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Emily, John and David discuss the stimulus bill, racial inequities in vaccine distribution, the return to in-person learning, and Majorie Taylor Greene’s GOP.


Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:


Ezra Klein for the New York Times: “The Senate Has Become a Dadaist Nightmare


Uché Blackstock and Oni Blackstock for the Washington Post: “White Americans Are Being Vaccinated at Higher Rates Than Black Americans. Such Inequity Cannot Stand.


Shreya Kangovi and Uché Blackstock for the Washington Post: “Community Health Workers Are Essential in This Crisis. We Need More of Them.


Thomas B. Edsall for the New York Times: “The QAnon Delusion Has Not Loosened Its Grip


David Blight’s Open Yale Course: “HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877


Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed 


Monica Potts for The New York Times: “In the Land of Self-Defeat



Here are this week’s cocktail chatters: 


Emily: Moe Tkacik for Slate: “The Lousy Tippers of the Trump Administration


John: Vala Afshar’s tweet of a clip from DisruptTV, Episode 91.  


David: Stefanos Chen for the New York Times: “The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks


Listener chatter from Phillip Cleveland @pwcleveland: a Twitter thread by Mark R. Miller

@4T9NER about a meaningful family photograph


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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, listener Norman Townsend asks John, Emily, and David to discuss David’s new startup, CityCast.


You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


The email address for the Political Gabfest is [email protected]. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)


Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.

Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.

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