Month: June 2022

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Headlines From The Times - To be queer in Singapore

Just this year, Singapore’s top court upheld section 377A. That’s a British colonial-era law prohibiting consenting sex between men. And while the government says it doesn’t strictly enforce that law, anyone who breaks it could face up to two years behind bars.

Meanwhile, thousands of Queer Singaporean activists and LGBTQ allies will gather in Hong Lim Park this weekend for an annual gay pride event — and send a clear message to lawmakers that they’re done being denied their basic human rights. 

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Host: The Times producer David Toledo

Guest: L.A. Times Asia correspondent David Pierson

More reading:

Pink Dot: Singapore’s yearly pride celebration gets bigger and brighter

A Singaporean erotic OnlyFans star faces months in prison — and sparks a debate

Same-sex penguin parents spark literary controversy in Singapore


 

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Menace to democracy: The January 6th hearings

In its third public hearing yesterday, the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol insurrection detailed the pressure put on Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election—as well as the continuing threat to American democracy posed by Donald Trump. Can artificial intelligence become sentient, and if it did, how would we know? And why internet shutdowns are a costly and ineffective way to stop students from cheating. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
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The Best One Yet - 🔺🔴🟥 “Squid Game… but it’s real” – Netflix’s reality show. LEGO’s US factory. Jokr’s Millennial lifestyle.

Netflix is so desperate for Season 2 of Squid Game to be a success… that it’s turning the horror show into a reality TV show. Lego is finally building its 1st factory in the US because kids want that toy now (except if they change their minds. Or don’t. Then change again). And Jokr is shutting down its Super Delivery app in the US, marking the end of the “VC Subsidized Millennial Lifestyle.” $NFLX $MAT $HAS $DIS 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 6.17.22

Alabama

  • ALGOP Chairman is in favor of closed primary voting for Republicans
  • TX Pastor Bart Barber is elected president of Southern Baptist Convention
  • Two Alabama men are now missing in action after joining Ukraine's military
  • Two inmates die at Donaldson Correctional facility, one is considered a homicide
  • Steel City Smooth Jazz Festival returns to this weekend after 5 year pause

National

  • Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 30 thousand points on Thursday
  • Abortion activists target Detroit Catholic Church with naked protest
  • Joe Biden to send another 1.2 billion dollars to Ukraine, mostly in weapons aid
  • MI Attorney general who is lesbian promotes "Drag Queens in every school"
  • MS Attorney general subpoenas 7 schools districts over intrusive student survey
  • Only 5 out of 50 Senate Democrats willing to say yes Biden should run in 2024
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Atacama Desert

Situated in the north of the nation of Chile lies one of the most extreme environments on Planet Earth. The Atacama Desert. 


What makes the Atacama Desert so unique isn’t its size or its temperature, it is the amount of precipitation it gets….or rather the lack thereof. 


It is precipitation that defines what a desert is, and by that logic, the Atacama is the most desert-y of all the deserts. 


Learn more about the Atacama Desert and what makes it so different and special, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Getting Hammered - Divorcée Getaway

Today we're talking about congress's predictable stall on the gun package, the rising red wave in Texas, wokeness at George Washington University, and a new vacation trend.


Time Stamps:

09:19 - Gun Package hits a snag

16:33 - Texas and The Red Wave

27:23 - GWU to disown The Colonials

32:55 - Divorcee Getaway

36:35 - Eulogy for a Superintendent


Show Notes:

Politico: Meet Marya Flores, the newly elected Latina Republican from South Texas

WSJ: The Post-Divorce Breakup Trip is Having a Moment

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NBN Book of the Day - Mikaela Rabinowitz, “Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice” (Routledge, 2021)

Mikaela Rabinowitz’s Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2021) addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the US criminal justice system: namely, the significant impact of pretrial detention on the millions of Americans held in local jails. On any given day, approximately 500,000 Americans are held in pretrial detention in US jails—not because they are a flight risk, but because they cannot pay for bail or a bail bond. Impacting disproportionally Black and poor individuals, Rabinowitz highlights how pretrial detention is at odds with juridical notions of fairness, effectively punishing Americans before guilt or innocence is ever explored in court. Using a mixed-methods approach, Rabinowitz argues that pretrial detention undermines both the presumption and the meaning of innocence in the American criminal justice system.

Incarceration without Conviction is available through Routledge. Mikaela Rabinowitz is Director of Data, Research, and Analytics at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Rine Vieth is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at McGill University, where they research the how UK asylum tribunals consider claims on the basis of belief. Their public writing focuses on issues of migration governance, as well as how inaccessibility and transphobia can shape the practice of anthropological research.

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The NewsWorthy - Spotlight on Pence, Mortgage Rates Jump & New NBA Champions- Friday, June 17th, 2022

The news to know for Friday, June 17th, 2022!

We'll tell you a few of the key takeaways from the third January 6th committee hearing. It was mostly focused on former Vice President Mike Pence. 

Also, the number of illegal border crossings hit another record.

Plus, an NBA team was crowned this year's national champion, one of the world's biggest sporting events could be coming to your city, and there are two reasons to celebrate this weekend.

Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes for sources and to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - Spotlight on Gun Bill and Insurrection Hearings

This week’s bipartisan hearings on the January 6 insurrection coincided with the preliminary announcement on a bipartisan gun bill in the Senate. We take a look at what led to this cross-party cooperation – in Congress and in public opinion – by inviting in a US political historian and a Trump official who blew the whistle on the former president’s support of domestic terrorism. Are we making progress or papering over our problems, and what does history tell us is about to happen?

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PHPUgly - 291: Artificial Stupidity

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