Gloria Steinem Remembered – The Friday AM Quickie 9/4/26
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- Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies at Home at 92 She "will go down in history as one of the most important activists of all time, leading a movement for the equality of half the world: its women," CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour wrote. via the Guardian, the New York Times, and Ms. Magazine.
- Bernie Sanders Calls for Ban on 'Artificial Superintelligence' After AI Models Go on Autonomous Crime Spree "We have got to act and act now before it's too late," the Vermont independent Senator says. "I understand that people will call me a Luddite, they will call me an alarmist, but I would rather be called an alarmist than somebody who fell asleep at the switch." via the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Wired.
- Trump Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Mail-in Voting Restrictions "The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by North Carolina, which on Friday kicks off a wave of states shipping ballots out for the rapidly approaching midterm election." via the Associated Press, Politico, and NBC News.
- Ahead of Israeli Elections, Far-Right Minister Calls for Illegal Removal of All Palestinians from Gaza "The proposal is contained in a 20-page document with the euphemistic title of 'National Work Plan for Voluntary Emigration from the Gaza Strip.'" via the Guardian, the Financial Times, and Al Jazeera.
- ICE Agent Turns Himself in to Fellow Feds to Face Charges of Lying About Shooting of Venezuelan Man in Minneapolis "The federal charges follow [agent Christian] Castro's release from jail last week after Texas' [Republican] governor refused to immediately sign an extradition warrant to hand him over to Minnesota authorities, who have charged him separately with assault and false reporting of a crime related to the same shooting." via the AP, the Minnesota Star Tribune, and ProPublica.
- Construction on Garish 'Arc de Trump' Set to Begin Despite Lack of Approvals Regime lawyers asked a court yesterday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by military veterans who say the ginormous structure would ruin the solemnity of the nearby Arlington National Cemetery. via the Washington Post and Politico.
- Federal Judge Declares Teamsters Free of Organized Crime Influence The ruling releases the union from decades of oversight by the Justice Department stemming from a 1989 racketeering case. via the New York Times.
- Fox News Fires 'Money Honey' Maria Bartiromo for Leaking Company Memo to White House The memo reportedly contained a decree banning a particularly deranged July Trump speech from the air. via the New York Times and Status News.
SOME NUMBER
1,000
That's how many years it's been, at least, since the world saw an El Niño storm season as the one forecasters are predicting for this year and next, the Guardian reports. Expect record heat, higher wildfire risk, coastal flooding and spreading hunger as a result. New research links the "Godzilla" El Niño to human-caused climate change. "The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned yesterday.
ON THE SHOW TODAY
9/4: Sam and Emma will be in studio. The guest will be Astead Herndon, editorial director at Vox and host of the podcast America, Actually.
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PARTING WORDS
"I wouldn't call it a war."
-- Vice Bootlicker JD Vance, speaking to reporters at the White House yesterday about Donald Trump's pointless, illegal, and failing war on Iran. Meanwhile, per Politico, Republican strategists have resigned themselves to the reality that the unpopular war won't end in time for the November midterm elections. And Trump, who never served, quipped that the record-breaking 264-day deployment of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was "not nearly long enough."
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