Month: March 2021

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The NewsWorthy - Grocery Store Shooting, First Gov’t Reparations & Covid Tests Delivered- Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store
  • a $3 trillion economic plan reportedly in the works: what the president is hoping for and where it may run into roadblocks
  • how the world is remembering a basketball legend
  • the first American city paying reparations to black residents
  • COVID-19 tests that can be delivered in a matter of hours

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

Boulder Grocery Store Shooting: The Denver Post, AP, ABC News, Gov. Polis

Biden's Infrastructure Plan: WaPo, NY Times, WSJ, AP

Chinese Officials Sanctioned: Politico, Axios, FOX News, State Dept.

U.S. Officials Travel to Latin America: NBC News, Reuters, CBS News, NPR, CBP

Evanston, IL Reparations Payments: Chicago Tribune, AP, WaPo

AstraZeneca Trial Data Questioned: Reuters, Axios, Bloomberg. NIAID

DoorDash to Deliver Covid Tests: The Verge, Axios, ABC News, Doordash

Elgin Baylor Dies: ESPN, AP, Lakers, Clippers

New Effort to Remove Space Junk: NPR, BBC, ITV, GK Launch

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Fanthropology Pt. 2 (FANDOM) with Meredith Levine

PART 2 with legit professional Fanthropologist Meredith Levine. In this thrilling conclusion, we take Patreon questions and address stans vs. fans, cults and fandom, how fan fiction circumvents the studio system, how showrunners feel about fan suggestions, fangirling, fanboying and a novel term for that plus a bonus tables-are-turned interview about your weird dad’s favorite stuff. Fanthroplogy: a riveting field. Once again, WHO KNEW? Meredith did.

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Short Wave - A Look Inside The World’s Biggest Vaccine Maker

NPR's international correspondent Lauren Frayer takes us on a tour of the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. The company aims to manufacture 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and export them globally.

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NBN Book of the Day - Jelani Favors, “Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism” (U of North Carolina Press, 2020)

Shelter in A Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) by Dr. Jelani Favors fills the “missing pages” of history by highighting the enduring role that Black colleges have played in African American freedom movements in the long-twentieth century. 

Favors shows that Black colleges created freedom fighters whose organizing, dedication, and fearlessness made the Black Freedom Struggle’s most pivotal moments possible. Favors also argues that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were fortified interstitial spaces for consciousness-raising and solidarity-building among race women and race men. HBCU students, faculty, and administrators were vital players in fashioning blueprints for Black liberation and ensuring the inter-generational transmission of resistance wisdom. 

Taking the long view and moving through a tour of Black higher education, Favors theorizes that a hidden second curriculum and a Black college communitas thrived on each campus, making them both seedbeds of racial justice and shelter in a time of storm.

Amanda Joyce Hall is a Ph.D. Candidate in History and African American Studies at Yale University. She is writing an international history on the global movement against South African apartheid during the 1970s and 1980s. She tweets from @amandajoycehall.

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Land of the Giants - Googlers vs. Google

On December 2nd, 2020, Dr. Timnit Gebru - co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team - got an email that said Google had accepted her resignation. A resignation she didn’t think she made. Her exit is just the latest sign of the crisis unfolding within Google — a loss of trust between many of its employees and leadership. This week, what led to Gebru’s exit - and what it means for us, Google’s users. Because when enough people who work inside Google don't even trust each other -- how can we?

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Opening Arguments - OA475: Citibank’s $900 Million Oopsie

It's a no takesies backsies deep dive! We all know the law is pretty reasonable and there's no way you get to keep millions of dollars that a bank wires you by accident, right? Wellllllll ordinarily yes, but sometimes no! Andrew's got the full breakdown on Citibank's big oopsie.

Before that, we talk about Alan Dershowitz's (s)hit new podcast and how he's lying about the My Pillow guy.

Links: OA198: What Is Alan Dershowitz Thinking?, Former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz is advising MyPillow CEO

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What A Day - Divine Secrets Of The DC Statehood

The AstraZeneca vaccine was shown to completely prevent serious cases of COVID in a US clinical trial. We dig into the efficacy data on it, and what it means for the US and global vaccination campaigns.

The House held a hearing on D.C. statehood yesterday. DC has 700,000 residents and a large Black population, but no direct representation in Congress... House democrats want to change that, but they face an uphill battle in the Senate.

And in headlines: a gunman opened fire inside a grocery store in Boulder, a massive fire at a Rohingya refugee camp, and workplace controversies at 'Ellen' have led to a steep drop-off in viewers.

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The Daily Signal - Why Someone Hid Accurate Death Count for New York Nursing Homes

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic and his administration's alleged efforts to hide the accurate number of related deaths beg the question: Is the cover-up worse than the crime?

The Empire Center for Public Policy, a New York-based research organization, filed a request last summer under the Freedom of Information Act seeking the accurate number of deaths in elder-care facilities from the state’s Department of Health.

Tim Hoefer, president and CEO of Empire Center, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain why it took so long for the truth about New York’s nursing home deaths to come to light, and what may be next for Cuomo. 

We also cover these stories: 

  • Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., ask President Biden to use his “full authorities” to respond to the crisis at the southern border. 
  • The White House says about 1 in 3 in Americans are getting the coronavirus vaccine.
  • The president and vice president of The Heritage Foundation, Kay C. James and Kim Holmes, announce their resignations from the Washington-based think tank. 

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Chapo Trap House - 508 – Questions for Boys feat. Katherine Krueger (3/23/21)

It’s the Spring sex & relationships issue of Chapo! We’re joined by our Women’s correspondent Katherine Krueger who takes the popular TikTok trend “Questions for Boys” and applies it to the Dry Boys. We then turn to the National Review to ask why conservatives are suddenly so gaga about the Royal Family. Finally, we see if we can find common ground with Boss Ross Douthat about getting Americans horny. SMASH that preorder button for Amber’s new book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250269621 SUBSCRIBE TO DISCOURSE BLOG: get 30% off a new annual subscription to Discourse Blog at discourseblog.com/subscribe with code BIRTHDAY on Tuesday