In which the Moog synthesizer and the "plant consciousness" movement of the 1970s produce a rare collector's item for lovers of weird music, and Ken refuses to buy his children reptiles. Certificate #27581.
The Best One Yet - 🐕 “Much Doge Day” — Dogecoin’s 4/20 holiday. Manchester United’s super league. Peloton’s danger warning.
Dogecoin has surged over 8,000% in 2021 to become the 4th biggest crypto… just in time for its joke unofficial holiday (much happy). ManU and its buddies whipped up a new international soccer super league that’s the biggest move in sports capitalism in a year. And Peloton’s stock fell 10% at one point yesterday for messing with the 1 rule of crisis management.
$DOGE $MANU $PTON
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Putin Problem
The Biden administration is under no illusions that Russia President Vladimir Putin can be a willing partner of the U.S. But what tools remain to check Putin’s ambitions?
Guest: Josh Keating, senior editor at Slate and the author of Invisible Countries.
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NBN Book of the Day - Joseph P. Laycock, “Speak of the Devil: How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion” (Oxford UP, 2020)
In 2013, when the state of Oklahoma erected a statue of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state capitol, a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple applied to erect a statue of Baphomet alongside the Judeo-Christian tablets. Since that time, The Satanic Temple has become a regular voice in national conversations about religious freedom, disestablishment, and government overreach. In addition to petitioning for Baphomet to appear alongside another monument of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas, the group has launched campaigns to include Satanic "nativity scenes" on government property in Florida, Michigan, and Indiana, offer Satanic prayers at a high school football game in Seattle, and create "After School Satan" programs in elementary schools that host Christian extracurricular programs. Since their 2012 founding, The Satanic Temple has established 19 chapters and now claims 100,000 supporters. Is this just a political group perpetuating a series of stunts? Or is it a sincere religious movement?
Joseph Laycock's new book, Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion (Oxford University Press, 2020) is the first book-length study of The Satanic Temple. Laycock contends that the emergence of "political Satanism" marks a significant moment in American religious history that will have a lasting impact on how Americans frame debates about religious freedom. Though the group gained attention for its strategic deployment of outrage, it claims to have developed beyond politics into a genuine religious movement. Equal parts history and ethnography, Speak of the Devil is Laycock's attempt to take seriously The Satanic Temple's work to redefine religion, the nature of pluralism and religious tolerance, and what "religious freedom" means in America.
Joseph Laycock is an associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University. He has written several books on new religious movements and American religious history, including one on role playing games and the satanic panic. He is also a co-editor for the journal Nova Religio.
Carrie Lynn Evans is a PhD student at Université Laval in Quebec City.
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Short Wave - Half Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten A Vaccine — But Hurdles Remain For Herd Immunity
Today, NPR Health Correspondent Allison Aubrey offers perspective on how to think about the latest coronavirus news. On one hand, half of U.S. adults have been vaccinated and as of this week, everyone 16 years old and up is eligible to be vaccinated. At the same time, the administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been paused and many are still hesitant to get vaccinated.
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The NewsWorthy - Jury Deliberates, Historic Helicopter Flight & ‘Doge Day’- Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
The news to know for Tuesday, April 20th, 2021!
We have updates about:
- Derek Chauvin's murder trial coming to a close: the jury is now deliberating and Minneapolis is preparing for unrest
- where millions of Americans are bracing for spring snow and historically cold temperatures
- another major milestone on Mars being compared to the first airplane flight on Earth
- the controversy around a so-called Super League in soccer
- how Facebook is going all-in on audio
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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Chauvin Trial Deliberations: Minneapolis Star Tribune, NY Times, NBC News, Fox News
Ofc. Sicknick Cause of Death: WaPo, Fox News, AP, Politico, Capitol Police
Walter Mondale Dies: Politico, Axios, NY Times, AP, President Carter Statement
Snow and Record Cold Coming: USA Today, CNN, The Weather Channel, NWS
Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: NASA, Nat’l Geographic, NY Times, AP, BBC
Europe’s New Super League: BBC, CBS Sports, AP, Reuters, Boris Johnson, Kensington Royal
Facebook Unveils New Audio Products: Axios, Techcrunch, Reuters, CNBC, Facebook
In God We Lust - Liberty… or Libertine? | 2
When Jerry Falwell Jr takes over at Liberty University in 2007 he has big shoes to fill: his father’s. The Reverend Jerry Falwell was a famous and controversial evangelical minister who lived by a strict code of conduct. Can Jerry Jr. follow in his father’s footsteps, or will he make his own rules?
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What A Day - Amazon The Defensive
President Biden held bipartisan meetings yesterday to find some middle ground for his massive infrastructure bill. On the left, AOC and Bernie Sanders introduced their own version of the bill with a larger commitment to public housing. But passing any infrastructure bill will likely require budget reconciliation as long as the filibuster remains in place.
The union that sought to represent Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, formally filed objections last Friday to the results of the election there. Workers voted overwhelmingly not to unionize, but the union says that result should be thrown out because Amazon illegally interfered in the process. We discuss their argument.
And in headlines: attorneys deliver closing arguments in the trial of Derek Chauvin, India experiences an explosive surge of COVID-19 cases, and President Biden will consider making cigarettes less addictive.
Show Notes –
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In God We Lust - The Menage-A-Trois Carnival | 1
A young pool attendant at a Miami Beach hotel, meets a couple there on vacation and an affair begins. The young man doesn’t know who they are at first, but after seeing them several more times, he finds out the couple is far more powerful than he imagined. In turn, the couple promises his life is about to change.
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The Daily Signal - What to Expect at Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election-Integrity Law Cast as ‘Jim Crow’
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported “assault on the right to vote.”
The hearing, dubbed “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia's new election-integrity law.
Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 race for governor of Georgia and the founder of Fair Fight Action, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., are scheduled to testify at the hearing.
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain what to expect at Tuesday’s committee hearing. The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.
Von Spakovsky also unpacks the arguments for and against Georgia’s new election-integrity law, and explains why the bill should not be likened to Jim Crow laws.
We also cover these stories:
- Lawyers deliver closing arguments in the final day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin trial in the death of George Floyd.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs anti-rioting legislation into law.
- The Biden administration orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to stop using the terms “illegal alien” and “assimilation.”
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