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Episode 765 Writer and Activist Maura Quint and Heated.World's Emily Atkin

Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Release Date: 01/23/2023

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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day.  and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out  to learn more   is an  , writer and actor based in . Check out Christian's new Substack Newsletter!  ...

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Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day.  and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. is a former SIRIUSXM listener and an experienced trial lawyer with over 100 jury trials, I defend individuals in misdemeanor and felony proceedings at the state and federal levels. I also represent individuals and business entities in civil trials. Other law firms often hire us to conduct trials at the post-discovery stage.  Sin Law Attorney. We defend the rights and assets...

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Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls. Order Jeff's new book   is a journalist and bestselling author or editor of seven books, including , the basis for a 2019 , of which he is executive producer. His most recent book, combining image and text, is . "Gorgeous," , "[t]he book ingeniously reminds us that all of our lives — our struggles, desires, grief — happen...

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Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day.  and gain access to a community of over 740 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls.  is a political talk show host and commentator. He is the host and founder of The Majority Report. A 5x award-winning, daily program that brings you the best progressive news commentary and longform conversations available today. You can find the Majority Report live on  or  and can download it from your favorite podcast platform. Seder was named a 2017...

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18 mins  Maura Quint  is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants’ rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org 

She is now the Wealth Tax Campaign Director at the Americans for Tax Fairness

55 Mins Emily Atkin the author and founder of HEATED, a daily newsletter dedicated to original accountability reporting and analysis on the climate crisis.

Her reporting is excellent and I support her with a paid subscription. Please consider it

Previously, she was the climate staff writer at The New Republic, and the deputy climate editor at ThinkProgress. Her pieces have appeared in Newsweek, Slate, Mother Jones, and other places.

Emily's mentor was the late investigative journalist Wayne Barrett

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