Everybody preorder Metropolitans now!!!!

One of the longest and weirdest baseball books ever written, METROPOLITANS is a marxist history of America’s pastime in which the Mets serve a messianic main character.

Check out this excerpt, this interview, or this Adam Gopnik New Yorker review.

PREORDER from Penguin, Bookshop.org, Amazon and/or find me at one of the following launch events:

April 1: Official book launch! w/ Bradford William Davis at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn (Ticketing information: https://powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-metropolitans-by-a-m-gittlitz/)

April 3: Release celebration at Lou’s Athletic Club in Bushwick more info: https://www.instagram.com/p/DWPKFCQCp5r/

April 4: Tabling with Books and Rooks at Ft. Green Farmer’s Market around 11am April 12: Paper Moon in Troy, NY April 13: B&N in Albany

April 16: B&N Brooklyn with Noah Kulwin! https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062206054-0

April 20: B&N in Carle's place LI with Greg Prince

April 27: B&N in Paramus, NJ April

30 Mets vs. Yankees debate at Le Pere on 90 Orchard St., moderated by Mattie Lubchansky!

More info will be posted at Astra House’s IG

Monologue adapted from Jean Shepard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0pnq3ijfs

Tipping Pitches: https://tippingpitch.es/

Go to Greenpoint/Williamsburg/Bushwick/Ridgewood History nights: https://www.instagram.com/gphistorynight/

Songs: The Strokes - Ode to the Mets

The 1986 Mets - Get Metsmerized

Sean and Andy are joined by Deep State Kuba Ph.D., international relation expert to the podcasting stars, to discuss current events in an unraveling world. Who is winning the wars in Iran and Ukraine? How has the media coverage of war and peace gotten so bad since the last great period of wars in the early 2000's? What kind of divisions exist within the global ruling class and what aspects of governance unify them? Whither the great post-war institutions in an era of global turbulence?

For the fun half, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

What Fresh Hell series on TiR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtgfYtQDvBI

ILC of NYC Gaming Event RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-fight-labor-organizing-in-the-game-industry-tickets-1984299154186?aff=oddtdtcreator

ILC of Chicago People's Cafe RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwtjPq9qukA4mswg1BMMgWSB83yognq_HY0M7-ABS9JCuNGQ/viewform

We go through different theories of WHY the Iran war is happening: ZOG/Epstein, Venezualizing Iran, Destabilizing the Gulf, Neo-Neoconservativism, immamentalizing the evangelical eschaton, or just because they can

For the full episode, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

Kharg theory: https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-oil-island-that-could-break-iran/

https://x.com/guy_laron/status/2030262780389937167

Uniparty Theory: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-iran-regime-change-democrats-chuck-schumer-midterms?utm_source=publication-search

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-nuclear-2672345081/

Armageddon Theory: https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-end-times-christian/

Klip Theory: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-we-struck-iran

Mike Prysner on mobilization: https://x.com/MikePrysner/status/2030106988265578976

Song: Discharge - Why? (Reprise) & Visions of War

News ep! We talk striking nurses, MLBPA drama, SCOTUS vs POTUS, the changing tactics of ICE, looksmaxxing, and more with our cool Social Studies teacher, future governer of New York, the Sigma Marxist, C. Derick Varn!

In part two of our new episode we chat with Varn about his DSA organizing in SLC, the Board of Peace and its plans for Gaza, and read a scene report from a Nick Land/Curtis Yarvin meet-and-greet in SF. For the full episode, Discord access, and all bonus material, support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

Varn Vlog on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@VarnVlog

and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/varnvlog/posts

Show notes:

NYC Nurse strike ends after considerable drama between union and r&f: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-reach-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-union.html https://labornotes.org/2026/02/nurse-strikes-focus-moves-manhattans-richest-hospital-complex-contracts-settle-elsewhere

Tariffs: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/business/economy/tariffs-supreme-court-global-busines-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Essay from MPLS anarchists claiming no victory with ICE drawdown: https://illwill.com/proto-politics-in-purgatory

(follow up to this phil neel piece: https://illwill.com/lies )

ICE strategy moving to suburbs: https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-minnesota-suburbs-operation-metro-surge/

SONG: The Star-Spangled Banner - Anime Opening Ver.

Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialism

Support the show at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage

Show notes:

EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.html

Estonia's suppression of Russian minority: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/russia/article/2025/03/26/estonia-s-parliament-bans-local-voting-for-non-europeans-targeting-russians_6739540_140.html

Israeli War Keynesianism:

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/israel-war-economy-reservist-compensation

https://www.972mag.com/israel-genocide-economy-gaza-war/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rolls-out-tax-benefits-to-lure-back-tech-talent-and-investments-after-gaza-war/

https://www.boi.org.il/en/communication-and-publications/regular-publications/monetary-policy-reports/monetary-policy-report-first-half-of-2025/

Rise of Nazis and a capitalist ‘Dual State’, not dual power: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-ice-immunity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/politics/the-fork-in-the-road-2/

Song: Andrew Bird - Dear Old Greenland

Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/

Support the show at http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage

Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez

We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution, a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs.

Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-force

Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end

Maucio Lazzarato - The United States and Fascistic Capitalism: https://illwill.com/fascistic-capitalism

Nueva Icaria - New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of Global Counterrevolution: https://illwill.com/new-fascisms

Preorder Depose–the first publication from Ill Will Editions: https://store.illwilleditions.com/products/depose-luigi-mangione-and-the-right-to-health

Song: Youthquake - Manuver

Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving!

The concept suggests that fascist impulses don't just come from "above" (authoritarian leaders) but can emerge from "below" in how people treat each other daily. Deleuze and Guattari believed everyone has some "fascist" potential—desires for domination, control, or submission. Bratich's work looks at the idea in the current context of MAGA, stochastic terrorism, and the manosphere.

Buy his book On Microfascism: Gender, War, Death and Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture from Common Notions.

3WF interview: https://threewayfight.org/antifascism-in-2025-shane-burley-interviews-xtn-alexander-and-matthew-n-lyons/

Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf

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