Month: January 2022

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.21.22

Alabama

  • 2 bills pass state senate committee that offer tax cuts to Alabamians
  • UAB Hospital successfully makes pig kidney organ transplant to human body
  • US congresswoman Terri Sewell  gets a GOP challenger for 7th District seat
  • Alabama Council on developmental disabilities campaigns to stop  human trafficking

National

  • SCOTUS declines to hand TX abortion case back to a federal judge
  • Another Vote group in GA is declaring problems with ballot box integrity
  • A Texas Democrat congressman has home and office raided by FBI agents
  • Tennessee state lawmaker proposes Kyle's law to help those using self defense
  • Florida governor gives good news regarding wife's treatment of breast cancer
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Unsustainable envelopment goals: China’s zero-covid fight

The Omicron variant is destined to test the limits of a policy that has already proved costly: consumption, growth and confidence are all flagging. The effects of Russia’s gulag did not stop when the labour camps closed: there appear to be long-term benefits for nearby areas. And why cycling in the Arab world is on the rise.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and The Have Nots

At this point in the pandemic, one group of Americans generally gets to show their faces. The other still does not. One group orders groceries from Amazon, while the other packages it. One group enjoys take-out. And the other delivers it in the rain.


Today, in part two of my conversation with ProPublica journalist Alec MacGillis, we unpack the ways the pandemic has exacerbated the already enormous divide between the haves and the have nots. MacGillis discusses his recent book, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, and how Democrats became such a big part of what he calls “the Amazon coalition.” We also talk about how the stubbornness of our political and media class—and their insistence on doubling down on short-sighted policies—is already reshaping our politics and culture.


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The Best One Yet - 🍣 “Crypto’s sushi club” — InstaTikTok’s subscriptions. Peloton’s missing leg. NFT’s 1st restaurant.

NFTs are digital, but a new restaurant is serving physical sushi based no digital assets (and you gotta know a guy). Peloton stock is now at an all-time low — it’s like the pandemic surge of bike sales never happened. And Instagram is zucking TikTok (or is TikTok zucking Instagram?) because creators are the differentiator of social media. $ETH $BTC $PTON $AMZN $FB 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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Everything Everywhere Daily - Didius Julianus: The Man Who Bought An Empire

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Throughout the history of the Roman Empire, there were 96 men who are considered to have been Roman Emperors from August to the fall of the western emperor. 


Most of them came to power via being appointed by their predecessor, or through military conquest, or through good old-fashioned scheming and treachery.


However, there was one man, however, who ascended to the title of emperor in a totally unique way.


Learn more about Didius Julianus, and how he became Roman Emperor in an auction, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Getting Hammered - A ‘Minor Incursion’

Mary Katharine and Vic unpack Biden's lengthly press conference, from 95 (or is it 98?) percent of schools reopening to Russia's 'minor incursion' in the Ukraine. In coronavirus news, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends masking in schools and vaccine passports, a Los Angeles charter school quarantines unvaccinated students, and NPR wrongly reports a mask fight between Supreme Court justices.


Times

  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
  • 06:56 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 07:04 - President Joe Biden claims that 95 percent—then 98 percent—of schools are open
  • 10:06 - Segment: You Love to Hear It
  • 10:19 - Biden completes a long press conference and answers questions 
  • 11:20 - Biden says if Russia launches a “minor incursion” into the Ukraine, it may not prompt a U.S. response
  • 14:26 - Biden pressed on calling opponents to his voting rights bill “Bull Connor”
  • 17:15 - 2022 election integrity depends on voting rights bill, Biden says—and Vice President Harris attempts a cleanup 
  • 24:20 - Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends masking in schools and vaccine passports
  • 30:44 - Los Angeles charter school quarantines unvaccinated students 
  • 34:21 - Biden administration launches coronavirus test kit service 
  • 36:25 - NPR wrongly reports a mask scuffle in the Supreme Court between Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch
  • 42:50 - Super Bowl halftime lineup announced 


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NBN Book of the Day - Dana Polan, “Dreams of Flight: ‘The Great Escape’ in American Film and Culture” (U California Press, 2021)

Caught on film, the iconic jump of escaped POW Virgil Hilts (Steve McQueen) over an imposing barbed wire fence on a stolen motorcycle has become an unforgettable symbol of a disaffected 1960s America. Dana Polan's Dreams of Flight: 'The Great Escape' in American Film and Culture (U California Press, 2021) offers the first full-length study of The Great Escape, the classic film based on a true story of American and Allied prisoners of war who hatched an audacious plan to divert and thwart the Wehrmacht and escape into the nearby countryside. Polan centers The Great Escape within American cultural and intellectual history, drawing a vivid picture of the country in the 1960s. We see a nation grappling with its own military history; a society undergoing significant shifts in its culture and identity; a film industry in transition from Old Hollywood's big-budget runaway studio films to the slow interior cinema of New Hollywood. The book combines history with fan anecdotes and a close study of filmic style to bring readers into the film and its wide-reaching influence.

Joel Tscherne is an Adjunct History Professor at Southern New Hampshire University. His Twitter handle is @JoelTscherne.

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Why Does Matt Damon Want Me to Buy Crypto?

A recent advertisement for crypto.com, featuring Matt Damon, was met with widespread mockery online. But Damon’s ad is only the most visible example of a much broader—and more insidious—trend of celebrity cryptocurrency endorsements. Is the partnership between crypto and Hollywood really dangerous? And what separates the trend from run-of-the-mill salesmanship?


Guests: Jacob Silverman, staff writer for the New Republic and Ben McKenzie, actor, writer, and director.


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PHPUgly - 270: I’m a better thinker

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What A Day - You Can’t Spell Ivanka Without Subpoena

A number of inquiries into former President Trump’s interference in the 2020 election are advancing. Yesterday, the House committee investigating last year’s insurrection asked Ivanka Trump to testify. Meanwhile, a Georgia District Attorney asked a judge to convene a special grand jury in a separate, ongoing criminal investigation into the former president. 


Famed fashion journalist and editor André Leon Talley passed away this week at age 73. He was American Vogue’s first Black male creative director and editor-at-large. We look into Talley’s life and legacy, as well as how he paved the way for Black and brown folks in the industry today. 


And in headlines: Democratic lawmakers asked Biden to change his counterterrorism strategy on drone strikes, the Supreme Court rejected another attempt to overturn Texas’ six-week abortion ban, and the CIA said that a foreign country is most likely NOT responsible for cases of Havana Syndrome.


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