Episode 32: April 11-17, 2021

The 25th Hour

Time to catch up on last week's news with THE 25TH HOUR:

• Despite stubborn mutation-caused infections, the City is gradually getting back to normal, with music venues slowly reopening and kids signing back up for schools. The Mayor's race heats up, with candidates releasing more policy proposals and coming at each other.
• Cuomo is also carrying on like nothing's wrong, dodging questions about his scandals by hand-picking reporters at events. Cuomo pushed the restaurant curfew to midnight, signed a bill requiring low-cost internet, and followed the CDC's lead in pausing the J&J vaccine.
• Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11th, ignoring a May 1st deadline set by Trump, reversed course on keeping Trump's refugee cap, imposed sanctions on Russia for its SolarWinds hack, and continued working on his infrastructure proposal with Republicans, who refuse to pass it and want to pass it at the same time.
• Congress hears more information about the January 6th insurrection, the House passes measures admitting Puerto Rico as the 51st state, creating a commission to study slavery reparations, and Pelosi invited Biden to speak to Congress at the end of April. Everything else will die in the Senate, as per normal.
• The Chauvin-Floyd trial is ending, with closing arguments set for next week, followed by jury deliberations, all occurring at the backdrop of at least three police brutality cases that all came out this week.
• Bernie Madoff is dead, and half-human/half-money embryos are alive.

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