Curious City - Where Did Chicagoans Go To Drink During Prohibition?
This week on Curious City, we’re visiting the spots where Chicagoans would enjoy their beer and spirits during Prohibition.
The NewsWorthy - Historic Opioid Deal, Lifespan Drops & Clubhouse Open to Everyone – Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
The news to know for Thursday, July 22nd, 2021!
We'll tell you about a historic settlement between states and American drug giants and how it's meant to help put an end to the opioid crisis.
Also, life is getting shorter for Americans, but COVID-19 isn't the only thing to blame for life expectancy changes.
Plus, new plans for the future Olympic Games into 2032, how the audio app Clubhouse is becoming more inclusive, and which entertainers are getting the prestigious Kennedy Center honor later this year.
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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What A Day - The Labor Movement Goes PRO
Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike yesterday across nearly a dozen cities in the U.S. to call for the passage of the PRO Act, which would allow employees to unionize and gain greater wage transparency and better benefits. In other labor news, workers at the Frito-Lay plant in Kansas have entered their third week in a strike against poor working conditions.
The #FreeBritney Movement hits Congress as members of the House of Representatives this week proposed the FREE Act, a bipartisan bill that would grant individuals like Britney Spears the right to request for their private guardian or conservator to be replaced.
And in headlines: drug manufacturers reach a $26 billion opioid settlement with state AGs, central China faces extreme flooding, and scientists in the United Arab Emirates electrocute clouds to produce rainstorms.
Show Notes:
LA Times: “Uber and Lyft drivers strike over pay, gig-work conditions” – https://lat.ms/3BuWMf1
New Yorker: “How the Elderly Lose Their Rights” – https://bit.ly/2Us9vOZ
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The Daily Signal - ‘More and More Devastating’: Congresswoman Details Third Trip to Border
Rep. Lauren Boebert just returned from another fact-finding trip to the southern border.
The Colorado Republican joins us today on "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss her trip, migrant children crossing the border that she ran into there, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's tally of the number of would-be illegal immigrants taken into custody at the border in June.
"I've gone three times now to the border, and each time, it's just more and more devastating, and the reality of this crisis is brought more into perspective of what's really taking place. I was down in McAllen, Texas, most recently with [former] President [Donald] Trump, and I saw groups of unaccompanied minors, dozens of groups of unaccompanied minors," Boebert says.
"And these children didn't have adults with them because of the Biden policies, because [President Joe] Biden is encouraging families to self-separate. If your child is 6 years of age or under, then you could cross with them, but if they're older than that, then they can't cross with you. So, they have a better chance of crossing the border without their children, putting their children in the hands of the [human smuggling] cartel and risking their lives."
We also cover these stories:
- In a Tuesday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Sen. Rand Paul announces he will be asking the Department of Justice for a criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci. The Kentucky Republican claims Fauci lied to Congress about the National Institutes of Health funding illegal gain-of-function research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- The Biden administration is distancing itself from a group that is pushing critical race theory in public schools.
- On Tuesday, the Louisiana state Senate voted to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill that would ban biological men from competing in women’s scholastic sports.
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Tech Won't Save Us - Demystifying the Billionaire Space Race
Paris Marx takes a solo episode to discuss the billionaire space race. Specifically, how billionaires are selling grand futures of space travel as a PR scheme to get huge public contracts that will allow them to control the infrastructure of space.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
- Paris wrote about the billionaire space race, and it was translated into German, Italian, and Turkish.
- New Mexico’s $220-million Spaceport America that’s used by Virgin Galactic is a joke.
- SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service has been way overhyped.
- If we went to Mars, we would get cancer.
- Adam Mann had a great essay on how we should think about Mars, and whether it’s “ours.”
- Elon Musk says we can be indentured servants on Mars, and people will die.
- Paris has written about Jeff Bezos’ space colonies, and compared them to Blade Runner and The Expanse.
- Jeff Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO to take on the role of Executive Chairman.
- Ursula K. Le Guin argues science fiction isn’t about the future, nor is it predictive.
- Amazon’s emissions rose 19% in 2020 and it’s helping Big Oil.
- Paris wrote about the real climate future billionaires are creating.
Serious Inquiries Only - SIO303: Are the Woke Left and Alt-Right Alike? AKA Debunking a Garbage Quillette Article About a Garbage Study
Holy both sides, Batman! Yeah no suspense on this one, Quillette is garbage and the study this article references is garbage. But how garbage and why exactly? Is there any truth to it? As usual, Lindsey is here to give us the breakdown! This is a part 1. In order to grab part 2 early, make sure to pledge on patreon!
Links: Moss & O’Connor (2020b; origin of White Identitarianism Scale), Pew Poll, Political Polarization in the American Public, Master’s thesis (origin of the PC scales)
Short Wave - Who Runs The World? Squirrels!
Squirrels are everywhere — living in our suburban neighborhoods to our city centers to our surrounding wilderness. Rhitu Chatterjee talks with researcher Charlotte Devitz about squirrels and how studying them might help us better understand the changing urban environment.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - COVID-19 Pandemic And Opioids Cause Record Drug Overdose Deaths
Overdose deaths in the U.S. spiked to a record 93,000 last year, according to new federal data.
Opioids are at the heart of these tragedies. Reset asks two experts to explain the factors driving these deaths and what can be done about it.
This Machine Kills - 88. Bring Down the Hammer (ft. Paris Marx)
After way too long, we finally got our friend and comrade Paris Marx—host of the excellent podcast Tech Won’t Save Us—on TMK for a great conversation ranging from the politics of Bitcoin and Tesla to the current state of tech media/criticism and need for counter-propaganda against Silicon Valley. Paris is always in the interviewer seat on TWSU, so we turn things around on him and also ask how he got into leftist analysis of tech and his forthcoming book on the techno-politics of transportation.
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Consider This from NPR - Will Delta Surge Sway Unvaccinated? Plus: The Truth About ‘Breakthrough’ Infections
The delta variant now makes up an estimated 83% of coronavirus cases in the U.S., a sharp increase over recent weeks. Cases are rising more rapidly in places with low rates of vaccination. Arkansas is one of those places. The state's Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, tells NPR what he's doing to try to convince more people to get a shot.
Amid those localized surges and reports of breakthrough infections, NPR's Allison Aubrey explains how to think about your own risk.
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