{"id":12241,"date":"2017-08-02T17:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12241"},"modified":"2017-08-02T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:55:53","slug":"reluctant-sanctions-twisted-civil-rights-more-election-security-failures-bradcast-822017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12241","title":{"rendered":"Reluctant Sanctions, Twisted Civil Rights, More Election Security Failures: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/2\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_PutinTrumpG20_080217.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: a hodge-podge of mid-Summer news and D.C. dysfunction with listener calls to help make it all better somehow. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s very busy show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/272781bb329c472e8cc602ad1cae937f\/Trump-signs-%27seriously-flawed%27-Russia-sanctions-bill\">reluctantly signs<\/a> a new bipartisan bill sanctioning <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/politics\/201708021056126893-medvedev-us-russia-trade-war\/\">Russia<\/a>, North Korea and Iran (and why Bernie Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/m.huffpost.com\/us\/entry\/us_597df7f8e4b0da64e879b55e\/amp\">didn&#8217;t support<\/a> the bill either);<\/li>\n<li>A recently discovered Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?nytmobile=0\">announcement<\/a> signals political appointees at Trump&#8217;s DoJ civil rights unit plans to target affirmative action measures at colleges and universities on behalf of white Americans;<\/li>\n<li>A federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alabama-voting-ruling-740d8fb31d71\">rules<\/a> Alabama does <i>not<\/i> have to notify thousands of former felons that their right to vote has been restored;<\/li>\n<li>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12238\">every single voting machine<\/a> being hacked at last weekend&#8217;s DefCon hackers conference in Las Vegas, electronic pollbook systems were also hacked there, and one contained the personal records of some <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/personal-info-of-650-000-voters-discovered-on-poll-mach-1797438462\">650,000 Tennessee voters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A long-serving, top EPA official <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/news-by-subject\/energy-environment\/344825-top-epa-official-resigns-over-direction-of-agency-under?amp\">resigns<\/a> citing Trump Administration rollbacks to environmental protection in a blistering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peer.org\/assets\/docs\/epa\/8_1_17_Betsy_farewell_message.pdf\">exit letter [PDF]<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then we open up the phone lines to callers on any and all of the above (and more), before Desi Doyen joins us finally for the latest similarly-busy <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on South Carolina canceling plans for new nuclear plants, new studies predicting big trouble for humanity (especially those who live near the coast) and much <i>much <\/i>more&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_Sanctions_DOJ_E-PollBooks_Callers_080217.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_Sanctions_DOJ_E-PollBooks_Callers_080217.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast: a hodge-podge of mid-Summer news and D.C. dysfunction with listener calls to help make it all better somehow. [Audio link to show follows below.] Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s very busy show: Trump reluctantly signs a new bipartisan bill sanctioning Russia, North Korea and Iran (and why Bernie Sanders didn&#8217;t support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,239,494,89,675,405,500,543,299,223,479,6,200,451,178,134,428,619,477,43,157,501,540,771,300,126,534,248,71,698,243,376],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama","category-barack-obama","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-canada","category-climate-change","category-democrats","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-irregularities","category-environment","category-epa","category-impeachment","category-iran","category-israel","category-keystone-xl","category-kpfk","category-north-carolina","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-power","category-oil","category-race","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-russia","category-south-carolina","category-tennessee","category-ukraine","category-voter-registration","category-voting-system-standards","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}