Talkin' Politics | June 5, 2023: Climate Crisis Hits Home Insurance; Missouri AG Report Shows Systemic Racial Disparity In Policing (Again); Voting Rights Victory In AZ; Biden/Schumer Bromance; "Debt Ceiling" Theater Ends

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05-06-2023 • 1 hr 18 mins

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Before we get to the topics - NEW SEGMENT ALERT - Tomorrow’s show and plenty of Tuesday shows to come (not all but many) we will be unveiling a new segment, with its own theme, and I’m just sayin’ that the video version on you tube is going to be worth checking out. Shoutout to Nicholas Linke, cohost of The Delta show on this network and fella that does the vast vast vast majority of our graphics for an excellent video clip that I believe you’re going to thoroughly enjoy.

True or false

The climate crisis will become a mainstream topic in 2023-2024

8th circuit halts federal clean water rule and SCOTUS limits power of fed gov on clean water

  • republicans calling it a win for farmers
  • MO farm bureau super happy tells you a lot

SCOTUS https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act

California insurance https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/for-some-us-residents-it-is-now-impossible-to-get-home-insurance-and-all-because-of-the-climate-crisis

Iowa https://www.thenewlede.org/2023/05/in-iowa-a-tale-of-politics-power-and-contaminated-water/

Missouri https://twitter.com/saularm653/status/1662429583780503554?s=46&t=mukZUfs5M_R3E9tAHIu-GA

Rain forest issue: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/brazil-environment-reforestation/

Journalists Killed over Amazon coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/04/dom-phillips-bruno-pereira-amazon-anniversary

Montana lawsuit: https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana

https://twitter.com/portiacolorado?s=21&t=mukZUfs5M_R3E9tAHIu-GA

Yeah no…

Missouri AG report shows yet again racial disparities in policing across the state averages

https://missouriindependent.com/2023/06/03/report-shows-black-drivers-in-missouri-ticketed-arrested-at-much-higher-numbers-than-whites/

Yeah yeah!

Voting rights victory in AZ (one in florida 2 weeks back)

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-mail-in-voting-challenge-ii/

Buy or sell

The Schumer/Biden Partnership

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/02/us-jobs-report-may-unemployment-rate

Debt ceiling vote

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4031302-here-are-the-senators-who-voted-against-the-bill-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling/

Big one

Debt ceiling - one last time

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/02/biden-oval-office-debt-limit-00100076

Signed officially: https://ti.me/3N8UB8K

Medicare and SSI https://americanindependent.com/mccarthy-biden-stopped-cutting-social-security-medicare/

Changes to SNAPhttps://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179633624/snap-food-assistance-work-requirements-congress-debt-ceiling

Student debt https://www.marketplace.org/2023/06/02/what-the-debt-ceiling-deal-means-for-your-student-loans/

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Outro Song: “The World Is On Fire” by American Aquarium

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