Mini-cast: Kingdom Came (w/ Tarence Ray)

In just six months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) more than tripled the amount of data stored on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform,The Guardian reports, "at the same time that its arsenal of surveillance technology ballooned." This week, tech workers with the No Azure ...  Show more

On Nov. 24, 2025, in a major and hardwon victory, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members finally returned to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after more than three years on strike. Then, on Jan. 7, 2026, workers were notified that Block Communications Inc.—the company that owns ...  Show more

The PG crew discusses the recent No Kings Day protests, which brought out millions of people around the world for a demonstration of...something. How should thoughtful partisans orient themselves towards such a thing? Sam gives updates on anti-ICE activities in Chicago. Plus, ...

This week, Slate’s TV critic and host of the podcast Decoder Ring, Willa Paskin, and poet, essayist, podcast host, and author, Nichole Perkins, fill in for Dana and Julia. The panel begins by taking a spin with Julian Fellowes’ (creator of Downton Abbey) new show The Gilded Age. ...  Show more

Whitney Webb is an independent journalist, writer, and podcaster. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute, 21st Century Wire, MintPress News & the Last American Vagabond, among others. She has mad ...

Mehdi is joined by Palestinian-Lebanese-American singer-songwriter-rapper Anees to talk about his activism on Gaza and his belief in the power of music to influence politics.Anees tells Mehdi about his winding career path of going to law school, passing the bar exam, and deliveri ...  Show more