The Bitchuation Room
A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini
Episodes
May 3, 2025 • 100 mins
ICE Director Tom Homan is threatening to arrest sanctuary city mayors. But don’t worry! Democrats are not taking this lying down… Actually, they are. Hakeem Jeffries thinks that Dems need to put a halt to going to El Salvador to rescue the migrants illegally sent to CECOT. Who is fighting for immigrant rights? Well, a Trump appointed judge in Texas ruled that the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezualens is illegal so that...
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May 1, 2025 • 9 mins
A snippet of the Bonus Bish from Wednesday April 30th talking about Trump admitting goods will be more expensive and less accessible. Join the patreon at www.patreon.com/bitchuationroom to support the show and hear other stories like:
-Mohsen Mahdawi is free!
-Trump does not understand his own propaganda
-Greg Abbott threatens Texas town over ceasefire resolution.
-Venezuelan migrants spell out SOS from detention.
-Marjorie Gr...
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April 30, 2025 • 97 mins
Ratings are in the golden toilet for the Trump sequel and we’re here to both laugh and cry at the authoritarian incompetance. Comedian Josh Gondelman is along for the show to talk Canada’s nice nationalism and the terrifying Zionist mobs in Brooklyn heralding extremist security minister Ben Gvir. Then historian and author of Informed Comment Juan Cole joins to talk how the Trump effect is impacting the U.S.’ role globally from Gaza...
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April 26, 2025 • 56 mins
The Meta and Google antitrust cases continue to move forward on Capitol Hill, despite all the kissing up to Trump Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai have done. Is a backroom deal getting done behind the scenes? David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect, joined Francesca to discuss.
Also, we are literally arresting judges who are upholding the rule of law now. Milwaukee county judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI ...
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As suspected, Signalgate was only the beginning. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been discussing war plans on unsecure chats that have his wife and brother on them but it's all FAKE NEWS. Meanwhile, JD Vance is busy killing the pope which makes him a real Catholic now, and we remember maybe the dopest pope there ever was? Plus, Francesca bitches about 501c3s folding under authoritarianism and NY Working Families Party director J...
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April 19, 2025 • 53 mins
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive. Thanks to the efforts of Senator Chris Van Hollen and public pressure, the Senator was able to meet with Garcia in El Salvador. While there is hope for his release and return to the U.S., there is still more work to be done for him, and the hundreds of others illegally sent to CECOT.
But some Democrats think Garcia’s detention is just a distraction. In another push to the right, governor Gavin Newsom...
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April 16, 2025 • 86 mins
Fascism is upon us as Trump refuses SCOTUS orders to send home a man locked up in a death camp in El Salvador, while simultaneously pining to send Americans there as well. Immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch joins to discuss the brazen and racist approach of Trump 2.0, and discuss the added facet of criminalizing Palestinians. And comedian Karinda Dobbins joins to talk the good and the cringe of Blue Origin's all-female fli...
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The Supreme Court just ruled in a 9-0 decision that Trump’s DOJ has to “facilitate” the return of Maryland Father Kilmar Abrego Garcia for the El Salvador slave labor prison. But will this actually stop Trump from enacting his intentionally cruel immigration policies? Executive Director of immigrant rights group Al Otro Lado, Erika Pinheiro discusses the ongoing fight for immigrant’s rights in the face of the fascistic Trump regime...
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April 8, 2025 • 103 mins
The Supreme Court has thrown down with disappearing people without due process, asTrump lackeys attempt to explain the logic of sweeping tariffs. Comedian Andy Haynes joins to talk about the blue collar nostalgia of MAGA and yet another bootlicking meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Then Michael Liroff on the constitutional crisis that isn’t beginning but ending, with an unconstitutional dirty war, a rollback of rights, and a Chr...
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It was disabled people who Hitler first put to the gas chambers. Filmmaker Cameron Mitchell discusses his new documentary “Disposable Humanity” all about the Nazi programs of exterminating those with mental and physcial disabilities, and why the echoes of it are alive and well in MAGA ideology. Then author and analyst Doug Henwood joins Francesca to talk about Trump’s ham-fisted, dum-glorithim tariffs and how they will hurt ordinar...
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April 1, 2025 • 88 mins
Yale Law School has expelled a student based on an smear campaign generated by AI. And one of Elon’s baby mamas joins the sell Tesla craze because she needs the money for child support? Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins to discuss this plus another bad Utah law. Then labor journalist Kim Kelly on Trump’s brazen attacks on federal unions and whether or not a general strike is the way to go. Plus, a massive thank you to all the new subs...
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March 28, 2025 • 113 mins
Dog-Killer Face-filler Kristi Noem does a photo op in front of innocent imprisoned Venezuelans, some of whom simply had tattoos. Then Marco Rubio defends sweeping students up off the streets for the crime of writing an op ed. Francesca reminds us of Argentina’s Dirty War and how much the right loves South America’s “free helicopter rides”. BUT FIRST! Drake and Deeksha of the Sunrise movement join to talk about what the climate just...
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March 26, 2025 • 103 mins
What’s the rest of The Trump Administration doing? Oh, texting war plans from their private phones and accidentally including a journalist in them? Cool cool cool. Imara Jones joins to discuss the national security nightmare, and how we must understand the anti-trans attacks as the beginnings of authoritarianism. And comedian Kate Willet discusses the momentous Bernie/AOC tour and Columbia University selling out its academic freedo...
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March 22, 2025 • 87 mins
A veritable grab bag of off the beaten hellscape stories: John Fetterman is back in Israel and Netanyahu has quite the gift for him. Kim Kardashian takes a break from selling Cybertrucks to make sure her daughter isn't hanging out with the Tate brothers. Nick Fuentes is mad about Trump becoming too swampy, and Elon Musk is trying to buy a judicial seat in Wisconsin. Finally, Trump tries to turn Canada into his child bride.
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March 18, 2025 • 99 mins
An American Gestapo is taking shape as ICE continues to torture and detain law-abiding people–whether they are green card holders or protested against genocide. Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins to talk about this and the right’s dominance in online media, Chuck Schumer’s idiocy, and why social security has always been sexy. Then labor professor Eric Blanc joins to talk about how worker-to-worker organizing must reshape unions...
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March 15, 2025 • 111 mins
The same week that Trump calls Schumer a “Palestinian”, Schumer gives Trump everything he wanted. Francesca streams while ten Democrats hand the GOP a wishlist budget. Then, journalist Andy Vasoyan joins to talk about the techno-fascist dream of creating tax-free autonomous cities full of HOT CHICKS. Finally, did a U.S. official get fired because of Mel Gibson? And JD Vance stays being the worst husband. Read Andy Vasoyan's article...
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March 11, 2025 • 98 mins
Trump’s tariffs are causing a recession all while claiming to be going after Fentanyl? Francesca welcomes author Maia Szalavitz to talk about our country’s ham-fisting approach to drug policy, and what RFK Jr. could do to make it all worse. Then, Canada is BIG MAD about the trade war as the back and forth continues between Trump and Ontario’s Doug Ford. And finally, a sleepless Elon Musk is barely hanging on and dragging us all dow...
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Now that Trump has thrown Zelensky to the wolves, what comes next? Anthony Bartaway of Ukraine Without Hype podcast offers a leftist analysis from Kiev of the Russian war on Ukraine. Then trouble in DOGE-land as administration officials are getting sick and tired of Elon Musk. And Gavin Newsom gives the most despicable softball interview to Christian Nationalist right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk on his new podcast. HARD PASS.
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March 4, 2025 • 110 mins
The only SS Elon Musk supports doesn't dole out retirement funds. Francesca and comedian/actor Anthony Atamanuik talk about Trump going after social security, and an awesome Oscars first as the documentary No Other Land wins and brings the words "ethnic supremacy" to the Hollwood stage. Then campaign and messaging strategist badass Anat Shenker-Osorio speaks with Francesca about how to win back the American narrative from the right...
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March 1, 2025 • 88 mins
Sad little men argue with President Zelenskyy about his lack of gratitude towards Trump, a man who tried to extort him back in 2018. BE GRATEFUL!! The embarrassing s-show had one man giddy: Vladimir Putin. The rest of us are in shock. Then, Elon's Starlink wants to take over the FAA, a body that heretofore was REGULATING Starlink. And RFK Jr. is already on his way to getting us all killed by downplaying the Measles, and canceling t...
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