Lemonada.

Hi, it's Beth.

We always set aside this time of year for reflection episodes.

We do that for a few reasons.

We think they're really important.

We're also able to record them on a more relaxed schedule,

and that lets our audio engineers and Elise and Maggie work with a little more ease than our usual production process allows.

So you're about to hear an episode that we recorded last week.

Over the weekend, there were horrifying attacks during an economics exam review at Brown University,

during a meeting among security forces in Syria, and during a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney.

The world lost so many people, old and young, people of many nationalities and backgrounds and experiences.

Millions of people around the world are grieving right now.

While there are still many unanswered questions in connection with these events,

we know enough to mourn for the dead, pray for the injured, and lament the extremism at work in these attacks.

I talk about all these stories, along with the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker and Monday's news brief published on Substack.

Usually, those episodes are behind a payroll, but we made this one free for anyone. We'll put the

link to watch that episode and the notes to this episode. You can also find it by going to PansuPolitics

Show.com. The only way that we know how to keep moving forward is to keep moving forward, to keep

listening and learning and loving each other the best that we can. So here is our offer today.

Some reflections on 2025,

shared with love in our hearts for the world and for you.

This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

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