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A mountain of toys to fulfill many wishes. must be carried across all roads and all bridges. and when everyone is smiling and having their fun i can turn my sleigh north because my job here is done. it's not magic that makes more holiday deliveries to homes in the us than anyone else, it's the hardworking people of the united states postal service. the world lost a trailblazing feminist thinker last week. gloria gene watkins, better known for her pen name, bell hooks, died on wednesday. the author, po et, scholar and cultural critic was a driving force behind feminist movements of the 1980s ...

Together for me my womanness and my blackness and the understanding that, you know, white women could absolutely be complicit in the patriarchy. it was her unrelenting and unapologetic body of work that helped me draw on my understanding of the suffrage movement. of the women's liberation movement, of the women's march and even black lives matter, the racial dynamics of that, as well as gender. it was a transformative concept to me that is central to so much of the work i do at the 19th because bell hooks filled in so many blanks around feminism, that gave really me a way into that, you know, ...

And when you look at it through bell's perspective, you say we are all part of a system, including me. i'm part of a system that is -- that is causing difficulty for women, regardless of what i have done as an individual. i should do the right things as an individual, but i live in benefit of a system of patriarchy and bell hooks laid that out very clearly. >> absolutely. so bell hooks looked at forms of domination, whether it was capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy and that's what she opposed. she never trashed individual people and she never looked at the problems as individual problems....

And others about what's going on with voting rights and the need to do something, because democracy is at risk. also, senator alex padilla. i knew there was someone i left out. ali, as always, a jam-packed show. so jam-packed, i'm forgetting guests who are going to be on. >> you're going to have a lot of stuff to talk about. these are two parallel, major issues. for a lot of people, they want the build back better bill done to get america back on track, but there are a whole lot of people who came out in that election, because of things like voting rights and some of these policies that have l...

Watch this. that was in these clothes... ugh. but the clothes washed in tide- so much cleaner. if it's got to be clean it's got to be tide hygienic clean. no surprises in these clothes! couple more surprises. the best things america makes are the things america makes out here. the history she writes in her clear blue skies. the legends she births on hometown fields. and the future she promises. when we made grand wagoneer, proudly assembled in america, we knew no object would ever rank with the best things in this country. but we believed we could make something worthy of their spirit. superpo...