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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki joins Jon and Dan to break down President Biden’s first address to a Joint Session of Congress. Then, new 2020 Census data jeopardizes Democratic control of Congress, and Republicans spend the week spreading a slew of wild conspiracies about the Biden Administration with the help of their propaganda outlets.

Show Notes

BIDEN’S CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS

• WaPo: Read President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress 
• NYT: Biden, Calling for Big Government, Bets on a Nation Tested by Crisis 
• Vox: 5 winners and 3 losers from President Biden’s first congressional address
• WaPo Analysis: 4 takeaways from Biden’s first address to Congress 
• Politico: ‘Setback into strength’: Biden makes emotional pitch in first joint address to Congress
• Axios: Biden to the nation: “America is on the move again”
• NY Mag: Biden’s Two-Part Economic Strategy Was Years in the Making
• NYT: Biden’s $4 Trillion Economic Plan, in One Chart 
• NYT: Biden Details $1.8 Trillion Plan for Workers, Students and Families
• WaPo: White House proposes $1.8 trillion package that would dramatically expand education, safety net programs 
• Vox: Biden takes aim at American inequality by investing $1.8 trillion in families 
• CBS News: CBS News Poll of Speech Watchers
• NYT: In a Locked-Down Capitol, Biden Will Address a Sparse Audience
• Axios: Biden to meet with party leaders on May 12
• Politico: Biden to invite lawmakers to the White House next week to discuss big spending packages 
• NPR: Sen. Scott’s Republican Response To Biden’s Address, Annotated 
• Politico: ‘America is not a racist country’: Sen. Tim Scott delivers GOP response
• The Independent: Tim Scott insists US is not racist in response to Biden speech – after revealing racist abuse he has faced
• WaPo: Tim Scott seeks to balance role as dealmaker on policing and critic of Biden agenda in Wednesday night address
• NYT: Tim Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, will deliver the G.O.P.
• rebuttal to Biden.
• Vox: The State of the Union response — and why it’s always terrible — explained 
• NPR: For State Of The Union’s Responders, The Warm Glow Often Fades Fast

CENSUS APPORTIONMENT

• Axios: States that voted for Biden lose 3 net House seats after Census count 
• Politico Playbook: REAPPORTIONMENT WINNERS AND LOSERS 
• Cook: 2020 Census: What the Reapportionment Numbers Mean 
• Politico: Florida braces for legal fights after picking up just 1 congressional seat 
• Politico: For the lack of 89 people, New York will lose 1 House seat
• Politico: California will lose a House seat for the first time, and the scramble is on
• Politico: Census surprise: Texas gains only 2 seats as shift to Sun Belt slow
• Census.gov: Apportionment Population Counts and What to Expect on Release Day 
• AP: What’s behind the growth slump? Takeaways from census data 
• POLITICO Playbook: LATINOS SHAFTED IN CENSUS? 
• Politico: Census data leaves Latinos wondering: Were we counted? 
• NPR: Biden To Make Historic Census Director Pick With Latinx Statistician Rob Santos 
• AP: Fear, lack of funding hurt census in Sun Belt, advocates say
• Axios: 1 big thing: Census shifts House seats to Trump states
• Cook: The 32 House Incumbents in the Most Redistricting Danger 
• Politico: Redistricting kicks off ruthless year of House infighting 
• Politico: Redistricting delays freeze 2022 House races
• Brennan Center: The Redistricting Landscape, 2021–22
• Politico: The redistricting cycle is about to begin
• Politico: GOP scores an early win in 2024 race 

CONSPIRACY CORNER

• Chicago Tribune: How a nonsense story about Joe Biden taking your hamburgers away became red meat for conservatives 
• CNN: Fact check: No, Biden is not trying to force Americans to eat less red meat 
• WaPo: No, officials are not handing out Harris’s picture book to migrant kids
• NYPost: Kamala isn’t at the southern bodern – but at least one migrant kid got Veep’s book 
• NYT: Iran’s Foreign Minister, in Leaked Tape, Says Revolutionary Guards Set Policies 
• WaPo: The John Kerry-Iran controversy, explained
• Politico: GOP tears into Kerry amid Iran controversy
• CNN: Federal agents execute search warrants on Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan home and office
• Vanity Fair – IT APPEARS RUDY GIULIANI IS EXTREMELY SCREWED
• WaPo: Federal agents execute search warrant at Giuliani’s home
• FiveThirtyEight: Biden approval rating
• FiveThirtyEight: Trump approval rating
• McClatchy: ‘He’s bland’: Republicans struggle to find line of attack that sticks to Biden
• AP: Some local GOP leaders fire up base with conspiracies, lies 
• NY Mag – Republicans Can’t Decide Which ‘Uncle Joe’ to Attack
• NYT: Some Republicans have turned to conspiracy theories and misinformation to explain the Capitol attack. 
• Ipsos Poll: More than 1 in 3 Americans believe a ‘deep state’ is working to undermine Trump
• YouGov poll: 30% of Republicans have ‘favorable’ view of QAnon conspiracy theory
• CBS: What we know about the “unprecedented” U.S. Capitol riot arrests 
• AP: Some local GOP leaders fire up base with conspiracies, lies
• The Atlantic: Tucker Carlson, Unmasked 
• Vox: Biden’s fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat
• BuzzFeed News: Facebook Knows It Was Used To Help Incite The Capitol Insurrection 
• WaPo: Far-right sources on Facebook get more engagement than any other political posts, study finds

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