Monday, May 16th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The week starts with a tragic mass shooting out of Buffalo, New York. Then, Finland and Sweden move closer to joining NATO as Russia responds, the Texas power grid is failing again, and the White House is getting a new press secretary. Finally, in some good news, Australian researchers made a breakthrough in identifying the root cause of sudden infant death syndrome. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: AP: Buffalo shooter targeted Black neighborhood, officials say Reuters: Russia's Inter RAO to halt power exports to Finland due lack of payment Austin American-Statesman: ERCOT urges Texans to cut back on power usage over weekend Business Insider: Jen Psaki leaves the White House after holding 224 briefings — more than all of Trump's press secretaries combined Biospace: Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die From SIDS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Monday, May 16th, and your listening to the Morning Announcements presented by
0:06.6	Betches Media.
0:07.6	I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is sponsored by Credit Karma.
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0:21.5	Sadly, we have to start our week with the story of a mass shooting out of Buffalo, New York
0:25.9	from this past weekend.
0:27.7	Yesterday morning, an 18-year-old white male targeted a supermarket in a predominantly
0:32.2	black neighborhood, ultimately shooting and killing 10 people.
0:36.4	The shooter left behind significant evidence, including a 180-page manifesto, detailing
0:42.0	his month-long plans for the shooting, with the express purpose of killing as many black
0:47.0	people as possible.
0:48.8	The shooter livestreamed the shooting on Twitch until the platform cut the transmission
0:52.9	less than two minutes later.
0:55.1	Many doubt that this was a racially motivated shooting was dispelled when he apologized
0:59.3	to a white person working at the checkout counter, as well as his belief in white replacement
1:04.1	theory, and his own statements that the attack was intended to intimidate all non-white,
1:09.2	non-Christian people and get them to leave the country.
1:12.3	He also detailed how he had studied the demographics around the market in deciding to target
1:16.5	it, and had already been on law enforcement's radar after he threatened to carry out a shooting
1:21.1	a year earlier.
1:25.4	As Binlin and Sweden move closer to joining NATO, Russia announced that it will suspend
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