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]]>The cold open: CNN covers President Biden’s (Mikey Day) State of the Union address and Republican Senator Katie Britt’s (Scarlett Johansson) response.
The monologue: Returning as host for a third time, Josh Brolin reads a poem he wrote about Timothée Chalamet and shares his thoughts on trends.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Marjorie Taylor Greene heckling Biden during his State of the Union address, Democrats criticizing Biden for calling migrants “illegals” and Republican Senator Katie Britt’s video response.
PBS host Ken Burnt (Mikey Day) takes a look back at the 2001 film Moulin Rouge starring Nicole Kidman (Ariana Grande) and Ewan McGregor (Bowen Yang).
A group of people (Josh Brolin, Ariana Grande, Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Molly Kearney) attend a support group for people pleasing.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading ‘He nailed it’: Republican strategist reacts to Biden’s 2024 SOTU speech? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>Republican strategist Sarah Longwell reacts to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, saying Biden “nailed it,” and explains the mistake some in the GOP made about the president.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Evan Osnos on Joe Biden’s last campaign? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>For decades, there was a lightness about Joe Biden — a springy, mischievous energy that was hard not to like, even if it allowed some people to classify him as a lightweight. For better and worse, he is a more solemn figure now. His voice is thin and clotted, and his gestures have slowed, but, in our conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date.
— Evan Osnos: Joe Biden’s Last Campaign
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]]>Did you enjoy reading SNL mocks Republican senators for being forced to worship Donald Trump? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>The cold open: Senators Tim Scott, James Risch, Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio (Devon Walker, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Marcello Hernandez) discuss Donald Trump over a meal.
Host Shane Gillis does stand-up about coaching sports, his family and owning a coffee shop.
Things turn around for a struggling man (Shane Gillis) when he’s gifted a pair of magical sneakers from Donald Trump.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like the Alabama Supreme Court ruling frozen embryos are children.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like a study showing women benefit from exercise more than men.
In this Cut for Time sketch things go off the rails when LiMu Emu and Doug (Shane Gillis) from Liberty Mutual try to help a customer (Marcello Hernández) with insurance.
Former students (Shane Gillis, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, James Austin Johnson) gather for a high school reunion.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Jon Stewart returns to The Daily Show desk for the first time since 2015? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>Jon Stewart is once again hosting The Daily Show, but only on Mondays, in an arrangement similar to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. Here’s the first monologue of his new residency, looking at the 2024 presidential election and commenting on the ages of the expected major party nominees.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading And Ain’t I A Woman: A poem in honor of Sojourner Truth? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>Sojourner Truth, a former slave, spoke at the Women’s Rights Convention, held in Akron, Ohio, in 1851 – a decade before the first shots of the Confederate insurrection were fired. Just for her to speak at that Convention required courage and persistence. Most of the white suffragettes did not want to hear from a Black woman.
This poem memorializes her contribution.
— NPI Literary Advocate David Kobrin
(Former slave Sojourner Truth Speaks at the Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio 1851)
Standing there
her arm, worked muscle
a bonnet that speaks the field
an apparition –
to white ladies
rising
to speak to that hall
where mockery echoes
louder and wider
than the fields she’d slaved in
each row sown, hers
the children born, and lost
no man helped her
cross puddles
dust to her tongue
And didn’t she do it
And didn’t she say!
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Why repealing Oregon’s drug decriminalization laws would be a mistake? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“If we really want to end the overdose and homelessness crises — in Oregon and around the country — we have to understand and follow the evidence, not the fearmongering,” writes Maia Szalavitz.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Nikki Haley appears in SNL cold open to spar with fake Donald Trump? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>The cold open: Gayle King (Punkie Johnson) and Charles Barkley (Kenan Thompson) host a town hall with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson).
The monologue: First-time host Ayo Edebiri talks about preparing for her role on The Bear and shares some ideas she wanted to submit to SNL.
Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che cover the week’s biggest news before speaking with CJ Rossitano (Sarah Sherman).
A game show goes off the rails when contestants (Ayo Edebiri, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman) answer trivia questions.
Game show contestants (Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman) answer questions about comments they left on Instagram.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading A year after East Palestine disaster, rail safety little improved? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“Trains are still rolling through East Palestine, Ohio, at 50 mph — the same speed allowed last February when an accident spilled toxic chemicals in the rural town. Bipartisan safety legislation proposed a month after the crash is bogged down in the Senate. And derailments are happening at roughly the same pace,” writes Thomas Black for Bloomberg News.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading F.D. Flam discovers the truism that if common sense existed, we wouldn’t talk about needing it? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>It would be nice if common sense existed. Then, all we’d have to do was turn it on and we’d suddenly come to agreement on divisive political matters, difficult legal deliberations and bitter personal disagreements.
— Columnist F.D. Flam (Appeals to common sense don’t persuade anyone)
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]]>Did you enjoy reading SNL returns and serves up another Trump cold open with James Austin Johnson? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>The cold open: Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) speaks to the media after appearing in court for his E. Jean Carroll defamation trial.
The monologue: First-time host Jacob Elordi talks about filming Saltburn and takes questions from audience members.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Vivek Ramaswamy calling the GOP a “party of losers” and Ohio becoming the 24th state to legalize marijuana.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Trump eyeing Rep. Elise Stefanik as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election.
Senator Tim Scott (Devon Walker) stops by Weekend Update to discuss why he’s endorsing Donald Trump for president.
A couple’s (Jacob Elordi, Heidi Gardner) date at a bowling alley takes an unexpected turn.
Alaska Airlines employees (Jacob Elordi, Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner) share the company’s new slogan after a cabin door broke off mid-flight.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“Hospital ratings dive and medical errors rise when private equity firms are in charge,” Ars Technica’s Beth Mole reports.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Fast-food giants overwork teenagers, driving America’s child labor crisis? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“More than three-quarters of child labor violations in the first nine months of 2023 were in food service, with most of those at franchised brands,” Lauren Kaori Gurley and Emmanuel Martinez report.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery — it’s empathy? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds,” Paul Sutter writes.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Jim McGovern slams Republicans for turning the people’s House into a political theater? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>Under Republican control, this chamber has become a place where trivial issues get debated passionately and important ones not at all… Republicans have focused more on censuring people in this Congress than passing bills that help people we represent or improving this country in any way.
— Representative Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, speaking during floor debate on a resolution to censure Democratic Representative Jamal Bowman
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Bowen Yang offers perhaps his final George Santos impression with “Scandal in the Wind” cold open? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
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The cold open: George Santos (Bowen Yang) holds a press conference after being expelled from Congress.
The monologue: Emma Stone celebrates her fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live with Tina Fey and Candice Bergen inducting her into the hallowed Five-Timers Club.
Contestants (Emma Stone, Heidi Gardner, Punkie Johnson) compete in a game of Question Quest.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like George Santos being the sixth member of Congress to be expelled, a BLM co-founder coming out in support of Trump and Melania Trump attending Rosalynn Carter’s funeral.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Sports Illustrated writing articles using AI, the first Lifetime Christmas movie featuring a sex scene and a three-year long cruise cancelled due to a lack of a ship.
A skincare brand launches a new product.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading The first results from the world’s biggest basic income experiment? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“Money always helps, but for the very poor, one lump sum can last a long time,” Dylan Matthews reports.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Netanyahu and Hamas depended on each other. Both may be on the way out.? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“In 2009, when Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power for a second run as Israel’s prime minister, a job he has held almost continuously since, he was confronted with a major change in the region: Hamas, a militant Islamist group, had been elected to power in the Gaza Strip three years earlier,” notes The Washington Post. “From the beginning, Hamas vowed to destroy Israel and, in his 2009 campaign, Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas. What happened instead was a decade and a half of uneasy coexistence, during which Netanyahu’s serial governments and Hamas’s leaders found each other useful for their own purposes.”
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]]>Did you enjoy reading California commits to teaching media literacy in schools? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>“Beginning next year, California’s public school students will be required to take media literacy courses that will help them identify fake news posted online while also being able to tell the difference between legitimate news articles and paid advertising,” The Los Angeles Times reports.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading Jason Momoa has a blast hosting SNL’s 2023 Thanksgiving episode? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>The cold open: President Joe Biden (Mikey Day) holds a press conference after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The monologue: Second-time host Jason Momoa talks about living out his marine biologist dream by playing Aquaman and his goal to keep Earth’s oceans clean.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin challenging the Teamsters union president to a fistfight.
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s biggest news, like Disneyland permanently closing the Beast’s Library attraction.
Representative George Santos (Bowen Yang) stops by Weekend Update to discuss the House Ethics Committee’s report claiming he used campaign funds for personal spending.
Two TSA agents (Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang) introduce random travelers as they host the Thanksgiving Week Airport Parade.
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]]>Did you enjoy reading What if money expired?? Bookmark or subscribe to the Northwest Progressive Institute's In Brief for recommendations on what to read, listen to, and watch. Our work is supported by people like you; to keep it going, please donate!
]]>Jacob Baynham: “A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?”
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