Month: June 2022

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New Books in Native American Studies - Dustin Tahmahkera, “Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands” (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

For centuries Comanches have captivated imaginations. Yet their story in popular accounts abruptly stops in 1875, when the last free Comanches entered a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma. In Cinematic Comanches: The Lone Ranger in the Media Borderlands (U Nebraska Press, 2022), the first tribal-specific history of Comanches in film and media, Quanah Parker descendant Dustin Tahmahkera examines how Comanches represent themselves and are represented by others in recent media. Telling a story of Comanche family and extended kin and their relations to film, Tahmahkera reframes a distorted and defeated history of Comanches into a vibrant story of cinematic traditions, agency, and cultural continuity.


Co-starring a long list of Comanche actors, filmmakers, consultants, critics, and subjects, Cinematic Comanches moves through the politics of tribal representation and history to highlight the production of Comanchería cinema. From early silent films and 1950s Westerns to Disney’s The Lone Ranger and the story of how Comanches captured its controversial Comanche lead Johnny Depp, Tahmahkera argues that Comanche nationhood can be strengthened through cinema. Tahmahkera’s extensive research includes interviews with elder LaDonna Harris, who adopted Depp during filming in one of the most contested films in recent Indigenous cinematic history. In the fragmented popular narrative of the rise and fall of Comanches, Cinematic Comanches calls for considering mediated contributions to the cultural resurgence of Comanches today.

Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez an associate professor of History at Texas State University.

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The NewsWorthy - Primary Elections, Vaccines Wasted & iPhone Updates- Tuesday, June 7th, 2022

The news to know for Tuesday, June 7th, 2022!

We're talking about more important elections around the U.S. Seven more states are holding primaries today that could set the stage for the fall. 

Also, what to know about the British prime minister's recent victory and why some say he still won't hold onto his job for long.

Plus, an "unheard of" result in a cancer drug trial, where the largest four-day workweek experiment is happening, and the key announcements from Apple: from unsending your iMessages to a new way to pay and more.

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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What A Day - Can Austin City Limit Abortion Criminalization?

As abortion access continues to decline on the local level, lawmakers and advocates across the country are devising new ways to protect abortion access as much as they can, where they can. Chito Vela, an Austin City Councilmember, joins us to discuss what he’s doing to decriminalize abortion in Austin, Texas, should Roe be overturned.

And in headlines: Seven states have primary elections today, a federal grand jury charged five members of the Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy, and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote among Conservative members of Parliament.

Show Notes:

  • Washington Post: “Empty clinics, no calls: The fallout of Oklahoma’s abortion ban” – https://wapo.st/3xo4aZn

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #333 – “Just Breathe” with Reza Asgari

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are hangin' out at Disgraceland with comedian and returning champ Reza Asgari! Rivers talks about one of the weirdest comedy open mics in L.A. and then feeds an energy drink called "CUT" to the rest of the crew. We also go into the bizarre story of Wiley Brooks and the hilarious rise and fall of his early-80s diet cult "Breatharianism". Top 3 lists in this one include most preposterous band names the most badass movie spies of all time! "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Tune in now!  Follow Reza on Twitter @RezaAsgari.  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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The Daily Signal - Matt Walsh Reveals How Gender Ideology Mutilates Kids

What is a woman? Seems like a pretty simple question. But in today’s America, the left thinks females aren't the only ones who count as women anymore. Stories abound of biological males not only invading women's private spaces such as bathrooms and locker rooms, but dominating in women's sports.

All of this comes with the support of radical leftists and activists in medicine.

Worse, those medical doctors aren't just focused on treating adults. Transgender ideologues have targeted children.

Matt Walsh, author, podcast host, and filmmaker with The Daily Wire, has released a documentary film titled "What Is a Woman?" that he hopes will expose the worst aspects of gender ideology.

"You feel like you're staring into the pit of hell, honestly. I mean, you're looking at pure evil when you consider what they're doing to these kids, and they know what they're doing," Walsh says. "They have to know what they're doing, because they're the doctors and they know what it entails. They know that this stuff is obviously irreversible and they also know that kids can't actually consent to any of this stuff."

Walsh adds:

Kids don't know what they're doing. They're not looking five, 10 years into the future. I mean, even before you get to surgery and that's horrific enough, you've got the drugs, the hormone drugs, the so-called puberty blockers, and those drugs among other consequences, they also have the effect of sterilizing kids.

Walsh joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss his film and what gender activists are doing to kids, and offer solutions on how to escape this post-truth environment.

We also cover these stories:

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk accuses Twitter of refusing to provide information on the number of bots and fake accounts populating the platform.
  • The national average price of a gallon of gas hits a new record high of $4.86.
  • Several players for the Tampa Bay Rays, citing religious reasons, refuse to wear "pride" logos on their uniforms during a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox.



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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Right’s Poll-Watcher Army

Republicans who still haven’t accepted that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020 are recruiting “a volunteer army” of poll watchers and poll workers for upcoming elections. For those who want transparent and fair elections, an influx of enthusiasm is theoretically a good thing. But if new poll workers and poll watchers have an agenda— chasing after fraud that didn’t happen—can they hurt more than they help?  


Guest: Alexandra Berzon, investigative reporter for the New York Times. 


Guest hosted by Mary C. Curtis, columnist at Roll Call and host of its Equal Time podcast.


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Pod Save America - “Live from DC, it’s January 6!”

The January 6th special committee sets expectations high for Thursday’s prime time hearing, tensions in the Biden White House spill into the press, and Chef Jose Andres talks to Tommy about World Central Kitchen and what they’ve learned helping people in Ukraine and serving refugees and people in need around the world.

 

 

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - On the quantum internet, data doesn’t stream; it teleports

The first step in quantum computing? Quantum internet: a network capable of sending quantum information between far-distant computing machines (as in, one on Earth and one on Mars). Still have questions?

In case it’s been a while since your last physics course: Schrödinger’s cat.

Retool’s 2022 State of Engineering Time reveals how software engineers spend their time, what they want to do more (and less) of, and the most frustrating and satisfying parts of their jobs.

A great resource from GitHub for folks working on open-source projects: Why creating a popular OSS library is a marathon, not a sprint.

Cassidy recommends Centered again—the app that helps you stay in your flow state.

Congrats to Ceora on her new role at Auth0!

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Short Wave - Pride Week: TikTok Queen Brings Math To The Masses

Kyne is the stage name of Kyne Santos, a math communicator and a drag queen. The former Canada's Drag Race contestant posted her first video explaining a math riddle in full drag on TikTok during the pandemic. Since then, Kyne's videos, under the username @onlinekyne, have have attracted 1.3 million followers and generated 40.7 million likes. Kyne talks to host Emily Kwong about bringing STEM to the drag scene. (Encore)

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NPR's Book of the Day - The aftermath of Brown vs The Board of Education in ‘Jim Crow’s Pink Slip’

Leslie Fenwick is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar at Howard University. In her new book, Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership, Fenwick argues that the landmark Brown Versus the Board of Education decision ending legal segregation in American schools also resulted in the mass firing, or demotion, of Black principals and teachers. Fenwick told Michel Martin on All Things Considered that we're still living with the repercussions today, but that by acknowledging that we can help efforts to diversify the educational system.