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An eventful week of news leads to an eventful (and long) series of discussions. This episode covers three things that happened: The Outline’s most recent round of layoffs leads to a freelancer boycott of the publication, The New Yorker announces Steve Bannon as a speaker at their upcoming Festival and then rescinds their invite after Twitter outrage, and Colin Kaepernick is revealed as the face of the 30th Anniversary “Just Do It” Nike campaign. 00:03:11 Recent The Outline layoffs 00:16:48 Steve Bannon uninvited from The New Yorker Festival 00:26:00 Colin Kaepernick in 30th Anniversary Nike Campaign Links: https://observer.com/2018/09/media-layoffs-the-outline-freelancers-study-hall/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/opinion/bannon-new-yorker-festival-remnick.html https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/04/the-open-future-festival-and-steve-bannon https://qz.com/1378192/a-nike-boycott-over-colin-kaepernick-is-unlikely-to-hurt-the-swoosh/ https://youtu.be/Fq2CvmgoO7I What is MAEKAN? MAEKAN is a memb