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On this week's episode, @kathleen_belew  said it’s helpful to think of the modern white power movement as four concentric circles. And understanding that movement, she says, is crucial to understanding what happened at last week’s Capitol insurrection.

🦃NEW EPISODE🦃 On the pod this week, we're revisiting our attempt to answer the age-old Thanksgiving dinner question: How do you deal with family members who have really, *really* different political beliefs than you? (Even if that dinner is over Zoom.)

So.... @ApplePodcasts  just named us their Show Of The Year, and we're pinching ourselves. Thanks for all the love and support over the years, y'all. We couldn't do this without you. 💞

📣NEW EP ALERT📣 Health disparities have been on our mind a lot these past months, for some pretty obvious reasons. So today, we're bringing you a personal story from reporter @ibbycaputo  about some of the dire, enduring consequences of these inequities

Yesterday's events raised a lot of questions about what role the police could and should have played in controlling the incoming crowd. But author Alex Vitale argues that to think about yesterday as a problem of policing is missing the bigger point ⬇️

There's a stark racial caste system in the U.S. Capitol, says Prof. James R. Jones. Mostly white staffers work for a majority white Congress—while the cleaning staff is mainly Black + Brown. @karenbates  talked to Jones @blackcapitol ) about that divide👇🏾