"I am bewildered if you had told me a year ago that Republicans would start to co-op the phrase defund the police. Yeah I would have just been like come on stop that's too far even for Trump supporters," she said. "We are definitely hurtling toward tyranny at a really alarming rate because a lot of these Republicans keep saying we have more guns and this is all it's going to take"
Roxane Gay joins Kara as guest co-host! They discuss the growing threats of violence following the FBI’s search of Mar-A-Lago and Salman Rushdie's recovery after his on-stage attack. Also, Amazon turns surveillance into reality TV, and Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney. Friend of Pivot Ken Burns discusses his latest work, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
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“The U.S. and the Holocaust” premieres September 18th on PBS.
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