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Le gouvernement a été contraint d’inscrire une proposition de loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles à l’agenda parlementaire après le meurtre de Lyhanna et le fiasco judiciaire et politique qui a suivi. Issue des revendications des mouvements féministes et enfantistes, elle se veut une réponse systémique contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles.
Est-ce vraiment le cas ? Les trois milliards d’euros nécessaires seront-ils mis sur la table ? Peut-on faire confiance à un gouvernement qui privilégie les solutions répressives et a failli malgré les promesses d’Emmanuel Macron ?
Dans cette émission, députées et militantes féministes et enfantistes débattent.
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At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Donald Trump promises that he'll give every American adult a $5,000 check if — and only if — Republicans retain control of the Senate and House, a plan so absurd that even his own defenders can't explain it.
Jon and Dan process the most ridiculous moments from the 18 hours of speeches, including JD Vance previewing his presidential campaign, Mike Rogers and Ted Cruz using the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to paint Democrats as terrorist sympathizers, and Democratic Senator John Fetterman's surprise video appearance.
Then, to cap off a Republican-filled episode, Lovett talks to Steve Hilton, the Republican nominee for California governor, about his relationship with Trump and what it'll take to tackle California's housing crisis.
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L’examen de la loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles a commencé à l’Assemblée nationale. Que prévoit ce texte ? Quels débats fait-il naître ? Les 3 milliards d’euros nécessaires à son application seront-ils débloqués ? On en débat avec nos invitées Agnès Aoudaï, coprésidente du Mouvement des mères isolées ; Iris Ané, responsable pédagogique de l’association Face à l’inceste ; Gabrielle Cathala, députée La France insoumise du Val-d’Oise ; Sarah Durocher, présidente nationale du Planning familial ; Aurore Koechlin, maîtresse de conférences en sociologie à l’université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Contretemps, autrice de La Norme gynécologique (2022, éd. Amsterdam) et La Révolution féministe (2019, éd. Amsterdam) ; Maud Petit, députée MoDem du Val-de-Marne ; Céline Thiébault-Martinez, députée du Parti socialiste de la Seine-et-Marne.
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Dettes, déficit, modèle social, salaires : ces questions essentielles sont déjà au cœur de la campagne présidentielle. Elles sont posées avec les débats à venir sur le budget 2027, pour lequel le gouvernement est en train de chercher entre 20 et 30 milliards d’économies.
Mais sur ce sujet, les constats se suivent et se ressemblent, souvent de la part de la droite, mais pas seulement : « le modèle social français coûte trop cher », « l’État dépense trop », il faut « réduire, tailler, couper » et, pour certain·es, privatiser.
Autrement dit : « There is no alternative » (« Il n’y a pas d’autres solutions »), célèbre phrase de la première ministre britannique ultra-libérale des années 1980, Margaret Thatcher, qui a fracassé le modèle social anglais.
Malgré tout ce que vous entendez, des solutions alternatives, il y en a…
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In Part 2, Star gets into the red flags that finally became impossible to ignore at OneTaste: missing consent and accountability protocols, sexual boundary violations, spiritual bypassing, gaslighting, and an organization that seemed to have more “trust the process” than actual process. She shares how she slowly pulled away, eventually leaving the Bay Area, rebuilding her life, and finding her way back to herself through therapy, community, and the very thing she once avoided: feeling everything in her body.
Star also talks about turning her experience into a solo theater show, complete with original songs about red flags, narcissism, orgasm, and—because apparently the universe demanded it—corporate vagina. We talk about the unregulated wellness industry, spiritualized intimacy, predatory influencers, and the tools every sexual or spiritual seeker needs: ask questions, check credentials, find out what happens when someone says no, and remember that “no” is a complete sentence. We’ll also share a few minutes of Star’s show at the end, so prepare for trauma, time, and comedy to make one very entertaining baby.
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Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires is coming out in October. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 2 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
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You don’t have to wait for your life to get easier to start enjoying it.
Today, Mel sits down with Dr. Kelly McGonigal, a renowned health psychologist, award-winning Stanford University lecturer, and bestselling author whose work focuses on stress, resilience, and joy.
She’s here to show you how to feel more alive again by making 7 small shifts.
And you already have everything you need to get started.
Dr. McGonigal will walk you through your body and brain’s built-in resources for joy, connection, hope, and courage, and show you how to put them to work.
Your muscles, for example, are like a pharmacy inside your body, releasing “hope molecules” when you move. And you don’t have to crush a workout to get started. A walk with your dog or a little dancing in your kitchen counts.
One of Dr. McGonigal’s biggest insights: You need joy precisely because life can be hard. Those moments of laughter, closeness, and pleasure give you reasons to keep going, and you can learn how to create more of them.
And you can practice these mood-boosting shifts on your next walk, between errands, or while spending time with someone you love.
You’ll learn:
–What joy really does for you and why your brain needs it
–How your muscles can make hope – seriously
–How to make stress your friend and use it to your advantage
–How to use a favorite song to shift your mood and get yourself going
–How to turn a meaningful memory into courage you can use today
–How to train your attention to notice more of the good around you
–3 research-backed sources of hope you can tap into when you need a lift
You have not lost your ability to feel joy. And you don’t have to wait for it to find you.
You’ll leave this conversation with small things you can do today to feel more like yourself, connect with people, and get more enjoyment out of the life you’re living.
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Mélissa a 23 ans quand elle rencontre Kevin*. Entre eux, tout est simple, fluide, naturel. Mais quelques mois plus tard, Kevin commence à perdre pied. Troubles psychiatriques, hospitalisation, traitements... Mélissa reste à ses côtés et l'accompagne pendant plusieurs années.
Jusqu'au jour où leur histoire bascule définitivement et où Mélissa devient veuve à seulement 27 ans.
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L’Antiquité grecque avec ses guerriers hyper virils et hétéros est-elle un cliché fabriqué par le cinéma ? Dans les péplums hollywoodiens, l’homosexualité n’est presque jamais représentée. Pourtant, les relations sexuelles et amoureuses entre hommes n’avaient rien de honteux. Elles étaient au contraire fréquentes, quoique très codifiées.
Alors pourquoi l’homosexualité était mieux acceptée à l’époque que dans beaucoup de sociétés occidentales plus récentes ? Comment les relations entre hommes étaient-elle perçues par les grecs ? Et selon quelles normes se déroulaient-elles ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit l’historien Nicolas Cartelet, auteur de Sous la jupe d’Achille, l’homosexualité grecque entre mythes et histoire, 2024 (Éds. La Musardine).
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Kate and Josh discuss Trump’s attempts to mess with the midterms, which feel much closer on this side of Labor Day.
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Louis, un trentenaire parisien parti faire le tour du monde, voit son rêve s'effondrer lorsqu'il est brutalement arrêté à Téhéran. Plongé dans l'enfer de la prison d'Evin, il comprend qu’il est otage. Mais face à l’horreur, il tente de transformer sa détention en un combat pour sa propre liberté intérieure.
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This week is part 1 with musicians, identical twins, and former Mormons turned dominatrixes Larena and Elyse Wynn, also known by their band name Mothermary. The girls share what it was like being raised in the LDS church, and how “Montana Mormons” may have had a more fear-based culture than Mormons in other parts of the country. They’ll talk about going to BYU Idaho, and how after having sex with her boyfriend—one of the worst sins you could commit in the church—Larena was told by her bishop that she needed to marry her boyfriend in order to not get kicked out of college.
Elyse describes having a similar experience in high school, and how both were told by their bishop to read a book called The Miracle of Forgiveness in order to repent, which basically told them that all the things that make you human are wrong. Elyse explains how she became obsessed with not sinning, why it made her so depressed she couldn’t eat, and how she realized she needed to get out of there.
In part two next week, Larena tells the story of how she got out of her marriage, and how they both came to work as dominatrixes.
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More To The Story: Last month, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of rapper Tupac Shakur. The verdict came 30 years after Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas that for decades remained cloaked in conspiracy theory and mystery. It’s impossible to overstate rapper Tupac’s influence on music and culture in the 1990s. One of the era’s bestselling musical artists, he helped define West Coast hip-hop through vulnerable, introspective lyrics and Black power politics. By his own admission, sports writer Jeff Pearlman is not the rapper’s likeliest biographer. But as he waited for what he called “the big, fat biography” of Tupac, his impatience and long-standing fascination with the rapper got the best of him. So he set out to write it himself. On this week’s episode, Pearlman talks about his book Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur; discusses how Tupac’s Black Panther mother, Afeni Shakur, shaped her son; and examines the nuance and mystery that surrounded Tupac’s life and death for decades.
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Daniella Mestyanek Young was born three generations deep into the Children of God, yet somehow, that was only the beginning.
She would go on to become a US Army intelligence officer, help make history for women in combat, become Harvard educated in organizational psychology, and write two books.
But first, she had to survive her childhood.
In Part One, Daniella takes us inside the Children of God world she was born into: child labor, child performers, massive communes, David Berg's increasingly deranged teachings, and a family history so complicated Daniella has a name for it... sex cult math.
And one rainy day at 12 years old, one casual comment from her mother about glasses changed what Daniella thought she knew about her own family forever.
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In Part 1 of our third deep dive on OneTaste, Star Stone joins us to explain how a spiritual seeker looking for female empowerment and connection ended up inside a world of confusing intro events, “corporate vagina” demos, goalless orgasmic meditation, and communal housing that sounded like a nightmare waiting to happen. Star walks us through the slow creep from curiosity to commitment: Meetup mixers that felt like team-building exercises, increasingly intimate “communication games,” and a coaching program that promised transformation but delivered a grab-bag of incoherent teachings, hidden courses, and credit-card-friendly upsells.
Along the way, we talk about loaded language, financial exploitation, blurred sexual boundaries, coercive control, and the very real moment when your yoga-trained brain goes, “Wait, this syllabus makes no sense,” and the culty fog starts to lift. It’s insightful, unsettling, and darkly funny—because sometimes the only way through is to name the absurdity, laugh until it hurts, and keep asking the questions they really don’t want you to ask. Stay tuned for Part 2 Thursday.
Follow Star at starstonespeaks.com, on Instagram @starstonespeaks, and The Wild Project: thewildproject.org
Star performs Cl*t Cult September 10 and 11 at 10:30pm at Under St Marks Theater in NYC: https://tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1495
Also check her out at Brooklyn Comedy Collective on October 4 at 7pm.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of sexualized practices, nudity, orgasmic meditation, coercive control, financial exploitation, communal living, and sexual boundaries and assault.
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This episode is a MUST-listen.
If you’ve ever felt behind, scared, stuck, or doubting yourself, you need to hit play.
Today, Mel sits down with someone who has been a mentor from afar for more than 12 years. Mel says she would not be where she is today without the person sitting across from her.
For more than a decade, Gary Vaynerchuk has been one of Mel’s biggest inspirations - and in this conversation, he is here to challenge you to stop making excuses and start changing your life.
Gary is one of the most successful entrepreneurs and creators of his generation, a six-time New York Times bestselling author, and the force behind VaynerX, VaynerMedia, and VeeFriends.
If you’ve been sitting on an idea, watching other people do the thing you want to do, worrying about what people will think, or telling yourself you’re too late, you need to hear this.
Gary will challenge the way you think about fear, regret, comparison, confidence, your career, other people’s opinions, and the excuses that are keeping you stuck.
You’ll learn why the people you listen to shape who you become, why your embarrassment can become your advantage, why peace of mind matters more than status, and why one action could change the entire direction of your life.
Gary also shares his advice for anyone who wants to start a business, change careers, put themselves out there, or finally take the risk they’ve been thinking about for years.
His message is simple: there is something you are amazing at - and the longer you sit around watching everybody else do it, the more it costs you.
You’ll also learn:
- What your algorithm reveals about who you are
- Why you need to start living your life with your funeral in mind
- The 3 words that are keeping you stuck
- Gary’s #1 tip if you’re unemployed or looking for a new job
- How to stop blaming your parents for your circumstances
- How to build self-confidence and let go of your need to be accepted
- Why peace of mind is the secret to a rich life
This conversation will push you to stop waiting for the right time, stop letting other people’s opinions control your decisions, and stop living in a way that leaves you saying, “I wish I…”
By the time it’s over, you’ll know exactly what you need to do next - and you’ll feel inspired to go do it.
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Samantha Hancox-Li interviews labor economist Kathryn Edwards on the fundamentals of a healthy economy. They talk housing, childcare, and the politics of being a "smart-stupid" economist who knows how to be cynical about what matters.
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When Mia Farina got seriously ill in 2014, she thought she had a bad case of pneumonia. But it turned out to be far worse: It was the start of chronic lung disease related to the months she spent working in and around ground zero after 9/11.
Back then, Farina was a rookie cop, present when the second Twin Tower came down. She and her Brooklyn squad ran to escape the burning debris. “At one point, you couldn’t run because the stuff that was collapsing was so deep,” she said. “So it would go up to my thigh, and you would feel people’s hands and feet because…they’re all under the rubble.”
Farina lives on Long Island, surrounded by other responders who also are sick and dying from their work at ground zero 25 years ago. She and tens of thousands of other 9/11 responders and survivors were promised care through the World Trade Center Health Program, a federally funded lifeline meant to treat the long-term medical consequences of that day. But funding has never kept up with the number of people who continue to get sick.
This week on Reveal, reporter Lynn Hallarman, a Long Island doctor turned journalist who once treated 9/11 responders, explores the community of responders around her, their reliance on a program that’s been unstable for decades, and the science behind why people are still getting sick.
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Dozens of Republican lawmakers tell the press that they won't be attending Trump's midterm convention next week, citing a variety of unconvincing excuses, but the president seems unfazed by his party's lack of enthusiasm for more Trump, announcing Trump midterm ads, Trump coins, and the possibility he may rename the Strait of Hormuz to the Trump Strait.
Dan and Jon preview the pity party and then react to Ed Markey's primary win over Seth Moulton, Kamala Harris brushing off red-state Democrats refusing her support, and the Democrats' new line of attack against the GOP — tying the construction of data centers to a tax provision in the Big Beautiful Bill. Then journalist Jasper Nathaniel stops by the studio to talk to Tommy about his reporting on violence in the West Bank.
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Last Modified 09/03/2026 16:18:39 by Freedom ControllerIn Part 2 of our Vancouver book launch, we do a full-on audience Q&A, covering everything from cult susceptibility and the “cult-shaped hole in your heart” to how groups can start with good intentions and slowly slide into coercion, control, and abuse of power. We talk recognizing your own hooks, spotting personality changes and loaded language, rebuilding trust after leaving, and why “What to Do When It’s Time to GTFO” is a chapter in A Little Bit Culty: Navigating Cults, Control and Coercion—because sometimes you need a roadmap, not a motivational quote.
We also answered questions about us meeting in NXIVM, leaving safely, the metaphorical shelf breaking, survivor shame, and the importance of sunlight, support, and keeping the conversation going.
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Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires is coming out on October 20. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 1 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
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In this episode, you’ll learn how to stop doubting yourself and get anything you want in life.
Mel is thrilled to introduce you to her incredible guest today – someone she’s admired and followed for years, and who is here today for YOU.
Benny Blanco is one of the most successful and sought-after music producers and songwriters in the world and one of the defining hitmakers of the 21st century.
Benny is a 12-time Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer with 29 #1 hits and 19 songs that have over a billion streams on Spotify.
But, Benny didn’t start his impressive career with everything figured out. He didn’t grow up with money, some magical level of confidence, or everything figured out.
He built his career by showing up, failing, getting rejected, trying again, and learning through experience.
Today, Benny reveals what most people never see: the rejection, the fear, the self-doubt, and the countless moments when everything could have fallen apart.
And he will show you the life-changing tools and strategies that have helped him push through nonstop rejection and setbacks.
Benny has also written a fantastic brand-new book called “F*ck Failure” – which happens to be exactly the message he’s here to share with you today:
Every single failure is leading you somewhere, even if you can’t see it right now.
Your life can look entirely different a year from now. If you want the dream job, true love, unshakeable confidence, better friendships, or more happiness, Benny wants you to know there’s one rule:
Keep showing up.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
-The simple mindset shift Benny uses to erase failure and keep moving
-Why you’re only one small move away from changing your life for the better
-Why waiting to feel ready is a losing game
-The wild story behind a #1 hit that almost never happened, and why it proves you can’t give up
-How to stop letting self-doubt make your decisions
-How to keep showing up when you’re exhausted, embarrassed, or convinced you have no idea what you’re doing
-How to face the fears you’ve been avoiding for years
-How a list Benny made before he started dating his wife, Selena Gomez, can help you stop settling in your own life
This conversation will make you rethink every failure, every rejection, and every excuse you have been using to stay stuck.
As Benny will show you, failure doesn’t have to break you. It’s the very thing that can make you unstoppable.
If he can turn his failures into hits, you can turn yours into the life you’ve been wanting to live.
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Moustaches acérées, costumes de dandy, dégaines de mâles Alpha : c’est souvent chez les Drag Kings que l’on trouve les caricatures les plus fines des masculinités. Si les Drag Queens sont de plus en plus visibles dans les médias mainstream, les Kings restent pratiquement méconnus du grand public. Issus d’une culture queer commune, iels bousculent autant la scène drag dominante que les codes de la masculinité hégémonique.
Qui sont les Drag Kings ? Pourquoi sont-iels moins représentés dans l’espace médiatique et culturel que leurs consœurs Queen ? Quelle est la portée politique de leur pratique ? Et que disent les performances Drag King des représentations sociales de la masculinité ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit Man Noé Théry, chercheureuse en histoire du drag et Drag King sous le nom de Pétrole Désamour (@petrole_desamour sur Instagram).
Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/drag-kings-les-hommes-en-mieux
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Kate and Josh discuss of Mike Collins' white nationalist woes, Pete Hegseth's presidential ambitions and Jim Clyburn's support for Supreme Court reform.
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