Comedian and political activist W. Kamau Bell will be joining the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to talk about his new workbook "Do the Work! An Antiracist Activity Book". A conversation sparks about how political correctness affects modern comedy with John Cleese saying current standards are killing creativity...do you agree?

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, gave a geopolitical thumbs up to Russia's war in Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Tehran on Tuesday.

"War is a violent and difficult endeavor, and the Islamic Republic is not at all happy that people are caught up in war," Khamenei said, according to his office. "But in the case of Ukraine, if you had not taken the helm, the other side would have done so and initiated a war."

The Iranian supreme leader's statement seemed to suggest that Kyiv and its Western allies would have launched a war against Russia had it not invaded Ukraine.

The Iranian supreme leader's full-throated approval of the war stands in contrast to China's more ambiguous approach.

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Wisconsin House Speaker Robin Vos said former President Donald Trump called this month and pushed him to try to overturn the results of the 20-month-old 2020 presidential election. "He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin," Vos, a Republican, told Milwaukee's WISN in an interview that aired Tuesday. Vos said Trump reached out to him "last week," after the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a decision this month restricting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in future elections. 

Eighteen months after a pair of former school board members in Florida founded Moms for Liberty, the group’s first national gathering drew 500 people, including major Republican figures, to a waterfront hotel in Tampa, demonstrating the growing political influence of these local conservative activists. 

The organization’s rapid ascension has been driven by the appeal of its core issues among conservatives, including battling mask mandates in schools, banning library books that address sexuality and gender identity, and curtailing lessons on racial inequity and discrimination, its founders say.

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Extreme temperatures haunted two continents on Wednesday, with more than 100 million people in the United States facing excessive heat conditions and a heat wave that had scorched Western Europe taking aim at Central Europe.

As 100-degree temperatures became uncomfortably routine on both sides of the Atlantic, President Biden said climate change presented a “clear and present danger” to the world. But days after suffering a major setback in Congress on his climate policies, he limited his announcements to a measure expanding offshore wind energy projects, while promising other, unspecified actions down the road.

“Let me be clear: Climate change is an emergency,” Biden said in a visit to Somerset, Mass. “In the coming weeks I’m going to use my power to turn these words into formal, official government actions. When it comes to fighting climate change, I will not take no for an answer.”

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First Amazon, now UPS.

ABC News Correspondent Alex Stone joins Pat Thurston to discuss the UPS drivers who say the heat is killing them.

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Pat talks to KGO 810 listeners about political extremism and the many issues of democracy across the United States.

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Dr. Garen Wintemute, UC Davis Violence Prevention Chair, joins Pat to discuss a new report from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program that reveals alarming trends in attitudes toward violence, including political violence, in the United States.

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Pat Thurston discusses the thieves in the Bay Area using skimming devices at businesses including 7-Eleven stores and Bank of America to steal ATM and credit card information.

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Congresswoman Jackie Speier tells Pat Thurston about her discussion with Mayor London Breed and SFO director Ivar C. Satero about a potential abortion clinic at SFO.

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Listen to Wednesday's complete podcast of The Mark Thompson Show.

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