Ep. 4: Gloria Steinem, Sports, Schools & Healthcare

Corinne opens with a photo she saw that morning: somebody's kid, posted online to score a political point. For her it marks a line the debate has crossed, and she argues that using other people's children to win arguments has to become taboo on every side.

From there, the episode turns to Gloria Steinem, who died this week at 92 — a woman who built her life around the significance of womanhood and chose to include transgender women anyway — and what plus-size clothing stores taught Corinne about what natural inclusivity looks like.

The rest of the roundup works through the week's headlines and where both sides are leaning on assumptions the data doesn't support: Seth Moulton's loss to Ed Markey and why the liberal read on that race is too simple, a Trump PAC's $10 million Texas ad that's about taxes rather than culture war, Everton Blair becoming Georgia's first LGBTQ+ member of Congress for four months, the HHS Medicaid rule and the October 13 clock that has 22 states arguing states' rights, Title IX and transgender athletes and the Heritage Foundation's stated goal, the DOJ suing Kansas City schools and what it means when a kid is out at school but not at home, and Wales pausing every gender-affirming surgery — including operations already booked.