Friday, May 05, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today's Headlines: Scandals at the Supreme Court arise as billionaire donor Harlan Crow was found to have paid private school tuition for Justice Clarence Thomas's grandnephew. In another report, Justice Thomas's wife was paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work at the direction of a conservative activist. Four Proud Boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their participation in the January 6th attack. Texas lawmakers advanced a bill that allows the Secretary of State to overturn election results in one of their largest counties if 2% or more of the polling locations run out of ballot paper for more than an hour. Jordan Neely, a Michael Jackson impersonator, was killed on the New York City subway by a passenger who put him in a chokehold. Propublica: Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition. Washington Post: Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’ NBC: Four Proud Boys members found guilty of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 trial The Hill: Texas bill allows secretary of state to overturn elections ABC: Police issue call for help, outrage continues to grow over deadly subway chokehold encounter NYTimes: White House Rejects Kremlin Claim of a Role in Explosions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Friday, May 5th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented by
0:07.1	Betcha's Media.
0:08.6	Amuho Sami Sage and The Morning Announcements is your daily 5-minute breakdown of the
0:12.6	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:17.1	show there is.
0:18.4	Our government.
0:22.2	Our final episode of the week begins with more scandal at the Supreme Court.
0:26.7	It's like panic at the disco, except they write both sins and tragedies.
0:31.6	As if the annual luxury vacations and private jet rides from a conservative mega-donor weren't
0:36.2	enough.
0:37.2	ProPublica has now reported that the same billionaire mega-donor, Harlan Crowe, also paid private
0:42.8	school tuition on behalf of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a teenage grand
0:47.7	nephew that he was raising as his son.
0:51.3	Thomas and his wife took custody of Mark Martin when he was 6 years old, and as a teenager
0:55.5	they sent him to a private boarding school in Georgia where tuition was more than $6,000
1:00.1	a month.
1:01.1	A bank statement for the school from July 2009 that was unearthed among unrelated court
1:06.0	filings showed the source of Martin's tuition payment for that month was Harlan Crowe's
1:10.9	company.
1:11.9	That's a write-off, I'm sure.
1:13.7	According to a former school administrator who had access to the school's financials,
1:18.2	Crowe paid for all of his private schooling, estimated to the tune of approximately $150,000.
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