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Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall Podcast.

We're going to get a bunch of things to talk about today.

Just, I was just telling Kareka of my co-host that before,

right before we started recording, I, this will probably be published

by the time you hear this podcast, but you may have seen Republicans

or one of the, one of the, one of the arguments that Republicans

are using about this kind of mini-banking crisis we had over the weekend

and seems probably to be sort of settled down for now, probably maybe.

The, what's making the rounds is this claim that Silicon Valley Bank

gave over $73 million to BLM.

BLM and related causes, okay?

And, and, and the point being that they were so focused on,

you know, spreading woke culture that they weren't focused on risk

and, you know, managing their bank accounts or, you know,

their bank ledger and their bank book.

And that's why they, that's why they failed.

And that, that general argument is, is getting a lot of,

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