Month: February 2024

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The NewsWorthy - Zuckerberg’s Apology, Students Rebound & Elmo’s Wellness Check- Thursday, February 1, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, February 1, 2024!

We'll tell you about a heated Senate hearing on the dangers of social media, including a rare public apology from Mark Zuckerberg.

Also, a rare bipartisan tax bill passed the House, but what are its chances in the Senate?

And the Fed made another decision about interest rates and previewed what to expect in the coming months.

Plus, the first better-than-expected report about student scores post-pandemic, why a bunch of today's most popular songs are disappearing from TikTok, and one question from Elmo sparked a trending conversation online. We'll explain. 

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What A Day - Kickin’ Off The Party In South Carolina

The first official Democratic primary of 2024 taking place this Saturday in South Carolina. President Joe Biden has seen a decline in support among Black voters in early polls, so this early primary date is a chance for the Biden-Harris campaign to rally support in South Carolina and make a broad appeal to Black voters nationally. We’re joined by Jaime Harrison, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, to dig into the significance of South Carolina’s Democratic primary and how it plays into the party’s agenda at large for 2024.

And in headlines: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the families of victims during the Senate hearing into online child safety, President Biden is set to visit East Palestine, Ohio later this month, and Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill banning trans people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
 

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Tech Won't Save Us - What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard

Paris Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in journalism.

Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at University of Pennsylvania. He’s also the author of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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The Best One Yet - 🚌 “The Tesla of School Buses” — Zum’s $1B e-Schoolbus. Norway’s huuuuge wealth fund. 23&Me’s riches to rags story.

Zum just hit a $1.3B valuation for reinventing the school bus: Electric and smart — but since kids are involved, they’re facing some speed bumps.

23&Me pioneered the home DNA test, but now they’re close to bankruptcy — because of the “The Macarena Problem”: One-hit-wonder”

And the largest stock fund in the world? It’s Norway — Norway’s sovereign wealth fund owns 2% of the world’s stocks (no joke) and just had a record year… thanks to oil and oranges (we’ll explain)


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Vince McMahon: Full-Time Heel

Vince McMahon is walking away from professional wrestling, again. The WWE looks to continue without the man that built it into an institution—and shrouded it in scandal. 


Guest: Dave Scherer, founder of the pro-wrestling news site, PWinsider.com.


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The Daily Signal - City Attempts to Shut Down Church’s Ministry to Poor. Pastor Is Fighting Back

After seeing the needs in his community, Pastor Chris Avell made the decision to keep the doors of his church open 24/7. 


“We're called to reach the lost 24/7,” Avell says, adding that this includes the “the hurting, the broken, the least of these.” 


Pastor Chris Avell opened the doors of his church, called Dad’s Place in Bryan, Ohio, to the needy in the community so they know they have a place to find help 24/7. Dad's Place is “a place they can come if they're weary and burdened and find rest and true rest for their souls,” the pastor says. 


Some people in the community, whether those struggling with mental health, addiction, or with physical needs, began frequenting the church and even sleeping there if they needed a place to stay. But several months after the church opened its doors wide with round the clock help for the needy, the city told Avell he had to stop. 


“According to the city,” First Liberty attorney Jeremy Dys explains, “Dad's Place has converted itself from being a church and into a homeless shelter, which they believe is a change of use from the approval that the city had previously given for them to be a church. Well, of course, that's not true,” Dys says. 


“This is a church and they're doing church things,” Dys says of Dad's Place, adding that churches throughout history have kept their doors open 24 hours a day in order to fulfill the Biblical mandate to serve the needly. 


Avell, along with Dys, join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how he is fighting to continue doing the work he and the congregation at Dad’s Place feel called by God to do.


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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Late Bloomers’ is a novel about arranged marriage, divorce and dating later in life

Dating can be difficult and confusing at any age – but especially after the end of a 36-year arranged marriage. The characters of Deepa Varadarajan's debut novel, Late Bloomers, are experiencing that second chance firsthand. Parents Suresh and Lata have just split and are learning to navigate dating online and IRL; their kids are fielding relationship troubles of their own. In today's episode, the author talks to NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer about what it means to find love later in life, and how writing fiction provided her with her own kind of fresh start.


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Serious Inquiries Only - SIO424: Semen Caught Violating Newton’s 3rd Law? (the one about cum)

Astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis is back! And here's here to talk about... sperm? Well, when a science headline claims that sperm is violating Newton's 3rd Law, that's when the science police have to lay down the law, no matter how weird the topic. But before you think this is just a bad journalist, the paper may actually be where the problem is... Bryan explains the whole damn thing.  
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It Could Happen Here - Oregon Decriminalized Drugs, Now Politicians Are Trying to Re-Criminalize Them

Robert sits down with city defense attorney Grant Hartley to talk about the battle over Oregon's historic decision to decriminalize drugs.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/31/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Mark Zuckerberg apologies. White House responds to deadly strikes in Jordan. Growing concern over Chinese hackers. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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