Hi, I'm Christian Pas, Senior Politics reporter at Vox.

The Today Explaining team thought the best way to open today's show would be to just have me read the

tweets I sent out while watching last night's debate between President

Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, so here we go. Right out the gate I tweeted what the

F you I didn't finish the curse but not a great sign that one was shortly

followed by what is going on, no question mark. And then I wrote, God I love democracy, just like Chancellor slash Emperor Palpatine. And then pretty early on I tweeted, all right, turning the TV off.

Regrettably I didn't, that was like 15 minutes in.

But then later in the debate I did tweet out,

someone should send him, poppers, all caps.

And finally a Jan six question, remember Jan 6? An alley cat stock chart

emoji chart emoji chart emoji chart if you know you know. And then my penultimate

reflection, where is Commander Biden?

And my last, what an exercise in democracy.

Hi, it's Ashley C Ford.

I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about Joy and

Justice produced with Vox Creative.

I'm so excited to share that Into the Mix is back with four stories that take you beyond the headlines and introduce you to the real people meeting some of today's greatest fights for justice.

First up, we're heading to St. Louis

to meet Einez Fordow, a nurse and mother of four,

and a very proud Scorpio.

When a court error sent her life into a seven-year tail spin,

Einez came out swinging on the other side and set her sights on justice. How? By closing the jail that symbolized the system that

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