We Can Do Hard Things
Elon’s Email Power Grab, What to Do & Why to Have Joy: Calm News with Jessica Yellin
26 Feb 2025
Elon’s Email Power Grab, What to Do & Why to Have Joy: Calm News with Jessica Yellin Award-winning journalist, Jessica Yellin, breaks down the latest news unfolding in the US and world. Today, Amanda and Jessica discuss Elon Musk’s unprecedented power grab—and what it means for democracy, national security, and your everyday life, as well as Germany’s recent elections, the relationship between the US, Ukraine, and Russia, and a little good news about a recent medical discovery to restore our faith in humanity. -The new demand from Musk that panicked federal employees—and why some consider it a national security crisis -What members of Congress are (and aren’t) doing to stop DOGE -Two urgent actions you can take today to hold government officials accountable -Why joy is a powerful tool of resistance and how to find some today On Jessica: Jessica Yellin is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering, Webby award-winning independent news brand. Over 1M+ subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and News Not Noise to understand what matters, which experts to trust, and to manage their “information overload.” She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie Award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC, and CNN. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @JessicaYellin. You can also find the News Not Noise Newsletter on Substack. 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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Oh, goodness gracious me. Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today, this is Amanda, and I am here with our beloved national treasure, Jessica Yellen. This is Calm News. We are deciding with Calm News not to put our head in the sand and also not to ride the chaos roller coaster. Instead, we are going to care enough to stay calm, clear-eyed, and action oriented. This is our goal.
We are here with Jessica Yellen. You know her, you love her. She is the founder of News Not Noise, a pioneering Webby award-winning independent news brand. Over 1 million subscribers and followers across Instagram and other digital media rely on Jessica and News Not Noise. to understand what matters, which experts to trust, and to manage their information overload.
She is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN and an Emmy and Gracie award-winning political correspondent for ABC, MSNBC, and CNN. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at jessicoyellin. You can find the News Not Noise newsletter on Substack.
Jessica, how the hell are you? Hi, what a nice intro. I am well. I'm going to tell you something I didn't warn you of in advance, which is great. It's my birthday today. I know.
Oh, Jessica, happy birthday to you.
I didn't know that. But I just have a commitment today to be happy and chill no matter how wild the news is. And that's my gift to everyone listening too.
Is that cool? And my gift to you is I will join you in that. All evidence to the contrary. I will commit in honor of your birth to not losing my mind. Amazing.
If we can do it, everyone can do it, right? This is correct. This is correct. How are you? How is your week so far?
Well, I am in D.C., right outside of D.C. And so over here in terms of all of the Doge reverberations everywhere, I feel like for the past all weekend and then through Monday, I...
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