Workers’ Lit Podcast

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Workers' Lit is THE literature podcast for hot, cool, gay, and/or working class people. Hosted by Aysha, Jen, Lenore, and Jacob Account run by Jacob. Others bear no responsibility for bad posts www.workerslit.com https://patreon.com/WorkersLit

Guardian article. Elon Musk plans to make an anti-woke Odyssey AI film with Grok
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
Pages upon pages, words of wisdom from the workers brow I got my nose to the spine, soaking up the all wisdom they will allow Workers tomes and stories of how we won every right we enjoy Away from the lights, away from the noise, we read to rebuild everything they destroyed Worker’s lit, worker’s lit, power of the union and the socialist pen Everything I can get, I need worker’s lit More I get, the more I need. Head in the books, my mind is free Diving in, with everyone in mind, all on my mind, a rally of all kinds Across the class, we share and show, how we win and how we know We’re enough when we’re together, we’re tired of working lean and eatin’ crow
Episode art for Workers' Lit, July 20, 2026, "Angela Davis' Women Race and Class ft. RevolutionaryTh0t
Angela Davis' Women Race and Class
Nyt article ‘It's One Big Club, and Were Just Not in It': These 10 Gen Z Trump Voters Want to See More of a Focus on the Middle Class
Old man from dracula flow
Fake quote of Andy Serkis saying “Hobbits are stupid, ugly crackers and it was important we portrayed them as such”
Steve Berger and Mike Johnson
DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT... NEPHILIM THE DIVINE COUNSEL PORTALS THE WATCHERS ANGELS FALLEN ANGELS DEMONS ANCIENT GODS PRINCIPALITIES
Stupid tweet from speaker Mile Johnson, “THE BARBARIANS ARE INSIDE THE GATE! We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we're going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic OR trade that in, dismantle the foundations and GO DOWN THIS DARK ROAD OF DEATH TO COMMUNISM. THAT is the question.”
Workers' Lit July 13 episode art: deep-seated Trauma: "Use of Weapons" by Iain M. Banks
A lot more people are searching crab rave today
A play on an old dad joke meme that says Twenty years ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, and Steve Jobs. Now we have no Cash, no Hope, and no Jobs. Please don't let Kevin Bacon die The edit says: 20 years ago we had Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein Today we have no Graham, no McConnell and no Feinstein Please don't let John Fetterman die.
Elon Musk tweet claiming he intends to make SpaceX more valuable than the planet earth
The movie "Saving Mr. Banks" with Iain Banks and the battleship from the cover of his book edited over the characters
Iain Banks
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it’s called The Atlantic because that’s where we need to drop the magazine and everyone who works there in the middle of
Karl Marx on the gamer question
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Donald Trump with the caption, "This post was fact checked by real America patriots: False"
Workers' Lit July 10, 2026 episode art: Bonus theory episode! On Practice, ft. Rae of Prolespod
Hey! Hi! Hello! We want to thank everybody who's supported us as we've gotten this Patreon off the ground and found our rhythm more broadly. Now that things are humming along, we wanted to set out a general schedule for us to follow going forward. As always, free main feed episodes will release every Monday alternating (generally) between fiction and non-fiction. Patreon bonus content will work as follows: At the start of every month, the suggestion box will open for next month's listener-chosen episode topic (look out for that in the next day or two), followed by a poll of listener suggestions. Bonus written content will come out on the first Friday of every month. For the time being that will continue to be chapters of Jacob's horrible, highly repressed, and ham-fistedly allegorical evangelical fantasy novel he wrote in his early teens. An unedited video episode of us shooting the shit and answering your questions will drop the second or third Friday of every month (depending how many Fridays are in said month and scheduling). Some months, we may do this as a livestream, depends on what y'all want and what our lives allow (we do all have jobs, wouldn't be Workers' Lit otherwise). An "Article Brain" episode focused on reading, laughing at, and losing our minds to the worst articles the mainstream media has to offer will release the second-to-last Friday of every month. On the final Friday of every month, we'll publish an author interview about their work, craft, motivations, and whatever is on said writer's mind (be sure to tell us who you'd like on the show!) It's a lot of cool bonus content, and we need your help to keep doing it! If you're a free member, become a patron, if you're a patron, tell your friends, if you've told your friends, tell a stranger. Thank you everybody!
Hannibal Hamlin (1860 portrait)
Ryan Grim of DropSite engages in some rape apologia on X
Mitch McConnel giving the thumbs up to the newest episode of Workers' Lit
Hellfire is cold. They don’t tell you this. You either don’t need to know or will find out soon enough.
Huffpost article, Mitch McConnell's office won't confirm if he's conscious
Guy who says puns in The Onion comics
Workers' Lit episode art for July 6th, 2026, "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, by Vladimir Lenin:
Dumb New Yorker article asking if AI will make college obsolete
Lenin listening to an episode of Workers' Lit. Caption: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen, and there is tomorrow where a podcast is happening”
Obviously fake email claiming to be James Patterson wanting to get to know me
Ezra Klein NYT articr: the Presidential election we needed the most is the one we never got
Picture of James Baldwin with the following quote from him: “In order to accommodate me, in order to overcome so many centuries of cruelty and bad faith and genocide and fear, all the American institutions and all the American values, public and private, will have to change”
Meme asking if we have any symbols of hope for America's 250th birthday. Response: no, symbols of decline. Synthesized by Malcolm X saying the chickens have come home to roost.
Stupid edit of "What is the definitive game about America" which was already copied over "what if the definitive movie about America." Now it says "What is the definitive Workers' Lit podcast about America?"
Promotional for Lenore and Jen's new podcast: Half The Sky
Awful cover art for the Adventures in Odyssey album, "Wish you were here!"
Episode topic poll. Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks 0% The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet 0% Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, by Clara E. Mattei 0% Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn 0% Kiln People, by David Brin 0% Starluck, by Donald Wismer 0% The Magna Carta, by some scribes I guess 0% If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, by Italo Calvino
Workers' Lit episode cover art for Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Workers' Lit podcast cover art
Picture of James Baldwin looking very cool in front of an establishment with a sign that says, "Colored entrance only." Caption: "To look around the United States today is enough to make prophets and angels weep. This is not the land of the free; it is only sporadically the home of the brave. -James Baldwin"
Tweet from Joe Weisenthal, "Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people."
Female comic fan wants to see Thor nude
Picture of James Baldwin lying on his stomach, caption, "Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility...The terrors homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if the society itself did not go through so many terrors which it doesn’t want to admit. The discovery of one’s sexual preference doesn’t have to be a trauma. It’s a trauma because it’s such a traumatized society. -James Baldwin"
Jaime Harrison twitter post, "If your movement is so strong, why does it keep needing the Democratic Party’s ballot line, infrastructure, volunteers, donors, and voter file to win? Apparently your apparatus isn’t strong enough to do it on its own. Fight to make the Democratic Party better. Push it. Challenge it. But don’t use the Democratic Party as an Uber to get to office and then complain about the ride after you arrive. If you’re on the team, be on the team."
Picture of James Baldwin with the caption, "The necessity for a form of socialism is based on the observation that the world’s present economic arrangements doom most of the world to misery; that the way of life dictated by these arrangements is both sterile and immoral; and, finally, that there is no hope for peace in the world so long as these arrangements obtain."
James Baldwin
"Workers' Lit" in the style of a GTA logo
Workers’ Lit June 22, 2026 cover art, “The mystery of the bitten peach.”