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Majority 54

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Majority 54

Majority 54

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today's episode is brought to you by SimpliSafe, what US World and News Report calls the "best overall home security of 2020". Listeners can modernize their home security with their 60-day risk free trial and free shipping by going to: SimpliSafe.com/MAJORITY54 Today's episode is also brought to you by Blinkist. Blinkist takes the key takeaways from thousands of nonfiction books and condenses them down to just 15 min synopsis you can read or listen to. For a limited time, Blinkist has a special offer for Majority 54 listeners. You can try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription when you go to: Blinkist.com/MAJORITY54 We want to hear from you! Email us at M54@wondermedianetwork.com or leave us a voicemail by calling 508-687-2589 and you could have your voice on the show.  Jason is back with a new season and a new co-host, Ravi Gupta. Each week, they'll tackle our most pressing issues, giving you the tools necessary to successfully have conversations across the aisle. Majority54 is a Wonder Media Network production. It's produced by Grace Lynch and Edie Allard. Theme music provided by Kemet Coleman. Special thanks to Diana Kander. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news, he said the one news

0:04.7

source he definitely follows is TechMeme.

0:07.2

For more than two years and nearly 700 episodes, the TechMeme Ride Home has been Silicon

0:11.8

Valley's favorite TechNews podcast.

0:14.1

The TechMeme Ride Home is a daily podcast only 15 to 20 minutes long and every day by

0:18.4

5 p.m. Eastern it's all the latest tech news.

0:21.7

But it's more than just headlines.

0:22.7

You can get a robot to read your headlines.

0:25.2

The TechMeme Ride Home is all the context around the latest news of the day.

0:28.7

It's all the top stories, the top posts and tweets and conversations about those stories,

0:33.4

as well as behind the scenes analysis.

0:35.4

The TechMeme Ride Home is like TLDR as a service.

0:38.5

The folks at TechMeme are online all day reading everything so they can catch you up.

0:42.6

So listen to the one podcast anyone who's anyone in Silicon Valley listens to every single

0:47.0

day.

0:48.0

Search your podcast app now for Ride Home and subscribe to the TechMeme Ride Home podcast.

0:53.0

I'm Jason Kander and this is Majority 54.

0:58.6

A podcast that helps the 54% who did not vote for Donald Trump.

1:02.6

Talk to those of us who did about the most divisive issues in our country.

1:06.4

This week we have a special guest co-host my friend Stephanie Shriak.

1:10.2

Since Stephanie Shriak became president in 2010, Emily's list has seen unprecedented

1:14.7

growth, helped elect record numbers of women to the House and Senate and recruited and

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