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Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In today’s Quickie we’re going to look at three different bills or groupings of bills that represent the array of legislation that exists. Something old, something big and something new. At the end I’ll run through several bills that should be on everyone’s radar and we’ll link some helpful ways to advocate in show notes and on Substack. In terms of structure, I’ll provide a summary of the bill, tell you who’s behind it and who’s not, where it stands, what it does, what it theoretically costs and what’s at stake.

Chapters

Intro: 00:01:06

The 117th Congress: 00:04:39

Quickie One: A Two-Fer for First Nations 00:10:14

Quickie Two: The bare fucking minimum. 00:14:20

Coffee Break 00:19:22

Quickie Three: Reefer Madness 00:20:29

Post Show Musings: 00:33:31

Outro: 00:48:53

Resources

GovTrack: Statistics and Historical Comparison

Congress.gov: H.R.1688 - Native American Child Protection Act

Indian Country Today: House passes Gallego and Young bill to protect Native American children

Congress.gov: H.R.5444 - Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act

Congress.gov: H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

Congress.gov: H.R.3617 - Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act

ACLU: Vote Yes on H.R. 3617, Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (More) Act

Congress.gov: H.R.1996 - SAFE Banking Act of 2021

UNFTR Episode Resources

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Boarding Schools From Hell.

The Itsfuckedforsure Bill.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm about to sign into law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
0:06.0	Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that's ever been won on any battlefield.
0:17.0	This Social Security measure gives at least some protection to 30 millions of our citizens.
0:25.6	And perhaps most of all, everyone out there and others across the breadth of this nation
0:30.6	are 43 million Americans with disabilities.
0:34.6	You have made this happen.
0:36.6	All of you have made this happen.
0:39.8	The bill I'm signing will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched full and hungered to sea.
0:52.0	And fucking the republic is sponsored by insane level members.
0:55.4	Cryn G. Jennifer S. G. Wookieie of Ohio.
0:58.9	Eric Wagner 101.
1:00.4	David M.J.
1:01.6	Cori S. Cindy S.
1:03.3	Asshole.
1:04.3	Awesome A.
1:05.0	And It's okay.
1:06.8	When the world is a mean and nasty little place,
1:10.4	finding the truth can be a little tricky.
1:13.4	Don't go punch yourself in the face. Just listen to an unplugging quickie.
1:20.2	I suppose it's counterintuitive to slow things down with a quickie, but here we are.
1:25.4	We've been on quite a role lately unpacking some big-ticket items
1:28.2	like Christian nationalism, the Convention of States Movement, Hollywood and War, student debt,
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