In vintage CYG fashion, Amina and Ann discuss their Harry Potter houses (as sorted by Gina) and then move on to sadder and more serious topics. The intractable problems of hate and guns, men who abused their power and want it back. And, Rest in Power, Toni Morrison. Content warning: gun violence and the fact of sexual violence are acknowledged in this episode.

Links

• Mona Chalabi’s charts on domestic terrorism
• Metoo check in: dershowitz-age-of-consent-laws.html">Age of consent laws and Epstein
• Alan Dershowitz profile
• Epstein case explained
• Al Franken (New Yorker profile / Jezebel report) and Aziz Ansari (reporting on Babe.net / “ansari-right-now-netflix-review.html">reflective” new set) stage their comebacks
• Toni Morrison's 2011 commencement address at Rutgers: "I am myself a storyteller, and therefore, an optimist—a firm believer in the ethical bend of the human heart; a believer in the mind’s appetite for truth and its disgust with fraud and selfishness. From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny. From my point of view, your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art."

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