Gavin Newsom, the California governor who’s been seemingly anointed to the throne of the Democratic Party, thinks Democrats should be more “culturally normal.” He thinks we should spend less time talking about pronouns. He won’t tax billionaires, and he’s had approximately four different positions on Israel in the last six weeks. Yet two and half years out from the 2028 election, some inside the party are already demanding allegiance to the newest spineless, corporate candidate in a long line of spineless, corporate candidates. This week, Emma Vigeland, Kat Blaque and I air our grievances with a man who believes in nothing, and a party that touts democracy while practicing nothing of the sort. We all deserve better.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mattbernstein

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Support a fairer future free from religious overreach at https://humanist.org/fruity

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off

Follow Emma on Instagram.

Watch Emma on The Majority Report.

Follow Kat on Instagram.

Watch Kat on YouTube.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Patrick Harris would like to make art that is “apolitical.” Sydney Sweeney “is not a political person.” Jelly Roll is a “dumb redneck” who we shouldn’t want to hear from, but we will be hearing his thoughts on global events “soon.” Ethan Hawke says we shouldn’t seek moral guidance from “a bunch of jet-lagged, drunk artists,” and perhaps he’s right. But at a time when celebrities who were once known for their political outspokenness have gotten strangely coy (Taylor Swift and Beyoncé come to mind), one naturally begins to wonder if something is amiss. And when LeBron James, who cites civil rights hero Muhammad Ali as an inspiration, says he’s heard “only great things” about Israel — now we’re just being, well, played. Today, Gianmarco Soresi, Caroline Kwan and I examine the marked shift pop culture has taken towards spinelessness and attempt to remedy it.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity.

Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity.

Follow Gianmarco on Instagram.

Watch Gianmarco’s podcast, The Downside.

Watch Caroline on Twitch.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ICE is many things — chief among them, an outgrowth of a seemingly neverending masculinity crisis. The U.S. government has devised a billion dollar strategy to recruit aggrieved young men into ICE with the promise of giving them a purpose: to “restore the homeland.” And their masculinity. The results have been devastating. A parallel crisis of manhood is unfolding in the form of looksmaxxers, a booming online community of men injecting meth and breaking their bones to enhance their perceived physical beauty. Today, YouTube essay legend F.D Signifier, Twitch culture streamer Caroline Kwan and I explore the evermore bizarre ways patriarchy is setting men up to fail while everyone else pays the price.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Protect yourself online, wherever you go. Get a discount on NordVPN at https://www.nordvpn.com/fruity

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off

Watch F.D Signifier on YouTube.

Watch Caroline on Twitch.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ashley St. Clair dropped out of college to become a full-time conservative influencer. Five years later, she was pregnant with Elon Musk’s child. Within months, the weight of the politics Ashley built her career on collapsed. Elon publicly disparaged Ashley and reneged on his fatherly responsibilities, and the influencer who once shamed single mothers on Fox News was one herself. Today, June (or JUNlPER, of Twitter fame) joins me to have a frank discussion with a newly reformed Ashley St. Clair. We probe her on profiting off anti-LGBT bigotry, the seductiveness of the right-wing influencer ecosystem, and making amends. And, of course, what it’s like for the leopards to eat your face.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity.

Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity.

Listen to June’s podcast, Kill The Computer.

Listen to June’s other podcast, Ill Conceived.

Follow June on Bluesky.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candace Owens’s daily livestreams have more viewers than Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC combined. The woman who less than a decade ago was a liberal blogger in New York City is now one of the most powerful voices representing — and tearing apart — the American Right. Her latest and most successful act is that of a professional conspiracy theorist, spinning webs around Brigitte Macron’s gender, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and of course, The Jews. Millions of people who’ve self-admittedly “never agreed with Candace” are finding themselves in her clutches. Today, fellow Connecticut native Taylor Lorenz and I take a trip into Candaceland to try to decipher why Candace is the way she is and what the Right may look like after Trump.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Support a fairer future free from religious overreach at https://humanist.org/fruity

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off

Watch Taylor on YouTube.

Read Taylor’s work on User Mag.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Nicki Minaj stepped on stage in Phoenix, Arizona, with one hand clasping Erika Kirk and the other waving to a crowd of white supremacists, even I was shocked. We’ve known the Queen of Rap to be many unsavory things: an insecure egomaniac, a steadfast defender of predators, an obsessive poster (she has my solidarity on that one). But “fascist propagandist” I did not see coming. Today, Olayemi Olurin, Kat Tenbarge and I draw a map of Nicki’s life to make sense of how she got here, what she hopes to receive from it, and if it’ll even pan out.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off

Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. 

Subscribe to Kat Tenbarge’s work.

Follow Kat Tenbarge on Bluesky.

Subscribe to Olay on YouTube.

Follow Olay on Instagram.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Samantha Fulnecky filed a religious discrimination complaint against her university after failing an essay assignment in which she only referenced the Bible, she was on a path to victory. Sure, the essay was a grammatical disaster and completely incoherent — not to mention offensive towards both her classmates and professors. Sure, the failing grade was deserved. But in the age of right-wing culture war domination, Samantha was poised to become a star. Her January 6th-loving mother, Turning Point USA (and their recent influx of cash), and the Oklahoma House of Representatives all threw their full weight behind her. Despite all this, Samantha Fulnecky became the last great joke of 2025. Today, Kat Tenbarge, Parker Molloy and I examine why she failed the grift (and the essay).

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Get smarter about yours (and others!) news media consumption with Ground News at https://www.ground.news/fruity

Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity. 

Subscribe to Kat Tenbarge’s work at Spitfire News.

Follow Kat Tenbarge on Bluesky.

Subscribe to Parker Molloy’s newsletter.

Follow Parker Molloy on Bluesky.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the afternoon Charlie Kirk died, Jeffree Star livestreamed a four-minute-long rant about how nonbinary people aren’t real. Star, with his pink hair, diamond nails, and prior openness to using “any pronouns,” doesn’t necessarily fit in with Turning Point USA’s target demographic. Or does he? In this long-awaited and much-requested episode, veteran YouTuber Kat Blaque and former full-time Jeffree Star reporter Kat Tenbarge guide us through the tragic, racist, celebrity-filled history of the Internet’s most prolific makeup mogul. Despite many changes in circumstance — just like Gwen Stefani, he’ll always be an Orange County girl.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Get smarter about yours (and others!) news media consumption with Ground News at https://www.ground.news/fruity

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off

Subscribe to Kat Blaque on YouTube.

Follow Kat Blaque on Instagram.

Subscribe to Kat Tenbarge’s work.

Follow Kat Tenbarge on Bluesky.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is no bigger danger to Jews, apparently, than New York City’s Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani. The morning after he was elected, the ADL announced the launch of the “Mamdani Monitor” to track antisemitism within Zohran’s administration. Debra Messing posted 91 Instagram stories in a single day about how she fears for her life as a Jew — not because of the rise of antisemitism within the MAGA movement or the mainstreaming of neo-nazi Nick Fuentes, but because of Zohran Mamdani, a man who is not antisemitic. This week, Matt Lieb (of Bad Hasbara) and Simone Zimmerman (of Israelism) help me navigate a literal industry — and ethnostate — propped up not only by fearmongering about antisemitism, but also by intentionally creating it.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity. 

Get an exclusive 60% on Incogni! https://incogni.com/fruity

Listen to Matt Lieb on Bad Hasbara.

Follow Matt Lieb on Twitter.

Listen to Simone on Beyond Israelism.

Follow Simone on Instagram.

Read the Jewish Currents audit of the ADL’s 2023 antisemitism statistics.

Read the Jewish Currents audit of the ADL’s 2024 antisemitism statistics.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Welch, a 51-year-old Texan turned Oklahoman, is radicalizing America one wine mom at a time. The southern podcaster (who might finally be our “Joe Rogan of the Left”) has become an unlikely, fierce critic of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the corrupt Democratic establishment, and unregulated capitalism, which she says “brought us Trump” (I agree). This week, Jennifer and I cross a generational divide to discuss Israel’s erosion of the Democratic Party, Ezra Klein’s idiotic centrist plea for more anti-abortion Democrats, and how to sell democratic socialism to the masses.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off.

Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. 

Listen to Jennifer on I’ve Had It.

Follow Jennifer on Instagram.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill Maher is, allegedly, the last sane voice on the left. But he doesn’t believe in the rights of transgender people, or of Palestinians. He thinks college campuses are hotbeds of liberal indoctrinarian that have gotten “out of control.” Come to think of it, he hasn’t really advocated for any left-wing position in recent memory. An advocate for breaking out of echo chambers, Bill speaks almost exclusively to right-wing activists, and never to the minorities he bashes. He claims to know what Democrats should do if they want to win, but hates the ones who are actually winning. Three decades into his TV career and lost in the delusions that often come with a nine-digit net worth, Bill Maher has never been so useless.

Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon!

Thanks to today’s sponsors!

Get smarter about yours (and others!) news media consumption with Ground News at https://www.ground.news/fruity

Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity

Get an exclusive 60% on Incogni! https://incogni.com/fruity

Listen to Francesca on The Bituation Room.

Follow Francesca on Twitter.

Listen to Will on I Hate Bill Maher.

Find me on Instagram.

Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices