John: Trump’s losses in the Georgia Republican primary and Jason Willick’s Washington Post piece, “Why Trump’s 2024 chances are even worse than Georgia suggests”

Listener chatter from Rebecca Vernon: Marisa lati for The Washington Post: “In a massive Chinese sinkhole, scientists find a secret forest”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily and David talk to Jody Rosen about bicycles and his new book, Two Wheels Good: The History & Mystery of the Bicycle.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to the Slate political gapfest.
0:08.8	For May 26, 2022, it's the no way to prevent this addition.
0:20.1	I am David Plotts of CityCast in Washington, D.C.
0:23.5	I'm joined, of course, by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday Morning in New York.
0:28.0	Hello, John.
0:29.0	Hello, David, and by Emily Bazlon of New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School
0:33.6	from New Haven.
0:34.6	Hello, Emily.
0:35.6	Hey, David.
0:37.6	This week, the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas and how exactly this time, nothing will
0:45.8	change.
0:46.8	What is the way in which nothing will change this time?
0:49.3	Then will Texas and Florida's bizarre laws targeting social media platforms succeed?
0:55.4	Then present Biden's confusing statements about Taiwan have thrown foreign policy into
0:59.8	a tizzy will be joined by China Scholar, Sheena Chestnut Graydens to sort it out, plus
1:04.7	we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:06.2	And a reminder, Gap Fest listeners, we have a live show coming up our first in three years.
1:12.6	First in three years, we will be live at 6th and I, Historic Synagogue here in Washington,
1:16.7	D.C. on June 29th.
1:18.1	You can get tickets at slate.com slash Gap Fest Live, slate.com slash Gap Fest Live.
1:25.1	It's going to be really, really fun to get together with you, to gather, we'll have obviously
1:31.6	audience questions and those are really joyful and interesting and delightful evening.
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