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Five Lies We Tell Ourselves About Trauma

Jason Kander and Diana Kander / Aug.21.19

Either you deal with your trauma or your trauma deals with you. You’ll never outrun it, because it’s faster than you. You have to stop running, turn around, and confront it.

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With Friends Like These

Stage Four Metastatic Racism with Arjun Sethi and Ibram X. Kendi

Aug.23.19

This week, Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) sits down with human rights lawyer, activist, and author Arjun Sethi (@arjunsethi81) to discuss the one year anniversary of his book, American Hate: Survivors Speak Out —as relevant as ever after the massacres in El Paso… and, in the short time since, the arrests of six white men on charges related to mass violence. Arjun and Ana also discuss their frustration with how hate crimes are typically depicted in the media, and how the average American can get involved in the fight against white supremacy.  Then, Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) from The Atlantic discusses his bestelling new book, How to Be an Antiracist. In soft-spoken, gentle urgency, Ibram guides us through the idea “there is no neutrality” in the face of racism: there is only racism and anti-racism. Ibram and Ana then discuss his various encounters with cancer; exploring a profound extended metaphor between the disease and racism in America.

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Pod Save America

“The Chosen One.”

Aug.22.19

Donald Trump has a meltdown for the ages that includes snubbing Denmark because they refused to sell him Greenland, accusing American Jews of stupidity and disloyalty, caving to the NRA, and blaming everyone else for an economy that Trump says is the greatest. Then Stacey Abrams talks to Dan about her new effort to fight voter suppression and expand democracy.

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Hysteria

“Idol Hands” (with Jill Gutowitz)

Aug.22.19

This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco frame a whole discussion on white suburban women voters in terms of Bachelor in Paradise. It's a wild ride! Then, writer Jill Gutowitz joins in-studio along with Tien Tran and Kiran Deol to discuss what it means to have idols. Then, as always, the hills we'll die on.

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Rigging North Carolina | The Hearing

Aug.21.19

In February of 2019 the North Carolina State Board of Elections heard testimony from many of the people who played a key role in the election fraud that tainted Dan McCready and Mark Harris's historic midterm election. The three day hearing ended with a surprise turn of events that led Republican Mark Harris to finally call for a new election. Shaniqua McClendon talks to two people who were in the room. Marc Elias represented Dan McCready throughout the election and argued on behalf of the Democratic nominee. Reporter Joe Bruno also shares some of the most shocking moments on the stand.

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The F*ck Gerry (mandering) Fund

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Verified It won't matter who winds up in the White House in 2020 if they don't have the power to actually, you know, govern. This won't happen if Republicans get to draw their own gerrymandered Congressional districts. So we’ve teamed up with @dataforprogress to launch the F*ck Gerry(mandering) fund. We are targeting 12 states over the next two years, starting with Virginia. The state's entire legislature is up for reelection in 2019 and our friends at Data for Progress have identified 10 winnable races in Virginia where your contributions will go the furthest in securing a much-needed seat for Democrats. This will help make sure that the state doesn’t have a bunch of Republican-drawn districts during the next census in 2020. Gerrymandering! It's fucking up our democracy and it's time to take action.

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“ it is the wrong thing to do for the president to abuse his pardon power ”

May.20.19

Justin Amash becomes the first Republican Congressman to say that the President crossed the threshold for impeachment, and Joe Biden says that Democrats don’t want an angry candidate. Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Goldie Taylor join Jon, Jon, Tommy, and Dan on stage at the Anthem Theater in Washington, DC.

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2020

Media Can Kick Its Horserace Addiction—And It Must

Brian Beutler / Jan.11.19

A better way is staring us in the face, and with the failures of 2016 still fresh on everyone’s mind, there’s never been a better time to propose fresh approaches.

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