Month: June 2024

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The End Of Federal COVID Relief Money Leaves Public Services Strapped For Cash

After COVID-19 relief money runs out, Chicago Public Schools and the Regional Transit Authority, which oversees CTA, Metra, and Pace, are two of the agencies with the biggest projected shortfalls. Reset sits down with education and transportation reporters to learn more. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - First Presidential Debate, Biden Pardons LBGTQ+ Veterans, Failed Coup In Bolivia

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off tonight at the first presidential debate in Atlanta. The candidates are expected to discuss a range of issues that have already surfaced on the campaign trail including inflation, the border, abortion and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. President Biden is also pardoning nearly 2,000 LGBTQ+ veterans. And a dramatic failed coup in Bolivia ended with a top military commander in prison.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Labour-saving: Britain’s probable next leader

After 14 years in opposition, Britain’s Labour Party is on track for a comprehensive win in next week’s general election. We profile Keir Starmer, its leader, asking whether his modus operandi can turn the country around, too. Despite the obvious distractions phones represent, Americans want their children to have them in schools (10:50). And auction houses get into the business of “art-based lending” (16:40). 


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Bay Curious - Is There Treasure At the Bottom of the Bay?

There are dozens of shipwrecks in and around San Francisco Bay. And Bay Curious listener Brian Teaff wonders: Is there treasure down there? In some ways yes, but it may not be the type of treasure you're imagining.


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 6.27.24

Alabama

  • AG Marshall fights Biden admin re: transgender surgeries on minors
  • Accusations fly from AL Dem leader re: delegates going to national convention
  • First black mayor of Newbern will assume office after settlement to lawsuit
  • Alabama A&M University makes purchase offer for Birmingham Southern
  • President of police union commends character of interim chief in Montgomery
  • Governor Ivey announces $65M invested in 24 counties for broadband expansion

National

  • SCOTUS rules in favor of Biden admin in big censorship case: Murthy v. Missouri
  • FL Congresswoman proceeds with plan to hold US AG in "inherent contempt"
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to file lawsuit against DOJ and AG Garland
  • House Oversight files amicus brief with SCOTUS to help Steve Bannon
  • America First Legal notifies all 50 states that illegals cannot vote in elections
  • DHS is searching for 50 illegals with ties to Islamic state Jihad network
  • Day before Trump debates Biden, WaPo poll gives Trump 11 point lead in race
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WIRED Politics Lab - Pod Save America Comes to WIRED

Today on  WIRED Politics Lab, Pod Save America co-hosts Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor join the show to discuss what the Biden administration has to say about Disinformation. Plus, how to wade through the social media muck and stay informed through this election. 

Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Jon Favreau is @jonfavs. Tommy Vietor is @TVietor08. Write to us at politicslab@WIRED.com. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.

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Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election by David Gilbert 

Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups by Tess Owen 

The Biden admin has no firm plan to call out domestic disinformation in the 2024 election By Dan De Luce and Ken Dilanian, NBC

How the Right Won the Internet and How the Left is Fighting Back Journalist Sasha Issenberg on Offline with Jon Favreau

Democracy or Else By Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett

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NBN Book of the Day - Jeremy Schipper, “Denmark Vesey’s Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial” (Princeton UP, 2022)

In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP, 2022), Dr. Jeremy Schipper tells the story of a free Black man accused of plotting an anti-slavery insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822. Vesey was found guilty and hanged along with dozens of others accused of collaborating with him.

At the center of the book is an examination of how former slave Denmark Vesey used interpretations of the Bible to justify the revolt while members of the white establishment in South Carolina use that same Bible to support the slaveholders view of themselves as benevolent biblical patriarchs. 

The book is a riveting account of a key moment in antebellum American history that underscores deep racial inequities and the assumed supremacy of white Christians during a time of violence, fear, and conflicting understandings of moral superiority and biblical truth.

Recommended reading: 

The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History edited by Douglas R. Egerton and Robert L. Paquette

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Gregor MacGregror and the Biggest Scam in History

One of the most audacious scams in history took place in the early 19th century in Britain. 

A man sold thousands of people a dream of land in the New World. His claims attracted large investments, encouraged hundreds of people to move around the world, and even suckered in members of the royal family. 

However, his promises were empty, and in the end, shiploads of people were stranded in the middle of nowhere, and many people lost their life savings. 

Learn more about Gregor MacGregor and one of the biggest scams in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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