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District Sentinel Radio episodes

  • DSR 12/10/19: Impeaching the President, Helping Him Get Re-elected
    -Pelosi holds two press conferences in one hour: One on impeachment, one on helping the President pass a trade deal
    -SEC Chair grilled for citing fake public comments lauding proposal to limit shareholder scrutiny
    -Tom Cotton attempts to approximate human being, says WeWork helps explains why socialism appeals to young people
    -FTC punishes for-profit college grifters University of Phoenix
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    17 min
  • DSR 12/9/19: Point of Odor
    -Republicans stink up Impeachment hearings, filling their diaper about civility
    -Afghanistan War records feature at the heart of a major journalistic scoop about Pentagon lies--for the second time this decade
    -SCOTUS declines to take up challenge of creepy Kentucky ultrasound abortion law
    -Historic percentage of Americans put off healthcare treatment due to cost concerns
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    20 min
  • DSR 12/5/19: Executing Innocent People: Still Constitutional
    -SCOTUS moves toward ruling on matter in relisting of Reed v. Texas, yet another case highlighting the shittiness of the US Constitution
    -Top Fed supervisor hails “best in 35 years” banking system amid headlines about corporate debt market. Randal Quarles is known for previous praise of financial resiliency--as George W. Bush Treasury guy
    -Anti-abortion activist with minimal legal experience confirmed by Senate as federal judge for life
    -Senators press Justice Department to investigate Attorney General Barr over DEA warrantless mass surveillance program
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    18 min
  • DSR 12/4/19: Fool Me Twice
    -Nancy Pelosi is dragging her feet on major improvements to labor law for the second time in ten years. Rachel Cohen discusses her recent story in The Intercept
    -April deadline for new food stamp cruelty: Trump admin says almost 700,000 people will lose SNAP benefits, if courts don’t strike down proposal
    -Whoops: Department of Education says it improperly sent debt collection notices to 45,000 defrauded students, revising number by a factor of three
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    36 min
  • DSR 12/3/19: Das Bloat
    -Navy announces biggest ever shipbuilding contract. Nine nuclear subs commissioned by world’s largest military to confront “threat” from China
    -Secretary of State vows more US meddling in Latin American countries, hints at violent suppression of protests
    -DHS getting ready to deploy extremely questionable facial recognition tech for foreign visitors
    -District Sentinel Recession Watch: Commercial construction value drops in October by more than 17 percent on an annual basis
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    18 min
  • DSR 11/21/19: Chemical Disaster Rule Rollback, Sounds Chill
    -EPA proposes watering down regs passed after massive 2013 Texas explosion
    -PR firm fake comment campaign tied to SEC attack on shareholder voting rights
    -There are thirty-two active national emergencies declared or affirmed by the President
    -Trump wants one of the war criminals he pardoned to be reinstated by the Navy SEALs
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    20 min
  • DSR 11/20/19: Mike Pompeo Struggles With Outlook
    -Ambassador Sondland testifies that top officials knew about Giuliani’s diplomatic efforts. Sec. Pompeo had emails printed out for him
    -Republican Senator complains about Pentagon failing audit headlines; DOD official confirms they failed
    -Lawmakers press EPA leaders to return to bargaining table with employees
    -NLRB: Board member actually should have ignored ethics advice on recusing himself from a matter he worked on as union busting lawyer
    -Banking regulators approve of largest merger since crash. Dem FDIC member warns the new bank could be “too big to fail,” approves of it anyway
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    27 min
  • DSR 11/19/19: Tack on the Police State Powers
    -Patriot Act extension slipped into must-pass government funding bill, per the custom
    -FBI failing to vet informants, keeping snitches that should be disqualified, per DOJ Inspector General
    -Republicans bring industry hacks to private equity hearing
    -Almost 1,000 EPA clean-up sites at risk of climate change related damage
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    22 min
  • DSR 11/18/19: Operation: Suck at Accounting
    -Pentagon fails yet another audit. Maybe it’s all the secret never-ending war.
    -Sotomayor: SCOTUS neglects chance to uphold precedent on civil asset forfeiture
    -Roberts Court does find time to temporarily halt subpoena of Trump accounting records
    -NOAA: Arctic ice cover at record low last month
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    15 min
  • DSR 11/14/19: The Clown Car Ratfuck
    -Deval Patrick is the latest hopeless Wall Street bootlicker to declare he’s running for President. It sure does seem like centrists Dems want a crowded field for dirty tricks at the convention
    -The Breitbart to illegal firing pipeline: State IG finds bureaucrats were wrongfully dismissed after conservative media smear campaigns
    -When you’re definitely not racist: DHS wants to charge fees and withhold work permits to asylum applicants
    -The F-35’s flight control system is not properly functioning, leading to manual work-arounds
    -FCC being sued by local authorities over ruling which gives cable companies an out from billions in licensing fees
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    25 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…