Month: December 2020

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The NewsWorthy - America’s ‘Greatest Threat,’ Vaccine Cards & Movies Straight to Streaming- Friday, December 4th, 2020

The news to know for Friday, December 4th, 2020!

What to know about:

  • a rare warning from the top intelligence official in the United States: which country he calls a major threat
  • the purpose of a vaccination card you may get in the near future and how it's supposed to work
  • the U.S. government suing Facebook
  • the latest on those mysterious monoliths
  • brand new blockbusters coming straight to your home TV

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

DNI Director on China Threat: WSJ, AP, Axios, Bloomberg

Vaccine Distribution Cyberattacks: NY Times, CNBC, Reuters, CISA, IBM

Vaccination Cards: CNN, NPR, The Hill

Pfizer Vaccine Obstacles: WSJ, CNBC, Business Insider

Biden Taps Fauci as Chief Medical Adviser: CNN, USA Today, CBS News, Politico

WI Supreme Court Denies Election Challenge: WaPo, AP, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

More CA Wildfires, Evacuations: AP, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Orange County Fire

Justice Dept. Sues Facebook: WaPo, AP, Reuters, WSJ, DOJ

Releasing Movies for Streaming & Theaters: USA Today, The Verge, Engadget, Axios

Mysterious Monoliths: AP, NPR, SacBee, CBS News

Free Coffee for Frontline Workers: CBS News, USA Today, Starbucks

Feel Good Friday: Texas HS Opens Unique Grocery Store: KTVT, KDFW, Linda Tutt HS

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What A Day - Runoff The Jewels

There’s about a month left to go until the two Senate runoffs in Georgia, with Republican Senators Loeffler and Perdue walking the line of campaigning as a check on Biden while also not admitting that he will be the President. Meanwhile, Democratic challengers Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are focusing largely on the pandemic and the multi-million dollar stock trades both their Republican opponents made in its early weeks.

We spoke to Nse Ufot, the CEO of the New Georgia Project, which registered almost half a million people in Georgia leading up to the November election. She told us about what matters to voters in Georgia, how she thinks Trump’s attacks on the integrity of the election is affecting the race, and more.

And in headlines: Bangladesh moves Rohingya families to a settlement on a remote island, Facebook to remove false COVID-19 vaccine info, and mayors are behaving badly.

Show Links:

votesaveamerica.com/georgia

newgeorgiaproject.org

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The Daily Signal - Here’s How COVID-19 Restrictions Curb Religious Freedom

Exactly how have COVID-19 restrictions on churches and other places of worship affected First Amendment freedoms?

What happened when the Supreme Court last week blocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's limits on religious gatherings?

What about the situation in California, where Godspeak Calvary Chapel's pastor, Rob McCoy, reportedly turned his church into a "strip club" so it could stay open?


Zack Smith, a legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss these angles and more.


We also cover these stories:

  • President Trump criticizes Attorney General William Barr for saying he hasn't seen evidence of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election. 
  • The president still wants to repeal a legal provision that protects Facebook and Twitter from liability, although other Republicans aren’t keen on doing so. 
  • The COVID-19 vaccine gets promotional star power as former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama say they're willing to get the shot to help build Americans' trust in it.



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Opening Arguments - OA444: Going Out of Business Pardon Sale

Trump is looking poised to pardon everything not nailed down on his way out of the White House. You've got pardons in exchange for bribes, run-of-the-mill corrupt pardons, preemptive pardons(?), family pardons, and god knows what else. Andrew breaks it all down for us!

Also an update on state certification (IT'S OVER, BEAST!)

Links: Election results certification dates 2020, Court filing on DOJ pardon investigation, Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani, Can Trump Pre-emptively Pardon Allies or Himself? Clemency Power, Explained, Flynn Pardon, Clint Lorance pardon, FIRST BLACK ARMY OFFICER IS PARDONED BY CLINTON

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Goodbye to Flash, we’ll see you in Rust

Gone in a Flash. Actually it took quite a while. Adobe explains its decision to stop supporting Flash here.

You can learn more about Ruffle, the Flash emulator written in Rust, here.

Here are some tips on writing a developer resume from a hiring manager who's written an entire book on the topic.

You can read more about the Supreme Court case considering the limits of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act here and here

Our Lifeboat badge of the week goes to a user named simply 4386427, who answered the most basic and frustrating question: why does “printf” not work?

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The Gist - Perdue’s Share of Pfizer

On the Gist, will Trump have a platform once he’s stripped of power? And, today’s installment of Remembrances of Things Trump: hoping things will work out with North Korea.

In the interview, lawyer Fred Golder is here to discuss mediation and his new book Reaching Common Ground: A Comprehensive Guide to Conflict Resolution. He and Mike discuss Golder’s long career fighting for the rights of workers starting in the ’60s, and how his experience led him to believe mediation was the best tool to resolve employment conflict for both sides of the table, and how long court battles really only ever turned out to be good for the lawyers.

In the spiel, Sen. Perdue’s securities fraud.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Police Killing Of Fred Hampton Remembered Via WBEZ Archives

WBEZ archivist Justine Tobiasz recently uncovered a short audio documentary on the life and death of activist, organizer, and Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Hampton was killed by Chicago police while sleeping in his home on Dec. 4th, 1969.

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Consider This from NPR - Trump’s Election Denialism Could Hurt His Own Party, And Its Media Allies

President Trump and his allies have spent nearly a month promoting an alternate reality of rigged elections and stolen votes.

Now, there's concern in Georgia that some of the president's supporters may sit out a crucial runoff election on January 5, which will determine the balance of power in the Senate, as Lisa Hagen with NPR member station WABE reported.

Turnout isn't the only concern for some Republicans in the state. Election officials like Gabriel Sterling have been the target of death threats. Sterling spoke to NPR's Ari Shapiro.

Trump's conspiratorial denials of his own defeat have been bolstered by allies from some relatively new media sources — including the right-wing network Newsmax. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik reported on the network and its efforts to outfox Fox News.

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Pod Save America - “Pardon me?”

Covid relief has new life after a bipartisan group of Senators announces a new plan that wins the support of Joe Biden and Democratic leaders, and Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House by potentially handing out pardons and announcing his 2024 presidential campaign. Then Obama data guru Dan Wagner talks to Dan Pfeiffer about why the polls were so wrong in 2020 .