Media Bites Back at Biden

We’re early this week! And in case you haven’t heard, DeSantis is cooked . . . or at least that’s the latest take from the media. We’re breaking down the latest 2024 news, controversial curriculum in Florida, Hunter Biden, and stick around for great moments in fact-checking.

Time Stamps:

41:03 – Style Section

47:36 – Obsessions

53:30 – Reader Mail

54:59 – Favorite Items

Show Notes:

NBC: Note cards and shorter stairs: How Biden’s campaign is addressing his age

NYPost: Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major

CNN: DeSantis cuts additional campaign staff in effort to ‘streamline operations’

Politico: New Florida teaching standards say African Americans received some ‘personal benefit’ from slavery

Washington Examiner: Truth is the first casualty of liberal media’s war on DeSantis

Politico: Political consultant backing Tim Scott spewed the N-word during card game

Washington Post: Tuberville’s tales about his father in World War II have false elements

New York Times: Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification

New York Times: In Florida, Swimmers Brave an Ocean That Feels Like Steamy Syrup

Washington Post: Five ways to sleep better during a heat wave without blasting the AC

New York Times: Would You Drink Wastewater? What if It Was Beer?

Washington Post: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s charged mission of healing

Variety: Inside the Battle for CNN: Jeff Zucker, David Zaslav, Chris Licht and 18 Months of Crazy Backstabbing

Washington Post: Black Lives Matter images deleted from Jason Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ video

Washington Post: Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs and the complicated response to ‘Fast Car’

The Atlantic: What’s the Matter With Barbie?

New York Times: I Saw ‘Barbie’ With Susan Faludi, and She Has a Theory About It

Wall Street Journal: How Allbirds Lost Its Way

New York Times: Is the Cure to Male Loneliness Out on the Pickleball Court?

Business Insider: Exclusive: Hunter Biden’s gallery sold his art to a Democratic donor ‘friend’ whom Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission

AP News: ‘Mama bears’ may be the 2024 race’s soccer moms. But where the GOP seeks votes, some see extremism

Chalkbeat: Politicians and pundits say parents are furious with schools. Polls say otherwise

NYPost: Gen Z cries ‘time blindness’: Is being late a real medical condition?

The Stanford Daily: Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers

Wall Street Journal: Deadly School Fire Casts Light on Sexual Exploitation in Guyana Mining Town