Hello friends, thanks for listening to today's episode.

Before it begins, we want to let you know that this episode includes adult themes.

So if you're not in a place to hear that right now, we totally understand.

Thank you so much for being here.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Silver's.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics. Oh, Thank you for joining us for a new episode here at Pantsuit Politics where we take a different

approach to the news and today that different

approach involves just a lot of processing what's happening in Israel and

Gaza and particularly some of the feedback that we've received on previous

episodes. We are thinking about how that situation is evolving.

We are thinking about what's happening in America in the wake of that situation and

we are just sitting with all that we cannot know or be certain about as we feel the heartbreak

and suffering and intense emotion from people all over the world.

And then we are going to focus on what is closer to us.

There are elections coming up next week for governors and state legislators and mayors and school boards.

These off-year elections don't ever get as much attention as presidential races do,

but they are very important and have big impacts in our daily lives so we want to talk about

some of those key races and what they might mean as we approach elections next week.

And then outside of politics we will discuss our personal versions of the Roman

Empire and the primary text in our lives.

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