ITT Sound Off: Unresolved American Project

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Maria and guest co-host Imara Jones, journalist and award-winning creator of TransLash Media, discuss President Biden’s warning of nuclear “Armageddon” from Russia and his move to pardon federal marijuana possession convictions. They also get into the recent court ruling on DACA, the alleged abortion hypocrisy surrounding Republican candidate Herschel Walker, and the women-led protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa “Zhina” Amini.

ITT Staff Picks:

Noah Berlatsky writes about the significance of President Joe Biden’s announcement to roll back federal marijuana laws and how his decision “will concretely benefit large numbers of people, and will make the US a less repressive, less cruel place” in this piece for Public Notice.
“Walker’s disturbing history in no way reflects on other Black men. But I can’t help sensing some condescension in Republicans’ elevation of such a buffoonish candidate. Does Walker embody what they think Black men really are?” writes Jemele Hill in this piece for The Atlantic.
Hoda Katebi writes about how the recent protests in Iran “echo the decades of resistance led by women, both veiled and unveiled, against the hijab’s co-optation as a tool of repression since its imposition in the 1980s,” in this op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:23.1	Gracias.
0:34.3	From futuro media and PRX, it's in the big I'm Maria Nojosa.
0:38.8	And I'm Amara Jones and this is ITT Sound off.
0:42.5	And that's Amara Jones.
0:44.2	I'm so happy to be hosting with you, Amara.
0:47.4	So great to be hosting with you as well anytime I get the call, I'm excited.
0:51.7	Yeah, it's been too long and one of these days we will see each other in person.
0:56.2	That's right. One of these days it's going to happen.
0:58.2	With mescalen mimosas.
0:59.8	With mescalen mimosas and cheeseme and speaking of cheeseme, which by the way is
1:04.8	gossip in Spanish, so the cheeseme is really our first topic.
1:09.1	And it has to do with the president, Joe Biden.
1:12.9	So we've got two things to say about what's up with Joe Biden.
1:17.0	Amara, we just kind of have to because Joe Biden said that Armageddon is closer than
1:21.5	it's ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1:25.4	And he was talking about the recent threats from Putin, which gives us a little bit of context,
1:33.3	but takes us back to the Cold War.
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