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@voxdotcom ’s daily news explainer podcast, hosted by @rameswaram and @NoelKing . 📩 todayexplained @vox .com
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Is divesting from Israel possible? Yes, but it’s hard.
@InsideHigherEd
’s
@byJoshMoody
and
@UCMerced
’s
@charlieeatonphd
explain.
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A little sneak peak at today's episode, featuring
@nhassenfeld
. (CC:
@BillyJoel
)
#TodayExplained
#MuellerInvestigation
#RussiaGate
#TrumpRussia
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It may seem like they've been quieter lately, but the student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have been busier than ever.
@davidhogg111
catches us up on a new
#TodayExplained
:
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Looking to understand what led to Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Here are some recent episodes we've made that explain what led to this moment.
🧵
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Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. He’s wrong.
Yale history professor
@TimothyDSnyder
explains.
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When people try to kill themselves by cutting, they live 93.3% of the time.
By overdosing or using poison? 93.5%
But when guns come into the picture, their chance of survival plummets.
To 4%.
#TodayExplained
:
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Today's the day:
@NoelKing
's first episode as co-host of our show drops this afternoon, and we can't wait for you to hear it!
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Titles we considered today:
Mayor Mike
Mike Check
DOOMBERG
Mike dropped
Late Bloomberg
Yikes Bloomberg
Miguel Bloombito
Hi, Mike! Bye, Mike!
(Don't!) Be like Mike
The elephant in the room
But we had to go with...
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On our final Infrastructure Week episode,
@SecretaryPete
explains what he and his boss are calling a once-in-a-generation spending plan.
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🎈We're celebrating today because this team has officially explained the news 💯 times! Thanks for listening, friends.
#TodayExplained
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EPISODE 542:
Essential workers in the food, transportation, and retail industries are being hailed as heroes by just about everyone in the United States.
Now they would like to be paid as such.
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"When a Trump loves a Bolton,
seeing his face on Fox News,
he'd trade off McMaster
for more hawkish views."
Foreign policy for Michael Bolton fans on the latest episode of
#TodayExplained
:
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Things Trump has spent his charity's money on:
- A $20,000 portrait of himself
- A $7 Boy Scouts membership fee
- A $100,000 settlement for a lawsuit against Mar-a-Lago
That's obviously all illegal, but there's oh so much more.
@Fahrenthold
explains:
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If Democrats win in midterms, they could:
1. Force disclosure of Trump tax returns
2. Force disclosure of memberships @ his various clubs & who's paying him money
3. Look into financial records of Trump orgs' shell companies
4. Subpoena people to testify
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EPISODE 674 🤣
Live from New York, impressions are trite!
@voxdotcom
's critic-at-large
@emilyvdw
explains why late-night TV struggles to satirize President Trump, and argues that people like
@deadeyebrakeman
are doing a much better job online.
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🎉 Today is the 400th episode of Today, Explained 🎉
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Potential titles for today's episode:
Iowhat?
Iowhaaaaat happened last night?!
Iowaaaaaaaaa?
Iowasca
A raucous caucus
Caucus chaos
A big win for TK in IOWA!
And the caucus goes too…
And the winner is….........................................................................
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Working on it. Thank you for your patience.
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The NFL is almost 70% black.
The group of NFL owners (who agreed unanimously to fine teams whose players protest police violence against black communities) is 0%.
The controversy, explained by
@TylerRickyTynes
of
@SBNation
:
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#PaulManafort
has been found guilty on eight counts in court, while
#MichaelCohen
appears to enter into a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Honestly what is this day.
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Starting today, you may be able to hear
@today_explained
on your local public radio station 🎉
We’re partnering with stations across the country to bring our daily news show to your airwaves.
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There used to be one Trump Tower controversy. Now there are two. Donald Trump Jr. is in the middle of both of them.
@washingtonpost
's
@Fahrenthold
explains:
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It’s official: Pres. Trump declared a national emergency to build his border wall. In today’s episode, we break it down for you — IN SONG:
#TodayExplained
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Gay men, queer people, and their partners represent an overwhelming majority of monkeypox cases. But resources like vaccines, testing, and treatment remain largely out of reach.
@landmanspeaking
and
@reluctantlyjoe
explain.
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During Obama’s second term, he was adding 217,000 jobs per month.
Since Trump assumed the presidency, he’s been adding 189,000 jobs per month.
Yet only recently have attitudes toward the economy shifted positively.
@BetseyStevenson
explains why:
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We considered lots of titles for episode 543:
A post post office world
USPS and downs
You've got no mail
Please Mr. Postman
Return to sender
Postal Mortem
Post Reports
P.S. I hate you
Mail Fail
Stamped out
But then
@jenn_ruth
said it had to be ...
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Sound on: Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has just resigned.
Here's what you need to know about his tenure at the White House:
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Tomorrow, explained
Can all my podcasts please come back from break so that I can clean my apartment??
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Today we're making the 600th episode of our show. Any requests?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
(Stevie Wonder version)
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We have a Republican president, Republican Senate, House, and... you get it.
What are Democrats up to as midterms approach? We asked
@danpfeiffer
of
@PodSaveAmerica
:
#TodayExplained
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Can confirm.
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—Sea levels rising
—Arctic permafrost melting
—Rising global temperature
—Mass die-offs of coral reefs
Just some of the details from the UN's report on climate change:
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China’s Uyghur minority has been subjected to torture, forced labor, religious restrictions, and even forced sterilization.
We’re featuring an episode of
@throughlineNPR
that explains how they became the target of what many are calling a genocide.
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EPISODE 695 💊
Two weeks ago, while everyone was focused on the presidential election, many more states decriminalized recreational drugs.
Oregon went ahead and decriminalized all of them.
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You best believe we're going to explain the Supreme Court's decisions on Trump's taxes today.
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Next time someone sends you a
#fakenews
story, share these essential tips with them.
Learn more by listening to our episode titled "A Fake News Survival Guide":
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"El Chapo" escaped prison twice and ran the Sinaloa cartel, until Sean Penn gave him away. Now the notorious drug lord is on trial in Brooklyn. And you won't believe what witnesses are saying.
@keegan_hamilton
@vicenews
brings us the story.
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EPISODE 645 ⤵️
This one isn't just for you, loyal listener.
We're weeks away from the presidential election, and this episode is for all the friends and family who send you propaganda, disinformation and mistruths about the news.
Share it with them!
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Ahead on today's show:
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine
I'm begging of you please make me immune
Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,
Please get me off this godforsaken Zoom
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Kyrsten Sinema won the Arizona Senate race. She is the first Democrat to win an Arizona Senate seat in 30 years.
@taragolshan
and
@dylanlscott
explain unresolved midterms races on
#TodayExplained
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Donald Trump promised:
1. Health care for everyone
2. No cuts to Medicare
3. No cuts to Medicaid
4. No cuts to Social Security
His budget:
1. Cuts Medicaid and Obamacare by 22.5%
2. Cuts Medicare by over 7%
3. Cuts billions from SSDI.
#TodayExplained
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GUESS WHO'S ONE YEAR OLD TODAY??? (It's us!)
#TodayExplained
Thanks to
@rameswaram
@IreneNoguchi
@mccarthy_brigid
@efimthedream
@LukeVanderPloeg
@nhassenfeld
@voxdotcom
@AllisonRockey
for making this dream happen. Tune in for Show
#252
later today (with a surprise ending)! 🥳
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"I refuse to accept that this is just how it goes."
@rameswaram
took a moment to share his thoughts on the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, California — the very high school he went to — at the top of yesterday's episode.
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Here that episode, Hank!
@rameswaram
talked to
@DrCrifasi
about gun safety policies (at both the state and federal level) that have a track record of reducing violence.
@today_explained
Something I haven’t seen anyone do (though I’m sure someone has) is go through actual current proposed federal gun safety legislation and maybe even a few of the more innovative state and local laws.
I think you’d do it very well!
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False information about what is happening in Israel and Gaza is taking over social media faster than journalists like BBC Verify’s
@Shayan86
can check it.
That’s exactly how digital propagandists want it, explains
@marcowenjones
.
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25-year-old
@MaxwellFrostFL
is the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. He tells us what he plans to get done.
Plus:
@voxdotcom
's
@marincogan
explains how young voters are reshaping the electoral landscape.
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The Cleveland Indians are slowly phasing out Chief Wahoo, but here are 10+ teams who have done the important work of changing their WHOLE brand — whether name, merch, or mascot.
#MLB
#TodayExplained
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Congressmember
@AOC
talked about a 70% tax hike, and people are freaking out. So we're gonna explain it. And we’re gonna use Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as an example. You gotta hear it to believe it.
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Over 100,000 Americans have lost their lives to Covid-19, but experts say we should think of that number as an ‘at least.’
@maggiekb1
explains the undercount and
@mattyglesias
explains why the administration would like to keep it that way.
Listen:
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1/ There are a list of violations that can get you "disappeared" into what is essentially a Chinese concentration camp. Some examples:
1. Giving up alcohol (allegedly a sign of Islamic extremism)
2. Not greeting officials
3. Growing a beard
4. Giving up smoking
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Things Europe is considering taxing if Trump’s tariffs happen:
1. Bourbon b/c Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky
2. Harley-Davidsons b/c they’re made near Paul Ryan’s district
3. Jeans b/c they’re made near House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s district.
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Plus:
@patientled
co-founder
@ahandvanish
explains how people with long Covid are leading the way in how we research, think about, and legislate around the condition.
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🤔
are there any podcasts that can explain the Gamestop /WSB story and also the stock market to me in a way that is detail oriented but also fun?
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For a long time very few Americans learned what happened to the Black residents of Tulsa's Greenwood district. A century later, that's starting to change.
Guest host
@JamilSmith
talks to historian Hannibal Johnson and
@RepHankJohnson
.
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Reminder: Chinese President Xi Jinping is leader of one-fifth of all the human beings on planet Earth.
And he's just decided he's never stepping down.
New episode of
#TodayExplained
:
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📢We’ve got a super special episode in the works for KIDS this week.
🏝️We're taking our youngest listeners to an enchanted island where they get answers to their biggest questions about
#coronavirus
.
🎧 Stay tuned for Friday's episode!
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"When we have a drug overdose crisis involving black Americans, we take this punitive approach. When we have a drug overdose crisis involving white Americans, we tend to take this more public health view." —
@germanrlopez
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The worst part is when that one guy starts talking.
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#Theranos
is shutting down after not only committing fraud, but also literally gambling with people's lives.
@JohnCarreyrou
, who wrote the book on the company (and uncovered the scandal) explains:
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"Restaurants are open, bars are open and protests are back and tear gas is back on the street. That's our normal."
@ShibaniMahtani
explains why a new law from China has protestors back in the streets of Hong Kong.
Listen:
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Earlier today in a hearing,
@AOC
asked Mark Zuckerberg if she can run fake Facebook ads, too:
The controversy over Facebook’s political ads policy isn’t going away.
@CaseyNewton
joined us last week to explain:
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On today's show:
@voxdotcom
's
@atrupar
explains why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has likened a fellow Republican’s views to cancer.
@NYMag
's
@Olivianuzzi
explores what lawmakers peddling conspiracy theories means for the future of the GOP.
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Wherever you are in the world, the entire Today, Explained team thanks you for listening this year!
#2020PodcastersWrapped
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EPISODE 577:
Police unions in the United States are so strong that there's a world in which Derek Chauvin could get his job back.
@MelissaDSegura
from
@buzzfeednews
explains.
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Babies born in the US are 76% more likely to die in their first year than babies in other rich countries.
@voxdotcom
's
@sarahkliff
explains how one state is taking on infant mortality.
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Capitalism isn’t natural, was never inevitable, and endless growth is killing Earth.
In the final episode of our “Blame Capitalism” series
@DirkPhilipsen
and
@ProfTimJackson
explain “degrowth” and how it could end capitalism as we know it.
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Millions of people have long Covid; countless more could get it.
@MVGutierrezMD
answers question from Today, Explained listeners about the condition that has even doctors bewildered.
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President Trump and his kids have been sued for using Trump Foundation funds in a "persistently illegal manner."
@Farenthold
explains the Foundation's many shenanigans:
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In 1971, a professor locked a bunch of young men in a basement to understand evil.
The results were explosive. This summer, it all came crashing down.
@B_resnick
of
@voxdotcom
explains what’s going on with the Stanford Prison Experiment:
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Losing track of all the Scott Pruitt scandals? We've got you covered. New
#TodayExplained
featuring
@umairfan
.
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EPISODE 667⤵️
After months of downplaying the risks, the White House has come down with Covid-19.
@voxdotcom
's
@atrupar
gives the updates, and Future Perfect’s
@SigalSamuel
sifts through the moral complexities in some of the more gleeful reactions.
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EPISODE 527:
Places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore appeared to contain
#COVID
ー19 initially, but now things look less promising.
@Liz_in_Shanghai
explains.
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From the experts who brought you
#WeDidntStartTheRussia
: All The Former Staffers with
@Christinamta
.
Coming soon to a
#TodayExplained
episode near you.
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/1 One thing getting lost in this whole Cohen-Manafort chaos is that the House Government Oversight Committee could call Michael Cohen in to testify about the president.
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EPISODE 680 🚫🗳️🚫
Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for mailed ballots.
Good thing it’s not a swing state.
Oh, wait ...
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In 1983, Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov was on duty & received warning that five missiles were launched from the US. His “gut decision” told him it was a false alarm — so he did not retaliate — and it saved the countries from nuclear war.
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It's true: We clap when we publish an episode.
Every 👏 single 👏 time 👏
"Then we immediately get started on the next show," says
@rameswaram
.
Read his full interview with
@washingtonian
:
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Elon Musk created The Boring Company to fix traffic, but his fantasy of underground Tesla tunnels is running on empty.
@Curbed
’s
@awalkerinLA
and author
@parismarx
explain.
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📢Our first ever kids episode is almost here!
🏝️On tomorrow's show, we head to an enchanted island to find answers to kids' biggest questions about
#coronavirus
.
🔥And the remix is fire:
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EPISODE 557:
The most popular course in Yale's 300-year history is all about achieving happiness.
@lauriesantos
, the professor who designed it, says the pandemic has made it more relevant than ever.
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“There’s never been a golden age where we prosecuted white collar criminals very well, but there have been silver ages where we did better.” -
@eisingerj
on why we’re seeing so much crime from guys like Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen right now.
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This year,
@voxdotcom
is bringing you even more crucial daily content in our new podcast feed, Vox Quick Hits.
You'll hear a few new episodes each day, 10 mins or less, with concise yet deep explanations on everything from Biden’s first 100 days to the best Netflix binge-watch.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment has been included in many introductory psych textbooks and is often cited uncritically. It’s the subject of movies, documentaries, books, television shows, and congressional testimony.
But its findings were very wrong.
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🌎 16-year-old climate activist
@GretaThunberg
is the 2019
#TIMEPOY
.
Listen to our episode from September with
@dwallacewells
, who explains why "the most powerful teenager living on the planet today" is being pushed to a breaking point:
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The prez says he might declare a national emergency to get that border wall. Turns out he gets a whole lotta other powers over our lives when he does so.
@LizaGoitein
@BrennanCenter
explains the good, the bad, and the "HE CAN DO WHAAAA???"
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Today the
#SupremeCourt
hears the
#CurtisFlowers
story: a black man in Mississippi put on trial 6 times for the same crime.
@madeleinebaran
@apmreports
@InTheDarkAPM
explain how the heck that happens.
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Two right-wing operatives tried to frame Pete Buttigieg for sexual assault. The same guys who tried framing Mueller. But they bungled things in a way you won't believe.
@willsommer
@thedailybeast
explains.
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Ever tried magic 'shrooms?
@MichaelPollan
did.
He takes us on a trip to find out what makes
#mushrooms
so magic ... and why Denver and Oakland just decriminalized the psychedelic fungi.
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The son of repressive dictator Ferdinand Marcos was just elected president of the Philippines. All he had to do was rewrite his country’s history.
@_aswesterman
explains.
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