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Morning Announcements

Thursday, May 6th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we start with a couple of Trump related stories, including Facebook's decision not to reinstate Trump’s banned accounts, along with reports that his Scottish golf clubs paid no taxes and laid off dozens of people all the while receiving government subsidies. Then, we cover Texas’ sweeping new abortion restrictions, and the reasons behind the rise of protests in Colombia. Lastly, we end with Headlines That Speak For Themselves, including updates on Covid-19 patents, Derek Chauvin’s fate, Ghislaine Maxell’s trial, Broadway’s reopening, and Peloton’s treadmill recall.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Thursday, May 6th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented by

0:07.2

Betcha's media.

0:08.2

Today's episode is brought to you by KOM, the number one mental wellness app.

0:12.7

Sleep more, stress less, live better with KOM, I'm Tammy Sage.

0:19.6

The biggest headline yesterday was that the Facebook oversight board announced their decision

0:23.2

not to reinstate former President Trump's account, but they said that they will reevaluate

0:27.5

and clarify the policy in six months.

0:30.1

For now, Facebook has said that all decisions from the oversight board are binding, and

0:33.8

that even Mark Zuckerberg, the all-powerful, adventurer face-mash, can't overturn them.

0:38.5

I hate to bring it up, but we have one more Trump adjacent story, but don't worry, it's

0:44.6

light.

0:45.6

New reporting from the Scottish Sun about Trump's golf clubs in Scotland showed that they

0:49.0

took almost $800,000 in taxpayer funds, according to government documents.

0:53.9

These funds were meant to be subsidies to protect jobs during the pandemic.

0:57.5

However, at the same time, they laid off as many as 66 people.

1:01.8

And the Scottish government has really not reaped any benefit from allowing Trump to

1:05.3

build on their land, because according to Forbes, the Trump organization hasn't paid

1:09.0

any taxes on any of those resorts, because of constantly reporting losses.

1:13.9

So basically the same thing he did with our country.

1:19.6

These lawmakers are about to pass sweeping restrictions to abortion access, with new legislation

1:24.1

about to pass that will prohibit abortions as early as six weeks.

1:27.8

The bill makes no exception for rape or incest, and would allow anyone, including people

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