Run For Something (You Better Clerk)
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🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Russia gave Ukrainian forces in Mariupol an ultimatum earlier this week: surrender or die. Russian-backed separatists said only five people surrendered, which could mean that the city could be captured very soon.
Voting rights organizations are funneling their support to the people on the ground who oversee local elections ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Amanda Litman from Run For Something joins us to discuss her new program called Clerk Work dedicated to recruiting and supporting thousands of candidates for local offices in charge of running elections.
And in headlines: Florida’s Senate approved one of the nation’s most gerrymandered Congressional maps, South Carolina’s Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on Richard Moore’s killing, and Netflix’s stock price pledge by 35 percent.
Show Notes:
Run For Something: Sign-up for Clerk Work – https://wherecanirun.org/
Washington Post: “Meet the woman behind Libs of TikTok, secretly fueling the right’s outrage machine” – https://wapo.st/3K1plDM
Alex Pareene: “They Know How Journalism Works! They’re Just Against It!” – https://bit.ly/3EyD6Zw
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday April 21st. I'm Trevelle Anderson. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day where we're holding onto the keys to |
| 0:12.5 | everybody's planes until they promise not to fly over the capital without permission. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, there was an evacuation there yesterday after an army plane flew over, turns out they |
| 0:22.2 | were part of a nationals game. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, no baseball, you need to get together. What are you doing? We don't do that. |
| 0:27.5 | You're supposed to know better. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, we talk about a new campaign to recruit you to be a local election official. |
| 0:36.3 | Plus, we're going to tell you about a recent Washington Post piece that we can't stop talking about |
| 0:40.6 | called Meet the Woman Behind Lives of TikTok. |
| 0:43.5 | Yeah, just prepare yourselves for that. |
| 0:45.9 | But first, a quick update on mask mandates. |
| 0:49.5 | President Biden's Justice Department said it had filed an appeal yesterday |
| 0:53.4 | seeking to reinstate mask rules on public transit. |
| 0:56.5 | The department was responding to a request from the CDC, which had issued a statement describing |
| 1:01.3 | the mandate as still quote, necessary for public health. |
| 1:04.9 | The DOJ has not want to stay on the ruling that repealed this mandate yet. |
| 1:08.2 | So for now, masks remain optional on planes, trains, buses. |
| 1:12.0 | And I imagine it will be chaotic trying to get people to put them back on if that is what ultimately |
| 1:17.1 | happens here. |
| 1:18.0 | Not looking forward to that moment. |
| 1:19.7 | No. |
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