• Light/Dark
  • Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.

US PoliERA 2018 |OT8| Democrats projected to gain F5 seats

Status
Not open for further replies.
Midnight Jon

Midnight Jon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,161
Ohio
Just a reminder: this thread is not a Twitter feed, or your personal venting ground for every garbage fire you see on OT.

JustinP said:
My favorites:

For understanding policy and political science in the US:
  • The Weeds (Vox) - more focused on policy than drama, very informative, they have a 'white paper of the week' segment where they go over new poli-sci research. Not as dry as you'd expect though (my overall favorite).

The Supreme Court:
  • Amicus (Slate) - Dahlia Lithwick is a great court reporter and has fantastic guests on to talk about the supreme court (often guests that are directly involved with relevant cases), though her guests are usually from the left so sometimes you come away a little overoptimistic -- still incredibly informative though.

For fantastic interviews:
  • Ezra Klein Show (Vox) - deep dives into big ideas, important subjects. Ezra has one of the best interview styles in the business and he makes sure each minute is packed full of valuable insight.

Peek into the criminal justice system:
  • Stay Tuned with Preet - former US attorney Preet Bahara knows his stuff and has great guests on to talk about the law and criminal justice system

National Security:
  • The Lawfare Podcast - centered around national security but branching off into all sorts of areas, each episode offers a serious discussion about a given topic

Debates:
  • Intelligence Squared Debates - literally Oxford style debates, 2v2 in 3 stages. Great way to be informed of both sides of an argument over any given topic.

Economics:
  • Slate Money - business, finance, macroeconomics, monetary policy, regulations -- very informative and somehow they make all this stuff entertaining
  • Planet Money (NPR) - shorter, more produced, not quite as in the weeds

General political discussion podcasts:
  • Political Gabfest (Slate) - John Dickerson of CBS This Morning, Emily Bazlon of NYT, David Plotz (formerly at Slate) each bring their own bit of expertise for a well rounded discussion
  • Pod Save America (Crooked Media) - former aides to Obama provide an entertaining and uncommonly insider look into politics

Daily podcasts for your Alexa Flash Briefing:
  • Up First (NPR) - brief overview of today's stories
  • The Daily (NYT) - similar, but they usually have a deeper dive into a particular story that isn't necessarily breaking news

From across the isle:
  • The Daily Standard (The Weekly Standard) - if you want to expose yourself to conservatives, this is gonna be the most reasonable, least annoying one. But they're still conservatives.
  • If you can't stand a whole podcast of conservatives, KCRW's Left Right & Center is what it sounds like and is pretty good but Rich Lowry is more Trumpy than the people at The Weekly Standard.

Series podcasts (these explore specific topics like documentaries):
  • Slow Burn (Slate) - each season explores a major scandal so you can get a sense of how it felt as it was happening -- the first season is about Nixon and Watergate, the second season is about Clinton's Monica Lewinski scandal
  • More Perfect (Radiolab) - exploring the history of the Supreme Court -- super, SUPER fascinating.
  • The Wilderness (Crooked Media) - a series exploring how the Democratic Party can save itself and the country.
  • The RFK Tapes - similar to Slow Burn, goes back to look at Robert F Kennedy's assassination
  • What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law - a series that uses recent Trump news as a jumping off point to teach constitutional law, hosted by constitutional law professor Elizabeth Joh and the guy that does 99% Invisible (another good podcast but less political)
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Brian McDoogle said:
Here to get the ball rolling:

Podcasts:

POD SAVE AMERICA - advocacy/propaganda/interview
Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor, former Obama workers, go through the news twice a week, with interviews of political leaders and advocacy members. Length 1h+

THE DAILY - news/interview
New York Times' daily political news podcast that goes deep into a single story each weekday. Length 20m.

CHAPO TRAP HOUSE - commentary/propaganda
Socialist comedy, very acerbic, popular; second thing tends to get them into trouble a lot. Length 60-80m.

THE WEEDS - commentary
Vox's political podcast hosted by Ezra Klein, Sarah Kliff, and Matthew Yglesias that can get nerdy and detailed on certain topics. Length 1h+

SLATE POLITICAL GABFEST - commentary
My favorite, hosted by David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon. Covers current politics, the court, and other newsworthy stories in a non-ideological extreme viewpoint. Every Thursday, about an hour.

STAY TUNED WITH PREET - interview
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara interviews a guest weekly about something related to stories of the day, sometimes focusing on legal matters. Every wednesday, about 40 minutes.

THE LAWFARE PODCAST - analysis/interview
Benjamin Wittes' venture along with Brookings Institute that goes into legal analysis, interviews with various people, and security/privacy focused topics. Once a week, about 40 minutes.

THE NEW YORKER - POLITICS AND MORE - commentary
New Yorker's political podcast hosted by Dorothy Wickenden, interview policy makers or New Yorker experts on a single topic each week. Every Thursday, about 20 minutes.

ON THE MEDIA - analysis
Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone examine the role of the media in reporting stories each week in a grounded and critical eye. Essential for understanding and being more critical of your personal media consumption. Every Friday, about 50 minutes.

RADIO ATLANTIC - commentary
The Atlantic magazine's staff discuss a single topic for about an hour, sometimes featuring guest experts. Every Friday, about an hour.

SLOW BURN - historical
Slate's detailed look into Watergate (season 1) and now the Clinton impeachment (ongoing).

WHISTLESTOP - historical
John Dickerson's personal podcast about bizarre and sometimes relevant political stories from years past. No fixed schedule, about 40 minutes.

I would like to include some good conservatives ones, but I don't really listen to any anymore, and I'm not about to put in Glen Beck or The Federalists. Trying to search for one I used to listen to a couple years ago and I can't find it. Also, super annoying to see people write Dumbass Shapiro is smart.

Edit: It was Radio Free GOP with Mike Murphy I was thinking of. Looks like it stopped in 2016.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

And now for the thread title context.




NBC News PR‏ @NBCNewsPR
JUST NOW on @MeetThePress: Rudy Giuliani tells @ChuckTodd, "Truth isn't truth." #MTP

Dk95fWBW0AAPLmK.jpg

https://twitter.com/NBCNewsPR/status/1031177136441356289
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Jim Carrey‏Verified account @JimCarrey
Manafort, GUILTY! Cohen, GUILTY! Flynn, Guilty! Gates, Guilty! What's happening to All the Best People? "Ladies and Gentlemen! Children of all ages! Can the Great Spewdini spew enough lies to escape the straight-jacket of his un-Presidented criminality?"

DlKTZHSWsAI2WvB.jpg

https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1032049342981464064/photo/1
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Oh yeah also Duncan Hunter got indicted because the past 24 hours were THE WILDEST.

The next federal special election: NONE (except MI-13 which literally has a single viable candidate). IT'S FINALLY OVER

Next state primaries: Alaska and Wyoming, tonight; Arizona and Florida, August 28th

Previous threads:
US PoliERA 2018 |OT7| Tell Me The Bad Things That Happened Since I Fell Asleep
US PoliERA 2018 |OT6| An Unmitigated Disaster
US PoliERA 2018 |OT5| A Total Goat Rodeo
US PoliERA 2018 |OT4| Sweetheart, this is Watergate, goodbye!
US PoliERA 2018 |OT3| In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Ryan
US PoliEra 2018 |OT2| Flip, Flip, Flip-a-Gatesia
US PoliEra 2018 |OT| Welcome to the Resistance, the only funded organization in D.C.

US PoliEra 2017 |OT3| This thread was created with a one vote margin
US PoliEra 2017 |OT2| Tinkle Traitor Soldier Spy
US PoliEra 2017 |OT| At least Rand Paul had a lawn to cushion the blow
 
Last edited:
CthulhuSars

CthulhuSars

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,906
I appreciate the title. Nothing got done today as it was just reading news blasts left and right all day long I don't know where the day went.
 
Teggy

Teggy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,892
Omg crazypants. And these people look like anyone you would run into on the street
 
Steeped in a Sea of Games

Steeped in a Sea of Games

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
6,948
Happy to be here on this much needed day of relief. I've been real tired of screaming at how they can't keep getting away with it. Nice to see some aren't.
 
Brian McDoogle

Brian McDoogle

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,927
B-Dubs said:
Hey man, don't look at me. I just asked him if he'd put a thing in there about spamming twitter embeds and cutting down on meta talk about other threads.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
No, it's fine and makes sense, but the first time I saw it was the same size as the normal text, but then I refreshed and it it doubled in size. It might be an error on my end.
 

Deleted member 11637

Oct 27, 2017
18,204
Soon, Judge Ellis will be tsundere'ing prosecutors handling some lame insurance scam case, and none of us will hear or care about it.
 
Soul Skater

Soul Skater

Member
Oct 25, 2017
10,201
Saw the offspring tonight and they played walla walla right after cracking a Trump crowd size joke

Better believe I went crazy in the mosh while screaming "PRISON IS THE DES-TI-NATIONNNNN"
 

Deleted member 176

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
37,160
Looking back at past OT titles, it's crazy that so much has happened this year and yet OT2 still had the best title by far.
 
WarioFan63

WarioFan63

Member
Oct 25, 2017
334
IL
If Trump's circle keeps telling us that we can't indict a sitting president, then all we have to do is just indict him while he's standing! Checkmate, Gulliani!
 
RustyNails

RustyNails

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 26, 2017
24,586
Rudy was surprisingly absent from today's drama. I wonder what he's cooking.
 
Autodidact

Autodidact

Member
Oct 25, 2017
18,729
I said so in the last thread, but it's almost comical how many of our new members might be attractive, squarejawed men come January.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.