Month: July 2022

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What A Day - Lost In Inflation

Consumer prices are up 9.1% over this time last year, according to new inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the highest inflation rate in 40 years.

President Biden landed in the Middle East on Wednesday and will be there until the end of the week. His administration is focused on building support among Israeli leadership for the Iran Nuclear Deal.

And in headlines: School surveillance video of the Uvalde school shooting was released, Sri Lanka’s freshly ousted president fled his own country, and Microsoft joined forces with Netflix as business partners.

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The Daily Signal - Former Trump Adviser Warns Against Ravages of Globalism

In the wake of globalization, the industrial base of the country has been hollowed out. Booming towns throughout the Rust Belt began to hemorrhage residents as jobs dried up and were shipped overseas.

Americans are beginning to seriously question whether the decision to send manufacturing overseas was worth it.

Paige Willey, a former adviser to then-President Donald Trump and host of the “This Is Your Country” podcast, joins the show to discuss how globalism has ravaged America, and what can be done to counter it.

We also cover these stories:

  • The Labor Department reports inflation rose to a whopping annual rate of 9.1% in June, the highest rate in nearly 41 years.
  • An Austin, Texas, newspaper releases portions of school surveillance footage showing law enforcement officers retreating from gunfire in the hallways of an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, during a May mass shooting.
  • Louisiana state District Judge Donald Johnson temporary enjoins a state law banning most abortions in the state pending a lawsuit challenging the legislation.
  • Citing safety concerns for staff and customers, Starbucks announces it plans to close 16 of its coffee shops across the country.



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Tech Won't Save Us - The Dangers of Tech that Tracks Everything We Do w/ Shoshana Wodinsky

Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how the digital infrastructure that companies have built out over the past couple decades to track everything we do in order to serve us ads places us at risk, and how that’s come into focus since the overturning of abortion rights in Roe v Wade in the United States.

Shoshana Wodinsky is a privacy reporter at Gizmodo. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Proud Boys’ New Plan for Power

The Proud Boys started as a loose coalition of men who filtered misogyny and racism through an ironic, “just joking” veneer. But once Donald Trump told them to “stand back and stand by” from the debate stage, it became clear that something more serious was happening. After taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, the Proud Boys have become even more active in GOP politics, choosing candidates, and even running candidates from their own ranks.


Guest: Andy Campbell, Senior Editor at HuffPost and author of upcoming book We Are Proud Boys.


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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #337 – “Zagnut Factory” with Ben Sawyer

In this episode, Dr. Ben Sawyer is back at Disgraceland hangin' with the Goods from the Woods Boys for an absolutely rollickin' good time! We're starting this one off by tasting an energy drink that claims "good vibes" as one of its ingredients before getting into some bad vibes at Rivers's job and even worse vibes at the Georgia Guidestones (RIP to "mystery and intrigue"). We also chat about a recent rash of well-deserved buffalo gorings at America's National Parks and an obituary for the worst guy ever. "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams Jr. is our JAM OF THE WEEK! Join the jamboree down at the ol' Zagnut factory and tune in now.  Follow Dr. Ben on Twitter @SawyerComedy and check out his podcast "The Road to Now".  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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Short Wave - Making Space Travel Accessible For People With Disabilities

This week NASA released some of the sharpest images of space ever from the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope's camera gives us a glimpse into distant galaxies and a picture of the makings of our universe.

Tomorrow, we'll nerd out about those photos.

But today, we're revisiting the idea of space travel. This encore episode, science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel talks to New York Times Disability Reporting Fellow Amanda Morris about one organization working to ensure disabled people have the chance to go to space.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Covered in Night’ compares colonial and Indigenous approaches to justice

In this episode, we're going back in time to 1722 to examine the different approaches to justice between Native Americans and Pennsylvania colonists in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by historian Nicole Eustace. In an interview with Here & Now's Scott Tong, Eustace discusses how reparative justice has deep roots in American history.
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It Could Happen Here - The New Wave of Queer Exterminationist Rhetoric

We talk Jordan Peterson's anti-trans supervillain monologue and the past month of increasing rhetoric around queer exterminationism.

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Planet Money - SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles

It's macro time! Today: Keynes vs. Hayek.

Season 3 of summer school is here asking the biggest economic questions about what makes an entire economy grow or contract? Things like, is there a "right" level of unemployment? Who gains from trade? What rhymes with 'paradox of thrift'? Also, inflation, we'll get to inflation.

Episode 1 begins with the rise of macroeconomics as a field, with one of the great economic debates of the 20th century: what causes booms and busts, and what can the government do about it? How free should a free market be?

It's a debate (over beats and with an actual rap battle) between John Maynard Keynes and F.A Hayek.

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