Week in Review 9/19/20

Welcome to Let’s Be Better! A podcast where we have the hard conversations about politics, minority communities, and our world at large. This week in review we will be covering the United State’s TikTok ban, Trump's 1776 Commission, and the whistleblower complaints against a GA ICE detention center. Then after that, we have the question of the week: “Why do we have the electoral college?” Thanks for joining me.

00:40 TikTok Ban

07:08 1776 Commission

33:04 Whistleblower Complaint

50:19 Electoral College

(Also my cat was playing with a toy in the background so if you’re hearing some chirping you’re not crazy. I didn’t think my mic would pick it up, sorry)

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Sources for this episode:

TikTok:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200426000353if_/https://www.tiktok.com/legal/privacy-policy?lang=en

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/13/tiktok-privacy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/world/asia/tik-tok-banned-india-china.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54205231

https://www.consumerreports.org/data-theft/justice-department-charges-chinese-nationals-in-equifax-data-breach/ 

https://www.epic.org/privacy/data-breach/equifax/#:~:text=The%20data%20breached%20included%20names,unprecedented%20in%20scope%20and%20severity 

1776 Commission: 

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-transcript-september-17-white-house-history-conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJiufouc9ws 

https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/joseph-stalin.htm 

https://www.biography.com/dictator/adolf-hitler

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/china/report-china/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20692214

https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory

https://www.businessinsider.com/unhealthy-american-work-habits-2017-11#and-american-bosses-are-obsessed-with-staying-in-the-loop-11

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/family/

(This is the Smithsonian document):https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651/photo/2

https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-political-science-professor-donald-trump-authoritarian-how-democracy-778425

https://felonies.org/is-it-a-crime-to-tear-down-statues/

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502492-list-statues-toppled-vandalized-removed-protests 

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/06/12/wilmington-remove-christopher-columbus-caesar-rodney-statues/3175003001/

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/defining/

https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/oct/18/allegations-about-donald-trump-and-miss-teen-usa-c/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html

Whistleblower Complaints:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/09/16/mass-hysterectomies-ice/

(This is the full, official complaint):https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdf  

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913398383/whistleblower-alleges-medical-neglect-questionable-hysterectomies-of-ice-detaine

https://www.insider.com/allegations-against-irwin-ice-facility-doctor-mahendra-amin-2020-9

Electoral College:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468&list=PL7snd7RcdE6Ggg_V49ek6oA9dESAXOtXy&index=2&t=0s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYyC5-xv_A&list=PL7snd7RcdE6Ggg_V49ek6oA9dESAXOtXy&index=3&t=0s 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48EZKXweGDo&list=PL7snd7RcdE6Ggg_V49ek6oA9dESAXOtXy&index=4&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reUJAS8dsSM&list=PL7snd7RcdE6Ggg_V49ek6oA9dESAXOtXy&index=5&t=0s 

https://www.usa.gov/election

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/about 

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/electors#who-selects

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspx

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-constitution-amendments/the-constitutional-convention/#:~:text=The%20Constitutional%20Convention%20took%20place,delegates%20had%20much%20bigger%20plans. 

https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-founding-fathers-constitutional-convention 

https://time.com/4608555/hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/presidential-election-al-gore-george-bush-too-close-to-call

https://www.procon.org/headlines/the-electoral-college-top-3-pros-and-cons/

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