J.D. Vance received a request from his constituents and turned it into a blood libel. I mean, there is nothing more contemptible than that. Hey everybody else what's going what's going on. Welcome to the

Bituation Room Podcast Live.

We're back.

It's felt like it's been forever since we've done a show.

Anyone else feel like it's been too long.

We did debate coverage last Tuesday. I took off because it was my birthday. Thank you for all the birthday wishes and then on Friday we had a very short but sweet episode with Tom Bonnier talking about massive voter

registration so hopefully all listen to that it's very exciting and

interesting and Tom is just so great and we had some good back and forth so happy to have you here.

Today is making up for the fact that there was no show show last week because we have two incredible

guests journalists and author Talia Levin is here as well as journalist Sarah Lazar who has been on this program who does incredible

labor reporting and has been reporting also from inside the DNC specifically

around pro-Palestine anti-genocide slash uncommitted delegates and I am so

curious as to her thoughts and what she saw what she observed and maybe the shifts in the Democratic Party are there

shifts to be exploited or not as well as we're going to talk about some news we're

going to talk about all that's happening in Springfield after the Cats and Dogs line.

We're also going to talk then with Sarah about the murder of American Turkish activists Aishinor Aigy who was killed in the West Bank

while trying to bear witness to the ongoing settler violence

and IDF violence there.

So Sarah and I will talk about that.

I've known Sarah for so long,

and so it's great to see really some positive movement when it comes to the issue of

Palestine but also you know we were getting involved in this activism when like

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