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Consider This from NPR - How Anti-Trans Bills Evoke The Culture Wars Of The 90s
Behind a recent spate of anti-trans state laws, LGBTQ communities see a new chapter in a familiar story: the culture wars that broke out in America in the 1990s. A new episode of the FX documentary miniseries Pride examines that era. It was directed by Academy-Award nominee Yance Ford, who tells NPR why the culture wars of the 90s are so relevant today.
Additional reporting on the legal debate over Idaho's ban on trans female athletes from our colleague Melissa Block.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: Gobekli Tepe, College Police and Disappearing Objects
Will we ever know the true purpose of the ancient, mysterious Gobekli Tepe? Are campus police using their authority to protect students -- or to protect their school's reputation? Ben and Matt reenact a dramatic reading of one listener's encounter with disappearing (and reappearing) objects. All this and more in this week's listener mail.
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The latest Nyiragongo eruption was not entirely unexpected, the volcano’s lava lake inside the crater had been building up for years. Local volcanologists say it was only a matter of time before an eruption occurred. The big concern was where the flank of the volcano would be breached as the city of Goma rests under the volcano and there are potential fissures even within the town. However there are still questions over the effectiveness of seismic monitoring in the area, North Kivu. The Goma observatory has been unable to carry out this work due to a lack of funding. And monitoring is further complicated by the region’s long running civil war, with rebel groups often camped around the volcano. We hear from Dario Tadesco and Cindy Ebinger. Who have both been monitoring developments.
Cyclone Yass was the second Cyclone to hit India within a week. Are these events becoming more common and are they related to rises in global temperatures? Climatologist Roxy Koll has been monitoring the situation.
Greenland’s pristine glaciers might not be so pristine. Jemma Wadham from Bristol university and her team have found unexpectedly high levels of Mercury in meltwaters - similar to those from industrial pollution. They say research now needs to focus on the impact for wildlife and people in the Arctic region.
And the elusive Sowerby’s beaked Whale doesn’t travel very much despite pockets of the species being found across the Atlantic. Kerri Smith has been researching this species, which is rarely seen alive. Using samples from whales beached or caught accidentally she was able to build up a picture of their distribution.
Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Julian Siddle
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: ‘Crypto Is Here to Stay’ – Activist Investor Carl Icahn Eyes a Crypto Position in the Billions
A look at the macro discussion on inflation and why it’s pushing people like Icahn to crypto.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Bitstamp.
Today on the Brief:
- PayPal to allow crypto withdrawals
- Regulatory rumblings from the SEC and FinCEN
- Bitcoin moving off exchanges again
In our main discussion, NLW looks at the macro conversation around inflation, including:
- How concerns around inflation and the Federal Reserve withdrawing support have caused markets to go risk-off
- Where bitcoin fits in a risk-on/risk-off context
- Why billionaire Carl Icahn is eyeing a $1B-$1.5B crypto bet
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The Daily Signal - How Conservatives Can Advance Freedom and Stand Against Left’s Agenda
The conservative movement needs to be aware that a “propaganda war” is being waged on America.
“Policy obviously matters," John Tillman, chairman and CEO of the Illinois Policy Institute, says. “That's what all of us are trying to advance ... the foundational principles of the founding of this country, and what advances human freedom and human flourishing. That's our product, but we're doing this in a wartime environment.”
Through his work at the Illinois Policy Institute and The Heritage Foundation's Feulner Institute, Tillman is seeking to advance pro-American policies in ways that resonate with all Americans.
Tillman joins “The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the importance of advancing pro-American policies and how conservatives can use social media and other mediums to promote a message of freedom.
We also cover these stories:
- Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., and 29 other GOP members send a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking him to take action against the “left-wing extremism” in America's military.
- Tennessee becomes the latest state in America to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools.
- Chip and Joanna Gaines of the famed HGTV show "Fixer Upper" are making headlines for a recent campaign contribution.
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Headlines From The Times - The fight to preserve Japanese-American concentration camps
They stand across the West in ruins, ghostly apparitions of one of the darkest moments in American history. Concentration camps, 10 in total, built during World War II to incarcerate 120,000 Japanese Americans for the crime of not being white. But only two are designated as national sites. Manzanar in California and Minidoka in Idaho. Now, a bill in Congress seeks to designate a third concentration camp as a historic site, the Granada War Relocation Center in southeast Colorado, better known as Camp Amache. At a time when hate crimes against Asian Americans continue to rise, activists say it couldn't come at a more important time. Today, we'll talk with Caitlyn Kim, a Colorado Public Radio reporter who's covering the push to turn Camp Amache into a national historical site. And we'll speak with Bruce Embry, who has been making an annual pilgrimage to Manzanar for over 50 years. Embry's mother was incarcerated there.
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Sue Kunitomi Embrey, 83; Former Internee Pushed for Historic Status of Manzanar