podcast friday

 There were two It Could Happen Here bangers in a row, but "Patriot Front Goes To Court" with guest host Molly Conger narrowly edges out "Ukraine Aid With Charles McBryde" (which you should also listen to!) because I am having a really rough week and I needed a thing to make me smile more than I needed to have Big Feels about geopolitics. 

Anyway if you're not familiar with Molly Conger, you are missing out. She's an antifascist researcher, one of those brave souls who pays attention to far-right personalities and takes psychic damage so that you don't have to. She's also a very funny person—one of my favourite Twitter people before I left the fascist hellsite. She isn't a lawyer but a lot of her journalism centres around following the legal troubles of the fascists she follows.

Like Patriot Front! Who are, as she puts it, getting "sued into the core of the earth" for doing crimes and posting videos of themselves doing crimes on the internet. One of the crimes is particularly awful—the brutal beating of a Black man—but other crimes would be things like misdemeanors like graffiti if they had not, for whatever reason, chosen to record them and post them in ways that made the hate motivations behind them very clear. They also do dumb things to evade prosecution, so if you want to know if someone can be legally served papers over Gab, give this episode a listen.