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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Are President Trump's diplomatic gambles paying off or backfiring? Sarah and Beth analyze Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, examining whether giving Putin a platform on American soil legitimizes his regime or advances genuine peace negotiations.
What does the Jeffrey Epstein case reveal about justice in America? Sarah and Beth debate how wealth and power corrupt our justice system. They wrestle with distinguishing between legitimate concerns about institutional failures around the Justice Department's handling of Epstein's case and conspiracy theories.
How do you find genuine stress relief in chaotic times? In Outside of Politics, Sarah and Beth discuss managing stress and finding hobbies.
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0:00.0 | Lemonada. |
0:02.7 | This is Sarah Stewart-Holland. |
0:15.7 | And this is Beth Silvers. |
0:16.7 | You're listening to Pantsuit Politics today. |
0:18.5 | We are going to discuss the talks President Trump held with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. |
0:25.4 | Then we'll turn our attention to the ongoing fallout related to Jeffrey Epstein and outside of politics. |
0:31.1 | For no reason in particular, we're going to talk about where we find the most relaxation right now. |
0:36.1 | But before we get into our conversations, |
0:38.2 | we want to let you know about our end of summer sale happening right now on Substack. We're |
0:43.8 | offering 15% off annual subscriptions. That's a whole year of extra shows, community discussions, |
0:51.5 | deeper dives into the topics that we cover here on the show. And we know that you will love it if you join us. |
0:58.0 | I mean, my favorite thing we recorded last week was the spicy Pantsu Politics on Thursday. |
1:03.1 | I don't think you were alone in that. |
1:04.6 | We really got to some stuff. I named that I think the problem in American culture is the attitude of you owe me perfect and I owe you shit. |
1:12.9 | It seemed to really hit people where they were at. |
1:15.0 | So you want to hear that whole conversation. |
1:17.3 | Go ahead. |
1:18.1 | Go use the end of summer sale and listen to that spicy pantsuit politics from last Thursday. |
1:23.1 | Okay. |
1:23.9 | Speaking of all the fun things happening on Substack, tonight, Tuesday, August 19th at 7.30 p.m. Eastern is the final film club hosted by one of our most beloved listeners, Norma. They're going to be talking about Barbie and Repents DeFem, Notre Core, Nautra Sex, which translates to women reply, our bodies, and our sex. |
1:45.9 | It's a second wave feminist project where she asked all these women, what does it mean to be a |
1:51.4 | woman? It's only eight minutes long, so if you've already seen Barbie, listen, you've done the |
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