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Maria and guest co-host Imara Jones, journalist and award-winning creator of TransLash Media, discuss President Biden\\u2019s warning of nuclear \\u201cArmageddon\\u201d from Russia and his move to pardon federal marijuana possession convictions. They also get into the recent court ruling on DACA, the alleged abortion hypocrisy surrounding Republican candidate Herschel Walker, and the women-led protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa \\u201cZhina\\u201d Amini.

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• Noah Berlatsky writes about the significance of President Joe Biden\\u2019s announcement to roll back federal marijuana laws and how his decision \\u201cwill concretely benefit large numbers of people, and will make the US a less repressive, less cruel place\\u201d in this piece for Public Notice.\\xa0

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• \\u201cWalker\\u2019s disturbing history in no way reflects on other Black men. But I can\\u2019t help sensing some condescension in Republicans\\u2019 elevation of such a buffoonish candidate. Does Walker embody what they think Black men really are?\\u201d writes Jemele Hill in this piece for The Atlantic.

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• Hoda Katebi writes about how the recent protests in Iran \\u201cecho the decades of resistance led by women, both veiled and unveiled, against the hijab\\u2019s co-optation as a tool of repression since its imposition in the 1980s,\\u201d in this op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.\\xa0

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