Former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now a publicly traded stock — The former president turned the stock market into his GoFundMe.
Loyal is developing a drug that may extend the life of a dog by a year — Because every generation brands health in its own image (first “dieting”, then “wellness”, now “life extension”).
And athleisure stocks suffered a truly awful Friday — Nike and Lululemon are asking for a flag: “Too many players on the field”.
A concert outside of Moscow was interrupted by gunshot and a fire. Though ISIS claimed responsibility within hours, Putin isn’t letting this crisis go to waste.Â
Guest: Shane Harris, senior national security writer for the Washington Post.Â
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Steve Vladeck joins Kate and Leah for the play-by-play of what happened with SB4, Texas's restrictive and extreme anti-immigration law that wound up on the U.S. Supreme Court's shadow docket. Kate and Leah also recap the oral arguments in cases about the First Amendment and social media, the NRA, and the types of evidence allowed in trials.
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NPR's Sarah McCammon grew up in the white evangelical church — and though she left the tradition as an adult, she's continued to cover its ties to Trump's politics closely as a journalist. Her new book, The Exvangelicals, chronicles why so many people like herself have removed themselves from evangelicalism. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the different breaking points she heard from other defectors — from COVID to racial justice — and why a decline in people who identify as evangelical might actually explain the group's rising political profile.
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On 30th September 2022 a coroner in London finds that Molly Russell "...died from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content."
The finding is a global first. Social media is ruled to have contributed to the death of a child.
In San Francisco, around the same time, a strange story is unfolding inside Twitter HQ.
Ever since Donald Trump's account was suspended on Twitter, tensions have been building around what is and isn't allowed on platforms.
Elon Musk shares internal staff documents with a hand-picked group of journalists. One of those journalists suspects these documents show collusion between tech platforms and the US government.
Politicians and civil groups on both the left and right from across the world, want the power and influence of these companies to be reigned in.
There's even talk of repealing section 230 - the law that created modern social media.
In this final episode, Jamie Bartlett asks if Silicon Valley's radical experiment is about to implode? And if the online world is chaotic now, what will advances in artificial intelligence mean for us all?
Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Caitlin Smith
Sound design: Eloise Whitmore
Story Consultant: Kirsty Williams
Senior Producer: Peter McManus
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Commissioned by Dan Clarke
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Reading by John Lightbody
Archive credits: BBC News, September 2022; CNN, 2022; C-Span, Jan 2024; BBC Archive, 1967
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Robert sits down with author and activist Cory Doctorow to discuss his new book, the Bezzle, and how finance monsters have turned American prisons into an even crueler institution.
Relocating halfway across the world is hard enough for humans. For pets it can require a specialist. Zachary Crockett waits at the airport, holding a sign saying "Fluffy."
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SOURCES:
Amelia Barklow, owner of two pet ducks, Wobbles and Bean.
Mike Gays, managing director of Global Pet Relocation.
Gemma Tappin, pet relocation consultant team leader at Global Pet Relocation.
For decades, dividends have been out of style. History suggests that may soon change.
Daniel Peris is a trained historian, a portfolio manager, and the author of many investing books, including his latest, “The Ownership Dividend.” Deidre Woollard caught up with Peris to talk about why he believes we’re about to witness a resurgence of dividend investing. They also discuss:
The coming return of the “cash nexus.”
Semantics, and how academic finance differs from a real-world balance sheet.
Suicide rates for queer and trans people are disproportionately high. They're also routinely targets of violence and hate crimes.
While some states have protections for queer and trans people, many other states have passed laws that restrict the rights and visibility of transgender individuals.
Benedict died by suicide the day after a physical altercation in their school bathroom. Benedict had been bullied by other students for more than a year.
Dime Doe, a Black trans woman, was killed in 2019. Last month a man who had been in a relationship with Doe was found guilty of killing her. It's the first time a hate crime against a trans person was brought to trial.
What do these cases tell us about the lives of trans and queer people in America?
If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
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