Month: June 2024

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.4.24

Alabama

  • Lt.Gov. Ainsworth touts 10 pro-military bills passed in 2024 legislative session
  • AG Marshall talks about the future appeals process re: Trump's convictions
  • ALCAP President calls on churches and pastors to not be quiet in Pride Month
  • AL Supreme Court halts special investigation into Mabel Amos Trust Fund
  • Ceremony at Maxwell AFB ushers in the new Grey Wolf helicopter
  • New license plate offered to raise awareness of PTSD and counseling

National

  • A terror attack is thwarted ahead of the Olympic Games in France
  • Trump calls on SCOTUS to take up his appeal of NYC trial convictions
  • Trial begins for Hunter Biden in DE re: firearm violations
  • Fauci returns to Capitol Hill for subcommittee hearing on Covid 19
  • Date set for Oct. in Fulton County GA re: disqualification of Fani Willis
  • TX congressman offers amendment to defund weaponized DA offices
  • TX congresswoman to begin treatment of pancreatic cancer
  • African conference of 1M members separating from UMC due to LGBTQ changes
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Subversion of the West

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of several books—including the 2006 autobiography Infidel—as well as a fellow at the Hoover Institution She runs a foundation focused on human rights and, yes, she has a Substack. But Ayaan comes from a very different world from most of the people who inhabit our think tanks and ivory towers. Unlike those of us in the West who grew up with everything, Ayaan grew up in Somalia with. . . nothing. 


No liberty, no rule of law, no system of representative government, no pluralism, and no toleration for difference. 


Ayaan knows what it is like to live without those ideals, which is why she also has a particular instinct for when they are under attack. And that is exactly what she sees happening—all over the West.


Today, you’ll hear Ayaan read the epochal essay she published this morning in The Free Press. She explains how subversion—the act of undermining a country from within—works gradually and sometimes invisibly, but can ultimately explode and destroy a society. And she argues that what’s at stake in our inability to see the threat plainly is nothing less than the preservation of our way of life.




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NBN Book of the Day - Mark Robert Rank, “The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us” (U California Press, 2024)

It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. 

In The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.

The Random Factor traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. From his perspective as a scholar of poverty, Dr. Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. This transformative book prompts a new understanding of the twists and turns in our daily lives and encourages readers to fully appreciate the surprising world of randomness in which we live.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - A Brief History of Central America

Located between Mexico and Columbia, in a strategic area connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific, is the region we call Central America. 

The countries that makeup Central America were mostly former Spanish colonies, but unlike other Spanish colonies to the north and south, Central America wound up as a series of small countries rather than one big one.

But why?

Learn more about the history of Central America and how the current borders came to be on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Biden’s Executive Order For The Border

President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that would severely limit the number of migrants who can claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. The details still aren’t totally clear, but reports say Biden’s order would cap asylum requests at an average of 2,500 a day.

In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become the nation’s first female president. She won Sunday’s election in a landslide with roughly 60 percent of the vote. She’s also the hand-picked successor of the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Lorena Rios, a freelance journalist based in Monterrey, joins us to talk about Sheinbaum’s historic win and what it means for U.S.-Mexico relations.

And in headlines: Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with House Republicans during a congressional hearing about the U.S. response to the pandemic, Israeli officials confirmed the deaths of four hostages in Gaza, and a Georgia court has tentatively set a date to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal to kick Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis off his election interference case.

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Pod Save America - New Polling on Trump’s Felony Conviction

Republicans fall in line behind convicted felon and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as he lobs insults at prosecutors, witnesses and the rule of law. President Biden fights back, labeling Trump a “white collar crook” while jury selection begins for his son’s criminal gun charge trial in Delaware. And, as the White House pushes for a ceasefire, Republican and Democratic congressional leadership invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the nation’s capitol to address Congress.

 

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The NewsWorthy - Dr. Fauci Grilled, Triple-Digit Heat & Cancer Vaccine- Tuesday, June 4, 2024

The news to know for Tuesday, June 4, 2024!

We'll tell you about President Biden's action that might close the southern border immediately.

Also, there was another dramatic hearing on Capitol Hill, this time involving Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a heatwave is set to impact millions of Americans this week.

Plus, there is new promising data about a melanoma vaccine; a new policy allows x-rated content on X, and gymnast Simone Biles broke another record.

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The Best One Yet - 🎂 “Happy Birthday, Napster” — Napster’s 25-year legacy. Starbucks’ 1-hour wait problem. Amex’s Gen Z credit card love.

Starbucks is facing 40-minute waits… and you can blame Iced Latte Logistics.

Happy 25th birthday to Napster… The OG disruptor is gone, but its legacy is thriving.

And Amex just revealed the biggest divide between Millennials & Gene Z… Credit Cards.

Plus, the #1 most controversial product in the sky is… the airplane foot hammock #SkyMallMag


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The Daily Signal - BIG Announcement: Rob Bluey on What Future Holds for The Daily Signal

The Heritage Foundation founded The Daily Signal 10 years ago this week. The group filled a void in media at a time when few conservative news outlets existed. A decade later, the Washington, D.C.-based news outlet is entering a new chapter and aiming to expand its influence. 


“We are so excited that with the blessing of The Heritage Foundation, The Daily Signal is now its own independent media organization,” Rob Bluey, the news outlet's president and executive editor, explains on “The Daily Signal Podcast.” 


The move to become its own organization, according to Bluey, provides The Daily Signal with the opportunity to grow its team, acquire White House and congressional press credentials, and offers more editorial freedom to cover elections and campaigns. 


From its inception, The Daily Signal has had a mission that aligns with The Heritage Foundation, according to Bluey, and “I think that the conservative principles that have guided Heritage will continue to guide The Daily Signal in the future, even as an independent media organization, because ultimately, we will be organized as both a nonprofit and a for-profit.”


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