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Political Gabfest

The Political Gabfest: The You're a Facebook Lab Rat Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson. This week: The High Court's Hobby Lobby decision, the impasse over immigration reform, and Facebook's ethically ambiguous research. Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabbests for July 4th, 2014. Happy Birthday, America.

0:41.9

It's the Europe Facebook Labrat edition. I'm David Plottsy, I'm here in Washington, DC.

0:49.2

Today we'll talk about the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, which delivers a smashing victory

0:55.5

for conservatives. Is this a disaster for reproductive rights for Obamacare? Or is this a

1:01.5

reasonable decision that accommodates religion in a useful way? Then the preposterous

1:08.2

maddening poisonous politics of immigration. In my view, we will discuss this. Immigration is

1:13.9

a symbol for all that is wrong and wicked in Washington these days. And then Facebook is conducting

1:19.7

lots of devious little scientific experiments on you. They didn't tell you, but they're doing it.

1:25.5

Should you care? Slate's people look at correspondent John Dickerson joins me in the very

1:29.9

fetid and sweaty or soon to be very fetid and sweaty. Slate DC Studio. Hello, John.

1:35.8

Hello, David. Yeah, it's going to it's been pretty fitted and sweaty outside too. So

1:41.3

we the entire city we mirror the outside. We are outside inside. So it will be

1:45.6

disgusting in here shortly. And then Emily Bazelon. It's not fitted in sweaty here. It's

1:51.7

really nice. Why are you an answer, Dan? Are you wearing orange? First of all,

1:57.0

are you really? Although there has been much world cup festivity that I have passed on by because

2:02.7

I don't want to pretend I know what I'm talking about. So I heard that the US lost. That's your best

2:07.2

that's what you've got. Really? You've that reached you. Go to hell. Go to hell. That made it

2:13.4

made it over to where you were. Transnational citizen of no country. You're like, oh, I'm a

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