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Episode 297, August 29, 2026 -" You ain't gotta be locked up to be in prison" — dead prez Behind Enemy Lines
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dead prez opens this episode with a line about being imprisoned without necessarily being locked behind bars, and that idea ended up providing the structure for almost everything we're talking about this week because confinement, at its most sophisticated, is not always physical. Sometimes it is a system you depend upon but do not control, sometimes it is a technology that knows more about your movements than you realize, sometimes it is a political structure designed in such a way that you can participate without ever really possessing power, and sometimes the prison exists…
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