In the middle of a historically intense week, Jen records this bonus “thank you” episode to thank Congressional Dish producers and rant about the state of the country. Topics include fires, murders, riots, strikes, COVID, and a surprisingly intense hurricane. It’s a very 2020 episode.
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Articles/Documents
- Article: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion. Protesters built him a guillotine. By Josh Rivera, USA TODAY, August 27, 2020
- Article: Why A Strike For Racial Justice Started With The Milwaukee Bucks And The NBA By Neil Paine and Chris Herring, FiveThirtyEight, August 27, 2020
- Article: Wisconsin store owner weeps after 40-year business is burned down during Kenosha riots By Bryan Brammer, Disrn, August 27, 2020
- Article: Penal firefighters are battling California fires. Once released, they can’t fight fires full time. By Dario Gurrola, NBC News, August 27, 2020
- Article: Fauci says he was in surgery when task force discussed CDC testing guidelines By Jeremy Diamond, Kristen Holmes and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, August 27, 2020
- Article: Hurricane Laura Comes Ashore Threatening ‘Unsurvivable’ Storm Surge By Samantha Raphelson and Rachel Treisman, npr, August 26, 2020
- Article: After online warnings, armed civilians bring threat of violence to protests in Kenosha and elsewhere By Joshua Partlow, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Mark Guarino, The Washington Post, August 26, 2020
- Article: My cousin had has as an inmate. But the system failed him. The Washington Post, August 26, 2020
- Article: 4 indicted for fire that totaled Minneapolis police station By Kristina Peterson, MPR News The Associated Press, August 25, 2020
- Article: House Lawmaker González Tests Positive for Covid-19 By Kristina Peterson, The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2020
- Article: Coronavirus Limits California’s Efforts to Fight Fires With Prison Labor By Thomas Fuller, The New York Times, August 22, 2020
- Article: Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus By Andrew Desiderio, Politico, August 20, 2020
- Article: Senate breaks for August recess with no coronavirus deal in sight By Niels Lesniewski, Roll Call, August 13, 2020
- Article: California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps By Ryan Sabalow, The Sacremento Bee, July 4, 2020
- Article: Arrest in Atlanta Wendy’s fire spurs calls for suspect’s release By Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 24, 2020
- Article: Amazon’s Workers Fight for Basics as Bezos Heads to Trillionaire Status By Kori Kanayama, Non Profit Quarterly, May 27, 2020
- Article: Revealed: Amazon told workers paid sick leave law doesn’t cover warehouses This article is more than 3 mo By Sam Levin, The Guardian, May 7, 2020
- Document: Annual Report 2020 for Calendar Year 2019 By Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Office of Government Ethics, November, 2019
- Article: Hurricane Michael upgraded to a Category 5 at time of U.S. landfall By Dennis Feltgen, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, April 19, 2019
- Article: An Up-Close Look at America’s Evolving Militia Movement By Jen Osborne, Vice, February 21, 2019
- Article: Why Some Amazon Workers Are Fuming About Their Raise By Karen Weise, The New York Times, October 9, 2018
- Article: Jeff Bezos will still make the annual salary of his lowest-paid employees every 11.5 seconds By Simone Stolzoff, Quartz at Work, October 2, 2018
- Article: Jeff Bezos made 1.2 million times the median Amazon employee in 2017 By Ainsley Harris, Fast Company, April 19, 2018
Resources
- News Footage: Second video of Jacob Blake’s shooting surfaces CNN, August 27, 2020
- News Footage: WATCH: Older Kenosha Business Owner Attacked on Video in Wisconsin By Jessica McBride, heavy., August 27, 2020
- YouTube Video: Kenosha- Police Thanking Militia & Giving them Bottled Water (including kyle) Ashley Walker 3, Uploaded August 27, 2020
- YouTube Video: Black Lives Matter and the counter-protest by ‘patriot’ militia groups | DW News DW News, Uploaded August 26, 2020
- YouTube Video: Why Did the Police Shoot Jacob Blake? | The Daily Social Distancing Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Uploaded August 26, 2020
- YouTube Video: Kenosha shooting – shooter shown with hands up in the street. KSDK News, Uploaded August 26, 2020
- YouTube Video: Kenosha Wisconsin Shooting 08/25/20 Riots Black Lives Matter ANTIFA Militia Media Buster, Uploaded August 26, 2020
- News Footage: Viral videos show protesters demanding DC restaurant patrons raise fists in solidarity By Joseph Guzman, The Hill, August 25, 2020
- News Footage: Local business owners find livelihoods smashed following second night of Kenosha unrest By Ryan Jenkins, WTMJ-TV Milwaukee, August 25, 2020
- YouTube Video: RAW VIDEO: Jacob Blake police shooting KARE 11, Uploaded August 24, 2020
- YouTube Video: Hurricane Michael Documentary “The Forgotten Category Five” StormChasingVideo, Uploaded November 29, 2019 ________
Producer Recommendations
- Book: Children of the Broken Moon By M. Andrew Jones, Lulu, Published January 1, 2020
- The Chimera Cycle By M. Andrew Jones
Cover Art
Design by Only Child Imaginations
Music Presented in This Episode
Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)
