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Housekeeping

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Laurie Jinkins 27th LD (3x guest: ep. 32 and 14)

Melanie Morgan 29th LD

5:00 Melanie: How are you navigating your transiton to the State Legislature?

10:00 Laurie: How did the midterms change up the caucus?

13:00 Melanie: About which issues are you most passionate for the 29th?

17:30 Laurie: What are priorities going into session?

27:00 Melanie: As a representative and a Franklin Pierce school board member, what are your thoughts about school funding in the next session?

34:30 What are some things we should look and listen for in the next session about reforming our tax code?

39:00 What are your thoughts on the preposterous state of Western State?

45:00 What conversation is happening in regards to expanding health care access and stabilizing the Obamacare market in Washington state?

47:00 Do you foresee legislation coming to target open carry and magazine size?

58:00 Laurie: Thoughts on deciding whether to hide who you are based on safety.

The 5

1. Jay Inslee for president in 2020?

2. Laurie: describe your socks.

3. Christmas or Thanksgiving?

4. Melanie: If you had a choice for the next Speaker of the House, who would your choice be?

5. What is something everybody loves that you can’t stand?

Online Presence

Laurie Jinkins Webpage

Laurie Jinkins Twitter

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Melanie Morgan site

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Going Further

Capital Gains Tax?

Nerd Farmer: Northwest Detention Center Part I

Nerd Farmer:Northwest Detention Center Part II

Housekeeping: Next Book Club

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

Feeling a need for light and levity, Nate and this week’s guests recommend films. Jamika has us think and Katy has us thinking about Christmas.

Note: We at Nerd Farmer Podcast love Stan Lee, his comics, his movies, and his genius. He will be missed.

Wakanda Forever, Sir. Excelsior.

Does This Film Hold Up?

-Katy-

Secret of Nimh

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World  

Sixteen Candles  

Richie Rich

It Takes Two  

Home Alone 2  

Queen of the Damned  

-Nate-

Top Gun

Lethal Weapon  

Porkys  

Purple Rain  

The Outsiders  

Memphis Belle  

The Abyss

The Usual Suspects  

-Jamika-

Beauty and the Beast 1991

Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella  

Top 5 Katy

Moonlight

Let the aright One In

John Wick

Heathers

Sorry to Bother You

Top 5 Jamika

In Bruges

Addams Family Values

Eave's Bayou

Sin Nombre

Top 5 Nathan

Brotherhood of the Wolf

The Way of the Gun

Malcom X

Menace II Society

Spaceballs

Coming Out and Cuffing Up

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Boy Erased

If Beale Street Could Talk

Widows  

The Favourite

Aquaman

Netflix Top 5

To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Shirkers

Carol

It Follows

The Witch

Black Panther

Thor: Ragnarok

Children of Men

Honorable Mention Must Sees

Mary Poppins Returns

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

RBG

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond  

On the Basis of Sex

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Anna and the Apocalypse  

Contributor Cat’s Favorite Flicks

Princess Bride

1954 Sabrina

Wizard of Oz

Dogma    

Shawshank Redemption

Books

Crazy, Rich Asians

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Her Body and Other Parties

The 5

1. Is there a movie you didn’t get a chance to share?

2. What are you listening to or reading right now?

3. What do you think is terribly overrated?

4. Why are Android Phones magical?

5. Share your love of electric scooters.

Twitter

Jamika

Katy  

With Book Club Guests:

Hope Teague Bowling - ELA Teacher, Pod-Spouse, Interchangeable White Lady

Kenny Coble - Tacoma’s Book Seller, Avid Tweeter, Activist, INFJ

5:00 Why should we read this?

8:00 Is diversity for white people?

13:00 What is Jeff Chang’s story?

15:00 “We Got Be Alright” is a profound example of allyship. Discuss.

18:30 Where is the solidarity between all non-whiteness?

19:30 Colorism vs Racism

23:00 Discussing Chang’s voice as a writer.

“Not a single thing that happened in Ferguson would happen in a white community.”

31:00 The media doesn’t care about non-white stories. We can tell our own stories.

35:00 Jeff Chang: “[He’s] always most interested in how people see resegregation happening in their neighborhood.” Gentrification. Resegregation. Displacement.

42:00 “The fate of Brooklyn that tells us about the fate of Ferguson.”

47:00 How do you square this book with the idea that we have consistent black leadership in Tacoma?

48:00 “Should schools try integration based on factors like socio-economic status given the challenge using voluntary race-based measures?’

54:00 Chase Hutchinson “With the discussion in the book about the Oscars, what do you think is to be learned and what do you hope to see with both the films selected this year as well as the broader cinematic art that is to be told in the future?”

There could be something to finding forgiveness, to finding wholeness, to finding reconciliation.

The Socials: Suggested Twitter Follows

Hope Teague Bowling

Kenny Coble

Jeff Chang

Nikole Hannah Jones