Month: April 2024

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.29.24

Alabama

  • 2024 tornado season in AL results in far less twisters than last year
  • A bill heads to governor's desk that cracks down on squatters in homes/rentals
  • AL House passes bill requiring consent from next of kin on autopsy organ removal
  • Christians in Fairhope plans prayer walks in May ahead of June's PRIDE month
  • Elon Musk applies for money transmitter license here in the state
  • Rev. Rich Lusk talks about failure of church to train leaders in political arena

National

  • Midwesterners recover from onslaught of tornadoes over weekend in 6+ states
  • Police start removing pro-Hamas protestors camping on college campuses
  • CA Pastor calls for Christians to stop being silent and inactive re: cultural jihad
  • GOP congressman from FL abruptly ends 2024 re-election campaign
  • Trump gaining ground in NYC as he shows up daily for Manhattan trial
  • Unredacted docs in FL case against Trump show more deep state collusion
  • TN governor signs bill that allows teachers to conceal carry after training
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Start the Week - Alien life and gravity

The astrophysicist Professor Lisa Kaltenegger is like an explorer of old, but her voyage takes her far from earth, planet hunting across the universe. She is Director of the Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos at Cornell University, and in her new book Alien Earths she describes the very latest discoveries of exoplanets which are the best contenders for harbouring alien life.

Claudia de Rham is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and in her book The Beauty of Falling she tells the story of gravity. From her personal experience of diving in the ocean and freefalling over the earth, to exploring the limits of Einstein’s general theory of relativity she seeks to understand both the feeling and the fundamental nature of gravity.

If only all of physics could be so compelling! Professor Mark Fromhold is Head of Physics at Nottingham University and is campaigning for a change to the way pupils are taught, suggesting that quantum physics be incorporated into the curriculum. He argues that at present the subject is too earth-bound, and ‘dull as dishwater’.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - White Feather Girls (Encore)

The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting. 

In the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, this battle was fought on the streets of cities and towns between men who didn’t wear a uniform and women who tried to shame them into joining the military. 

These street conflicts got so bad that the governments eventually had to take action. 

Learn more about the White Feather Girls and how they shaped World War One on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Tornado Outbreak, Dueling Protests & Rising Childcare Costs- Monday, April 29, 2024

The news to know for Monday, April 29, 2024!

We're telling you about a severe weather outbreak that left a trail of destruction across several states and where it is now.

Also, it was another dramatic weekend on college campuses as authorities tried to crack down on protests. 

Plus, highlights from what's known as nerd prom in the nation's capital, what federal investigators revealed about Tesla's autopilot, and who received one of the highest honors a movie star can get.

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Opening Arguments - Just How Bad Were the Oral Arguments Re: Presidential Immunity?

Episode 1028

Can a former President of the United States be prosecuted for trying to overturn a democratic election? The Supreme Court just spent two hours and forty minutes (!) hearing a case in which they were supposed to be reviewing this simple question and Donald Trump’s claims of total immunity. We review the last oral argument of this term and try to cut through the bad faith, irrelevance, and misdirection to understand what is actually happening here and where it all might be going.

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Short Wave - How The New Catan Board Game Can Spark Conversations On Climate Change

Today, we're going full nerd to talk about a new board game — Catan: New Energies. The game's goal is simple: Build and develop a modern-day island without catastrophically polluting it. Although the concept mirrors the effects of climate change, those words don't actually appear in the game. NPR correspondent Nate Rott talks to Emily about the thinking behind the new game and how the developers hope it can start conversations around energy use and pollution.

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The Daily Signal - Arabella Network’s Leftist ‘Dark Money’ Influence Expanding, Author Reveals

The left-wing Arabella Advisors network has raked in more money than either of the two major political parties and affects almost every element of public policy and elections, argues Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based investigative think tank. 


Walter's new book “Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America” shows that in the 2020 election cycle, Arabella Advisors' nonprofits took in $2.4 billion. That's $1 billion more than the combined fundraising of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. 


That amount rose to $3 billion in the 2022 election cycle, Walter says. Moreover, he adds, nothing on the Right comes close to competing. 


Listen to Walter outline Arabella's reach in a discussion of his book on today's podcast.


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Strict Scrutiny - SCOTUS Seems to Normalize Authoritarianism

Melissa, Leah, and Kate recap the oral arguments in the Idaho case about the legality of abortions in emergency situations, and the case about whether former President Trump is immune from prosecution in the federal election interference case arising out of January 6. It's all very bleak!

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘New Cold Wars’ examines the relationship between the U.S., Russia and China

Reporter David Sanger has covered five American presidents for The New York Times. But in today's episode, he tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that there's an unpredictability to the politics of today — particularly on an international stage. His new book, New Cold Wars, analyzes how the ties between the United States, Russia and China have rapidly evolved in recent decades, and how technology, military intelligence and economic sanctions play into the conflict

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