296: FACE Off

#SistersInLaw

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4.9 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Get tickets for the #SistersInLaw live shows in Denver, Colorado, on 4/23/26, and in Atlanta, Georgia on 5/3/26 at politicon.com/tour

Jill Wine-Banks hosts #SistersInLaw to explain the FACE Act, how it’s been used in the past, its politicization by Trump’s DOJ in recent prosecutions, and the erosion of protections granted to reproductive health clinics. Then, the #Sisters discuss the recent antitrust verdict against Ticketmaster and Live Nation, their monopoly on the live entertainment industry, the origins of the case, the actions being taken by the DOJ and various states, and what it all means for ticket prices. They also expose the sizeable budget allocation for immigration enforcement, examine the challenges of prosecuting wayward ICE agents, and consider what the future might hold.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law. We're so glad you're here, and today we have a full set of sisters. We're here with Kimberly Atkins Store, Barb McQuaid, Joyce Vance, and me,
0:22.7	Jill Wine Banks. And we want you to know that we're doing live shows. We have one April 23rd,
0:30.5	just next week in Denver at the Servantes Master Pets Theater. And then on May 3rd in Atlanta at the Buckhead Theater,
0:40.3	tickets are available at Politicon.com. Get yours before they fell out. Today we have a really big show,
0:47.8	and we are going to be talking about the Face Act. I know you all remember what that is,
0:53.0	freedom of access to clinics. And then we're going to
0:56.8	talk about the Swifties One and what that will mean for you as a ticket purchaser. And then we have
1:04.9	some news about ice. But before we get to that, I want to talk to my sisters about decluttering because I'm trying to do that.
1:13.7	Sorry, let's, I'm all about this good spring cleaning, but that's not what we're going to talk about today.
1:19.5	We are going to talk about the fact that Jill Wine Banks has been acknowledged internationally for her fabulacity involving her pins. Jill,
1:30.3	tell us what happened.
1:31.7	All of Fame pins.
1:34.4	It was a lot of fun.
1:36.5	I got an email from the Financial Times of London that they wanted to do a piece about my brooches.
1:45.8	They call them brooches because this is after all London. And I had a wonderful interview. A reporter from London, obviously the time
1:54.0	difference meant it was at a strange time for her and me. And she wrote up a story that I have to say,
2:00.3	I think she really captured the joy of collecting and the meaning of my pins.
2:06.6	And she focused on five pins, but I actually snuck in a sixth pin.
2:11.6	And all of the people who follow me will know.
2:14.8	It's a long brand. In the picture that is the cover of the story, I'm wearing an ERA rhinestone pin.
2:23.7	And that was not one that she talks about in the article, but anybody seeing that picture is going to see ERA, something I've been working on since 1976.
2:33.5	Although I've been wearing pins for longer than that.
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