The Intelligence from The Economist - Bear traps: Russia’s push in eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are having some successes in eastern Ukraine; our defence editor discusses the situation on the ground and what may tip the balance in the grinding war. We examine a contentious American law that reveals the country’s broken immigration system. And why independent Chinese bookshops are becoming so social-media-friendly.

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The Best One Yet - 🔌 “How’s the battery range?” — Our electric car odyssey. Burger King’s worship brand. Baby Unicorns’ warning letter.

We just put our electric cars to the ultimate test: The MDW Road Trip (so we’re taking you on our Electric Odyssey). Burger King’s making burgers for pregnant women — and worshiping the Whopper. And Y Combinator just wrote a letter to all startup CEOs: Warning. $QSR $TSLA $VWAGY Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Want a Shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form Got the Best Fact Yet? We got a form for that too “The Whopper is my mantra” — Burger King’s worship brand. Baby Unicorns’ warning letter. Our electric car odyssey. 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.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 E20: Izzy Azeri, mabl

Izzy Azeri has been in the tech industry for 20 years, starting out at places like EMC and VMWare. He's married with three kids, living in Franklin, Massachusetts, outside of Boston. He loves soccer and CrossFit, which helps him destress from his tech work. The family has a place in Maine, where they can be outside, swim, etc. - whatever they can do to keep active and stay healthy Post the Google acquisition of his prior startup, Stack Driver, Izzy and his co-founder were looking to get back into early stage. After interviewing a number of engineering leaders, they noticed a trend - while software development was speeding up, QA was becoming a bottleneck in the SDLC.

This is the creation story of Mabl.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Marianne Williamson on America’s ‘Dark Psychic Force’

When Marianne Williamson stood on the presidential debate stage in 2020 and spoke about the “dark psychic force” unleashed in America, she became an instant meme. But these days—with our epidemic of loneliness and addiction, rising crime and violence like the kind we just witnessed in Uvalde, Texas—can anyone deny the existence of this darkness?


Long before others were willing to name the anti-human, anti-social sickness in our culture, Williamson was warning of it. She is one of the most beloved self-help authors in the world, having sold more than three million copies of her more than a dozen books.


If you are heartsick about the state of the country and find yourself asking how it can be made right, this episode is for you.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.31.22

Alabama

  • 3 AL congressmen and other Republicans call on White House to leave W.H.O.
  • Nurses at VA Hospital in Birmingham say vaccine exemptions not being honored
  • Southside party is busted by police for noise: drugs, alcohol and firearms also found
  • Southern Baptist Convention releases list of pastors/staff charged with sexual abuse

National

  • Dept. of Justice will review the delayed response of police in Uvalde TX school shooting
  • WV woman with legal firearm averts a mass shooting at graduation party.
  • AL congressman Mo Brooks doubles down on maintaining 2A rights rather than gun control laws.
  • Judicial Watch sues election officials in Illinois for extending voting by 14 days
  • Louisiana pastor's legal victory in state goes to 5th circuit court for further ruling
  • Nancy Pelosi's husband needs a lawyer after getting arrested for DUI over weekend

Everything Everywhere Daily - Jupiter: The Biggest Planet in the Solar System

Ever since humans looked up at the night sky and noticed that some of the points of light moved, they have been aware of the planet Jupiter. 


However, it was the invention of the telescope that let us know just how amazing Jupiter was. 


Since then, we’ve sent eight probes to the planet to help us unlock its secrets. 


Learn more about Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Charlie Eaton, “Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education” (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepping-stone to new economic opportunities. However, as Charlie Eaton reveals in Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education (U Chicago Press, 2022), finance has played a central role in the widening inequality in recent decades, both in American higher education and in American society at large.

With federal and state funding falling short, the US higher education system has become increasingly dependent on financial markets and the financiers that mediate them. Beginning in the 1980s, the government, colleges, students, and their families took on multiple new roles as financial investors, borrowers, and brokers. The turn to finance, however, has yielded wildly unequal results. At the top, ties to Wall Street help the most elite private schools achieve the greatest endowment growth through hedge fund investments and the support of wealthy donors. At the bottom, takeovers by private equity transform for-profit colleges into predatory organizations that leave disadvantaged students with massive loan debt and few educational benefits. And in the middle, public universities are squeezed between incentives to increase tuition and pressures to maintain access and affordability. Eaton chronicles these transformations, making clear for the first time just how tight the links are between powerful financiers and America's unequal system of higher education.

Charlie Eaton is an economic sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. He studies the role of social ties, organizations, and politics in the interplay between financiers, other elites, and subordinate social groups. His work has been published in Socio-Economic ReviewPolitics & SocietyThe Review of Financial StudiesSociusSociology Compass, and PS: Political Science and Politics.

Tom Discenna is Professor of Communication at Oakland University whose work examines issues of academic labor and communicative labor more broadly.

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