Ep074 - Hegseth, TikTok, and Wildfires

The first two weeks of 2025 have been VERY eventful. I simply assume no one wants to listen to me talk about ALL the things that have happened, so I stick to talking about Pete Hegseth's questioning by the Armed Forces Committee this week, the horrifying LA wildfires, and talk about the so-called TikTok ban that's set to go into effect within days. I probably should have talked about it being Biden's last week in politics, but I literally forgot he was still the president. NOTES: TikTok ByteDance Workers Fired for Data Access on Journalists https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists TikTok is a National Security Threat https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/tiktok-is-a-national-security-threat/ TikTok Tapes: U.S. User Data and China ByteDance Access https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access They Know How to Prevent Megafires — Why Won’t Anybody Listen? https://www.propublica.org/article/they-know-how-to-prevent-megafires-why-wont-anybody-listen