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In what critics are calling the most on-topic episode in Chapo history, Jake and Thomas of Pendejo Time join us to explain what a “line wife” and a “bucket bunny” is, and how these subcultures have found their way into...

Chris de Ploeg is the author of Exterminating Empire: Capitalism’s War on Life, From Palestine to the Burning Planet (Monthly Review 2026). We discuss the wide-ranging book, some of his shocking calculations, and ideas...

Tech companies are working with the fossil fuel industry to push unnecessary data center projects while misrepresenting the climate impact — and governments are letting it all happen. Ketan Joshi joins Paris Marx to...

Amber Frost interviews Yael Bridge and Antonio Rosario, the director and a subject of the new Teamsters documentary Who Moves America. We talk about previous Teamsters struggles, the state and future of union...

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post about debugging your init file . The main problem, he says, is that he sometimes makes a change that results in unbalanced parentheses. Often he doesn’t discover this until the...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on a mission when he visited Greece last week: to shore up defence ties between the two countries, to make new energy routes for US LNG exports and to use Greece as an example of a...

Setting up a Python development environment in Emacs with Eglot and python-lsp-server (pylsp) requires telling the language server which plugins to run and which ones to ignore. While you can set...

What's better - an Iron Dome or a Britannia Shield? Why should British parents refrain from sending their children on a French exchange this week? And how big can a pumpkin really be? The panel is Daliso Chaponda, Kyrah...

Democracy Now! 2026-10-15 Thursday Headlines for October 15, 2026 U.S. Sanctions ICC in a Bid to Avoid "Criminal Liability": War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody The Midterm Battle over Data Centers: Memphis House Candidate...

Chapo All-Star Alex Nichols is back for a quick news roundup. We eulogize Dennis Hastert, speculate on another Epstein associate’s suicide, and explore Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend’s recent house-destroying rampage. We...

Today I only have a short tip. Sometimes you may have an important Emacs buffer you don’t want to kill accidentally. (For example, it might be an Eshell buffer with a long-running process, or a scratch buffer not...

We analyze the massive escalation in Yemen as a Saudi-led coalition launches over 100 airstrikes. Despite the bombardment, Ansar Allah forces continue advancing, striking critical Saudi oil infrastructure and disrupting...

We're talking Slovakia, or more specifically Bratislava. Somehow we don't mention that one woman from Katseye who thinks Bratislava is cooler than LA. It might well be. Listen to this episode before deciding. FIND OUR...

Geoff Norcott examines modern masculinity in this stand-up series for Radio 4, by creating the safe space of a working men’s club so he can speak freely about the problems men are facing and how we might go about fixing...

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames