What does cancel culture have to do with defunding the police? How do we liberate our attention? Can better orgasms improve public policy? Hari and Kamau get answers—and Valentine's Day advice—from pleasure activist and abolitionist adrienne maree brown, author of We Will Not Cancel Us. Plus: Adam Jentleson lays out the Jim Crow roots of the filibuster and gives a Senate insider's view on why even Joe Manchin might be convinced to abandon it. His new book is Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.

Find our guests:
Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson)
adrienne maree brown (@adriennemaree) http://adriennemareebrown.net

Resources mentioned in the show:
We Stand With Farmers https://farmersprotest.carrd.co
Movement for Black Lives https://m4bl.org
The Frontline: #postcardstobiden https://demand.thefrontline.org
Generation Five http://www.generationfive.org

Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/

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