The gang discuss the wave of arsons and the ethnic cleansing of American cities from the 1960s to the 1970s through the prism of contemporary reporting and the new book Born in Flames (Bench Ansfield, 2025) and Race War in High School (Harold Saltzman, 1972). Also discussed - a paper in the Bronx County Historical Society Journal “The Push and Pull Dynamics of White Flight: A Study of the Bronx Between 1950 and 1980” by Megan Roby

Discussion:

Introduction

~5 min - Born in Flames

~7 min - the FAIR Act from 1968

~9 min - Watts Riots

~11 min - Recent “Ding Dong Ditch” case and how the news cycle has changed since Elon’s purchase of twitter

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~16 min - Just Jogging it Out

~17 min - the libertarian conception of “freedom” vs a world where crime is weaponized

~19 min - Race War in High School intro, actual American attitudes about black Americans in the 60s vs the current propagandistic view

~26 min - the players in Race War in High School

Black Panthers - black militants who were effectively a communist revolutionary group

The Teachers Union - 60% of NYC teachers at the time were Jewish - mostly liberal, mostly pro-integration but also in favor of keeping order in schools

The Board of Education - centrally controlled by Mayor John Lindsay, often sides with the “black militants”

Mayor Lindsay - a “liberal republican” - sides with the “black militants” time and again

The local “white ethnics” - oppose Lindsay, are opposed to their children being attacked in school

~35 min - The story of Frank Siracusa

Siracusa thought about reporting the incident [window breaking] through the usual administrative channels, or of overlooking the matter entirely. Either way, the result would have been the same... the absence of any official response to student violence. Many of his colleagues had, in fact, already thrown in the towel. They had been told to avoid confrontations with students. Don’t enforce the rules where black students are concerned, they were continually advised. Let the blacks “do their own thing!”

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In a variety of ways, sometimes subtle, sometimes more direct, most of Lane’s teachers had gotten that message from its own ad ministration and from the central school board. In this turbulent era, the New York City school board wasn’t even backing up its own principals. At any given time there were more than twenty of them cooling their heels at board headquarters after having been “promoted” to a desk job at 110 Livingston Street as a result of pressure from black militants.

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at Franklin K. Lane High School, and at countless other schools throughout the city, teachers were learning to look the other way. After all, if Mayor John V. Lindsay could tell the police to ignore the looting of stores during the Harlem riots and to do nothing while local residents carted off color TV sets, then it was perfectly clear that teachers couldn’t engage in parapolice activities and expect the city’s support.

Frank Siracusa does confront the students and is ambushed, doused with lighter fluid and set on fire

~43 min - 1967 Teacher’s Strike

In 1967, the ATA (the African-American Teachers Association (ATA; originally the Negro Teachers Association)) opposed the UFT directly over the “disruptive child clause”, a contract provision that allowed teachers to have children removed from classrooms and placed in special schools. The ATA argued that this provision exemplified and accelerated the system’s overall racism. In the fall of 1967, the UFT held a two-week strike, seeking approval for the disruptive child clause; most of the ATA’s members withdrew from the union. In February 1968, some ATA teachers helped to produce a tribute to Malcolm X that presented African music and dance, and glorified Black power; the UFT successfully asked that these teachers be disciplined.

~53 min - Quotes from a teacher’s meeting at Franklin K Lane High School, could be quotes from yesterday:

Mr. T: Perhaps I’m bigoted . . . Cites incident with black student in the cafeteria. Student resists. White teacher, white dean. Common problem: student feels he’s being picked on be cause he’s black. What can we do to stop this Now!

Miss K: One possible solution is having a black dean.

Mr. L: “Police” to black people is a dirty name. When the police are white . . . we should import a black dean, if possible. Unidentified Man: Color is not important. We’ve had a black dean. If we didn’t have attacks, we wouldn’t need police.

Mr. L: Administration and teachers are at fault to have let the situation disintegrate so that the police were necessary. (Previous speaker voices disagreement.) UFT leadership was also at fault. The building was completely unattended. In the auditorium before the strike, there were 600 kids, 2 teachers. (Much cross-conversation.)

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Mr. V: Times have changed drastically in the last ten years. The Negro is searching for his identity; white people don’t like it. Vietnam protests and college demonstrations have filtered down to high school students. Whites think they can do some thing to the Negroes to solve the problem. This is a corollary to our antiquated idea of education—what teachers do to students. Most important; students have an identity; teachers tend to talk down to students. We should have a real dialogue with students, expecially the troublemakers.

Mr. U: There has been a rapid social change. A generation gap exists between most students and teachers. . . . This is a white society; it is a white problem. Times have changed from the integrationist period of the early 60’s. Now there is a lack of good faith: students lack good faith in teachers. Black teach ers frequently command more listening power with black stu dents than do white teachers. And our students are not unique. Students accept less now; they question things more and more, demand more. It’s queer that there are no students here. It takes more and greater visible signs from us for blacks to accept us as concerned human beings. We should openly demonstrate more faith in students; for example by giving them more power in making school policy.

~1 hr - discussion of early internet stories, redpills from teachers on what black schools are actually like

~1 hr 10 min - the transition to the internal policeman after the left cultural victory

BREAK

~1 hr 17 min - The Bronx Historical Society report, broken windows, messaging and incentives

~1 hr 23 min - Why you should read old books

~1 hr 32 min - the unfalsifiability of leftism

~1 hr 38 min - the winners and losers of the arson wave, leftist hatred for small business vs large corporations

~1 hr 42 min - the Curley effect, the transition to the NGO economy

~1 hr 50 min - Conclusion

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Aimee and Covfefe sit down for a conversation with Last Things

Topics Discussed:

4 min - Fight Club and Gilles Deleuze (much of the discussion before the break uses Fight Club as a jumping off point)

8 min - Deleuze’s concept of “Royal science” vs “nomad science”

24 min - Fight Club presaging the major changes around the Longhouse and the new sexual marketplace

28 min - “Imperceptability” and the launch of a alternatate culture “imperceptable” vs “illegible” and how legibility is about justifying yourself in their terms

35 min - Manic Pixie Dream girl vs BPD art hoe

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The Gang returns to discuss events

Discussion topics:

Beginning - Karl announces that due to events in his personal life, he’ll have to step back from the pod - we’ll miss him - he clarifies later that he’ll still be back for guest spots

5 minutes - Trump and the world right

10 minutes - Discussion of Merkel’s Boner a Sailerism that never caught on

14 minutes - man brained by a toppled statue at a BLM statue destruction

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The gang sits down with The Black Horse to discuss the past, present and future of Canada and its relationship with the United States

The Black Horse can be found on

X as theBlackHorse65

youtube as The Red Ensign Podcast

substack at theredensign

Discussion points

~5 minutes - Provocative introduction from Catgirl Kulak’s essay on Canada

Don’t let the Canadian regime’s carefully constructed multi-culti maple-flavoured gay-beaver boring bullshit distract you from the truly horrific dystopian reality of what Canada is in 2025… Canada’s main exports now are far-right influencers, Fentanyl, Real estate money laundering, Student Visas, geopolitical chaos, Cronenburg Films, and depressive hipster cultural nostalgia.

Ignore the fading edifice of a failed tourist attraction national identity, and step into the decaying nightmare state of America’s greatest geopolitical problem.

7 minutes - Discussion of the Red Ensign Flag

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The gang is joined by Brad Pearce of the Wayward Rambler to discuss the Ukraine situation and the changes that the events of the recent press conference signal

Discussion outline

Opening - Discussion about the previous situation in Georgia and the parallels

~11 minutes - The liberal world starts seeing Russia as a reactionary enemy

~16 minutes - Guest Brad Pearce discusses the different possible motives for USG and the Blob in the conflict

~25 minutes - The state of Ukraine vs that of Russia and even Belarus

~36 minutes - Zelensky’s approach at the press conference, possible involvement by the Obama foreign policy team

~40 minutes - Break, paywall

~46 minutes - Discussion of Ukraine’s “nuclear arsenal”

~1 hour - The Vance / Richard Hanania timeline interaction

~1 hour 10 minutes - Black twitter weighs in

~1 hour 26 minutes - The American vs non-American news ecosystem

~1 hour 39 minutes - Aimee lays out the general case against Richard Hanania, the gang discusses

~2 hours 20 minutes - The gang rev…

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The gang is joined by Kevin Dolan who writes under the pen name JC Bennett’s Phylactery.

He’s organizing the Natal Conference in Austin this March 28 and 29. Use the offer code “frame” when buying tickets to support the pod

The discussion started off with some current events

Matt Yglesias screenshotted without quote tweeting Aimee. At Frame Pod we believe cooperating with defectors is defecting on cooperators so no link

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The gang interviews Sanguis Veteris about his experiences in the USAID adjacent NGO charity world then goes on to discuss the de-funding of USAID grant recipients, DOGE’s initial steps and the firing and subsequent re-hiring of Marko Elez

(the beginning of) Sanguis' Veteris’ post about his experience with the American NGO world:

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The Gang discusses Trump’s triumphant return

Discussion points:

The Republican Party as another Regime sinecure and the end of that

Trump’s initial pardons; Insurrection Barbie reviews one randomly selected J6-er case and discovers an abusive process, rubber stamped by the judiciary

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The Gang continues the year in review, covering April through June

Events covered

Missed Items from last episode

The Brooklyn Jew Tunnels from January

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The gang gets together with Kevin Lynn - Executive Director of the Institute for Sound Public Policy and founder of the non-profit U.S. Tech Workers - to discuss the issues around foreign white collar guest worker programs.

Full episode free for all from 03 October 2025 - 10 October 2025!

Kevin’s successful efforts to prevent the TVA from replacing American are discussed in John Dale’s book In the Room

Kevin’s successful campaign to get the attention of President Trump to get him to reverse the TVA’s decision to outsource 20% of its workforce is described here

Discussed in the episode:

A tutorial on how to commit academic fraud to obtain an O1 visa

Elon Musk’s position at the start of the blow up

Clarification a few days later

A few days after that…

Alex Valaitis tells a personal story

Teddy Roosevelt on why nineteenth century democracy is superior

There is much reason to fear the industrial competition of these races; but even this will be less formidable as the power of the State increases and especially as the democratic idea obtains more and more currency. The Russians are not democratic at all, but the State is very powerful with them; and therefore they keep the Chinese out of their Siberian provinces, which are being rapidly filled up with a population mainly Slav, the remainder of which is being Slavicized. From the United States and Australia the Chinaman is kept out because the democracy, with much clearness of vision, has seen that his presence is ruinous to the white race Nineteenth century democracy needs no more complete vindication for its existence than the fact that it has kept for the white race the best portions of the new world’s surface, temperate America and Australia. Had these regions been under aristocratic governments, Chinese immigration would have been encouraged precisely as the slave trade is encouraged of necessity by any slave-holding oligarchy, and the result would in a few generations have been even more fatal to the white race; but the democracy, with the clear instinct of race selfishness, saw the race foe, and kept out the dangerous alien. The presence of the negro in our Southern States is a legacy from the time when we were ruled by a trans-oceanic aristocracy. The whole civilization of the future owes a debt of gratitude greater than can be expressed in words to that democratic policy which has kept the temperate zones of the new and the newest worlds a heritage for the white people.

As for the industrial competition, the Chinaman and the Hindoo may drive certain kinds of white traders from the tropics; but more than this they cannot do. They can never change the status of the white laborer in his own home, for the latter can always protect himself, and as soon as he is seriously menaced, always will protect himself, by protective tariffs and stringent immigration laws.

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Matt Yglesias gloats prematurely

John Winthrop argues that Matt Yglesias isn’t thinking large enough

The gang sets out to review the first half of 2024 but ends up covering the first quarter because there’s so much to discuss

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We will soon be recording a year end recap for 2024 - lots of things didn’t happen!

Merry Christmas everyone and see you all again soon!

The gang discusses the murder of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, centrist gatekeeping and the idea of the “woke right” and communism

Amelia Earhart’s request of a South Pacific N tower to guide her to a landing strip

On July 1st, Earhart sent the following to Black, modifying the previous plan

ASK ONTARIO BROADCAST LETTER N FOR FIVE MINUTES TEN MINUTES AFTER HOUR GMT FOUR HUNDRED KCS WITH OWN CALL LETTERS REPEATED TWICE END EVERY MINUTE.

Sargon’s tweet about James Lindsay’s bizarre attempt at recapturing the glory of the Sokal hoax

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The gang discusses the Daniel Penny trial with X poster Jacob Urowsky. Jacob has been at the courthouse and closely following the case.

Jacob has a youtube page, an x feed and has produced a based energy drink called Keyed

From Jason Stanley’s wikipedia talk page:

According to Stanley, "his Twitter is 'public intellectual work'." According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, "However famous Stanley’s books have made him, he is possibly better-known (at 127,000 followers and rising) for his Twitter account." In April 2022, Stanley attacked essayist Wesley Yang on Twitter "for the past two years of right-wing agitation," for which he apologized "for the falsity of these accusations" the next day.

Jason Stanely, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and lolcow

The chair is possibly named after Yakov Yurovsky, Bolshevik executioner of the Romanov family

Matt Yglesias on why public order is important

Public order is important — toothpaste shouldn’t need to be locked up, no on…

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References for the discussion

Joe Biden claims “A black guy invented the light bulb”

Michael Kinsley crafts the most boring headline in all of news:

In 1986, he organized a contest for readers of The New Republic to find a newspaper headline more boring than "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative".[8] The contest was won by "Debate goes on over the nature of reality", and "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative" became a long-running joke among journalists and bloggers.

Violent crime clearance rate before and after the Warren Court

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With the return of Aimee, the whole gang is back and this week we discuss some cases where false lib beliefs lead the Regime into taking actions that backfire from their perspective

Police body cams were supposed to document abuses by hot-headed or corrupt cops - instead we got… this

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Lomez’s “What is the Longhouse?”

Noticing, by Steve Sailer - available from Passage Press also in the leather-bound patrician edition

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In the second part we discuss post-election Trump announcement and Elon’s statements

[UPDATE: the Trump video where he describes his plan to dismantle the Deep State was from 2023 and was resurfaced on x since the election]

Starting this episode the first part is free and the full episode is for paid subscribers

Karl offers foids two options in the new world

Covfefe describes the progressive cycle

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The gang discusses the upcoming election

The Chinese student being prosecuted for voting illegally

The Shylock Holmes thread on the bad data in Pennsylvania voter rolls

Everything’s Negotiable!

The reactionary version of Sovereign Citizens

The left creating their own nemesis

Friend of the pod Billionaire Psycho explains the chiasmus in writing

Bono vows to drive his car off a cliff if Trump wins (maybe he didn’t but it's real to us!)

Benjamin Braddock on Joe Biden in im-1776

The only thing you really need to know about Joe Biden to understand him is the house. An old du Pont mansion outside of Wilmington. A beautiful old wreck that had been abandoned and rotting for years. Biden got himself worked up into a lather over the possibilities and did a deal for far more than it was worth — and far more than he could himself afford. His inspection tour before buying it was going there one night and breaking through the plywood to look around for a few minutes in the darkness. Once he moved in, he discovered that there were animals living on the third floor, which was wide open, the roof had holes in it, and the whole place was full of asbestos. He had to sell off some lots of the land to afford windows to keep the animals out. Then he needed a new driveway because he ticked off his neighbor, so he sold another lot to get the money to pave the driveway. But the driveway had ran through that lot so he had to build yet another driveway. Then he decided he needed more privacy from all of the new neighbors who were building on the lots he sold off so he found a nursery in Pennsylvania who sold mature trees  — saplings wouldn’t do, he needed big ones right away. He got twenty foot tall hemlocks and planted them two feet apart like a solid wall. They died of course. He kept selling off lots until there were none left. His next move was to run for President in 1988.

Joe Biden says that gay marriage is the result of Jewish control of the media

Joe bites a few babies in the home stretch of the campaign

Notes:

You know about the Royal we but have you heard of the Democratic we?

The Invitation to William

The Invitation to William was a letter sent by seven Englishmen, six nobles and a bishop, later referred to as "the Immortal Seven", to stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, dated 30 June 1688. In England, the heir apparent to the throne, James Francis Edward Stuart, had just been born to the unpopular King James II of England, and baptised a Catholic. The letter asked William, who was a nephew and son-in-law of James II, to use military intervention to force the king to make his eldest daughter, Mary, William's Protestant wife, his heir. The letter alleged that the newborn prince was an impostor.

The letter informed William that if he were to land in England with a small army, the signatories and their allies would rise up and support him. The Invitation briefly rehashed the grievances against King James. It claimed that the king's son was supposititious (fraudulently substituted) and that the English people generally believed him to be so. The present consensus among historians is that he was almost certainly their real son. The letter deplored that William had sent a letter to James congratulating him for the birth of his son, and offered some brief strategy on the logistics of the proposed landing of troops. It was carried to William in The Hague by Rear Admiral Arthur Herbert (the later Lord Torrington) disguised as a common sailor, and identified by a secret code.

The invitation caused William to carry out his existing plans to land with a large Dutch army, culminating in the Glorious Revolution during which James was deposed and replaced by William and Mary as joint rulers. William and Mary had previously asked for such an invitation when William started to assemble an invasion force that April. This request was done through secret correspondence that had been taking place since April 1687, between them and several leading English politicians, regarding how best to counter the pro-Catholic policies of James. William later justified his invasion by the fact that he was invited, which helped to disguise the military, cultural, and political impact that the Dutch regime had on England when his reign was unpopular and he feared a popular uprising.

“The libs never change”

Are we entirely sure that Noah Smith and Richard Hanania are different people? Our photographic analysis team has uncovered something truly shocking…

The discussed Odic force which was a 19th century idea which described the same concept as “vril” - as it turns out vril is also a 19th century idea.

A well-worded telling of the famous story of the rebellion of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang

Curtis gives a suggestion to Devon Eriksen for a possible follow up to his debut novel Theft of Fire - “If I Did It” - an (ahem) science fiction story of how to overcome the organizational hurdles involved in replacing the current Regime

The internet meme plot to storm Area 51 (they can’t stop us all!) (actually they could)

Somehow the (R) party ran this man for president against FDR

Some might even have called him a “Maverick”

Elon Musk, brat tamer

Dr. Buckaroo Banzai - physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star