Month: March 2021

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The Best One Yet - “Risk life, deserve Twizzler” — Adidas jumps on Peloton. AMC gets rich. Johnson & Johnson is Batman.

Turns out Adidas wants to be like Nike (and it’s also getting a Peloton). AMC’s sales have plummeted 90%, but it found $300M in cash under its seats. And Johnson & Johnson’s latest vaccine movies reveal it’s actually Batman. $ADDYY $AMC $JNJ Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Short Wave - A Year Into The Pandemic, The Incarcerated Among The Most Vulnerable

In the year since the pandemic began, the coronavirus has severely impacted inmates and staff in U.S. jails and prisons. According to The Marshall Project, in the last year, over 380,000 prisoners tested positive for the coronavirus. Of those, 2,400 died. The close quarters make social distancing nearly impossible, leaving the incarcerated population vulnerable.

Josiah Bates, staff writer at TIME, reflects on how the pandemic has played out behind bars — in both jails and prisons. We also hear from Ronnie Hoagland Jr., who contracted COVID-19 while incarcerated in a Texas county jail.

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NBN Book of the Day - Liat Ben-Moshe, “Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability (2020, University of Minnesota Press) provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.

Liat Ben-Moshe (https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/) provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom.

Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.

C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego.

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The NewsWorthy - New Vaccine Goal, Cuomo’s Legal Trouble & Daylight Saving Time- Friday, March 12th, 2021

The news to know for Friday, March 12th, 2021!

What to know about:

  • a new deadline from the president: when he wants every American adult to be able to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine
  • when to expect the first relief payments to reach American's bank accounts
  • why police are now involved in the latest allegation against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo
  • how rideshare rivals Uber and Lyft are joining forces
  • why a JPG file sold for nearly $70 million 
  • this year's Grammys

Those stories and more in around 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:

Biden Primetime Speech: WaPo, WSJ, AP, Axios

Relief Bill Signed: USA Today, NBC News, WaPo

New Cuomo Investigations: NY Times, AP, Axios, Politico

Fmr. Defense Secretary Blames Trump for Riot: Vice, Politico, Axios, The Hill

Stock Market Record Highs: Reuters, AP, CNN, Axios

JPG File Sets Digital Art Record: NY Times, NPR, TechCrunch, AP

Uber and Lyft Create Driver Database: AP, NBC News, BBC, Uber

Netflix Tackles Password Sharing: The Verge, WaPo, Reuters, Marketplace.org

Grammy Awards are Sunday: AP, Variety, NY Times, WaPo, Grammys

Daylight Saving Time Begins: USA Today, WaPo, People

Feel Good Friday: Fake Cosmetics Website Saves Lives: BBC

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What A Day - Respect Trans Existence Or Expect Resistance

President Biden said last night that he wants states to make all US adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1st. In the coming days, he and VP Harris have plans to travel to sell the relief bill to the American people, and the first round of direct payments could be going out as soon as this weekend.

Mississippi just approved the first anti-trans law of 2021, which would require public schools and universities to make athletes compete according to their sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity. The ACLU is campaigning hard against these sorts of laws, and more than 500 NCAA athletes signed a letter this week asking the NCCAA to stop holding championship events in states with these kinds of laws or bills in the works.

And in headlines: New York's state assembly will open an impeachment investigation into Governor Andrew Cuomo, Derek Chauvin is now facing an additional third degree murder charge, and someone named Beeple makes $69 million selling an NFT JPG.


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The Daily Signal - HR 1 Would Allow Federal Micromanagement of State Elections, Ohio Secretary of State Says

The bill known as HR 1, or the For the People Act, should be called “the Federal Takeover of Elections Act,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says. 

LaRose, who oversees Ohio's elections, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why HR 1, a bill the political left touts as positive election reform, is an unconstitutional power grab at the expense of the states. 

We also cover these stories:

  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says the House could unseat Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa.
  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., asks Pelosi to allow the Capitol to revert to standard operations pre-COVID-19. 
  • New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “can no longer serve as governor,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Covid vaccine websites are frustrating. This developer built a better one.

It was a pandemic, Olivia was on maternity leave after giving birth, and she also had a toddler to take care of. Somehow she still managed to build a website, macovidvaccines.com, that provided far better service than what was available through government and private industry.

You can find out more about Olivia on the sites below. 

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the memory palace - Episode 177: A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda


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A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

  • The Last Days of Summer by Maria Avnos.

  • Broad Channel (Solo Piano) by Bing & Ruth

  • Homesickness (v. 1) by the phenomenal Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

Notes

  • Here she is with Steve Harvey.
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Opening Arguments - OA472: The American Rescue Plan – You Made This Happen!

It's here! The 1.9 trillion dollar package is officially passed! If you are one of the many listeners who donated time or money to getting Democrats to 50 seats, you truly did make this happen. Andrew did all the reading so you don't have to! He breaks down what's in this incredibly progressive plan.

Before that, we respond to lots of people asking "Didn't Republicans fire the parliamentarian in 2000?" This objection to our minimum wage episode completely falls flat for several reasons.

Links: WaPo Parliamentarian Article, Lott to Oust Senate Parliamentarian Who Ruled Against GOP, WaPo How big is the Biden stimulus bill?

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Closing The Gap On Mental Health: Current Mental Health Policy In Chicago

For the final entry in this edition of our Closing the Gap series, Reset explores disparities in mental health care and how the coronavirus pandemic is changing the way we think about this issue. We look at how local government — past and present — has handled mental health policy. Plus, Ald. Rosanna Rodriguez Sanchez discusses her push to reallocate city dollars away from police and into public mental health services. And the CEO of Chicago-based Thresholds talks about taking calls from residents across the state who are struggling with anxiety and depression