The conservative push to weed out anti-Trump federal workers
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Groups aligned with former President Trump are hunting through information to come up with a list of federal employees who might be resistant to a second Trump administration. We’ll discuss the push to reshape government. Plus, is the urban/rural divide a myth? And, a viral voicemail pep talk from a testing center worker makes us smile.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “In This Debate, CNN Is the Decider” from The New York Times
- “Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans” from Cornell Chronicle
- “The Number of People Primarily Working From Home Tripled Between 2019 and 2021” from the U.S. Census Bureau
- “Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans” from AP News
- “A 3-year-old voicemail goes viral, leads to emotional reunion” from The Washington Post
- “Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flights” from GQ
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| 0:37.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Kyle Rosedall. Thanks for joining us |
| 0:43.3 | everybody on this Monday. This one is the 24th of June. Today we are going to do |
| 0:49.8 | some news and then get to some smiles let us start with your news |
| 0:53.8 | yours is very newsy go bad guy so in case you haven't heard there's a debate on |
| 0:59.5 | Thursday yes cable news we know there's a debate on Thursday. Anyway, so there's a debate on Thursday. |
| 1:08.0 | CNN won the race, the raffle, however it was decided that CNN was going to get this thing. |
| 1:15.3 | And it's the first general election presidential debate to be run by a single network, right? |
| 1:20.8 | For many, many years it's been the Commission on Presidential |
| 1:22.8 | debates, they've gotten squeezed out, blah, blah, blah. We've all heard that story. |
| 1:26.2 | Here though is the key quote from the New York Times today talking about CNN's business model, |
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