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PODCAST

Party Girls

Jamie Peck and Sam Beard

A podcast about communism and gossip from Jamie Peck (The Majority Report, The Antifada, Everybody Loves Communism) and Sam Beard, an organizer based in Chicago.

news & politics

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00:09:11

Dean Spade convincing Jamie Peck to have a kid with a...

Party Girls ·

2025/05/23

Sam and Jamie continue their conversation with Dean Spade, going deeper into the book as well as beyond. What is the romance myth and how does it work at cross-purposes to radical movements? How do we fight the atomization and predetermined relationship structures capitalist society wants to enforce on us? And just how close should we be with our comrades? All this, plus our new friend Dean counsels us on intimately personal matters.FULL EP ON PATREON:

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01:09:48

Love In A F*cked Up World w/ Dean Spade

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2025/05/21

Sam and Jamie speak with Dean Spade about his new book, Love in a F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. Why did Dean decide to write a self-help book geared towards organizers, and what are the stakes of this work? Why has neither Sam nor Jamie ever seen an accountability process succeed? What openings does he see for the left to take up self-improvement as a non-reactionary project? All this, plus the hosts get candid about some of their own experiences. Buy

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01:12:21

Ministry for the Future (Jamie Goes On Pod Damn America)

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2025/05/14

Greetings, Kim Stanley Robinson heads! This week we are cross-posting Jamie’s appearance on Pod Damn America in which she and Jake Flores talk about The Ministry for the Future, which Jake has now read and has thoughts on. We’ll be back next week with our regularly scheduled programming.*** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on ALL the Socials: Instagram: @party.girls.pod YouTube:

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01:10:07

Luigi Mangione Defense Fund Passes a MILLION Bucks!

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2025/05/09

The official legal defense fund for Luigi Mangione has surpassed a million dollars just in time for his 27th birthday! Jamie and Sam talk about what it means to pass this milestone, give some updates on the case, and have a wide angle discussion on the state of the movement.*** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Join our YouTube channel as a member to get access to bonus videos (the same one's you'd find on

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00:01:03

(Preview) CULTURAL MARXISM: Black Mirror Season 7 w/...

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2025/05/07

Jamie is joined by Aaron Thorpe (@afrocosmist) of The Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast to discuss the latest season of Black Mirror, from the dark, Luigi-coded first episode to the lighthearted, “Star Trek”-inspired closer. Note: contains spoilers for Severance. Additional note: Jamie mistakenly refers to Chris O’Dowd as Owen Jones for some reason, whoops.Check out Aaron on Trillbillies: https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of

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01:00:56

Endgame: Line Goes Down w/ Jamie Merchant

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2025/05/03

Jamie Peck speaks with Jamie Merchant, author of the book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline, about the current state of things. As recently as the early 2000s, technocratic elites had come to a consensus around a fully globalized neoliberalism, but the crash of 2008 touched off a shift back towards economic nationalism that nobody could’ve predicted (except for Marx and people who’ve read Marx). How did we get here, and how might we exit the ever-worsening boom and bust cycle of

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01:10:09

R.I.P. Pope Francis, Camatte, and Higher Education

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2025/04/23

Sam and Jamie are back with a classic Party Girls news episode, and there’s much to discuss. The Party Girls pour one out for Pope Francis, and another for the pope of anti-state communism, Jacques Camatte. Trump wages war on higher education. Emrata calls out Katy Perry for taking a ride in Jeff Bezos’ douche-rocket. Endnotes in the New York Times(!) All this, plus Jamie got too high on 420.In memoriam Jacques Camatte (1935-2025):

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01:02:26

Then They Came for the “Homegrowns." And I Did Not...

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2025/04/18

Things have started to feel real for the Party Girls ever since the Feds visited Sam at home. All of Jamie’s and Sam’s predictions have come true — Mahmoud was just the beginning, next they came for the ‘homegrowns.’ Trump welcomes the “World’s coolest dictator” into his home as the two reveal a shocking plan: build 5 new hyper prisons and begin to deport and imprison American citizens. But don't worry, Blackwater is here to help! Meanwhile, Bernie and AOC are pulling record-breaking crowds as

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01:06:51

Then the FBI Came for the Party Girls w/ Ken...

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2025/04/12

The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force visits Party Girls’ Sam Beard at his house. To discuss this recent visit, and the developing federal repression of activists, Sam and Jamie are joined by renowned investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein. What is old about these nefarious deep state activities, and what is new? What does Ken make of the politicized charges against Luigi? Does the word “terrorism” need to be retired? And most importantly, is Ken a Swiftie?Check out Ken’s work:

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00:01:21

PREVIEW: Luigi, Revolutionary Organization, and the...

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2025/04/03

A little peek behind the paywall for last week's bonus episode, in which Zhana and Jarrod answered the Party Girls’ juiciest questions. What do we make of lone wolf acts of resistance, against, say the most powerful health insurance CEO in the world?What kept the summer of 2020 from becoming a full blown revolution? How did Stop Cop City represent an advancement for the anticapitalist left? All this and more with the brilliant authors of "Skyscraper Jails."

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01:14:05

Video Killed The Podcast Star w/ Benjamen Walker &...

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2025/04/02

A classic case of Sam Beard ranting about the constitutional crisis. Andrew Callaway brings on his podcasting mentor, Benjamen Walker from Radiotopia’s Theory of Everything to discuss the CIA’s infiltration of art, writers and counterculture. Then James Kim from Overtones Media joins to discuss his latest piece of audio fiction and how Andrew helped to adapt it for YouTube, check that out below!! And of course, something something capitalism is ruining our lives.You Feeling This 2, episode 1 -

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01:14:08

TFW When ‘Abolitionists’ Build Skyscraper Jails w/...

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2025/03/26

What happens when politically underdeveloped abolitionists team up with ladder-climbing non-profit directors and big money philanthropy? Nothing good, that’s what! Jamie and Sam are joined by Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan to discuss their new book “Skyscraper Jails: The Abolitionist Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City” and the heartbreaking, cautionary tale about how a fight to shut down Rikers Island prison was taken over, watered-down, and channeled into a movement to built four of

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01:30:14

Nobody is Coming to Save Us…Except Antifa Naruto

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2025/03/19

As the Trump Administration crosses yet another Rubicon and begins revoking Green Cards for political speech, real life Naruto ninjas offer a potential way out. Chelsea Manning speaks out on the Luigi Mangione case, as the movement against the richest man in the world continues to ramp up. All this, plus a special guest joins the Party Girls to talk about the newest Stop Cop City speaking tour coming soon to a city near you!Which way will it be, western man? More of the same tepid sidewalk sign

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01:36:10

CULTURAL MARXISM: Anora (2024) w/ Indica Dominant of...

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2025/03/10

Jamie is joined by Indica Dominant (@DominantIndica) a.k.a. Olive, adult performer/sex worker and co-host of the Dysphoria podcast, to discuss director Sean Baker’s anti-Cinderella story Anora (2024), which just won the Oscar for Best Picture. Is it possible to combine a screwball comedy, a hooker exploitation film, and a twee Sundance indie into one movie? What does Anora have to say, or not, about sex work, class, and capitalism? And what’s up with Zoomers and ketamine? Spoilers, obviously. Check

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Not Luigi Copycats: New Health Insurance Shooters...

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2025/03/07

In this Member’s Only special preview, Jamie Peck and Sam Beard explain why new folks who are shooting up health insurance CEOs should not be called Luigi copycats.Watch the full episode here: *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Join our YouTube channel as a member to get access to bonus videos (the same one's you'd find on Patreon!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0T-lzkTsMt1tBSvp958UGQ/join Follow us on

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01:05:36

Riot Tracker: Greek Shutdown vs American “Economic...

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2025/03/05

In dark times like these, it's vital to shine light on signs of life, revolting against the order of things. Today, March 5, marks the two year anniversary of the 5th Week of Action to Stop Cop City, when hundreds of activists took direct action at the Cop City construction site. Party Girls Riot Tracker returns with a spotlight on Greece, when last Friday, Feb. 28 hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets in nationwide General Strike on the two year anniversary of a controversial trail

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00:08:37

PREVIEW: Kim Stanley Robinson on Cryptocurrency and...

Party Girls ·

2025/03/04

In this PATREON PREVIEW, Sci-Fi Legend Kim Stanley Robinson explains his true feelings about cryptocurrency, some things would would have done differently in Ministry For the Future if he wrote it today, and the influence of How To Blow Up a Pipeline.Watch the full interview here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/we-need-w-kim-122570852 *** SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Join our YouTube channel as a member to

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00:09:10

(PREVIEW) Vampire Castle: Nosferatu w/ Leslie Lee III

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2025/02/27

Jamie is once again joined by her brother in darkness Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) of Struggle Session (@strugglesession) to discuss Robert Eggers’ horny and polarizing polarizing Nosferatu (2024) in a MEMBERS ONLY episode of their series Vampire Castle. In this sneak preview, Leslie and Jamie discuss the hoe-less Count Orlok (at least compared to Gary Oldman) and what's lacking from this version of Dracula. Minor spoiler alert!Much, much more in the full episode: Is the 2024 film original enough

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01:10:45

I Like My Woke Like I Like My Web: #DarkWoke,...

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2025/02/26

In our most EDGY and CONTROVERSIAL episode of ALL TIME, Jamie and Sam catch up on the many happenings since their last news episode. Is Party Girls too edgy for polite society? We think Not! Society would do itself well to toughen up a bit, and dive deeper into the into the reality of life and suffering trenches of America today. But are libs ready to abandon respectability politics? The team traces the contours of the burgeoning Anti-Tesla/Anti-Musk movement, which has seen everything from arson to

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Vampire Castle: Nosferatu w/ Leslie Lee III

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2025/02/24

In this MEMBERS ONLY episode, Jamie is once again joined by her brother in darkness Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session Podcast to discuss Robert Eggers’ horny and polarizing Nosferatu (2024). Is it original enough to justify making yet another movie based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel? How does it stack up to Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 masterpiece? And when will men learn that having a goth girlfriend is a big responsibility?Check out Struggle Session:

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