Cory Johnston
@skepticalleftist.bsky.social
Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZkXdOVrEtB9?si=wNQsMjAhRgK0sUCUnT7Y7Q
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People talk about fixing schools and food systems like it all comes down to personal choices. Owen and I walked through two stories that show why that never works. Systems shape everything long before you make a decision.
A big part of the conversation was about honesty with kids. They can handle more than we think, but they can also get overwhelmed fast. The challenge is giving them clarity without dropping the weight of the world on them at once.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
Talking parenting, masculinity, and antifascism with Matthew Remski
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November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A big part of the conversation was about honesty with kids. They can handle more than we think, but they can also get overwhelmed fast. The challenge is giving them clarity without dropping the weight of the world on them at once.
I'm sure my channel would do better if YouTube would stop sticking it in front of idiots and would actually show my content to people who like thoughtful stuff with a left perspective
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm sure my channel would do better if YouTube would stop sticking it in front of idiots and would actually show my content to people who like thoughtful stuff with a left perspective
I would like people who use AI chatbots as therapy to stop and instead try to reach out to real people who have real emotional intelligence and can give real support. LLMs telling you what you want to hear, isn't the same as real help
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I would like people who use AI chatbots as therapy to stop and instead try to reach out to real people who have real emotional intelligence and can give real support. LLMs telling you what you want to hear, isn't the same as real help
Dudes just can't help but comment and show how much they take women for granted whenever someone mentions tha value of the unpaid labor women do that props up everything else
The $11 Trillion Economy Nobody Talks About
Matthew Remski breaks down the scale of unpaid labor and why women’s caregiving work forms a hidden global economy larger than the biggest corporations on earth. We go through the numbers, the politics behind them, and how seeing this clearly changes what feminism and antifascism actually mean.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Dudes just can't help but comment and show how much they take women for granted whenever someone mentions tha value of the unpaid labor women do that props up everything else
Stafford Taylor talks about utopia as daily work, not some future ideal. It’s showing up, building trust, and refusing to treat isolation like it’s normal.
Trying to Build Utopia
Stafford Taylor returns to talk about life after homelessness, building a community garden, traveling to India, and writing The Transcendence Manifesto. We get into what he’s learned from living through hardship, why individualism isolates us, and how community and care can bring us closer to freedo
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November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Stafford Taylor talks about utopia as daily work, not some future ideal. It’s showing up, building trust, and refusing to treat isolation like it’s normal.
This episode keeps sticking with me because the stories are so familiar. People know something is wrong, but they focus on personal fixes because they were never taught to look at the system.
Individualist Solutions Can't Solve Systemic Problems
Solidarity Across Borders with Cory Johnston and Owen Macdonald
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November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This episode keeps sticking with me because the stories are so familiar. People know something is wrong, but they focus on personal fixes because they were never taught to look at the system.
With authoritarian movements gaining ground globally, we talked about what families are actually dealing with day to day. Antifascism starts with the habits we build at home and how we help kids make sense of the world without shutting down.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
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November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
With authoritarian movements gaining ground globally, we talked about what families are actually dealing with day to day. Antifascism starts with the habits we build at home and how we help kids make sense of the world without shutting down.
If you missed it, this episode goes deep into antifascist parenting, the pressures families face, and the long history of religious antifascism and liberation theology. We also talk about class, care work, and why kids pick up on inequality so fast.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
In this episode, I talk with Matthew Remski from Conspirituality and his new project, Antifascist Dad. We dig into the work he has been doing on masculinity, parenting, and the rise of authoritarian politics. We talk about the difference between liberal parenting and antifascist parenting, how kids
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November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you missed it, this episode goes deep into antifascist parenting, the pressures families face, and the long history of religious antifascism and liberation theology. We also talk about class, care work, and why kids pick up on inequality so fast.
As a society we sure seem to prefer framing systemic issues as personal moral failings and noticing it always makes me frustrated. People often aren't bad people making bad choices, instead they're conditioned people making choices from a limited set of options
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
As a society we sure seem to prefer framing systemic issues as personal moral failings and noticing it always makes me frustrated. People often aren't bad people making bad choices, instead they're conditioned people making choices from a limited set of options
[Kill The Computer] The Loneliness Industrial Complex Ft. Jeremy Kaplowitz #killTheComputer
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[Conspirituality] Brief: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 1) #conspirituality
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One section I keep thinking about is our talk on masculinity. So much of what boys are taught is just performance. This episode looks at how kids absorb those expectations and how to guide them toward a healthier view of themselves and others.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
Talking parenting, masculinity, and antifascism with Matthew Remski
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November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One section I keep thinking about is our talk on masculinity. So much of what boys are taught is just performance. This episode looks at how kids absorb those expectations and how to guide them toward a healthier view of themselves and others.
Once my currently recorded episodes are published I'm definitely taking a break to regroup and refocus. I have ideas about what I want to do going forward with the show but I have to choose the best option that fits my life and doesn't burn me out
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Once my currently recorded episodes are published I'm definitely taking a break to regroup and refocus. I have ideas about what I want to do going forward with the show but I have to choose the best option that fits my life and doesn't burn me out
We spent a lot of time talking about how kids understand power, even when adults pretend politics is something separate from family life. The home becomes a political space whether we want it to or not, and Matthew breaks that down clearly.
Antifascism Begins At Home with Matthew Remski
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November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We spent a lot of time talking about how kids understand power, even when adults pretend politics is something separate from family life. The home becomes a political space whether we want it to or not, and Matthew breaks that down clearly.
[It Could Happen Here] Requiem for Stop Cop City #itCouldHappenHere
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Listening back, one point landed harder than I expected. You cannot understand responsibility without understanding power. Individual effort means nothing when the structure blocks every exit.
Individualist Solutions Can't Solve Systemic Problems
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November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Listening back, one point landed harder than I expected. You cannot understand responsibility without understanding power. Individual effort means nothing when the structure blocks every exit.
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Calvin is ungovernable
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Calvin is ungovernable
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I actually wouldn't care if 100% of first time marriages ended in divorce because breakups are normal and divorce is good actually.
So you consider 40% first time marriages ending in divorce is low? 2nd and 3rd marriages divorce rates are 60%-70%, what do you consider high?
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I actually wouldn't care if 100% of first time marriages ended in divorce because breakups are normal and divorce is good actually.
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“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
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@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
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November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
- @rechelon.bsky.social
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@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
- @rechelon.bsky.social
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@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal
Antifascism Begins at Home is out now. I talk with Matthew Remski about parenting, masculinity, power, and what it means to raise kids while authoritarian politics keep growing in the background. This one gets into the real day-to-day reality of it.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Antifascism Begins at Home is out now. I talk with Matthew Remski about parenting, masculinity, power, and what it means to raise kids while authoritarian politics keep growing in the background. This one gets into the real day-to-day reality of it.
The vegan conversation in this one surprised me. It showed how harm gets reduced to personal purity while the global machine producing that harm goes untouched. This is why structure matters.
Individualist Solutions Can't Solve Systemic Problems
In this episode of Solidarity Across Borders, Owen and I talk through two conversations he had this week that reveal something important about our political culture. One was with a conservative teacher who believes parents need to “work harder” instead of asking why his school in Mississippi has mor
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November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The vegan conversation in this one surprised me. It showed how harm gets reduced to personal purity while the global machine producing that harm goes untouched. This is why structure matters.
Education debates often end with “parents should do more.” That line collapses the whole system into a personal failing. We talk through why that framing protects the people who created the crisis.
Individualist Solutions Can't Solve Systemic Problems
Solidarity Across Borders with Cory Johnston and Owen Macdonald
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November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Education debates often end with “parents should do more.” That line collapses the whole system into a personal failing. We talk through why that framing protects the people who created the crisis.
Libs can't help but try to rehabilitate the worst people in history. Its almost like they think politics is just some game they play instead of policies that have real effects on the lives of real people
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Libs can't help but try to rehabilitate the worst people in history. Its almost like they think politics is just some game they play instead of policies that have real effects on the lives of real people
Stafford Taylor’s story moves from homelessness to community work and writing The Transcendence Manifesto. It’s a reminder that utopia is a process built through small acts of care and persistence.
Trying To Build Utopia with Stafford Taylor
Stafford Taylor returns to share stories from the last few years, sleeping in his car, building a homeless garden, and traveling to India.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Stafford Taylor’s story moves from homelessness to community work and writing The Transcendence Manifesto. It’s a reminder that utopia is a process built through small acts of care and persistence.