The LEFT Show

15/12/2025

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It’s Monday in America, time for The World’s Greatest Political Podcast: THE LEFT SHOW! This week JM Bell, Tiffany, and Jon break down how bad healthcare is going to get in two weeks and how the GOP delights in taking us there. Republicans in the news aren’t all bad, just mostly bad, and an exciting new way for voters to be racist.

12/12/2025

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This week on I Told You So, Tiffany and JM discuss holidays, working with adult children, and what it means to be in a healthy relationship.

02/12/2025

It's Giving Tuesday, for your consideration ...

01/12/2025

It’s Monday in America, time for The World’s Greatest Political Podcast: THE LEFT SHOW! This week JM Bell, Tiffany, and Jon talk about mental instability, bad DOGE, and the state of poverty. The Pentagon is silly, and everyone knows that, Trump does a good thing, a bad thing, and a who-knows-what thing.

28/11/2025

This YEAR! on JM & Tom ROAST EVERYTHING, the guys discuss a few of the things that have happened since our last recording. They also talk about how agism is getting worse, highlighting both the good and the bad. Throughout the show, Tom shares inspiring words, which is quite nice.

24/11/2025

It’s Monday in America, time for The World’s Greatest Political Podcast: THE LEFT SHOW! This week JM Bell and Jon talk about GOP dangers to children, Mamdani charm, unaliving your political foes, and Quiet Piggy! F-Bombs, petition madness, Higgins alone, and Latinos v Trump! US Invades Mexico, Saudi sportswashing, and Shine On!

17/11/2025

It’s Monday in America, time for The World’s Greatest Political Podcast: THE LEFT SHOW! This week JM Bell and Jon talk about the latest Epstein news [a-hem], new maps, 8 bad Dems, Kim Davis’s bad day, THC bans, 600k murdered, and the Taliban gets its feelings hurt. Hypocritical court cases, Schumer rolled over TWICE, planes need engines, and coffee is good for you and me!

16/11/2025

16/11/2025

Nastassja, do you remember how much you liked the movies?

When Astrid Lindgren's daughter Karin was sick in bed, she asked her mother to tell her a story about "Pippi Långstrump" -- a name so strange that Lindgren knew it had to belong to an equally strange girl. Years later, when Lindgren sprained her ankle and was forced to rest, she finally wrote down Pippi's adventures. That whimsical beginning launched one of literature's most enduring characters and changed children's literature forever.

Born on this day in 1907 in Vimmerby, Sweden, Lindgren would go on to create a beloved character who challenged 1940s conventions with her strength, independence, and joy -- a girl who lived alone and could lift a horse. Lindgren is pictured here with actress Inger Nilsson, who brought the beloved character to life in a series of classic films.

But Lindgren was far more than a storyteller -- she was a passionate advocate for children. In 1978, after receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, she delivered a powerful speech titled "Never Violence!" that helped Sweden become the first country in the world to ban corporal punishment of children in 1979. Reflecting on her purpose, she once said, "If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I'm satisfied."

With more than 167 million copies sold worldwide and her status as one of the world's most translated authors, Lindgren brightened countless childhoods while championing the belief that "Give the children love, more love and still more love -- and the common sense will come by itself."

For a lovely illustrated hardcover edition of all three of Lindgren's classic Pippi Longstocking books, we highly recommend “The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" for ages 7 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-adventures-of-pippi-longstocking

For adult fans of Lindgren's work, we recommend the biography "Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking" (https://www.amightygirl.com/astrid-lindgren) and her personal diaries from WWII "War Diaries, 1939–1945" (https://amzn.to/3CfIkql)

Astrid Lindgren is also the author of such Mighty Girl favorites as the early chapter book "Lotta on Troublemaker Street" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/lotta-on-troublemaker-street) and "Ronia, the Robber's Daughter" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ronia-the-robber-s-daughter)

There is also a collection of 14 of her beloved children's books at https://amzn.to/3WXExux

The four original Pippi films are also available in a box DVD set at Pippi https://www.amightygirl.com/pippi-longstocking-film-collection

13/11/2025

Well, this certainly tracks.

03/11/2025

It’s Monday in America, time for The World’s Greatest Political Podcast: THE LEFT SHOW! This week JM Bell and Jon talk about SNAP wars, awesome Presidents (not US), bad things Trump is doing, drowning in medical debt, again, and Noem can’t stop lying.