This week offered some lessons on, among other things, how to text responsibly 👊🇺🇸🔥 This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Avishay Artsy, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/">Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal</a>, <a href="https://img.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/texting-etiquette-101-rules/">Texting do's and don'ts for 2024</a>. Transcript at <a href="https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast">vox.com/today-explained-podcast</a>Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: <a href="http://www.vox.com/members">http://www.vox.com/members</a> ﻿Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz holds up a posterboard showing emojis used by President Trump's national security officials in the Houthi group text chat. Image courtesy of the office of Jared Moskowitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

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