Out of the Jaws

Lawyer, YouTuber, and Lib and Learn co-host Pisco join Ryan and Adam to talk about the impact of the midterms. What it means for our democracy and for the rule of law in America. Why it is that we have stopped amending the Constitution and how we might get back to it.

David Griscom is a writer, the author of The Myth of Red Texas, host of The Jacobin Show, and Texan. Today he joins Ryan and Adam to talk about the current race, Texas's surprising political history, and the derangement of the Texas GOP in lockstep with the national GOP.Out of the Jaws is a series produced by Liberal Currents. Explore more of our work at liberalcurrents.com.

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Mike DeCillis, candidate for the 11th congressional district in New York, where he faces incumbent Republican Nicole Malliotakis. Malliotakis won her first race with 53% of the vote in 2020, then 62% in 2022 and 64% in 2024. Does DeCillis really stand a chance? The DNC clearly does not think so, as they have all but abandoned the district. But DeCillis tells a very different story about this district, one of underserved populations that his campaign is doing outreach and voter registration drives for.Anything can happen in a wave year and this deep red district has some special characteristics that may give it more of a chance above and beyond the national environment. Listen to their conversation to learn more.Out of the Jaws is a series produced by Liberal Currents. Explore more of our work at liberalcurrents.com.

YouTube news commentator Jesse Dollemore joins Ryan and Adam to talk about his personal journey, the lunatics in the evangelical right and their avatar of death Pete Hegseth, the possibility of a blue Texas, how each of them understand their roles as media figures in the fight against fascism, and more.You can find Jesse Dollemore on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@dollemoreIf you enjoy shows like Out of the Jaws and want to support the work we do, consider becoming a subscriber today.

Independent war journalist and streamer Dylan Burns joins hosts Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri to talk about his experience embedding in Ukraine since the early months of the war. They discuss his journalistic heroes, how radically the battlefield has changed since 2022 (and what it means to be "the most transparent battlefield in history"), the politics of military and foreign policy, and Dylan's personal and professional history.

Attorney, podcaster, and political commentator Charles Star (Ugarles on Bluesky) join Ryan and Adam to discuss the Texas drag ban and the federal courts' handling of it, anti-left and anti-trans coverage in centrist media, the internal neuroses of the American elite, and more.Resourceshttps://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.socialhttps://linktr.ee/ugarleshttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/the-commons/600733/

Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri discuss one of Ryan’s recent videos, in which he illustrates and analyzes the left-of-center new media ecosystem using the metaphor of ocean life surrounding a coral reef. See Ryan’s video on this here: https://youtu.be/BBVH65RdZqM?is=vxqwhVYzloivm1uKAdam’s essay which he refers to here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/elites-need-some-emotional-distance-from-social-media/You can also see Ryan’s video on whether liberalism still has it here: https://youtu.be/unJcEQux0hI?is=wanqyqTDKUrvOWdL

Today Ryan and Adam are joined by Joshua Eakle, Co-Founder of Project Liberal and Managing Director of Development and Communications at the Institute for Humane Studies. They talk to him about his origins in libertarian organizing, his childhood in a Pentecostal community, and his journey into the liberal, pro-democracy coalition.Resourceshttps://projectliberal.org/https://www.liberalism.org/X @josheakleThreads @jreakleBluesky @joshuaeakle.comSubstack @josheakleFacebook /jreakleInstagram jreakle

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and general fixture of New York City politics going back decades.They talk about what the pro-democracy coalition can and should be doing today, what the new Congress should do next year, who should be prosecuted after Trump's term ends, whether court reform is a good idea, and how simply being a better neighbor can lay the foundations for resisting authoritarianism.

Are liberalism and socialism completely incompatible? Ryan and Adam talk with University of Michigan Lecturer in Political Science Matthew McManus and Liberal Currents co-founder and Associate Editor Paul Crider about their book, What Is Liberal Socialism? What does each one lack that the other one offers? To what extent is it all just arbitrary boundary drawing around particular thinkers and ideas? What can liberal socialism offer in this moment of crisis that either tradition alone cannot?