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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Trump’s birtherism, the New York bombing, and calls for a Snowden pardon.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
- James Parker in the Atlantic: “Donald Trump’s Punk-Rock Appeal”
- David Fahrenthold in the Washington Post: “Trump Used $258,000 From His Charity to Settle Legal Problems”
- The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll
- Will Saletan in Slate: “Terrorism Doesn’t Help Trump”
- Fred Kaplan in Slate: “The Leaky Myths of Snowden”
- The Washington Post’s editorial calling for Obama not to pardon Snowden
John chatters about Victorian death photography, in which deceased subjects were posed, often alongside their belongings and family members.
Emily chatters about a German Lopez piece in Vox about police shooting videos that compared the situations in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
David chatters about the Atlas Obscura book, the Atlas Obscura D.C. book launch, and a hilarious BBC video recreating what Neanderthals would have sounded like.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Links compiled by Kevin Townsend.