Month: March 2021

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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
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - A director of engineering explains scaling from dozens of employees to thousands

You can find out more about Suyog and his career here. True story, he once worked on tablets way before tablets were a thing.

He's on Twitter here. You can check out Elastic Cloud and it's suite of services here.

Suyog talks a bit about data gravity, a concept you can learn more about here.

If you're a fan of release notes and want to get a sense of what Suyog worked on at Elastic over the years, check out his blog archives here.

Thanks to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, lhf, for anwering the question: How can I get the current UTC time in a Lua script?

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Kim Foxx On Carjackings Cash Bail And Criminal Justice Reform

Cook County residents haven’t had to worry about it for a year, but the reprieve is over: jury duty is back. After a long delay due to the pandemic, jury trials are starting back up today in Cook County. Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx joined Reset for more on what her office will be focused on — from violent crimes to carjackings — as jury trials resume. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast and please leave us a rating. That helps other listeners find us. For more about the program, go to the WBEZ website or follow us on Twitter at @WBEZreset.
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Pod Save America - “The voter suppression will continue until morale improves.”

President Biden and Vice President Harris call out anti-Asian hate while Republicans make excuses, the GOP says that voter suppression is now their top priority, and new polling shows how Democrats can fight back. Then Jon, Jon, and Tommy each pick an under the radar headline to talk about.


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Consider This from NPR - Coronavirus Cases Are Surging In Europe. Why The U.S. Is In Better Shape — For Now

In Europe, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been slow. The U.S. is doing better — vaccinating as many as 3 million people per day this past weekend.

Some of those people were vaccinated by Chichi Ilonzo Momah, who runs Springfield Pharmacy in Springfield, Pa. Momah says local independent pharmacists are trying to make sure no one falls through the cracks.

The rollout is also progressing thanks in part to military personnel stationed at vaccine sites around the country that are run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. WUSF's Stephanie Colombini visited one site in Tampa.

Additional reporting this episode from NPR's Allison Aubrey.

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Back Bar - One Hundred Percent Virtue

A midseason spirit-free episode of Back Bar about questionable morality and the golden age of Hollywood. 

1930s cinema was obsessed with purity and in young Shirley Temple, a blonde, curly-haired eight-year-old they found exactly the avatar of innocence they were looking for. Meanwhile soda fountains were on the rise, but like the movies of Hays code Hollywood there was more under the surface than just innocence and bubble good times. Special guests this week are Jim Kearns of Happiest Hour and Slowly Shirley and David Schwartz, Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image.

Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE the show if you can. Join us every two weeks as we talk about history's favorite drinks and how what we drink shapes history. To see what's coming next follow Greg on instagram @100ProofGreg. #drinkinghistory

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