After the Capitol riot on January 6th, Republicans proposed a bipartisan commission to investigate what took place as an alternative to impeaching then-President Trump. But last Friday, Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell killed the bill to establish that commission.
Why was the bipartisan commission dead on arrival? And is there a way for an investigation to move forward without one?
Guest: Jim Newell, senior politics writer at Slate.
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In 1942, two and a half years into the Second World War, the British were facing a problem. While the British Navy mostly commanded the Atlantic, the Germans had one significant advantage: The battleship Tirpitz.
Rather than attack the Tirpitz head-on, they came up with an alternate plan which would effectively limit the effectiveness of the battleship.
Learn more about The St. Nazaire Raid on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
Health Minister Matt Hancock recently told the House of Commons that: ?The number of vaccinations happening in Bolton right now is phenomenal - tens of thousands every single day.? We explain why this is not the case.
The recent SNP election success has turned attention to the question of independence. We compare Scotland?s finances to the comparably sized Yorkshire and Humber region.
How do you work out 28 + 47 in your head? We speak to mathematician Katie Steckles.
A listener asked us to find out if it is true that the average age of a gamer is over 40.
Plus, we take a look at this claim from Netflix documentary Seaspiracy: ?if current fishing trends continue we will see virtually empty oceans by the year 2048.?
Louisiana high school teacher Jonathan Koeppel spoke out recently against the gender-identity ideology being promoted at his school. A video of his remarks at a school board meeting quickly went viral.
During the meeting in April, Koeppel played an audio clip for the school board from an education app the school uses, called “BrainPop,” in which students were advised to refer to individuals as “they” if the student didn't know that individual's "preferred" pronouns.
"I would have thought that this is only happening in California or in New Jersey, New York, and the more progressive—what I would call—progressive states," said Koeppel, who teaches in the St. Tammany Parish Public Schools system.
Not only is the school allowing a far-left ideology to be pushed on children, but it’s also teaching students incorrect grammar, he said.
Koeppel joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why he chose to speak out and how the school board, parents, and other teachers responded to his remarks.
We also cover these stories:
President Joe Biden gives a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on closing the racial wealth gap.
Former President Barack Obama says that Biden is finishing the work of his administration.
In a message for gay pride month, Biden calls out former President Donald Trump and conservative states for passing legislation that banned biological males from participating in girls and women’s sports.
Eve Rosen's The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton UP, 2020) examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as "Section 8," and the effect of the program on low-income families living in Park Heights in Baltimore. In a new era of housing policy that hopes to solve poverty with opportunity in the form of jobs, social networks, education, and safety, the program offers the poor access to a new world: safe streets, good schools, and well-paying jobs through housing vouchers. The system should, in theory, give recipients access to housing in a wide range of neighborhoods, but in The Voucher Promise, Rosen examines how the housing policy, while showing great promise, faces critical limitations. Rosen spent over a year living in a Park Heights neighborhood, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, spending time on front stoops, and learning about the history of the neighborhood and the homeowners who had settled there decades ago. She examines why, when low-income renters are given the opportunity to afford a home in a more resource-rich neighborhood, they do not relocate to one, observing where they instead end up and other opportunities housing vouchers may offer them.
Richard E. Ocejo is associate professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy (Princeton University Press, 2017), about the transformation of low-status occupations into cool, cultural taste-making jobs (cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men’s barbers, and whole animal butchers), and of Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (Princeton University Press, 2014), about growth policies, nightlife, and conflict in gentrified neighborhoods.
Enjoy this Best of In the Bubble episode in which Andy (and Zach) chat with actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani. They talk about the scary, early days of COVID, how the pandemic impacted Kumail’s mental health, and what it was like living with an immunocompromised person through it all. Plus, Kumail’s wife, Emily V. Gordon, stops by to tell us the couple’s top 3 “cool things to do at home.”
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It’s our 30th episode! And in keeping with the traditional anniversary gift guide, the 30th anniversary means a gift of pearls. So from us to you, dear listener, we’ve got an episode with some pearls of wisdom!
On today’s episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla bring back returning champion, Nazmus Sakib, to take us through the new Security Signals Report. Sakib walks us through why the report was done and then helps us understand the findings and what they mean for security.
In This Episode You Will Learn:
How pervasive firmware is in our everyday lives
Why many people were vulnerable to firmware attacks
How companies are spending the money they allocate towards digital protection
Some Questions We Ask:
What was the hypothesis going into the Security Signals Report?
How do we protect ourselves from vulnerabilities that don’t exist yet?
Were any of the findings from the report unexpected?
As most of the U.S. prepares to reopen by the end of this month, a World Health Organization official warned, “It would be a monumental error for any country to think the danger has passed.” Peru recently reported that COVID deaths in the country are almost triple than what was previously reported. Plus, the WHO moved to rename variants using letters of the Greek alphabet in part to remove the stigma from countries where they were first identified.
Joe Biden became the first president to commemorate the massacre of Black residents in Tulsa’s Greenwood District on its 100th anniversary. He used the event to propose a wide-ranging plan to narrow the racial wealth gap.
And in headlines: Canada reckons with its history of residential schools, a ransomware attack holds the world’s beef hostage, and theatre-going roars back with “A Quiet Place Part 2.”
For a transcript of this show, please visit crooked.com/whataday.
We'll tell you about two new plans from the Biden administration: one to address the racial wealth gap, the other concerning new oil drilling. Both are already sparking some backlash.
Also, the latest major cyberattack. This one could affect the meat supply in the U.S.
Plus, where Americans are dealing with a dangerous heat wave, how a new drug could be a breakthrough in cancer treatment, and which popular boy band is breaking all kinds of records with a new single.
Those stories and more in about 10 minutes!
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