{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-dreamin.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fweekly-roundup-for-august-21-2021-eqgxXBaq","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Weekly roundup for August 21, 2021","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4b690241-b9e9-47a3-8da8-bff7f51f2e48/482c6281-db86-44cf-9188-71c4d58f9935/operation-allies-refuge-image-2-of-10.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/094ac8b1-3e91-47ae-8745-764067885078\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Weekly roundup for August 21, 2021\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Weekly roundup for August 21, 2021\n\nI clarify some previous remarks about Nina Turner's loss and state-based single payer/M4A.  Also, the IPCC report indicates the federal government is not doing nearly enough to address climate change.  And what does the fall of Kabul mean for the 2024 presidential election?\n\nNOTES:\n1. \"Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet\", The Guardian, August 9, 2021; https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/09/humans-have-caused-unprecedented-and-irreversible-change-to-climate-scientists-warn\n2. \"AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis\", Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, August 9, 2021; https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1\n3. \"The fall of Kabul: a 20-year mission collapses in a single day\", The Guardian, August 15, 2021; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/15/the-fall-of-kabul-a-20-year-mission-collapses-in-a-single-day\n4. \"Keys to the White House\", PollyVote, accessed August 19, 2021; https://pollyvote.com/en/components/models/mixed/keys-to-the-white-house\n5. \"Pattern recognition applied to presidential elections in the United States, 1860-1980: Role of integral social, economic, and political traits\", by A. J. Lichtman and V. I. Keilis-Borok, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 1, 1981; https://www.pnas.org/content/78/11/7230\n\nMUSIC CREDIT:\n\"Angry Bass Line\", by Adigold; elements.envato.com\n\nIMAGE CREDIT:\nUnited States Air Force, public domain; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Allies_Refuge_Image_2_of_10.jpg"}