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Music The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 9th, 2015.

The Je Suis-Sui Charlie Hebdo Edition.

I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in D.C. On today's show, the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo edition. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in DC on today's show, the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper, what it means for France, for free speech, and how to deal with Islamism in pluralistic societies. Then the Republican Congress begins. Will it get anything done?

Let's have a bill count. How many laws where they'll be that will be passed? And then the NYPD

stops arresting people as a form of a work stoppage to protest the murder of two police officers and to

protest their mayor, Bill de Blasio. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, we are going to, Emily, Emily changed us up. We're going to talk about the new year and New Year's resolutions and the new world of 2015. Emily Bazelon is in New Haven. Hello, Emily of the New York Times Magazine.

Hey, David and John, happy New Year. Happy New Year. You look very Nordic, Emily.

I do, because it's freezing here. As a Eastern European Jew can look.

Emily is wearing, we should note for our listeners who can't see Emily at the moment, that she's wearing some kind of cable knit situation. White cable knit. A large turtleneck sweater. She's just come off the store in Vermont. It's not actually cable net. So it's not like some, it's not from the air and aisles or anything. I feel like you did just come off the slopes. It was a little thin. It's a little. Oh, well, no wonder you. It's... No, I have long underwear underneath. Oh, well. TMI. TMI. All right. That's John Dickerson of Slate and CBS News. Hello, John. He's in Tweed. Yeah, I'm in good old-fashioned tweed. We haven't done a show in... I know. Forever. Maybe we forget how. Yeah.

There's just one listener out there who's like, it's like after the World War II, the

Japanese living in the caves didn't know the war was over.

One listener doesn't know the show has actually ended.

Wow.

The horrifying attack on the Charlie Hebdo-satirical newspaper has caused fury and sorrow throughout

France and the world, the murder of 12 people, most of them journalists. Many of them, the satirical cartoonists who were considered blasphemer's by the despicable dirtbags who killed them, has opened a wound in French society. The attackers, who are at large as we tape, appear to have been Islamist terrorists associated in some way with al-Qaeda to have had some kind of training, but they're also native Frenchmen.

The anti-Muslim nationalistic French right, led by Marie Le Pen, is already depicting this as part of a greater conflict between France and Islam and Muslim citizens and Muslim immigrants.

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