123: Moms for Liberty, with Teddy Wilson

I Don't Speak German

IDSG

Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

3.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jack is honoured to be joined by special guest Teddy Wilson of the excellent substack Radical Reports. (Links below.) Teddy has been closely studying the US far-right, including the sinister political pressure group that calls itself Moms for Liberty, one of the prime movers in the current reactionary cultural counter-revolution going on in America. Teddy tells Jack all about it, going into detail about M4L's aims, methods, and connections. He also tells Jack about the interactive visualisation tool he's created at Radical Reports for tracking M4L, their activities and interactions with other people and groups on the right. Topics covered include M4L's links to the Republican Party including DeSantis in Florida, their ideological censorship movement to expunge school libraries of anything they don't like, their links to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, etc. Fascinating (if ominous) stuff.

Just Jack this episode, but Daniel is on his way back. Won't be too long now.

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Radical Reports substack

Mapping Moms for Liberty - the interactive visualisation tracking tool

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0:00.0	Hello, IDSG listeners, it's me, Jack, all by myself, I'm afraid, but the good news is
0:06.2	that Daniel and I should be able to start recording and releasing mainline episodes
0:12.7	again fairly soon.
0:14.5	As you know, we haven't been able to do that for a while, real-life stuff, backstage,
0:18.6	nonsense, etc, but we are keen to get back to it, we are hoping to, wanting to, expecting
0:24.8	to get started again quite soon, so look out for that.
0:28.7	In the meantime, have this episode, in which I was very lucky to have a chat with Teddy
0:33.6	Wilson of Radical Reports, at Radical Reports on, well, used to be called Twitter, now it
0:39.6	sounds like a porn site.
0:40.9	Anyway, enough of that, yes, Teddy Wilson, who came on very kindly to chat to me a little
0:46.9	bit about Mom's Fall Liberty, a group that he has been tracking amongst lots of other
0:53.2	stuff at his excellent substack Radical Reports.
0:57.0	I just wanted to check in with you first, say hello, let you know how things are coming
1:00.2	along, but now, let's get into the episode proper, me chatting with Teddy Wilson.
1:19.1	And hello and welcome back to, I don't speak German, the podcast that you know, you know
1:24.5	what this podcast is about, and it's just me, I'm afraid this time, you're stuck with
1:28.9	just me, Daniel can't make it today, this episode, but he sends his love and he wishes
1:36.3	he was here and he will be back with us very soon, I give you my word, because he's
1:42.3	given me his, so if he defaults on it, he's going to be in trouble.
1:46.0	But I am lucky because to keep me company while Daniel's away, I do have a special guest
1:53.2	who I'm very happy and pleased and honored to welcome to the show, it's Teddy Wilson of
2:00.3	Radical Reports.
	...

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