Strict Scrutiny - The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh

Kate and Leah run through the latest legal news, including updates on the SNAP benefits case, the email dump that revealed Jeffrey Epstein's deep ties to the establishment, and the political persecution of Representative LaMonica McIver. Then they catch up on the past couple weeks of oral arguments at the Supreme Court, which featured bad signs for a prisoner seeking damages after a flagrant violation of his religious rights, some relaxing detours into civil procedure, and Brett Kavanaugh’s deeply felt sense of injustice over…lawsuits against military contractors.

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The NewsWorthy - Trump’s Epstein Reversal, Flight Restrictions Lifted & 50-Year Mortgages? – Monday, November 17, 2025

The news to know for Monday, November 17, 2025!

What to know about President Trump's new stance on the so-called Epstein Files — and why he wants only some people mentioned in them to be investigated.

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What A Day - Were There Any Winners In The Government Shutdown?

The longest government shutdown in American history ended last week, thanks to 8 Senate Democrats giving up the fight to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies. The infighting between Democrats hasn't stopped since. But what if Democrats' caving was actually a good thing? Tim Miller of the Bulwark joins the show to discuss how the Democrats may be in a prime strategic position as Republicans deal with scandals, skyrocketing costs of living and healthcare, and several MAGA faithful turning on Trump.

And in headlines: President Trump sends federal agents to Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of his ongoing immigration crackdown, Marjorie Taylor Greene continues feuding with Trump, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces a new gas deal with Greece.

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The Best One Yet - 😬 “Millennial Cringe” — Sweetgreen’s low. Walmart’s villain-to-hero. Mini-Soap Drama surge. +Techie facelifts

Walmart’s CEO retired… his boldest move? Raising pay 90% across the biz like Spiderman would.

Sweetgreen, Warby Parker, Allbirds… it’s the Millennial Cringe Stock Market.

Microdramas have taken over Chinese media… and now they’re topping America’s app stores.

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Brian #1: Possibility of a new website for Django

Michael #2: aiosqlitepool

  • 🛡️A resilient, high-performance asynchronous connection pool layer for SQLite, designed for efficient and scalable database operations.
  • About 2x better than regular SQLite.
  • Pairs with aiosqlite
  • aiosqlitepool in three points:
    • Eliminates connection overhead: It avoids repeated database connection setup (syscalls, memory allocation) and teardown (syscalls, deallocation) by reusing long-lived connections.
    • Faster queries via "hot" cache: Long-lived connections keep SQLite's in-memory page cache "hot." This serves frequently requested data directly from memory, speeding up repetitive queries and reducing I/O operations.
    • Maximizes concurrent throughput: Allows your application to process significantly more database queries per second under heavy load.

Brian #3: deptry

  • “deptry is a command line tool to check for issues with dependencies in a Python project, such as unused or missing dependencies. It supports projects using Poetry, pip, PDM, uv, and more generally any project supporting PEP 621 specification.”
  • “Dependency issues are detected by scanning for imported modules within all Python files in a directory and its subdirectories, and comparing those to the dependencies listed in the project's requirements.”
  • Note if you use project.optional-dependencies

    [project.optional-dependencies]
    plot = ["matplotlib"]
    test = ["pytest"]
    
  • you have to set a config setting to get it to work right:

    [tool.deptry]
    pep621_dev_dependency_groups = ["test", "docs"]
    

Michael #4: browsr

  • browsr 🗂️ is a pleasant file explorer in your terminal. It's a command line TUI (text-based user interface) application that empowers you to browse the contents of local and remote filesystems with your keyboard or mouse.
  • You can quickly navigate through directories and peek at files whether they're hosted locally, in GitHub, over SSH, in AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
  • View code files with syntax highlighting, format JSON files, render images, convert data files to navigable datatables, and more.

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  • TDD chapter coming out later today or maybe tomorrow, but it’s close.

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Short Wave - Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier animal research showing that environments that stimulate the brain can increase levels of certain neurotransmitters. And other studies of people have suggested that cognitive training can improve thinking and memory. So how does it all work? And by how much does it all work? Here to break everything down and help you understand how to keep your brain sharp is NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - The winner’s curse

Ever put in the winning bid for something on an auction site only to realize you significantly overpaid? Yeah, there’s a phrase for that. On today’s show: the winner’s curse.

Richard Thaler’s new book with Alex O. Imas is The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Margaret Atwood on what finally made her agree to write a memoir

Best-selling author Margaret Atwood says she originally rejected the idea of writing a memoir. But she warmed up to the idea after she began to think of a memoir as a recollection of “stupid things you did, near-death events, catastrophes, and surprising highlights and jokes.” Now, at age 85, Atwood is out with Book of Lives. In today’s episode, she joins NPR’s Sacha Pfeiffer for a conversation that touches on the difference between memoir and biography, Canadian identity, and writing from the perspective of an “Inner Advice Columnist.”


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The National Guard Is Asking Questions

Trump can’t seem to decide if the National Guard is needed in American cities to stop violent crime, or to assist ICE deportations, or something else entirely. And the lack of a clear and present crisis is starting to make some Guard members uncomfortable. 

Guest: Kat Lonsdorf, news reporter for National Public Radio.

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