Cognitive Troubles

01/22/22 • 56 min

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Jen Psaki on the voting rights bills failing: ""My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita, do whatever you need to do this weekend, and then wake up on Monday morning, we gotta keep fighting."" Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court. A Jewish couple wasn’t allowed to adopt because of their faith. A man and woman in New York have been both fired and arrested for verbally assaulting a family on a train in an incident that police have determined to be a hate crime. The maker of M&M’s announced its famed characters are getting modern makeovers and will have more “nuanced personalities.”

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Senate Democrats made the case for legislation to counter an onslaught of new voting restrictions around the country, but they failed to overcome a Republican blockade or unite their own members behind a change in filibuster rules to pass it. Texas' GOP attorney general told Steve Bannon on his podcast “we're done if anybody can vote” after a recent court ruling. President Joe Biden doesn't believe public opinion polls that show his popularity waning among voters who identify as politically independent. Biden also declined to say if the upcoming election would be fair and legitimate without voting rights reform. The FBI visited the Texas home of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) as part of a “court-authorized law enforcement activity.

Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur

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Locked & Loaded

Earlier this week, the FBI raided the Laredo, Texas, home of Rep. Henry Cuellar. According to ABC News, the raid was made in connection with an ongoing investigation linked to Azerbaijan. The tense conflict over Ukraine shifted further into full crisis mode with NATO moving more military equipment into Eastern Europe and Russia continuing to build up massed forces along the border with Ukraine. A 12-year-old wrote his governor to oppose a gun law. A stray bullet killed him on Christmas. New Jersey’s largest drinking water supplier discovered a toxic chemical in the river where it gets water for hundreds of thousands of customers.

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