What If Twitter Dies?

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the future of Twitter, the ghoulish World Cup, and a minister’s allegation that Justice Alito leaked the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker for The New York Times: “Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach” Jodi Kantor for The New York Times: “Allegation of Supreme Court Breach Prompts Calls for Inquiry and Ethics Code” Rob Schenck for The New York Times: “I Was an Anti-Abortion Crusader. Now I Support Roe v. Wade” Kara Voght and Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone: “SCOTUS Justices ‘Prayed With’ Her — Then Cited Her Bosses to End Roe” Here are this week’s chatters: John: Variety: “Bob Dylan Fans Who Bought $600 ‘Hand-Signed’ Books With Replica Autographs Will Receive Refunds From Publisher” Emily: Rozina Ali for The New York Times Magazine: “‘How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’” David: Politics and Prose: City Cast DC Live Taping with Michael Schaffer, David Plotz, and Anton Bogomazov - at Union Market; Slate’s One Year, Season 4: 1942 Listener chatter from Laurent Dugois: In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri, by Harry N MacLean; All That's Interesting: “The Story Of Ken McElroy — The Vicious Bully Killed By His Town” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John contemplate the conundrum of what they would like to tell their younger selves but wouldn’t be able to convince them of. Submit your conundrums for the 2022 conundrum episode at slate.com/conundrum. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfess.
0:16.8	November 24, 2022, Happy Thanksgiving.
0:20.4	The What If Twitter Vanished Edition.
0:23.1	I'm David Plott of CityCast.
0:24.9	I'm a DC. I'm joined, not in DC, by John Dickerson, a CBS prime time from New York,
0:30.8	hello John.
0:32.1	Hello David.
0:33.6	And from New Haven, Connecticut, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine, and you'll
0:38.5	yell, you'll, you'll, the no longer ranked, the no longer ranked by US News, Yale University
0:45.0	Law School. So now, not one of the top law schools in the country.
0:48.2	Bottom. Yes.
0:50.4	How does it feel to be working in unranked and probably now unaccredited law school,
0:54.5	literally?
0:55.5	Righteous. It feels righteous. I don't think we lose our accreditation for the dean pulling
1:00.2	out of the US News and World Report rankings, but maybe that will be next. But yeah, no,
1:06.8	it's totally righteous thing to do. They're not valuing public service enough, and those
1:10.6	rankings are just like a terrible scourge on the universe as far as I can tell.
1:15.1	This week on the Gabfess, could Twitter vanish what would happen if it did? Then this
1:21.2	World Cup was born and squalor raised in sin. Can it be redeemed? And then a once prominent
1:29.2	anti-abortion activist claims Justice Alito leaked a key Supreme Court decision some years
1:35.4	ago, weeks before it was made public. What does this tell us about the recent DOBS leak?
1:40.7	Does it matter if the court is leaky? Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter.
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