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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…

Associated Press

Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor at fair, campaign says

WASHINGTON (AP) — An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said. The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Chris Anderson said in a […]

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This photo provided by Steve Hague shows a surfer at Newport Beac, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, in Newp...

Associated Press

Storm creates huge waves and dangerous currents at southern California beaches

Hurricane Marie, well out in the Pacific, created flooding and dangerous conditions at some southern California beaches over Labor Day weekend, with strong currents and huge waves presenting a threat to swimmers and surfers. Rose Schoenfeld, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said Sunday that Marie stirred up “life-threatening” conditions as it churned in the ocean […]

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This satellite image released by NOAA shows Hurricane Lowell approaching Hawaii, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2...

Associated Press

Hawaii residents told to expect tropical storm conditions as Hurricane Lowell passes to the west

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — Officials in Hawaii urged residents and visitors to prepare for heavy rains, flooding and possibly mudslides as Hurricane Lowell, a major Category 3 storm, prompted the National Hurricane Center to issue a tropical storm warning for two islands on Sunday. The Miami-based center issued the warning for Kauai and Niihau as […]

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South Sound

Getting Weird at the Washington State Fair

Originally published on South Sound. What we saw during the “Weird Al” Yankovic concert Sept. 5

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Associated Press

Amazon cargo plane sends up billowing cloud of smoke after overrunning runway at Miami airport

MIAMI (AP) — An Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, pausing flights at the busy travel hub as images showed plumes of black smoke pouring from the plane. The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft overran the runway at around 2 p.m. after heading into Florida from San Juan, […]

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Two separate shootings in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood left two people dead and three others inj...

Tom Brock

Belltown violence: 2 separate shootings leave 2 dead, 3 injured early Sunday morning

Two separate shootings in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood overnight left two people dead and three others injured.

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Todd Herman Show Notes: 3.8.2021