I don't think Netanyahu would have had the audacity to try and dismantle the democracy that is Israel. The Israeli people have said, sorry, democracy kind of works for all of us. There has been an enormously inspiring pushback on this. I'm glad you approved Richard Reeves' book but he deserves credit for catalyzing a conversation. And compassion is not a zero-sum game because he says something that is really powerful right now.
Short sellers come to Jack Dorsey's Block, Apple's employees don't like what they're seeing in the company's AR device, and there's peace in the Silicon Valley Bank tonight. Also, NPR cancels four podcasts, the SEC gets serious about crypto, and Twitter Blue's latest feature is... pretending you don't pay for Twitter Blue? Journalist Emily Baker-White joins Kara and Scott to discuss her work on TikTok, and the stories that led ByteDance employees to spy on her.
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