Month: March 2024

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The Daily Signal - Freedom Caucuses Shaking Up How Business Is Done in 11 States

For nearly a decade, the House Freedom Caucus has disrupted the way business is done in Congress. Now, that same model is spreading to state capitals across America.


State Freedom Caucus Network President Andy Roth is no stranger to Washington’s policy fights after spending years with the Club for Growth. A few years ago, he decided it was time to turn his attention to the states. Today, the State Freedom Caucus Network is growing and currently active in 11 states that span the country.


On this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast," we talk about the how these conservative lawmakers are challenging the status quo and shaking up the establishment.


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Tech Won't Save Us - Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger w/ Ed Zitron

Paris Marx is joined by Ed Zitron to discuss the public’s growing disillusionment with the tech industry as it pivoted to chasing profits instead of providing us with anything useful.

Ed Zitron is the host of Better Offline and writes the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. He’s also the CEO of EZPR.

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. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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The Best One Yet - 🛍️ “Tote-ally Obsessed” — Trader Joe’s bag hype. Palantir’s Iron Man deal. SXSW’s printable house startup. And TBOY Live NYC Tickets.

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Trader Joe’s $2.99 tote bag has gone viral and we think it’s a manufactured sellout — But the real entrepreneurial lesson here? Learn to love the line.

Palantir, the mysterious $55B tech company, just pulled a Tony Stark — But the stock has tripled in the last year because it’s the only tech company willing to make bombs.

And the biggest surprise from SXSW? Printable houses — Icon Homes has hit a $2B valuation for houses you can print.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Mexico Is Full Of American Guns. So the Country’s Suing.

How Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against American gun manufacturers and distributors could pave the way for new gun control tactics in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Guest: Champe Barton, reporter for The Trace. 


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘The Extinction of Irena Rey,’ translators search for a missing author

Eight translators from eight countries travel to a Polish forest to begin adapting famed author Irena Rey's newest book into their respective languages. But when Irena Rey disappears, a competitive, ego-fueled search unravels in the surrounding woods and within each person. In today's episode, author Jennifer Croft speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about her new novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, and how her own experience as an International Booker Prize-winning translator sparked an interest in the drive and desires of the people tasked with "shapeshifting" a text into their own tongue.

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It Could Happen Here - An Update on Gaza and the West Bank

Shereen discusses the recent developments in Gaza, the severe starvation Palestinians are experiencing, and the uptick in violence in the West Bank.

Sources:

  1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/12/israels-war-on-gaza-list-of-key-events-day-158
  2. https://www.dci-palestine.org/17_palestinian_children_starve_to_death_in_gaza
  3. https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children  
  4. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dangerous-precedent-israelerects-barbed-wire-near-al-aqsa-mosque/ 
  5. https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/world-news/israeli-protesters-try-to-stop-aid-from-entering-gaza-strip/
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/world/middleeast/yazan-kafarneh-gaza-starvation.html
  7. https://jacobin.com/2024/03/israel-flour-massacre-war-crime-gaza
  8. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/its-not-just-israeli-bombs-that-have-killed-children-in-gaza-now-some-are-dying-of-hunger-too
  9. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/israel-west-bank-settlers-attacks-palestinians
  10. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68514581
  11. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/shocking-spike-in-use-of-unlawful-lethal-force-by-israeli-forces-against-palestinians-in-the-occupied-west-bank/
  12. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68557035
  13. https://www.politico.eu/article/israels-netanyahu-says-he-will-defy-bidens-red-line-and-invade-rafah/
  14. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1238227682/orphans-gaza-rafah-israel-west-bank-sos-childrens-village-international
  15. https://en.royanews.tv/news/49895/2024-03-07 
  16. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker 

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Pod Save America - Trump’s TikTok Dance

Jon Favreau and guest host Jane Coaston discuss why Robert Hur's Capitol Hill testimony infuriated both Republicans and Democrats, the potential TikTok ban that Donald Trump no longer supports, RFK Jr. reportedly considering Aaron Rodgers as his running mate, and whether Republican politicians are too online to win this election.

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Planet Money - Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators)

The wind power business is a bit contradictory right now. It's showing signs of boom and bust seemingly all at once.

The story of wind energy markets in two acts today. First, the Gulf of Mexico saw its first-ever auction of leases for offshore wind this summer. It was another sign of the Biden administration's desire to get more renewable energy online as fast as possible. Expectations were high, but results did not deliver. Two of the three patches of sea didn't get any bids at all. Hidden in the flop for this auction are some keys to what it takes to spark a whole new market, quickly.

Then, the booming side of wind power: the job that's projected to be the fastest-growing in the U.S. is wind turbine service technician. Is it a "good" job? Reporter Darian Woods suits up to see a green-collar job above the clouds for himself.

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The Gist - Biden’s Remembers Photographs, Doesn’t Have Photographic Memory

Rebutting a Joy Reid segment mischaracterizing Robert Hur's testimony before the House Judiciary committee yesterday. Plus, Aaron Rodgers is a frustrating teammate, would he make a good running mate? And we talk to Quico Toro about how the Global South will be where the true costs of climate change are felt.


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Consider This from NPR - You’re Not Imagining It; Shrinkflation Is Real

Here's one sign that shrinkflation is no longer just a topic for economics nerds.

Cookie Monster recently complained on social media that his favorite food was getting smaller. "Me hate shrinkflation!" the fuzzy blue monster declared. "Guess me going to have to eat double da cookies!"

President Biden promised to sign a bill banning it during his State of the Union address.

Shrinkflation isn't new.

It's been happening for years. But people seem to be paying more attention right now amidst high food prices and inflation. And the White House is clearly aware of that.

After years of rising prices, many Americans are fed up with paying more and getting less. Will the pendulum ever swing back?

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