Wait, the NFL was doing *what*? - a podcast by Marketplace

It’s the first week of summer — culturally, if not meteorologically. Changing of the seasons is a great time to start anew on some things, like redistributing vaccines for example; and to stop doing other things, like Facebook’s policy carve outs for politicians or the NFL’s shocking “race-norming” practice. We’ll talk about all of it, plus a whale vomit jackpot.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Biden admin reveals plans for first 25 million donated vaccine doses” from Politico


• “NFL to halt ‘race-norming,’ review Black claims” from ESPN


• “‘Race Norming’ Blamed for Denying Payouts to Ex-NFL Players With Dementia” from the University of California, San Francisco


• “Giving people money works. Honestly.” from The Washington Post’s opinion section


• “COVID-19 cases hit their lowest point in the U.S. since the pandemic began” from Axios


• “Biden called Larry Summers to discuss his economic plans” from The Washington Post


• “Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban” from The Verge


• “Trump deplatforms himself” from Platformer


• “Meditation app backs Naomi Osaka after French Open withdrawal, vows to pay player fines” from Fox Business


• “Fishermen Net Once-In-Lifetime Find: $1.5 Million Worth of Whale Vomit” from Insider


• “United will buy 15 ultrafast airplanes from start-up Boom Supersonic” from CNBC

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