Month: July 2024

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What A Day - Three Weeks After The Debate, More Dems Call For Biden To Step Down

Wednesday was jam-packed with new developments on and around the Democratic campaign trail. The White House announced that President Biden tested positive for COVID. Biden also appeared to give himself room to exit the presidential race, saying in an interview with BET News he’d reconsider running if “some medical condition” emerged. However, Biden remained defiant and said he had no plans to drop out. California Congressman Adam Schiff became the most high-profile Democrat to publicly call on Biden to exit the race, telling The Los Angeles Times he has “serious concerns” over whether Biden can beat former President Trump in November. And the Democratic National Committee announced it plans to move forward with a virtual roll call vote to officially nominate Biden ahead of the convention, despite calls to drop it amid the ongoing debate within the party over the president’s candidacy. Politics reporter Todd Zwillich breaks down what it all means.

And in headlines: Special Counsel Jack Smith appealed the dismissal of Trump’s classified documents case, investigators looking into the assassination attempt against Trump at a rally this weekend reportedly told lawmakers that Secret Service spotted the gunman on a nearby roof roughly 20 minutes before shots were fired, and ‘Shogun’ and ‘The Bear’ lead this year’s Emmy nominations.

 

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The NewsWorthy - Vance Takes the Stage, Preventing Cancers & FX Dominates Emmys- Thursday, July 18, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, July 18, 2024!

We're telling you about the first major speech from JD Vance since becoming one of the most powerful figures in the Republican party.

And it seems authorities stopped a serious security threat right outside the RNC.

Also, another top Democrat is calling on President Biden to step aside.

Plus, we're talking about the impact of severe storms across several states, what a new study found about preventing cancer, and the two shows dominating the list of this year's Emmy nominations. 

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The Best One Yet - 🐘 “ConservaTech” — Silicon Valley’s right pivot. Supreme’s Ferrari strategy. JPM’s ex-Con hiring.

The most influential VC firm, a16z, is turning to Trump… so we’ll explain “AlgoRepublicans.”

Streetwear icon Supreme was just sold at a shockingly low price… because they didn’t follow Ferrari’s coolness recipe.

And JP Morgan Chase hires 5k ex-criminals every year… and it’s a key to fighting crime.

Plus, it’s officially “Hot Hydrangea Summer” after record blooming… so we found a lesson in flowers for business.


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The Daily Signal - Why Former Obama Fundraiser Now Backs Trump

Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump. 


Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007. 


“It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh to not only support Obama herself in the 2008 election, but encourage others to do likewise. 

As an entrepreneur and successful computer scientist in Silicon Valley in California, Huynh hosted fundraising dinners for Obama with tickets costing $50,000 a plate. But after Obama won the election and took office in 2009, Huynh says, disillusionment began to set in. 


A Vietnamese immigrant, Huynh says the disillusionment “started with Barack Obama and this lack of logic in terms of how he led,” but it didn't end there. 


Huynh calls diversity, equity, and inclusion “Marxist and doublespeak” because “equity is what you get when you work for something.” 


Equity is not won because of the “color of your skin” or “identity politics,” Huynh contends. “This doesn't make sense. It erodes away from what it is to be an American, right?” 


Asked why she is now supporting Trump, Huynh says that after meeting Trump, she found him “very open” to considering policies that serve tech entrepreneurs like her. 


Huynh joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to share her story of disillusionment with the Democratic Party.


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Tech Won't Save Us - Generative AI is a Climate Disaster w/ Sasha Luccioni

Paris Marx is joined by Sasha Luccioni to discuss the catastrophic environmental costs of the generative AI being increasing shoved into every tech product we touch.
 
Sasha Luccioni is an artificial intelligence researcher and Climate Lead at Hugging Face.

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. Support the show on Patreon.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - What Republicans Really Want

With the presidential ticket set and the platform announced, the GOP of 2024 isn’t defined by fiscal conservatism and fighting to end abortion—although those issues are holding on, further down on the list. 


So what are Republicans fighting for now? 


Guest: Paul Farrow, county executive for Waukesha County, delegate at the RNC, former chair of the Wisconsin GOP.


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Pod Save America - Vance Vance Revolution

JD Vance makes his debut as Donald Trump's running mate and doesn't exactly hit a home run. Joe Biden tests positive for COVID, details leak out about Chuck Schumer's tough-love conversation with the president, and the DNC blinks in the standoff over its plan for a virtual roll call. Jon, Lovett, Tommy, and Dan break down a truly packed day of news, from the problems with Vance's speech to the latest polling about the future of the Democratic ticket.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘We Were Once a Family’ examines how the foster care system failed the Hart siblings

In 2018, Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove off a cliff in California, killing themselves and their six adopted children. While much of the media attention focused on the two women, reporter Roxanna Asgarian set off to investigate what had happened to the children's birth families, and why they'd been removed from their care. In today's episode, Asgarian speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about her book, We Were Once a Family, and the ways the foster care and child welfare system in the United States pushed the Hart siblings into an abusive and ultimately fatal situation.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Conspiracy Theories, J.D. Vance, and Jury Duty

Nate and Maria discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the psychology of conspiracy theorists. They talk about what Trump’s selection of J.D. Vance means for the election. And they parse the latest in the Democrats’ intra-party fight over Biden.

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It Could Happen Here - Police Killing Outside RNC on ‘Make America Safe Again’ Day

Robert and Gare report from where Ohio police shot a houseless Black man, meanwhile Sophie attends a Moms for Liberty event starring Ron DeSantis.

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