E337. Gerrymandering Exposed - How Maps Steal Your Vote - Kate Compton Barr

E337. Gerrymandering Exposed - How Maps Steal Your Vote - Kate Compton Barr

Author: Conversations with people from all walks of life. May 8, 2025 Duration: 1:16:20
Kate Compton Barr, a North Carolina state senate candidate, deliberately ran a campaign she knew wouldn't win to highlight gerrymandering issues. She and Bridget discuss how politicians strategically redraw voting districts to maintain power, techniques like "packing" and "cracking," and why it’s one of the most extreme problems facing our country right now. They cover her background in behavioral science, examining how digital echo chambers and pandemic-related stress have contributed to pol...

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E388. What the Internet Did to Girls | Freya India - Walk-Ins Welcome [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Bridget Phetasy sits down with Freya India, British writer and author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to dig into why Gen Z women are struggling in ways previous generations didn't. They dis…