Tangle - Tangle takes spring break.

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

As we head into the Easter and Passover season, with Ramadan already here, and with many colleges and organizations observing spring break in various ways, we're giving the team a few days off. We'll be back in your inbox on Tuesday, April 2nd.In the meantime, we also know some of you re receiving Tangle for the first time today while others are new, or may want some content to consume while we're gone. To that end, we've pulled together some of our best stuff from the newsletter, YouTube channel, and podcast from the last few weeks. We also went back into the archive and resurfaced a few old articles for your perusal.Free editions: How we plan to cover the 2024 elections: A breakdown of what we are going to do (and not do) in 2024. From the border of identity, politics, and medicine: In a reader essay, anonymous physician who is religious, conservative, and transgender writes about their experience watching both sides debate trans issues. The Zionist case for a ceasefire: A personal op-ed where I made the case for a ceasefire in Israel. This was one of our most controversial pieces of the year so far. The Tucker Carlson-Vladimir Putin interview: Our breakdown of the interview Tucker Carlson did with Vladimir Putin in Russia.Members-only editions (paywalled) How dangerous is porn, really? Your responses to the Zionist case for a ceasefire Everything we got wrong (and right) in 2023.From the YouTube channel Designing the perfect presidential candidate My interview with Bill O'Reilly A little fun on UFOs from last yearFrom the podcast Me and Tangle managing editor Ari Weitzman talk about our State of the Union bets, what we were writing about in March of 2020, and why the media coverage of Trump is still terrible. Listen here. Episode one of our new Tangle series "The Undecideds" where we are following five undecided voters up to and through election day. Listen here. My interview with Democratic pollster Evan Roth-Smith, where we discuss Biden and Trump's biggest weaknesses. Listen here.Free stories from the vault From May of 2022, a piece where I examined the documentary alleging election fraud called 2,000 Mules. Read it here. From February of 2022, my opinion piece making the case that you should vote. Read it here. From September of 2022, my itnerview with Hyrum Lewis on the "myth of left and right." Read it here. In January of 2020, I published the 100th edition of Tangle and wrote about my plans to turn the newsletter into a business. Read it here.Paywalled stories from the vault: From May of 2020, in one of my first paywalled Friday editions, I explore the question of whether I'm a biased hack. Read it here. From June of 2022, a personal essay about my wife (paywalled). Read it here. From December of 2021, a reader essay from Sophie Trist on a consistent pro-life ethic. Read it here.Our podcast is written by Isaac Saul and edited and engineered by Jon Lall. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet 75. Our newsletter is edited by Managing Editor Ari Weitzman, Will Kaback, Bailey Saul, Sean Brady, and produced in conjunction with Tangle’s social media manager Magdalena Bokowa, who also created our logo.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tanglenews/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of Isaac's take. I'm your host for today, John Law, and today we are going to be talking about spring break. Specifically, our spring break. We are going to be taking a little bit of time off over the next week, and we'll be coming back to you next Tuesday, April 2nd. But until then, Isaac has written a letter that was printed in today's newsletter, and I'm just going to read that down for our podcast listeners. But before we get into all that, let's jump on over to our quick hits.

First up, authorities in Baltimore said the six people who remain missing after yesterday's bridge collapse are presumed dead. Overnight, investigators boarded the ship and recovered its data recorder as they develop a timeline of events that led up to the crash. Number two, the Supreme Court appeared likely to side with the Food and Drug Administration against a group of doctors and medical associations challenging the FDA's approval of mefapristone, a commonly used abortion pill. Number three, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named Nicole Shanahan as his running mate in his independent bid for president. Shanahan is a Bay Area lawyer and tech entrepreneur. Kennedy is currently polling at 9.9% in a three-way race with Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Number four, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reached a deal to resolve securities fraud charges brought by state prosecutors in 2015. Paxton will be required to pay restitution, complete community

service, and take legal classes as part of the deal. And number five, a UK court delayed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the US to stand trial on espionage charges. The ruling gives the US prosecutors three weeks to offer assurances that Assange won't be subject to prejudice at trial. And now to our letter from Isaac. A few times a year, the Tangle team takes a little breather. Our view here at Tangle is that we are running a marathon and not a sprint. And in order to survive the madness that 2024 is bound to bring, plus keep this project going for years and decades to come, we need to pace

ourselves. Across the space, a lot of media organizations are struggling to survive while a lot of independent creators are burning out and calling it quits. As a business, we've succeeded with a very specific format and business model, one that emphasizes open debate and subscriber support. As a team, we've survived doing this work with a very specific formula, one that emphasizes working hard while also observing federal holidays and taking a few calculated weeks off throughout the year. Spring break is one of those weeks. So as we head into Easter and Passover season, with Ramadan already here, and with many colleges and organizations observing spring break in various ways, we're giving the team a few days off. We'll be back in your inbox and on this podcast on Tuesday,

April 2nd. When we come back, you'll notice something a little different. For the first three days we return, we will have our take instead of my take in the newsletter and on the podcast. And that's because I'll be traveling throughout the next week, and rather than drafting a daily My Take, I will instead be working as part writer, part editor on a take our team will be writing as a group. We're excited to experiment with this iteration of our newsletter, but it's just that, an experiment. We'll be back to the normal My Take the week following on April 8th. In the meantime, we also know some of you are receiving Tangle for the first time today while others are new or may want some content to consume while we're gone. To that end, we've pulled

together some of our best stuff from the newsletter, the YouTube channel, and the podcast from the last few weeks. We also went back into the archive and resurfaced a few old articles for you to peruse. The links to those articles, YouTube episodes, and podcast episodes are in the episode description. Thank you, everybody, and if you want to show continued support for our work, you can go to readtangled.com and become a member. You could also spread the word. Think of five to ten friends that could be interested in something like Tangle and share it with them if they don't already know about it. We're still going to be sharing content on our Instagram page, so feel free to check that out as well.

And we also still have VIP tickets available for our New York City event on April 17th. Get them while you can because they're going really fast. We've already sold out general admission and we are super excited to be coming to you and bringing you this event. We'll talk to you again on Tuesday. Have a great week, everyone Sean Brady. The logo for our podcast was

designed by Magdalena Bokova, who is also our social media manager. Music for the podcast was produced by Diet75. And if you're looking for more from Tangle, please go to retangle.com and check out our website. We'll see you next time. police procedural who dreams about a world beyond Chinatown. When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web, his family's buried history, and what it feels like to be in the spotlight. Interior Chinatown is streaming November 19th, only on Disney+. The flu remains a serious disease. Last season, over 102,000 influenza cases have been reported across Canada, which is nearly double the historic average of 52,000 cases. What can you do this flu season? Talk to your pharmacist or doctor about getting a flu shot. Consider FluCellVax Quad and help protect yourself from the flu.

It's the first cell-based flu vaccine authorized in Canada for ages six months and older, and it may be available for free in your province. Side effects and allergic reactions can occur, and 100% protection is not guaranteed. Learn more at FluCellVax.ca.