It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC. I'm David First, WNYC's weekend edition host, filling in for Brian today.

On today's show, we'll talk about the many bills. Governor Hokel is considering

whether to sign as deadlines approach and what issues are at stake. The bills address some big

ones like cannabis, climate change, and housing. Plus, later in the show, our series celebrating

WNYC's centennial, 100 years of 100 things,

looks at the history of celebrating Christmas in the city,

including the tree in Rockefeller Center,

the Rockettes at Radio City, the Nutcracker,

and the rest of the reasons people have

for coming in to spend a day in Manhattan with their families in December.

And we'll wrap up today's show with a conversation with Radio Labs, Latif Nasser,

and Kelly Blumenthal from the International Astronomical Union,

on their contest to name a quasi-moon.

What's a quasi-moon? You may be wondering. You'll have to stick around

till the end of today's show for a mini-radio-lab conversation about what's going on up in space.

And no, we won't be discussing the drones flying over New Jersey at this time.

But first, presidential pardons have been in the spotlight lately.

Yesterday, President Biden commuted the sentences of approximately... First, presidential pardons have been in the spotlight lately.

Yesterday, President Biden commuted the sentences of approximately 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others.

The White House called it the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.

Here's White House Press Secretary Karin Jean-Pierre speaking yesterday.

The president is commuting the sentences of 1,500 individuals who were placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and who have successfully reintegrated into their

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