Month: August 2022

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The Daily Signal - Examining How COVID-19 Lockdowns So Easily Curbed American Freedoms

Americans still remember how the COVID-19 pandemic led not only to the loss of lives, but the loss of livelihoods.


As businesses closed, the government grew in power and Americans' liberties shrank, contends journalist Cheryl Chumley, author of the book "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom."

"It was alarming to me how the left used fear to steal our constitutional, God-given rights," Chumley says.


Online opinion editor for The Washington Times and host of the "Bold and Blunt" podcast, she has reported on Capitol Hill and covered state and local politics before coming to Washington.


Chumley, who joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast," says the biggest long-term effect of the government's response to the pandemic may have been "shifting the mindset of American citizens from one of individualism into one of collectivism."


"I wrote 'Lockdown' basically as a look back on where the government got it wrong and how the Democrats used it for political gain, but more importantly, looking forward to how the Democrats plan to continue to use a pandemic to segue into the next cause to justify continuing lockdowns," she says.


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Opening Arguments - OA623: This Week in High Treason

There's still SO much to talk about in the Mar-a-Lago Treason Trove! Lots of updates on that, plus the Weiselberg plea, Trump passports, and more! We also squeeze in a wildcard on Alex Jones's loser lawyers.

Links: The Atlantic article that is wrong, 42 U.S. Code § 2274 - Communication of Restricted Data, Jonathan Toebbe case, 10 CFR Part 1045 -- Nuclear Classification and Declassification, Classification of Nuclear Weapons-Related Information, Dep’t of the Navy v. Egan, Trump’s passports returned, Norm Pattis Sanctions order, Reynal order, Pattis "moved to dismiss", Alex-Jones-Kyng-S.-Lee-Affidavit

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Combining the best of engineering cultures from Silicon Valley and Shanghai

Born and raised in China, Liam arrived in the US to attend the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied human-computer interaction. After some initial “culture shock” at the differences between his education in China and the “open and innovative” Berkeley environment, Liam thrived. After graduating, he worked at LinkedIn before returning to China to found a startup called Zaihui, offering ecommerce SaaS solutions for retailers.

Liam describes the still-commonplace 9-9-6 schedule (working from nine in the morning until nine at night, six days a week) and the approach of assigning multiple teams to compete on different visions for the same product.

In Liam’s view, US and Chinese engineering teams take different approaches to work, work-life balance, innovation, and risk. US teams pursue “breakthrough innovations” that impress customers, while “hustling and hardworking” Chinese teams “want to move fast and break things” to copy what works and make it incrementally better. 

What would a hybrid of these approaches look like? Liam’s new startup, Immersive, is combining teams from the US and China to find out.

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NPR's Book of the Day - Mohsin Hamid and Alora Young detail the impact of colorism in their stories

The two books featured in this episode illustrate the impact of colorism in society. First up is The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid. In conversation with Scott Simon, Hamid talks about his personal experience after 9/11 and how that helped shape the narrative of this novel. Next is Walking Gentry Home by Alora Young, which chronicles her family's history through nine generations of mothers in her life. Young shares with Leila Fadel about how her stories touch on her skin complexion "as a product of uninvited attention" from people who enslaved her family.
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It Could Happen Here - The Limits of Abortion Sanctuary Laws

We're joined by Alejandra Caraballo, Yveka Pierre, and Michelle McGrath to discuss the limits of abortion sanctuary laws, the role of big data in abortion arrests, and how we can build a better future for reproductive justice.

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The Gist - Confoundingly Dense Communications

The CDC’s head, Rochelle Walensky vows to undertake an agency overhaul, including better communication. Mike argues that when it comes to COVID-19, things were not perfect … maybe even not good … but great leaps in communication are going to be extremely difficult. Plus, Donald Trump “endorses” one of his impeachers, and University of Toronto Professor Jooyoung Lee talks about Canadian gun crime’s roots in the U.S.

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Lost Debate - Ep 71 | Neumann Comeback, Productivity Scores, Liz Cheney, Student Progress

Rikki and Ravi start by discussing the return of disgraced WeWork founder Adam Neumann before turning to the growing trend of “worker productivity scores,” Liz Cheney’s resounding defeat in Wyoming, and a few fascinating sets of data on student progress and performance. Finally, Ravi hits us with another one of his radical ideas. 


[03:15] Adam Neumann’s comeback?

[19:06] Worker Productivity Scores

[27:55] Liz Cheney’s loss

[35:20] Student Progress Data

[48:30} Ravi’s Radical Idea


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Consider This from NPR - Trying To Heal The Wounds Of Partition, 75 Years Later

75 years ago this week, British colonial rule ended in India. Two new nations emerged - Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India.

But that freedom was followed by chaos and bloodshed. Partition triggered a mass migration across a shared border, as millions of Muslims fled to Pakistan and millions of Hindus and Sikhs fled to India.

Violent attacks happened on both sides of the border. An estimated one million people were killed.

Pakistan and India still grapple with the repercussions of Partition and the effects are still felt today.

NPR's Lauren Frayer tells us about an effort to heal some of those old wounds by reconnecting elderly survivors of Partition with the homes and villages they haven't seen in decades.

Additional reporting in this episode from NPR's Diaa Hadid.

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