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Explore "political discourse" with insightful episodes like "Police Called AGAIN on Lauren Boebert for DESPICABLE Behavior", "You Ask Us: will Labour stop the culture wars, and does the government control what journalists report?", "GOP Debate! FEATURING Trump/Tucker Interview Coverage! | Louder with Crowder", "Better Together with Will Hurd" and "Democratic Star Rep. Eric Swalwell DELIVERS POWERFUL MESSAGE Exposing House Republicans" from podcasts like ""The MeidasTouch Podcast", "The New Statesman Podcast", "Louder with Crowder", "Here's Where It Gets Interesting" and "The MeidasTouch Podcast"" and more!
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You Ask Us: will Labour stop the culture wars, and does the government control what journalists report?
The Conservatives seem intent on fighting the next election on "culture wars" issues. A listener asks, would a Labour government put an end to all that?
Also, how does the government control its media messaging? Is there a shadowy office pulling the strings and controlling what journalists report? We look at the concept of "the grid".
Anoosh Chakelian, Rachel Cunliffe and Freddie Hayward answer listener questions.
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GOP Debate! FEATURING Trump/Tucker Interview Coverage! | Louder with Crowder
Better Together with Will Hurd
Presidential Candidate Will Hurd joins Sharon to chat about engaging voters in primary elections to ensure stronger candidates in November. The country is ready to have thoughtful conversations about what issues matter to them in a way that unites, rather than divides. Whether the district was ruby red or a deep blue town, people share the same frustrations and goals. Everyone wants systems that operate fairly and efficiently, from the justice system to immigration. But how might our government address these issues in lasting, meaningful ways that represent what the majority of Americans truly want? Will Hurd shares what solutions have worked in the past, and how he plans to work with leaders from both sides of the aisle to shape the future.
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Guest: Will Hurd
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Democratic Star Rep. Eric Swalwell DELIVERS POWERFUL MESSAGE Exposing House Republicans
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Seth Masket: Trending Trump
Grassroots Republican leaders increasingly favor Trump, and he's getting significantly more coverage on CNN than the other candidates. Plus, when Democrats lose, they tend to move to the center. When Republicans do, they tend to move harder right. Seth Masket joins Charlie Sykes today.
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Jeane Freeman: The Greens, NHS and Respect
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If You Read the G.O.P.’s Anti-Trans Policies, You’ll See What It Really Wants
In the 2023 legislative session alone, Republican state legislators have introduced more than a hundred bills seeking to restrict transgender people’s freedoms, rights and health care access. To put that in perspective, in the 2018 legislative session, fewer than 20 such bills restricting transgender rights were proposed.
Over the weekend, at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the commentator Michael Knowles said that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” These bills have many different aims and often conflicting rationales, but taken together, they reveal the Republican Party’s ambitions to do nothing less than what Knowles suggested.
So what are these policies intended to do to the people they target? And why are there so many of them now?
Gillian Branstetter is a communications strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project and L.G.B.T.Q. and H.I.V. Project. She’s been tracking and studying this wave of legislation, and she guides me through it here. We discuss the attempt by Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to classify some forms of gender-affirming care as child abuse, why the Republican Party has united around anti-trans policy, how North Carolina’s unsuccessful “bathroom bill” in 2016 transformed the modern right, what gender-affirming care actually is, how Ron DeSantis is trying to build his brand atop this fight, where one might find grounds for hope in trans politics today and much more.
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“Texas’ Attempt to Tear Parents and Trans Youth Apart, One Year Later” by Brian Klosterboer
“What’s so scary about a transgender child?” by Emily St. James
“They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?” by Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett
“G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills” by Maggie Astor
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Homintern by Gregory Woods
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
Can the Monster Speak? by Paul B. Preciado
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“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Rogé Karma and Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Efim Shapiro. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Dr. Jason Rafferty, Lisa Black, Carole Sabouraud and Kristina Samulewski.
“The 2024 Dry Ron.”
Ron DeSantis kicks off his presidential campaign-in-waiting with a nationwide book tour. The guys run through the week’s top stories in a new segment called “One Line with Cocaine Bear.” MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan stops by to talk about how Democrats can win more arguments. And the guys decide who-gets-what in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s national divorce.
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The Journeys of Two Russian Anti-War YouTubers
This week, Endless Thread spends time talking with two young Russian YouTubers who've had to contend with Russia's crackdown on wartime dissent.
Natasha and Zack initially gained traction on YouTube for their videos about Russian food, culture, and daily life. Their slice-of-life vlogs were a huge hit, getting millions of views with each upload. But when Russia invaded Ukraine one year ago, both Zack and Natasha had to make tough decisions to stand by their values — which ultimately altered the course of their lives.
Credits: This episode was written and produced by Megan Cattel. Mixing and sound design by Matt Reed. Megan Cattel and Ben Brock Johnson are the co-hosts.
Ep. 1181 - Woke "Think Tank" Tries To Cancel Me
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AOC makes a fool of herself over D.C.’s plan to let illegals vote, a liberal “think tank” botches an attempted attack on Michael, and the CDC finally acknowledges problems with the COVID vaccine.
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Daily Wire Backstage: State of the Union 2023 Coverage
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Ep. 1104 - The Vengeful, Petty Tyrants Who Lead Us
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Biden Administration tried and failed to throw a father of seven in prison for 11 years for the crime of being a pro-life activist. The ruling regime is vengeful and petty, and will do everything in its power to destroy anyone who fails to submit. Also, more states across the country are moving to ban the mutilation and castration of children. We'll talk about how the anti-gender ideology movement has managed to have so much success in such a short amount of time. And the surgeon general warns about the dangers of social media to children. He's right about that, but his concern for the safety of children seems to be rather selective. Plus, I scandalized a feminist during a panel segment on Piers Morgan's show when I suggested that women should wear clothing when they go out in public.
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Jack Smith GETS Incredible NEWS as TRUMP continues to SINK lower
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Overdoing Democracy
When Kate was growing up, her grandfather often told her that when he was serving on a Navy ship during WWII, there were two things he and his fellow sailors never talked about: religion and politics.
In the present age, we're apt to think that leaving politics off the table like that is inauthentic, or worse, a sign of being an insufficiently engaged citizen. We're apt to think that the more we do politics, the better the health of our politics.
My guest would say that the opposite is true. His name is Robert Talisse, and he's a professor of political philosophy and the author of Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place. Today on the show, Bob and I discuss how democracy isn't just a system of government but a moral ideal; how the fact that it's an ideal gives it a tendency to extend its reach; and how the particular circumstances of modern times have extended that reach into all of our lifestyle choices, from the car we drive to where we shop. But, Bob argues, there can be too much of a good thing. He says the way politics has saturated everything in our lives creates some negative effects, turning politics into something that parties can market like toothpaste, and making each individual's views more extreme, so that we ultimately get to the point that we can't see our political opponents as people who have an equal say in our democracy. The solution, Bob says, is not to build bridges of dialogue with our political opponents, as is so often advised, but to engage with people in spaces, places, and activities where doing politics isn't the point, and you don't even know the political views of the people with whom you interact.
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Daily Wire Backstage: Now With Even More Dystopia!
Is the GOP on the verge of blowing the predicted midterm red wave? Will the raid on Mar-a-Lago ultimately be another Mueller Report dud? With Biden's approval numbers at record lows, who do the Dems have in waiting to replace him for 2024? How long do we have before the Left’s nightmare-inducing dystopia is fully realized?
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Ep. 982 - Disney Tells Kids That Men Have Periods
Today on the Matt Walsh, Disney ramps up its efforts to trans our children with a new children’s show featuring an appearance by a menstruating man. Also, the January 6th hearings continue, and will never stop, for all eternity. Plus, AOC unveils the new plan for evading the Supreme Court’s Roe decision. And a 29 year old father of three beats a 13 year old girl in a women’s skateboarding competition, and that's not even the most absurd part of this story. Wait until you hear the rest.
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