Month: August 2024

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.19.24

Alabama

  • SCOTUS stops Title 9 changes from Biden Admin. from implementation
  • New task force up and running in Montgomery to deal with crime rate
  • Governor Ivey signs a bill that requires emergency response plan in schools
  • 2 IVF clinics are appealing to SCOTUS over ruling from AL Supreme Court
  • Purdue Foods recalls 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken products
  • Keith Urban thrilled fans with free pop up concert at Buc-ees in Athens

National

  • Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in PA with disparate rallies
  • Global investment firm CEO ravages the economic plan from Kamala Harris
  • JD Vance ravages the polls being pushed out there to promote Harris
  • Democratic National Convention get underway in Chicago
  • Palestinian protestors plan on interrupting DNC, business owners buckle up
  • Report on Anti semitic violence drills down on what group incubates it
  • Border agency stats show 13M illegals let into US since Biden took office
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Scramble for Africa

In November 1884, representatives from a dozen European countries met in Berlin.

The reason for the meeting was audacious. They were going to carve up the continent of Africa between them. 

No one from Africa was in attendance at the conference, and no one was even invited. The decisions they made at this conference, and in the decades that followed, can still be felt in the world today.

Learn more about the European Scramble for Africa and how the European powers carved up a continent on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Strict Scrutiny - Project 2025 (cont.): How to Create a Geopolitical Hellscape & Back to School With Meredith Marks

Ben Rhodes of Crooked's Pod Save the World joins Leah and Kate to break down Project 2025's truly frightening foreign policy goals. Then, Leah and Melissa are joined by The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City's Meredith Marks. In addition to braving the "rumors and nastiness" of reality television, Meredith is also a graduate of Northwestern Law School. So who better to help analyze the intersection between reality TV and the law? 

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The NewsWorthy - DNC’s Opening Night, East Coast on Alert & Super Blue Moon- Monday, August 19, 2024

The news to know for Monday, August 19, 2024!

We're talking about the thousands of politicians, delegates, and protesters coming together in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention starting today.

Also, millions of Americans on the East Coast are facing new severe weather threats.

Plus, a high-tech plan could make highways safer; there's a warning about popular chicken products, and we'll tell you how to see a rare super blue moon tonight. 

Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!

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Short Wave - The Power Of Braille Literacy

For blind and low vision adults, the ability to read braille can be life-changing. Braille literacy is directly linked to higher rates of academic success and better employment outcomes for them. But there's a problem. The U.S. is facing a national shortage of qualified braille teachers and there's a lack of scientific research around braille overall. An interdisciplinary team led by linguist Robert Englebretson wants to change that.

Read some of the team's work here:
- Englebretson R, Holbrook MC, Fischer-Baum S. A position paper on researching braille in the cognitive sciences: decentering the sighted norm. Applied Psycholinguistics. 2023.
- Englebretson, R., Holbrook, M.C., Treiman, R. et al. The primacy of morphology in English braille spelling: an analysis of bridging contractions. Morphology. 2024.

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The Daily Signal - ‘Propaganda Extravaganza’ Coming to Chicago

The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago on Monday, giving Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz an opportunity to present their vision for America.

But don’t be fooled by the Democrats’ glitzy gala, says John Tillman, CEO of the American Culture Project and chairman of the Illinois Policy Institute.

“We’re going to see one of the greatest propaganda extravaganzas in the history of politics. It will make Hollywood look like amateurs in comparison,” Tillman tells The Daily Signal.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘We Were Illegal’ examines Texas history through multiple generations of one family

After she worked on a book about refugee resettlement in the U.S., writer Jessica Goudeau says she realized she knew very little about how her own family arrived in Texas. Her new book, We Were Illegal, looks at multiple generations of her family and how their lives reflected a history of racism, slavery and violence in her home state. In today's episode, Goudeau speaks with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes about how family secrets and the language we use to talk about our lineage contributes to the mythmaking of America, and why she wanted to put those difficult conversations out in the open.

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Opening Arguments - A 9/11 Lawsuit No One Is Talking About Reveals Deep Saudi Complicity

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This week Matt shares a mostly under-the-radar story which has completely changed his understanding of the events of September 11, 2001. 

As the 23rd anniversary of the attacks approaches, a mountain of information emerging from lawsuits filed by 9/11 families has revealed far more extensive ties between both al-Qaeda and at least two of the hijackers to the Saudi government than were ever previously known. Why has justice taken so long? How does the law even allow this suit to proceed, and why did Congress have to override Barack Obama’s veto to allow it to move forward? Why has some of the best journalism about this lawsuit been from Golf Digest? And has the time come for a second 9/11 commission to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the day that changed everything?

  1. Complaint in Ashton v. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (filed March 20, 2017)

  2. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/10/24)

  3. Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (filed 5/7/24)

  4. Blood, Oil and Golf: The emergence of LIV Golf highlights the Kingdom’s troubling influence Alan Shipnuck, Golf Digest (8/19/2022)

  5. New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity, Daniel Benjamin and Stephen Simon, The Atlantic (5/20/24)

  6. “The Declassified 28 Pages,” 28Pages.org

  7. 60 Minutes excerpt which includes Omar Al Bayoumi’s 1999 video of the US Capitol (6/20/2024)

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The Economics of Everyday Things - 60. Money Laundering

How do criminals turn their ill-gotten gains into taxable income? And how does law enforcement stop them? Zachary Crockett follows the money.

 

  • SOURCES:
    • Patrick McKenzie, fraud prevention expert and strategic advisor at Stripe.
    • Kerry Myers, associate professor of instruction at the University of South Florida and former F.B.I. special agent.

 

 

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Consider This from NPR - Looking ahead to the DNC, the Harris-Walz campaign prepares for a defining moment

The state of the presidential race is a far cry from what it was just a few months ago. Vice President Kamala Harris's rise to the top of the Democratic ticket has sparked waves of excitement, and some tension, among democratic leaders and voters across the country.

Thousands of delegates now head to Chicago for the party's convention this week, where Harris is expected to deliver the biggest speech of her political career to date.

NPR's Adrian Ma speaker with co-host Ari Shapiro, about how this moment couple shape her campaign to the nation.

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