Political Gabfest - Florida Bans Abortion Again
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Scott Bauer for AP: Wisconsin voters approve ban on private money support for elections and Unfair Share: The Gerrymandered Chocolate Bar on Kickstarter
John: Joey Roulette and Will Dunham for Reuters: Exclusive: White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon and John Dickerson Introduces: Navel Gazing
David: Corvid Research: All in the (crow) family; 3 Body Problem on Netflix; The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu; and Foundation and For All Mankind on Apple TV+
Listener chatter from Kim in Spartanburg, S.C.: The fish doorbell and thunder_keck on TikTok: fish doorbell season is back
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the April 8 total solar eclipse. See John Dickerson and David Parkinson for CBS News: Massive storm system threatening millions across U.S. See also Atlas Obscura’s Ecliptic Festival; Annie Dillard for The Atlantic: “Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”; The Guardian: Columbus and the night of the bloody moon; and John Uri for NASA: Eclipses Near and Far.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, The Hunter: A Novel.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:28.9 | goes wrong. Hello and welcome to the slate Political Gabfest. April 4th, 2024, Florida Bands Abortion Again, Edition. I'm David Plots, CityCast, in Washington, D.C. My two dear comrades left Washington |
| 0:57.8 | gone back to their homes. That means Emily Bazlon of Yale in the New York Times magazine. |
| 1:01.9 | He's back in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello, David. |
| 1:07.0 | And back in Manhattan, |
| 1:10.0 | the ovary of the universe. |
| 1:12.0 | John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time, Hello. |
| 1:16.9 | That was a discarded slogan from the 70s. |
| 1:20.8 | It was, I Love New York or the Obray of the universe. |
| 1:23.3 | One or the other. |
| 1:24.6 | It wouldn't fit on a t-shirt, so they went with the other one. |
| 1:27.6 | I never thought about how different the world would be if it was called Womanhatin. |
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