Baby Vance, Bold Moves for Beshear & a Nationwide Cleanse

Kate and Emily are back with a weekly catch-up that starts with the administrative burden of adulthood and ends with a nationwide outbreak nobody in charge seems worried about. In between: those AI camp photo services (cute or surveillance state?), the license plate cameras popping up on every corner, and why Emily keeps having to rewrite her dystopian novel because reality keeps beating her to it.Then it's off to the races — literally. Kate breaks down the absolute chaos of Wisconsin's governor primary: Francesca Hong's front-runner momentum, the campaign finance scandal that took down Sara Rodriguez, and Governor Evers going rogue with a surprise endorsement three weeks before the election. Emily covers Maine, where Troy Jackson has been anointed as Graham Platner's replacement to take on Susan Collins. Plus: the Vances' new baby (and Emily's theory about Usha as shadow VP), the Haley Stevens accent discourse, whether James Carville is wrong about AOC (he is), Kamala in 2028, and Emily's unsolicited advice for Andy Beshear on the McConnell seat.And finally, the diarrhea dispatch: the FDA's "false positive" on Taylor Farms lettuce, decimated public health funding, and RFK Jr. shrugging off what is decidedly not a normal summer tummy bug. Wash your produce. Maybe soak it in vinegar. We're not doctors.