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Morning Announcements

Monday, October 31st, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Politics

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi was attacked inside their San Francisco home at 2:30am on Friday morning; Elon Musk tweeted an unfounded conspiracy theory about the attack. Saudi billionaires are the ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk’s takeover. According to data from the University of Florida's U.S. Elections Project, 20 million people have already voted in this year's election. A recent study found that homicide is the leading cause of death among pregnant women. Finally for today, SCOTUS is hearing challenges to affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina this week. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: CNN: CNN Exclusive: Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack had bag with zip ties, source says Aljazeera: Saudis ‘second largest investors’ in Twitter after Musk takeover Washington Post: Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter deal CNBC: GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover Newsweek: Elon Musk Will Have to Pay More Than $200m to Three Fired Twitter Execs ABC: Early vote count surpasses ordinary midterm turnout The Hill: US faces election worker shortage ahead of midterms due to rise in threats NPR: Group can monitor Arizona ballot drop boxes, a U.S. judge has ruled GMA: Homicide is leading cause of death for pregnant women in US, study finds NY Times: In Clash Over Affirmative Action, Both Sides Invoke Brown v. Board of Education   Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Monday, October 31st, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

0:06.1

by Betcha's media.

0:07.6

I'm your host Sammy Sage, and the morning announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown

0:11.4

of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality

0:16.0

show there is.

0:17.3

Our government.

0:23.0

This past weekend would have felt right at home around January 2021.

0:27.2

That is to say, it felt extremely out of control.

0:30.4

Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi was attacked inside their San Francisco home at 2.30am

0:35.8

on Friday morning.

0:37.3

The Pelosi home had been specifically targeted by 42-year-old right-wing extremists David

0:42.1

DePopey, and based on his social media posts, he was deep into things like 2020 election

0:47.2

conspiracies, COVID disinformation, and hatred of the January 6th committee.

0:52.3

Basically, he is like your average Republican lawmaker.

0:56.0

The details of the attack continued to trickle out over the weekend.

0:59.4

DePopey reportedly repeatedly asked, where's Nancy?

1:02.5

While Paul Pelosi was able to call the police and subtly signal to the dispatcher that he

1:06.7

was in danger.

1:08.3

Police arrived on the scene almost immediately and said that when they entered, they saw

1:12.1

DePopey trying to tie up Paul Pelosi until Nancy got home and said to the police something

1:17.3

along the lines of, we are waiting for Nancy.

1:20.6

While the police were already on the scene, DePopey attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer.

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