Month: February 2020

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The Best One Yet - “Facebook fact-checkers vs. 4.75B posts per day” — DoorDash’s not First-Mover Advantage. SoundCloud’s desperate $75M. Facebook’s hires Reuters.

Facebook has added a new addition to its army of information regulators for the election year, but we’re looking at their odds (spoiler: not great odds). SoundCloud snags a fresh $75M in funding from SiriusXM, but the music platform still hasn’t found itself. And DoorDash’s CEO sat down for an interview with Fortune that revealed how First Mover advantage isn’t an advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Trump Appointee on a Mission to Gut Medicaid

A few weeks back the Trump administration made an announcement. They rolled out a new health care policy called the Healthy Adult Opportunity. It’s a policy that would give states the option of reducing benefits for millions of Medicaid patients.

This is only the latest in a line of attempts to scale back the Medicaid program by Seema Verma. Why is this such a priority for the Trump administration and Verma herself? And how are Republicans trying to square cuts to such a popular program in an election year?

Guest: Dan Diamond, host of Pulse Check and writes the POLITICO Pulse — a morning briefing on health care politics and policy.

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The NewsWorthy - Spike in Virus Cases, Mysterious Radio Signals & Free Netflix Movie (+ Talking Online Dating) – Thursday, February 13th, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, February 13th, 2020!

What to know today about why the U.S. attorney general will be in the hot seat on Capitol Hill, the latest candidate to drop out of the presidential race, and why a major global conference was just cancelled...

Plus: a mysterious radio signal in space, explaining the 'Emoji Kitchen' feature, and the Netflix free movie offer.

Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!

Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview. We're talking with Damona Hoffman from Dates & Mates about online dating trends, app safety and new tech for couples ahead of Valentine's Day.

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Sources:

AG Barr to Testify: The Hill, CNN

Deval Patrick Drops Out: NPR, Politico

NH Primary Turnout: ABC News, NYT

Coronavirus Latest: AP, NYT, CNN

Tech Show Canceled: The Verge, Bloomberg, Business Insider

Under Armour Stocks Fall: Forbes, CNBC

Mysterious Space Signal: USA Today, CNN, CBS News

First Electric Fire Truck: LA Times, Engadget

Emoji Kitchen: TechCrunch, The Verge

Netflix Free Movie: Deadline, The Verge

“Apollo 13” Back in Theaters: Engadget, Space.com

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What A Day - The Barr Has Been Lowered

The sentencing recommendation for former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone got shortened by the DOJ and it all feels awfully corrupt. We discuss what might've happened and how lawmakers are reacting to a possible overreach by President Trump.

The chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party is resigning amid calls for a partial re-canvass and a large union in Nevada is calling out candidates that support Medicare For All.

And in headlines: white supremacists are publishing more propaganda, WhatsApp hits 2 billion, and more on Papa John's pizza diet.

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Short Wave - The Weedkiller That Went Rogue

A few years ago farmers started noticing their crops were developing damaged leaves. Turns out the culprit was dicamba, a weedkiller being sprayed by other farmers. Now a trial is underway to decide who's responsible. The farmer behind the lawsuit is pointing the blame, not at other farmers, but two big companies, Monsanto (now owned by Bayer) and BASF. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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The Daily Signal - Even Liberal Feminists Are Concerned About the Equal Rights Amendment, President of Nation’s Largest Public Policy Women’s Organization Says

Lawmakers are expected to vote this week, potentially Thursday, on removing the June 30, 1982 deadline when the Equal Rights Amendment expired. Proponents of the law are saying that it “will enshrine equality for women into the Constitution.” Penny Nance, president and CEO and of Concerned Women for America joins today’s Daily Signal podcast to discuss why she — and even some liberal feminists — want to see the ERA stopped. 


We also cover these stories:

  • President Donald Trump tweets about the case of Roger Stone, a Trump ally who prosecutors recommended spend 7 to 9 years in prison after he was convicted for witness tampering and lying to Congress.
  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calls out President Trump on Twitter for his words about Roger Stone.
  • Three high school female athletes are suing the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference over its policy that permits biological males to compete as girls with biological females in high school sports. 



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The Gist - Bloomberg’s Bad Racial Math

On the Gist, why Vindman wasn’t fired.

In the interview, journalist Andrea Bernstein is here to talk about her new book, American Oligarchs: The Kushners, The Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power. She and Mike discuss how Trump bullied his way through New York real estate, why he puts his name on everything, and how he’s used the presidency for his own personal income.

In the spiel, Bloomberg doubled down on stop-and-frisk for far too long.

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