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<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://devinoshea.wordpress.com/"><strong>Devin Thomas O’Shea</strong></a><strong> stops by to chat about his new book </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-the-veiled-prophet"><strong>The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis</strong></a></p><p><strong>Support the show at </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage"><strong>https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage</strong></a></p><p>Peter Thiel's Dialog leak: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/">https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/</a> </p><p></p><p>Song: Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind</p>

<p>Sean reports back on Labor Note drama!</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage"><strong>In the fun half,</strong></a><strong> </strong>we listen to some of Graham Platner's town hall in an effort to redeem the term ULTRA. <strong>Sign up at </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage"><strong>https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage</strong></a><strong> to hear it!</strong></p><p>For a Fighting Workers Movement, A Militant Critique of Labor Notes panel: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw">https://youtu.be/lt5X16UQ6bA?is=T_W0N0gkrCqkl9Dw</a></p><p>NYT piece on how ultra is a slur: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/magazine/ultraprocessed-food-insult.html</a></p><p>Check out geese: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028">https://www.geesemag.com/articles/enter-daedalus-2028</a> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.geesemag.com/articles/the-direction-of-determination">https://www.geesemag.com/articles/the-direction-of-determination</a></p><p>Platner video: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMLrU8mI9A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMLrU8mI9A</a></p><p><strong>Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund"><strong>https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund</strong></a></p><p>Song: New Order - Ultraviolence</p>

<p>Henry Wallis of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=Fe17CZ1Pc4E">FORMS podcast</a> returns to help us read through Books 10-19 of BOOK OF REVELATION! </p><p>We meet the whore of Babylon, the Beast, and 666 On the next episode, we’ll finish Revelation and move on to Capital Vol III!</p><p>For the full episode support the show at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage">http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage</a></p><p>song: Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around</p>

<p>Thanks to friends in International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Caucus of Rank and File Electrical Workers, Sean was able to attend the 2026 Labor Notes convention in Chicago, Illinois. A bunch of fellow workers from ILC Chicago were also there so Sean sat down with them at a loud bar in the convention center hotel to discuss their experiences at various panels they went to.</p><p>Whither the Teamsters for a Democratic Union? Whither the labor movement? Is there a future for the types of left labor reform movements that Labor Notes calls for? Sean, Hope and Jamie Merchant give their assessment of the good, bad and ugly at the conference including those topic which remained unaddressed but hung in the air.</p><p>To support our work become a patron at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/thiswreckage">www.patreon.com/thiswreckage</a></p><p></p><p>Song: Neil Young - This Note's For You</p>

<p>The second episode from the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont, Illinois for Labor Notes 2026 convention. This time Sean sits down with fellow workers JoJo and Gav from ILC Chicago to discuss various panels that they had just seen. In a surprise appearance, friend from New York, Joyce of the dissident Teamsters Mobilize stops by to talk about the trouble their group had at the conference due to TM's adversarial stance towards the reigning Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership.</p><p> Tune in to next week's new episode where Andy and Sean break down the counterprogramming event that occurred outside LN2026 featuring supporters of TM, Spartacists League and the leftcom group International Communist Party.</p><p></p><p>Become a supporter of our work at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.patreon.com/c/thiswreckage">www.patreon.com/thiswreckage</a></p><p>song: Neil Young - This Note's For You</p>