Bleakfast At Tiffany's
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Last night’s Republican National Convention brought more speeches from Trump’s employees and family members, including First Lady Melania Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The topic of “school choice” has been referenced often during the RNC—that’s part of a major push from Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to privatize education.
In Portsmouth, Virginia, Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke has been charged with a misdemeanor for calling for the resignation of the city’s police chief. She’s not alone. We discuss how the legal system in Virginia and elsewhere is being used against activists and elected officials, who are mostly Black, to suppress political speech.
Mass Defense Fund: www.nlg.org/massdefenseprogram/
And in headlines: updates on Jacob Blake, California farmworkers face grueling work conditions made worse by extreme weather, and the Whitney Museum does fake activism.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 26th. I'm Kila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm getting a rest like, and this is what the day where we have now hit our yearly |
| 0:12.1 | max for speeches from Trump's children. Yeah, and I think actually it's like the Olympics. |
| 0:16.4 | I actually only have to hear them every four years, so that was a new update. |
| 0:19.9 | Yeah, I agree. I think it's almost like a once in a lifetime event. |
| 0:24.4 | It's more than enough. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, punitive action against protesters across the country, then some headlines. |
| 0:38.7 | But first the latest. |
| 0:44.0 | I am Bob Paduchik, son of Anthony and Judy Paduchik, and I cast Ohio's 82 votes for Donald |
| 0:52.4 | John President. Wow. |
| 0:55.5 | Wow. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, good luck to that man, whoever that is. |
| 1:00.9 | All right, night two of the Republican National Convention brought us more speeches from Trump's |
| 1:05.0 | family members, including First Lady Melania Trump speaking from the Rose Garden at the White House. |
| 1:10.1 | So here's a clip. |
| 1:11.5 | I like to call on the citizens of this country to take a moment, pause, and look at things from |
| 1:19.0 | all perspectives. I urge people to come together in a civil manner so we can work and leave up |
| 1:27.2 | to our standard American ideals. I also ask people to stop the violence and looting being done |
| 1:36.5 | in the name of justice and never make assumptions based on the color of a person's scheme. |
| 1:43.6 | All right, so that was a bunch of sort of non-sequiturs from Melania Trump. |
| 1:48.4 | The night's other keynote speaker was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who spoke from Jerusalem |
| 1:53.2 | in a pre-recorded segment, becoming the first Secretary of State to speak at a party convention |
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