This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com During the Biden Administration there were brief moments of hope that the US Government could meaningfully act to address the growing student debt crisis affecting millions of Americans. If you can believe it, they opted for a more targeted means-tested approach that failed to address the issue, and now these current and former students are facing down …...
May 06, 2025•8 min
After some banter about the LA Lakers’ disappointing first round exit from the NBA playoffs, we get into Donald Trump’s insane interview with Terry Moran from ABC news about his first 100 days in office in which he fixates on obviously fake MS-13 tattoos and cratering US tourism numbers. We also talk about the White House MAGA influencer briefing, the Podcast Question, the End Oligarchy events, Greg Abbott insisting that it is anti-semitic for a Texas city to want to spend tax revenue on social ...
May 02, 2025•1 hr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Rob gives us an update on the Canadian elections, we explore where the NDP goes from here as their numbers continue to shrink and examine how Mark Carney and the Liberals might strategize with a minority government. We also talk about the US/China trade war, David Hogg ruffling feathers at the DNC and Gerry Connolly a…...
Apr 30, 2025•4 min
Caleb Ecarma of Musk Watch joins Jordan to talk about Elon Musk’s latest ploy to siphon federal funds into one of his less-talked-about companies, The Boring Company . They also discuss the brewing feud between Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the private dinner Trump is offering to the biggest investors in his meme coin. You can follow Caleb here: https://x.com/calebhecarma Our most recent episode for paid subscribers covers the rumors swirling around Pete Hegseth’s potential ouste...
Apr 25, 2025•44 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com We discuss the reports that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, could be pushed out of the Trump administration. Also this week, Elon Musk announced that he’s stepping back from DOGE after a catastrophic earnings call for Tesla.Jordan also talks about his trip to India and Rob provides an update on the Canadian election....
Apr 23, 2025•4 min
Returning guest Gaby Del Valle of The Verge is one of our go-to sources to talk about the crossover between the tech dystopia and America’s increasingly nightmarish deportation machine. We talked about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, some other examples of innocent people currently being targeted and the dubious legal framework being used to make it happen, the ICE snitching app that is actually promoting a meme coin (??) and, of course, Katy Perry in space. This is a public episode. If you'd lik...
Apr 19, 2025•52 min
ICE is running rampant, student activists are being targeted, immigrants are being arbitrarily scooped up and sent to an El Salvadorian concentration camp, genocide in Gaza is ongoing, and fallout from America’s continuing attempts to economically isolate China is increasing. What to make of all this, and is the Democratic Party the solution, or is it complicit? Dr. Tamanisha John joins the show to discuss. Visit ZoneofPeace.org This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other ...
Apr 17, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Trump announced his sweeping, global tariffs last week, which sent markets into freefall. Now, the right is trying to spin the market selloff and looming price increases as good, actually. Jessica Burbank explains the real impact on consumers and what people should know about how the Trump administration may have come to their final conclusion on tariffs. You can follow Jessica on Instagram here . UPDATE: We thought this was a conversation that our entire audience should get to hear so we’ve unl...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Trump announced his sweeping, global tariffs last week, which sent markets into freefall. Now, the right is trying to spin the market selloff and looming price increases as good, actually. Jessica Burbank explains the real impact on consumers and what people should know about how the Trump administration may have come to their final conclusion on tariff…...
Apr 08, 2025•2 min
Returning guest and now congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh joins us to talk about why she’s running for Congress, how her community-first approach to campaigning sets her apart from other outsider challengers and how Trump’s tariffs will impact the working class. You can check out Kat’s campaign site here: https://www.katforillinois.com/ Our most recent premium episode for paid subscribers covers the Tesla Takedown protests, the backlash to the Trump administration’s cuts and Marine Le Pen ...
Apr 04, 2025•57 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Tesla’s share price fell 36% during Q1, demonstrating the success of the Tesla Takedown movement. In response, Trump, Elon and the GOP elite are trying to discredit the protest and boycott efforts, potentially even penalizing participants. We discuss that plus Trump’s team suggesting he can run for a third term, Marine Le Pen being banned from the ballo…...
Apr 01, 2025•3 min
As much as it would be nice to never talk or think about Elon Musk ever again, he’s turned a major online communications network into a reactionary propaganda machine and has fully embedded himself into the US government, so unfortunately we have to keep doing it. To do so today, Rob spoke to Evan Loves Worf, one of his primary online antagonists, about when we realized this man was not the altrustic supergenius he was originally marketed as, his work with DOGE, and much more. We also talked qui...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 3 min
At the beginning of this century’s technological revolution, we were told that it would all result in a future world of luxury and convenience for everyone. A few decades later and it’s safe to say that is not what ended up happening. What went wrong, exactly? Mike Pepi, author of Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia is here to talk to Jordan about it. Also, Rob talks about the currently-unfolding Trump admin Group Chat scandal and what we can learn from the way that people in the media a...
Mar 26, 2025•52 min
Eamon Whalen joins us to talk about his cover story in The Nation on the “problem with men” in America, some of the emerging thought leaders — and their critics — and how some are trying to create space for thoughtful dialogue on the left for people to think through how the left can win over young men in this country. You can read his piece in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/richard-reeves-profile/ Our most recent premium episode, for paid subscribers, is available her...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com We talk about Israel violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement during a bloody few days in Gaza, Chuck Schumer caving during budget bill talks, Trump ramping up attacks on Yemen to inch closer to a war with Iran, the JFK files, and signs we’re getting old. Photo: Victoria Pickering...
Mar 19, 2025•3 min
Today Jordan sits down with two incredible guests.First, Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation, joins the show to talk about her latest piece in The Guardian regarding Jeff Bezos’ influence over the paper’s opinion section. From there, they talk about the ongoing peace talks between the US/Ukraine and US/Russia. She also warns about the Democratic party becoming a war party.Then, Serene Khader, the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and am Professor of Philoso...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com A few weeks ago it was easy to dismiss Trump’s talk of Canada being “The 51st State” as bluster or jokes, but three months into this thing, as the trade war between the two countries has started to really heat up, it’s become abundantly clear that he was not kidding. Meanwhile, Canada has a new incoming Prime Minister and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a bu…...
Mar 11, 2025•54 min
It was long. It was boring. But there were some fireworks during Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress. Nikki McCann Ramirez joins Jordan to break it all down.You can follow Nikki on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/nikkimcr.bsky.social Earlier this week, Jordan talked to Michael Edison Hayden about the Epstein document dump that left many on the right dissastisfied and much more: https://www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-354-epstein-document-flop-ft-michael This is a public episode. If you'd ...
Mar 06, 2025•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Michael Edison Hayden, investigative reporter and writer of Extreme Measures , joins Jordan to talk about a wild last week for the right. From influencers assembling at the White House to get their grubby paws on “the Epstein files,” only to find out it was a binder full of redacted documents that have already been public (and in unredacted form) for yea…...
Mar 04, 2025•3 min
Jack Crobie of Discourse Blog joins Jordan to talk about his new piece, The Oligarchs Aren't Being Particularly Subtle Anymore . After Bezos’ influence over the paper’s opinion section became public, readers cancelled subscriptions and the opinion editor resigned. But are subscriber cancellations the best course of action? Jack explains.You can subscribe to Discourse Blog here: https://www.discourseblog.com/ Our most recent premium episode for paid subscribers is with Assal Rad and explore’s Tru...
Feb 28, 2025•50 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Returning guest Assal Rad is here to discuss the brief reprieve of the Gaza ceasefire deal that Trump seemingly forced through before taking office and what that has mutated into in the weeks since. We also discuss the upside down, crazy-making media environment that has persisted into this new regime, and more....
Feb 27, 2025•2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com We talk about recent reporting about Dem leaders being upset with their base for expecting them to do anything right now. We also respond to some listener feedback about a recent episode and talk a bit about the hollow “DEI” cries now being hurled at yet another airline tragedy.
Feb 18, 2025•2 min
Donald Trump upset Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, European leaders and hawks in the United States by discussing a potential ceasefire agreement for Ukraine with Russian president Valdimir Putin. Erik Sperling, executive director of Just Foreign Policy, joins us to explain the latest developments, why this phone call rankled people around the world and why people should consider diplomacy rather than staying in the fight.We also discuss Trump’s picks for DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, and Defense ...
Feb 14, 2025•59 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Prem Thakker is back to talk about Elon Musk’s attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and how Netanyahu and Israel are already violating the ceasefire agreement with Hamas and how Trump’s comments on wanting to kick all remaining Palestinians out so he can develop beachfront property is causing outrage in the Middle East. You can follow Prem…...
Feb 12, 2025•3 min
Labor journalist Kim Kelly joins us to talk about the plans by the Trump administration, more specifically Elon Musk’s DOGE, for the Department of Labor. As DOGE and the Department of Labor leaders met this week, what should we expect next? And what should we make of Trump’s purportedly pro-labor Secretary of Labor nominee, Lori Chavez-DeRemer? WIth her confirmation hearing on February 12, will Republicans (and even Democrats) confirm her?You can follow Kim here: https://x.com/GrimKim -Our most ...
Feb 06, 2025•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Ken Klippenstein (still banned from the show) joins us to talk about Elon Musk’s cadre of zoomers who are going department to department to assess where cuts can be made to the government, the Trump administration shuttering USAID and other parts of the federal government and the tariff fight between US/Mexico and Canda.You can subscribe to Ken’s newsle…...
Feb 04, 2025•3 min
Eoin Higgins returns to the show to discuss his new book “ Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices On the Left .” We talk about how tech and Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen and Elon Musk have used their vast wealth and influence to sway the political and ideological leanings of prominent independent writers. You can pre-order the book here . Our most recent premium episode for paid subscribers examines DeepSeek and the race for AI. Kylie Robiso...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 13 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Kylie Robison of The Verge joins us to talk about DeepSeek, the new AI LLM that, its developers claim, was built for just a fraction of the cost compared to its US-based competitors. We analyze those claims, talk about the competing interests trying to “win” the AI race, examine the harm and risks associated with rapid and unchecked AI development and, …...
Jan 29, 2025•2 min
Jared Holt, extremism researcher, joins us to talk about the Nashville high school shooting that has left many confused and bewildered over the shooter’s professed ideology and motives. Jared helps provide some clarity and offers a bleak look into the furthest corners of the internet where this type of radicalization occurs. Our most recent premium episode on the flurry of Trump Executive Orders and Elon’s “salute” is available for subscribers here: https://www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-343-an-awkw...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 2 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.com Trump is back in office, kicking off his second term with a flurry of executive orders. We dig into several of them, specifically around immigration, the border, his J6 pardons and the reinstatement of TikTok. We also talk about Elon’s “awkward gesture” on inauguration day. Curious!
Jan 22, 2025•2 min
