Headlines From The Times - The takedown of a dial-up drug network

Beverly Hills resident Ray Mascolo died of a drug overdose in 2020. His passing led investigators to a sprawling, Hollywood-based drug-dealing network with a business model resembling a food-delivery app.

We tell this saga today.

Host: L.A. Times courts reporter Michael Finnegan

More reading:

How a man’s death in Beverly Hills exposed a sprawling Hollywood drug delivery business

California lawmakers target fentanyl as opioid overdoses surge

How drug overdose deaths surpassed 100,000 in one year


 

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.1.22

Alabama

  • A push for AL House to pass the Vulnerable Child Protection and Compassion Act
  • Congressman Mo Brooks signs letter to NCAA  about transgenders in female sports
  • Montgomery City Council looks to reduce vacant and dilapidated buildings
  • Firefighters in Shelby County deal with 78 wildfires in one day
  • AL House recognizes female swimmer as champion, rather than transgender swimmer

National

  • President Joe Biden to release more gasoline from strategic reserve
  • Ukrainian Presidents thankful for $500 million from US,  but says they need more
  • Wisconsin state lawmakers hear report on ballot trafficking from True the Vote
  • Federal Election Commission fines DNC and Clinton campaign for 2016 money use
  • Lawsuit is launched against FL new law banning sexual concepts taught to K-3 grades

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The Intelligence from The Economist - All opposed, say nothing: Hungary’s election

Viktor Orban’s eight-year assault on the country’s institutions will help his bid for re-election. But the poll is far bigger than Hungary: it is a verdict on autocracies everywhere. Britain welcomes the fees from its staggering number of Chinese university students; we examine the risks that dependence poses. And a prescient Ukrainian war film gets a new lease on life.

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The Best One Yet - 🏎️ “200 mph on the Vegas Strip” — Formula1’s American youth. TikTok’s Mean Girls. Oil’s piggy bank party.

Maybe the dirtiest Facebook story of the year: Zuck borrowed a strategy from Mean Girls to burn TikTok. Formula 1 racing pulled a Ricky Bobby and now has a younger audience than the NFL or NBA… and it’s thanks to Netflix. And the President just made the biggest withdrawal ever of our nation’s oil piggy bank — but is it a firehose or a squirt gun? $FB $LSXMB 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 ID: 2106274 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.

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Brachistochrone Problem

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In 1696, the mathematician Johann Bernoulli posited a very simple question. Assuming no friction, what was the fastest shape for an object to slide down to go from point A to point B?


That simple question stumped some of the world’s greatest mathematicians.


The answer to that question isn’t what you think it might be, and it has some very interesting implications. 


Learn more about the Brachistochrone problem, and what exactly a Brachistochrone is, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Getting Hammered - How Does It Feel?

…To know that one of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions was directly responsible for keeping schools closed for months? To not be invited to the sex parties that Rep. Madison Cawthorn claims are rampant in the nation’s capital? Or to know that the New York Times and the Washington Post are just now talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story? 

As Mary Katharine often says, it’s not good! It’s not good, Vic!


** Content Warning: Includes conversations on sex that may not be appropriate for young ears **


Times

  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show 
  • 12:57 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 13:02 - New emails show the American Federation of Teachers imposed line-by-line edits to the Center for Disease Control’s school reopening guidance
  • 23:28 - Rep. Madison Cawthorn claims elder statesmen snort cocaine and host sex parties, gets slap on the hand from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
  • 29:22 - More than a year and a half after it was first reported in the New York Post, the New York Times and the Washington Post dig into the Hunter Biden laptop story 
  • 30:59 - The Slap Part 2: Revenge of the Takes—a brief unpacking of the takes on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
  • 40:20 - Disney comes out against parental rights bill in Florida 


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NBN Book of the Day - Nu-Anh Tran, “Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam” (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

In popular understandings of the modern history of Vietnam we are familiar with Ho Chi Minh’s anti-imperialism, but we know much less about the anticommunist nationalism of South Vietnam – officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN). The RVN tends to be viewed as a creation of the French and later a “puppet” of the Americans. But as Nu-Anh Tran shows in her book, Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam (U Hawaii Press, 2022), the RVN was heir to a revolutionary tradition that developed out of the anti-French resistance, that was quite distinct from the communist one to the north. Although the many different political and religious factions in the south shared a fierce anticommunism, the RVN was plagued by disunity. And ironically, despite the democratic ideals that these groups claimed to advocate, the RVN was subject to authoritarian rule for most of its brief existence.

Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.

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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the WeWork Federal Chief

Daniel Mathews, Head of the Federal Government Practice at WeWork and the Former Commissioner of GSA’s Public Buildings Service joins the show to discuss how the pandemic and telework has changed the landscape of Federal real estate. We also discuss how WeWork is supporting data-driven decisions on the government’s building footprint, how the internet of things can support workplace evolution, and his thoughts on the future of work in government.

The NewsWorthy - Historic Oil Release, Human ‘Blueprint’ Complete & April Fools’ Day – Friday, April 1st, 2022

The news to know for Friday, April 1st, 2022!

We're talking about an unprecedented move by the White House that could push gas prices down, but some analysts say it's not worth it. 

Also, a new CDC report warns about the mental health of teenagers in today's world.

And, ever wonder what your family was doing back in 1950? Government records just came out that could have the answers.

Plus, don't be a fool: the types of jokes you could see today, Netflix goes more interactive, and what to expect from the biggest night in music.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

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The Daily Signal - March for Life Marches On in Hopes of a Post-Roe World

The Supreme Court is considering the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which has the potential to severely limit or eliminate access to abortion.

Each year since 1974, the March for Life has made its way peacefully through the nation’s capital, its hosts of participants calling for an end to abortion on demand, which the high court ushered in with its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

Now that the time may be at hand, the event is coming to various states, where the fight for life will go on.

Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, recently visited Connecticut for that state's first march. She says life is winning, even in states as blue as Connecticut.

"We got over 3,000 people out for the first march, which is a good number for a state march, and the enthusiasm was palpable," Mancini says. "Churches were very active. ... There were a lot of periphery events, and I'm hoping and praying that we started just a new spark with the grassroots in Connecticut for life."

Mancini joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss the pro-life movement's next step, and what a post-Roe world might look like.

We also cover these stories:

  • President Joe Biden says he has a plan to cut gas prices by releasing a million barrels of reserve oil per day.
  • Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., joins Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and Heritage Action for America Executive Director Jessica Anderson for a Heritage Foundation event titled “Rescuing America.”
  • Starting April 11, Americans will have three choices when marking their gender on their passports: male, female, and X.



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