On The Record (10-20-26).
F*ck Everything.
This week we made the structural case that disaster privilege is real, capitalism is the constant, and the fight isn’t between two parties—it’s between the status quo and something better. Then we caught what might be the first real crack in the AI trade: the ex-AI index outperformed the S&P by 4.8% in a single week, as the debt math finally stops working.
Show Notes
Resources
- F.D Signifier: Fallen Idols: How Black Leaders Fail Us
- Cato Unbound: The Education of a Libertarian
- Prison Policy Initiative: United States profile
- Airmail: The View from Here
- Al Jazeera English: Progressives, AIPAC & the future of the Democratic Party: Neera Tanden & Mehdi Hasan
- The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder: James Carville Prays Dems Lose Midterms To GOP
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Share of Net Worth Held by the Bottom 50% (1st to 50th Wealth Percentiles)
- Brad Onishi: American Caesar: How Theocrats and Tech Lords Are Turning America into a Monarchy
- BIG by Matt Stoller: Monopoly Round-Up: Goodbye AI Bubble, Hello Real Economy
UNFTR Resources
- Video: On The Record 10/20/26 (Stupid Democrats, Evil Republicans and the Future King of America.)
- Video: Phone A Friend: Jared Yates Sexton: Left Activism in the Age of Trump.
- Episode: Russell Vought’s 7 Point Plan To Steal the Election.
- Episode: The Economics of Racism.
- Episode: Don’t Stop Agitating: A Treatise on Leftism.
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