Reading Is Fundamental, Honey
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Republicans remain divided over who should lead their delicate House majority after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker. A vote for his replacement is set for next week – and so far, at least three Republicans have signaled that they want the job.
Banned Books Week, an annual event to draw attention to the harms of censorship, has taken on new significance this year. Legislation in some GOP-led states has forced schools and libraries to pull many titles from their shelves, disproportionately targeting books about race, sexuality, and gender identity. Conrrado Saldivar, president of the Wyoming Library Association, joins us to discuss how he’s defending the right to read.
And in headlines: President Biden canceled another $9 billion in student loan debt, more than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees walked off the job as part of a three-day strike, and voting is open for Fat Bear Week 2023.
Show Notes:
- Banned Books Week – https://bannedbooksweek.org/
- American Library Association: Unite Against Banned Books – https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/
- Explore.org: Fat Bear Week 2023 – https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
- What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, October 5th. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Priyanka Ravindi. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm wanting to tell everyone this is what a day where we are thoroughly annoyed that |
| 0:12.7 | the emergency alert test came two minutes early and that did give me a bit of a jump scare. |
| 0:18.2 | Yeah, listen, we knew about it ahead of time. |
| 0:21.0 | Also, especially, but still, freaked out, didn't know how to turn it off. |
| 0:25.2 | It was a bad time. |
| 0:30.9 | On today's show, thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers have walked off the job, |
| 0:35.7 | plus Fat Bear Week is back, y'all, and I'm so hyped. |
| 0:39.5 | Hallelujah. |
| 0:40.6 | Yes, best time of the year. |
| 0:42.4 | But first, there is a job opening in the Capitol. |
| 0:46.7 | After former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy got the boot from his own party on Tuesday, |
| 0:51.2 | Republicans remain divided over who should lead their very fragile house majority. |
| 0:56.9 | As a reminder, while they squabble over who should take McCarthy's place, |
| 1:00.5 | there will be no votes, no new legislation, nothing of substance from the House. |
| 1:06.6 | And this could not have come at a less convenient time with government funding set to run out in just |
| 1:11.6 | 43 days. |
| 1:13.1 | Honestly, with that description, though, Priyanka, it sounds like what it was like under McCarthy's |
| 1:17.2 | leadership. |
| 1:17.7 | Anyways, that much has changed. |
| 1:20.1 | You know, Republicans losing and they're dragging all of us down with them. |
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