The “Not Exculpated” Edition
The Political Gabfest discusses Robert Mueller’s testimony, the downfall of Al Franken, and the deal to raise the debt ceiling.
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Episode Notes
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
• Elaina Plott for the Atlantic: “Bill Barr Already Won”
• Jane Mayer for the New Yorker: “The Case of Al Franken”
• Zachary Roth for HuffPost: “The Real Story About the Allegations Against Al Franken”
• Matthew Yglesias for Vox: “Al Franken Did the Right Thing by Resigning”
• Fleishman Is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• UnReal
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, by Neal Stephenson
• The White Lies podcast
• Kera Bolonik for New York: “The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap”
Here are this week’s cocktail chatters:
• Emily chattered about the Miami-Dade County state attorney’s plan to work around a new law that prohibits people with felony convictions who owe fines from voting.
• John chattered about Audm, an app for listening to longform journalism.
• David chattered about seeing the intense work agricultural workers do when he volunteered on a Pennsylvania farm staffed by workers in the United States on temporary agricultural visas.
• Listener Yoni Schenker sent us Mary Robinette Kowal’s twitter thread about peeing in space.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
