I don't know.
I did not think that it was like treated as we'll pay you to advertise or movie. But that makes sense because.
There's every other venue gets money to play an ad when you play their ads, right. But yeah, but also it's a little different because the movie theater is also the place where you it's.
Arguably to Yeah, they're advertising their own product. Yeah, but maybe they're not. That's my question. I think everybody's paying Nicole Kidman. Yeah, it's all flowing back to her.
If she had any if she wanted to fully vertically integrate, she would just buy a trailer house and fucking just own every that whole twenty five minutes. That's Kidman.
She just like comes in and is like ooh. After every trailer, they just cut back to Nicole Kidman being like enjoying the trailer.
Damn.
Yeah, I mean why not because when you're watching Morebius, your family, she's not when you're here your family. That's all off garden. But it feels like the sort of thing you could say.
Right because there's something in the yeah, the magic in a place like this.
Yeah, because when you're here, you should be watching herself in Baby Girl. Yes, Yeah, Yeah, he having some.
Baby girl milk crazy having some milk.
Yeah, I didn't. I didn't see baby girls. Just going off of what I know.
Babies, there's milk in it. It works on two levels. Yeah, yeah, baby having milk in that.
Yeah.
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It's so interesting how influential she is with Karens. The Karens were like, just give me the ta buzz. Anyways, we Andrew are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a poet and lawyer who is the co founder and executive director of Partners for Justice, which is does to create a new model of collaborative public defense designed to on power. You probably read her dive on Twitter into Project twenty twenty five last year. Well, now Project twenty twenty five is here, and so is she.
Please welcome back to the show, Emily Galvin Almonza.
Thank you so much for having me without without any ak's at all, just notorious in my own right.
Glad to be here, The Notorious and Malee if that's something.
Squire, yeah, I'll take it.
I'll take it. Yeah, the Notorious ESQ. It's great to have you. Thank you so much for coming back during these these wonderful times. It turns out that Project twenty twenty five stuff that you are warning us about, no big deal everything, Everything turned out pretty Wait, I'm seeing here that is not the case.
It's bad.
It's bad. So we're gonna talk about that. We're going to talk about that. We're also going to talk about something that following you on Twitter made me aware of, which is that Kroger and Microsoft doing a little collabo to use your face to give you not boutique. What's the thing where it's like gatory predatory pricing, predatory pricing. I was going to say bespoke, but that's probably how the it was, like, you know.
Bespoke suits are better. This is like making something worse. So it's like the opposite.
Of a spoke. We're presenting you with bespoke egg prices that are designed to charge you as much money as you are willing to pay. We're definitely going to talk about a bill that would force movie theaters to admit when the movie actually starts. All of that plenty more. But first, Emily, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?
Oh my gosh, I looked it up for you. Ex said you were going to ask me this, and I realized the last thing I searched for was Locutus of Borg. Because we are now, yes, I have a seven year old. We are phenomenal parents, which means we watch way too much Star Trek in the evenings when we're exhausted after work. So from school were we're dipping into Star Trek the
next generation. Now we're like at that point where Patrick Stewart's character is about to be overtaken by the Borg collective, and I wanted to prep the kid for it, mostly so that she doesn't talk about it too much at school. We've already had a complaint from another parent that she frightened their child by talking about the Borg.
So, so explain the Borg to me, as though I'm not a Star Trek fan.
Oh man, okay, so the Borg are. I'm going to pretend that you're pretending, because of course you are, as all good people are The Borg collective is a sort of species of quasi species that assimilates other species by taking them over, putting technology to their heads, basically making them part of a hive mind. And so every creature in the universe is at risk of becoming co opted by this this hive mind and forced to serve the goals of the Borg queen.
Yah.
There's a lot of parallels, a lot of parallels you.
Can talk about.
Yes, I have heard references to this. I think maybe in the Simpsons if you've ever heard of that show.
Well, yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, how are you making I have a six and an eight year old. We were trying to decide what to watch this weekend. It was a dude house weekend. My wife was out of town. I was like, they still haven't seen Back to the Future. Amazing, We're gonna
show them back to the future. And then I told another parent that and they were like, uh so there's that whole like runner about incest and I was like, yeah, okay, like in the scene where like the people are getting shot with machine guns and so I just pumped the brakes on it. But we are you just kind of vibing it out? How do you How intentional are you on your decision making on what to show your seven year old.
I made a fantastic decision early, which is that I don't want to watch any kid stuff. So she just has to figure out what things of my of the things I actually want to watch, we can watch together, which result in a lot of like nineteen fifties musicals consume.
Yeah, oh wowk Yeah.
And then you know, she reads a lot, and I can't read faster than she does, so she's getting a lot of content in the books she's reading that I can't keep up with.
Yeah.
I try to just gauge from her reactions what she's comfortable with, like, for example, only murders in the Building Steve Martin, Martin short Selena Gormas. She loves it. Okay, there's death in the show. There's but it's like a game of clue.
Suggest you know that one doesn't sneak up on you. I had a feeling there death in that one.
Yeah, And honestly, like a lot of the like Back to the Future, I would not assume that the kids would even pick up on. Sure, the ancest joke I try to just went from like really gory stuff, although she defeated me in that too. There was a while when she was like four or five and she got really into those veterinarian shows on like whatever reality channel just has like doctor Pole, like with his arm all the way up inside a cow. She was really into that.
So, yeah, does that count as gore in your mind? I can really think viscera technically gore, I guess would be. I'm not a parent. Yeah, if it's of.
My biological interest, I'm down. If it's gratuitous, not really sure.
And super producer Victor, who is the into that sort of thing, uh no, he says that those types of shows get super bloody.
Out of nowhere, as does medicine, so does surgery.
Yeah.
Wait, we talked about this a little bit yesterday. I can't believe. Not I can't believe, but I am impressed that you have a seven year old in twenty twenty five who can handle the pacing of TNG. I think I'm watching as an adult. I'm watching my attention span not be able to handle stuff made in the nineties, like just like story wise, and I guess editing wise. So I think that is amazing.
Honestly, Hey, I protected her from the brain rot that got all of us. Man, She's like she's never been on YouTube, but she you know, reads Enid Blyton, so TG is like exactly the right vibe for her.
Right level. Yeah yeah, I yeah. We were talking about how there's a thing called the millennial pause on videos where with millennials, who are the old ones in this scenario, they take like quarter of a second to put their phone down before they start talking, and whereas gen Z starts talking as they're putting their phone down, and like the millennial pause is like making fun of millennials really not for not knowing how fast media, like how grabby
media is supposed to be, because there's a split second at the very beginning of their videos where they're putting their still putting their phone down. So that's where we're at for people who on YouTube. I've managed to keep mine off of that, but I did make the mistake of showing my eight year old Transformers and so he has Michael Michael Bay in his veins.
All the live action transit.
Yeah yeah, oh my god, fucked up. I made a bus mistake.
There's just like it's just like a huge, like a human being made out of knives.
It's so pleasant, that's what he's into. What is Emily something you think is underrated?
I think that the commitment of teachers to protect their students right now has been heavily underrated. I'm thinking about this a lot, obviously, because the conversation right now is how far into schools will immigration enforcement get? And you're hearing a lot from these schools that are trying to get ready for ice agents showing up the door and
wanting to take children out of school. And I think we've really underrated the fact that we've got teachers now who have been in these classrooms for decades knowing that there's a chance they might have to take a bullet for one of these kids, right. And I don't think that the government has really thought through how ferociously a teacher who's willing to die for their students will protect them from being taken by men with guns.
Right.
So I think the ferocity of teachers has been substantially underrated.
Yeah, yeah, I'm seeing people talking about that and you know, working together on that question of like how to avoid having them use that those students' access to public education or education to against their families.
Well, can I have a lawyer in your moment, not just for may I please, may I please. So, what I'm liking that I'm seeing from a lot of schools is that schools are ready to look for judicial warrants.
This is really important. I'm going to put it out of here right now, because anybody who's listening to this should be told that ICE will often kind of show up with like their own law warrant that they made for themselves, and it's not actually a warrant, it's just a document that they wrote for themselves saying, hey, I have the right to talk to you in public. Well, guess what, ICE, you always have the right to talk
to people in public. They don't have to talk to you, they have a right not to talk to you, right, But they make this document. Then when people say, hey, do you have a warrant, they show them this document, which is, guess what, not a judicial warrant.
Right.
If somebody's saying they have the right to come into your school, or your home or your business, and if they want to enter, they're like vampires. You have to either invite them in or they have to have a judicial warrant that has like the name of a court on it, and it's actually signed by a judge, and it actually has this address of this location printed on
it where the judge has signed and affirmed that. So what I want people to know is if ICE shows up at your house or your business and they're like, hey, you have to let us in, and you say, hey, yeah, where's your warrant and they don't have a piece of paper signed by a judge, treat them like vampires right there you go.
Yeah, and I also heard is don't even open your door, talk to them through the door. And they will also break all kinds of rules, right.
Yeah, yeah, and they will. They're like vampires if vampires could arbitrarily just break the rules sometimes and be like, ah, fuck it, what are what are the consequences?
I admit I'm not aware of the full scope of what vampires are capable of.
Yeah, I think they're physically like they try to get to the door like vampires. So basically I'm saying vampires are better than I sations.
I would also definitely rather have vampires at the door, Yeah for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, what is something you think is overrated?
M generally chat bots like you keep talking about how y'all it's so great, and these chatbots can like write stuff for you. First of all, whenever somebody gives me a document that has some like chat bot authorship, it's very apparent. Sure, But also like the use cases I've had for they lie all the time. In the law. They're really bad because they'll often just like make up
cases that sound really plausible that don't really exist. And you're like torching millions of gallons of water to have some very bland pros produced for you that probably is full of lies.
It just doesn't feel like it's unreliable.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
We were talking about this on last week's episode, that the Google AI like answer. At the beginning, I was trying to find out what scene happens forty five minutes into Jaws, A perfectly understandable question because back when the movie first came out, somebody died of a heart attack forty five minutes into Jaws, or at least that's what the movie's marketing. What have you believe? So I was like,
what scene did it? You know? And I googled that, and Google's AI result gave me the most confident answer. It was like, forty five minutes into Jaws. This is the most famous scene of the movie where a woman swimmer is attacked by a shark and it's the first time you see the shark and Chief Brody says, we're
going to need a bigger boat. So they combined like four different parts of the Yeah, they just combined all the different scenes of the movie and said that that was but so confidently, no hint that they're just making it up because they want to please to Eddy, which is what I'm interesting. But yeah, it's really a bet product.
Yeah, yeah, it seemed I was. I did a trivia night last night at a bar where one of the questions is one you could google ahead and the sort of long story short version is I We got the correct answer even though we knew it was incorrect because the AI summary at the very top said the incorrect set of facts. And we were like the trivia question writer who probably makes minimum wage ish, right, definitely didn't look past the AI summary. So whatever AI summary says
is the answer, even though it is factually incorrect. Right, Yeah, you just got to hack one level higher of whatever the user is going to be doing. And it's so it's the.
Way we're amazing at trivia night going to be real bad in like emergency medicine.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well, I mean I think it's like sort of proven that the fact that its maximum use case seems to be cheating in college is it is exactly that it's like a bad college student worth of.
Brain cheating to get to be like a C student in college.
It seems to be well not even brain. Sorry, but just like ojibberish.
Yeah, I mean that Deep Seek, the Chinese AI product that is cratering the tech economy as of yesterday at least, was like that one of the features that they have is rather than trying to do the mechanical turk thing and like make it a magic trick behind the scenes, you're able to look at like how it shows between different answers and like what the logic was, like that it shows you under the hood, because again, it's not a product that they're trying to like make billions of
dollars better than yeah they're and they're not trying Yeah, they're not trying to value with the magic trick. They're like, this is a thing we've researched that you using it helps us continue to research and make better So that seems better, but yeah, I think probably it will still be like and the answer is like write sixty percent of the time.
I don't know any curated data sets that the ones that work from curated data sets where all the data coming in is screened. I like, I'm good with like a better search interface. That's fine, letting things loose on the internet, just.
Yeah, right, yeah, yeahah, the famous not chock full of lies Internet.
Right, exactly, good data set. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about executive orders. We'll be right back, and we're back. And so, Emily, you are a lawyer who understands how all of these various things that you know understood when Project twenty twenty five was released, like what the implications of all these various things mean. And now the executive orders have been issued, the pens have been thrown into a cheering crowd like
their fucking Lebron's arm bands. But just to like start not to go again, like you're gonna have to work with me here and just pretend this is gonna be hard for you. Pretend that I'm an idiot who doesn't know exactly what executive orders are, how they work just for one hundred miles up. What what are these executive orders that and like we've been told they're and like that's why Biden and you know other Democrats weren't using them, and yet Trump came and like just dropped, flooded the
zone with bullshit, flooded the zone with executive orders. And now it seems like there's a lot of action happening as a result of those executive orders. So just like trying to find the answer in all that madness.
Yeah, so I think first of all, we can start off with one thing that I think you're not an idiot if you don't know this. A lot of people don't know this, that an executive order is not the same as a law past by Congress.
Right.
An executive order does have some legal force, but it's basically a thing that the President said the executive branch is going to do, and the president only has the ability to direct certain people in agencies. So anything that's under the executive branch of our government, that's a lot of stuff. Because all those big administrative agencies that you hear about, or the Department of Justice, the Department of Health,
the Department of the Department transportation. He can direct all of those agencies about how they're going to function, what policies they're going to use, how they're going to hire and fire. Like he can do a lot of that direction through these executive orders. He cannot, though, do a
lot of the stuff that he's trying. Me he's kind of treating executive orders like a magic wand or a genie in a bottle, like trying to erase the fourteenth Amendment on Martin Luther King Junior day, Like that's what he's trying to do with some of these orders, and you can't. There's a reason that order got stopped in its tracks about fifteen minutes after it left his desk, because there are limits to what executive orders can do. That being said, there's also a lot of avenues in
which agencies have a ton of power. So how he directs ICE to perform immigration enforcement, for example, or how he directs other agencies to address drug prices, or how he you know, directs environmental policy, all of that can be impacted by executive orders.
Got it. And so the idea that like Biden could be because like so that there's looking at the past residential terms that have used executive orders. I think in late December, Biden had issued about one hundred and sixty. Trump during his first full term did two hundred and twenty. FDR did three thousand, seven hundred and twenty one, which I guess he was president for a number of years, but that's still.
It's still a lot.
So it seems like, I don't know, I had just always heard, yeah, well, we're not gonna like use executive orders because of it's set a bad, bad president and ultimately, like you know, could be overturned. But it feels, you know, as as somebody who's not a fan of these particular executive orders, like they're I don't know, like when when you're a sports fan and the other team does the thing you don't want them to do, that's usually the right thing, you know. It's like, oh that that makes
me uncomfortable. Therefore that's probably the the they're thing. They're doing the thing that like we're everybody like wish they weren't doing, which the way that the government currently runs seems like is the correct way for them to do all the authoritarianism that they have in mind. So I guess I'm just curious to hear like, what do you think of this strategy like throwing a bunch of these at the wall and some of them being outside the purview of like a normal executive order and some of
them being just like making a statement essentially. Do you think that that is going to work? Do you think that do you wish that more progressive presidential if you can imagine a more progressive presidential administration than this one, that more progressive presidential administrations like we should be wanting them to do.
So we're at this really difficult crossroads, right, which is that, first of all, the idea that Donald Trump would not do something because Biden refrained from doing it is hilarious to me, like, oh, we wouldn't want to set a bad president because clearly, if we don't do the bad thing, donald Trump will also not do the bad thing He's gonna do. He's gonna if you put a button in front of me, he's gonna push it. He's gonna push the button until the button breaks.
But also not just Donald Trump, like Mitch McConnell, Nut Gingridge, Yes, every Republican leader since I've been alive and I'm pretty old like it. It is just the weird that it's it's to me, it's so weirdly willful. It's like, Oh, we wouldn't want this, wouldn't want to break this norm against the team that only breaks norms.
Yeah, that has absolutely no compunction about breaking norms and in fact seems to do it for fun.
Well, they've also realized something, which is that whether something works has nothing to do with whether it is supposed to work or legally structured to work. It has everything to do with whether you can get people to change their behavior based on what you're doing. Like if an executive order is issued that's not supposed to work at all, but people take action based on it, nobody stops them, then it worked.
Yeah.
So I think there's a certain amount of like just try and stuff that we see now and we're going to see continually for the next several years. I think Democrats could absolutely benefit for more just try and stuff. I mean, obviously I don't condone trying to erase a constitutional amendment by FIAT. It's very silly and no one should do that. But at the same time, I think there is a certain amount of creativity and a certain
amount of precedent breaking activity that is appropriate. I think we were not designed to live in a you know this, this government was not designed to be fully static and frozen in the past. Don't tell Clarence Thomas, he would absolutely tell you it's frozen in the past. But in general, like evolution and trying new stuff is good and probably Democrats could do more of it.
Yeah, yeah, I mean FDR like there is some stuff going on in his during the time that he was president, I think, right, I have that, right, he yeah, he had, there is some stuff and he you know, he was willing to just up there working things out, trying things out. You know, it's like, is this something?
Is it?
Well? What about the twenty one?
Not to be a completely left wing lunatic, but I will just point out that it does a little bit. At this point seem like the Democrats did govern the way they wanted to. And it's not a matter of not trying stuff. It's that they didn't want to try that stuff. Right, They're not big d Democrats are not
interested in those good things. Yeah, it seems to me as an idiot, me a complete idiot, it would seem that, Yeah, I mean, these ideas were raised, they did not happen over the past four years at times when a lot of unprecedented ship was happening.
That bad stuff, not unprecedentedly fun good stuff. Let's talk about just the the you know, the executive actions that that are jumping out to you, Emily as somebody who's kind of following this. I actually don't know if all of these are executive orders, but these are the ones that have kind of popped, have really popped for me. I don't know why I'm getting Hollywood executive here, but so we have the mass raids on undocumented people in the US and their families, which that is an executive.
Order, right, yeah, directing ICE, directing ICE enforcement.
Yes.
Scrapping cancer research is that.
That had to do a lot with freezing the NIH and freezing funding, hiring, firing, the purchasing of supplies for research, which resulted in a lot of labs having to let people go stop their research they don't have personnel or supplies, Like you can't do major medical research without money. Sure, And what's really terrible is that by interrupting a lot of the work of these labs, we're setting that research back.
It's not like a lot of this work can just be sort of like picked right back up where you left off six months now. And it's not just cancer, it's Alzheimer's research. It's like a huge quantity of research that makes the United States a valuable place to be because of its medical advancement capacity. Yeah, we just threw that in the trash and lit it on fire.
What is that? Not that I think there's great reasoning behind any of this ship, but I am confused how that even ties into any agenda or like any set of you know, politics, like any political posturing is like we actually think we should see what.
We hang out with any MAGA people lately, because I mean, what I hear a lot of is that they believe that all of these researchers are like that it all comes back to Fauci and it's all corrupt and it's training the swamp. And we're like, I don't think anybody's given a lot of critical thought to what if what if the researchers are not secretly corrupt oligarchs, but what if they actually are people who are poised to save lives, perhaps lives within your family sometime in the next few
years if we let them. I think there's just this huge perception of corruption in the medical community, and I'm not sure where that comes from. Certainly I could talk about it in context related to medicine and health insurance, but yeah, when it comes to like hating on cancer researchers, I don't get it. But it's a thing that the MAGA folks seem to do.
Yeah, yeah, okay, honestly, And that's the kind of toughest thing is like all this data is going to be so entangled with our shitty healthcare system that it's not even even going to be clear that as a direct outcome of this, like life expectancy or health outcomes are worse in the United States because they're already so much worse than the rest of the like you know, equivalently rich world, that like we're never going to be able to prove prove until, like I said this Yesterda, until
Polio's back, but like even then.
With any of this shit, I feel like we're in a really bad position to make those cases because of how the.
Media general healthcare system.
How bads a general healthcare is. But just all of like them very disappointed in the New York Times.
I mean, it's it's hard to prove a negative, but if the New York Times wanted to, and I'm with you that they don't want to at all. Right, I mean, you could look at over the next few years, how many new pharmaceuticals are patented, how many new treatments medical devices like. You could look at patents. You could look at drugs hitting the market. You could look at requests for FDA approval, you could look at all you could
look at new techniques being published in medical journals. You could look at the rate at which US researchers are publishing generally. I mean, there's all of these metrics that we expect to see slow down when you defund medical research.
Right, Yeah, the other ones I have pulling the US out of the World Health Organization recognizing only two genders, turning DEI into like not not just removing funding for DEI, but like you know, saying that people need to report and anyone they see doing a DEI. I guess is the idea. By the way, I did hear somebody pointed out that roy Cone came from McCarthyism, So like that like roy Cone was worked and like learned under McCarthy.
So it does make sense that there's this like direct line from McCarthyism.
Too, Trump, Well, it's not just in the federal government. There are a lot of people are talking about that EO, Like it's just amongst federal employees, right, like, if the guy at the cubical nextsu is seeming a little too diverse, you better report. But it's also giving these agencies a directive to select up to nine entities in the private sector that they would like to investigate for compliance. So
it's also poisoning the federal government to engage in. And we're already seeing the impact in like cowardly big companies scrubbing any mention of diversity and ending any diversity programs, and less cowardly companies refusing to do so, which is kind of well to see. But it's McCarthyism writ large in the DEI context. I think also we're going to see that in the immigration context, with like pressure to
turn people over and compliance pressures of all kinds. So yeah, they're absolutely trying to create a society in which people are afraid of their neighbors and afraid to be snitched on by their colleagues.
For being too diverse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, a person's way too into diversity.
It's like actually, like I'm I am curious this speed for which this will have repercussions. I mean the immigration thing is like if that actually happened, would actually tank the agricultural industry. So like you know, if the Trump people were mad at the price of eggs, then like what the fuck is I'm just like curious, like if anything will ever.
I'm in California, there's we're on our local news. We're seeing like fruit sitting in the fields. It's orange season, like nothing, like yeah, yeah, it's understandable. It's especially understandable because when you're not inside a building, you don't have the same Fourth Amendment protections. It's actually a huge issue. We see, for example, unhoused people don't have the same rights against search and seizure because they don't have a home which someone would need a warrant to enter, so
they don't get this particular constitutional protection. If you're in a field, again, ice can come up and go after anybody they want. There's no structure that they would need a judge to give them permission to enter. So agricultural jobs are particularly vulnerable, and we as a country are particularly vulnerable to like not having food. We can afford as a result.
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean it's just the unintended or yeah, well the food like disaster would be an unintended even for them consequence of like you know, enforcing immigration in the way they want to enforce it. I'm just curious, like what the fuck will actually happen?
How could it be unintended? I mean that's a question I have, is like it's the most foreseeable possible.
The very first thing everybody's like, hey, so I know you only understand profitability, just a quick FYI hear on that.
I mean I guess yeah. The speculation would be it just creates an even more scared or like op pressed class of undocumented worker.
Yeah, I mean the idea of that they talk about a lot that like, yeah, you know, people criticize how expensive this is going to be, but it's going to lead to like a lot of like self deportation, and you know that what that usually means is that people just don't can't work because when you like show up to work, then like you're you know, putting yourself in a position to be taken in. But so that's yeah, it just it feels like that is going to be a first, Like, it's not going to be a down
the road thing. It's like a thing that is going like based on the things that we're already seeing of you know, these like raids that doctor Phil is live streaming. We're going to see the results immediately because nobody's gonna want to fucking put themselves in a position to be
arrested and like, you know, treated cruelly. Yeah, so I don't know, like I others reversing climate change, bringing back the death penalty, not reversing climate change, reversing climate change actions and declaring and the emergency is actually how little gas we're pulling out of the ground. These are all things that I had identified as like, man, the executive orders seem to work in this case in the worst way possible.
Do we like, what is there?
Are there any of these that you're like that that one is actually going to be challenged and easy to overturn before it does too much damage? Or is this all just kind of fore alarm fire territory?
So I'm really interested to see what happens because a lot of people like to act like the law is a real thing, and you know, the law will save us. The law doesn't support this, and the law. Yeah, but the law is just a bunch of humans in rooms, Like some of the humans get to wear a special
dress and sit up higher. But which humans these cases are brought in front of will matter a great deal because Trump worked very hard during his last term to put a lot of judges in place who are heavily aligned with the ideology we see in Project twenty twenty five. In the past, we saw a judiciary which took their responsibility as neutral arbiters way more seriously, and they would have been like, really embarrassed to do something nakedly partisan.
That cultural safeguard is gone, and I don't think we realize the degree to which it was a cultural norm, a cultural safeguard holding the judiciary in a neutral position. It's toast. So some of these I will point out, you know, the death penalty one is terrible for innumerable reasons. One, Generally Americans don't support the death penalty anymore. So this isn't really beating any voters that are demanding this to We get it wrong a lot. It's her reversible. Three.
This EO contains. All of these eos contain ways for the government to reach more deeply into the lives and actions of private actors and the state. So here this EO is directing the federal government to try to exert more control over state and local prosecutors and ags. Here's why that's a big deal in the federal system. Joe Biden, to his credit, commuted the sentences of everyone who's on federal death row. So Donald Trump doesn't have anybody he can kill right now, as much as he would like to.
Oh no, and good on President Biden for doing that. Eighty seven percent, roughly, that's success. Probably an old stat but over eighty five percent of people in prison are there on state and local cases, so you can see that, like, the federal government only comprises a very small minority of people who are impacted by criminal justice decisions generally. So
what does this executive order do. It pushes the federal government to start going after the folks who actually control use of the death penalty, who are state ags and state and local prosecutors. And that bothers me for many reasons, one of which is it's completely contrary to the omnipresent states rights argument that we hear all the time that like,
local people should decide what's right in their locality. Oh unless in your locality you don't want the government to kill people, in which case you don't get to decide what's right for your locality. Your judgment is subsumed by a huge and empowered federal government. I thought we did like big government. No, no, no, we like big government when it's making the government kill people. So that's where we are on this.
Yes, it's not great, And your point about it being unpopular, like that was the thing. Just alec Herrick Cattsanas had a thread on Twitter this weekend just about this New York Times article from last week titled support for Trump's policies exceeds support for Trump, And this feel like it's the way I'm seeing a lot of people in the New York Times and like in that world respond where they're like people might not like the man, but are approved.
You know, they might think his methods are too harsh, but he's getting things done. And it's like in line with there. And I think what they're referring to is like a very specifically worded question that suggests that they want people who are undocumented deported, But there's also like three questions they're just worded slightly differently. That suggests that there's actually a super majority of people who don't who
don't want that, but they I don't know. There just seems to be that an urge to like be like what he's doing is like not that out of line with like what people want, and I don't think it's true, And like what again, they're only focusing on like two of these executive orders, two of these policies. They're like really having to work hard with the polling and the wording of the polling to like make it seem like
people are in support of these policies. And then they're also ignoring like the huge swaths of these executive orders that are wildly unpopular for their cruelty.
And so this is a great feast. I'm so glad you brought this up. Because so when we look at Project twenty twenty five, there's a couple of like big themes that emerge. One is that they're very terrified of boyfriends, and they think there's nothing more terrible than a mom, a single mom, having a boyfriend. There's a whole fun passage I beg you to read, but just just like control f boyfriend. Yeah, in Project twenty twenty five. It's a ride. But beyond their fear of boyfriends, they really
don't like information. They don't like people having any information, and they would rather the government not gather any information because if you gather any information, people might get a hold of it, because governments do have to have a certain level of transparency. This goes totally to what you're talking about. The way you can create false informational worlds
is by limiting the amount of informationeople actually have. Like here you have a poll which doesn't reveal to the reader that, oh, in like the next three questions, it turns out people don't actually like this policy. They just only liked it when it was worded a very specific way. And that's really the thing about polling, right, is that like, the answer you get from people depends enormously on how you ask them a given question. But in the EOS,
we're seeing a ton of these clauses. In the EOS are getting rid of forms of tracking information in government so that people will no longer have access to, for example, what the demographic makeup of our government even is, or of our armed forces, or of you know what the impact of various policies and programs, is health tracking in particular, like how much are we at danger from bird flu
versus something else? They would really prefer not to collect any data because when you don't collect data, you can control people's opinion on policy a lot more through things like the framing of the question, because people don't have
a real informational basis for making decisions. In addition to that, there's a whole separate EO on restricting the government's ability to go after misinformation and disinformation because to stop to stop misinformation and disinformation would impinge on the free speech rights of the people who would like to distribute misinformation, Like lest the government stop people from lying to you. It's it's all this theme of like the government no longer wants you to have good information underdone.
Yeah, I mean that seemed like the whole Mark Zuckerberg like statement was all about like the way in which he used like that's like people's opinions and like free speech, but he was only talking about like people who support Donald Trump's free speech, like very specific definition of that. It's it's very strange, but it's like it's not just
the tech CEOs. It feels like the these you know, journalistic institutions are just like currently really not up to the task of like dealing with what's happening right now there.
I can't tell if they're into it or scared. I can't tell which it is.
I think they're into it. I think they've had decades to not be into it, and they have never showed themselves to not be into it. I mean, I will say again, I know I keep beating this drum, but we are it feels ever nearer to an actual like facts don't care about your feelings, reckoning on just like the nature of reality. And I'm just like, I know I keep saying it, but it's like, you know, the things they believe are largely not true. So like, what is it going to be? Just like Made in the
USA starts to not become the gold standard? Is it going to be like you know, fucking like Beijing University is where you go instead of Harvard, Like it will be something like the rest of the world doesn't have to play by these rules and they eventually won't. Like what is it going to be? I'm just like, I guess I'm hoped. I hope I'll be alive when the fucking other shoe drops on this whole shit.
So I don't know. Sorry, Yeah, I feel like it might be sooner than I was expecting prior to a couple of weeks ago. But yeah, I don't know. It's it's it's Is there anything Emily that is making you hopeful besides teachers, which I think is a great example, like teachers being willing to fight for their kids, for their students, any any other places you're seeing hope.
One thing I would say is that so much of this is local, right, Like I've been watching online as like finding videos of a local neighborhood watch like scaring off ice agents from their neighborhood and school's not letting them in, and you know, ordinary people protecting each other. I also think that this is this has the potential for a huge informational awakening for Americans in a certain sense.
I mean, I'm thinking, actually, this is so dumb. But do you remember when like TikTok was gone for five minutes and everybody got on red note. Yeah, and suddenly Americans will like, wait a minute, you get fresh groceries for how much? In China? They amaze, like the fantastic Chinese grocery halls Americans have managed to become, even without
a Trump branded isolationism. Americans have for decades been deprived of opportunities to really get to know the international community, to travel, to learn about the world, to expand their horizons. And I think that in that moment you describe Andrew of like watching China surpass us in renewable energy and get to a clean and low cost energy solution while we're still like shoveling coal into furnaces. I think that's going to be, I hope, a really healthy awakening for Americans.
I'm terrified on the healthcare front of the number of lives it could cost us to learn this particular lesson. But I guess I'm placing a lot of my hope in great organizations that are willing to put up a fight, in ordinary people who are not naturally compliant and steel themselves to say no, even agrins. It's really hard to say no to somebody who says, look, I have this piece of paper that let's be coming to your home. It's really hard to say, nah, judge didn't sign that paper.
I'm not opening the door. It's hard to do, but I have faith in the stubbornness of ordinary Americans. And I hope, I hope that if we are able to emerge from this without falling prey to the informational lockdown, if we're able to retain our ability to get information, we're going to come out of this a much better society.
That is the question, right, That's where like it feels like things must be like the way I was talking about, like it being a sporting thing where you're like, oh, this is the thing that I don't want my opponent to do, and they're doing it and that is probably smart on their part. Like that's my question thinking through for them is like that's going to be the next frontier is like, okay, so how do we stop the information?
Like and it sounds like they're working on that with regards to the studies, but just in terms of the day to day social media, I'm sure that, you know, beyond the TikTok band, I'm sure that's coming too, Right.
Wouldn't this be great? I mean zcceran bless Zuckerberg's little heart is my college classmate.
Wow, cool guy, cool guy.
Actually Facebook is old, like I'm old. Facebook's old, Like, I also think there's a real chance that like we might disconnect from our social media addictions in a really different way during these next few years. That could be really I mean, once you realize that something you've been using as a resource to learn about people around you and like what's happening in your community is actually just full of junk. I go on Twitter so much less now because it's just like so full of like click
baity anger least just yeah exactly. And if this disconnects us from that and we go back to other forms of informational engagement and information sharing or we create new forms, that'd be great too.
Yeah. Yeah, I did want to also say a thing about the local, like to sort of tag what you were sayingly, like even you know, just like doing a small amount of mutual aid carding shit around during the fires and I mean the fires a just still ongoing, but it and just thinking about California. I know I've said this on the show closer to when the election was, but like you know, liberal ass California couldn't even outlast Slavery.
So like, there's still plenty of work that you can do in your community that will materially move things forward and make things better that, however feudile like, and however much damage is done and we're watching the repercussions of federal government, you can still fix things, repair stuff, help people in a way that is material in your community.
And you should fucking do it because to do it, even though you're helping people, you're doing it for yourself because you're going to need all this stuff too.
There's a really good lever for that that nobody thinks about, and I want to put it out there for people to consider. All of these culture war things. The way they get enforced is through prosecution. That's why Donald Trump wants to exert so much control over local prosecutors is because a lot of this enactment will have to take place in the form of criminal prosecution. Public defenders man public defenders are so under considered as a sort of
last bulwark against totalitarianism. They are the people who are fighting against you know, the types of detainers that can lead to deportation. They are the people that are often first to find out when an individual is in jeopardy from their government. They are the people best equipped to legally intervene. For many people, a public defender is the
only lawyer they're going to have in their life. They're going to have one lawyer, and it's probably the free lawyer provided to them, paid by the government to fight the government and they there's five nine hundred public defender
agencies in this country. Most of them are like not particularly funded or attended to, but ordinary people can go to their account the board of supervisors meeting, say hey, how are you resourcing my public defender if my family needs a lawyer, Like who is that lawyer and what support are they getting and how well are they being paid, and like what experts do they have access to and what labs are you going to let them use in
a serious case. I think that it's a moment now for people to recognize that public defenders are their counsel and they should demand better.
Yeah, and that's uh, you work on that like that executive you're the executive director of Partners for Justice, which sounds like that's kind of a focus for you guys, right, Yeah.
Most of what we do is we help public defenders do more stuff beyond the legal matter, So like recognizing that a court case can completely upend a person's life and cost them their housing, their job, like access to their kids, access to medicine. We basically create really strong interdisciplinary services inside public defense, a little bit of mutual aid, a little bit of services, you know, a lot of community networking so that people can walk away from a
case with their life as intact as possible. It's very very pro safety stuff. A lot of the stuff we address our underlying drivers of crime. It's also very decarsoral. We've eliminated over five thousand years of incarceration in just a few years because it turns out what somebody's doing really well in the community, a judge is less likely to send them to prison. But I'm talking about more
than that, like more than just what we do. Like the daily litigation of public defenders is going to protect a lot of people who are being prosecuted for putting the wrong book on the library shelf, or seeking an abortion or being trans I mean, the lawyer they're going to have is probably a public defender. So even beyond my work, it's a great place for people to dedicate their focus.
Yeah, and if you're just a citizen talking to your government, a great place to find that money is in the insane police budget. Just thrown it out there, maybe some of those funds that should be taken from the police.
I don't know, but you know, there's a great study helicopter, I don't know, a tank.
There's a great study on what really well, a lot of great studies and won't really create safety. And actually, if anybody cares. On the Partners for Justice website, we have a little tab that says evidence, and I gathered a ton of these studies there if anybody wants data on safety. But there's a wonderful overview we did on how environmental design creates safety. And it turns out that if you want to lower the homicide rate, you are better off planting trees than hiring more cops. I mean
some street lighting trees. And that's not only on homicides. Like buildings with more greenery, like more beautifully greened buildings are not only less likely to be burglarized, they also have less domestic violence inside the building. So there's all these things we could spend money on that might work better. And more more subway cops playing candy crush, Yeah I.
Know this is not the way the directionality window or arrow goes, but also less domestic violence if there's fewer cops.
Right, let's just throw it out there could be I don't I actually don't know if that's the direction that the cause out.
Guys are bad guy.
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back, and we do have to get to one piece of legislation that's giving us hope, and that is a Connecticut bill that would force movie theaters to admit when the movie actually starts when listening when listing movie times, that you know it would have the here's when the previous start, but here's when the movie actually starts, like functionally,
which I don't know. It like people are saying that it's like I don't know if these are industry plants, but I've read people being like, well, it's easy to like know when it is just like don't show up for twenty minutes. But I've definitely like it's a moving target. Like I showed up at Barbie twenty minutes late because I assumed that movie would have so many trailers before
it because it was like a massive hit. But it was like it started five minutes after the showtime because they were just trying to like get as much turnover as like, so they're trying to cram as many showtimes as possible because so many people are going to see it. And then I've been to movies where like, I don't know. I I'm a let's get there in time for the previews type of person. And I was even just like, you know, forty five minutes later, like looking at my phone,
being like, how has the movie still not started? So it feels wild sometimes and this, yeah, just I don't know. It's there's so few pieces of like I don't know any just ideas that seem to be focused on, like helping people, maybe helping people's lives be more comfortable. Like I'm putting this in the category of the congestion pricing in New York the tri state area really coming through for the consumers, But I don't know what what are what are you guys' thoughts here?
I also love the trailers, and I was going to say this would create pressure potentially to have better trailers, more entertaining trailers, which would probably put pressure on having more and better entertaining movies. But what I really think is going to happen is going to put pressure on for like two dollars extra to your ticket, they won't run a lower third of the ad concurrently with the movie.
Yeah, movies with ads.
Yeah, I suspect that's actually what's going.
To happen free V the movie theater model that they turn.
Off the part of your neurallink that just puts the trailer in your field of vision while it's going.
Yeah, oh man, that got dark faster than I expected it too, That is what is going to happen. I I am all for more information. People have an information to make informed choices. I could also say, like, there's so much about the movie going experience that could be
improved to help theaters do better. You know, when I moved to New York from California and I found out that people were wearing garbage bags to the movie theater to not get bed bugs, I was like, you know, that's like, we don't do that in California.
We don't.
We don't need to wear a hazmat suit. Actually, So, if what you're relying on to keep the theater in business is people being disgruntled as they unwillingly sit through trailers they didn't want to be at, probably not a sustainable business model anyway, right, And yeah, yeah, get a reclining chair serve people some steak tips. I don't know.
Yeah, I actually don't like movie theaters that do that that aren't I don't only think I like. I don't like the ones that are like, we're actually a restaurant and you have to just deal with waiters walking in front of you. I'm more of an old school popcorn and Sarpach kids person.
How did you feel about the Alamo draft House, Like when they got really really strict and everybody loved it and their business went through the roof. They were like kicking people out for whispering.
Yeah, I guess I don't. I don't mind that as much. I guess I just haven't had like a great Almo draft House experience. Maybe that's that's it. I just need to I don't know. There's something about the movie going experience where I just like want to not have to order things in the middle of it, Like I want to want that drug to kick in where I'm just like in the hands of the director or whatever, you know.
I like being in the hands of the of the cinema and then a waiter goes by to your neighbors, like the case I was really hot and it's just a fall. It's just delightful. Don't remember where you are. I mean, I will say a little bit the counterpoint, because any fool could could watch a pretty good, you know movie at home these days. Yeah, I do think it's a massive humanity is what you want when you go to a theater these days, So like, just make it fucking crazy pants. I don't care.
Yeah, yeah, I agree, Like just any anything to get in a room with other people and watch a movie. Go go nuts, guys. I'm open to everything, but like not things that are again, I mean, it came up with the AI with like tricking people. It seems like it's such a big and accepted part of capitalism these days that we're just like, yeah, we just got to
get better at tricking people. And then this law is coming up and people are like, if we stop letting us trick people, then we lose a big chunk of like revenue for I get because I guess movie theaters are paid for showing.
Well, no, this was this was the question, right or did did we did this? Guy looked up? I was like kind of speculating on this prior to recording. I think, but this happened this weekend. I was talking to my friend in the theater, and I was just like, which direction does the revenue go when a movie theater plays a trailer which is an AD, but it's also an ad for a product that they sell at the place where they're showing it, right, And I literally have no idea.
I don't know if you know Warner plays Alamo draft House. Alamo draft House maybe pays Warner. That doesn't make that much sense or no one?
I thought I got a distribution deal with the feature.
Yeah, I think that's what it is, actually part of the movie. This is not from the AI answer. I'm skipping past the aioverview to a article from how Stuff Works. Shout out to the old house Stuff Works. Traditionally, production companies do not pay to show trailers before movies. Rather, producers and theaters benefit from an exchange of services. Theaters get to screen their chosen feature films, and in return, producers and studios get to show their chosen trailers, so they get to decide.
I'm so happy I remember that from my long ago job writing for these sidelines.
Yeah. But then, so like Sony owns draft House, could they force AMC to play draft House ads in front of a Sony movie.
Problem, why not, Yeah, I'm sure they could. A writer JM was pointing out. Jam mcknapp was pointing out that this is a long distance we've come from. Do you guys remember when Meet Joe Black had like a noticeable spike in ticket sales because the trailer for The Phantom Menace was attached to it, like happened before it, and people were just going to buying tickets for Meet Joe Black just to watch the trailer for the Phantom Menace and then like leaving the theater.
I mean, I'll watch a movie trailer on YouTube, so I'll watch an ad that also has an ad break within it. So like, as you know, we're stupid as a culture, that's right, or I am stupid as a human being. I guess we'll be.
No, I've been bothered by the same thing. Every time I can go to the trailer and the ad starts up, I'm like, but it's but I'm already.
Watching an ad on Purple.
This was consensual and now it's not exactly.
Well, Emily, such a pleasure having you, where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff?
So on pretty much everything on Twitter on or x on blue Sky on Instagram. I'm at Galvin Almanza. It's my last name, and you can also check out Partners for Justice at Partnersforjustice dot org.
All right, and is there a work of media that you've been enjoying.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'm reading the new uh Moracami novel. It's really good. It's for people who are like into Japanese surrealist fiction. It takes place in an imaginary walled city where people are deprived of their shadows. So escapism is good right now, Like, just go dive into a book and live in a different world for three weeks at a time.
I hard recommend that motherfucker loves or hates shadows. I can't remember which. I mean.
He's mean to shiftados, He's like, bad things are happening. The shadows are essentially enslaved in this and.
There's there's shadows Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World.
This is the sequel to that.
This is Yeah. I wasn't going to go into a total nerd conversation for your audience, but yes, if you read Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World, just right, up where that lived off, same walled city, same unicorns, same problematic marginalization of shadows.
Weird, weird relationship to women and food.
Years yeah, years, and ship's there? You get Andrew? Where can people find you? Is there work Amedia you've been enjoying? Oh?
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Just Andrew tea? It doesn't really matter where? Who cares? I guess. The last thing that I haven't recommended on Daily's, like I sed in some form, is I'm rereading a book by China Meeville called Last Days of New Paris, which is sort of I forgot, but it's sort of a spiritual companion to the other I think I recommended, or I said I was enjoying between two Fires, But Last Day's of New Paris is another book of just like rebels wandering around a fucked up version of France.
And this one is speaking of surrealists. It's it's in a parallel universe, not to the occupied Paris, but all the like Surrealists' work of art have come to life, and are these enormous monsters wandering around with seemingly no aim. And it's it's real depressing. The one thing that really has been fucking me up on it is. I've been trying to read from a physical book at night without my phone, and my knowledge of art history is not
good enough. So there's a lot of terms of literal art being dropped that I am not clear if they are science fiction terms that he invented for the book or actual art terms. So pink, it's very confusing, Yeah exactly, Yeah no, but it's just all these like casual name drops and like slang truncations of like famous surrealist works of art that I'm just like, I don't know if there's a monster you made up, I don't know, there's.
No anymore.
B I'm so confused. Anyways, it is a good book, and I read it a long time ago, but I should not be reading it without a phone, even though that's what I'm trying to do.
It's going very slowly. Godspeed to you, sir. Thanks amazing. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Obrian on Blue Sky Jack ob The number one I've been enjoying. I watched a movie because I heard that Stanley Kubrick called it the most terrifying movie I'd ever seen, and so I watched over the weekend, The Vanishing which is a Dutch film that is real fucked up, and highly
recommend a real compelling, interesting watch. And yes I felt compelled to go a little highbrow becauseous series right now, it's real precious.
But also I have recommended a bunch of trash TV the Lastness.
Yeah, this is not a super challenging movie as long as you're willing to read the SubTime yeah ooo folk subtitles all right. You can find us on Twitter at daily Zeitgeist, where at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram, we have a Facebook fan page and a website, Daily zeitgeist dot com. You can go to the episode wherever you're listening to this and check out the description of the episode you listen to, and you will find the footnotes which will link off to the information that we talked
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