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Political Gabfest

Political Gabfest - So Much Free Speech!

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.48.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, Title 42, and the current prayer in school debate.



Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:


Daphne Keller for The Center for Internet and Society: “What Does The DSA Say?


John Dickerson for Slate: “Born Identity


Here are this week’s chatters:


David: Ed Kilgore for New York Magazine: “Utah Democrats Endorse Independent Evan McMullin in Challenge to Mike Lee”; CityCast.fm/jobs 


John: Reddit thread: “This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for worker absence include ‘embalming brother’, ‘brewing beer’ and ‘bitten by scorpion’”; The British Museum: Ostracon 


Emily: Ronald Brownstein for The Atlantic: “Why California Wants to Recall Its Most Progressive Prosecutors”; Vanessa Romo for NPR: “The LA Sheriff Now Says No Charges For The Reporter Who Wrote About A Cover-Up



Listener chatter from J.T. Horn: Mary Pols for Downeast Magazine "Why Maine Owes Its Most Breathtaking Public Lands to One 1972 Newspaper Story



For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss John’s prescient 2011 piece about Trump’s birtherism.


Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


Podcast production by Kevin Bendis.


Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 28th, 2022, the so much free speech edition.

0:11.7

I'm David Plotz of CityCast here in Washington, D.C.

0:18.2

And that, dear friends, is our new theme.

0:22.1

Emily Bazelan of the New York Times Magazine, Yale University Law School,

0:26.6

John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning.

0:28.1

How exciting is it to have a new theme?

0:29.8

I love it.

0:30.7

It's so rousing.

0:32.5

And who do we have to thank for this new theme, John?

0:36.2

They might be giants.

0:37.7

They are giants because they are giving me this permanent smile from listening to that.

0:43.1

It's, oh, what a joy that is to listen to.

0:45.9

It just puts the equilibrium of the cosmos back in order.

0:50.1

It's so joyful.

0:51.6

That was our new theme from They Might Be Giants.

0:54.9

We will hopefully be talking to John and John from They Might Be Giants in a few weeks.

1:01.0

Maybe it's a slight plus segment to hear about their process in creating it.

1:05.9

But we're so proud to have it, so thrilled to have it, and hope you guys enjoy it. This week on the GabFest,

1:14.8

will Elon Musk make Twitter better or worse? Then the Biden administration is struggling with

1:22.2

the southern border, with asylum, with the politics of immigration, what's their way out of it? And then

1:27.2

will the Supreme Court

1:28.6

gut the establishment clause and allow everyone to pray whenever they're doing any government

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