4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Today, Sarah and Beth are discussing the Signal controversy, in which Jeffrey Goldberg (editor-in-chief of The Atlantic) was accidentally added to a group chat discussing war plans among top US officials. They discuss the national security implications and what this tells us about the second Trump administration's approach to governance.
Topics Discussed
The War Plans Group Chat
Donald Trump’s Revenge Tour
Outside of Politics: Tasks You Hate vs. Tasks You Miss
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0:00.0 | Lemonada |
0:02.0 | Lemonada This is Sarah Stewart Holland. |
0:37.5 | This is Beth Silvers. |
0:38.5 | You're listening to Pantsuit Politics. |
0:40.5 | We've been doing this for 10 years. |
0:43.3 | And we have learned to take a very different approach to the news. |
0:46.8 | We don't chase headlines and we don't lean on outrage. |
0:49.5 | That doesn't mean we ignore our emotional reactions. |
0:52.2 | We just try to work through those together so we can respond with curiosity and stay grounded and motivated instead of anxious and depleted. |
1:00.5 | Part of that different approach is balancing reacting to the headlines with putting the news in context and keeping politics in its place with our conversations outside of politics. |
1:09.8 | So we're going to try to do all of that today as we discuss the signal controversy, |
1:15.0 | the Trump administration's revenge tour against academia and the legal profession, and some international events. |
1:21.3 | And again, we always take a moment to exhale and talk about what's on our mind outside of politics. |
1:27.0 | And today, after our in-depth |
1:28.8 | conversation last week about parenting and crunchy moms, we're going to talk about the tasks |
1:33.4 | around parenting we love, ones we miss, and ones we're happier in the rearview mirror. |
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