Month: May 2023

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NBN Book of the Day - Serhii Plokhy, “The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History” (Norton, 2023)

"The Ukrainian nation will emerge from this war more united and certain of its identity than at any other point in its modern history," writes Serhii Plokhy at the end of The Russo-Ukrainian War (Norton, 2023).

But that's not all, says the man acclaimed by the Financial Times as “the world's foremost historian of Ukraine” - author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, and Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"Ukraine’s successful resistance to Russian aggression is destined to promote Russia's own nation-building project. Russia and its elites now have little choice but to reimagine their country's identity by parting ways not only with the imperialism of the Tsarist past but also with the anachronistic model of a Russian nation consisting of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. By paying an enormous price in wealth and blood of its citizens, Ukraine is terminating the era of Russian dominance in a good part of eastern Europe and challenging Moscow's claim to primacy in the rest of the post-Soviet space".

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute.

*The author's own book recommendations are The Zelensky Effect by Olga Onuch and Henry Hale (Hurst, 2022) and Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer (Allen Lane, 2023)

Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes the Twenty-Four Two newsletter on Substack and hosts the In The Room podcast series.

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PHPUgly - 335: Eric Corrupts PHP

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What A Day - Title 42 Gets 86’d

Today marks the official end of Title 42, the Trump-era border policy that allowed U.S. border officials to expel asylum-seekers on public health grounds. We talk to Dara Lind, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, about the end of the policy, and what the restrictions that the Biden administration is putting in its place.

Republican-controlled state houses across the country continue to push anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, including Montana, where lawmakers have banned gender affirming care for trans youth, and also voted to censure Representative Zooey Zephyr. Erin Reed, an independent journalist and activist, joins us to talk about her work to make the country a better – and safer – place for transgender people.

And in headlines: writer E. Jean Carroll is considering suing Donald Trump again, Daniel Penny has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely, and the FDA has finally paved the way to allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood.

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The NewsWorthy - Border Chaos, Peanut Allergy Patch & New Twitter CEO- Friday, May 12, 2023

The news to know for Friday, May 12, 2023!

We're telling you about a rush on the U.S.-Mexico border and how it's being managed in overcrowded border cities.

Also, the government has a new plan to crack down on a major source of pollution, and record-breaking heat is expected in parts of the U.S. this weekend.

Plus, a possible medical breakthrough for toddlers with peanut allergies, who might be replacing Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter, and how Americans are planning to celebrate moms this weekend.

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | GOP Border Bill Co-Author Says Democrats Engineered Migrant Crisis

The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil sat down with Congressmen Tom McClintock and John Rutherford to talk about H.R. 2, the border security bill the House passed Thursday. McClintock, who helped write the bill, said Democrats intentionally engineered the border crisis. Rutherford shared a horrifying story about a man in his district who got murdered by an illegal alien.


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Slate Books - A Word: The Privilege of Play

The persistent stereotype that role-playing, tabletop game players are overwhelmingly white is rooted in race, housing, and history. The suburban homes where people could dedicate a surface to a sprawling, multiplayer board game used to be almost exclusively white. And the knights, wizards, and other fantastic creatures in these games were closely tied to European mythology. But a more diverse world of game playing is rising, with more people of color getting a seat at the creative table. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson discusses diversity in hobby games with Aaron Trammell, a professor of informatics at U.C. Irvine. He’s also the author of the new book The Privilege of Play: A History of Hobby Games, Race and Geek Culture.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Who’s Afraid of A.I.?

Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data and is rife with the biases built into the algorithm, in service of the huge corporations that develop and maintain the systems. The fight for the future doesn’t look like war with Skynet; it’s happening right now on the lines of the Writer’s Guild strike. 


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It Could Happen Here - Exxon Mobil’s Evil Scheme for Guyana

James and Robert sit down with investigative journalist Amy Westervelt from Drilled to discuss the successful legal challenges to Exxon’s high risk drilling operation in Guyana.

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Opening Arguments - OA 741: It’s a Derp-Off! Trump vs. Santos vs. Dersh

Liz and Andrew break down the latest developments in Fulton County, GA; some truly terrible takes on the E. Jean Carroll verdict by Alan Dershowitz; and the indictment of Congressman Astronaut Rabbi George Santos. Be there, will be wild!

NotesOA 738 https://openargs.com/oa-738-trump-flops-proud-boys-drop/

Surveillance footage of Cathy Latham https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/20/coffee-county-georgia-cathy-latham/

SPGJ report sections made public http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1706/EX-PARTE-ORDER-OF-THE-JUDGE-2-16-2023-Report

Willis Modification of Motion to Disqualify Debrow http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1918/SPGJ--STATES-MODIFICATION-OF-MOTION-TO-DISQUALIFY-5-10-23

Shafer letter Fulton County https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23800972/shafer-final-march-26-letter-to-da-willis-w-exhibits.pdf

FEC Complaint - Santos https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/Campaign%20Legal%20Center%20-%20Santos%20Complaint%20%28Final%29.pdf

Santos indictment https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-05/santos.indictment.pdf

18 U.S.C. § 1343 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343

Federal Sentencing Guidelines https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manual/2021/GLMFull.pdf

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NPR's Book of the Day - Two novels depict young men understanding themselves and the danger around them

Today's episode features two novels with two very different protagonists, though their journeys might have more in common than appears at first glance. First, Stephen Buoro discusses The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa with NPR's Camila Domonoske, which follows a young Nigerian man's obsession with whiteness. Then, NPR's Scott Simon asks Max Porter about Shy, a short novel depicting a British teen's escape from his boarding school for troubled kids.