On the Gist, this is actually who we are because we wouldn’t have let it happen.
In the interview, Katie Meyer, political reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia joins Mike to talk about the Pennsylvania state legislature, and today’s federal ruling on the contested state senate race.
In Remembrances of Things Trump, back to the days when Trump was able to tweet, and retweet.
The battle against right-wing extremists who are threatening violence in U.S. capitals ahead of next week’s inauguration.
Plus Chicago FOP president John Catanzara’s comments after last week’s coup attempt has brought condemnation, but he still backed by the majority of the rank-and-file
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California Rep. Adam Schiff, who led House Democrats in their first effort to impeach President Trump, tells NPR what they are hoping to achieve in doing it a second time. He spoke to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
And while a debate about the consequences for Trump plays out on Capitol Hill, his supporters are facing consequences of their own in federal court.
Does the ideal of American exceptionalism demand anything? That is, how can the U.S. be exceptional without people working to make it that way? Historian Anthony Comegna talks about the myths that surround the notion of American exceptionalism.
RATS: They love pizza. They invade taquerias at midnight. They scurry. They cuddle. They outsmart. They inspire movies that inspire musicals. Proving that not just woodsy megafauna can be charismatic, rats have lives we would never suspect. Globally-lauded Urban Rodentologist Dr. Robert Corrigan, or Bobby if you like, has been studying these animals in their big-city ecosystem for decades and he is a wonder-filled joy. Learn about rats’ origin story, the difference between a rat and a mouse, where they live, their preferred “food dialects,” and how to (hopefully humanely) keep one out of your house -- or car? Might as well start to love and respect them, because we’re not-too-distantly related and one day… they may be steering the ship.
The International Business Times reports China might nationalize Alibaba. Here’s what that has to do with China’s digital currency efforts.
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Today on the Brief:
Whales accumulated during yesterday’s crash
Kentucky legislators introduce bill to attract crypto miners
UBS lowers the threshold for charging savers because of negative interest rates
Our main discussion: What China’s prospective nationalization of Alibaba has to do with the nation’s digital currency efforts.
In this episode, NLW:
Gives a background on China’s digital currency project
Discusses why the DCEP is motivated by a larger attempt to internationalize the RMB
Background on Alipay, Ant Financial and Alibaba
How Alibaba founder Jack Ma annoyed the CCP and why he hasn’t been seen publicly in two months
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There are many foods that are considered an acquired taste. Foods that might not be very palatable the first time you try it, or something that just doesn’t sit right with most people.
It could be something as simple as blue cheese, or something like the Filipino delicacy, balut, which is a boiled, fertilized egg with the embryo still inside.
Sweden has its own acquired taste delicacy which has spawned hundreds of reaction videos as people and caused it to be banned by airlines.
The UK has ruled against extraditing Julian Assange to the US--not because they disagree with the merits of the accusations, but because they feel Assange has no reasonable guarantee of safety if sent to a US prison (paging Mr. Epstein). The technology used to keep novelty ice cream Dippin' Dots fresh could soon be used to store the Pfizer COVID vaccine. International tensions rise as Iran plans to further enrich nuclear material and a divided US seems unable to project a coherent policy message abroad. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
Congress once again compelled to take up an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and the old political calculations are making a comeback. Republicans have a gun to their heads—if reports are to be believed, in a very literal sense, and are increasingly less inclined to support such a motion. But Democrats don’t seem inclined to make betraying Trump an enticing prospect. Source
