Sen. Kamala Harris has made history as the first Black and Asian-American to be put up as a candidate for vice president of the U.S. by a major political party We check in with Cong. Robin Kelly and Cong. Raja Krishnamoorthi, 2 Democratic members of the Illinois congressional delegation, to get their reaction to Joe Biden’s pick for a running mate in 2020.
Cato Daily Podcast - Trump Executive Orders on COVID-19 vs. Congressional Prerogatives
The President's most recent orders adjusting unemployment benefits, student loan payments, and payroll taxes deserve scrutiny for both the manner in which Congress has given away power and Presidential aggrandizement. Gene Healy comments.
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Song Exploder - The 1975 – The Birthday Party
The 1975 are a band from Manchester, England, made up of Matty Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald, and George Daniel. They started playing music together in 2002, when they were teenagers. Since then, they’ve released four albums, won three Brit awards, and gotten two Grammy nominations. Their most recent album, Notes on a Conditional Form, came out in May 2020. In this episode, Matty and George break down how they made the song “The Birthday Party.”
CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: #SupplyGate and the Battle to Frame Crypto’s Next Bull Run
Why the ether supply dust-up was about much more than the supply of ether.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today on the Brief:
- WSJ study finds TikTok was tracking data in a way that broke Android rules
- The latest Core Inflation statistics
- MicroStrategy stocks pops 10% after cash to bitcoin announcement
Our main discussion: What’s the Ethereum #SupplyGate really about
NLW breaks down:
- The historical narratives bitcoiners and ether advocates hold relative to one another
- The history of dominant narratives in crypto over the last three years
- Why the next bull market is poised for a twin narrative combining bitcoin as a hedge against fiat debasement and DeFi as a money-making sandbox
- What happened with #SupplyGate
- Why #SupplyGate is as much about narrative competition as it is about the supply of ether
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Washington Generals
Sports history is littered with really bad teams. The 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t win a single game and wound up losing 26 in a row. The 2012 Charlotte Bobcats went 7-59 for a .106 winning percentage. The 1899 Cleveland Spiders set a record for futility in baseball winning only 20 games out of 154.
However, all of those teams are giants compared to the worst professional sports team in history: The Washington Generals.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Nunavut Ping
Officially formed in 1999, Nunavut is the newest and most northerly territory of Canada. This sparsely-populated region is home unique wildlife, ancient culture and, it seems, a mystery. Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they unravel the strange story of a bizarre, unexplained sound emerging from the seafloor -- it's allegedly terrified migratory animals, baffled local hunters, and inspired the Canadian government to launch an official investigation (which led to more questions than answers).
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 08/12
Reaction to a historic pick --- Kamala Harris for Vice President. Two major conferences postpone college football. New research on how coronavirus spreads. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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NBN Book of the Day - Christopher Newfield, “The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)
In The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Christopher Newfield diagnoses what he sees as a crisis in American public higher education.
He argues that since roughly the 1980s, American public universities have entered into a devolutionary cycle of defunding brought about by privatization. The influence of private sector practices on public higher education, Newfield argues, has fundamentally shifted the view of higher education in American society from a public good to a private good.
Despite this bleak assessment, Newfield’s book provides a roadmap for how to fix this crisis in public higher education. A central component of his plan is recognizing the university as a public good by acknowledging its wide range of benefits to society and democracy more generally.
Newfield’s book will interest scholars from many disciplines, including higher education, U.S. political history, and the history of inequality in America.
Christopher Newfield is a professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Steven P. Rodriguez is a PhD candidate in history at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the history of Latin American student migration to the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. You can reach him at steven.p.rodriguez@vanderbilt.edu and follow his twitter at @SPatrickRod.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Therein Lai’s a tale: Hong Kong’s revealing arrests
The dramatic arrest of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy newspaper owner, reveals just how enthusiastically Beijing’s new security law will be deployed to quash any dissent. A reservoir is filling behind an enormous new dam in Ethiopia—and that has soured relations with Egypt downriver. And why Britain’s “urban explorers” may soon have far fewer derelict buildings to conquer.
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