SUPD: 936 News Recap and Virginia Heffernan
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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16 mins Virginia Heffernan is a journalist, critic and author, most recently, of MAGIC AND LOSS: The Internet as Art (Simon & Schuster, 2016). She is a contributing editor at WIRED, a cohost of Slate's Trumpcast podcast, and a columnist at the Los Angeles Times.
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Heffernan has been called "America's preeminent cultural critic," "a public intellectual for the 21st century," and among the "finest living writers of English prose." Edward Mendelson in The New York Review of Books called MAGIC AND LOSS, "surprisingly moving...an ecstatic narrative of submission." Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of WIRED, writes, "Heffernan is a new species of wizard. It is a joy and a revelation to be under her spell."
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, I'm back in the shed, back in the saddle, and I have got a great conversation |
| 0:06.3 | with Virginia Heppernin joining me today, always brilliant wired magazines, Virginia Heppernin, |
| 0:12.8 | looking forward to sharing that with you coming up at 16 minutes into the show. |
| 0:17.6 | But, man, a lot going on in politics, Trump in New York, crying for the third day in |
| 0:22.8 | a row. |
| 0:23.8 | Obviously, everybody knows about the removal of the speaker of the house, Kevin McCarthy, |
| 0:28.0 | Republican caucus in the house, in complete disarray, but hey, it's not all bad. |
| 0:33.4 | Yesterday, President Biden announced that his administration had approved an additional |
| 0:37.9 | $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers. |
| 0:43.1 | So that's great. |
| 0:44.1 | Also, workers at Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest healthcare nonprofit organization, |
| 0:49.0 | began a strike yesterday that's set to seem more than 75,000 union members walk out |
| 0:54.2 | of hospitals and medical offices after the company and labor negotiators failed to resolve |
| 0:58.0 | the dispute over staffing levels. |
| 0:59.9 | I thought it was weird that FEMA made me pledge allegiance to Pfizer, Tommy V. Torque tweeted, |
| 1:04.9 | a lot of people, the nut jobs in our country, lost their mind over the FEMA alert that |
| 1:09.0 | was planned and they, I guess, decided that they were all going to turn their phones |
| 1:12.8 | off somehow. |
| 1:13.8 | That was going to not affect them or protect them, J. Black tweets, just got the female |
| 1:18.1 | alert. |
| 1:19.1 | My COVID vaccine activated and now I'm a zombie, off to read Q&A on conspiracy threads |
| 1:22.9 | on Telegram all day, like all the other brainless zombies. |
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