Hello, fellow law nerds. Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that hopes you made it through Thanksgiving

with your uncle, Fred, who gets too many emails that are like forward, forward, forward.

Barack Obama is still a Hussein Iraqi terrorist.

I know where all that came from.

And We're right newsgroup's co-chief content officer, Imani Gandhi.

And I am Jess Peeklo,

Rewire News Group's

other co-chief content officer.

Rewire Newsgroup is the one

and only home for expert repo journalism

that hopes you're doing okay

after that meal with Uncle Fred

and the Boom Boyard podcast

is part of that mission. So a big

thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners and viewers. I think it was Uncle Frank,

not Uncle Fred. But Frank and Fred are both assholes, honestly. And I'm sorry if you had to share

mashed potatoes with them. Our first segment is called What the fuck is going on? Because I would like to know,

personally, what the fuck is going on. So here's something for you, Jess. Okay. Did you know that

fighting fascism might actually help you live longer? Get out. For real? I will not get out.

I will do no such thing. So Julia Metro of Mother Jones wrote this article this week or

last week that talked about how a growing number of retirees are turning to community volunteering

as a response to the social and political instability. We are all suffering under this new Trump

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