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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 First, breaking news of a new school shooting, this time in Knoxville, TN. The US hit a new single-day record for vaccinations in the race between vaccine distribution and the rise of deadlier variants, with nearly 40 percent of adult Americans having received at least one shot.\\xa0 But COVID numbers are spiking again in some regions - in very hard-hit Michigan, Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer requested a vaccine surge, but for unclear reasons the Biden Administration rejected the request and recommended reinstituting lockdowns instead. Major corporate CEOs and major law firms intensified pushback against Georgia's massive new voter suppression law; actor-producer Will Smith pulled his latest film production from the state. It's pathetic that voters have to rely on corporations (and their campaign dollars) to pressure Republicans to block these voter suppression laws.\\xa0 Then:\\xa0 Media reform activist SUE WILSON of the Media Action Center explains her new report at BradBlog.com on a dangerous provision enacted the Trump FCC to quietly change media ownership rules to accelerate corporate consolidation, allowing a single company to own even more TV stations, radio stations and newspapers in a single market than before. Wilson explains the Catch-22 that the US Supreme Court used to uphold the damaging rule change, despite the negative impacts of consolidation that ill-serves the public and further gives away control of our public airwaves to corporate interests. Callers weigh in on all of the above..."