Viral stories tell us more than headlines do (+ Taylor Swift's Encore)
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Viral stories tell us more than headlines do (+ Taylor Swift's Encore)

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202659 min

Sarah and Beth discuss the viral stories that took over the weekend, and what they reveal about conflict, context, and civic life heading into the midterms: - The New York Times report on Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola's treatment of staff - The Boston Globe story on Last Ditch, a COVID-cautious lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts - The Giants game "mom of the year" couple and iced coffee at job interviews - Taylor Swift's four-song encore to The Life of a Showgirl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices<...

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Lemonado. I think that, again, is why this has gone so viral. There are so many threads of it that you're like, God, it's just like this, isn't it?

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We just drive each other crazy when we try to live in community together, because at the end of the day, it's like no one actually does value pluralism. No one actually does want to say, good for you and not for me sometimes. This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

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This is Beth Silvers. You're listening to Pantsby Politics. Just a series of stories that captured the public imagination over the weekend. And it's easy to dismiss them, but the confluence of them feels like it's really scratching

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