A joint session of Congress to formally affirm the results of the 2020 presidential election was just getting started on Wednesday when a group of Republicans from the House and the Senate went on record objecting to election results in swing states.
The first objection triggered a debate period with each chamber having hours to deliberate. But those sessions were halted as a mob of Pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol grounds and sent the entire complex into a lockdown.
For more on what happened in Washington, D.C., NPR's congressional correspondent Sue Davis, spoke to All Things Considered hosts Ailsa Chang and Mary Louise Kelly.
The bottom line: Joe Biden will be inaugurated in 14 days. And it looks like he'll take office with a Democratic-controlled Senate.
Rev. Raphael Warnock spoke with NPR's Noel King after defeating Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of Georgia's runoff elections, according to the Associated Press. Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican Sen. David Perdue in the second Georgia Senate runoff, according to an AP race call.
It looks like what helped put the Democrats over the top was Black voter turnout. LaTosha Brown is co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a Georgia group that helped lead get-out-the-vote efforts there. She spoke with NPR about where the fight goes next.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: What Georgia’s Elections Mean for Bitcoin
As the Democrats appear to be headed to victory, how does their new U.S. Senate majority impact markets as a whole and bitcoin more specifically?
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Today on the Brief:
- ShapeShift goes full DEX
- Neil Young and the changing business of music
- China stocks delisted from NYSE
Our main discussion: What are the implications of Georgia’s runoff elections for bitcoin and markets as a whole?
In this episode, NLW discusses:
- The immediate response of Crypto Twitter to the victory for Dems
- Why Kelly Loeffler was a disappointing industry rep in the Senate
- Which stocks are going up on the news and why
- Why a Democrat Senate majority is driving up inflation expectations
- Why discussions of UBI and digital dollars and more in play than ever
- Why bitcoin stands to be supercharged by the coming macro environment
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Last Germans to Surrender
Wars often start with a bang but end with a whimper. Often an attack or an invasion will begin a war, but even one when one side surrenders, it can take days, weeks, or months for word of the capitulation to get out to everyone.
While the European theater of World War II officially ended on May 8, 1945, the word didn’t reach everyone right away.
Learn more about the last Germans to surrender on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Big Technology Podcast - Does YouTube Radicalize? A Debate Between NYT’s Kevin Roose and Software Engineer Mark Ledwich
In June 2019, New York Times reporter Kevin Roose wrote The Making of a YouTube Radical, a story about how a 26-year-old man, Caleb Cain, was radicalized through YouTube. For the story, Roose examined Cain’s entire YouTube history, and plotted the path he took toward radicalization. Software engineer and researcher Mark Ledwich took issue with the story, citing his own research and claiming the notion that YouTube could radicalize was a myth.
Instead of yelling at — and past — each other, Ledwich and Roose came together for a moderated debate on the Big Technology Podcast, where both stated their points of view, got a chance to respond to each other’s points, and ask each other questions.
Further reading:
Kevin's story:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
Rabbit Hole podcast:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/podcasts/rabbit-hole-prologue.html
Ledwich's story:
https://mark-ledwich.medium.com/youtube-radicalization-an-authoritative-saucy-story-28f73953ed17
Ledwich's research visualization:
https://recfluence.net/
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Disturbing Origins of Generally Good Things
It's often said there's a great crime at the heart of every great fortune, but what about institutions, inventions and other noble pursuits? In today's episode, Ben and Matt take a closer look at the deeply disturbing origins of some of the world's most lauded endeavors, from the world of medicine to environmentalism, academia and more. Get an up-close look at the skeletons in the closets of these generally good things.
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The podcast considers the meaning of the Democratic victories in Georgia and the fact that four years ago Republicans had secured control of the House, the Senate, and the White House—and have now, four years later, lost them all. Give a listen. Source
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: How could aliens contact us?
Could alien life forms really contact human beings? How would they do it? Is it possible that other humans could intercept the message -- and keep it secret? Listen to this classic episode to learn more.
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Democrats close in on a Senate split ...winning one Georgia seat with the other too close to call. Some Republicans set to protest the Presidential election results. California COVID crisis. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Run-off, their feat: Georgia’s Senate races
Democrats look set to win both the run-off elections that will determine control of the Senate—and how President-elect Joe Biden will be able to govern. Quantum computing is still nascent, its power yet to be truly tapped. But the finance sector is already looking to squeeze it for analytical advantage. And how Confucianism still influences society in South Korea.
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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – One Last Absurd Attempt to Overturn the Election
Today, Congress will meet in a joint session to confirm Joe Biden’s election as the 46th president of the United States. Even though the process is ceremonial, some Republicans are using it as a last-ditch effort to vindicate President Trump and burnish their own Trumpist bona fides.
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics reporter.
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