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Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A reader mailbag. As we mentioned in yesterday's newsletter, Tangle founder and Executive Editor Isaac Saul is currently on a trip through Bolivia. We decided to use that small disruption to our daily coverage to catch up on a bunch of reader questions we've been trying to respond to. Isaac and the team worked on these questions together over the last week or two. Let us know what you think, and remember, if you want to have a question answered in the newsletter, you can reply to this email (it goes straight to our inbox) or fill out this form.
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Today’s clickables: A few notes (0:43), Quick hits (0:52), Today’s story (2:21), Biden’s presidency (2:50), Media bias (11:50), IDF sexual violence against Palestinians (13:42), “Reincorporate" Taiwan (16:33), Picking winners v. actual issues (17:23), Fall of Minneapolis (18:42), Immigrants seeking asylum (19:02), Fanni Willis allegations (20:19), Kevin McCarthy (23:14), Overpopulation (25:32), Have a nice day (29:46)
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| 0:34.5 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get news from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm your host for today, John Law. Today is Thursday, January 18th, and we're going to be doing something a little different today. |
| 1:08.7 | We're actually going to be responding to some reader questions |
| 1:12.0 | that have been coming in. Before we get into all that, as always, we'll start off today with |
| 1:17.4 | some quick hits. |
| 1:25.2 | First up, amid an intensifying series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza and city of Khan Yunus, |
| 1:30.6 | Israel's defense minister, Yeov-Galant, said it was planning to wind down military operations in the south of Gaza |
| 1:36.1 | and begin more targeted operations in the north. |
| 1:39.8 | Number two, Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Iranian territory on Thursday morning in response |
| 1:45.2 | to an Iranian air strike in Pakistan on Tuesday. Both countries said they were targeting their |
| 1:50.8 | own nationals in the attacks. Separately, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced |
| 1:55.9 | that the State Department will be designating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist group |
| 2:00.3 | starting next month. |
| 2:02.1 | Number three, a second trial between former President Donald Trump and writer E. Jean Carroll |
| 2:06.4 | is underway in New York to decide how much money Trump must pay Carol for comments he made in 2019, denying he sexually assaulted her. |
| 2:14.7 | On Wednesday, the judge presiding over the trial threatened to remove Trump |
| 2:17.9 | from the courtroom for his disruptive remarks during the proceedings. Number four, a new study found |
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