Political Gabfest - I'll Get the Vaccine If You Give Me A Pony
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Political Gabfest - I'll Get the Vaccine If You Give Me A Pony

David, John and Josie discuss the politics of vaccine acceptance, the changed conversation on policing, and how Texas, undeterred by failing to find voter fraud, continues its assault on voting rights.


Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:

Dan Diamond for The Washington Post: “‘We Want To Be Educated, Not Indoctrinated,’ Say Trump Voters Wary of Covid Shots


Charles Duhigg for The New Yorker: Seattle’s Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York’s Did Not


The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley


Washington Post Editorial Board: “Reimagining Safety


Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.


Josie Duffy Rice for Vanity Fair: “Abolition’s Promise


Vann R. Newkirk II for The Atlantic: “American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread


Ross Douthat for The New York Times: “Can Anything End the Voting Wars?


This American Life: “Squirrel Cop


Irish Family vs Bat


Zak Cheney-Rice for New York Magazine: “Ahmaud Arbery's Death and the Politics of Black Joy


Here’s this week’s chatter:

Josie: We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers) Paperback by Mariame Kaba


John: “Ian McKellen Explains the Difference Between Acting on Stage and in Movies | The Dick Cavett Show


David: The Atlas Obscura Podcast


Listener chatter from Rebecca Vernon: Andrew Chamings for SF Gate: “The Bizarre Tale of the World's Last Lost Tourist, Who Thought Maine Was San Francisco


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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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