It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On today's show, we'll take a closer look at one of the topics that came up in Tuesday night's presidential debate, abortion rights. We touched on the

topic yesterday in our more general debate review, but the abortion rights section of the debate

was substantial and multi-layered, so we'll take a closer look. I'm also going to read you

Taylor Swift's entire endorsement post from Instagram. So many people are talking about that.

She did it.

But the text is interesting, and we have the luxury in this long form show of reading

the whole thing.

So we will do that in our election segment, which is coming up later this hour.

Also today, the messaging site Telegram and the problem of deep fake videos, sexualizing

teenage girls and others there. Also, the debate over the CEO of Telegram being arrested in France

over allegations of the app being used for things like child porn and drug trafficking.

Not everybody is a fan of that arrest and a call

in at the end of the show about having lots of friends, but never actually seeing them. But first,

New York City Public Schools started classes for the year one week ago today and we are happy now to

welcome schools chancellor David Banks.

Back to the program to answer some questions from me and some questions from you.

Issues in the news right now include the return to a phonics-based approach to teaching kids

how to read and how that went in year one and adjustments they're making for year two.

Many families leaving the system since the start of the pandemic and many migrant families

arriving.

The Chancellor recently called the influx of new families a godsend.

That's so interesting in how opposite it is from the way people talk about the arrivals

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