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Your PM daily news podcast, serving daily @pescami Join Mike's Substack: https://t.co/NrH9nmWiMa
New York, NY
Joined September 2006
She calls herself an “explanatory comic,” shaped by life on both sides of the map — Jewish in Kentucky, comic in New York. @areil_comedy’s debut special A Jewish Star explores identity, humor, and what really makes a joke hack. Get the full story with Ariel and host @pescami on
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Polymarket is coming back to the US. 🇺🇸 Get on the waiting list to get early access to Polymarket's fully regulated U.S. trading platform:
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Comedian Ariel Elias on growing up Jewish in Kentucky, surviving Cuba, and the night a heckler threw a beer can at her head — which she proceeded to chug on stage. Would she have handled it differently given a redo? Check out Funny You Should Mention S3E2 to find out. Episodes
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Today on The Gist: Historian and grandson of third secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant, Thant Myint-U, discusses Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World—how the UN once brokered real ceasefires (Cuban Missile Crisis, India-Pakistan 1965), why its
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Remember when social media was hailed as the great democratizing force? Alicia Wanless says the real failure wasn’t in the tech—it was in us. Democracies never adapted, assuming the “revolution” would only happen elsewhere. And when things went wrong, we acted shocked that people
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Today on The Gist: Alicia Wanless, author of The Information Animal, talks with Mike Pesca about how humans have always battled over reality itself. She explains why social media isn’t the root cause of polarization but one part of a broader “information ecosystem” — much like
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At 14, RFK Jr. watched his father get assassinated. He grew up in a family that never grieved. They drank, numbed, and moved on. Decades later: heroin, a secret sex journal, 16 affairs, his wife’s suicide, a “stolen election” theory, deplatforming… and now control over $2
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Before social media ruined pranks there was the Secret Mall Apartment. @jeremyworkman @pescami
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Today on The Gist: A group of Providence artists secretly built and lived in a hidden apartment inside the Providence Place Mall in the early 2000s. Director Jeremy Workman’s “Secret Mall Apartment” uses their 25 hours of archival footage to tell a larger story about art,
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Does Chief Justice John Roberts truly care about upholding the reputation & legitimacy of the court? @pescami and Lisa Graves discuss in today's episode of The Gist.
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Today on The Gist: Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the recent immunity ruling and emergency-docket moves as
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