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Optical center. See only the good, here only the best. Hi everybody and welcome to Outbird Slate's podcast for you lesbians, gays,

bisexuals and trans people who spend way too much time on the internet.

I am Jules Gill-Peterson who's very hard to find online, but I feel like I'm joined by the presence of greatness.

Um, who's here with me today?

I'm Brian Lauter and I'm so pleased to be called great.

I feel the same way about you Jules.

I'm Christina Kato Ritchie, a senior writer at Slate and I still feel like I'm basking in the glow of being

altogether after my little time away earlier this summer.

It's so good for the gang to be back together.

Well we've all teamed up today because we've got a real one for you.

You know, there's really no shortage of political news going on right now, but I think that means it can be pretty hard to keep up with everything and with so much attention trained on the presidential election,

it's easy to forget, for example, that, you know,

Congress, that thing is still in session,

still entertaining legislation of all sorts.

And what bill that hasn't consistently got necessarily the same amount of

press coverage as other initiatives is the very dubiously named Kids

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