Society & Culture
Episode 17 - The Ramshackle Resistance Podcast Recorded: March 15th, 2017. We didn’t have a plan for this one, which feels like meta-commentary on what Tyler eventually came around to calling “the resistance”. Sometimes - most times - it’s important to just do stuff. The Hari Kondabolu Trump Reminder Schedule is in effect every day at Kondabolu’s twitter. Example tweet: REMINDER FOR DAY 58 OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY: THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Some digestible data on just who TrumpCare/WealthCare/RyanCare hurts and helps (hint: it hurts a lot more than it helps): A good Washington Post video Even before the AHCA was proposed, Charles Gaba started tracking ACA (ObamaCare) signups at ACASignups.net, which gives you a good idea of who got covered who wasn’t before (in each congressional district!) A solid Vox explainer (Voxplainer?) The source document, the Congressional Budget Office’s Cost Estimate for the American Health Care Act The Carrie Brownstein quote Tyler butchered, from the Hell No benefit show at Portland, Oregon’s Crystal Ballroom in February: "It's important to remember that resistance is a body," Carrie Brownstein said during Sleater-Kinney's electric closing set. "We can't all be the heart, and we can't all be the vascular system, but together, we make a whole body." A justifiably sassy headline from CNN on Sean “Spicy” Spicer’s spin moves: Spicer: Trump Didn’t Mean Wiretapping When He Tweeted About Wiretapping Scottish Government To Seek Independence Referendum Over Brexit Unsurprisingly, Theresa May has some tone-deaf stuff to say about it. Theresa May actually said this today. I had to read it twice to make sure I wasn't missing anything #Brexit #irony https://t.co/ArQfCLAhz3 pic.twitter.com/i8PRz8Yhjg Soviet Soviet‘s “official statement” is a well-written explanation of how a band coming to play a show for no money gets jailed and deported under the auspices of illegal immigration. :( Full show notes available at AndLeslie.com Intro song: Parasite by Lamprey - Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) https://soundcloud.com/iamlamprey/parasite