 hr 41 min
A snippet of the Bonus Bish from Wednesday April 30th talking about Trump admitting goods will be more expensive and less accessible. Join the patreon at www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to support the show and hear other stories like: -Mohsen Mahdawi is free! -Trump does not understand his own propaganda -Greg Abbott threatens Texas town over ceasefire resolution. -Venezuelan migrants spell out SOS from detention. -Marjorie Greene bought Palantir stock just before ICE contract. -MAGA influencers...
May 01, 2025•10 min
Ratings are in the golden toilet for the Trump sequel and we’re here to both laugh and cry at the authoritarian incompetance. Comedian Josh Gondelman is along for the show to talk Canada’s nice nationalism and the terrifying Zionist mobs in Brooklyn heralding extremist security minister Ben Gvir. Then historian and author of Informed Comment Juan Cole joins to talk how the Trump effect is impacting the U.S.’ role globally from Gaza to Yemen to Iran and more. Josh Gondelman, comedian, https://www...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 37 min
The Meta and Google antitrust cases continue to move forward on Capitol Hill, despite all the kissing up to Trump Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai have done. Is a backroom deal getting done behind the scenes? David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect, joined Francesca to discuss. Also, we are literally arresting judges who are upholding the rule of law now. Milwaukee county judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI for allegedly “interfering” with an ICE arrest. The fascism train ...
Apr 26, 2025•56 min
As suspected, Signalgate was only the beginning. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been discussing war plans on unsecure chats that have his wife and brother on them but it's all FAKE NEWS. Meanwhile, JD Vance is busy killing the pope which makes him a real Catholic now, and we remember maybe the dopest pope there ever was? Plus, Francesca bitches about 501c3s folding under authoritarianism and NY Working Families Party director Jasmine Gripper explains how New Yorkers must vote in the ranked c...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive. Thanks to the efforts of Senator Chris Van Hollen and public pressure, the Senator was able to meet with Garcia in El Salvador. While there is hope for his release and return to the U.S., there is still more work to be done for him, and the hundreds of others illegally sent to CECOT. But some Democrats think Garcia’s detention is just a distraction. In another push to the right, governor Gavin Newsom said this is a “80-20” issue, and that Democrats should focus on ...
Apr 19, 2025•54 min
Fascism is upon us as Trump refuses SCOTUS orders to send home a man locked up in a death camp in El Salvador, while simultaneously pining to send Americans there as well. Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch joins to discuss the brazen and racist approach of Trump 2.0, and discuss the added facet of criminalizing Palestinians. And comedian Karinda Dobbins joins to talk the good and the cringe of Blue Origin's all-female flight, and how the administration is trying to un-DEI the undergrou...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 27 min
The Supreme Court just ruled in a 9-0 decision that Trump’s DOJ has to “facilitate” the return of Maryland Father Kilmar Abrego Garcia for the El Salvador slave labor prison. But will this actually stop Trump from enacting his intentionally cruel immigration policies? Executive Director of immigrant rights group Al Otro Lado, Erika Pinheiro discusses the ongoing fight for immigrant’s rights in the face of the fascistic Trump regime. Then Francesca breaks down a recent meeting between Israeli Pri...
Apr 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min
The Supreme Court has thrown down with disappearing people without due process, asTrump lackeys attempt to explain the logic of sweeping tariffs. Comedian Andy Haynes joins to talk about the blue collar nostalgia of MAGA and yet another bootlicking meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Then Michael Liroff on the constitutional crisis that isn’t beginning but ending, with an unconstitutional dirty war, a rollback of rights, and a Christian nationalist court thirsty for fascism. Featuring: Andy Hay...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr 43 min
It was disabled people who Hitler first put to the gas chambers. Filmmaker Cameron Mitchell discusses his new documentary “Disposable Humanity” all about the Nazi programs of exterminating those with mental and physcial disabilities, and why the echoes of it are alive and well in MAGA ideology. Then author and analyst Doug Henwood joins Francesca to talk about Trump’s ham-fisted, dum-glorithim tariffs and how they will hurt ordinary Americans first. Then, Israel’s genocide continues as even Cand...
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Yale Law School has expelled a student based on an smear campaign generated by AI. And one of Elon’s baby mamas joins the sell Tesla craze because she needs the money for child support? Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins to discuss this plus another bad Utah law. Then labor journalist Kim Kelly on Trump’s brazen attacks on federal unions and whether or not a general strike is the way to go. Plus, a massive thank you to all the new subscribers on YouTube, patrones, and everyone who’s decided to throw...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Dog-Killer Face-filler Kristi Noem does a photo op in front of innocent imprisoned Venezuelans, some of whom simply had tattoos. Then Marco Rubio defends sweeping students up off the streets for the crime of writing an op ed. Francesca reminds us of Argentina’s Dirty War and how much the right loves South America’s “free helicopter rides”. BUT FIRST! Drake and Deeksha of the Sunrise movement join to talk about what the climate justice organization is up to and why Chuck Schumer needs to go. *** ...
Mar 29, 2025•1 hr 53 min
What’s the rest of The Trump Administration doing? Oh, texting war plans from their private phones and accidentally including a journalist in them? Cool cool cool. Imara Jones joins to discuss the national security nightmare, and how we must understand the anti-trans attacks as the beginnings of authoritarianism. And comedian Kate Willet discusses the momentous Bernie/AOC tour and Columbia University selling out its academic freedom and its students to ICE. Featuring: Kate Willett, https://x.com...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 43 min
A veritable grab bag of off the beaten hellscape stories: John Fetterman is back in Israel and Netanyahu has quite the gift for him. Kim Kardashian takes a break from selling Cybertrucks to make sure her daughter isn't hanging out with the Tate brothers. Nick Fuentes is mad about Trump becoming too swampy, and Elon Musk is trying to buy a judicial seat in Wisconsin. Finally, Trump tries to turn Canada into his child bride. Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are free to watch. To see more...
Mar 22, 2025•1 hr 28 min
An American Gestapo is taking shape as ICE continues to torture and detain law-abiding people–whether they are green card holders or protested against genocide. Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins to talk about this and the right’s dominance in online media, Chuck Schumer’s idiocy, and why social security has always been sexy. Then labor professor Eric Blanc joins to talk about how worker-to-worker organizing must reshape unions, an argument he lays out in his book We Are the Union: How Worke...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 40 min
The same week that Trump calls Schumer a “Palestinian”, Schumer gives Trump everything he wanted. Francesca streams while ten Democrats hand the GOP a wishlist budget. Then, journalist Andy Vasoyan joins to talk about the techno-fascist dream of creating tax-free autonomous cities full of HOT CHICKS. Finally, did a U.S. official get fired because of Mel Gibson? And JD Vance stays being the worst husband. Read Andy Vasoyan's article on Praxis here Frantastic Fridays on The Bitchuation Room are fr...
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 51 min
Trump’s tariffs are causing a recession all while claiming to be going after Fentanyl? Francesca welcomes author Maia Szalavitz to talk about our country’s ham-fisting approach to drug policy, and what RFK Jr. could do to make it all worse. Then, Canada is BIG MAD about the trade war as the back and forth continues between Trump and Ontario’s Doug Ford. And finally, a sleepless Elon Musk is barely hanging on and dragging us all down with him. Aw, cheer up billionaire! Featuring Maia Szalavitz, n...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 271
