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Actually, with Emily and Kate · Wednesday · 47 min

Corn Dogs, Comstock, and Trump's Human Printer

Emily's coming at you from the future (well, Maine, in a fleece, with a fire going) and Kate is hot in Wisconsin. But first, a teaser: next weekend these two are podding on location together, dog and toddler included. Then it's a speed round through the news. Kate reports back from the Iowa State Fair, and makes the case that the least glamorous races on your ballot are often the ones you can actually swing. Emily walks through what's happening with North Korea: what kind of country it actually is, why the U.S. runs military exercises with South Korea every year, and why Trump scaling them back while calling the North Korean dictator a "bestie" has people uneasy. Plus: Trump's former personal lawyer is now the Attorney General, and why that job is supposed to work for us, not the president. What the Comstock Act is and how it could become a backdoor national abortion ban. Sen. Ossoff's viral roast. Karoline Leavitt heading for the exit. Nancy Mace's tattoos. Also: the death of Hayden Panettiere, the Lindsay Clancy trial, and a conservative influencer claiming postpartum depression is really just selfishness. Spoiler, it isn't. 77? days to the midterms. Drink your water.

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Emily's coming at you from the future (well, Maine, in a fleece, with a fire going) and Kate is hot in Wisconsin. But first, a teaser: next weekend these two are podding on location together, dog and toddler included.

Then it's a speed round through the news.

Kate reports back from the Iowa State Fair, and makes the case that the least glamorous races on your ballot are often the ones you can actually swing.

Emily walks through what's happening with North Korea: what kind of country it actually is, why the U.S. runs military exercises with South Korea every year, and why Trump scaling them back while calling the North Korean dictator a "bestie" has people uneasy.

Plus: Trump's former personal lawyer is now the Attorney General, and why that job is supposed to work for us, not the president. What the Comstock Act is and how it could become a backdoor national abortion ban. Sen. Ossoff's viral roast. Karoline Leavitt heading for the exit. Nancy Mace's tattoos.

Also: the death of Hayden Panettiere, the Lindsay Clancy trial, and a conservative influencer claiming postpartum depression is really just selfishness. Spoiler, it isn't.

77? days to the midterms. Drink your water.


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