It's Monday, July 24th. I'm Trevo Anderson.

And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day where for the first time ever, we are

going to follow Elon Musk's lead and change our name to a single letter.

Yeah, we're going to go with the letter Y because that's the question we're always asking

ourselves. Why? You know what? That's not a bad idea, actually.

On today's show, Alabama Republicans have done the absolute least to follow a federal court

order to empower black voters. Plus, the Barbie movie it made herstery in its opening weekend.

But first, we have an update on the demonstrations in Israel opposing Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu's plan to reform the country's judicial system. As we've covered

on the show, Israel is in what the BBC calls one of its most serious domestic crises ever

as hundreds of thousands of folks are packing the streets across the country. This is all

in advance of a vote by parliament that will happen later today.

So to quickly recap, what are these reforms that Netanyahu is calling for and why are

so many people protesting? Israel is another one of those countries we've

talked about that are experiencing a shift to the right. Dare I say alt-right sociopolitically.

And so what we're seeing in the country is this split between the hella conservative

folks who are in power and a more liberal populace. Those folks in power have made longstanding

attacks on LGBTQ plus communities, religious freedom, Israeli and Palestinian civil society,

and even those who can call themselves Jewish. As for the reforms in question, they concern

the power of the government versus the power of the courts. There are four main points.

One, they want to weaken the power of the Supreme Court to review or throw out laws and give

parliament the ability to overrule the Supreme Court with a simple majority vote.

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