The “You Hear That, Mr. Anderson? That Is the Sound of Inevitability. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson” Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week, Scott took a well-deserved vacation, so Alan and Quinta were joined by Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien to discuss:
- “But I thought 42 was the answer to life, the universe, and everything.” This week the Biden administration will cease Title 42, the policy linked to the Covid public health emergency under which asylum seekers could be turned back at the border. In its place, the administration is implementing a new rule that substantially limits asylum, limitations that, before the Trump administration implemented Title 42, would have been unthinkable. What should we make of the Biden administration’s embrace of immigration restrictions?
- “Every time a tragedy, increasingly also a farce.” Over the weekend, a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, killing at least 8 people and injuring at least 7 before being killed by police. Tragically, this wasn’t even the deadliest mass shooting on record this year. How did mass shootings become America’s pastime, and what can be done to stop them?
- “BuzzFeed? More Like Buzz Kill.” Late last month, BuzzFeed News announced that it was shutting down. The news site always courted controversy, never more so than when, in 2017, it published the unverified and infamous “Steele Dossier” alleging that Russia had compromising information on newly elected president Donald Trump. But the site had notable successes as well, earning a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize. What does BuzzFeed News’s end signal about the future of journalism?
For object lessons, Quinta highlighted Caitlin Dickerson’s Pulitzer-winning coverage of family separation in The Atlantic, Tyler recommended the new global publication The Dial, and Alan raved about his new favorite dystopian sci-fi show, Silo.
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| 0:00.0 | Some things just add some play to your day. |
| 0:02.9 | Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster. |
| 0:05.6 | Dancing down the street to your favourite place. |
| 0:08.9 | Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop. |
| 0:11.2 | Best of all, picking the new Pink Scratch Card. |
| 0:13.9 | A Pink Scratch Card, please. |
| 0:15.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.7 | And doing your own drum roll. |
| 0:18.6 | This is exciting. |
| 0:21.4 | Add some play to your day. |
| 0:22.9 | The Scratch Cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:24.9 | Search tree big, place more. |
| 0:26.5 | Brawls and procedures apply a place where it's the 18 or over. |
| 0:30.4 | I was walking on the upper west side and I was attacked by a squirrel. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm going to say, from the tone of your voice, it sounds like you did not win that battle. |
| 0:45.4 | No, no. |
| 0:46.4 | I want to be like, you should see the other guy, but the other guy is a squirrel and the squirrel looks just fine. |
| 0:51.6 | OK, details. |
| 0:53.6 | What happened? |
| 0:54.6 | How, you know, it was like an aerial attack? |
| 0:56.6 | Was it, were you, were you, were you walking? |
| 0:59.2 | Were you, did you have a bunch of, were you walking like a bag of nuts when you should know better in upper west side? |
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