The Texas Bad Law Massacre

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by a team of mercenaries amid claims by opposition groups that he tried to illegally extend his presidential term by one year. Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph is calling for an international investigation, and Biden promised assistance to fight for a safe and secure Haiti in a time of growing gun violence. Texas State Republicans start a special legislative session on Thursday to discuss 11 conservative agenda items that didn’t pass the last session. These include a bill banning drive-through and 24-hour voting, a bill restricting critical race theory education, a bill preventing transgender students from competing on sports teams that align with their gender identity, and more. And in headlines: Darnella Frazier’s uncle is killed in a Minneapolis police car chase, Tokyo will declare a state of COVID emergency, and the ship that blocked the Suez Canal is back in the water. Show Notes: NYT: "How the Assassination of Haiti’s President Follows Years of Strife and Gridlock" – https://nyti.ms/3ho8n7t The Texas Tribune: "Gov. Greg Abbott introduces special legislative session agenda" – https://bit.ly/3xuMwRq For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 8th. I'm Gideon Ressik.
0:08.7	I'm Nuntravel Anderson in For a Keelah Hughes.
0:12.0	And this is what a day of the news podcast is not afraid to talk about how we are all
0:15.3	spending 80% of our days with our wet shirts clinging to our backs.
0:19.5	Yes, I am utterly disgusted and somebody needs to turn the sun off.
0:24.1	Yeah, that's the easiest solution for climate change as well, so I think we all win.
0:34.8	On today's show, Texas State Republicans start a special session today for a do-over on some
0:39.2	controversial bills that they were not able to pass, plus we'll have headlines.
0:43.2	But first, the latest with political turmoil in Haiti.
0:45.9	These are quote-unquote mercenaries. We're still trying to figure out who they were,
0:51.2	who hired them, which is the motive behind all of this.
0:55.0	And yes, the president was, quote-unquote, mortally wounded, but he is here's that.
1:00.6	That's Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles,
1:03.2	speaking to CBS about Haiti's president, Joe Benel Moise, who was assassinated in his home
1:08.9	early Wednesday morning. Yeah, wow. So this is developing, but what are the details that we need
1:15.0	to know about right now? According to reports, a squad of roughly 40 to 50 gun people rated the
1:21.1	private residents of President Moise overnight killing him and critically wounding his wife.
1:26.6	The current interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, is calling for an international
1:30.8	investigation after authorities have declared a quote state of siege in the country and closed
1:36.8	its international airport. According to both sheet Edmund, the Haitian ambassador to the United
1:43.0	States, the attack was carried out by foreign mercenaries and professional killers who masqueraded
1:48.3	as agents of the US drug enforcement administration. As you can imagine, the DEA confirmed that the
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