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Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 16AUG22

Casualties in War on Drugs, DOJ Investigates SBC, Iran & Rushdie, Mexico, w/ Finesse Moreno-Rivera

Andrew Donaldson
2 min readAug 16, 2022

Your Heard Tell for Tuesday, August the 16th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to what is really going on with the Department of Justice now investigating the Souther Baptist Convention, and what the continued abuse story in America’s largest evangelical denomination means, and how some are already politicizing it. Iran has made a statement regarding the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie, and it is just about what you’d think it would be for a regime that has called for the author’s death for decades. Our guest today is Finesse Moreno-Rivera, an accomplished criminologist, research analyst, policy advisor, criminal justice data expert. Finesse is breaking down how the war on drugs sees the most casualties among the black and other minorities, destroys communities, and creats an irresistable business model for law enforcement. Finesse walks use through the history of the War on Drugs from Nixon and the cocain and heroin of the 70s to Biden and his schedule I fentanyl policy extensions of today. Finesse has several

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Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson

Written by Andrew Donaldson

Writer. Mountaineer diaspora. Veteran. Managing Editor @ordinarytimemag on culture & politics, food writing @yonderandhome, Host @heardtellshow & other media

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