building or something. they didn t have guns, but a lot of them had extremely dangerous ideas. talk about the constitution, or something called their rights. some of them made openly seditious claims. they insisted that the last election wasn t fair. the whole thing was terrifying. and then, they committed unspeakable acts of violence. by the time thousands of soldiers arrived to restore order, on unarmed air force veteran lay dead. to that day, that woman is the one verified casualty, the only death we can say definitively was caused by specific events on january 6th. we know how she died. the funny thing is, you almost never hear that woman s name. possibly that is because she was not a democratic member of congress or even a job biter bi. when you are fighting insurrectionist, you don t have to explain yourself. you just hyperventilate about qanon and then you do whatever you want. when they show up at your office, you don t have to listen to their complaints. not for a s
they wandered t freely to the capital like it was their building or something.. they didn t have guns but a lot of them had extremely dangerous ideas. they thought about the constitution and something called their rights. some made openly seditious claims. they insisted that the last electiond was not entirely fai. the whole thing was telephoning terrifyingand the committed unse acts of violence. by the time thousands of soldiers arrived, and an armed woman, an air force woman lay dead. to this day, that woman is the one completely verified casualty of the insurrection, the only personua whose death we said the been the bully was caused by a specific event on january 6th. we know how she died. funny thing is you almost never hear that woman s name possibly because she was not a democratic member of congress or a joe biden boater, she was a protester. her name was ashley babbitt. she was 35. we still do not know who shot ashley babbitt or why. no one will tell us. when you f
we begin in georgia where all eyes of the country have been ever since the georgia bulldogs brought home the college football championship last night. well tonight, though, all eyes are on georgia as the place president biden today chose to go full force behind a pair of bills on voting rights that have enormous meaning in the state in the wake of the 2020 election. also, of course, nationwide. where a number of states, including georgia, have passed laws restricting opportunities to vote. the two bills in question are opposed by senate republicans, however, at least two key democrats do not want to change senate rules so they can pass by a simple majority. so today, in atlanta, the president broke with his own reluctance on the matter, and issued this challenge. today, i m making it clear. to protect our democracy, i support changing the senate rules, whichever way they need to be changed, to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on voting rights. so, i ask e
professional sports leagues are cancelling games, major colleges are moving to remote learning and keep in mind we re still in the throes of the delta wave, the delta variant still accounts for 97% of reporting infections here in the u.s. right now, but we know omicron is more transmissible and it is spreading fast. this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. right now in certain regions. country 50% of the ice lets are omicron which means it s going to take over. even if it has a lower risky is veracast we could be having a million cases a day if we re not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies and, you know, a small fraction of a big number is still a real big number. here s the silver lining. the vaccines are working. cdc data shows if you run vaccinated, you are 20 times more likely to die of covid than someone who is vaccinated and boosted. that s not surprising. it s what we ve been hearing from doctors a
i ll take myjacket off. yeah, you ll get warm. you ll get warm. what, are you going to ask me some quite heated questions? yeah. you re going to be sweating. no, stay cool. let s stay cool. tim minchin, welcome to this cultural life. hi, john, how are you? you were born in northampton. yeah, can t you tell? and moved to perth in australia at a young age? yeah. musicalfamily? what sort of music was played at home? not particularly. although one quirk of my childhood is that in my house, from a very young age, was my great grandmother s pianola, which some people call a pedal piano, and a lot of people had pedal pianos and inherited them, but mostly, they sat there gathering dust. but my mum retained ours and kept it working because we had this collection of something like 300 or 400 pianola rolls, scrolls, and so that was played a lot. and so i grew up listening to all these old pre war songs like, you know, funiculi, funicula and all these weird songs and then, you know, soun