Month: June 2023

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The Gist - Siren Song vs Whistleblower At Facebook

Frances Haugen is to Instagram as Jeffrey Wigand is to big tobacco and Edward Snowden is to the NSA. She blew the whistle, exposing them for doing harm, and it changed her life for good. She joins us to discuss what that was like, and to talk about her new book, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. Plus, Trump backers complain about the double standards, but the standards were clearly articulated in a fairly famous press conference we know Trump paid attention to. And, by any standard, Indian rail travel is especially dangerous, and, it goes without saying, especially to the poor.


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Consider This from NPR - Trump in Court…Again

On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump appeared in a federal courthouse in Miami where he pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal charges, including obstruction and unlawful retention of classified documents at his Florida home and private resort Mar-a-Lago.

He is the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal charges. Trump and many of his supporters have called the indictment politically motivated.

NPR's White House correspondent Franco Ordonez has been following Trump's case and he spoke to Ailsa Chang about how Trump, as well as his opponents in the Republican primary are reacting to the indictment on the campaign trail.

Ailsa Chang spoke with NPR's Andrea Bernstein about why Trump sees so many lawyers come and go.


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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - MC Omar Offendum’s Show Pays Tribute To Chicago’s Arab History

In his show “Little Syria,” MC and rapper Omar Offendum explores the forgotten history of Syrian Americans in Manhattan. Offendum performed earlier this month at the Old Town School of Folk Music, along with DJ Thanks Joey and Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist Ronnie Malley. Reset sat down with the three artists to talk about weaving both different languages and genres in his music.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - CLASSIC: What was the Chappaquiddick Incident?

On July 18th, 1969, campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne and Senator Ted Kennedy were involved in a single-car accident while departing a reunion held at Chappaquiddick island. Only one of them made it it out of the car alive. In the hours, days, weeks, years and decades since, numerous people have tried and failed to come up with conclusive answers about the sequence of events leading to Kopechne's tragic death. Join Ben and Matt as they interview Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, the screenwriters behind the film Chappaquiddick, as they retrace their steps researching and writing the story, including their inspirations, their beliefs about what actually occurred, and why it's crucial to remember this incident in the modern day.

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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Trump Pleads Not Guilty, State Department Wants $76 Million for DEI, White House Bans Trans Activists | June 13

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:


  • Former President Donald Trump is arraigned and enters a not guilty plea. 
  • The Biden administration asks Congress for $76 million to fund diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. 
  • Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says there are audio recordings between President Joe Biden and a top Burisma executive. 
  • The White House bans tansgender activists from future White House events after they went topless at a White House event. 


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Federalist Radio Hour - Can Free Speech Be Restored In The West?

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Brendan O’Neill, the chief political writer for Spiked magazine, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the groupthink that has infected the Western world and why it's important to be a heretic about the new orthodoxies wreaking havoc on our culture.

You can find O'Neill's book, "A Heretic's Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable," here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-heretics-manifesto-brendan-oneill/1143323507