Month: January 2022

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The NewsWorthy - Weapons for Ukraine, “Great American Sickout” & #BettyWhiteChallenge- Friday, January 21st, 2022

The news to know for Friday, January 21st, 2022!

What to know about Ukrainian officials reportedly working against their own country and helping Russia from the inside.

Also, a record number of Americans are calling out sick. It's impacting everyone, from doctors to pilots to pop stars. 

Plus, Could a peanut allergy be cured? New research shows it may be possible. 

A new clothing store is bringing Amazon's algorithms to life, and just when you got 'Let it Go' out of your head, another Disney song is ranking even higher on the charts.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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The Daily Signal - How America Can Fix Inflation

We likely all have felt the effects of high gas and grocery prices, but what is the government doing to address inflation?


Policymakers' negligence has left inflation to an overwhelmed Federal Reserve, a move that resulted in disaster in the 1970s.


Four Heritage Foundation policy experts—Rachel Greszler, Katie Tubb, Peter St. Onge, and Daren Bakst—recently gathered to discuss the core factors driving inflation and what Congress and the Biden administration need to do to fight rising costs. Today on "The Daily Signal Podcast," we share their insights on how policymakers can act to curb inflation. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)


Also on today's show, we explain what you need to know about the 49th annual March for Life taking place Friday in Washington.


We also cover these stories:

  • New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, announces that National Guard units will receive certification to work as substitute teachers and child care workers, to fill holes left by COVID-19 infections.
  • President Joe Biden responds to criticism after making comments that seemed to imply a minor incursion by Russia in Ukraine would not be met with severe consequences.
  • The National Collegiate Athletic Association announces changes to its transgender athlete policy to follow a sport-by-sport model.


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Python Bytes - #267 Python on the beach

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Opening Arguments - OA562: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump; Interview with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi

It's a good news/bad news type of day. The bad news - voting rights has failed in the Senate due to... exactly the two Senators you'd think. But here's the great news! First, the Supreme Court ruled against Trump about the Jan 6th documents! Andrew gives us the full breakdown. And the double good news: We've got an interview with House Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi! He reacts to voting rights, Jan 6th, and explains his Ban Conflicted Trading Act!

Links: Trump v. Thompson (DC Cir Dec. 9, 2021), SC opinion, Ban Conflicted Trading Act

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Short Wave - Fighting Bias In Space: When There’s A New Telescope, Who Gets To Use It?

The James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors are almost in place and soon it'll be a million miles away from Earth, ready to provide clues to the history of the universe. Naturally, many scientists have research they'd like to do that involve the telescope. Today on the show, Emily talks with correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce about who gets time on it, and how decision-makers are working to stay focused on the proposed science instead of who will be doing it, in the hopes of making the process fair for all proposals.

For more of Nell's reporting, check out, Who gets to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? Astronomers work to fight bias. (https://n.pr/3tH2vwJ)

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Who’s going to pay to fix open source security?

Will no one think of the maintainers? As The New Stack points out, watching millions of projects fail because of a bug in an open source library has become common enough that  we shrug and reply, "Told you so." It's gotten so bad, big tech companies are visiting the White House to discuss the issue as a matter of national security.

There is a great post up on the Stack Overflow blog examining  this issue, but it's not about color.js, it's about Log4J.  Traffic to questions on this logging library grew more than 1000% percent after the recent revelations about a new vulnerability. 

Also discussed in this episode: cryptographer and Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike stepped down from his role as CEO of the encrypted messaging service.  That's news, but he actually made bigger waves in tech circles with an unrelated blog post detailing  his first experience with Web3. Spoiler alert: it's not as decentralized or divorced from Web2 as you might have thought.

You can find Cassidy Williams on Twitter and her website.

Ben Popper can be found on Twitter here.

Ryan Donovan can be found on Twitter, or writing for the Stack Overflow blog.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Ghosts and the sea take lead roles in Violet Kupersmith and Edwidge Dantica’s novels

The first interview today, Build Your House Around My Body, is by debut novelist Violet Kupersmith and it's about a young Vietnamese woman who disappears; ghosts are involved. She told NPR's Ari Shapiro that she was "attracted to the ghost as a way of getting revenge." The second novel is also about a young woman's disappearance, this time in Haiti. Award winning author Edwidge Danticat's Claire of The Sea Light involves the sea instead of ghosts, though. Danticat told NPR's Rachel Martin that the sea is very important in Haitian Creole.
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It Could Happen Here - Guerillas, Cartels, and Dirty Wars in Mexico, Part 2

In part two of our interview with Alexander Aviña we discuss cartels, paramilitaries, and how state violence in service of taking control of the drug trade and suppressing peasant organizers built them,

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Lost Debate - Ep 18 | Florida CRT Fight, Biden’s First Year, China Hypocrisy, Tish & Trump, England Reopens

Ravi, Cory, and Rikki start off on a bill making its way through the Florida state legislature that would ban schools and companies from making people feel guilty on account of their race. Then we look at President Biden, one year in. How rough are his approval ratings, and does he have any hope of turning things around? Our hosts take a wider lens to the controversy around Chamath Palihapitiya’s dismissal of the Uyghur crisis. Are the people criticizing him just as wrong as he is? Then Ravi argues that the New York Attorney General’s investigation of the Trump Organization has been compromised from the start. Finally, Rikki argues we should welcome the end of most Covid restrictions in England and follow suit here in the U.S.


[0:56] Florida's CRT Bill

[12:46] President Biden, One Year In

[23:06] Chamath Palihapitiya’s dismissal of the Uyghur crisis.

[31:44] Tish James vs. Donald Trump

[38:49] England's New Covid Policy


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO318: Study Says the People Have ‘Near-Zero’ Influence on Policy. Does it Hold Up?

It's time to give another viral thingy the Dr. Lindsey Osterman treatment! A viral tweet summarizing the findings of a political science study alleges that the people have "near-zero" impact on public policy. What is this study, what did it find, and was it good science? Find out!

Links: Gilens & Page (2014) - Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, Vox article on Gilens and Page and rebuttals, Bashir (2015) – Response to Gilens and Page, Enns (2015) - Response to Gilens and Page, Middle class income calculator (by region)