Federal Firings, Say Something, and SNL50
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, Sarah and Beth talk about President Trump's mass firings of probational federal employees and what that means for our communities and government, a mass shooting that was averted and why we're hearing about it, and outside of politics, SNL's 50th-anniversary celebration.
Topics Discussed
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DOGE Fires Federal Employees
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Sandy Hook Promise Prevents Mass Shooting
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Outside of Politics: SNL 50 and the next great thing in TV
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada. This is Sarah Stewart Holland. This is Beth Silvers. You're listening to Pantsuit |
| 0:16.8 | Politics. And today we're going to discuss more firings in the federal government, |
| 0:21.7 | the Trump administration's impact on European leaders, and something that might not have broken |
| 0:25.5 | through your headlines, how a possible school shooting was prevented this week in Indiana. |
| 0:30.6 | And then outside of politics, we're going to talk about TV and there's a lot to talk about. |
| 0:35.0 | There's a lot to talk about. On Sunday night, we had the big S&L 50th anniversary extravaganza. |
| 0:43.2 | So we're going to talk about that, which competed with the season premiere of White Lotus, |
| 0:51.3 | which, drum roll please, we have decided to do recaps of on Substack. We did this with the final season of Succession, and that was so much fun. And so we're going to watch the new season of White Lotus, which is coming out a week at a time as God intended, Beth. I applaud that decision, absolutely. That's the way it should be. I feel so strongly about this as a millennial. |
| 1:12.7 | Takes a lot of pressure off. |
| 1:14.1 | Yes. |
| 1:14.6 | Gives you something to look forward to. |
| 1:16.2 | I like appointment viewing. |
| 1:17.4 | Yes, you can't process that level of writing and plotting if you binge it all at one time. |
| 1:23.4 | Okay, so that aside. |
| 1:25.3 | We're going to do week by week episode recaps, which are really just our episode processing. |
| 1:31.2 | So that will start today on Substack with the very first episode of season three of White Lotus. |
| 1:37.4 | So go check that out. |
| 1:38.6 | Because we are people who have a variety of tastes. |
| 1:41.4 | We are also on Substack this month beginning our slow read of the book Habits |
| 1:45.9 | of the Heart. So last year we read Democracy and America together and we took so much from |
| 1:51.1 | reading and discussing Democracy in America with all of you. Habits of the Heart is a follow-up to |
| 1:56.5 | Democracy in America written by a group of authors in the 1980s. It's a much easier read than democracy in America. It's going to feel like the pages are just flying by if you read along with us for Alexis de Tocqueville. So you can find more information about the reading schedule for that in our show notes and on substack. Our first episode for that read along will be at the end of February. And I can't wait because I love |
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