Month: May 2024

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What A Day - How Much Leverage Does The Biden Administration Have Over Israel?

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. would not supply Israel with some weapons if it moved forward with a ground invasion of Rafah. The announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that the government had already paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears of an imminent offensive in the southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. Israel has been ramping up its attacks on Rafah over the last few days, all while negotiators frantically try to reach a ceasefire deal in Cairo. Ben Rhodes, former Deputy U.S. national security advisor to President Obama and co-host of Pod Save The World, talks about how much leverage Biden really has over Israel's military operations.
 

And in headlines: A Georgia court agreed to hear an appeal over whether the Fulton County District Attorney can continue to lead former President Donald Trump's state election interference case, Republican and Democratic House Lawmakers blocked Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from ousting Speaker Mike Johnson, and third-party presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a parasite ate part of his brain.

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The Daily Signal - China Abducted Her Uyghur Sister When She Spoke Out Against Persecution

Rushan Abbas, a Muslim Uyghur living in America, delivered remarks at the Hudson Institute in 2018 about China’s persecution of Uyghurs. Six days later, her sister was arrested by the Chinese government.


“My freedom of speech in America as an American citizen, my First Amendment right, cost my own sister's freedom,” Abbas, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, says.

Abbas describes her sister as someone who was living an “ordinary life.”


“She's not famous. She's not an educator. She never traveled to any of the Muslim-majority countries. But yet, [the] last five years and nine months, that she's in jail now,” says Abbas, who was born in China but moved to America 35 years ago.


The Chinese Communist Party views “anything that's different as a threat,” Abbas says. “So, the Uyghurs believing in religion and speaking a different language and … having completely unique cultural differences—all this the Chinese government is taking as a threat.”


Since her sister was imprisoned in China, Abbas quit her job and began advocating full time for the freedom of Uyghurs just like her sister.


She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why the Chinese Communist Party is persecuting Uyghurs and what Americans can do to help.


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Tech Won't Save Us - Tesla is Choosing Hype Over Substance w/ Edward Niedermeyer

Paris Marx is joined by Ed Niedermeyer to discuss Tesla's stagnation as an electric vehicle manufacturer and what that could mean for its future as competitors cut into their market share.

Ed Niedermeyer is the author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors and co-host of the Autonocast.

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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  • Paris wrote about the problems facing Tesla, written before Musk began the mass layoffs.
  • Ed wrote at the end of last year about the lies that underpinned Tesla’s story being exposed.
  • The Cybertruck is facing significant manufacturing issues in Austin, and recently they all had to be recalled for issues with the accelerator pedal, which caused the company to reveal that only 3,878 vehicles had been delivered to customers.
  • Tesla is laying off a large number of staff, including the Supercharger and new vehicle teams.
  • Elon Musk is doing mass layoffs to reestablish his power over the company, but it’s destabilizing the actual business.
  • Reuters reported that Musk cancelled plans for a low-cost car in favor of robotaxis.
  • Automakers were warning they couldn’t phase out Chinese minerals from the battery supply chain by 2025. After recording, the Biden administration announced some rules would be delayed until 2027.
  • BYD has been looking to build a factory in Mexico.

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The Best One Yet - 🧴 “Lather me in CeraVe” — Neutrogena’s skincare mistake. The NYT’s Wordle milestone. FTX’s perfect bankruptcy.

Neutrogena has lost its crown as the #1 dermatologist-recommended skincare… and #1 in sales — Because CeraVe did 3 things Neutrogena was too afraid to do.

The New York Times just passed a wild milestone — The NYT has more gaming & cooking subscribers than news subscribers.

And FTX just announced the perfect bankruptcy — All FTX customers are will be repaid in full, despite Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud. We’ll explain how.

Plus, NYC is officially the millionaire capital of the world — 1 out of every 24 New Yorkers is a millionaire (which means there are 3 millionaires on every block in this city).


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand

Spare a thought for the judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Justice Juan Merchan has gone from holding the former president in contempt of court… to telling Trump’s defense they probably should have objected more during Stormy Daniels’ testimony. 


Guest: Jeremy Stahl, Slate’s jurisprudence editor.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Soil,’ Camille Dungy weaves together gardening, race and motherhood

For poet Camille Dungy, environmental justice, community interdependence and political engagement go hand in hand. She explores those relationships in her book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In it, she details how her experience trying to diversify the species growing in her yard, in a predominantly white town in Colorado, reflects larger themes of how we talk about land and race in the U.S. In today's episode, she tells NPR's Melissa Block about the journey that gardening put her on, and what it's revealed about who gets to write about the environment.

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It Could Happen Here - Andrew on Authoritarian Leaders

Andrew and James build on yesterday’s episode, dig deeper into Bob Altemeyer’s work, and discuss what the psychological characteristics of an authoritarian leader are. 

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Why Venezuela is no longer in freefall

Back in 2019, The Indicator started checking in on with a Venezuelan economist Gabriela Saade. The economy was in freefall. The country was suffering from hyperinflation and a huge jump in poverty. Today, the U.S. faces a spike in migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, many from Venezuela. So we check back in with Gabriela. Venezuela is due to go to the polls in July. We ask Gabriela and two other Venezuelans: what are economic conditions like at the moment? How has life changed since the pandemic? Some of the answers surprised us.

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CBS News Roundup - 05/08/2024 | World News Roundup Late Edition

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson overwhelmingly fails. Cleanup in Michigan following a series of tornadoes as reports of more spawned by severe weather in the Midwest. Former President Trump scores victories in delaying two criminal cases. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.

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