The Bitchuation Room
A weekly caucus of progressive comics, activists and thinkers hosted by Francesca Fiorentini
Episodes
December 23, 2025 • 128 mins
It's all about [REDACTED]: from censorship at CBS to the DOJ's Epstein files, the truth is [REDACTED].
Bari Weiss kills a story about the Salvadoran torture camp, CECOT, and Pam Bondi continues to run cover for Trump’s involvement with Jeffery Epstein which grows grosser by the hour. Francesca looks at the new details including a letter from Epstein to serial sex abuser Larry Nasser that mentions Trump.
Then, as many of us have ...
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December 23, 2025 • 30 mins
What if a mob boss had the power of the pardon? We’re finding out.
It’s been quite the year to be a criminal. Not for the people labeled criminals like immigrants or trans people, but people who actually have charges, convictions even! In his first year in office of his second term, Trump has pardoned a whopping 2,000 criminals who have committed all kinds of horrible acts and are still menaces to society.
We’re talking Jan 6 ri...
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December 16, 2025 • 95 mins
It's Erika Kirk's world we’re just living in it. Francesca and comedian Mav Viola react to the widow's weirdest glitches from blaming iPads and Pilates for political violence to her beef with Candace Owens. Plus, are Republicans waging a war on Christmas through defending data centers?
Then we speak with candidate Angela Gonzales-Torres who is running against the AIPAC and Crypto-backed Jimmy Gomez in CA-34. We talk ICE raids, wha...
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December 9, 2025 • 110 mins
What kind of pressure is needed to ensure Zohran's success--both in the streets and in City Hall? Co-chair of NYC-DSA Grace Mausser joins to discuss this and so much more. What's up with keeping police commissioner Jessica Tisch, why did NYC-DSA vote to not endorse Chi Ossé against Hakeem Jeffries, and how much work is needed for Mamdani to make good on his promises of affordability?
Plus, Anthony Atamanuik on the Hollywood merge...
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December 5, 2025 • 13 mins
Is Glinda a centrist? Is Elphaba a revolutionary leader or did she fail? And how does the story of Elphaba and Glinda working together teach us some lessons for fighting fascism in a very unmagical place: present-day United States.
Francesca unpacks the political allegories in Wicked, beyond Oz’s anti-animal fascism, to look at how the allyship between Glinda and Elphaba mirrors characters within the Democratic Party.
Elphaba is...
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December 2, 2025 • 95 mins
Trump continues to meddle in Latin America while operating with half a brain cell. Comedian Pete Dominick joins to talk about Trump’s unhinged Truth Social bender, his ‘perfect MRI’ and a new report that explains the corny chaos of the FBI. Crazy eyes Patel just needs a medium-sized jacket!
Then we talk with Army veteran and Executive Director of Common Defense Jose Vasquez about the D.C. National Guard shooter who felt abandoned...
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November 26, 2025 • 96 mins
Zohran rizzes up Trump and calls him a fascist in the same breath... is he taking the president on or is there a bromance brewing? We discuss how the NYC mayor elect was about to keep his the affordability agenda #1 while in the Oval Office with comedian Pallavi Gunalan.
Meanwhile, if you are currently bothered by those high prices at the grocery store shopping for dinner, Fox News is helping you blame yourself instead of the pre...
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November 20, 2025 • 46 mins
Rachel Maddow and Anthony Fauci walk into a war criminal’s funeral… we wish this was a joke. Wajahat Ali joins Francesca for a Thursday show looking at the rise of the anti-Israel sentiment on the right and how Democrats need to seize this moment or get Nick Fuentes’ed. Then, a former Obama speech writer goes on a unhinged rant about how the lessons from the Holocaust only apply to Jews and not to any other people who are persecute...
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November 19, 2025 • 113 mins
What makes an unrepentant misogynist? This is the question we dig into with reporter Jasper Craven as we go down the rabbit hole of Pete Hegseth’s twisted military mind and the coming ‘Forever War’ in Venezuela.
Then the House votes to release the Epstein files, which includes wild text messages from Epstein to a Democratic lawmaker that show how much he was working to undermine Trump. Trump off’ed him! Come on! We unpack the lat...
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November 17, 2025 • 45 mins
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MAGA rarely disagrees. But blind support and billions of dollars to Israel is becoming a wedge issue on the right, just as it is on the left. Only very very different. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson are all openly speaking out against Israel much to the chagrin of conservative and Christian Zionists. Francesca explains the rift between neoconserva...
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November 14, 2025 • 107 mins
Does Putin have photos of Trump fellating Bill Clinton? Cause… we never want to see them. This week has been a wild political whiplash from the cowardly Democrats to new kompromat, this week has been political whiplash. Luckily Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report joined Francesca to talk about it all --- 'cuz the shutdown may be over, but the lingering bitterness over the Democrats total collapse remains.
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November 11, 2025 • 106 mins
Trump is fast-tracking major rulings on trans rights, deploying the national guard, voting rights, tariffs and more through the billionaire-beholden Supreme Court. Pema Levy of Mother Jones joins to explain everything the court has taken up and how the court is remaking multiracial American democracy in real time.
But first, Olayemi Olurin joins to talk about what Zohran’s win means for New York and the self-outing of Nicki Minaj ...
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November 7, 2025 • 105 mins
Is that hope we’re all feeling? After the absolute trouncing of Republicans on November 4th, people who believe in basic decency are feeling pretty damn good. But the real hope lies with the young Zohran Mamdani who won over 50% of the NYC mayoral vote to send the Cuomo dynasty packing.
And organizations like the Working Families Party helped make it happen. National Director Maurice Mitchell joins Francesca to discuss what this ...
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November 4, 2025 • 57 mins
Activists visited by the FBI at their homes, racial justice movement leaders subpoenaed, Palestine protesters detained. With chilling new directives like the NSPM-7 has everyone who is left of Mike Pence in the crosshairs of the regime. Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein talks about what the memorandum actually says, and who the FBI have begun to threaten.
Then, law professor and co-founder of CLEAR (which provides legal def...
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October 31, 2025 • 22 mins
Is Greta Thunberg different now? Ever since taking action for the people of Palestine she has been called a terrorist, an anti-semite, and someone who left climate justice behind.
As world leaders meet for the 30th time for the UN Climate Summit, this year in Brazil, Francesca looks at how the young Thunberg changed the world six years ago at COP24. Yet now that she’s turned her attention to the global wound that is the genocide i...
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October 29, 2025 • 102 mins
Food seems important. Whether eating it or growing it. But in between the government shutdown and the tariff trade wars, Trump and the GOP have endangered both farmers and 40 million Americans who rely on supplemental nutrition programs or SNAP. In Aransas, soybean farmers are taking their own lives in places, while cattle ranchers are wondering why the U.S. is vowing to buy Argentine beef.
Sam Seder of The Majority Report joins...
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October 21, 2025 • 116 mins
How can the No Kings energy translate into real legislative and political wins? It's not like people haven't shown up in the millions before. Miles Gray of The Daily Zeitgeist joins to talk about Trump taking an AI dump on protesters, while MAGA searches for who is behind the protesters since nothing they do isn't subsidized by a billionaire. Then, rich New Yorkers are terrified of Zohran Mamdani even though they admit they're not ...
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October 16, 2025 • 100 mins
The Young Republicans group chats have leaked and it’s even worse than you might imagine. Wajahat Ali and Van Lathan Jr. join Francesca to talk about the white nationalist elephant in the room, and the mainstreaming of hate even in just the past four years.
Then, establishment Democrats are striking out on progressive podcasts over the issue of AIPAC and Israel. Van Lathan explains his recent interview with Bruce Wayne–er Govern...
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October 14, 2025 • 30 mins
This administration is unwell. Their online posting habits are evidence enough. If they were a friend we’d probably recommend touching grass. Or therapy. But they are not our friends but rather wannabe fascists who are disappearing immigrants and demonizing anyone who disagrees with them.
In this deep dive Francesca explores how Trump’s propaganda derives from the very bowels of the internet that Trump’s victories have pulled fro...
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October 8, 2025 • 100 mins
For the 300th episode of The Bitchuation Room and the two-year anniversary of the genocide, Francesca is joined by comedians Matt Lieb and Lana Salah for the latest updates on breaking the siege and Trump and Bibi's plans for Gaza.
Trump is desperate for the Nobel Peace Price and wants a ceasefire to get it, while Bibi is “always so f*cking negative!”. Meanwhile, the FBI cuts ties with the ADL after Charlie Kirk's death despite th...
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