The “Prison Rules” Edition

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler "Spicy Tyler" McBrien to talk through the week's big national security news stories, including:

“Jack Smith Takes a Mulligan on his Big Swing.” A grand jury has re-indicted former President Trump for his actions relating to the Jan. 6 insurrection, after Special Counsel Jack Smith trimmed and massaged the allegations to accommodate the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity. How different is this indictment? What are the next steps in the trial? And will these new allegations have better odds of surviving Supreme Court review?
“An Eye for an Eye Leaves the Whole World in a Bind.” This past week, Israel and Hezbollah traded another vicious round of attacks along Israel’s shared northern border with Lebanon, as part of the long-awaited response to Israel’s targeted killing of Hezbollah leaders a month ago. Now the region is waiting with bated breath to see whether this will be the end of it or the start of a larger war. How significant is the risk of escalation? And what will this mean for, among other things, ongoing ceasefire negotiations in relation to Gaza?
“Send Me a Kiss by Wire.” Pavel Durov, the CEO of the Russia-based encrypted messaging platform Telegram—which, in addition to being the platform of choice in much of the world, has become a popular choice among criminals and terrorist groups due to its lack of content moderation—was arrested earlier this week in Paris, and is under questioning in relation to possible criminal charges arising from the criminal use of Telegram. What is motivating this move by French authorities?

For object lessons, Quinta recommended "When a Department Self-Destructs," Jennifer Schoenefeld's dramatic account of the in-fighting within Pomona College's English department. Scott threw his endorsement in (alongside the Academy's) for the beautifully mumblecore-ish film "Past Lives." And Tyler urged listeners to check out Tanya Gold's upsetting account of the commercialization of the Holocaust, tellingly entitled "My Auschwitz Vacation."

Note: Our discussion of Pavel Durov's arrest in France predated his indictment by French authorities.

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0:00.0	Someone has a kid who just started pre-K3?
0:03.0	Oh yeah, you're right. I, you know, it's kind of emotional seeing these little kids like who are once you're a baby is now take that big step and leap into a big school environment,
0:13.2	especially because his school is like pre-K3 through 8.
0:17.0	So there's like big kids like hovering around.
0:19.7	I don't see them really.
0:20.6	I don't know where they are.
0:21.3	I think they hide them in back or have them commit to a they're lurking they don't want to scare the young ones yeah that literally might be
0:26.3	it I think they they come in like the front and were brought in the back
0:28.6	or something but it is it's I know they're there I can feel their prepubescent presence and it's I know they're there. I can feel their prepubescent presence and it's upsetting the force
0:36.5	around my still very baby-like toddler. But you know we're almost through the half days. It's the important thing and soon we will we
0:43.0	will officially be back to full-time child care which I am admittedly very much
0:46.7	looking forward to. What is he learning in in pre-K? Mostly like bad words and
0:51.7	about violence from the other students as far as I can tell.
0:55.1	He comes home, we don't talk about violence, we don't talk about stabbing or killing or shooting,
0:59.1	so he comes home saying I'm going to sword you or or knife you, which that one does kind of work.
1:05.5	The sorting doesn't really work.
1:06.7	Shevue.
1:07.7	No, no.
1:08.7	Shevue, exactly.
1:09.3	You shouldn't have put him in medieval immersion school.
1:11.8	That's on you. It's kind of prison rules, you know?
1:14.0	That's what I told of.
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