Month: May 2024

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Up First from NPR - Haitian Gang Leader, Michael Cohen Testifies, Israeli Artillery Strikes Gaza

More than two months after toppling the prime minister of Haiti, gang leaders control most of the country's capital city Port-au-Prince. Michael Cohen will take the stand today to testify in the New York election interference trial of former President Donald Trump. And as Israel expands its attacks in the Gaza Strip, it also marks Memorial Day.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Fear on draft: Ukraine’s fraught mobilisation

A chat with the deputy boss of Ukraine’s military intelligence reveals concerns about a dearth of weapons—but the struggle to get new recruits is also proving problematic. The Chinese Communist Party is still hounding experts whose work might expose its pandemic missteps, including the scientist who first sequenced the covid-19 virus (11:24). And why the Japanese still buy so many CDs (17:14).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.13.24

Alabama

  • Both US Senators for AL want answers from Mexico re: 2022 Vulcan company raid
  • Dems in AL House bemoan gambling bill failure for this 2024 session
  • State senator Orr says gambling push derailed other good bills from a vote
  • State lawmaker hit by drunk driver after state legislative session ends
  • Final transaction on 5/23 places Beach Express Bridge in ALDOT's hands
  • NWS says a total of 9 twisters hit TN Valley last week

National

  • Biden admin seeking multiple ways to keep Israel from invading city of Rafah
  • Ashley Biden's letter confirming diary is real now published by NY Times
  • Trump holds massive rally in blue state NJ with over 80K attending
  • NYC judge under investigation re: convo held before ruling against Trump
  • SC about to join other red states in banning transgender surgeries for minors
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Opening Arguments - Steve Vladeck’s Taxonomy of Court Reform

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We're very pleased to welcome Steve Vladeck on the show to talk about what's going on with the Supreme Court these days, and how shadowy their docket has been recently. We then dig into (and debate a touch) a recent piece he wrote regarding a different way to conceptualize about court reform, and what he personally sees as viable and appropriate among the various proposals for change.

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Then we reveal the answer to last episode's T3BE; did Thomas successfully determine the fate of Rebecca the violinist? And who from the audience will be the lucky winner?!

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Opening Arguments - Steve Vladeck’s Taxonomy of Court Reform

OA1032

We're very pleased to welcome Steve Vladeck on the show to talk about what's going on with the Supreme Court these days, and how shadowy their docket has been recently. We then dig into (and debate a touch) a recent piece he wrote regarding a different way to conceptualize about court reform, and what he personally sees as viable and appropriate among the various proposals for change.

Be sure to read The Shadow Docket, which will be released on paperback soon, and subscribe to One First to get more of Steve's great coverage!

Then we reveal the answer to last episode's T3BE; did Thomas successfully determine the fate of Rebecca the violinist? And who from the audience will be the lucky winner?!

Remember to head over to www.patreon.com/gavelpod to follow our Trump Trial coverage ahead of the public release of the show!

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Start the Week - Bees – culture and survival

As a new exhibition opens in Liverpool exploring the survival of bees Start the Week takes stock of the life and times of this extraordinary insect. The artist Wolfgang Buttress uses a fusion of art, science and technology to create a sensory experience of the sights and sounds of bees. Bees: A Story of Survival is on at the World Museum, Liverpool until May 2025.

They’ve been around for over 120 million years and Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University of London, says the thousands of different bee species have evolved a huge diversity of lifestyles and are some of the most intelligent animals on Earth. They not only use a symbolic language, can count, use tools and learn by observation, but are now believed to have an emotional hinterland.

For millennia, bees have held a special significance in human culture. Claire Preston, Professor of Renaissance Literature at QMUL, traces the symbolism of bees through historical and literary records, from ancient political analogies to today’s discussions about hive minds.

While there are increasing fears about the future of bees as they battle exposure to pesticides, diseases and habitat destruction, Alison Benjamin is one of a growing number of people trying to raise awareness. She is the co-founder of Urban Bees and wants to shift the focus away from farmed hives of honey bees which are growing in popularity in cities, to the protection and survival of wild and solitary bees.

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NBN Book of the Day - Amy Schiller, “The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It” (Melville House, 2023)

Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong—And How to Fix It (Melville House, 2023) makes an attempt to rescue philanthropy from its progressive decline into vanity projects that drive wealth inequality, so that it may support human flourishing as originally intended. The word “philanthropy” today makes people think big money—Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and Andrew Carnegie come to mind. The scope of suffering in the world seems to demand an industry of giving, and yet for all the billions that are dispensed, the wealthy never seem to lose any of their money and nothing seems to change. 

Journalist, academic and consultant Schiller shows how we get out of this stalemate by evaluating the history of philanthropy from the ideas of St. Augustine to the work of Lebron James. She argues philanthropy’s contemporary tendency to maintain obscene inequality and reduce every cause to dehumanizing technocratic terms is unacceptable, while maintaining an optimism about the soul and potential of philanthropy in principle. For philanthropy to get back to its literal roots—the love of humanity—Schiller argues that philanthropy can no longer be premised around basic survival. Public institutions must assume that burden so that philanthropy can shift its focus to initiatives that allow us to flourish into happier, more fulfilled human beings. Philanthropy has to get out of the business of saving lives if we are to save humanity.

Amy Schiller is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College in the Society of Fellows. Twitter. Website.

Brian Hamilton is chair of the Department of History and Social Science at Deerfield Academy. Twitter. Website. Anna Dyjach is a senior at Deerfield.  

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave (Encore)

In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was captured. 

He was sold into slavery and spent the next 40 years of his life living as a slave in Mississippi. That was until a chance meeting revealed his true identity, which eventually led to his freedom and the involvement of the President of the United States. 

Learn more about Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, the prince who became a slave and whose emancipation became an international issue, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Gaza War Review, Extreme Solar Storm & Top Baby Names- Monday, May 13, 2024

The news to know for Monday, May 13, 2024!

We'll tell you what a new report from the U.S. State Department found about Israel's actions in Gaza.

And the next key witness is ready to take the stand in former President Trump's criminal trial.

Also, the northern lights were visible to millions of Americans over the weekend.

Plus, there is chaos at a famous auction house; multiple alleged trespassers have been caught at Drake's house, and familiar baby names are once again the most popular.

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