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"The stop, here at home, Capital One arena in D.C. on March 27th. The high prices we're looking at here are said to be because of something called dynamic pricing at which ticketmaster uses an algorithm to adjust prices in real time based on supply and demand. Tickets are going up to 5000 bucks, believe it or not. Washington Post reporter Alison Stewart this morning on what this is all about. People want to think that Bruce had nothing to do with it that maybe ticketmaster set the prices and that Bruce doesn't know and that he's going to find out and be really upset, but he knows he and his management and promoters involved set the price together. So what about any comment from anybody as Bruce Springsteen making a public comment? Ticketmaster trying to explain things that are we getting some sort of explanation here? The ticketmaster is saying that the expensive tickets are few and far between that most go for under $300. I don't know if that's true. It was true, maybe in the early days of tickets going on sale, Bruce's manager released a statement saying that ticket prices were on par with other acts. And Bruce hasn't said anything and I would be surprised if he did. I think he just sort of hunkering down and waiting for it to be over. You know, it's interesting because this, of course, is unfolding with a big gap between the people who have and the people who have not, and of course that generates anger, and I'm just curious how widespread through the industry this practice is. It is very widespread, especially if you're a legacy artist like Paul McCartney or The Rolling Stones. You're essentially acting as your own scalper. Instead of those tickets going on a secondary market and fetching thousands of dollars, the artists figured that they might as well serve as their own scalpers. And charge the fans themselves. It's just that with an artist like Bruce, who has such a great working class hero reputation, it's really
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"The next all of it, Julius eastman was a black queer composer and a fixture of downtown New York's music scene in the 1970s. He died in 1990 in relative obscurity, beginning last year the music collective wild up as honored his legacy by recording and releasing his work in a 7 part series. We'll give it the attention it deserves in an all of it listening party. I'm Alison Stewart, join me for all of it weekdays at on debuting. It's morning edition from NPR news. I'm Steven skip. And I'm lela faldo. A South Korean musician has won the prestigious Van Cliburn international piano competition. This past weekend's event in Fort Worth, Texas, also saw finalists from two countries at war, a Russian and a Ukrainian take silver and bronze. Bill evil with member station ker a reports. This 17 day international piano competition featured fast fingers and bright musical minds. However, hovering over all the music making was the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. So just before the awards ceremony to name the winners, 2013 Clyburn gold medalist Vadim called anko of keefe, solemnly performed Ukraine's national anthem at the grand piano. Teared up as the packed concert hall stood. Fibrin
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"This weekend and food and wine executive editor ray aisle will join us to share his picks for toasting mom And the new cookbook from chef Rick Martinez nicotina is an ode to Mexico and the recipes passed down to him from his mother I'm Alison Stewart joined me for all of it weekdays at noon on WNYC This is morning edition from NPR news I'm a Martinez I'm Leila folded and I'm Rachel Martin For many of us the pandemic era has been a time of anxiety For the band war paint it was also a time of productivity They weren't able to tour but they were able to put the finishing touches on their new album It's called radiate like this Breathing in about a million years old I'm a champion Teresa women and Emily coca are two of the members of the all woman rock Quartet They joined us from Santa Monica California to talk about how they kept busy during COVID lockdown as Teresa explains it it included everything from the mundane to the musical to the maternal Espino a lot of time with my family and my son I have a 16 year old son and I did you know just like things that you do and living at your home like gardening and cooking and canning tomatoes and I don't normally do those things I'm glad that it provided space for YouTube Yeah There were some worrisome moments where I was like supply chain issues I need to have I need to have a garden And a lot of people were feeling this way Yeah I had a kid And I've got you and here it is I'll talk to you I read that you gave birth to your daughter on March 16th 2020 is that right Yeah I mean that was.
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"On the next all of its singer songwriter Sid has a new album out we'll talk with her about broken hearts club and the ebbs and flows of love and relationships And do you have a name doppelganger I do We'll talk about how names affect our lives and take your calls about your name twin I'm Alison Stewart at least one of them Join me for all of it Wednesday at noon on WNYC This is morning edition on WNYC and Michael hill We close out our radio rookie series with reported volatility when she was two years old her dad went to prison growing up she visited him regularly but then stopped Now more than a decade later she shares her journey to reconnect with him So today's the day that I'm gonna go visit my dad I just woke up and I feel extremely nervous anxious It's bringing up a lot of emotions of when I was a child And I used to go visit my dad in prison and all the stuff that we had to do just going there I started recording these voice diaries last summer I hadn't seen my dad since I was 12 years old As a child I remember going to visit my dad and my dad picking me up and throwing me in the air And that was like my favorite part of the visit Because I just felt so free And now that I'm older I'm realizing the effects of having a dad that's in prison and how it does cause a lot of trauma And the root of all of my problems was the fact that I didn't have a dad growing up And I think that's like why I struggle so much with my identity and understanding who I am in this world because a half of me I don't even know anything about I'm just ready to understand who my dad is.
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"Alison Stewart to talk about his new film mogul mogul. About a British Pakistani rapper who suddenly faced with a serious illness Tune in at noon today, or 93.9 FM 78 Sunny, mostly sunny Today in 87. It's w N Y. C. Worry about having Support for W. N. Y. C comes from the private wealth business of Glenmede and investment and wealth management firm partnering with individuals and families for more than 65 years more from Lee Miller at 2123287310. The next New York public Radio Board of trustees meeting is Thursday. September 23rd. The public session begins at eight a.m. to find details on how to listen by phone go to w n y c dot org slash trustees. 78 mostly sunny today are actually right now going up to a holiday of 87 on the first day of school in New York City. This is news out live from the BBC in London with me. Tim Franks. Corruption is one of South Africa's biggest problems of recent study revealed that it cost more than $100 billion to the country between 2014 and 2019. That figures expected only to grow with investigations into the looting of millions of dollars set aside to help fight Covid 19 in South Africa over the last two years. But whistleblowers enjoy few protections and little support. Indeed, there often punished for speaking out As Southern Africa correspondent comes a felony has been looking at the cost of taking a stand. I don't.
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"Y C. I'm Alison Stewart are full bio conversation this month is with Peter Bergen, the author of the Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, a deeply researched account of how a delusional man became an international terrorist. Who would change the trajectory of US foreign policy and identity. While we are coming up to the 20th anniversary of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. There are several other anniversaries happening this year as well, including the 25th anniversary of bin Laden, official warning declaring war on the United States that happened in August, 1996 Well, a producer at CNN, Peter Bergen traveled to Afghanistan to interview bin Laden. We'll hear about that encounter in a moment. First I began this part of the conversation with a question about how Osama bin Laden found himself to be a man without a country in the early 19 nineties and how that led to his relationship with the Taliban, which sees Jalalabad and Kabul. 25 years ago this month. So in 1994. The Saudis revoked his citizenship. I mean, they'd already Made it into sort of affected the exiled him already. His family at the same time, cut off his money, So he was really kind of homeless and, Yeah, 1994. He was living in Sudan under considerable pressure from countries like Egypt and the United States. He was expelled by the Sudanese. Applies to Afghanistan, which at the time was The Taliban are beginning to take over. He didn't really know how the Taliban would react to him. That may have 96. When he flew to Afghanistan. He flew to eastern Afghanistan to Jalalabad, which was an area that was not controlled by the Taliban as yet, and he was Think there was some trepidation amongst bin Laden and his men and his man. Who had followed him to to Afghanistan about how the Taliban would kind of regard him and it turned out to be they didn't need to worry. The Taliban, you know, met with him, senior minister has said. You know, we we really Admire what you've done. They took him a ticket, and they they they, you know they really embraced him, however. Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, Um Wasn't happy about all these belligerent interviews that bin Laden started giving to CNN, ABC News and others Because the Taliban were looking for international recognition, only three countries had recognize them in the pre 9 11 era. They certainly didn't want to sort of anger of the United States and so months I just hadn't point below. Omar visited bin Laden told him essentially, essentially, Can you just shut up or leave Afghanistan and Bin Laden, Um said, you know, basically made some religious arguments that to another Omar about why it was important for him to keep talking and keep emphasizing the issue of the U. S military presence in Saudi Arabia and Mullah Omar had a kind of ambivalent relationship to bin Laden. He kind of it was irritating to him that bin Laden was conducting effectively his own foreign policy. Mullah Omar started styled himself as the commander of the faithful, which means that in his own mind, he was the commander of all Muslims and bin Laden wasn't really kind of toeing the line. But on the other hand, you know whenever the big crisis came All that Omar would always kind of go along with bin Laden views that That you know, bin Laden was really following kind of proper Islam and And so you know, there was kind of this status quo where I've been long and continue to give these interviews continue to plot against United States. The the Taliban truck. You know that, you know, would meet with him occasionally and to try and tell him to sort of dial it back, and he would just ignore them. And and and there were quite a number of people in the Taliban, who Really? Was sick and tired of bin Laden want to get rid of him. But at the end of the day, Muller Omar was the kind of the key because he was the commander of the faithful and other Omar never really pressured been lobbed to leave. He He just He? He kind of tolerated him and that Mullah Omar was a rather provincial guy. He It was a village mullahs. He never went. He very rarely went to Kabul, the capital city. You would stay in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. His knowledge of the outside world was really very small. And bin Laden seemed to hold some kind of influence over him. Obviously, this year is the 20th anniversary of bin Laden attacks on the United States. But there are two other anniversaries that are interesting that I did not realize until I read your book. It was 25 years ago in August of 1996, the State Department identified bin Laden as quote one of the most significant financial sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world today and the first time the formation of Al Qaeda is mentioned. And it was also 25 years ago in 1996 that bin Laden issued his first public statement that he was quote at war with the United States. Had. Can I add Alison another anniversary, which please? So it's also the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Ackman. Char Massoud, the leader of the anti Taliban Resistance, who was one of the most significant military command of the 20th century was instrumental in the Soviets pulling out of Afghanistan. Fought off. The Taliban was never defeated by the Taliban. Now his son today, Artman Massoud is leading the anti Taliban resistance age 32 to history. It's kind of in a strange way of repeating itself. 20 years later, where You have Ahmed Shah Massoud son Massoud, leading the resistance of the Taliban, which now controls all of Afghanistan, or almost all of it. Um so And Massoud was killed by Al Qaeda two days before 9 11. It was really the curtain raiser for the 9 11 attacks because bin Laden knew that the attacks were coming, and he knew that they would cause a lot of problems for the Taliban..
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"Of it. I'm Alison Stewart and I will meet you on the other side of the news. Yeah. Live from NPR news. I'm Janine Herbst in Richmond, Virginia. Amid happy cheers from the crowd, crews using a crane hoisted the enormous statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee off its giant pedestal. Statue towered there for more than 130 years. It was removed after months of protests and court challenges. Workers cut the statue in half so it can be brought to a secure location where it will be stored until its final disposition is determined. Solar power could generate about 40% of the country's electricity by 2035 without raising utility rates. That's according to a new Department of Energy study. NPR's Jeff Brady reports. That benchmark would require a massive solar construction boom over the next decade and a half. The Energy Department. Solar Future study shows a path to reaching President Biden's climate change goal of zeroing out greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 2035. The US gets only about 3% of its electricity from solar. Now that's after years of double digit growth. Reaching 40% would require extraordinary levels of construction and overcoming obstacles like citing constraints and a solar panel trade dispute with China. Instead of raising utility bills. Much of the funding would come from federal incentives included in a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill. Democrats hope to pass soon Jeff Brady NPR news September. 11th terrorism case resumed this week at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. NPR's assessors, Pfeiffer reports. The proceedings were halted more than a year and a half ago by the coronavirus pandemic. The case against alleged 9 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co defendants is still in the pre trial stage. That's even though the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks is this weekend. The last time there was a public hearing in the case was February 2020. But this week, the accused terrorists are back in the Guantanamo courtroom in front of a new judge recently appointed to the case. There will also soon be an acting chief prosecutor because the existing one is about to retire, and the chief defense counsel will also soon be retiring. Because of those leadership changes and basic legal questions in the case that remain unresolved. Little progress toward a 9 11 trial is expected to happen during this two week long court session. Sasha Pfeiffer. NPR NEWS The U. S. Supreme Court says it will hear oral arguments in person this fall this after more than a year of remote arguments because of the pandemic. The court says it will still provide audio of arguments held in October through December. Access to the courtroom, though, will be limited. With no public access. Only justice is essential Personnel Council and journalists will be allowed. All street is trading lower at this hour. The Dow was down 110 points. This is NPR. President Biden has promised to help victims of the IDA Storm. President Biden met with families in New Jersey whose homes were devastated by IDA Double universities, Carinae reports Single family homes in Manville is low lying neighborhood known as the Lost Valley were completely overwhelmed by floodwaters. Biden walked past towering piles of ruined furniture, toys, TVs, refrigerators and cabinets. Entire basements and first floors were emptied out on lawns and sidewalks on every block. Seven year old Zachary Roadless, had to be rescued with his family and his dog during the storm. On Tuesday, he got a chance to give.
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"This is all of it on W N Y C. I'm Alison Stewart In a new cookbook called Colombiana. Rediscovery of Recipes and rituals from the soul of Colombia. Food stylist, author and chef Mariana Velasquez pays homage to the women who have taught her and mentored her on her culinary journey. She also looks the profound influence of women on Colombian culture. In her words, quote. There are more than 23 million of US Colombian women together We make up an undefinable mix of heritage, culture and backgrounds. But while our struggles and inspirations vary by region and personal experience, I believe we share a core value. No matter the status, capacity or budget. If you show up at our door, Colombians will offer to feed you. Being generous with food is in our spirit. Originally from Bogota, Colombia and now based in New York City. Mariana Velasquez shares 100 recipes that meld the contemporary and the traditional blending elements of style, entertaining in culture along the way. She was kind enough to share one of those recipes with us. It's on the all that website. Check out her recipe for the Chocolate Sweet Corn, Aretha's Columbia. A rediscovery of recipes and rituals from the soul of Colombia is out now and Mariana Velasquez joins us. Mariana. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Alison is a pleasure to be on your show. When did you realize that you wanted to write a book dedicated to Colombian cuisine. You know, about three years ago, I was going through kind of a struggle with my connection to food. I was working back to back Was cooking up a storm every day on set. And I was kind of feeling lost, You know, like my creativity was feeling a little bit. Empty and I realized that looking inwards. And thinking about the food from home. You know, a country that I left 20 years ago. Really was a way to awaken all of it. So I started writing recipes and chapters and quickly came together as a book. I'm wondering how has not being in Colombia full time. As you said 20 years ago, you came here. How has that affected the way you thought about Colombian cooking and recipes? So you know, it makes me appreciate all the beautiful things in this small detail. You know, from the everyday cookies in the neighborhood bakery that when you live there, you sort of take for granted. And then you realize that if they're made with toasted barley flour like something very unique. It made me seen the foot of my country with such appreciation, especially Loving how humble ingredients can make up such great recipes. As I mentioned in the intro, you focus on Colombian women and their role and not just food and culinary traditions, but the culture at large. So when you think about what women have contributed to Colombian food culture, what is really what really stands out in your mind? I feel that they say or we are the keepers of tradition, you know, kind of like where the backbone of all of those recipes of the cooking techniques. Of the preparations that really make Colombian food union You know, throughout the years being a country within so much conflict. To be able to maintain those foods. And you know, those rituals have been thanks to mostly women. But you're you're very honest and clear eyed about it and you write. It would be an understatement to say that Colombian women have struggled over the centuries. Why did you feel it was important to acknowledge that struggle. In your book. And how do you think the struggle has affected Colombian cuisine? So in one hand, because how could I not pay tribute to the women who taught me so much and not only food but about values in life? No growing up both of my grandmothers and my mother, where Big big influence in the way I live in the way I cook in the way I I support my family and Mean of violence has been Has kept Colombian food, very regional in a way just because going from point a to point B. Used to be, and sometimes now it's difficult, you know, by car, different barricade and obstructions on the road made towns pretty isolated, which also kept the foods of those towns and the flavors and traditions of those towns. Stayed there. And so even now, you'll sometimes find that people in different regions of Colombia. I don't know about the food of certain places. So there's so much to discover now. My guess is Mariana Velasquez. The name of her book is Colombiana. A rediscovery of recipes and rituals from the soul of Colombia. You tell this great story Mariana at the beginning of the book, Of course, it's about tradition. But it's also about finding yourself as a chef and how you were encouraged to find your own uniqueness as a cook as a chef, because of a mistake you made Please share what a master chef told you when you had you had sort of messed up, actually. Yeah. So you know, my grandmother would always cook her hard boiled eggs on her potatoes in the same place. You know, there was no need to dirty up more dishes. And here I am in this fine dining restaurants in Big Sur in California, and I'm preparing the news and plus for the caviar, and one of the accompaniment was horrible decks. But then I also had to boil some potatoes for something else. Imagine the chef walks by the stove. Whether these all these bubbling pots taking place and he sees my eggs and potatoes in one vessel, and he's like who they best I've and instead of reminding me, you know, he asked for an explanation, and I said so. And He said. Never doing never still doing it That way. You know that's how you become a unique cook. And and they do believe that those things that you make your own those techniques or those Um I don't know. I guess Intricacies are you know what makes people Unique, unique cooks..
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"This is all of it. I'm Alison Stewart. It is time to go to church. Take Come on. That's gospel singer Kirk Franklin, who along with Oprah Winfrey, Bishop T. D. Jakes, Princeton professor Eddie Cloud, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson and now Senator Raphael Warnock, Among others, are in a new docuseries hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr Tells the essential role of the Black church and that it's played in education, activism, politics and community. Known as the Invisible Institution during the antebellum years, a new PBS docuseries tells this 400 year history from the very beginning without shying away from all the complications and contradictions that remain with the church. To this day, part one of the serious the Black Church. This is our story. That's our song premieres on PBS on February 16th at 9 P.m. and joining me now to discuss the Syriza is producer and director Stacey Home and Hi, Stacey. Hi, Alison. Thank you for having the right choosing locations of the film. You were two. There were two churches in America that you knew right off the bat. Would be integral into your story, which two churches are they Um Ebeneezer old Evan user. I should clear verify on but also I mean, you kept two can't go past the Potter's house. You know when you were talking about the black church And then from there, we just started, you know, finding and really looking at a amazing number of churches across, you know, in the West Coast in the Midwest, even you know, In the Savannah, Georgia, so it's definitely ballooned up to something incredible. You begin the first part of the Syriza talking about religion broadly, not just Christianity, and there's quite a bit about Islam. One PBS source sites that enslave people who are brought to from Africa about 10 15% were Muslim. How does understanding the words of Islam in America help contextualize the beginnings of the black Church? I mean, there's a lot of people think when enslaved Africans were brought here that they did not know God, they're stripped of their freedom stripped of their dignity. However, they were not stripped of their gods. And the fact that there's a Muslim footprint is really just speaks to the fact that they retained and they understood and they respected that their religion. And it shows that we held on to that faith and you continue to see elements of that spirituality that was learned from the continent and other forms of religion. But for me, I know learning. That was an incredible Ah ha moment on guy think it will be for viewers to see it? Syria's takes us to this small island in Georgia, which was an online they've enslaved Muslim people. When was this community founded? We're talking about the 18. Hundreds on Do we focus on Bilal E. Mohammed? There was a book that he had written where Book of Remembrance is what we refer to her What we've been told to scholars what it's identified as and its Muslim prayers. So we actually visit the cemetery in which the descendants of a lolly Mohammad Lai, We did not find hiss grave. No one really knows where that is. But we did find one of his daughters. So we go. We go pretty far back. And split. There's a theme in the Syriza that enslaved people first sort of adopted Christianity, and then they adapted it, and in some cases they were converted. So let's let's start with e The adoption in the early days, the black Church What were some of the key ways that enslave people adapted Christianity. Colum Response. How we hear the word How we respond to the word how we worship how we staying? How we praise on Also to how we actually understand the word. Um Back and enslavement period. The word was used in manipulated, but we understood what it really meant. But even with that, you know, just are forms of respecting and honoring God. We put a little swing to it. We've got a little bit of movement to it, and we definitely put some rhythm to it. So when white evangelicals were seeking to convert enslaved people How did they justify the conversion without freedom? Well, they triple. They removed key elements of the Bible on anything. An exodus that referred to the Israel ites being freed that was removed. Anything that spoke to Jesus being a redemptive god that he came here to save was removed. So they really used the references that spoke to honoring your master enslavement. You know, this is your duty as a slave. That is your duty as a servant. Um, your freedom is You know? Does not exist. But honoring and respecting your your master, your slave master. So you know, it's really quite incredible. Just I mean, you know how the word was used on go also to just that there's actually a Bible that exist with these chapters missing. My guess is Stacey home and serious producer and director of the Black Church. This is our story. This is our song. The first episode Premiers on PBS tonight at 9 P.m.. So you know, at the time enslaved Americans were not allowed to be literate. It was illegal. Uh, how did the lack of literacy Sext preaching in black churches. That's very question. Um, you know, a lot of it was affected by what they heard what they understood what was being said, and translating it, interpreting it in their own way. So you know if they hear the other master saying something they're like, you know. Well, let me see and understand how that relates and connects to us, and sometimes they route they understood this a little bit. How to read and that's all you In essence knew what you needed to know was that was a redemptive God, a God that did not want you to be a slave, The God of Hope, God that's showed and hope for a future for you as well. Conversely, the black Church in some ways, though, led to literacy sometimes and save people. Would Learn pieces of the Bible. Oh, yeah. I mean, our two focuses on that. Immensely, and just the Bible bands that were traveling and just, you know, people were hungry to learn hungry to learn. And the first thing people wanted to learn to read was a Bible on D. What better way TOC that's like to go around teaching led by women. I have to preface that teaching other women and other individuals men to read. So you can then interpret and understand the Bible for yourself. Before the abolition of slavery. What did a physical space of a black church look like This? What It was, like actually really beautiful to understand and learn this. We call them where they referred to them as hush harbors. And they could take place in the woods far away from the planters gays they could take place in a cabin on a slave cabin. S o. Any place where you could gather in secret? Anyplace you could gather without any interruption or any being threatened in any way. Was a place where you could worship so they were. They were finding any place in every place and we actually visited. We were in Georgia. You went to one of the praise houses, which is from some people who live in the Midwest, and they have like a tool shed. That's pretty much the best way Describe but appraise house, Woz and men and women with Children would least 80 would gather in this really small space just to worship just the praise so Africans and slaves men, women were using anything that was available to them. Find sanctuaries..
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"I'm Alison Stewart. Thank you for spending part of your day with me, even if it's only for an hour. You know why we all know why the impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump begins in the U. S Senate today. The first item of business will be debate over the constitutionality of the trial. It will be followed by a vote on whether to perceive the trial it all w N Y C will bring you live coverage and analysis from NPR beginning today at 1 P.m. and continuing throughout the week. So we also want to acknowledge the passing of it. All of it. Favorite guest. Mary Wilson, founding member of Supremes passed away at age 76. We will be revisiting our conversation with Ms Wilson this week and via our podcast feed, since we only have an hour together. Let's get this started. According to the CDC, six out of 10, American adults are living with a chronic illness. For those Americans, the pandemic has been particularly challenging and terrifying. Especially since so many of those with chronic illnesses are also immuno compromised, and some health experts fear some of those who contracted covert 19 may have long term issues. Our next guest is one of those Americans living with chronic illness, writer and science reporter Tessa Miller. Was a 20 Something New Yorker When she was diagnosed with crones disease, a chronic digestive illness, her life changed drastically, not just in terms of medical bills and extended leave from work. Illness at times threatened Tess's life. Tessa Rights of one of her lowest points I now weighed £90 my skin, appeared alien gray and hung from my bones like a saggy deflated balloon. Are relied on someone else for everything sitting up putting rubber bottom socks on going to the bathroom washing up in my rooms, tiny shower. My body didn't feel like my own. Was ordered not to eat anything but wouldn't have wanted to anyway. Fluids in nutrition came intravenously, though Ivy's got harder and harder to insert due to all the blown veins. Giant bruises covered my arms and spindly purple and green fireworks next to soar, scabby rashes from all the weeks of medical tape. My veins became so difficult to find. They had to use a machine called a vein viewer on my arms, legs and neck to locate deeper locations less likely to blow up. I left IV's in longer than I should have for fear of not finding another usable spot. I'm not certain why they didn't sort of port. My blood pressure was 70/50 on a good day and some days it wouldn't register at all. Tessa has written a book about living with chronic disease. It's titled What doesn't Kill you? A life with chronic illness lessons from a body in revolt. Tessa shares that she wrote the book Because quote I needed a book written by someone who exists in that foggy space between the common cold and terminal cancer. Well, illness doesn't go away but won't kill you. Tessa Miller joins me now, Tessa, welcome to the show. Hi, Allison. Thank you so much for having me. And if you were listening and listening with chronic illness, we'd like you to join this conversation. What's something you wish more people knew about the experience, And we know that the pandemic and social distancing has been particularly difficult and frightening for people, especially those with chronic illness. What's been the past year been like for you? What's something that's gotten you through? Give us a call It 6464357280, of course, is a judgment free zone. So don't fear Come on 646435 70 to 80. I'm really excited to hear, um from people. Ah, I'm hopeful that maybe some people from my own community will call in because I told them I would be on today and So I might hear familiar name. Um, which is exciting, But, yeah, I'm excited to hear from people. This is gonna be great. Yeah, that often happens. I want to talk about the structure of the book a little bit. Talk about your writing was your experience. So it's part memoir. It's a little bit of a guidebook for those living with chronic illness. It's also a guidebook for people who haven't and maybe don't completely understand and want to understand. Why did you want structure this way rather than going straight memoir. Um, yeah, that's a great question. Um, well, when the when I was in my initial talks with my publisher, uh, on with my editor at McMillan, Um, this was a question that came up over and over and over again because I Really didn't want it to be straight memoir because what I kept thinking, Woz I need this to be the book that I wish someone had handed me when I first got diagnosed, and there was some practical stuff that I needed to know, Um, on top of just reading someone's memoir and being able to feel like I wasn't alone. I also needed practical stuff like how to find a good doctor. How to find a good therapist. Um, what happens if I lose my job, and I need to find health insurance? There was all this stuff that I had to learn in real time over the last 10 years of being sick. And so we kept talking about Okay. Do we make the first half of the book your memoir, and then maybe the second half of the book is all this service journalism. Because I also used to work at Lifehacker, which is sort of the infamous Service journalism website. Um and I wanted to bring in these skills to, um, to really help people be able to take Actionable steps when they read the book, which I feel are just as important as And then more part of the book, which makes you feel like Um, that that that me as a writer understands what you're going through. So getting the two parts of the book, right was really, um, the biggest challenge that we face. We ended up ah kind of messing around with it and three different forms. It ended up in the form that it is now which I kind of called Choose your own adventure because you can read about my life if you want to. That's it the beginning of most of the chapters. Most of the kind of services stuff is in the second half of the chapters. And then the book also has this wonderful index, um and appendices in the back as well. So it's sort of a reference book as well. The book for People who pick it up. It can be graphic at times. You describe failure, bodily functions, hospital procedures, your own body, and even why did you decide to write this way? And were you comfortable with it? Um, I had never read a book about my own illness that didn't use Euphemisms for bodily functions, and I read some of those books when I first got diagnosed, and then compared to what my body was actually doing. That just didn't line up at all. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't It wasn't poetic. It wasn't Ah euphemism. I wanted to write about my body and And honest way I wanted to write about it in a scientifically accurate way. And I think that people from my community who I who I leaned on a lot as I was writing this book and asking them You know? Are you guys okay? With People who don't have our illness reading about it in this way, and what they said to me was yes. Because I feel like part of the reason people don't understand our illness. Because they don't actually know what happens to our bodies because of it, And so I wanted to be really clear about Um, that gnarly stuff that groans disease does to the body. And I wasn't gonna Sugarcoated. I didn't think that that served my community or The reader. Um I also wasn't trying to be overly graphic for any For any dramatic effect. I was just trying to be honest about what my body does. And what this disease does to the body. Was it scary to write that way? Absolutely, Um I'm a 32 year old woman. Um, I don't I don't, um, want to write about how I lose control of my bowels and And all of the stuff that's in the book. But, um, I think that it's necessary for people to understand. Um, the reality of an illness. Um, like mine. When was the first time that you really realize you weren't dealing with an allergy or a stomach bug, or I mean, you always knew something was wrong..
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"I'm Alison Stewart in this month are get lit book Club selection is Black Buck about a Brooklyn man scheme to help people of color infiltrate Salesforce's across the city. New Yorkers converted the e book from the New York Public Library and then join me for a virtual event with author Matteo A scare Poor on February 25th. Confined details. A W N y c dot org's slash get lit. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Sasha Pfeiffer. Today the U. S. Senate begins trying former President Trump for his role in last month's insurrection at the Capitol. This, of course, is Trump's second impeachment trial, and this time he's accused of inciting that deadly riot Democrats and some Republicans insist Trump must be held responsible. Was majority leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat following the despicable attack on January the sixth there must There must be truth and accountability if we are going to move forward Heel and bring our country together once again. Trump's lawyers and most Republicans object to the process outright, and they have signaled they won't support conviction. For more on this. We're joined by national political correspondent Mara Liasson and congressional reporter Claudia Chrysalis. Good morning to both of you. Good morning morning. And Claudia Jess. Yesterday, Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed on the structure of the trial. What did they agree on? The trial will begin at 1 P.m. Eastern. With four hours equally divided between the impeachment managers and Trump's defense team to argue the constitutionality of the trial. Most Republicans said it was not during an initial vote last month. Now the vote again on this question, and it should pass with the majority of Democrats and a handful of Republicans. That's followed by two days of arguments with the impeachment managers and defense team, each getting up to eight hours a day. Then senators will get up to four hours to question the legal teams and then we'll consider a vote on whether to call witnesses. This will be followed by closing arguments and deliberations to vote on whether to convict the president. Originally, the trial is going to pause reduce Sabbath on Friday night to resume Sunday. But Trump's lawyer, David shown suddenly withdrew that request last night, so the trial could continue until Saturday and then pause again. To start on Monday, and Claudia Majority leader Schumer has pledged that the trial will allow each side ample time to make their arguments exactly the parameters set out, says he will allow each side to get the time needed to present the entirety of the case. That said Senate Democrats and Republicans are ready to ensure this is wrapped up quickly, especially since they were firsthand witnesses and want to move on to Biden's agenda as quickly as possible a firsthand because they were in that building. Yeah, exactly. Mara. How have former President Trump and his team responded so far? According to the legal brief from Trump's lawyers. They are planning on a very narrow, process oriented defense. First, they say, This is trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office. And then they focus very narrowly on the one speech that he gave at the rally on January 6th saying that just because a group of criminals quote completely misunderstood him, he can't be held responsible. They focus on his language, saying the use of the word fight. Remember the rioters who breached the capital were chanting fight for Trump. They say that word is no different than when Democrats used the word fight to their supporters. They say very little about Trump's lies about election fraud. They say merely that he was exercising his First Amendment rights to express his beliefs that the election results were quote suspect. And that's very different from the more expansive view that's going to be taken by Democrats. They're gonna lay out Ah, pattern of Trump's statements over many months the lies about if he lost it would be stolen from him. Then, when he lost the election was stolen from him. The claim that former vice President Mike Pence could overturn the results. They say he violated his oath of office. He has to be held accountable. I think you're going to see a real battle for public opinion, not just for votes in the Senate and Claudia that pattern that Mara just described. How do impeachment managers the people trying Trump plan to try to show that pattern? They'll pick out examples in the weeks and months leading up to this deadly siege. One. Such example is when we heard from Georgia officials that someone is going to get killed because of his dangerous rhetoric, another when Trump endorsed past violence, which is when his supporters chased and surrounded a Democratic campaign bus on a central Texas highway. In terms of this process argument, they say. Even Republican legal experts say he can be convicted, noting that the period of elections and peaceful transfer of power are a great source of great national pride. And there is no January exception to impeachment as a president must answer comprehensively for his conduct in office from his first day through his last That all said two thirds of the chamber must vote to convict him so Democrats will need 17 Republicans to join them. And that seems very unlikely right now and Mara, we saw we've seen that some House Republicans were willing to vote in favor of impeachment. But what do we know about how Senate Republicans will vote? Well right now it doesn't look like they'll be more than five Republicans. Those air the people, the number that voted to proceed. We'll know a lot more when we get that first vote on moving forward on the constitutionality of convicting a former official, we do know. In the last couple of days, more conservative constitutional lawyers have come out and said yes, you can convict And ex official. But we've also seen a big shift in the immediate aftermath of January. 6th. Ah, both Republican leaders in the House and Senate, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were willing to say Trump was responsible. But over the last couple of weeks, they have backtracked, closed ranks because the Republican base is very loyal to trump. We've seen a backlash to the 10 Republicans in the House who voted in favor of impeachment. And Ah, it's possible that there will be no movement among Republicans, NPR's Mara Liasson and Claudia Chrysalis. Thank you both. Thank you. Welcome. Now, let's analyze these legal arguments with Daniel Goldman. He was the lead counsel for House Democrats in the first Trump impeachment trial, and he's a former assistant U S attorney for the Southern District of New York. Damn Good morning. Morning. This main argument in former President Trump's defense brief is Is it unconstitutional? To put a former president on trial? What do you say that It's clearly constitutional..
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"Of it from W. N Y. C. I'm Alison Stewart coming up. We'll speak with Brooklyn based artist swoon about her new mobile art installation called the House, Our Families built, which features paintings, cutouts and live performances as part of a PBS public art initiative. Then we'll get recommendations for some great books for kids, including the latest count ICCAT Metal and the Newbery Medal Award winners and we want to hear from you is their Children's book that you've come across this year that you just loved our lines will be open. Later will highlight Children's books about black history with recommendations for young kids and middle grade readers. As part of our reviews, preview, Syriza's We will get to all of it. I'm Alison Stewart and I will meet you on the other side of the knee. Lie from NPR News. I'm Laxmi saying Donald Trump's legal team is calling the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of the former president Political theater As NPR's Barbara's front reports. Trump's lawyers are urging senators to dismiss the charges. Trump's legal team submitted a brief that claims Trump's trial, which begins on Tuesday, is unconstitutional. His lawyers argue the Senate doesn't have the authority to try a former president. Ah claim constitutional experts disagree with House impeachment managers say Trump was directly responsible for the January 6th attack on the U. S Capitol by a group of his supporters. They say he should be convicted and barred from holding future federal office. Trump is expected to be acquitted in his trial because Democrats would need 17 Republicans to join them in voting yes to convict Trump In a previous vote on the constitutionality of the trial on Lee, five, Republicans broke with their GOP colleagues to support moving forward with the process. Our best friend. NPR NEWS Washington At today's White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked whether President Biden thinks Trump should be convicted or whether Biden will say once all the evidence in the trial has been presented. So, he says Biden's priority is to get the next coronavirus relief package passed before people lose additional unemployment benefits next month. I think it's clear from his schedule from his intention. He will not spend too much time watching the proceedings of any time over the course of this week. Hey, will remain Closely in touch with Speaker Pelosi leader Schumer arranged officials on the hill about his plan, and that's exactly what they wanted to do is to remain focused on that the pace of covert 19 vaccinations is accelerating as the rate of new coronavirus cases declines. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports. So far, nearly 32 million people have received at least one dose of a covert vaccine. With more vaccination science up and running the pushes to boost supply to get shots into arms quickly as new variants circulate. There's concern vaccines could be less effective in South Africa. The rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine was halted after a preliminary study appointed to minimal effectiveness against the variant there Yet vaccine makers can retool the vaccines to provide protection. Against emerging streams. Here's former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb. We also may be able to develop in a timely fashion, maybe in 46 months, consensus stringing a bakes in a lot of the different variation that we're seeing. The goal is to stay ahead of the virus as it mutates. Allison Aubrey NPR NEWS two weeks after contracting the coronavirus Republican congressman Ron Wright has died, a spokesman says A 67 year old passed away yesterday. Right, had been undergoing cancer treatment over the past year. The lawmaker from Texas who was in a second term, is the first member of Congress to die after contracting the virus. You're listening to NPR news. This is W N Y. C. I'm Rebecca Deborah Governor. Cuomo is allowing New York City restaurants to partially reopen for indoor dining on Friday. That's two days earlier than his Valentine's Day plan. They'll still be limited to 25% capacity. Andrew Ritchie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, says that's a welcome gift for restaurants because of how they falls on a Sunday this year, restaurants were heartbroken because they miss out on the weekend business when people go out and celebrate. He says highly regulated reduced documents is he should be safe, and his association is pushing for 50% occupancy, which is allowed in the rest of the state. Restaurant workers are now eligible for covert 19 vaccines, though demand still can't keep up with the limited supply. Mask over. 19 vaccination site will open at Citi Field Wednesday. It will operate 24 hours a day from Wednesday through Saturday and serve eligible Queens Residents license Taxi and Limousine Commission drivers and restaurant delivery staff. Mayor de Blasio says those workers need to be protected from the coronavirus. Folks. We depend on folks who really have taken care of us, and we're there. Throughout this whole crisis, they'll be special appointments for TLC, licensed drivers and food service workers from from all over the five boroughs. The Citi field site was initially delayed because of a shortage of vaccines allocated to.
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"This is all of it. I'm Alison Stewart, The debut film from writer and director Rose Glass is being hailed by Slate as quote the best horror movie of 2020. The Guardian calls it an electrifying debut feature and the independent dumps the film and exquisite slice of religious horror. It's terrifying movie is called ST Mon. And it's not a film that you will easily forget. The protagonist of the film is Mod, a Shine, newly devout hospice nurse who has a tendency toward self harm in the name of God. MoD takes a job caring for Amanda, a former dancer, a woman who shall we say enjoyed her life with abandon and a woman who is dying a stage four cancer alone in her seaside home in Britain. Mod isn't just a believer. She's convinced that she can hear the voice of God speaking directly to her and that God is telling her to save and convert Amanda before she dies. First MoD seems to be making progress with Amanda spiritually journey. But when the relationship between the nurse and patient turns sour, MoD becomes convinced that she must go to any length to save a man to Seoul. And the line between faith and madness blurs. Here's a bit of the trailer of ST Martin. God, you'll prisons graces the air on them soon. If you want to see how you Mort? Yes. Hi. It takes nothing special to mop up after the dying. You're prettier than last one. But to save a soul has quite something. Less Amanda's body on Bless her mind, which is shrouded in darkness. When you pray. Do you get a response like he's physically in me? God, he isn't real. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Good Saint Mark comes out in the U. S. Today. You can watch it in select theaters and drive ins and on epic starting February, 12 Rose, glass writer and director. Welcome to the show. Thank you. That's having me When did you realize that you wanted to make this kind of film this sort of psychological horror film as your feature debut. Well, it's no, it's hard to pinpoint. I think, to be honest, I mean, I wanted to make wanted to make films since I was really, really young. And I guess trying to get like a film made his basically Justin Little wanted to do have been trying to do so. And I think I probably figured out pretty early on that. The kind of things I like often beer into that kind of genre and style, So I guess it just came. It came most naturally. So during our production meeting as we were talking about this film, everybody had a different thing that was very scary to them about this film. What is scary to you about this film? I mean, now very little because I've sort of got so insanely close to peddle. Listen serial final year that I can't even quite remember what it's about. It's about sometimes express it clearly e mean it started from I guess maybe this isn't always always a source of fear Someone's fascination, but certainly what the film taps into, as the scariest of potential is I guess the sometimes extreme divide between A self that we kind of represents the rest of the world and sort of how we pay to everybody else and how different that could be from what's really going on and on with little private bubble universes of women by was by ourselves. And I'm sorry, but Danger of just feeling adrift and disconnected from the whole world of death threats, but roughly as a writer what was interesting to you to write about a divine possession rather than a demonic one, which is quite often the case. Yeah, the whole thing of thinking of it as a possession. I didn't really sort of consciously think of that much as we were making its been more how people have described afterwards. I mean, from the beginning, I I was in the beginning. I picked up the film or is like a character study, and I planned for it to initially be sort of, like a two hander between Lord and God, and he was going to be sort of a voice you're gonna hear throughout the whole film. And so God being sort of in her in a part of her psyche, and someone she communes with was sort of the whole Guess initial premise of the film, but I'm quite quickly. I start to get more interested in like, well, she's going on the rest of her life. And how is it that this young woman's main relationship in her life is with a voice in her head and Nobody else seems to know about it. So, yeah, the danger of that. Film really hinges on having a certain kind of actor who can be believable as a nurse and someone who's sort of fades into the background but who can also be kind of creepy and a little scary herself. Um, how did you land? I think it's pretty morbid, Morbid Clark to play market. Yes. Good scare at the end. She she's been on like we We We found we found her just, you know, doing fairly traditional casting release or a lot of people for the rubble. And you know the film had been green that yet it's sort of hinged on whether we could find someone to sort of carry the whole movie, I guess. Um, she sent in a tape and she just had this s completely kind of haunting expression in just one of those infuriating, you know, people, you just You just want to watch her. She's just incredibly Charismatic but she and then and then she delivered this scene, which was sort of, you know, just incredibly sort of spunky and surprising, and I find it really funny, Maybe from like this set up in the trailer that sometimes gets The sound of it, But she's got amazing comic timing, and it was always really important to me that it's just really flawed character and she had to say the audience. Does she have to say the audience to somebody sort of strange? Kind of horrific places, but I needed to be somebody who I felt that you know, you wouldn't kind of connect within Yoshi's florid and she's you know, she's kind of arrogant and get stuff wrong and You know, should be fun and more managed to encapsulate Told that my guess is rose, glass writer and director of the film ST Mod. So we learned about a third of the way into the film that MoD was not the name that she was born with. She was Kate. So I looked at Ma's meeting. What it's it means battle. Mighty, um Is that how you landed on her name? And why would she change her name? I hadn't had not yet. I think I had heard that since the film came out, somebody else told me that no, I I just picked the name because I liked it and it initially I hadn't When I first heard of developing Actually, her real name was mortar, and it just seemed to sort of fit the image of her head in my head, You know, quite prim.
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"Just about this time last year, I'm Alison Stewart joined me for all of it weekdays at noon on W N. Y. C. It's morning edition from NPR News. I'm Sarah McCammon. And I'm Rachel Martin. And I am here with Call me Alexander, Morning Edition's poet in residence, Kwamie. I'm so happy to talk to you. And before we talk. I have two words I want to say. Amanda Gorman. Yes, Yes, I have been waiting to doctor you about Amanda Gorman that poem that she performed at the inauguration. It was so joyous and truthful and so necessary. Along the fields, Rachel. I mean, talk about inspiring your life. Her poem was a cool drink of water, or is Nikki Giovanni would have said cotton candy on a rainy day? Refreshing and just sweet as a poet. You know, I marveled at her word play the internal rhyme. But more than all the technical wizardry on display was the heart love The honesty, The hope. Yeah. I mean, you always talk about how poetry helps us be more human. And I think we all saw that we all felt it through her. We felt the power in her and in her words. You know what else was powerful, Rachel. All of these submissions we got for the I dream of world poetry. Call out. Wow. Yeah, we had to close the submissions, actually, because we had more than 2500 of them in less than three days. Yep. But don't fear listeners. You can post your poems on our Facebook page. Join our community at NPR Apology with Kwamie Alexander on Facebook. All right. So call me you. Did you think you compiled a community poem from these submissions, which ranged from first graders with first graders writing poems to college professors and graham parents? Yeah, and I got a little treat. I included a few words from Amanda Gorman's inaugural porn. I felt so much joy and her words sort of resonated with what we're talking about about how we need to keep our arms open..
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"This is all of it on W N Y c. I'm Alison Stewart. Thank you for spending part of your day with me. Hey, everybody. It's going to be cold this weekend. So we have an idea that dovetails nicely with a new series. We're trying out. It's called Watch party. Think of it as a book club. But with TV we're gonna pick a show something sort of in the zeitgeist. And then we all watch it and then discuss so your assignment for this chilly weekend is to get cozy and watch the Regency period drama. It is anything but conventional. Bridget in NPR called it witty, sexy, absorbing fund that might just keep you up late. Salome should tell a contributing critic at large for The New York Times will be here to preview Shonda Rhimes, Britain and then on Monday will dive into the Syriza and take your calls with NPR's Aisha Harris. You know her from pop culture Happy hour. Also coming up later in this show. Today, we will speak with writer Nadia I will sue, winner of the Whiting Award for nonfiction about her new memoir titled Aftershocks. Kirk is called the book and impressive debut. And we'll talk about TV re boots that are worth watching with Rolling Stone chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall. That is all in the way, so let's get started. First up today, a new look at an old problem crack anyone who lived in New York City in the eight.
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"All of it. I'm Alison Stewart. My guest this hours, Professor Julian Zelizer of Princeton University. CNN analysts were talking about President Biden's first few months and office. What are some of the priorities? What can you learn from history? FDR past 15 major pieces of legislation. 76 laws were passed during his 1st 100 Days in office. Joe Biden got busy yesterday passed numerous executive actions yesterday, imposing mass mandate on federal property rejoined the Paris climate agreement, ending the so called Muslim ban on travel. When did the first is my sound in a good question? So forgive me. But when? And why is this 1st 100 Days Sina Such a marker. Well, it's artificial, and most historians do credit this burst. That happens with FDR not just with a lot of legislation, but a lot of important legislation. Such as tackling the crisis of the banking system right off the bat from a banking, holiday toe legislation toe protect the deposits of Americans. I think, since that time, he kind of really set a mark that we continue Toulon in our discussions. It's artificial. I mean, there's no reason we have to think of 100 Days. Aziz the timeline for a presidency a lot of what? After yard. It was after the 100 days. Social Security doesn't come until 1935 not 1933. It's just, you know, it's like the inaugural address and the transition. We try to figure out ways to evaluate how a president is doing and I think this is one of the ways we try to gauge this in the in the early months, it's sometimes creates artificial pressure. I think Tol hackle everything at once and to start saying Ah, President's failing. I mean, there's presidents like Carter, who have very successful 1st 100 days on our compared to FDR and then the rest of their presidents. He doesn't go very well, either. That's so interesting is I just wrapped up a long form interview with John Alter about his book, his very best. Jimmy Carter. And he did note. You know that he had this robust 1st 100 days and then it was a troubled presidency after that. What? Why does the what in the former Lead to the latter. Is that unique to Carter? Or is this part of this false construct? You say we have this 100 days to do something and then I think like when you are inaugurated as thinking of this, as I watched yesterday, the minute that swearing and happens, your president and you and everyone on your staff knows the clock is ticking. And from the minute you finish that to the minute your term ends, things happened. I mean, it's not as if things don't happen. After 100 days and the way a president responds to that will make or break your presidency. I mean part of FDR. Success isn't that he had a great 100 days. It said he continued to find ways to achieve success and In 1935 or in World War two and he you know, had ups and downs during that presidency, and that's true of every executive and also opportunities to Obtained legislation might not exist in the 1st 100 days. Sometimes it requires a crisis, for example, toe open a window for policy making, and that crisis might come in your three and that will determine how people view your presidency. So that's part of why there's ah fragility to using this marker to try to predict how the rest is going to unfold. Let's take some more calls. Kate on line one is thinking outside the box on this. Hey, Kate. Thanks for calling all of it. Thank you. Okay, So I have an idea for the president. He needs to start a new cabinet position called Doub T. O V E Department of Voter equality. And safety. Abrams would run it, and I think we need to spend eight years dealing with voter suppression, the fact that starting even at the local level Getting better people running, running the election's getting better voting machines and at the very top of the heap, you get rid of the electoral college. Thanks for calling. That's what Judy Online to Hi, Judy. Thanks for calling all of it. No, thank you for taking my call. I should just the 1st 100 days is very important to get a uniformed educational system. That's is a boss directly in the educational system by allowing charter schools to create their own curriculum. We need to have a uniformed curriculum in the public schools in the junior highs. If you wait until hopeful it's too late. Junior high school is the right time and you need to have a mandatory curriculum for all junior high school Children to learn what is a democracy. What's the difference between fascism in democracy, especially But also you could go into Marxism. Communism, socialism. It's been like The main distinction is between fascism and democracy. And if that's not taught in junior high school, it's too late. Thank you for the call Judy. While a Judy houses on the subject of education, I follow you on Twitter. So I know the answer to this. We had a very short lived 17 76. I was. What was it? What is it? A plan and education plan. Put forward in response to clearly the 16 19 project. What were your thoughts when you read? That That I thought that what I predicted they would be, um, I mean, it was really a polemic. It was Using history in the exact wrong way Just to basically make a political point about Democrats. Some of it was just a lot of it was just really outrageous. Even You know, kind of fitting progressivism, which was about regulating child labor and improving, you know standards for how Americans live to fascism. It was just kind of amazing that got put forward as a government document. And there's debates about the 16 19 project, and I have many colleagues who don't agree with parts of what's in there, and they've had public debates about this, and that's good. That's always a great thing. This was not that and I was I wasn't disappointed because I didn't expect much more. Given how this was all set up from the start. She never on Twitter says. Bring back the fairness doctrine Now, please. That's so interesting, because I think it was late eighties 87 88 that the 87 87, the FCC eliminated the policy. What are your thoughts on that bringing back the fairness doctrine? Yeah, I think, uh, it's there's a question about it and that the fairness doctrine that was a rule that the FCC captain place from 1949 to 1987, and it told radio and television stations. If you're going to do something political you had to put on both sides or you are subject to end up in court. Don't always work, but it was an important pressure on our media toe. Try to achieve some kind of balance and objectivity and in principle, I think it's a good thing. I think we need some form of policy that might push this. It's hard to do. I mean, it was all premised on the idea that the airwaves were limited back then before cable and satellite technology, and once that was no longer the case, it became harder to justify in control, But but I'm in favor of renewing some comparable form of policy that doesn't necessarily solve Kind of toxicity, which has now been normalized in a lot of the media, but does start to kind of create pressures and maybe incentives for other forms of journalism. Foreign President Trump is out of office. He still faces an impeachment trial in the Senate. What happens next? Well, we don't know if the Senate is gonna do the tri allow as the sole event or something like a two track system, which I know the Biden administration is pushing for. My guess is it will last a couple of weeks..
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"It happened after three hours, and you'll notice that even in that statement, he doesn't actually retract big lie. He's not actually conceding that he lost the election. No, The big lie is still very much there. And the sad thing about January 6th there many sad things. But the sad thing about it is that when you have eight senators and more than 100 congressmen, in effect of voting for the big lie You're guaranteeing that is going to be there out in the atmosphere of American politics for the next few years. So that means trumpism continues without Trump. Absolutely. That's I think that's that's absolutely right. I mean, it's not just that tens of millions of people voted for him. It's that it's that tens of millions of people and understandably he's the president. People like Don't like to think that people tell big lies. Lots of people believe in this story and the lie in the line that many Republicans have taken, namely that If we tell a lie, and you believe it, then we're morally required to keep lying. If that's the pattern to be followed, then that story is gonna is gonna be in our public space for quite a long time. And it's going to shape the Republican Party. I think I mean where people come down on that is, I think going to divide the party and structure how people run for president was gonna watch. What about all those Republican voters who do not believe that and we're appalled by what happened? On Wednesday. Yeah. I mean, this is you can also see this as an opportunity. I mean, you can imagine the Republican Party which became less of which, which veered away sharply from the idea that other people's votes don't count. You can stretch your fantasy a bit further. Imagine Republican Party which started the campaign, chiefly on policy issues, rather than on voter suppression. You could this could. This is an opportunity for the Republican Party. I mean, I go further and say it's an opportunity for the American political system as a whole, because that which that from which you shrinking revulsion as a sign of what it is that you would actually prefer. So maybe you would prefer political system without riots without mobs without white supremacy without arguments. Other people's votes don't count. I mean that that be a good place to start. Thank you very much indeed for talking to us today. That was that. Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale and author of This Have a number of books, including on tyranny. You're listening to news out from the BBC World Service. And you're listening to the BBC News hour here on W N. Y C. Coming up later today on all of it. Alison Stewart speaks with the directors of the new documentary Tiger about the rise fall and come back of golfer Tiger Woods That's coming up at noon here on W N. Y. C. It's 29 degrees now in Central Park, mostly sunny skies today with a high of 41 Tonight low of 30 degrees, partly cloudy and then we start the weekend tomorrow with another day of mostly sunny skies. High of 39. Now you can tune in to WN Y C without the tuning..
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Public Health Officials Are Increasingly Facing Threats
"Threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security is just I mean, it's amazing I wouldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. That people who object to things that are pure public health principles are so set against it and don't like what you and I say it, namely in the word of science. That they actually threaten you. That's Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, speaking to CNN's Sanjay Gupta, about threats he and his family have received because of his work. And Dr Fauci is not alone. Public health officials across the US are also receiving threats from people who are against the policies they put forth to combat the corona virus. Things like recommendations to wear masks and practice social distancing. Michelle Mellow is a professor of law and a professor of medicine at Stanford, and she's been researching this exact topic. Michelle, Welcome to the show. Happy to be here. Shall you wrote an article about the attacks on public health officials during covert 19. What was it that prompted you to even look into this? Well, it happens that one of my bosses that Stanford is married to our Santa Clara County local health officer here in the Bay Area, So I do have a personal connection to somebody who's experienced these kind of attacks. Tell us a little bit about what kinds of attacks were talking about. All across the country. We've really seen a number of things that made your audience seem pretty shocking and are unusual even in the American context we have seen, you know the usual Internet trawling, but the attacks have taken on a highly personal and almost violent dimension. Across the country. We've seen health officer subject to dock, saying the exposure of their personal information like their addresses or loved ones, names on the Internet. Angry and sometimes armed protestors showing up at their private residences, vandalism of their offices and homes, lots of harassing telephone calls and even death threats to the point of having to have private security details assigned to their families. Michelle, one of the things that prompted me. I'd saw the research here and then saw that Dr Anthony Fauci has needed to get his own extra private security because I believed his family had been threatened. Are we primarily talking about high profile figures like that, Or are we talking about? Anyone who's sort of on the front lines dealing with Corona virus cases. In particular, we're talking about people who ordinarily are about his low profile. As you can get local public health is thean visible angel that keeps us all healthy. But most of us until this pandemic you never heard of or seen our local health officer. They have been in the news lately on television and newspaper a lot, so they're no longer such private figures. But these are not high profile figures. They're not national figures. In most cases, they're not. They don't have a political agenda. There are doctors trying to do their jobs. Who are making these threats. Well, it comes from a variety of quarters. Ah, leader in Catalyst in this movement has been the anti vaccination movement here in the U. S. That has all of a sudden pivoted from their usual agenda of attacking public figures who advocate vaccination to going after health officers who are advocating masking and the extension of state home or business closure orders, But it's not on ly these groups. They've been joined by thousands of people across the country who are just really disgruntled and incredibly stressed. By the long term economic impact and social isolation that has stemmed from public health orders during the pandemic. Medical professionals are take a Hippocratic oath to serve whoever it is that needs their help. So like this, this feels like doctors and nurses didn't necessarily sign up to be. In such a political battle, You know, it's interesting the politicization of first responders because those on the front lines were actually caring for covert patients have been politicized as heroes in this pandemic. But the same groups of individuals, doctors and nurses who are working in the public health sector have been demonised as villains. They're all working toward the same goals, and we need to understand that, although they execute their objectives in different ways, they're all working towards a single and so are we. So it's really striking to me that there's been this polarization and how folks have viewed First responders and public health doctor's Michelle. Stick with us. We'll be back in a moment. This is the take away. On the next. 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And I'm wondering if this is now transferring over to medical professionals and health professionals. Well, yet we have to distinguish between medical professionals who are on the frontline response like the ones who are working in hospitals and the ones I'm talking about. Are those were working in public health departments. I'm not aware of specific problems involving the folks who are working in hospitals other than nobody wants to stand next to them at the grocery store. But the public health officials really have had to have protection stepped up. Unfortunately, most of our elected officials to the extent that they're speaking to this issue at all have been joining in the attacks. You know, there are folks who are making their name for themselves politically. By joining in the chorus of attacks against public health officials. In some cases, their own public health officers, you know, saying things like their anti Democratic their tyrannical when in reality, those same health officers are the only people in that state who can issue these orders. They're executing. Planning done by other elected officials, who then sort of hide behind this rhetoric, So it really is, in my view, despicable that instead of offering support to these hardworking, underpaid under attack health officers State and local officials. And in some cases, congressmen and the president have joined in the attacks, and the president himself has been the foam enter and chief here Retweeting such statements as everyone is lying. The CDC media Democrats are doctors, everyone we're told to trust That kind of statement fans the flames. Michelle did your research show whether or not there was a difference in health officers who are in red states versus blue states or our folks that work in these positions across the board, subject to this type of harassment. You know, we really have seen it in all kinds of communities. Certainly there is a red and blue divide in willingness to accept public health measures like masking and to the extent that you're leading a community that's more red than blue. You might have a larger segment of the population going after you. But some of the people who have been under attack are in heavily blue communities were actually most of the population really supports what they're doing. Polling is very much in their favor. But there is a vocal extreme of vocal minority that is dominating attention. Is there anything that public health officials Khun do to protect themselves? You know, to protect themselves. Many of them do need security details, and they need elected officials to stand up and indicate that when these actions crossed the line into illegal forms of harassment, they'll be subject to prosecution in terms of self defense strategies. You know, I think it may be late in the game for this, but there are some things that I think We know help to cultivate public trust and buy in to coerce of public health legal measures. Polling shows us that when people feel that they have a say in public health policy agendas when quote unquote people like me can influence agendas in public health policy, they're more likely to accept laws, even the ones that they don't love. So I think there are opportunities for some health officers to double down on the transparency and candor in their public communications. We do have examples of where this has been done Extraordinary. Well. I think it helps to humanize health officers to telegraph that they're really struggling with these decisions. They don't take them lightly, and also that they have the support of consultation of a number of other people. Well, they're not acting alone and imposing these orders. Do you know of any health officers who have decided to leave? Ah, the job as a result of this because it doesn't feel like you know, the virus is not going away. Assume as many of us would have liked, and people are going to have to make policies and an implement policies until we've got some clarity on where what the next phase of this is so have folks that you know, decided to leave their jobs as a result. Absolutely. I think the count is up near 30. Now, health officers who have either resigned or been forced out by their elected officials since the start of the disease pandemic because of the politicization of their orders. And that includes Oxiris Barbeau, who was the New York City health commissioner. It includes Nicole Quick, the health commissioner of Orange County are most affected County in California. In terms of covert cases it includes West Virginia health officer for the state had the slam so lots of folks who are dealing very, very difficult situation simply, it's just not reasonable to expect them to go on month after month. In this kind of climate, especially when they're not getting any support from other officials mentioned Oxygen's Barbeau and I know that was a big issue here in New York, particularly because she clashed with Mayor Bill de Blasio. Are we seeing a lot of that? A CZ? Well, just internally among Officers and public health officials, and also just, you know, the other officials that they're dealing with. It feels like I don't know if that was very specific to New York City politics or if that's also happening across the board. I think that is happening in a lot of communities. Yes, where you have a schism between elected branches of government that represent communities that have a particular ideological bent and help officers who have been serving you know for many, many administrations many many years and you are You're acting on the science a TTE this point of the pandemic. People are fed up with the science. They want a balance of between health concerns and economic and other concerns. And again. Some health officers have been very good at explaining how public health orders balanced. Those concerns and others who are maybe less transparent, really have been confronted by a lot of attacks from Ah, elsewhere in government. But, you know, responding to local political pressures themselves you mentioned earlier. We we are having to differentiate between threatening health officers and health officials and making and threatening frontline workers like doctors and nurses. But Our doctors and nurses subject to any type of politicization and threats right now, because of the role that they what they could possibly represent, or have they gotten off Have they sort of not been in the cross hairs? If you will. You know, I'm not aware of those kinds of attacks. I think it's more just that What we hear from them is the difficulty that they have in their personal lives Because people know they work with sick people. They don't want to be around him. They don't want to be around their kids. So it's the usual story in any pandemic, where You're the child of somebody who's working with an affected patient. Nobody wants their kid in school with you. I think that causes some difficulties for them, but it's a different quality and caliber of attack than what we've been talking about with public health officers. Michelle Mellow is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and a professor of medicine at Stanford University. School of Medicine. Michelle. Thanks so much, Thank you.
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