Aggression overseas, gutless at home
With promises broken home and abroad, the climate gets ever worse while Gov. Abbott makes a fool out of himself for the second time this year.
This episode features the song “Aside” by Normcore, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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00:10 Senate democrats retreat on promise to raise minimum wage
- Facing pressure from moderate democrats in WV and Montana, democrats re-arrange spending
- No more federal minimum wage raise
- 400 dollar unemployment bonus being cut to 300
- Failure to secure votes with no republicans crossing, and moderates wishing for less personal support to families
08:05 Syria Bombs
- Biden admin approves air-strikes on northern Syria
- Pentagon claimed 1 dead and 2 wounded, while international groups report 22 dead
- With Shia militants as the targets, it threatened relations with Iran as the US and Iran aimed to meet at the UN later this week
- Post attack, the talks broke down even as Biden promised concessions to return to the 2015 JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) or the “Iran Deal”
13:24 Texas Reopening
- 100% capacity for all businesses
- Removal of the mask mandate
- Prominent Texas democrats claim this is a strategy to shield from criticism over the handling of the power grid shutoff
- Gov. Abbott faced same-party criticism following his mandate 8 months ago
- Leading scientists call the move “premature”, and could likely lead to spikes in deaths that have been decreasing over the past months
- 13% of the population has gotten at least one vaccine shot
