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Dec 8, 2021

Erica Layton, a Republican member of New Hampshire State's House of Representatives, gave a ridiculous defense regarding a proposed bill that would prohibit teachers from teaching racism’s role in American history. Layton claims that the Three-Fifths Compromise didn’t favor slaveholders and wasn’t an inherently racism policy.
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The Young Turks: December 8, 2021

Conservative legislators and fossil fuel extraction companies are teaming up to battle financial institutions and laws that are allegedly ‘discriminating’ against fossil fuel energy companies.
ClipClimate Change
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President Biden and his administration are turning back on their plans to make Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by strongly favoring a $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia. The Senate failed to block the sale by a margin of 67-30.
ClipForeign Policy
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The CEO of mortgage lending startup better.com Vishal Garg recently fired over 900 hundred of his employees over a Zoom call just weeks before the holidays. The company is valued by Forbes at $7 billion and also recently received a massive influx of cash to the tune of $750 million from investors.
ClipReforming Capitalism
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has called for a work-stoppage amid a labor dispute with MLB owners, the first of its kind since 1995. Tensions stem from players wanting to raise base salaries, updates to the free agent market, as well as tweaking the revenue sharing system to incentivize bad teams to spend their money more competitively.
ClipReforming Capitalism
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Tennessee’s medical licensing board recently removed a policy that punishes doctors who spread COVID-19 misinformation from their website due to pressure from conservative politicians threatening to dissolve the board. Thankfully, the policy is still technically in place, however it will be interesting to see if it ever gets put into action.
ClipHealth Care Reform
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Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw aired out his grievances with fringe members of the Republican party like the Freedom Caucus, composed of Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, and others, calling them “performance artists” instead of true legislators.
ClipSocial Justice
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Cops EXPOSED For Horrificly Bigoted Text Messages California police officers are under fire after an LA Times investigation uncovered disgustingly bigoted texts between police officers. Because the cops involved in the texts were also witnesses in hundreds of court cases, the rulings of said cases have been called into question and should be reexamined.
ClipCriminal Justice Reform
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Erica Layton, a Republican member of New Hampshire State's House of Representatives, gave a ridiculous defense regarding a proposed bill that would prohibit teachers from teaching racism’s role in American history. Layton claims that the Three-Fifths Compromise didn’t favor slaveholders and wasn’t an inherently racism policy.
ClipSocial Justice
  • 13 minutes

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