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“The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a captive audience.
“Do you like Kyle Kulinski?”
The driver, Ahmed, was a recent immigrant and apparently a die-hard fan of Secular Talk, the political talk show that Kulinski broadcasts on YouTube. I told him, yes, in fact. I do like Kulinski, had come across his show several years ago, and, all things considered, he seemed pretty good.
“He understands what we’re up against,” Ahmed said. “Like Bernie.”
But I was surprised to hear Kulinski’s name mentioned in the same breath as Bernie Sanders, particularly with such adoration. Because what I did remember about Kulinski’s show struck me as mostly capital-P “progressive” takes on the news — the left wing of the Netroots crowd more than the democratic socialism Sanders has popularized.
It’s an impression that wasn’t entirely incorrect.
“I have no time for philosophical, airy bullshit,” Kulinski tells me from his home in Westchester, New York. “I don’t want to hear about Lenin. I don’t want to hear about Marx. I just want a super plainspoken, straightforward agenda with a straightforward way of selling it.”
With over 800,000 subscribers and nearly 670 million total views on YouTube, selling a progressive agenda is clearly something Kulinski knows how to do — even Democracy Now, the long-standing flagship of progressive media, cannot match his reach on the platform. Chapo Trap House can certainly boast a wildly devoted fan base (and a not insignificant degree of media influence), but their audience is roughly half the size of Kulinski’s.
While Secular Talk might be more likely to be looped in with the progressive networks around Air America and Pacifica alums like Sam Seder than the more resolutely socialist world, Kulinski’s fiery rhetoric, razor-sharp class instincts, and knack for withering takedowns sets him apart from his peers. Judging by his rhetoric alone, he’s closer to a Eugene Debs than a Chris Hayes.
But unlike Hayes, Amy Goodman, or his friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks — who began airing Secular Talk on his web network seven years ago — the thirty-two-year-old Kulinski is virtually invisible in the mainstream media. Despite his enormous fan base, his show has never once been mentioned in the obligatory trend pieces on “the Millennial Left” pumped out by the prestige media. Nor has Kulinski’s name ever popped up at all in the New York Times, Vox, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, or the Washington Post, despite his leading role in cofounding Justice Democrats, the organization widely credited with sweeping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of “the Squad” to power.
Just last week, his Wikipedia page was deleted. The reason? “There is very simply no [reliable source] coverage of this person,” according to one moderator. In new media, he’s king — the Sean Hannity of the Berniecrat left. In old media, he’s nobody.
I suspect there are a few reasons for that. There is nothing “cool” about Kulinski’s show. (As a friend put it, “‘Welcome to Secular Talk’ sounds like something you’d hear on Egyptian radio.”) His no-nonsense social-democratic politics won’t get him much cred with the Full Communism crowd. He records his show not in Brooklyn or Los Angeles, but in a studio he built himself in his modest Westchester home. His hair is too groomed and his taste in clothes too preppy to qualify as “Dirtbag Left.” Nor has he ever attended an n+1 release party. “Not only have I not attended one,” he says, “I have no idea what that means.”
And yet he’s astonishingly plugged-in for a young man in the suburbs. Wondering how Sanders ended up on the Joe Rogan Experience? Kulinski, a frequent guest on Rogan’s wildly popular show, introduced them. “You make the most sense to me,” Rogan told Kulinski on a recent episode. “You’re a normal person.”
Much like Sanders himself, Kulinski’s show has a massive audience that just doesn’t compute with our media’s understanding of “what the kids want” or even “what the left-wing kids want.”
It’s probably for the best — the very woke and very WASP-ish decorum haunting much of the media world is nowhere to be found in Secular Talk. “Corporate Democrats over-focus on identity as a trick to divert you from the issues that unite us all — class issues,” he said on a recent episode.
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PUTIN FIRES AT THE EUROPEAN UNION’S DOORSTEP. On the thirteenth of September a Russian drone struck a passenger train at the Yahodyn rail crossing, two kilometres from the Polish border, on the exact line Europe’s leaders use to travel into Ukraine. A train carrying Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt had rolled through that same stretch a short time earlier, and former CIA director David Petraeus was aboard another train standing in the station at the moment of the strike. Nobody was killed — but for the first time in this war Putin had fired at a Ukrainian border crossing into the European Union. Kaja Kallas called it an attempt to intimidate the West; Boris Pistorius called it an attack on NATO itself.
The energy truce lasted hours. Trump announced that both sides had agreed to stop striking energy facilities; Peskov welcomed it, demanded safe passage for Russian tankers in the same breath, and refused to say whether Russia would stop. That same night Russian drones burned petrol stations around Kyiv and a missile hit the facility supplying the capital’s water — and Ukraine answered at Yaroslavl, where crude processing stopped for at least the ninth time this year, and at Kapotnya, the Gazprom refinery inside Moscow that supplies around forty percent of the capital’s fuel and up to seventy percent of the region’s petrol and aviation fuel.
Then the Kremlin tried to prove the country stands behind it, and proved the opposite. Ballot boxes went door to door through occupied Kherson under armed escort while Oleshky waited for food that stopped coming on the twenty-fifth of June. In one Moscow school, United Russia took ninety votes at the table where observers stood and six hundred and seventy-five at the table where nobody was watching. And while Moscow burned, NATO closed a ring of fifty aircraft around Kaliningrad, Italian Eurofighters made the first NATO drone kill over Lithuania, German Leopards rolled into Rudninkai and Poland began walling its border — every fear Putin exported landing back on his own map.
What this video covers:
The Yahodyn strike — a Russian drone on a passenger train two kilometres from Poland
Johnson, Bildt and Petraeus: how close Putin came to killing Europe’s envoys
The energy truce Russia broke within hours — Kyiv’s petrol stations and water supply
Two thousand jet drones a week, and Ukraine’s new interceptors that catch them
Yaroslavl and Kapotnya: the refinery that fuels Moscow, burning inside Moscow
Eleven hundred Russian soldiers a day for a frozen front — Yampil and Dvorichna
Ballot boxes under guard in occupied Kherson, and Oleshky waiting for bread
Ninety votes against six hundred and seventy-five in one Moscow school
Kaliningrad ringed by fifty NATO aircraft and the first NATO kill over Lithuania
Germany’s brigade at Rudninkai, Poland’s East Shield, France’s nuclear roof
India, China and the tariff law closing on the oil that pays for the war
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