We Can Do Hard Things
Finally Democracy Fighting Back! | Jessica Yellin on Hope from SCOTUS & Harvard
24 Apr 2025
405. Finally Democracy Fighting Back! | Jessica Yellin on Hope from SCOTUS & Harvard This week, Amanda is back with friend of the show, Webby Award Winning Journalist, Jessica Yellin, to break down what’s happening in America and why this week there are a few stories to feel good about. -The alarming deportation case making headlines and how the courts are pushing back -Why Harvard’s refusal to comply could set a powerful precedent for free speech -The surprising way Wall Street is turning on Trump and what it signals -What’s really going on with Hegseth and why his unraveling matters Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand -- dedicated to helping you manage your “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy, Peabody and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent. You can follow her on Instagram at Jessica Yellin. And also, to get real time, clear and brilliant reporting, go to substack.com and search for her page newsnotnoise and subscribe there. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello everyone. Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today we are regrouping once again with the phenomenal Jessica Yellen to talk about what we need to know in the world.
And we do it in this hour so that we can spend the rest of our one wild and precious life doing life affirming things, figuring out what we can do to impact the world and not riding the roller coaster of intentional chaos that is whirling. all around us. So today I have just come back into the country after around 10 days out of it with my family. And I've got to tell you, Jessica,
It was a little bit nice to not be monitoring the news every five minutes. So I feel really good about what we're doing here once a week to keep people informed while not having to follow every single story every single minute, because I think it might be the way to do it. I love that. I think so. Right. Don't you feel more normal?
For lack of a better word.
Yes, I feel like, well, not my normal, which is my own internal chaos. At least I am responding to the tolment of being me as opposed to the tolment of being me and the intentional chaotic tolment of the environment. And I think there is a connection between those two. So it felt nice for a week and it made me think, let's keep doing this because...
People need to know, we need to know what's going on and what's important and what's distraction and what's real. And we also need to not be consumed by it. It's like consume the news, but not be consumed by the news is what is ideal. I love that.
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