It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom,

filling in for Brian today.

On today's show, we're going to have a conversation we teased yesterday, but didn't get a

haven't didn't get a chance to have it because of that breaking

Supreme Court news this is about rank choice voting the filmmaker of a new

documentary about it and advocate for the voting system in New York will join us.

Plus for the climate story of the week, how the new city budget affects climate goals of New York City school buildings.

Teachers, principals, we're going to want to hear from you during that segment.

And lastly, if you're experiencing sticker shock while shopping for summer clothes or maybe you have to buy a dress for a

summer wedding, you're not crazy. That's because clothing prices have jumped

recently. We're going to dig into why and the differences between expensive items and the $14 fast fashion

dress. But first, we're going to take a moment today to consider the evolution of Republican women candidates in the age of Donald Trump.

Maybe you saw that recent New York magazine cover featuring a collage of body parts,

including the likes of Marjorie Taylor Green and

Christie Nome. That fractured image is part of the theme of writer Rebecca Traster's

exploration of the

exploration of the reconstructionity that's come to define the women who are now the face of the modern Republican Party.

As the illustration shows, a high hill on one foot and a hiking boot on the other.

Traster writes, quote, as we cruise toward November with two ancient white men on the

presidential ticket and the rights of millions of people who are not white men in the balance,

the public performance of Republican womanhood has become fractured, frenzied, and far less coherent than ever.

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