I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

In all the coverage of the red wave that wasn't this midterm cycle, there's this one thing

that voters waited on that I'm not sure people have talked about enough. That thing is slavery.

Five states voted on whether to outlaw slavery this November.

And yes, it is 2022.

I was seeing all over the media and different places that slavery was on the ballot this November

and it perked my ears up and I said excuse me. I'm sorry. Say that again.

Candice Bonterio is a legal scholar at Columbia University and I got to say I was a little

relieved it was not just me who was surprised to see slavery on the ballot 150 years after the

Civil War ended. And then I had to look deeper into what people were actually talking about and

they were talking about this exemption that allows for forced prison labor.

Candice says this exemption it's baked right into the 13th amendment the one that technically

abolishes slavery. It reads neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as punishment for

crime shall exist within the United States. State constitutions often mimic this language.

And the result is that more than half of all prisoners in the US report being forced to work

sometimes in grueling or dangerous jobs. I think sometimes even just saying slavery still exists.

It's just not enough because we have to talk really in specifics.

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