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ATL-based podcast about good fiction and changing the world, from your favorite Pseudointellectuals, Jacob & @rareandradiant.bsky.social New episodes every Tuesday! www.socialistshelf.com

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔥 JACOB’S BOOK IS OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!!! 🔥

If you like magic shotguns, orc best friends, labor organizing, lesbians, sorcery, or killing fascists, you'll dig this book. If you don't like any of those things…reread the list, that stuff is awesome.

www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-bo...

A book cover: red fist titled “They Called Her Rebel, a fantasy novel about late-stage capitalism, people power, and queer love.” “Available for pre-order now” is also on the page

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 6h

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Shakespeare’s face badly edited onto a screenshot of the show The Walking Dead, where a police officer rides a horse through an apocalyptic city. Text reads “Socialist Shelf #119: Station Eleven”

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 7h

Listen here or wherever you get your pods!

Also thanks to @emilymandel.bsky.social for writing such an exquisite and heartfelt novel!

Shakespeare in the Dark: Station Eleven

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 7h

What if a flu killed almost everyone then you traveled around performing Shakespeare and also famous actor flashbacks and a creepy airport prophet and graphic novels were involved? And what if somehow it all worked?

Welcome to our episode on "Station Eleven" a 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 4d

(The U.S. needs to keep its hands the fuck away from Venezuela btw)

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 4d

Live Trump reaction to the Nobel Peace Prize news

Shout out to @rareandradiant.bsky.social for the impression.

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 5d

We are the daughters of the socialists you couldn’t shelf

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 7d

i owe you an apology, taylor. i wasn’t familiar with your game

altered image of spotify playing a taylor swift song on her new album with the lyrics scrolling at the bottom, which are actually from a chumbawamba song “the day the nazi died” and not the lyrics from whatever song i chose

So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died?
The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of all the bosses
and bureaucrats
They're taking over the boardrooms and they're fat and full of pride
And they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died
So if you meet with these historians I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis never really went away

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 7d

I’m no expert but it seems like when public money stops flowing, the job market is contracting, and the private sector is one big AI slush fund there’s probably bad vibes on the horizon

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 7d

FBI Director Kash Patel wrote a really good children’s book that we wholly endorse. We read it on the podcast and give it our highest praise. All patriots must listen!

We Read Kash Patel's Children's Book

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 11d

Tuesday, October 6. Be ready.

Kash Patel’s awful children’s book, “the plot against the king”

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 13d

Source???

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 13d

This is the funniest thing in the world to me IDC

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 13d

We do a little Blowback-posting

Blowback cover with Aragorn for Lord of the Rings on it. Text reads;

Noah: The year is 3018 of the Third Age. The time, an hour past midnight, The place is Osgilliath, the Citadel of Stars.
Endless hordes of
Mordor orcs and Sauron-backed Southron militia have made life in the old capital impossible.
Amidst the sound of beating war drums, thousands of civilians free for Minas Tirith to the west.
*Crying child sounds.
Nazgul screech.*

Brendan: Only a small force is left to hold the bridges, the brothers Boromir and Faramir, both sons of Steward Denethor Noah: You'll hear about them a lot this season
Brendan: A lot.
Noah: But amidst this raging battle, amidst raining arrows and marching oliphants, the brothers start getting...dreams? Dreams of a superweapon, far to the north.
Brendan: Something that could turn the tide?
Noah: Something like...a ring. And there was only one place you could go for information on that
*Elrond saying. "Welcome to Rivendell."*

Blowback poster with eye of sauron edited on. Text reads

Brendan: "Yep. Things were that bad. It was time to talk turkey with their estranged allies.
It was time for...a council."

Speak About Destruction!

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 13d

The Socialist Shelf has declined the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s request for us to move the show from Atlanta to Riyadh

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Jonathan Kennedy @getradified.net · 14d

lmao attn @socialistshelf.bsky.social

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14d

THE ANTIFA LORAX

TOP 10 BOOKS RADICALIZING
THE LEFT
and why they are creating political violence against Patriots
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LORAX
3
CHUCK PALAHNIUK FIGHT CLUB
1984
GEORGE ORWELL
1984
REASONS:
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Anti-Conservative
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Antifa
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IT CAN'T HAPPEN
HERE
SINCLAIR LEWIS
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE REASONS:
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-United States
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
WE ARE STARTED
-LIBERTY•
Dr. Seuss
THE LORAX REASONS:
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Environment
FIGHT CLUB
REASONS:
- Anti-Masculinity
- Anti-Authority
- Anti-Christian
- Anti-Consumerism
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
7/8
HOWARD ZINN
PEOPLE'S HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED STATES
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES REASONS:
- Pro-Radicalism
- Pro-Communism
- Pro-Violence
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Antifa
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5
MARGARET
ATWOOD
THE
HANDMAID'S
TALE
A HANDMAID'S TALE REASONS:
- Pro-Feminism
- Anti-Christian
- Anti-Fertility
- Pro-Left wing terrorism
- Pro-Antifa
- Pro-Violence
- Anti-Conservative
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dalton trumbo
FUN HOME
ALISON BECHDEL
REASONS:
- Pro-LGBT
- Anti-Science
- Anti-Christianity
- Atheistic
- Gender Propaganda
GENDER QUEER
GENDER QUEER REASONS:
- Pornography
- Sexualizing Children
- Pro-LGBT
- Anti-Christianity
- Gender Propaganda
- Pro-Child Confusion
ata
american family association
THE GRAPES OF WEATH
THE GRAPES OF WRATH REASONS:
- Pro-Communism
- Anti-Patriot
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
- Pro-Antifa
- Anti-United States
- Anti-Christianity
renspect
Johnny got his gun
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
REASONS:
- Anti-United States
- Anti-Patriot
- Pro-Communism
- Anti-War
- Anti-Wealth
- Anti-Authority
- Pro-Violence
* CITIZENS
DEFENDING

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

Oh my GOD.

Do we have to cover the fucking Lorax now

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💀Lenorganmusic🐈‍⬛🏳️‍⚧️ @rareandradiant.bsky.social · 14d

Get rid of the law that says George Washington retroactively outranks all military personnel and then we can talk. I'll still refuse, but it'll be over tea

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

Pete Hegseth begged to come on our podcast. He was weeping and crying, saying, “Please let me talk to you about the war fighter ethos. I’ll make you both five star generals.”

We turned him down. Just the kind of operation we are here at the Socialist Shelf

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

Tbf, “Pete Hegseth” would be a great name for a comedian that nobody likes but somehow has millions of followers on social media. Missed his calling tbh.

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

Pete Hegseth bombs so badly at his weird standup he starts a military coup. Some random heckler becomes the American Gaddafi. More at 11.

The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

Don’t just rely on the episode! Go get yourself a copy of this phenomenal book too.

Wild Faith

Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that la...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 14d

We're delighted to welcome author and journalist @swordsjew.bsky.social to the show to discuss her book, "Wild Faith: How the Christian right is taking over America."

Interested in the nature and tactics of the American Christian right and their political project? Go no further

Wild Faith, ft. Talia Lavin

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The Socialist Shelf @socialistshelf.bsky.social · 15d

Meme depicting Eric Adams that reads:

“Free eric adams school walkout, September 31st at 2 pm”