News Brief: Forced Pregnancies, Gutting the EPA and Growing Frustration Over "Vote Harder" Messaging
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🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In this public News Brief we catch up with the latest far right attacks on the liberal state and Democratic Party leadership's pathological inability––or unwillingness––to meet the moment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a Cytations Needed News Brief. |
| 0:06.4 | I am Neema Shirazi. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Adam Johnson. |
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| 0:24.6 | We do these newsrooms in between our regular full-length episodes and this week, Adam, I think |
| 0:30.7 | it's probably no surprise that we really feel like we want to talk about the Supreme |
| 0:35.3 | Court decision about Roe, but also some of the broader issues that we're seeing play |
| 0:40.1 | out some other current and pending Supreme Court decisions. |
| 0:43.6 | And of course, the media's response to this. |
| 0:46.1 | Right. |
| 0:47.1 | Some of this was discussed in episode 163 that aired last week, but we really wanted to |
| 0:51.6 | expand on some of these themes and get deeper into what we view as being the... |
| 0:56.4 | A broader theme on this show, I think it's fair to say, is the failure of liberal institutions |
| 1:02.2 | to meet the moment, to fight the insurgent and incredibly well-funded and very sophisticated |
| 1:09.2 | right-wing media machine. |
| 1:10.6 | And very successful media machine as well as the political parties that they support. |
| 1:15.7 | Right. |
| 1:16.7 | Long time listeners of the show will not be new to this theme. |
| 1:19.0 | And I think it's one that we saw in full display when the Roe decision officially came |
| 1:23.4 | down, which is just under two months ago when the Supreme Court decision leaked an early |
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