Month: August 2022

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Kansas’s Sketchy Abortion Vote

Following a 2017 state supreme court decision, the right to an abortion is recognized by Kansas’s state constitution. But with some suspect scheduling and seemingly deliberately confusing language, citizens of Kansas are voting today on whether to return control over reproductive healthcare to the state’s deeply Republican legislature. 

 

Guest: Stephen R. McAllister, former U.S. district attorney and University of Kansas law professor.


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Pod Save America - “Climate Change of Heart.”

The fate of the Manchin miracle lies in the hands of Kyrsten Sinema, Democrats' prospects of holding the senate may be brightening with just 100 days to go, and later, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin talks to Lovett about protecting same-sex marriage and democracy.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Freewater’ Amina Luqman-Dawson uses YA fiction to dive deep into Black history

Today, the Great Dismal Swamp is a National Wildlife Refuge stretching between Virginia and North Carolina. But from the late 1600s to the Civil War, indigenous peoples and slaves sought refuge from persecution in the sprawling forested wetland. In her novel for young adults, titled Freewater, author Amina Luqman-Dawson imagines a world inside the swamp's colonies, filled with freedom, love, and change. In an interview with Here and Now's Celeste Headlee, Luqman-Dawson talks about her decision to stay away from writing a non-fiction book and the power of historical fiction for teens and kids.
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Short Wave - Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

Under a 1971 Congressional Act, the Bureau of Land Management has the right to round up wild horses on public lands. Oftentimes, those horses are shipped to holding facilities, where they are kept in captivity and separated from their families. William Simpson wants to change that. He wants to deploy the wild horses across public lands, to live and graze — and ultimately, prevent the worst wildfires.

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Read Me a Poem - “Work Is My Secret Lover” by Grace Cavalieri

Amanda Holmes reads Grace Cavalieri’s poem “Work Is My Secret Lover.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Opening Arguments - OA618: The Case That Could Allow Republicans to Steal 2024

In today's doom coverage, Andrew breaks down Moore v. Harper and how it is completely outrageous that the Supreme Court granted cert. It's bad. It's real bad. But guess what! It's also worse. In the first segment, we talk about the likelihood that the Secret Service texts were lost accidentally. Lots of tech people contacted us about prior coverage.

Links: Cert petition, Amicus by the national Republican redistricting trust, Bush v Gore, McPherson v Blacker, Smiley v Holm, opposition brief

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Chapo Trap House - 650 – Hammer Time feat. Brace Belden (8/1/22)

We’re joined by special investigator Brace Belden to look into the increasingly bizarre saga of the Black Hammer group, which recently made news as subject of a police raid, a suspicious death among their group members, criminal accusations against their leader, and now accusations of being part of a foreign influence operation. We discuss all this as well as the political value of Being Normal. Dates + Ticket links to TrueAnon’s live shows: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tour-general-no-69113927 Dates + Tickets for OUR live shows (including the Ft. Lauderdale show now rescheduled to 10/30) are here: chapotraphouse.com/live Streaming tickets for our Pickathon fest set at Noon (PST) next Saturday, 8/6 are available at: https://frqncy.live/pickathon/?r=52e3
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The Gist - Manchin Chucklefest

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin made the rounds of every Sunday Show, and we break down the game film, so you can consider yourself a good citizen but also stay sane. Plus, the unintended suffering wrought by the Dobbs decision. And Kate Shaw, ABC Legal Analyst and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, is here to talk about the Equal Rights Amendment, which, many of its backers claim, actually passed and should be the law of the land.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: Tiffany Unveils $50K CryptoPunk Necklace, and OneOf Adds American Express as New Backer

The most valuable crypto stories for Monday, August 1, 2022.

"The Hash" hosts discuss jewelry maker Tiffany &  Co. selling 250 customized, diamond-encrusted CryptoPunk pendant necklaces for 30 ETH a pop to holders of the NFT, and NFT platform OneOf's latest funding round led by the American Express.

See also: Jewelry Brand Tiffany and Co. Unveils $50K CryptoPunk Necklaces

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