Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Morning Announcements

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Let’s start by talking about the spending package (again). It’s now looking likely that paid family and medical leave is going to be dropped from the bill completely. Stories continue to emerge from the Facebook Papers that you might find interesting. Next, the United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender designation and 108,000 people will have their medical debt wiped out partially thanks to funding raised by Fair Fight. Lastly, we have an election announcement. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: AP News: “Biden urges bill over ‘finish line’ as Dems eye new surtax” NY Times: “A paid family leave program is likely to be dropped from the social policy bill at Manchin’s urging” AP News: “Apple once threatened Facebook ban over Midwest maid abuse” Washington Post: “Rep. Mo Brooks, denying planning role in Jan. 6 rally, says he’d be ‘proud’ if his staff helped out” AP News: “United States issues its 1st passport with ‘X’ gender marker” NPR: “108,000 people will get medical debt relief after Stacey Abrams’ PAC gifts $1.34M” AP News: “Letitia James will run for New York governor” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, October 28th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented
0:07.8	by Betcha's media.
0:09.4	This episode is sponsored by Uncommon Goods.
0:12.2	If you're on a mission to be the best gift giver ever this year, Uncommon Goods makes
0:16.0	it easy to find remarkable and truly original gifts for everyone.
0:21.8	Let's start by talking about the spending package, again.
0:24.7	You might remember earlier this week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there would
0:28.0	potentially be a vote by Thursday.
0:29.8	Well, here we are on Thursday, and there is still no vote scheduled, nor is the bill
0:34.3	even final yet, though lawmakers are still claiming that it is close to finished, giving
0:39.3	very strong turning in your midterm paper at the very last second energy.
0:46.4	And even though the bill isn't done, that doesn't stop the disappointing headlines
0:49.5	from coming.
0:50.5	It's now looking likely that paid family leave and medical leave is going to be dropped
0:54.3	from the bill completely.
0:55.8	And if you're looking for someone to blame, it would be Joe Manchin, a man who I would
0:59.5	love to watch attend his job for just a single day while he's lactating and bleeding from
1:03.6	his genital area, not to get carried away or anything.
1:08.6	Stories continue to emerge from the Facebook papers, and one that caught my eye was that
1:12.4	apparently Apple once threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from the App Store over
1:16.8	concerns that the apps were being used to trade and sell maids in the mid-east.
1:21.8	Like even acknowledged in internal documents that it was under enforcing abusive activity
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