In Lieu of Fun

Wherein I talk to the estimable Alan Rozenshtein, whose name I willfully and consistently mispronounce, about the vice presidential debate--which he hasn't watched--the dockworkers' strike, and the California AI bill.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Renee DiResta, who explains why AI disinformation is not the end of democracy but also not a problem to ignore.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Lindsay Chervinsky to discuss her new book on the John Adams presidency: "Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic."

She is an Africa analyst and daughter of Kenya, a painter, a missionary child and former Evangelical. She is also a self-described "Bulwark superfan." Oh and she's funny. Very funny.

You know my colleague Anna Bower as a fabulous courts reporter and chronicler of the Trump Trials. But Anna has a secret, second life: She is also crazed Swifty. And she's here to talk about the emerging fight between the Swifties and the Trumpists.

Actually, he doesn't. We don't even talk all that much about eating cats, but it makes a good episode title.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Tyler McBrien--aka Spicy Tyler--to talk about the Harris-Trump debate from the previous evening. We will also, of course, discuss spices.

Wherein we are joined by convicted insurrectionist Katsiaryna Shmatsina. The estimable Ms. Shmatsina recently had the distinction of being tried in absentia in her native Belarus of trying to overturn that country's oh-so-very-democratic election and was sentenced to ten years in prison. She wrote about the experience on Lawfare and discussed it with me on the Lawfare podcast. She joins from her on-the-run secret on-the-lam location. Be careful, she might convert you to a life a crime!