Political Gabfest - Who’s Winning The Autoworkers Strike?
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the UAW autoworkers’ strike against the Big Three automakers, talk with Yoel Roth about social media trust and safety, and weigh teachers’ burden to engage in parent diplomacy. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25!
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Danielle Kaye for NPR: “Why the UAW is fighting so hard for these 4 key demands in the auto strike”
Yoel Roth in The New York Times: “Trump Attacked Me. Then Musk Did. It Wasn’t an Accident.”
Yoel Roth on Lawfare: “Content Moderation’s Legalism Problem”
Sarah Chaves in The Atlantic: “Parent Diplomacy Is Overwhelming Teachers”
9News: “Surveillance video: “Boebert seen vaping, arguing with patrons before removal from Denver theater”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Susan Haigh and Eric Tucker for AP: “Former federal prosecutor who resigned from Trump-Russia probe says she left over concerns with Barr”
John: Ashley Strickland for CNN: “How NASA has prepared to scoop up an asteroid sample landing in the desert” and The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence by Ros Atkins
David: NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries: “Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary” and National Trust for Historic Preservation: “Ghost Fleet of the Potomac, Mallows Bay”
Listener chatter from Kevin Collins: Thomas Kole’s a portrait of Tenochtitlan: a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss the surveillance camera video of Representative Lauren Boebert behaving badly in a Denver theater.
In the next Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Zadie Smith about her book, The Fraud: A Novel.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate political cab fest. |
| 0:16.1 | September 21st, 2023, the Who's Winning the AutoWorker Strike Edition. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm David Plots of CityCast. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm in Washington, DC. |
| 0:25.0 | John Dickerson of CBS Primetime is in New York City. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello, John. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, David. |
| 0:30.2 | Hi, Emily. |
| 0:31.2 | Even though you haven't got an ounce. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello. |
| 0:33.5 | And that's Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School |
| 0:36.2 | in New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:38.2 | Hi, Emily. |
| 0:39.2 | Hi. |
| 0:40.2 | John, you and I seem to be wearing the same shirt. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:43.5 | We are. |
| 0:44.5 | We are wearing, by the way. |
| 0:45.8 | It's essentially athleisure wear. |
| 0:47.7 | I mean, I don't think of it that way, but it's my running shirt. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, this is I was going to go for a bike ride after this. |
| 0:52.5 | Is yours having the little thing for your thumb? |
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