District Sentinel Radio

Journalist Chip Gibbons joins us to break down a pair of hearings in Congress that examined the federal response to the nationwide uprising, including one that featured Attorney General William Barr.

-Attorney General Barr claims that federal agents were blinded by laser pointers in Portland with the same energy as cops who put tampons in their own coffee and blame baristas.

-Park Police Chief cites no immediate threat of violence when justifying the clearance of Lafayette Square before Trump’s bible photo op. Radio recordings to back him up are conveniently missing.

-DNC platform committee approves of cannabis prohibition, our failing private health insurance system, and Israel’s occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine

-NLRB proposes rule hamstringing union organizers by denying them workers’ contact info before union elections

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-With four days left before key programs expire, Republicans finally unveil their pandemic relief top-up plan

-GOP wants to slash pandemic unemployment insurance by 2/3rds, calls for a convoluted wage replacement scheme

-Last-ditch effort shaping up to pressure Joe Biden to back Medicare for All at the Dems’ virtual convention

-China retaliates against US for Houston consulate closure; US diplomats say goodbye “forever” after being forced to leave Chengdu

-Justice Department takes no position on government watchdog recommendations to improve public school accessibility under the ADA

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-Federal agents are terrorizing Portland as President Trump tries to fire up his base in an election year. Chip Gibbons discusses the crackdown.

-White House wants to send more federal agents after protesters, local officials are threatening to arrest them

-Senate Banking Committee votes on Fed Governor nominee who likes the gold standard

-727 military contractors are repeat, willful offenders of labor safety laws: GAO

-Black Lives Matter rally selfie taker Mitt Romney votes for giving military equipment to cops

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-Chad Wolf, the adult baby in charge of DHS, says it’s okay to operate paramilitary law enforcement in Portland because of some graffiti and broken windows

-Speaking of babies, Democrats are calling for an inspector general investigation of DHS when they could just subpoena the agency themselves

-Congressional leaders don’t expect another coronavirus stimulus program until after the July 31 expiration of emergency benefits

-More empire and shitty fighter jets: Defense spending bill set to move through Congress this week

-Finally, someone fighting for banking self-regulation! FDIC seeks comment on the idea of “voluntary certification” for third party fintech use

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-Via FOIA, the Sams obtained the Minnesota National Guard’s Standard Rules for Use of Force (SRUF) for Gov. Walz’s response to the George Floyd Uprising. Chip Gibbons lends his expertise to parse through them on this week’s Chip Chat.

-Plus, the grim resumption of federal executions by the Department of Justice.

-To have your own look at the Minn. National Guard’s SRUF, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yuAQyUiuOhHodNXbH34vJcd_I0qVCxSM/view?usp%3Dsharing&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1594922668681000&usg=AFQjCNHfwssBovewZ1BtCh-QRSyKxQ5Kiw

-At 2 a.m., the Supreme Court approved first federal execution in 17 years

-Maryland Republican Andy Harris melts down again as DC leads efforts to fight back against the Drug War

-Trump administration institutionalizing climate science denialism through carbon emission cost estimates

-The number of cities that have used the Fed’s emergency fund for cities is zero

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-Trump administration finally invokes Defense Production Act, but to build more weapons of war, not healthcare supplies

-Workplace safety regulator OSHA has only carried out inspections for 1.6 percent of covid-19 complaints

-DOJ plan to resume federal executions complicated by court rulings

-American covid fuck-up goes global: Okinawa on high alert after 94 US servicemen test positive

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-SBA releases data on PPP recipients: 89,000 companies were approved without making any pledge on job retention

-Wall Street banks raked in hundreds of millions in processing fees

-Three members of Trump’s cabinet are tied to companies getting PPP $$$

-Republican Congressman Kevin Hern got PPP money for his franchising company. He called on the Senate to increase funding for franchise owners when the covid relief bill was being passed

-Right wing think tanks get that PPP $$$

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