Month: August 2024

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1A - ICYMI: Kamala Harris Picks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz For Vice President

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is the man of the hour.

The Democrat will join Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket come November as her pick for vice president.

He was selected from a group of Democratic officials including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

He's expected to appear alongside Vice President Harris at her rally today in Philadelphia.

We discuss how Vice President Harris' choice might appeal to Democratic voters nationwide.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting

Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to the tumultuous year of 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson dropped out of his own reelection race, and the resulting turmoil at the Democratic convention that followed that summer in Chicago. At the time of that episode, of course, Biden was still in the race, and Eli was guiding us through that history lesson in order to help us make sense of the present moment, and to indicate what might happen next. 


Today, Eli is back on Honestly to do what he does best: look back in time and help us make sense of our baffling present.


VP Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. She has the wind at her back, though she hasn’t given a single interview, and every day someone else announces they’ve been coconut-pilled.


But in her anointment to the top of the ticket, there’s been a strange and silent rewriting of history by the press and party loyalists with the support of a lot of tech companies, who together are changing our collective understanding of the present and of the very recent past. Eli argues this has happened before. And not in America. . . but in the Soviet Union, and also in the works of brilliant writers like Milan Kundera and George Orwell, who imagined something, he argues, like what we’re seeing right now.


While that might sound like hyperbole, listen and decide for yourself. Because whether you agree or disagree with Eli’s conclusions, I’m confident you will learn so much from listening to this episode.


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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: Power, Politics, Corruption and Prayer: What is ‘The Family’?

Washington, D.C. is home to numerous organizations and institutions created to broker deals and funnel power from one place (or policy) to another. Many of these organizations operate more or less openly, while others pride themselves on their discretion and ability to stay out of the public eye. The Family is one of the latter -- a secretive group founded in 1935 as a religiously-motivated movement to bring its interpretation of Christianity to the halls of Congress and beyond. But what exactly is the Family? More importantly, what exactly are they up to? Join the guys as they peer behind the curtain.

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CBS News Roundup - 08/06/2024 | World News Roundup UPDATED

Vice President Harris chooses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Tropical Storm Debby drenches the South. Markets bounce back. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, August 6, 2024:

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Focus on Africa - What’s behind the violent protests in the UK?

The United Kingdom is experiencing almost a week of violent disorder after three girls were fatally stabbed in the town of Southport, in England. The subsequent unrest in towns and cities has been fuelled by misinformation online, the far-right and anti-immigration sentiment. How did the UK get to this point?

Also, why does Lesotho have the highest suicide rates in the world?

And Somalia sentences seven young Tik Tok users to jail for 'indecency' and 'incitement'.

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producer: Sunita Nahar, Bella Hassan, Frenny Jowi and Rob Wilson Technical Producer: Chris Ablakwa Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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Native America Calling - Tuesday, August 6, 2024 – August wildfire threat increases in the West

Wildfires on tribal lands have already claimed at least two lives and destroyed dozens of homes in New Mexico and Arizona. Multiple fires just forced the evacuation of hundreds of people on the Nez Perce reservation in northern Idaho. Tribal wildfire response and emergency management operations are kicking into high gear as wildfires threaten lives and property, especially in the parched West. We’ll talk with tribal officials and emergency management experts about the new and increasing threats in more than a dozen states.
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CBS News Roundup - 08/06/2024 | World News Roundup

Vice President Harris' choice for running mate is imminent. Tropical Storm Debby drenches the South. Markets bounce back. Correspondent Steve Kathan has the CBS World News Roundup for Tuesday, August 6, 2024:

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