From Punishment to Torture

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Julio and guest co-host Fernanda Santos discuss the judicial reforms in Israel and the rebranding of Twitter. In our roundtable, Fernanda is joined by climate reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis and Dr. Amite Dominick, president of the Texas Prison Community Advocates, for a conversation on how the climate crisis is impacting incarcerated individuals.

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0:00.0	Futuro.
0:06.6	1, 2, 3.
0:09.6	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick.
0:13.0	A podcast by politics racing culture.
0:16.0	I'm Julio Ricardo Varela.
0:17.8	Ooh, I love that.
0:18.9	I was thinking, is he going to say it right?
0:20.8	I did.
0:22.1	It's where now it's Portuguese.
0:23.9	So I'll say my name is Portuguese, too.
0:25.7	I'm Fernando Santos, or Fernando Santos, however you would be.
0:28.4	I'm Julio Ricardo Varela, or Julio Ricardo Varela is what I go.
0:33.4	So welcome, Fernanda, thanks for, as always, joining us here for the new stopper section
0:39.1	of the show.
0:40.2	So let's get to it.
0:41.2	We're going international on the show today because we actually need to talk about Israel.
0:48.0	So this is the latest on Monday, lawmakers in Israel passed a bill that prevents the Supreme
0:54.2	Court from blocking government decisions.
0:57.2	It deems, and I'm quoting unreasonable, that is so open to interpretation, but anyway.
1:04.4	So the bill is part of a broader set of judicial reforms pushed by right wing Israeli Prime
1:10.5	Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
1:14.1	So protests against these reforms and Netanyahu's government have been ongoing for months,
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