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Todd Herman Show Notes: 3.8.2021

Mar 8, 2021, 8:05 AM | Updated: 9:13 am

LISTEN TO HOUR 1:

SEATTLE SPIRIT:

READ: “Weekend vote expected in state Senate on controversial capital gains tax proposal”

HIIGHLIGHT: Victoria Taft on Rush, Antifa, homelessness, and more.

READ: The Web of Elite Extremists Behind Censorship of Mercola

READ: Jordan Schachtel on Twitter – “There was never a threat to the Capitol.”

 

LISTEN TO HOUR 2:

READ: Feelings First! CNN INTERN ‘Fact Checks’ Rand Paul on ‘Gender Confirmation Surgery’

HIGHLIGHT: Just a Few More Things

THING 1 Colbert Fawns Over Fonda’s Foul Activism in Re-Released Anti-War Tour Documentary . . . 

THING 2 SHOCK: Hateful MSNBC Floats Withholding Emergency Services to Texas

THING 3 Joy Reid, Fake Republicans Peddle Lies About Fox News, GOP Obsessing Over Cancel Culture

THING 4 Psaki Dodges If Biden Will Acknowledge that There Is a Crisis at the Border

THING 5 Circle back pretends Joe Biden isn’t it a basement practicing reading the State of The Union speech with his reminder helping him in an ear piece.

 

LISTEN TO HOUR 3:

READ: The reckoning with Dr. Seuss’ racist imagery has been years in the making

READ: ‘People’s lives have been ruined. How a false accusation of racism plunged an elite US college into turmoil.  . .

WATCH: City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

READ: Ferguson Organizers Demand $20 Million From Black Lives Matter

READ: A Memphis-area high school principal is suing his school district after he was placed on administrative leave for speaking with his students about the importance of free speech.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE…

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Days before Israeli election, military conducts massive West Bank operation

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military carried out a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank over the weekend, displacing hundreds of Palestinians and placing major restrictions on Palestinian movement, in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in Hebron on Friday. The operation comes […]

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FILE - The roundabout at FAMU Way is seen on the Florida A&M University campus in Tallahassee, Fla....

Associated Press

At least 12 people injured in shooting near a football stadium in Florida

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FILE - Visitors tour the exhibition booths operated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the China ...

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As the US and China form AI blocs, countries are increasingly torn between them

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Milwaukee Brewers' Sal Frelick watches his home run during the sixth inning of Game 2 of baseball's...

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Trump announces at a Georgia campaign rally that Audi will build a new auto factory in the state

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In this photo made with a smartphone, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, center, stands...

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Sullivan, Peltola seek support from Alaska Native voters ahead of crucial Senate race

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Todd Herman Show Notes: 3.8.2021