Month: June 2023

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE HASH: U.S. Court Tells SEC to Respond to Coinbase’s Rule-Making Petition Within 7 Days

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The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, June 7, 2023.


"The Hash" panel explores today's top stories moving the crypto markets: a U.S. judge ordered the SEC to respond to Coinbase’s rulemaking petition within a week. Separately, in stablecoin land, Circle Singapore received its Major Payment Institution (MPI) license for digital payment token services in Singapore, while lending protocol Aave’s gho (GHO) stablecoin took a step closer to an Ethereum mainnet launch. Plus, Louis Vuitton is releasing physical-backed NFTs, and pepecoin (PEPE) investors may only have a limited window for potential gains.


See also:

Coinbase CEO Armstrong Says Not Shutting Down Staking Service 

The SEC Is Fighting the Last War

SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, Alleging Multiple Securities Violations

Stablecoin Issuer Circle Receives Digital Token License in Singapore

Louis Vuitton To Release $42,000 Physical-Backed NFTs

3 Reasons Why Beauty on the Blockchain Makes Sense


This episode has been edited by senior producer Michele Musso and the executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “Neon Beach.”


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Consider This from NPR - Black Immigrants in the South

Being Black and an immigrant is an increasingly common phenomenon in the South, where 1 in 10 Black people are immigrants.

Still, despite growing numbers of Black immigrants in the region, their experience is fraught with worries over discrimination and assimilation.

NPR's Leah Donnella reports on hurdles Black immigrants face in order to drive in Tennessee, a state with one of the fastest growing populations of Black immigrants in the South, and with few options for transportation.

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Consider This from NPR - Black Immigrants in the South

Being Black and an immigrant is an increasingly common phenomenon in the South, where 1 in 10 Black people are immigrants.

Still, despite growing numbers of Black immigrants in the region, their experience is fraught with worries over discrimination and assimilation.

NPR's Leah Donnella reports on hurdles Black immigrants face in order to drive in Tennessee, a state with one of the fastest growing populations of Black immigrants in the South, and with few options for transportation.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What’s Up With The Fluffy Stuff All Over Chicago?

The Chicago area has been blanketed by dandelion-like fluff for the past week. Reset learns more about what’s behind the weird event and the role the plant its from plays in the ecosystem with Karen Weigert, director of Loyola University Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility, Jessica Turner-Skoff, science communication leader, Morton Arboretum, and Jalene LaMontagne, professor of biological sciences, DePaul University.
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SCOTUScast - Bartenwerfer v. Buckley – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On February 22, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Bartenwerfer v. Buckley. At issue was whether a debtor is liable for a debt incurred by her partner’s fraud and if she can discharge that debt in bankruptcy, regardless of her own culpability; the Court held that she could not discharge that debt.

Join us to hear Prof. Plank break down the decision and offer his criticism of the Court's reasoning and ruling.

Featuring:
Thomas Plank, Professor Emeritus, University of Tennessee College of Law
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The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | Are Concerned Parents the New KKK? FBI Contempt Vote, CNN President Out | June 7

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


  • Tyler O’Neil is reporting that The Southern Poverty Law Center, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, added a slew of parental rights organizations to that “hate map” for 2022 and labeled them “antigovernment groups.” Tyler’s report: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/06/breaking-southern-poverty-law-center-adds-parental-rights-groups-hate-map/ 
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has officially jumped into the race for the White House. 
  • Tony Kinnett reports that several fights broke out between Antifa and parental rights activists Tuesday night outside the Glendale Unified School District’s administration building in Glendale, California, during a school board meeting discussing LGBTQ+ curriculum.
  • House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer has filed a resolution to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Flawless’ provides a deeply reported look into Korean beauty standards

Elise Hu moved to Seoul, South Korea to set up an NPR bureau and report on the geopolitical tensions of the mid-2010s. But her new book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital, focuses on a different, albeit inescapable, part of life there – beauty standards and the industry driving them. In today's episode, Hu speaks with NPR's Brittany Luse about the consumerism, gender politics and technological advances that drive the booming beauty culture, and explains why the rest of the world should be paying attention...for better or worse.