From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

This is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tango podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take.

I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the National Guard ruling in Portland.

Actually, Ari is going to be sharing his take today on that. I've got a staff

dissent to the position that Ari lays out. But a little more complication here in the legal

arguments than maybe there were a couple weeks ago because the government kind of pivoted

its argument. And it's an interesting case, although I think a little bit

scary. Speaking of scary, tomorrow I'm going to be releasing a podcast and newsletter that kind of zooms out

on this current moment. And I got to tell you right now, it is not an optimistic

piece. I'm wrestling with it, working on it now with our editors, going back and forth on,

you know, some debates that we're having internally. But yeah, I'm a little worried about the

moment that we're in, I think, justifiably. And I feel like it's worth putting a lot of this

stuff down in one complete package, which I think justifiably. And I feel like it's worth putting a lot of this stuff down

in one complete package, which I'm trying to do tomorrow. This will be a member's only piece

as all our Friday editions are. So if you want to unlock the full thing, you'll need to subscribe.

But I do think that it'll be worth it. And we'll be a good reference point to look back on, you know, in

a year or two to kind of see how some of it has aged. Finally, in lighter news, I want to remind

you that tomorrow it's happening. Our third ever live event is here. We are in Irvine,

California already. The entire team now is on the West Coast.

I'm going to be joined on stage by our editor at large, Camille Foster, Axios reporter Alexe Thompson,

and the Young Turks co-host, Anna Kasparian.

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