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The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman

The Anti-Defamation League with Emmaia Gelman

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:16:05 GMT

Jay is joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State. We discuss the pivotal role of the ADL not only in running cover for Israeli war crimes and aligning mainstream American Zionism with outright fascism, but also — and maybe more importantly — in the weaving of complex, changing narratives around race, rights, and Jewishness in America and beyond.

Show Notes

The ‘Unpacking Zionism’ podcast

The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

Emmaia’s website

Whiteness of a Different Color by Matthew Frye Jacobson

The 20X Question

The Swastika Epidemic of 1959-1960

Theme music by Surprise Eyes, based on ‘Bonjour, Hi’ by ST x LIAM

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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

Technofeudal Enshittification with Cory Doctorow

Fucking Cancelled — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:37:32 GMT

Jay is joined by Cory Doctorow, a veteran activist for internet freedom and the best-selling author of Enshittification and The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (among many other titles). We discuss the inexorable decline in the quality of tech platforms, the total capture of regulatory bodies by predatory corporations, the rise of monopoly capitalism, and what can be done about any of this.

Show Notes

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI:How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

Creative Commons

The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Google and Apple’s shenannigans

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GOP senator to introduce bill to sanction Canada over wildfire smoke

Conflagration

Fucking Cancelled — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:44:59 GMT

Jay is joined by senior wildfire correspondents Roger and Erica to discuss the forest fires raging across North America. We talk about out of control fires on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the use of prison labour in fighting wildfires, and what kind of mitigation, if any, is possible. We also talk about the psychotic responses of American politicians to the crisis and capitalism’s One Weird Trick to deal with this problem (cutting down every tree while they still can). Also, Jay does a very bad Donald Trump impression.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.

Show Notes

Trump’s demented post

Mapping 100 years of forest fires in Canada

On Fire by Naomi Klein

The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant

Fire Weather by John Vaillant

The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene

Obscurity: Life Inside the Smoke (art show)

Carbon footprint of metal production could be more than 10 times higher than estimated

Executive Order 14308: ‘Empowering Common Sense Wildfire Prevention and Response’

Erica’s IG

Roger’s IG

Links

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100 Episodes With No Accountability

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:42:33 GMT

A deep, deep dive into the Lore for our 100 episode anniversary. Also, a sneak peak at the new intro music.

Show Notes

The Revolution Will Not be Sober by Zoë Dodd and Alexander McClelland

The Wonder Years - When the Blue Finally Came

Clementine on Blocked and Reported

Links

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Numb with Mark Abley

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:27:36 GMT

Numbness now seems to be the emotional default for so many of us — the result of living in a deranged reverse panopticon, where everything bad happening everywhere in the world (plus the fever dreams of robots) is beamed directly into your eyeballs all day long by our pitiless overlords. Jay joins poet, journalist and author Mark Abley to talk about confronting and escaping the brain-mushing machine (and Mark’s new book, Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm).

Show Notes

Order Numb from Baraka Books

The Quagga

Links

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Fighting Against Another Federal Prison in Appalachia

Endgame

Fucking Cancelled — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:34:58 GMT

The boom in AI datacentres is part of an anti-everything endgame strategy for capitalists who want to permanently win capital’s war against labour and complete, once and for all, the enclosure of the commons and the privatization of all stores of value, down to the last bytes of information. Roger and Erica join Jay to discuss the widespread, grassroots, and bipartisan surge in opposition to these enormous datacentre infrastructure projects. We also talk about the Pope’s encyclical, the psychospiritual ramifications of AI, and the Protestant work ethic versus Catholic social teaching versus whatever the fuck is going on with the new breed of neofascist techlords.

Show Notes

Economic Struggle in Appalachia (Appalshop)

How Portland DSA and SIOs Shaped Socialism’s Win in the Suburbs

Oregon Candidates on Data Centre Moratorium Pulled

Myrna Munoz Unseats Senator Janeen Sollman in Key Democratic Primary

‘The Precedent Is Flint’: How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon to pay $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon nitrate pollution

Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence by Pope Leo XIV

Richard Lewontin

Erica’s IG

Roger’s IG

Links

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Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America

The Final Girlboss with Bebe Montoya

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:16:37 GMT

In Episode 97 Clementine and Jay kick it with Bebe Montoya, Portland’s best and most cancelled socialist zinester. We talk about Bebe’s new zines, gender politics with normal characteristics, and the final (girl)boss of neoliberal identitarianism. This is a paywalled episode; to listen to the whole thing, become a paid subscriber at fuckingcancelled.com.

Misery and Depravity with Joey Santore

Fucking Cancelled — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:16:22 GMT

Joey Santore from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t joins Jay to rant at length about the spiritual depravity of the wilting non-native hedges lining the empty parking lots copy-pasted across North America.

Show Notes

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - Main Website

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the podcast

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the YouTube channel

Frederick Law Olmsted

Links

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Big Dipper: Jay Goes to the NDP Convention

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:11:13 GMT

A few weeks ago the NDP held their party convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they elected a new party leader and a new executive slate. Intrepid reporter Jay went to Winnipeg to check things out so you didn’t have to. Everything you never wanted to know about party politics, and more!

Show Notes

By the way: friend of the pod Molly' Crabapple’s book on the Jewish Labour Bund is now available for sale.

Links

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Escaping the Manomatrix

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:02:51 GMT

Roger and Erica join Jay to commiserate about the excruciating experience of watching Louis Theroux’s new documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’. Is the Red Pill more of a reactionary social movement or a Patreon-based pyramid scheme? Is the Manosphere the new face of neo-Nazi propaganda or The Secret for Zoomer men? Can you escape the Matrix by becoming a…

Fighting Back Against Austerity with Alliance Ouvrière

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:24:06 GMT

In the midst of historic cuts to public services in Quebec, workers are fighting back. Jay sits down with Kiersten and Adam from Alliance Ouvrière (Workers Alliance; the organization that successfully unionized the Amazon warehouse outside Montreal) to talk about their Nos jobs, nos services campaign, which seeks to react to austerity by radicalizing workers, mobilizing fighting unions, and revitalizing the political strike as a weapon of the working class.

Show Notes

Alliance Ouvrière

AO on Instagram and Facebook

Contact AO

Nurses’ sit-in at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital

Links

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Psycho Killer with Juno Aventurine

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:11:20 GMT

A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitarianism and the trials and tribulations of exit…

Constitutionally Incapable with Christopher Curtis

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:24:54 GMT

The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stupidity that is the Quebec political class. Plus: Chris reveals the secret behind Montreal’s comically (some might say criminally) bad roads.

Show Notes

Christopher Curtis on Instagram

The Rover

Bill 1 (Québec Constitution Act 2025)

The CAQ (Coalition Avenir Quebec)

The PQ (Parti Québécois)

Laïcité (French secularism)

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Here Where We Live is Our Country

The Bund, the Zionists and the Socialism of Fools with Molly Crabapple

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:08:57 GMT

In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zionist Jews (and other socialists) an inspiring example of bravery and committed internationalism in the face of impossible odds. In Episode 90, author and artist Molly Crabapple joins Jay to talk about her new book on the Bund, Here Where We Live is Our Country. In the process of researching this fantastic book, Molly taught herself Yiddish and pored through original sources originally belonging to her great-grandfather, himself a Bundist in his youth. We also discuss the state of antisemitism, real and imagined, in the wake of the Gaza genocide.

Show Notes

Molly’s website

Molly’s Instagram

Defiance by Loubna Mrie

Theodor Herzl on Wikipedia

The Pale of Settlement on Wikipedia

Yiddish on Wikipedia

History of Liberia on Wikipedia

Links

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Domestic Terror

Fucking Cancelled — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:00:10 GMT

In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.

Show Notes

Erica’s IG

Episode 82 with Erica Thomas

Roger’s IG

Episode 74 with Roger Peet

Tom Homan

The Glooper

Carney’s speech at Davos

Join DSA

Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature by Alyssa Battistoni

All Fours by Miranda July

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Hopelessness Can Turn to Hope Pretty Quick with Eric Blanc

Fucking Cancelled — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:11:15 GMT

In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick in labour organizing in North America, including high-profile union drives at Starbucks and Amazon, and what workers are doing to win these struggles. We finish off with a little discussion of Young Cardamom, AKA Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City.

Show Notes

Eric’s book We Are the Union

Eric’s Substack, laborpolitics.com

Eric’s Instagram

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC)

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Points the Way Forward, by Eric Blanc, in Jacobin

Votez Pour Sergio (et Craig) with Craig Sauvé (and Sergio Da Silva)

Fucking Cancelled — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:20:34 GMT

On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital.

Show Notes

Transition Montreal’s website

Transition Montreal’s Instagram

Craig’s Instagram

Sergio’s Instagram

Cult MTL on the election

TVA calling Sergio’s neck tattoo controversial

The Charbonneau Commission

Links

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Owned by the Libs with Isaac Peltz

Fucking Cancelled — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:22:45 GMT

In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws.

Show Notes

The ‘Strong Borders Act’

Bill 5, the ‘Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act’

Quebec’s new law limiting strikes

Jay’s article ‘Green’ Elites vs Left Green Populism

René Lévesque

Maurice Duplessis

Quebec’s Quiet Revolution

Isaac Peltz on Instagram

Isaac Peltz on TikTok

Isaac’s LinkTree

Isaac’s Substack

Links

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Cecilia on Episode 72: Organizing the South

The LA Rebellion with Cecilia Guerrero

Fucking Cancelled — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:01:39 GMT

The first real, proletarian resistance to the second Trump administration kicked off last week in LA as thousands of working people flooded the streets, responding to the increasingly brutal terrorism they are being subjected to by US security forces. Returning guest Cecilia Guerrero joins us to discuss the LA rebellion, the state of organized resistance to Trump in the US, the socialist position on mass migration, and why you need to learn Spanish immediately. Cecilia is an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, where she works with A Luta Sigue, the Tennessee Drivers’ Union, Nashville People Power and the Southern Youth Solidarity Network.

Show Notes

David Huerta, President of SEIU California

Trump ends ‘humanitarian parole’ for citizens of 4 countries

What is imperialism?

The Mexican-American War

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