No Way to Prevent This

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Kate McGee and Jolie McCullough for The Texas Tribune: “Confronted with mass shootings, Texas Republicans have repeatedly loosened gun laws” Bruce Leshan for WUSA9: “Other countries have been hit by school shootings – and done something” Carl Hulse for The New York Times: “How Congress Passed an Assault Weapons Ban in 1994” Rebecca Kern for Politico: “Tech companies removed the Buffalo shooting manifesto. A Texas law could make that illegal” Emily Woodbury for St. Louis Public Radio: “Sheena Chestnut Greitens analyzes China’s tightrope walk amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” Lara Seligman for Politico: “‘Deadly serious’: U.S. quietly urging Taiwan to follow Ukraine playbook for countering China” Here are this week’s chatters: David: The Congressional Naming Commission planning to rename forts originally named for Confederate leaders Emily: The women in her New York Times piece “America Almost Took a Different Path Toward Abortion Rights” 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. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is
0:13.6	then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps
0:17.9	and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath
0:21.6	but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
0:25.0	Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:35.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Cap Fest.
0:45.2	For May 26, 2022 it's the no way to prevent this edition. I am David Plotts of CityCast
0:51.7	in Washington DC. I'm joined of course by John Dickerson of CBS' Sunday Morning in New York.
0:57.6	Hello John. Hello David and by Emily Bazlana of the New York Times Magazine and Yellow
1:02.8	University Law School from New Haven. Hello Emily.
1:07.3	This week the school massacre in Uvalde Texas and how exactly how exactly this time nothing
1:15.6	will change what is the way in which nothing will change this time. Then we'll Texas and Florida's
1:20.8	bizarre laws targeting social media platforms succeed. Then present Biden's confusing statements
1:27.6	about Taiwan have thrown foreign policy into a tizzy will be joined by China scholar
1:32.0	Sheena Chestnut Graydens to sort it out plus we'll have cocktail chatter. And a reminder
1:37.1	Gat Fest listeners we have a live show coming up our first and three years. First and three years
1:43.2	we will be live at 6th and I historic synagogue here in Washington DC on June 29th. You can get
1:49.2	tickets at slate.com slash Gat Fest live. Slate.com slash Gat Fest live. It's going to be really,
1:56.5	really fun to get together with you to gather. We'll have obviously audience questions and those
2:04.4	are really joyful and interesting and delightful evening. So we hope you'll join us. Slate.com
2:11.4	slash Gat Fest live for our June 29th show in Washington DC. And if you can't make it to DC
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