ITT EXTRA: Propaganda, Politics and Primaries

In The Thick

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News, Politics

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🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio check in on the week's news before the long weekend. They chat about President Trump's latest "immigration roundtable" on Long Island this week that conflated MS-13 with immigration, and the ACLU's publishing of government documents that allegedly show that the CBP abused and mistreated unaccompanied immigrant children during the Obama administration. And they catch up on this week's electoral primaries and what the wins and losses could mean for the 2018 midterm elections.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to In The Thick, I'm Maria Inahosa.
0:03.6	Hey, and I'm Gullio Rico-Lovaella.
0:06.0	And it's Friday, and it means only one thing, Maria.
0:09.9	ITT extra, extra, read all about it.
0:14.3	Hey, we want to start with some Twitter news because I want to say that In Thethick actually
0:18.9	was on this story before a lot of people because four months ago we did episode 94 with
0:24.7	Jamil Jaffer presidential lawsuits and the decision about the lawsuit of
0:29.6	whether if Trump can block people if it's a violation of First Amendment rights?
0:34.8	Well the federal judge said that it was a violation of First Amendment rights, that the Trump
0:39.2	account cannot block people on Twitter. Wow.
0:43.0	Right, because basically the argument is that his Twitter is like basically his public feed and so as a president you can't
0:50.0	be censoring the people who employ you.
0:53.2	So I guess Chrissy Tegan, here's what her tweet was,
0:56.5	well, well, we meet again because now Donald Trump.
1:01.1	He has to unblock Chrissy Tegan and so many other people.
1:05.0	It's an important First Amendment argument.
1:07.0	We understand it's super important for these times.
1:10.9	But then there is other things that are happening that you know we've been talking
1:15.2	about on in the thick since forever. So on Wednesday the ACLU, the American Civil
1:20.0	Liberties Union, said that it had obtained thousands of government documents that
1:24.1	allegedly basically show, quote, the pervasive abuse and neglect of unaccompanied
1:28.6	immigrant children, these are children detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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