Location Sharing With Homeland Security
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Heat waves are devastating people in Europe and North America this summer. In the U.K. it’s hotter than the Sahara Desert, and in the U.S. 35 million Americans are currently living in places with excessive heat warnings this week.
The ACLU published “thousands of pages of previously unreleased records” on Monday about the government surreptitiously collecting people’s private information without a warrant. The report shows that the Department of Homeland Security — including border protection and ICE — buys access to data from hundreds of millions of phones.
And in headlines: a West Virginia judge blocked the enforcement of the state’s 150-year-old abortion ban, Uber settled a discrimination lawsuit, and Steve Bannon’s trial started.
Show Notes:
- Politico: “Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says” – https://politi.co/3cp2K98
- The Intercept: “Amazon Admits Give Ring Camera Footage To Police Without A Warrant Or Consent” – https://bit.ly/3csQLrf
- AARP: “Help Someone Staying Cool in Extreme Heat” – https://bit.ly/3cq1CSr
- Vote Save America: Fuck Bans Action Plan – https://votesaveamerica.com/roe/
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, July 19th. I'm Erin Ryan and I'm Josie Duffy-Rice and this is what a day. |
| 0:12.0 | Where we promise we will never have a beef that tears us apart like D'sa Samarro. |
| 0:16.0 | I refuse to believe that those two are beefing and I refuse to believe that you and I will ever beef. |
| 0:22.0 | We will never beef. Beef is over. |
| 0:24.0 | Beef isn't very climate conscious, is it? |
| 0:30.0 | On Today's show, the ACL reports that the federal government has been getting access to people's phone data without warrants. |
| 0:37.0 | Plus, Dr. Fauci announces that when Biden's term ends, he's finally going to retire. |
| 0:42.0 | But first, it's hot. I can say that with a fair degree of authority. |
| 0:47.0 | If you are listening to this podcast in either Europe or North America, it's hotter wherever you are than it should be. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah, it is not good news to hear that just like multiple continents are just burning up. I don't love it. |
| 1:01.0 | No, there's no way to really spin it. You know that like little cartoon of the Sun wearing sunglasses and he's all chill? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, everybody have a great summer. Like the Sun now is the Babadook face. |
| 1:13.0 | But on the Sun, there is nothing good happening from the heat source above us. |
| 1:19.0 | So let's start with the UK where it is literally hotter than the Sahara Desert. |
| 1:24.0 | On Monday, temperatures topped over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and are likely going to rise even higher today, possibly breaking a record for hottest temperature ever in that country. |
| 1:33.0 | The previous record was set only three years ago when the temperature hit 102 degrees Fahrenheit in Cambridge. |
| 1:39.0 | This heat wave marks the first time ever that the UK has been under a red heat alert. It was so hot on Monday that one runway at London's Luton Airport literally melted. |
| 1:50.0 | A airport runway melted. It's like a Salvador Dali painting, but it's our lives. |
| 1:55.0 | Yes. And in Wales, they've already seen their highest temperatures ever on record this month. |
| 2:00.0 | And in the Joronde region of southern France, about 35,000 acres have burned because of wildfires forcing the evacuation of 31,000 people. |
| 2:09.0 | Spain is also on fire. Well, firefighters have gotten control of fires in the southern Malaga region. |
| 2:14.0 | Wildfires continue to rage in the Castile and Leone regions as well as in the North. |
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