Adam Jentleson knows firsthand how powerful a tool the filibuster can be — and what's possible without it. He was deputy chief of staff to former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who was majority leader in 2013 when Democrats exercised "the nuclear option," eliminating the filibuster for presidential appointees.
Now, Jentleson and a growing number of Democrats argue Senate leaders should eliminate the filibuster for legislation, which would enable Democrats to pass major legislation with a simple Senate majority, instead of the current 60-vote threshold. Jentleson lays out his argument in a recent book, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Bitcoin Whales Won’t Stop Buying
According to a number of different data points, bitcoin whales saw last week’s volatility and price declines as a chance to accumulate.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Project MK ULTRA
After the end of World War II, the newly created Central Intelligence Agency investigated anything and everything which could give the US an advantage in the Cold War.
They looked into anything and everything which might possibly give their side an edge, even if it might have seemed ridiculous on face.
One such idea was mind control.
Learn more about Project MK Ulta on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: Putin’s Secret Hideout, Nebraska and Ethanol, Buying the Lizzie Borden House
While detained by Russian authorities, opposition leader Alexei Navalny released a bombshell report on a secret, opulent compound allegedly owned in secret by Vladimir Putin. The Lizzie Borden house is officially for sale (as an AirBnB). And Mead, Nebraska struggles with largely unacknowledged, widespread contamination from a local ethanol plant. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
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Today's podcast gets into the COVID confusion of the moment and the continuing refusal of elected officials and public-health people to speak the simple truth about what they know and what they don't—and the fact that tradeoffs are difficult and painful and horrible. Also, the Biden administration gets tested abroad and the GOP continues to eat its own. Give a listen.
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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 01/25
The push to speed up vaccinations. President Biden issues Executive Orders on international travel and transgender rights. Tampa Bay vs KC in Super Bowl 55. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Weighing Light
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Vlad tidings: demonstrations across Russia
The arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny—and an exposé he released alleging deep corruption—fuelled vast weekend protests, chipping away at President Vladimir Putin’s legitimacy. Having left the European Union Britain must find a new foreign-policy foothold in the world; we examine its options and its moves so far. And a shocking revelation about haggis ahead of Scotland’s Burns Night celebrations. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
First Things Podcast - Equality Running Wild – Conversations with Mark Bauerlein (1.25.21)
On this episode, Ryszard Legutko joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent book “The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols.”
What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – Did the Media Fail the Trump Years?
Back in 2015, Farai Chideya was a senior writer covering politics at FiveThirtyEight. Her time there was instructive in understanding how the media failed to take Trump’s presidential candidacy seriously. Now that she has her own show, she’s speaking up about how journalists -- and the news outlets that employ them -- could better serve the public.
Guest: Farai Chideya, host of Our Body Politic.
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