July 19, 2021
Pod Save America
“Is Facebook killing people?” (with Sen. Brian Schatz)
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In This Episode
The White House calls out Facebook for spreading misinformation about vaccines, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz talks about climate change, immigration, voting rights and his tweeting habit; and later, the guys answer a few listener questions.
Show Notes
COVID MISINFORMATION & FACEBOOK
- NYT: Facebook Tells Biden: ‘Facebook Is Not the Reason’ Vaccination Goal Was Missed
- Facebook: Moving Past the Finger Pointing
- NYT: Facebook says it plans to remove posts with false vaccine claims.
- NYT: Far-Right Extremists Move From ‘Stop the Steal’ to Stop the Vaccine
- NYT: Is Biden Declaring ‘Independence From the Virus’ Too Soon?
- WaPo: Post-ABC poll: Biden earns high marks for handling the pandemic, but many Republicans resist vaccination
- Media Matters: Fox has undermined vaccination efforts in nearly 60% of all vaccination segments in a 2-week period
- AP: Biden grappling with ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated
- NYT: How Republican Vaccine Opposition Got to This Point
- NYT: Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation
- MotherJones: The Pandemic Is Roaring Back Where Vaccination Rates are Low
- WaPo: Vaccine hesitancy morphs into hostility, as opposition to shots hardens
- Vanity Fair: Hysterical Tennessee Republicans Fire Vaccine Chief for Encouraging Vaccines
- SHRM: Can Employers Mandate a Vaccine Authorized for Emergency Use?
- Yahoo!: DeSantis sells anti-Fauci t-shirts as Florida Covid death toll hits 38,000
SEN. SCHATZ INTERVIEW
- MotherJones: Democrats Promised “No Climate, No Deal.” But They Haven’t Decided What That Means.
- WaPo: Senate Democrats announce plans for $3.5 trillion budget package to expand Medicare, advance Biden priorities
- NBC: Democrats plow ahead with party-line spending bill for Biden’s economic priorities
- TheNation: It’s Time to Repeal Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Say Progressives
- Insider: Harrowing video shows the Gulf of Mexico on fire after an oil pipeline rupture. Democrats point to that video as evidence of a need to fund the Green New Deal.
- WaPo: As Democrats spar over advancing Biden’s climate agenda, they move to cut methane
- Politico: Dems stuck in dual traffic jams on their ‘2-track’ infrastructure strategy
- MauiNow: Schatz Urges Infrastructure Deployment in Native Communities
- Politico: Progressives draw red line on keeping climate provisions in infrastructure bill
- MotherJones: Telehealth Should Be Here to Stay
- WaPo: The Health 202: Lawmakers are deciding the future of telehealth
- KITV: Sen. Brian Schatz reintroduces bill that would allow prisoners to ask for early release
- TheVerge: Senate bill would make it easier to cancel a subscription online after a free trial
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