941 - Sister Number One feat. Aída Chávez (6/9/25)

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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We’re joined by The Nation’s Aída Chávez for her report from WelcomeFest, the abundapalooza dedicated to staking the technocratic claim for the future of the Democratic party. We review the fairly directionless and unenthusiastic vibes of the centrist shindig, but also discuss the explosion of police violence during protests against ICE in Los Angeles over the weekend. All leading us to ask, what exactly do these people think “power” is, and when is it “right” to exercise it? Read Aída’s dispatch from WelcomeFest for The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/welcomefest-dispatch-centrism-abundance/ Donate to the Jordan Breen sports journalism scholarship fund - https://gofund.me/837f326c New merch for the summer up at https://chapotraphouse.store/

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0:00.0	All right
0:02.0	All I'm going to be is a trouble
0:19.0	All I want to be is a joke Hello, everybody. It's a chopin.
0:33.6	It's Monday, June 9th, and this is your choppa.
0:39.6	On today's episode, Felix and I are joined by journalist Ada Chavez, who was at last week's Welcome Fest in Washington, D.C., to tell us about her time there and all the wonderfully abundant things that she saw and experienced.
0:53.3	Ada, welcome to the show.
0:54.8	Hi, guys.
0:55.3	So good to be here.
0:56.4	And yeah, and then at the end of the show, I will be, we will be sharing some music with
1:00.9	you, some recently commissioned music that I think that you will quite enjoy.
1:05.6	But before we get into that today, I think it would behoove us to talk a little bit
1:10.8	about a couple of the events that happened over the weekend. I think it would behoove us to talk a little bit about a couple of the events that
1:12.5	happened over the weekend. I'm thinking specifically of the just violence that's happening in
1:18.5	Los Angeles right now as people begin to basically fight back against paramilitary federal
1:25.9	law enforcement, which has been targeting, I don't know,
1:29.1	elementary schools, immigration courts, and is certainly promising more of violence to come.
1:36.1	Similar clashes happened in New York.
1:39.0	And I guess, like, I'm thinking about this happening at the exact same time this weekend
1:43.0	where the Madeline Flotilla, the ship
1:46.6	that was sailing to Gaza with Greta Thurnberg, Liam Cunningham, and other activists was
1:51.8	interdicted in international waters by the Israeli military. Their cargo was seized and they're
1:58.1	currently being held in Israel. I'm sure they're about to be
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