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This week, John Dickerson and David Plotz are joined by Vox’s Marin Cogan @marincogan to discuss the extreme weather, heat, and floods that are wreaking havoc across the United States and around the world; the social media phenomenon of Threads; and the American love-hate relationship with cars.  Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Cara Buckley for The New York Times: “To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats”Jonathan Erdman for The Weather Channel: “America’s Top Weather Killer Is Not Tornadoes, Flooding, Lightning Or Hurricanes – It’s Heat”Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar Antonio Pequeño IV for Forbes: “Zuckerberg Vs. Musk: Everything We Know About The Possible Cage Fight” These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore Insider Intelligence: “US Social Network Ad Revenue Growth, 2021-2023” Marin Cogan for Vox: “The impossible paradox of car ownership”; “The deadliest road in America”; and “Cars transformed America. They also made pe