Month: October 2020

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The Daily Signal - Mary Vought on Religion and Confirmation Hearings

Today's Daily Signal Podcast features an interview from the great “Problematic Women” podcast.  As Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett prepares for Senate hearings next week, many are wondering whether she’ll again face harsh questions about her Catholic faith.

Mary Vought, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund and wife of Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, joins us to explain why this line of questioning is unconstitutional. Her husband, she recalls, faced similar scrutiny in his own Senate confirmation hearing.


We also cover these stories:


  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is speaking out against attacks on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
  • President Donald Trump says he no longer feels any symptoms of COVID, according to his doctor, Sean Conley. 
  • Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, has been released from jail after posting a million dollar bail.



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Tech Won't Save Us - Silicon Valley is Embracing Anti-China Nationalism w/ JS Tan

Paris Marx is joined by JS Tan to discuss the internet’s connection with neoliberalism, China’s protectionist measures to develop its own tech industry, and how the new tensions between the United States and China are leading Silicon Valley to embrace nationalism.

JS Tan is a former tech worker and writer. He also started Collective Actions in Tech. He recently wrote articles about the tech angle on the Cold War for Foreign Policy and Trump’s attempted TikTok ban for Jacobin. Follow JS on Twitter as @organizejs.

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.

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The Gist - Too Big to Govern?

On the Gist, a vice presidential debate starring plexiglass.

In the interview, Mike hosts a roundtable discussion with journalist Richard Kreitner and Vox’s Matthew Yglesias to talk about how each of their new books address the problem of an ever-increasing American population. They debate if the U.S. should split into more manageable nations, or if the country should keep pushing population growth. Yglesias’ book is One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Big, and Kreitner’s latest is Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union.

In the spiel, Delco, South Philly, and NY tri-state area Italian Americans for Joe Biden.

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This Machine Kills - 10. This Movie Kills: A Scanner Darkly

Cold open: What does a scanner see? Welcome to the first installment of This Movie Kills! This week we discuss the film A Scanner Darkly (2006), an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel. What do you get when you shake together drug psychosis, police paranoia, distorted perception, atmospheric anxiety, and identity crisis? Bad vibes all around! Or, maybe just another day in “a world getting progressively worse.” The story is from the seventies, the movie feels like the 90s, but the themes are all about today. Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl).
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Consider This from NPR - Millions Of Americans Can’t Afford Enough To Eat As Pandemic Relief Stalls In D.C.

Two years ago, about 12% of American households reported they didn't have enough food. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, that number has nearly doubled. It's even more severe for Black and Hispanic families.

Texas Public Radio's Paul Flahive reports on a giant food bank in San Antonio that can barely keep up with the growing demand.

Experts say the problem of food insecurity in America needs bigger, longer-term solutions. Erthain Cousin, former U.S. Ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, tells NPR's Michel Martin the country needs to think bigger than food banks and start investing in businesses that can improve nutrition in low-income communities.

And Jim Carnes of Alabama Arise, an organization working to end poverty in Alabama, explains that food insecurity goes hand in hand with poverty. And the main factor driving poverty in the U.S.? Medical expenses.

Listen to a special episode of All Things Considered all about food insecurity during the pandemic.

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Condorology (CONDORS & VULTURES) with Jonathan C. Hall

To kick off SpooOoktober, we’re looking at huge birds that DEVOUR DEATH: the giant, majestic and critically endangered California condor. Condorologist Dr. Jonathan C. Hall’s work helps monitor populations, tracks flight data, and keeps tabs on how well this small population is rebounding after going extinct in the wild in 1987. We chat carcasses, wingspans, beaks, bald heads, and more. By the end, you’ll want to gaze at the skies hoping for a sighting. Also: condor romance gossip! And accomplices vs. allyship. Dr. Hall is just amazing.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Covid-19 Stimulus In Limbo, Kurt Elling Celebrates 25 Years With Streamed Concerts

Millions of people and thousands of businesses are desperate for some help from the federal government because of the pandemic, but congress and the president can’t seem to get a package together. Later, Internationally recognized jazz vocalist Kurt Elling rolls out a series of livestreamed shows to mark the 25th anniversary of this first album’s release. We’ll talk about his quarter century in jazz, how he’s changed as an artist, and why he’s so excited to be back living in Chicago after a dozen years in New York

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How Bitcoin Could Become the Reserve Asset for DeFi, Feat. Qiao Wang

Crypto trader, analyst and operator Qiao Wang looks at bitcoin’s macro resilience and why DeFi is here to stay.

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Nexo.io and Elliptic.

Today on the Brief:

  • Stimulus talk shutdown spooks markets
  • House recommends antitrust actions but likely to get nowhere
  • CBDC trial results from China


Our main discussion is with trader and entrepreneur Qiao Wang. In this conversation, NLW and Qiao discuss:

  • Bitcoin’s resilience in the face of a barrage of bad news
  • Why DeFi is a natural next step from the foundation bitcoin has built 
  • How bitcoin could end up the reserve asset for DeFi
  • Why regulation is the greatest threat to the space 


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Song Exploder - Dua Lipa – Levitating

Dua Lipa is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter from London. Her second album, Future Nostalgia, came out in March 2020. It hit #1 on the charts in thirteen countries, and it was shortlisted for the UK’s Mercury Prize.

Dua co-wrote the song "Levitating" with some of her closest collaborators, including producer Stephen Kozmeniuk, AKA Koz. In this episode, Dua and Koz break down “Levitating” and how Dua’s childhood memories shaped its sound.

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