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Pantsuit Politics

Net Neutrality and #MeToo: Reckonings and Reflections

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The tsunami of sexual harassment and assault allegations continues and is causing cultural and political reflection. Today we continue our ongoing discussion of politics, partisanship, and the #metoo movement.  Thank you for everyone supporting our work on Patreon. We also appreciate our sponsors for today's podcast: Credible.com, Away, and ThirdLove. We hope you'll check out our new podcast, The Nuanced Life.  Congress has a very long to-do list through the end of the year. It's important to keep in mind that in addition to plans for tax cuts, Congress needs to fund the government before year-end and deal with DACA.  The attack on a mosque in the Sinai peninsula this weekend was the deadliest in modern Egypt's history. This region is under assault from ISIS and highlights the complexity of the war on terror and the deficiencies in our understanding of Islam and Africa.  Richard Cordray's resignation as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sparked a Marbury vs. Madison style showdown over the authority to name a replacement. We worry about the long-term consequences of more Trump administration personnel drama.  The FCC has announced plans to re-classify broadband services as information services, which could effectively end net neutrality. We describe the debate over net neutrality and discuss our interest in having Congress step in to make long-term decisions about the internet's future.  In our main segment we talk about the #MeToo movement and the difficult cultural inflection point that we're living. Drawing on Rebecca Traister's commentary, we talk... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The tsunami of sexual harassment and assault allegations continues and is causing cultural and political reflection.

0:06.0

Today we continue our ongoing discussion of politics, partisanship, and the Me Too movement.

0:12.0

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

0:15.0

You're listening to Pant-Soup Politics.

0:17.0

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:30.0

Welcome to another episode, everybody.

0:36.0

We hope you got a chance to check out our gift guide.

0:47.0

There's really no reason to do this, except for I just really like gift guides.

0:51.0

I just love, sure, I just love product recommendations.

0:56.0

It just touches the deepest part of my resource shirt, but heart.

1:00.0

So we did a gift guide on our blog and you should go check it out.

1:05.0

We also hope that you have checked out the new on slide.

1:07.0

We are so grateful for all of your support and the feedback that we've gotten so far.

1:11.0

And we're looking forward to putting out new episodes on Wednesdays.

1:14.0

So you'll have Pant-Soup Politics Tuesday and Friday in the new on slide on Wednesdays.

1:19.0

Also, we wanted to wish a very special happy birthday to one of our loyalist listeners, Martha,

1:26.0

who we are recording on Monday and she's celebrating her 60th birthday.

1:30.0

So happy day late belated birthday, Martha, as you're listening on Tuesday.

1:34.0

It just seemed like a big deal.

1:35.0

Happy birthday.

1:36.0

And that was worth a public birthday shout out.

1:38.0

So first up, Congress is back to work.

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