Friday, August 26th, 2022

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's headlines: A lesser known republican mega donor named Barre Seid stealthily made one of the largest political contributions ever last year — donating 1.6 billion dollars worth of shares of his company. Texas attorney general Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion last week that could potentially lead to mass chaos in November’s election, including exposing election officials to potential criminal charges and threatening ballot security. Biden has announced Kim Cheatle as the new head of the Secret Service, while his administration has also moved to formalize DACA and shield it from legal challenges. A federal judge in Idaho blocked part of the state’s abortion ban, and an English teacher in Oklahoma has resigned after being placed on leave for informing her class that the Brooklyn public library has access to free e-books online, as well as QR code to find them. Finally for this week, The school board in Uvalde Texas unanimously voted to fire school district police chief Pete Arredondo, and Harvey Weinstein has been granted an appeal in his convictions of third degree rape and two counts of predatory assault in New York. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives Texas Tribune: Paxton legal opinion giving public immediate access to ballots jeopardizes election security and invites lawsuits, experts say Politico: Biden announces new head of Secret Service CBS: Biden administration moves to formalize DACA and shield it from legal challenges FOX 25: NPS teacher resigns from district after sharing QR code for library access with classroom ABC: Uvalde school board unanimously approves Police Chief Pete Arredondo's termination NBC: More than two years after his rape conviction, Harvey Weinstein is granted an appeal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, August 26th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements
0:05.1	presented by Betches Media. On your host, Sammy Sage, and The Morning Announcements
0:09.0	is your daily five-minute breakdown of the headlines that isn't afraid to take
0:12.8	aside and roast the most consequential reality show there is. Our government.
0:17.2	Today's episode is brought to you by Best Beans. Best Beans is a free-to-download
0:21.5	mobile puzzle game with thousands of exciting levels for new adventures and
0:25.1	challenges every time you play.
0:30.8	Today's first story is one that broke earlier this week and hasn't gotten a
0:34.9	ton of oxygen outside of Twitter, but it's the big one and we can have our
0:38.8	listeners suffering from Supreme Court scandal FOMO. A lesser-known Republican
0:43.3	mega-donor named Barry Side stealthily made one of the largest political
0:47.5	contributions ever last year, donating $1.6 billion worth of shares of his
0:52.7	company to Leonard Leo. Another lesser-known Republican who can be largely
0:57.2	credited for engineering the political makeup of the current Supreme Court.
1:00.7	For the Game of Thrones fans, think of Leonard Leo-like little finger. The
1:05.4	donation was arranged through an unusual series of transactions. Side donated
1:10.1	100% of the shares of his company to Leo's nonprofit right before he sold it to
1:14.7	avoid taxes on the profits. For some perspective on what that $1.6 billion
1:19.3	donation can do, that figure is slightly more than the total of $1.5 billion that
1:24.4	was spent in 2020 by 15 of the most politically-active nonprofits that align
1:28.8	with Democrats. So it's good to have some extra cash on hand when pushing
1:32.8	policies that most people hate.
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