Citations Needed

Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination

Jun 30, 2021

"Beef. It’s what’s for dinner," the baritone voices of actors Robert Mitchum and Sam Elliott told us in the 1990s. "We’re not gonna let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America’s meat!" cried Mike Pence during a speech in Iowa last year. "To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this,...

News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'

Jun 26, 2021

In this public News Brief, we examine 24 hours of CNN's mindless police stenography undermining modest bail reform in New York.

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

Jun 16, 2021

In this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depressed friends and how it's part of a much broader trend of pop sociology repackaging cruelty and soft eugenics as "science-driven" self improvement.

Episode 138: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part II)

Jun 9, 2021

"Oligarch". "Hardliner". "Regime". All common terms seen in Anglo-American media when describing politicians and power structures in official villain states; yet - mysteriously absent when talking about ourselves or our allies.

This Part II of our Citations Needed countdown of the Top 10 "Enemy Epithets," derisive...

Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)

Jun 2, 2021

"Hand-picked successor", "firebrand", "proxy" — In Anglo-American media, there are certain Enemy Epithets that are reserved only for Official Enemy States of United States and their leaders, which are rarely, if ever, used to refer to the United States itself or its allies, despite these countries featuring many of...