What's Interesting on the Video Internet
Document leaks in a bathroom, the growing labor movement, Deion Sanders on 60 Minutes again, and a comedian explains private equity
Every week we’ll bring you interesting stories from around the internet that use video or data visualizations to give us new insights about our world.
Politics
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy failed to rally enough support for a procedural vote to bring the Defense Authorization Act to the floor. Atlanta First News has a good 90 second summary on what happened and what it means, here. Below, The Hill discusses the open conflict inside the GOP.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@thehill)
Also, The Daily Beast on the proposal found in a bathroom to oust McCarthy:
"Talk about a leak. Some House Republican is likely shuffling around the halls of the U.S. Capitol missing their draft resolution to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, because that’s exactly what was found on a baby-changing table in a bathroom under the House floor on Tuesday.”
Business
From NFL running backs to flight attendants, what’s happening in the labor movement is a big story. And it may have big political consequences. The United Auto Workers announced this week that it will send another 5,600 workers out on strike. Shawn Fain, President of the United Auto Workers union, spoke to Face the Nation about Wall Street bailouts, executive compensation, and worker’s “poverty wages.” Fain has said previously that “our endorsements are going to be earned. We’ve been very clear about that, no matter what politician.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@thewarningwithsteveschmidt)
Related, what does Private Equity do, anyway? And why does it take a satirist to explain it so clearly?
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@GoodWorkMB)
International
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation on why the Chinese government destroyed fifteen 30-story buildings with 4.8 tons of explosives, and what it means.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNewsIndepth)
War
Ukraine’s DIY drone revolution is powered by civilian volunteers, providing 90% of the country’s military drones.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@TheEconomist)
Engineering
China’s $6 billion railway as part of a $1 trillion effort to build a “global infrastructure network.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@wsj)
Sports
Now that it’s football season, stand by for a plethora of Washington Commanders highlights. Because here at Civil we provide the content you need, if not always the content you want.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@commanders)
Deion Sanders on 60 Minutes, again. “We ain’t got next, we got now.” If you missed it (because your priorities are all wrong), Sanders coaches the University of Colorado at Boulder football team. Last year the team was 1-11. This year so far they’re 3-0, including a defeat of TCU (who played in last year’s national championship game) where they were 21 point underdogs. Oh, and Deion’s son is the quarterback. Standby to see a lot more Buffaloes highlights this season, also.
(Sources: https://www.youtube.com/@60minutes and https://www.youtube.com/@CUBuffsFootball
Editors Choice
Ted Koppel and CBS Sunday Morning on the division in America, and Lincoln’s “a house divided.”
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/@CBSSundayMorning)
Miscellanea
The USS Gerald Ford, the largest warship in the world, is underway with 4,000 sailors on its first operational deployment.
September 22nd was a busy day in history.
An F-35 pilot calls 911. George Stephanopolous says it’s the craziest call he’s ever heard.
US detainees arrive home after Iran prisoner swap.
Infographics of the Week
Pew Research finds that distrust of government and dislike of both parties are historically bad.
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org)
A real life Ocean’s 14? Cyber attacks are threatening MGM’s billion dollar empire.
(Source: www.chartr.com)
See you next week,