Month: February 2021

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The NewsWorthy - Rare Power Crisis, Rush Limbaugh Dies & Risky Mars Landing- Thursday, February 18th, 2021

The news to know for Thursday, February 18th, 2021!

We're talking about:

  • the power crisis mostly impacting Texas: it continues to be dire for millions of people
  • a third of the country dealing with extreme winter weather
  • why the UK is planning to infect dozens of people with COVID-19 on purpose
  • the legacy of a right-wing radio superstar who passed away
  • who will face tough questions about last month's stock market frenzy
  • NASA attempting its toughest landing on Mars yet that's been years in the making

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Sources:

Winter Storm Latest: USA Today, AP, NPR, Texas Tribune, PowerOutage.US 

How to Help: Salvation Army, American Red Cross, Austin Urban League

Biden Admin Expands Testing, Sequencing: Politico, NBC News, FOX News, White House

UK Exposes Healthy Volunteers to COVID-19: ABC News, CNBC, Reuters, UK Gov

Stock Market Frenzy Congressional Hearing: NY Times, CBS News, Axios, The Hill

Perseverance to Land on Mars: WaPo, Reuters, AP, NASA

Rush Limbaugh Dies: NY Times, AP, USA Today, Rush Limbaugh Website

Naomi Osaka Beats Serena Williams: ESPN, CBS Sports, USA Today

Pay for Parking/Transit in Google Maps: CNBC, TechCrunch, The Verge, Google

Thing to Know Thursday: Winter Freeze Impacts Gas Prices: NBC News, Reuters, FOX Business, AAA

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What A Day - Amazon The Wrong Side Of The Law

Over two million Texans are still without power, and there’s a new storm on the way that’s expected to prolong the icy conditions. Oregon, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia are among the other states dealing with fallout from the extreme weather.

New York’s AG Letitia James sued Amazon this week, alleging that some of its warehouses failed to keep workers safe during the pandemic. We also spoke to an Amazon employee that works in the company's Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center about the unionization effort there, and what the company is doing to suppress it.

And in headlines: Facebook blocks all news in Australia, LA’s board of education defunds school police, and millions of counterfeit N95 masks have been seized in the past few weeks.

Show Links:

"How you can help Texas winter storm victims"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/us/texas-winter-storm-how-to-help-iyw-trnd/index.html

"How to help and get help in Texas as the winter storm causes power outages"

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-power-outage-help-warming-shelter/


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The Daily Signal - What You Need to Know About Coming Abortion Battles

President Joe Biden already has taken action to undo some of the pro-life policies set in place by his predecessor, Donald Trump. It appears likely that Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress will continue to press a progressive abortion agenda that endangers the unborn, mothers, and American freedoms. 


Melanie Israel, a Heritage Foundation research associate in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity, joins “Problematic Women” to explain the key pieces of abortion legislation we likely will see debated in the coming months and years. 


If you, or someone you love, is struggling to overcome the pain of an abortion, check out this resource from Focus on the Family.


We also cover these stories:

  • Conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh dies at age 70.
  • “I will not make that happen,” President Biden says of paying off $50,000 in student loan debt.
  • Three North Korean military hackers have been indicted.


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Tech Won't Save Us - Australia’s Plan to Make Tech Pay for News w/ Lizzie O’Shea

Paris Marx is joined by Lizzie O’Shea to discuss how Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers entrenches a data-extractive business model and aligns the interests of tech giants and media companies against those of the public.

Lizzie O’Shea is a human rights lawyer and the founder of Digital Rights Watch. She’s also the author of “Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology.” Follow Lizzie on Twitter as @Lizzie_OShea.

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, and support the show on Patreon.

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Curious City - To Chicago, With Love: What Do Transplants Love About The City?

One Curious Citizen wanted to know what people who moved to Chicago love about the city. From fireflies to the way people walk, we hear what transplants say makes Chicago so special. Plus Curious City’s Monica Eng helps answer a question from another Chicagoan who's frustrated that the city’s playgrounds are still closed while so many other restrictions are easing up.
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The Goods from the Woods - “The Corona Diaries #120” with Rick Wood

Comedian Rivers Langley is back in his hometown in Alabama for the rest of 2020 and a bit of 2021. Also, there's a global pandemic still happening. This podcast is him catching up with his funny friends; sometimes on the phone, sometimes socially-distanced outside. These are "The Corona Diaries" and this is Episode #120.  Our very special guest today is a longtime friend of the show, comedian and musician Rick Wood! Rick just put out a brand new music album called 'Feral Hearts' with his band The Earth Satellites. It's available now on all streaming platforms, go give it a listen and then follow Rick on all forms of social media @RickW00d!  Listen to Carter Glascock's new album 'The Crystal Pistol' now streaming on all platforms!  Music at the end is "Material Child" by The Earth Satellites 

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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO279: How ‘The Cut’ Dangerously Mishandled Recovered Memory, with Carrie Poppy

A recent article in The Cut discusses allegations of sexual abuse which were made based on "recovered memories." Regardless of the truth or falsity of the accusations, the science of memory may have been very badly represented in this article, to harmful effect. Carrie of Oh No Ross and Carrie breaks it down for us! Complete with a Satanic Panic tie-in.

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This Machine Kills - 44. How to Think About Data (ft. Salomé Viljoen)

We discuss the limitations of existing approaches – and democratic alternatives – to data governance in informational capitalism with Salomé Viljoen (https://twitter.com/salome_viljoen_), a legal scholar in the NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech Digital Life Initiative, who is doing some of the most exciting and cutting-edge work in this area. Salomé explains how we need to make data collection work for socially beneficial uses and why surveillance of powerful people / important institutions is good, actually. Read her excellent work: • Democratic Data: A Relational Theory For Data Governance: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727562 • Data as Property? https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/data-as-property • Find more of Salomé’s work here: https://www.salomeviljoen.com Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills 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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Amarica's Constitution - Snap – You’re in Lisbon

The many dangers of the lame duck that gave rise to our "Bullets Dodged" series raise the question - do we really need a lame duck period at all?  Akhil and Andy recall the "secession winters" of the past and how 2020 shared aspects of all of them; and of course, we have suggestions for how to solve it.  As for Lisbon, this is not the first episode of ours that references "Casablanca..."

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The Gist - Limbaugh’s Lamentable Legacy

On the Gist, we rush to Limbaugh’s judgment.

In the Interview, political and media historian, Brian Rosenwald, joins Mike to talk about Rush Limbaugh’s rise to popularity in conservative media, his power as a voice and entertainer in talk radio, the influence he had on the Republican party, and who is primed to carry his torch over the AM dial or in podcasting. As a national broadcaster, Limbaugh developed a political perspective over his career that to the left perpetuated harmful ideas, and to the right, uplifted and championed their values. Limbaugh was awarded the presidential medal of freedom February 4, 2020, and died February 17, 2021 of complications from lung cancer at 70 years old. Rosenwald is editor of Washington Post’s Made By History blog, scholar in residence at the Partnership for Effective Public Administration and Leadership Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.

And we give up the spiel to keep talking to Rosenwald about the aftermath of Limbaugh.

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