Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - How To Be A Skeptic, Part Two: Friends and Family

We've all been there - you're at a gathering of friends or family, when someone starts to go off the rails, expounding a strange series of unfounded conspiracies (or worse). How do you connect with this person, and help guide them away from the cognitive brink toward the world of critical thought? In the second part of this two-series, the guys explore the tricky process of navigating Conspiracy Realism without judgement or condescension.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - COVID and Koch

Tevi Troy joins the podcast today to talk about his article in COMMENTARY, “Ed Koch, Ten Years Gone.” And Tevi puts on his health-care hat as a former high-ranking official at the Department of Health and Human Services to help us understand the baffling Biden White House announcement that the COVID emergency will be over…in three months. Give a listen. Source

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Headlines From The Times - What it means to be a Black cowboy

Black people have been part of the American West for centuries. But mainstream cowboy culture long downplayed their contributions, even as they exist in the present day.

Today, we hear from some of them. Read the full transcript here.

Host: L.A. Times national reporter Tyrone Beason

More reading:

Black Californians have long celebrated cowboy culture. We’re just catching up

A proud group of Black Californians keep the traditions of the Old West and cowboy culture alive.

Excerpt: Cowboys in Compton find hope and healing on horseback

The Intelligence from The Economist - Troubled shares, troubles shared: Adani and India Inc

The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a tiny American research firm. A successful secondary share sale amid a rout in the markets leaves many questions—and proves revealing about India Inc. Our correspondent explains why Mexico is so well-placed to navigate the electric-vehicle transition. And the unlikely rise of MAGA rap artists.


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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - FDA Set To Ease Blood Donation Restrictions On Gay, Bisexual Men

A lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood was instituted in 1985, but change is afoot. Reset hears from Dr. Anu Hazra, University of Chicago infectious disease specialist, Jim Pickett, senior advisor with AVAC, Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention, Luke Romesberg, director of Youth Housing Program at the Center on Halsted, and Jennifer Brier, professor of history and gender and women’s studies, UIC.

Time To Say Goodbye - How many cops is enough?

Hello from our culture of violence! 

This week, Tammy and Jay talk through some painful questions following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police officers. 

For more on the cases and reports mentioned in this episode, see: 

* San Francisco’s attempt to expand police surveillance: Breed and New DA Jenkins Pushing Hard to Expand Police Access to Private Security Cameras All Over Town

* Accusations of racism in the prosecution of NYPD officer Peter Liang

* More people killed by police in 2022 than in any other year in the past decade, according to Mapping Police Violence

* Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project

* Cultures of violence in police departments and special units: 

* Rise Of The Warrior Cop by Radley Balko

* The Riders Come Out at Night by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham

* We Own This City by Justin Fenton

* The killing of Amadou Diallo, which led to the disbanding of NYPD’s Street Crimes Unit

* The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis

* Similar dynamics within the military (correction: from NYT, not ProPublica): Death in Navy SEAL Training Exposes a Culture of Brutality, Cheating and Drugs 

* The Oakland Police Department’s extended recruitment video

* A worker shortage across government: It’s Not Just a Police Problem, Americans Are Opting Out of Government Jobs

* Jeet Heer’s take in The Nation: The Killing of Tyre Nichols Is an Indictment of the Entire Political System 

And revisit these TTSG essays and episodes: 

* Racial dynamics in recent mass shootings: Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay, and who owns a tragedy

* Police killings across race, a provocation by Barbara Fields and Adam Rothman in Dissent, and discussed in “SCOTUS trouble, working-class white people, and Taiwan's military

* Abolition as practice: 

* How not to think like a cop, with Naomi Murakawa

* "I want you to care when people are still alive," with Yves Tong Nguyen of Red Canary Song

* "A world where prisons serve no purpose," with Kony Kim of the Bay Area Freedom Collective

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Laryngology Part 2 (VOICE BOXES) with Ronda Alexander

Part 2 is here! Pull up a seat for singing techniques, baby talk, baritones, whistle notes, stroke recovery, vibrato, Julie Andrews, crying jags, throat singing, accents and much more with your new favorite Laryngologist, Dr. Ronda Alexander. We just… we love her so much. 

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