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Short Squeeze

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:14:52
Publish Date: 2021-01-28 15:48:06
Description:

Emily, John and David discuss the Senate obstruction that may be ahead; delegating deplatforming; and GameStop.


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

Jamelle Bouie for the New York Times: “Democrats Should Act as if They Won the Election


Tom Wilson and Kate Starbird for The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review: “Cross-Platform Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons Learned and Next Steps” 


Matt Levine for Bloomberg: “GameStop is Just a Game


David Leonhardt for the New York Times: “Underselling the Vaccine


Andy Rose for CNN: “Health Workers, Stuck in the Snow, Administer Coronavirus Vaccine to Stranded Drivers


Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen


Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: 


Emily: A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet; Matt Stieb for New York Magazine: “The Fyre Festival of Vaccine Rollouts


John: Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself


David: David Blight’s Open Yale Course: “HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877”; Dessa’s “Who’s Yellen Now?


Listener chatter from Ghael Fobes @GhaelFobes: a Twitter thread of animals interrupting wildlife photographers by @JoaquimCampa


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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment a listener asks John, Emily, and David to discuss how they organize their work, lives, and minds.


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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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