Month: May 2022

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Oprahdemics - Oprah’s Long-Lost Half-Sister

In 2011, Oprah Winfrey did a show in which she was as much subject as host. In it, she revealed and spoke to her long-lost half-sister. It was a show that dove into family secrets, the stories we tell about ourselves, and deep emotion.

Special guest: Kendra Field, professor of history at Tufts University, author of “Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War”

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S6 Bonus: Patrick Bryant, CODE + TRUST

Patrick Bryant lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and splits time in Washington, DC. He loves entrepreneurship, and believes it is the number one change agent in the world. He is involved in multiple communities around the topic - Startup Grind, EO, and he founded the Harbor Entrepreneur Center. Scuba diving is the thing that takes his mind off all things though, given you are 100 feet under the water, and have to focus. He is excited to go dive with the sharks soon, and he also enjoys the beaches and being in the sunshine.

Prior to his current ventures formation, Patrick and the other three partners had two software products and other companies they were building. Between them all, there were two dev teams... and in the interest of making a bigger impact in their space, they decided to join forces, and form one team.

This is the creation story of Code & Trust.

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The Best One Yet - 🍹 “Bachelorette by Uber” — Uber’s fun strategy. (in)Direct-to-Consumer. Google’s no clue office.

Casper. Allbirds. Warby Parker. The Millennial-infused Direct-to-Consumer unicorns you love are injured, so they’re going indirect. Uber just unveiled its newest updates — they all seem focused on optimizing your bachelorette party. And Google just built a new campus that includes their own hotel, but even they have no clue what the future of work looks like.  $UBER $WRBY $BIRD $GOOG 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 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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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.18.22

Alabama

  • Senator Tuberville votes with Senator Rand Paul to block $40B package to Ukraine
  • Daily Detail features Scott Beason in a 3 part series on importance of primary voting
  • Recent donation from Hugh Culverhouse to Britt Campaign sends mixed message
  • Huntsville voted as #1  best place to live in by US News & World Report

National

  • Judge temporarily suspends Biden mandate on healthcare for transgender surgery
  • Dept. of Homeland Security  report shows 118 thousand  illegals released in April
  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signals hikes to interest rates
  • Gas prices jump further so that all 50 states now pay over $4 per gallon of gas
  • Biden Admin secretly seeks to hand over US sovereignty in health decisions to W.H.O.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Petrodollar System

On August 15, 1971, US President Richard Nixon ended the gold convertibility of the US Dollar and simultaneously ended the Bretton Woods System, which had governed international monetary policy since the end of the Second World War.


The system which replaced Bretton Woods wasn’t built on formal treaties and conferences. It was a highly informal system that, for the most part, still exists today.


Learn more about the petrodollar system, how it came to be, and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Getting Hammered - Good Faith

You know, how teachers unions kept schools closed for more than a year? Or how some on the left cast aside free speech in the face of a tragedy? Mary Katharine and Vic know it's all in good faith....


Times

  • 00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
  • 15:56 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
  • 16:03 - Coronavirus lockdowns continue in Shanghai
  • 21:58 - House holds a hearing on UFO sightings
  • 28:56 - Russia miscalculates Ukraine invasion; Finland, Sweden, Switzerland consider joining NATO
  • 32:04 - Mass shootings over the weekend kill ten in Buffalo, one in Southern California
  • 40:04 - Pennsylvania faces their primary election


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NBN Book of the Day - Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success” (Public Affairs, 2022)

Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten years of pioneering research, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (Public Affairs, 2022) provides new evidence about the past and present of the American Dream, debunking myths fostered by political opportunism and sentimentalized in family histories. They make a powerful case for four key facts:

  • Children of immigrants from nearly every country, especially those of poor immigrants, do better economically than children of U.S.-born residents.
  • Immigrants accused of lack of assimilation (such as Mexicans today and the Irish in the past) actually assimilate fastest.
  • Immigration changes the economy in unexpected positive ways and staves off the economic decline that is the consequence of an aging population.
  • Closing the door to immigrants harms the economic prospects of the U.S.-born—the people politicians are trying to protect.


Using powerful story-telling and unprecedented research employing big data and algorithms, interviewee Leah Boustan and her co-author Ran Abramitzky are like dedicated family genealogists but millions of times over. They provide a new take on American history with surprising results, especially how comparable the “golden era” of immigration is to today, and why many current policy proposals are so misguided.

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New Books in Native American Studies - Irune Gabiola, “Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres” (Peter Lang, 2020)

In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed by social movements such as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras). Despite a harsh legacy of colonialism, indigenous communities continue suffering from territorial displacements, dispossession, and human rights abuses due to extractivist projects that are violently destroying their land and, therefore, the environment. In particular, the Lenca communities in Honduras have been negatively affected by Western ideas of progress and development that have historically eliminated ancestral knowledges and indigenous ecological cosmologies while reinforcing Eurocentrism. Nevertheless, by reflecting on and articulating strategies for resisting neoliberalism, COPINH and its cofounder Berta Cáceres' commitment to environmental activism, ecofeminism, and intersectional struggles has contributed affectively and effectively to the production of democratic encounters in pursuit of social justice. In homage to Berta, who was brutally assassinated for her activism in 2016, this book takes the reader on an affective journey departing from the violent affects experienced by the Lencas due to colonial disruption, contemporary industrialization, and criminalization, towards COPINH's political and social intervention fueled by outrage, resistance, transnational solidarity, care, mourning, and hope. In this way, subaltern actors nurture the power to--in line with Brian Massumi's interpretation of affect--transform necropolitics into natality with the aim of creating a fairer and better world

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