A Bipartisan Killer
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Stars Wajahat Ali, columnist for The Daily Beast, and Jamilah King, deputy inequality editor for Buzzfeed News. They dive into the latest on the COVID-19 crisis, including the new omicron variant, and what’s needed to fight global vaccine inequality. They also unpack the trial and conviction of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers, and the state of U.S. democracy as we approach the 2022 midterm elections. ITT Staff Picks: - Early findings of the new coronavirus variant, omicron, show that it might be more transmissible and better able to get around the body’s immune responses, reports Apoorva Mandavilli for The New York Times. - For BuzzFeed News, reporter Jamilah King contributed to a story about a Black man who shot and killed a white teen, which asks whether his self-defense claim will carry the same weight as those made by other defendants. - “We have less than a year to try and save our ailing Republic from an increasingly radicalized and weaponized GOP death cult,” writes Wajahat Ali for The Daily Beast. Photo credit: AP Photo/Ana Brigida
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| 0:25.4 | It's an asymmetrical reality and if we don't call it out as such, cover it as such, and |
| 0:36.9 | warn as such, we especially those in the media will be complicit. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey what's up, welcome to In the Thick. |
| 0:46.2 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective, I'm Mariano |
| 0:51.8 | and I'm Julio Ricardo Varela and we got some OG ITT all stars with us, because we've been |
| 0:57.4 | around so long, we got some OGs. |
| 1:00.4 | So joining us from Washington DC is Wajahat Ali, he's a columnist for the Daily Beasts, |
| 1:06.0 | an author of the soon to be published book, go back to where you came from and other helpful |
| 1:11.2 | recommendations on how to become American, hey Wajahat? |
| 1:14.8 | Hey hey it's a very nice way of saying we're old, I appreciate it, I'll take OG. |
| 1:18.9 | Okay. |
| 1:20.3 | And by the way, I've never been told, go back to where you came from, not even close, |
| 1:24.3 | it's a fantasy, never to Maria and joining us from the liberated territory of Brooklyn, |
| 1:32.0 | New York is Jamila King, deputy, inequality editor for Buzzfeed news. |
| 1:36.5 | Welcome back to the show Jamila always gets a be here with you all, I can't wait to get started. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, so remember peeps were still recording from home, I mean, one of these days, |
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