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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - The Conservative Legal Project Comes Home to Roost May 22, 2021

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Dahlia Lithwick is joined by two independent abortion providers, Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Women's Health and Tammi Kromenaker of Red River Women's Clinic, to share their reactions to two huge pieces of news in reproductive rights and health this week: the Supreme Court’s Dobbs grant, and SB8 in Texas. Then, Ian Milhiser of Vox and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island join Dahlia to discuss the courts and democracy, and why Clarence Thomas may be the most consequential justice for a generation.

In our Slate Plus segment, Mark Joseph Stern joins Dahlia to discuss why the justices feel emboldened to take up such blockbuster cases for next term.

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Slate Money - Male Mass Hysteria May 22, 2021

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Edmund Lee of the New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael to talk about AT&T's massive WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, this week’s Bitcoin crash, and burnout.

In the Plus segment: Future media merger speculation.

Mentioned in the show:

“U.S. Telecoms Decide Focusing on Pipes Isn’t So Dumb After All,” by Nic Fildes, Anna Nicolaou ,and Sujeet Indap for the Financial Times

“‘Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies,” by Jim Bianco for Bloomberg

“The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work’,” by Gaby Del Valle for Eater

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i

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What Next - TBD | The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial Pipeline May 21, 2021

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Last week, a hacker group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45 percent of the fuel consumed on the East Coast. Gas prices skyrocketed, people started hoarding gas, and DarkSide walked away with over $4 million in Bitcoin. How did they do it? And what makes this hack different from those we’ve seen before?

Guest: David Uberti, cybersecurity reporter at the Wall Street Journal

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Lizzie O’Leary

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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Hackers Who Took Down the Colonial Pipeline May 21, 2021

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Guest: David Uberti, cybersecurity reporter at the Wall Street Journal

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Lizzie O’Leary

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Political Gabfest - Hot Button Issue May 20, 2021

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Emily, John and David discuss the violence between Israel and Gaza, abortion at the Supreme Court, and the book Nine Nasty Words with author John McWhorter.

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

John Dickerson for CBS: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on "Face the Nation," May 16, 2021”

Bernie Sanders for the New York Times: “Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government”

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever, by John McWhorter

John McWhorter for the Atlantic: “How ‘White Fragility’ Talks Down to Black People”

Here’s this week’s chatter:

John: Tariro Mzezewa for the New York Times: “Hear a Harlem Choir Rejoice Again”

Emily: Adam Liptak for the New York Times: “Ban on Non-Unanimous Verdicts Is Not Retroactive, Supreme Court Rules”

David: Children of Timeby Adrian Tchaikovsky

Listener chatter from Susan Bates: AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies by Derek DelGaudio.

For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David talk about the objects that most define them.

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Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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What Next - One Senator’s Decades-Long Fight for Universal Childcare May 20, 2021

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Patty Murray began her career in the Senate pushing for a landmark piece of legislation: the Family and Medical Leave Act. Now, nearly 30 years later, she’s putting her weight behind a plan to grant universal access to affordable childcare.

Guest: U.S. Senator Patty Murray of Washington state.

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What Next - A Cuomo Accuser on Watching Him Stay Put May 19, 2021

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo faces two investigations regarding accusations of sexual harassment and a culture of bullying in his office. Despite multiple calls to resign, the governor has clung to his office, hoping to ride out the scandals.

Guest: Karen Hinton, former press secretary and adviser to Andrew Cuomo.

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What Next - Our Very Weird Economic Recovery May 18, 2021

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After the passage of Joe Biden’s big coronavirus stimulus package, economists expected to see a huge jobs report in May. In the end, only a quarter of the expected 1 million new jobs materialized. Why is that? And what are the chances that $1.9 trillion in stimulus funding is backfiring?

Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent

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What Next - Mask Off? May 17, 2021

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On Thursday, the CDC announced that unvaccinated people can go unmasked in most situations. The decision was followed with many private companies dropping their mask requirements but not everyone is ready to go barefaced just yet.

Guest: Megan Ranney, ER Doctor at Brown Emergency Medicine

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Slate Money - The Blackmail Episode May 15, 2021

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Brad Stone to talk about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and his new book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, covering things like AMI’s extortion of Bezos, what the single cow burger tells about who Bezos has become, the impact of Amazon’s labor practices, and many more Bezos/Amazon topics.

In the Plus segment: Neobanks.

Mentioned in the show:

“No Thank You, Mr. Pecker,” by Jeff Bezos

“Colonial Pipeline Paid the Ransom. Bad Move,” by Timothy L. O'Brien for Bloomberg

“The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom,” by Paris Martineau for The Information

“Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace,” by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld for the New York Times

“Simple Banking Customers Still Locked Out; Parent BBVA Says Its Customer Service Crashed,” by Mike Rogoway for Oregon Live

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i

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