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Propaganda Loves You pulls back the curtain on the narratives shaping our world, whether they come from politicians, corporations, or the media. Through deep investigative research, historical analysis, and compelling storytelling, we break down how disinformation and propaganda works, who benefits from it, and why it’s so effective.
Hosted by a team with backgrounds in military intelligence, academia, and tech, this podcast explores how propaganda has shaped history, how it operates today, and how you can recognize it in real time.
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S2 Book Club #6: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Chapter Two & Three)
The hosts of Propaganda Loves You Book Club continue Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, discussing chapter two (“The Lockdown”) and chapter three (“The Color of Justice”). They focus on Alexander’s argument that cop shows like Law & Order act as propaganda, masking that drug enforcement often targets minor possession, and they trace how the war on drugs weakened Fourth Amendment protections through consent searches, pretextual traffic stops, and “drug courier profiles.” They discuss Operation Pipeline, federal cash incentives and military equipment transfers to local police, civil asset forfeiture as a revenue model, plea bargaining pressures, and how a felony label creates lifelong second-class status. Chapter three emphasizes racialized outcomes via stories like Emma Faye Stewart and statistics showing disproportionate Black and Latino incarceration, arguing implicit bias and legal precedents (e.g., McCleskey v. Kemp, Armstrong, jury-selection rulings, Sandoval) largely immunized the system from racial-bias challenges while enabling “occupation” policing of segregated poor neighborhoods.
00:00 Cold Open and Setup
00:55 Cop Show Mythology
06:02 Fourth Amendment Breakdown
09:47 Consent and Privilege
14:58 Traffic Stops as Pretext
19:11 Militarization and Incentives
23:17 Civil Asset Forfeiture
27:32 Plea Deals and Felony Label
43:00 Chapter Three Case Studies
48:22 Racial Disparities by Design
51:50 Bias In The Legal Gaps
54:14 McCleskey And Court Immunity
57:53 Implicit Bias And Media Narratives
01:01:28 Incarceration And Life Consequences
01:06:46 Armstrong Catch 22 Prosecution
01:11:09 Jury Selection Workarounds
01:16:16 Occupation Policing The Enemy
01:28:37 Profiling Data And Gang Databases
01:34:16 Sandoval And Doors Shut
01:40:07 Wrap Up And Next Chapters
13 Oct 2026
S2 #15 Russia, US, or Both - Midterm Deepfakes, Disinfo 2026 Pressure, and a NY-21 Update
Kodie and Arthur discuss Russian disinformation targeting the 2026 US midterms and US actions against disinformation efforts, framed by a “Russia, US, or Both” quiz. They cite reporting that the Matryoshka/Storm-1679 network spread deepfaked, falsely branded videos (including a Mother Jones spoof and celebrity clips) attacking Democrats, often gaining wider reach when amplified by prominent US accounts. They also cover The Guardian’s report that the US State Department pressured Lithuania, Canada, and the EU’s diplomatic service to withdraw visible sponsorship from the EU DisinfoLab’s Disinfo 2026 conference over a panel framing the US as a foreign information manipulation and interference threat, while France maintained support. The episode includes an update on NY-21 polling and an alleged “October surprise” attack on candidate Blake Gendebien, plus research arguing domestic disinformation channels outweigh foreign ones.
00:00 Welcome and Fall Catchup
02:08 Today’s Agenda and Quiz Setup
03:07 Russia US or Both Game
08:04 AI Containment Update
09:29 Russian Midterms Deepfakes
16:03 How the Op Spreads
19:17 Platform Amplification Debate
27:52 Yandex Strikes and Bot Traffic
29:34 Conscription and War Reality
31:00 US Disinfo Amplification
34:11 Disinfo 2026 Controversy
36:13 State Department Pressure
41:00 Quid Pro Quo Fallout
42:11 US as FIMI Threat
45:50 Attacking Disinfo Experts
49:56 NY21 Race Update
53:48 October Surprise Drone Ad
56:54 Spectacle Politics Playbook
01:00:44 Research Wrap Up Findings
01:05:00 Closing Thoughts and Next
Resources for this episode -
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/new-york-us-house-21-polls-2026.html
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/siena-times-union-ny-21-poll-gendebien-leads-constantino-46-42/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/how-a-russian-attack-on-the-midterms-deepfaked-mother-jones-matryoshka-putin-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference
8 Oct 2026
S2 Book Club #5: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Introduction & Chapter One)
Propaganda Loves You Book Club Begins The New Jim Crow: Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration
The Propaganda Loves You Book Club launches a read-through of Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book The New Jim Crow (including discussion of the 10th anniversary foreword), focusing on the claim that U.S. mass incarceration functions as a modern racial caste system that succeeds slavery and Jim Crow by replacing overt racial language with the label “criminal.” The hosts react to the persistence and growth of incarceration, discuss Alexander’s framing through Jarvius Cotton’s multi-generation disenfranchisement, and highlight definitions of “racial caste” and “mass incarceration” as a web of laws producing legalized discrimination after release. Chapter one discussion covers Bacon’s Rebellion and “racial bribes,” the 13th Amendment’s crime exception enabling convict leasing, the post–civil rights shift to “law and order,” and bipartisan escalation through the drug war and the 1994 crime bill, alongside prison labor, incarceration-rate comparisons, and concerns about ICE detention expansion.
00:00 Welcome to Book Club
02:49 10th Anniversary Update
05:08 Why Keep Learning
07:32 Preface and Jim Crow Basics
09:04 Jarvius Cotton Story
11:54 Defining Racial Caste
18:38 Profit Motives and Policy
22:29 Chapter One Begins
23:29 Bacons Rebellion Origins
33:58 Reconstruction and Penal Slavery
39:04 13th Amendment Loophole
39:17 Messaging Abolition Politics
40:42 Stories Shape Beliefs
43:50 Policy First Public Safety
44:44 Convict Leasing Origins
46:23 Jim Crow to Incarceration
49:19 Law and Order Politics
50:25 Bipartisan Ruling Class
54:45 War on Drugs Escalation
58:00 CIA Crack Pipeline Claims
01:00:25 Clinton Crime Bill Fallout
01:01:31 Prison Labor Economics
01:04:24 US Incarceration Scale
01:06:14 ICE and Next Caste Shift
01:09:02 Prison Gerrymandering
01:10:42 Wrap Up Next Chapters
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