April 5, 2023

Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Annette’s News Roundup.

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The Fight for Freedom continues.

A good Passover to all.

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Joe is always busy.

Biden to meet with experts on AI 'risks and opportunities.’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will meet with his council of advisers on science and technology about the “ risks and opportunities ” that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence development pose for individual users and national security.

The White House said the Democratic president would use the AI meeting to “discuss the importance of protecting rights and safety to ensure responsible innovation and appropriate safeguards” and to reiterate his call for Congress to pass legislation to protect children and curtail data collection by technology companies.

The council, known as PCAST, is composed of science, engineering, technology and medical experts and is co-chaired by the Cabinet-ranked director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Arati Prabhakar. (AP)

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Joe’s nominee to head Labor, Julie Su, prioritized workers long before nomination.

What a landmark sweatshop case tells us about Julie Su’s approach to labor.

In 1995, dozens of garment workers, most of them women, were freed from a California sweatshop. The lawyer who is now Biden’s nominee to head the Labor Department took their case.

Federal prosecutors quickly sought convictions for indentured servitude and other crimes, but justice and remedy for what Jaknang endured would come years later. That happened with the help of a young lawyer who took the lead of a landmark case against the clothing companies that benefited from the workers’ labor.

She secured millions in back wages, advocated for a visa that allowed Jaknang and others to remain in the United States and helped her find a fair job. That lawyer, Julie Su, was nominated last month to head the U.S. Labor Department, tasked with enforcing laws involving workers, workplaces and labor unions.

Jaknang, 64, described Su as a “kind and hard-working woman” who empowered her to fight for justice at a vulnerable time. This early episode in Su’s career, supporters say, illustrates something important about Su: that the daughter of Chinese immigrants has cultivated a passion for advocating for the nation’s most vulnerable workers, including those who are low-wage, who are immigrants and whose English is limited. 

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Kamala is always busy.

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Today is National School WalkOut Day.

It started on Monday in Tennessee.

Stephanie Sandoval
@newsbysteph

Student walk out happening now. Hundreds of students are at the Tennessee state capitol demanding stricter gun laws… one week after the school shooting in Nashville. @scrippsnews

April 3, 2023, 3:44 p.m.

Touch 👇 to watch.

Ricky Davila
@TheRickyDavila

Absolutely incredible footage of students in Nashville, Tennessee marching to demand that meaningful gun safety legislation be passed. This is amazing.

April 4, 2023, 12:43 a.m.

Today, around the nation.

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Yesterday in American history.

2:15 PM April 4, 2023. Donald Trump, once the occupant of the highest office in the land, was arrested, finger-printed, and charged with 34 felonies because of actions by now defendant Trump, aimed at keeping information from the public in service of his campaign in 2016. Those actions included payoffs to 2 women and 1 man.

The Official photos of Trump’s arrest and arraignment and the 34 Felonies.

Donald Trump under arrest at Manhattan Criminal Court, before his arraignment. (New York mag)

Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his defense team. (New York mag)

Click on this link to read the 34 felony crimes in the first degree in the Indictment.

Click on this link to read the D.A.’s statement of fact on how the Bragg office will prove the case against Trump.

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The next Trump Hearing in New York City is December 4, 2023.

The judge has made clear #DefendantTrump must appear in person.

Trump’s Trial will begin in January 2024.

One more thing. Family is permitted to be in court during an arraignment. No Trump children or spouse were present at Trump’s arraignment yesterday.

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Also yesterday in American history.

April 4, 1968. Martin Luther King assassinated.

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This also happened yesterday.

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Another reason Mike Pence will never be President of the United States. #NeverPence

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Hillary and Nancy held a serious, engaging and inspiring conversation on Monday.

Under the auspices of Columbia’s SIPA (School of International and Public Affairs), former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed how and why we need to protect democracy. Touch and watch below.

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Big money flows into women’s soccer.

The National Women’s Soccer League announced today a deal for a new team to be based in California’s Bay Area at a record price — a big win for women’s professional sports.

The investment firm Sixth Street is leading an ownership group that plans to spend $125 million on the Bay Area franchise. That will include an “expansion fee” of roughly $53 million; three years ago the going rate was $3 million.

The team will include some big names in business and sports.Several former U.S. national team players will be on the board, including Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne and Danielle Slaton, as well as Aly Wagner as co-chair. Other investors include Sheryl Sandberg, the former chief operating officer of Meta, who will also join the board.

Women’s soccer is becoming a huge attraction. The most recent Women’s World Cup claimed a global audience of more than 1.1 billion, and in the U.S., some 915,000 people watched the final of the N.W.S.L. last year.

But sponsorship and media deals lag behind. Apple recently signed a 10-year, $2.5 billion deal to broadcast most M.L.S. games. The N.W.S.L.’s deal with CBS, signed in 2020, was worth $4.5 million over three years.

“You’re at the beginning of an inflection point,” Alan Waxman, C.E.O. of Sixth Street, who will co-chair the new club, told DealBook.

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Fly them to the moon.

The team consists of American astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover (top center)and Reid Wiseman (below Glover), and Canadian spaceman Jeremy Hansen (bottom, right)

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The first NASA crew to go to the moon in 50 years will include the first woman and first African American on a lunar mission in the history of spaceflight. The Artemis II mission, which will circle the moon but will not land on it, won't launch until at least late 2024. A year after the mission, two astronauts will become the first to walk on the moon since 1972. (Need2Know).

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And the final Roundup of yesterday’s News:

1. Welcome Finland, 31st country of NATO.

2. Welcome Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten year term. Look for abortion protections and more fair election maps from a court controlled by Democrats for the first time since 2008. 55.6% to 44.4% says it all.

3. Welcome, Brandon Johnson, teachers’ union organizer, the new Democratic Mayor of Chicago.

What a day!

See you tomorrow.

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