John: Trump’s losses in the Georgia Republican primary and Jason Willick’s Washington Post piece, “Why Trump’s 2024 chances are even worse than Georgia suggests”

Listener chatter from Rebecca Vernon: Marisa lati for The Washington Post: “In a massive Chinese sinkhole, scientists find a secret forest”

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily and David talk to Jody Rosen about bicycles and his new book, Two Wheels Good: The History & Mystery of the Bicycle.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:10.7	For May 26th, 2020, it's the No Way to Prevent this edition. I'm David Plots of Citycast in Washington, D.C.
0:23.1	I'm joined, of course, by John Dickerson of CBS's Sunday morning in New York. Hello, John.
0:28.9	Hello, David. And by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven. Hello, Emily.
0:35.9	Hey, David.
0:37.3	This week, the school massacre in Yuvaldi, Texas, and how exactly this time nothing will change.
0:46.3	What is the way in which nothing will change this time?
0:48.9	Then will Texas and Florida's bizarre laws targeting social media platforms succeed?
0:55.1	Then President Biden's confusing statements about Taiwan have thrown foreign policy into a tizzy.
1:00.4	We'll be joined by China Scholar, Sheena Chestnut Gritens to sort it out.
1:04.6	Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:06.2	And a reminder, Gap Fest listeners, we have a live show coming up, our first in three years. First in three
1:13.0	years, we will be live at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue here in Washington, D.C. on June 29th.
1:18.5	You can get tickets at slate.com slash gabfest live. Slate.com slash gabfest live. It's going to be really,
1:26.4	really fun to get together with you to gather.
1:30.4	We'll have obviously audience questions, and those are really joyful and interesting and
1:38.0	delightful evening. So we hope you'll join us Slate.com slash GabFest Live for our June 29th show
1:43.9	in Washington, D.C. And if you can't
1:47.2	make it to D.C., there's a way to stream the show live. So you can also buy a ticket to stream it
1:51.9	there as well. I mean, this is just going to be a terrible segment. I don't really know.
2:01.6	I don't know if you guys got a chance to listen to the Daily's episode on Wednesday,
2:06.8	which was about the families from Sandy Hook and the horror they endured 10 years ago.
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