Episode 134: Russian Trolls Have Foiled Our New Advice Segment

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After some followups and corrections involving J.K. Rowling’s new book and Jesse’s heaving knockers, Jesse tells Katie about a New York Times article which attempts to partially pin the blame for the travails experienced by the Women’s March — a super competent, super well-run organization that has never generated any controversies — on *RUSSIAN TROLLS*. Then the hosts take listeners’ advice for the very first time. Few lessons are learned, other than that Jesse is extremely dumb.

Links:

Herzog on everyone getting the new Rowling book wrong (thread)

Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog

I finally finished The Ink Black Heart and I’m now certain that none of these writers read the damn thing. Edie Ledwell isn’t canceled for transphobia. Transphobia isn’t a story line at all.

How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/us/womens-march-russia-trump.html

Jesse’s article on Louis Farrakhan and the Women’s March

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/is-it-so-hard-to-denounce-louis-farrakhans-anti-semitism.html

CNN article also addressing this topic

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/28/politics/louis-farrakhan-speech/index.html

Woman’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour discusses “waging jihad” against “white supremacists and Islamophobes reigning in the White House”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/07/muslim-activist-linda-sarsours-reference-to-jihad-draws-conservative-wrath/

Jesse != smart

Jesse Singal @jessesingal

Does a film/novel have this plot? Brit marries Californian woman and settles there, his parents are supportive at first, then he becomes estranged from his dad, and he has to go back home to U.K. with his wife for his grandma's funeral, and things are fraught

Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy - Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo by Grigory SYSOYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by GRIGORY SYSOYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)