News discussed:
Strong Towns on the infrastructure bill
the Aussie cops are using check in app data for investigative purposes
Huawei CFO release was interesting and complicated. See link.
District Judge granted injunction to Justice Dept.
Injunction struck down 2 days later, abortions are out again.
Facebook “whistleblower” revealed… a bunch of stuff we already knew
Instagram was net positive on everything except body image for women
on an actually, seriously unrelated note, Facebook and Facebook-owned apps suffer worldwide outage
Lots of trusts in South Dakota
Lots of lawyers helping out! Including Baker McKenzie, the US’s largest law firm
Group of Congressmen proposing ENABLERS Act to require more reporting by financial middlemen
Missouri state murders a man, which is bad. But the Perfidious Roman asked them to show leniency
A large Colorado hospital system says people on its organ waitlist won't be offered a transplant if they refuse to get the COVID vaccine
this is the same news outlet that warned covid vaccines maybe don't work for organ transplant patients
Virgin Media is secretly operating its own block on access to VPN sites & VPN review sites
OECD agreed to A global deal to ensure big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15%
OECD originated to help administer the Marshall Plan
Nobel Prize goes to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
Happy News!
Merck seeks FDA emergency use authorization for antiviral Covid-19 treatment
Eviction moratorium ends, eviction filings fail to spike, confusing experts.
Indigenous Canadians plan huge development project outside of Vancouver
11 towers, 6,000 units in the least affordable housing market in North America
UK government released plan to develop, deploy and expert nuclear fusion power
Japan restarted nuclear plants that were closed after Fukishima in 2011
David Shor and his advice for the Democratic Party.
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Episode 41 - Social Studies