The Fight Has Only Just Begun: Keep Boycotting These Pro-ICE Companies

[Reader Note: Today's episode was slightly delayed as I'm taking care of a family member that is ill. Please pardon the delay.]

I don't think there's too much to say right now beyond this: The Democrats have already demonstrated — with 11 of them missing a crucial vote to impeach the current Secretary of Defense because of "traffic" — that you will need to stay organized and push them. Maybe harder than we've all been pushing the Republicans because the Democrats claim they actually want to get stuff done.

In response to the sweeping electoral victories, Jim "Nobody's Safe in the Shower When I'm Around" Jordan will likely be the Senate Minority leader come January, and actual fascist Stephen Miller is now in charge of the Executive Branch. (If you think our president is a "details guy" and will be looking at what Miller is doing closely, you haven't been paying close enough attention to the world we find ourselves in.

So, the fight continues, and in today's episode, we're going to remind you of a critical weapon in that fight: Economic Boycotts.

Full Transcript For This Week's Episode

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Are We On Audible Yet?

Real quick, there's one more thing we have to talk about, and that is Audible. So our audiobook is now available everywhere audiobooks are sold except Audible. We've decided that we will be on Audible in the not too distant future. This was a bit of a struggle because on one hand, we want everyone to boycott Amazon when possible.

But we also realize that our target audience for this book is very likely to get audiobooks from Audible if they listen to audiobooks at all. Audible is basically the great white whale. authors are all Ahab and Audible is the whale. If you wanna understand our relationship with Amazon perfectly, go ahead and read Moby Dick. I don't think anything sums up that relationship any better. So it's a compromise. We didn't wanna do that initially.

I honestly had no plans of being on Audible but then it's something that just kept coming up over and over and over, especially because pie in the sky, I'm not saying this is gonna happen, but I am good at marketing and I am at least good at getting in front of the right people. I can't guarantee that the right people will act on the stuff I get them. But in an ideal world, you know, I would like Rosie to be on CNN and to talk about the importance of the book in protecting yourself because the next two years are gonna get wild. [See our introductory note above this transcript.]

And honestly, most of the people who would watch that interview there's maybe like a percent of that audience on CNN will have no idea what Libro.fm is. So for that reason we decided, all right, let's put the thing on Audible, which required us, and this also sucked... There is now a Kindle edition of the book. You do not have to buy it, it's just something that exists. And the reason that it exists is because Amazon insists if you want to sell an audiobook on Audible, it must come with a Kindle edition. You do not have to buy that. The EPUB is available for free on the Internet Archive. The book is available for free on the Internet Archive.

So here's the compromise. The book will be available as a Kindle edition and an audiobook on Amazon But we will strongly prefer that you buy the audiobook from Libro.fm and get the EPUB for free. There is no need to buy that Kindle edition. We will not be marketing it or promoting it at all. It just exists because we want it to be have access to Audible. and again, the EPUB and PDF and other formats are now available on the Internet Archive. Go and check those out.

Now, my friends, the purpose of Privacy Tips is to be like the director's commentary for our book, kind of like the tracks you used to find on DVDs from directors. You remember DVDs, right?

No?

Maybe I'm aging myself here...

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