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District Sentinel Radio episodes

  • DSR 5/19/20: Owned for Trusting Mnuchin
    -Dems are upset at the Treasury Secretary for not using his power to stop layoffs, but they didn’t force him to when writing coronavirus relief legislation
    -Worm Caucus: Steny Hoyer is attending a fundraiser for Joe Kennedy III
    -Pentagon classifies full extent of recent violence in Afghanistan, but acknowledges that it’s bad
    -Chinese company sanctioned by Treasury Dept for Iran airline ties
    -It’s looking like Missouri will execute an innocent man tonight
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    15 min
  • DSR 5/18/20: Major Yikes Energy
    -Oil companies are in deep trouble and banks aren’t lending to them, Trump’s energy secretary compares the situation to redlining
    -FBI cracks Pensacola AQAP shooter iPhone, DOJ calls on Congress to undermine data security
    -Attorney General Barr says “Obamagate” prosecutions of Obama and Biden are unlikely
    -State Department inspector general fired while probing legality of Saudi arms transfers: NBC News
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    22 min
  • DSR 5/12/20: Relief v. Bank Profits
    -Fed Vice Chair says emergency relief shouldn’t “crowd out that private sector financing”
    -More signs of a big recession: BLS data shows largest one month core inflation drop since 1957
    -Dems “Rooseveltian” package includes bailout for lobbyists and landlords, plus the restoration of SALT deductions that benefit the wealthy
    -Coronavirus task force member promises Bernie he will fight for universal vaccines
    -SCOTUS hears oral arguments in cases on investigating President Trump
    -Mitch McConnell trying to slip through expansion of warrantless surveillance program targeting web browser data
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    18 min
  • DSR 5/11/20: Nothing to Fear But System Overlap?
    -Democratic “Rooseveltian” stimulus proposal includes handwringing about welfare benefit overlap, plus another measly one-time check
    -Sioux nations, South Dakota square off over covid-19 checkpoints, as Supreme Court hears case involving tribal sovereignty in Oklahoma
    -US government continues to be dickish on world stage, vetoes UN resolution on covid de-escalation
    -Federal Reserve ties state and local government aid to credit ratings
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    18 min
  • DSR 5/5/20: Over the Rat Cliff, Once Again
    -Rep. John Ratcliffe, Trump’s pick to be next White House intelligence chief, says torture is fine
    -For the second time since 2013, SCOTUS hears challenge of law forcing non-profits to denounce sex work
    -EPA ignores watchdog warning on water utilities climate resiliency
    -Yearly data once again confirms that many common jobs are more dangerous than police work
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    13 min
  • DSR 5/4/20: Boat Shoe Guys Tear their V-Necks
    -J.Crew files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becomes the first major corporate victim of the Plague Recession
    -OSHA inspections down 70 percent despite spike in covid-19 complaints
    In Saudi nuclear talks, the Trump administration considered a loophole on non-proliferation required by US law, GAO says
    -War of words escalates: Secretary of State blames “a Chinese lab” for the coronavirus, offers no proof
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    27 min
  • DSR 4/28/20: Dems Get Rolled on Buybacks
    -Corporate America to get $500 billion in Federal Reserve cash with no restrictions on stock buybacks or layoffs
    -Washington Post: Senate Dems agreed to no-strings rules on bond purchases in exchange for oversight (House Dems can subpoena anything they want, at any time)
    -AFL-CIO pushes Trump admin on workplace safety, White House pushes for coronavirus liability shield for bosses
    -US government set to approve Israeli annexation of West Bank
    -Merger moratorium proposed by AOC, Elizabeth Warren, with a lull before a possible takeover frenzy
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    19 min

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District Sentinel Radio is the latest project from Sam Sacks and Sam Knight--the two journalists behind The District Sentinel News Co-op. Devoted to watchdog journalism, District Sentinel Radio is the…