Month: February 2022

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What A Day - Police Killings And The DOJ

The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Zooming out, it's not uncommon for people to look to the federal justice system when state courts or local law enforcement decline to hold police officers responsible in cases like these. The same avenues were pursued in the case of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who also was killed by police in 2014, though the DOJ has announced it will not reopen an investigation into that shooting.


Later this week, employees at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama will begin voting on whether to unionize their workplace after the National Labor Relations Board concluded that Amazon’s actions disrupted the process the first time around. To get a sense of where things stand, we hear from Reyn McGuire, an employee at the Bessemer facility that has been actively organizing her coworkers.


And in headlines: Putin publicly addresses the Ukraine crisis, NFL quarterback Tom Brady confirmed his retirement, and Native American tribes reach a settlement with opioid manufactures who precipitated a crisis.


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The NewsWorthy - 2,000-Mile Storm, Covid Shots for Toddlers & Bye, Brady- Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022

The news to know for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022!

We'll talk about how Americans are bracing for the latest big winter storm: where flights, classes, and work have already been canceled. 

Also, even babies could soon be getting Covid-19 shots: what was found in the data just handed over to the FDA.

Plus, a rough day for the NFL: the league is saying goodbye to a legend and getting sued by a former coach, some Teslas are disobeying stop signs, and Punxatawney Phil is ready for Groundhog Day.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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The Daily Signal - Lights! Camera! Leftism! How Hollywood Went Woke

It's no secret nowadays that Hollywood stars and directors slant left. But Hollywood wasn't always so woke. Years ago, actors would star in movies celebrating America. So how did we get here?

Christian Toto has the answer.

Toto is founder of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto.com as well as author of the new book "Virtue Bombs: How Hollywood Got Woke and Lost Its Soul."

He says Hollywood is just another casualty in the left's dominance of American culture.

"It's the same way the culture went woke and lost its soul," Toto explains. "A few studio executives make a few decisions, a few actors realize if they share some woke virtue signaling on social media, they'll get more attention, more positive press. And it goes from there."

Toto joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to tell the story of Hollywood’s turn to the left and what conservatives are doing to push back.

We also cover these stories:

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin says America has ignored Russia’s concerns over the West’s position on Ukraine.
  • Senate Democrats release legislation to amend the law governing the counting of Electoral College votes.
  • Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says National Guard troops are required to get a COVID-19 vaccine.



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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Mineral The Future Is Built On

Cobalt is the most important mineral of the future. It’s a key part of lithium-ion batteries, which power cell phones and laptops, not to mention electric cars. That demand is giving rise to a mining industry in Idaho, which sits atop a giant cobalt deposit. But the environmental costs of extraction raise questions about what “clean energy” really means.


Guest: Michael Holtz, freelance journalist and author of “Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth.”


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What Could Go Right? - Our Lonely Century (Bonus)

What do university students in Britain and Trump voters in the United States have in common? They're lonely. In fact, Noreena Hertz says, loneliness is the defining feature of this century, thanks to a host of drivers ranging from the technological to the economic. The Progress Network founder Zachary Karabell joins Noreena, an economist and author of The Lonely Century, as she elucidates whether we're really more lonely than we used to be, what has led, pandemic aside, to our current state of hyper-loneliness, and which solutions—individual, governmental, and entrepreneurial—she thinks are the best bet for reconnecting us.

This conversation was recorded in May 2021.

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Philosophers In Space - 0G175: Station Eleven and Theater of Grief pt2

We are such stuff as griefs are made on, and our little play is rounded with some swelling music. We're discussing the rest of Station Eleven, and what it says about our relationship to the past.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘South To America’ makes the case that southern history shaped our nation

Author Imani Perry is a child of the South. In her newest book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, she gives the reader a look at the South's complicated history, interwoven with her own personal anecdotes. Even though the South has a difficult history, Perry contends, it provides important context for America today. Perry told NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that in order to write this book she had to stop romanticizing the place she calls home – and, instead, look at it starkly.
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It Could Happen Here - The Lunar New Years Special: Part 2

In part 2 of our special Lunar New Years episode Mia is joined by JN and Jane once again to talk about the difficultly of maintaining Chinese leftist principles in broader left organizing spaces and also whether we should rt year of the tiger art before the Lunar New Year

 

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “It’s Good to Be King”—Tom Petty

Rob explores the joy, terror, and fulfillment of fatherhood through one of classic rock’s dynamic frontmen, Tom Petty. Rob runs down Petty’s career, including his MTV music video impact, the ‘Wildflowers’ standout “It’s Good to Be King,” and how Petty prepared him for the most transformative experience of his life. Plus, a big announcement about the future of the show.

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Guest: Stephen Rodrick 

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Amarica's Constitution - Gary and Gorby – Special Guest Gary Hart

We continue our mining of Gary Hart’s wisdom, as the former Senator, and Presidential candidate weighs in on the sort of questions a public and political intellectual confronts over a lifetime.  How can we think about Ukraine and Russia in light of our past?  Would tensions between the US and Russia today be particularly different if Gary Hart had won the presidency in 1988, given the story he tells about his prospective inauguration?  The richness of a conversation with Gary Hart is such that even a passing reference produces a new insight on how the Cold War might have taken a different path.  We hear inside references on what it’s like to run for President from a principal player in 3 presidential races:  1974, 1984, and 1988. Inevitably, stories never before heard emerge, and they are here for you to savor.