Month: October 2024

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Strict Scrutiny - An Unsealed Brief, Ghost Guns, & Antitrust Law as Social Justice

Leah, Melissa, and Kate kick off with a look at Jack Smith’s unsealed brief on Trump’s election interference case before digging into some cases the court is hearing this week, including one centered around ghost guns–unserialized guns that can be put together from component parts. Then, Melissa and Leah speak with Doha Mekki and Jonathan Kanter of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division about how antitrust law can be a vehicle for progressive social change.

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Pod Save America - Billionaire Personality Disorder

Live from Philly, Jon, Lovett, Tommy, Dan, and MSNBC's Symone Sanders Townsend discuss Trump's rally with Elon Musk, Kamala Harris's media blitz, and reports that she plans to distance herself more from Joe Biden. Then, Senator Bob Casey drops by to nerd out about Pennsylvania electoral maps and to talk about his re-election fight against a Connecticut hedge fund guy—and why Pennsylvania voters have everything on the line this November.

 

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The NewsWorthy - One Year Since Hamas Attack, New Hurricane Threat & ‘Joker 2’ Stumbles – Monday, October 7, 2024

The news to know for Monday, October 7, 2024!

We're talking about the one-year mark since Hamas attacked Israel, and where things stand now.

And we’ve got the latest from the campaign trail: former President Trump returned to the site of the assassination attempt in July, and Vice President Harris begins a media blitz.

Also, Florida gets ready for another major hurricane while it's still cleaning up from the last one.

Plus, the impact from the dockworkers' strike (even after it ended), some good signs from the newest jobs report, and the Joker sequel underperforms at the box office.

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

 

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Short Wave - Mapping The Entire Fruit Fly Brain

Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult fruit flies brain. The journal Nature simultaneously published nine papers related to this new brain map. Until now, only a roundworm and a fruit fly larva had been mapped in this way.

Read more of science correspondent Jon Hamilton's reporting here.

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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘How to Build a Fashion Icon’ is stylist Law Roach’s guide to image architecture

Stylist Law Roach grew up in Chicago watching his grandmother get ready for church. He said observing her process first exposed him to the art form of being a woman. Since then, Roach has become what he calls an "image architect," styling celebrity clients like Zendaya, Celine Dion and Anya Taylor-Joy. Roach's new book How to Build a Fashion Icon is both a memoir and a manual that adapts the stylist's fashion guidelines for a non-celebrity audience. In today's episode, Roach visits NPR West for a styling session and conversation with NPR's Ailsa Chang about reflecting power and confidence in one's external image.

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The Daily Signal - Life in Israel 1 Year After Oct. 7

Wearing high heels or flats to work is a small thing most women don’t give too much thought to, but when seconds matter while running to a bomb shelter, a simple decision over footwear becomes critical. 

Most women in Israel don’t wear heels because, when the sirens sound, Israelis have only about 30 seconds to make it to a bomb shelter, Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, explains. 

“Just the other day, four days ago, we woke up at 5 a.m. to a siren sounding,” said Eckstein, who lives in Israel with her husband and four children. “We had 90 seconds to wake up our four kids and get them to our shelter in time. Thank God we have a shelter in our home, but even 90 seconds to wake up the kids, get them down to the shelter, we didn’t have time to bring our puppy, and so my kids were crying that the puppy was outside, and I had to make the decision of keeping my kids safe or going out and getting the puppy and risking our lives.” 

For people living in Israel, these are “everyday situations,” she says. 

Eckstein joins “The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss Iran’s recent attack on Israel and commemorate the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. 

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What Could Go Right? - A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other

Sharing an episode of To See Each Other, a show that complicates the narrative

about small town Americans in our most misunderstood, and often abandoned, communities.

This season, host George Goehl travels to Lincoln County, Wisconsin to follow a small town

battle for the last remaining public nursing home in the community. It’s a heart-pounding roller

coaster of a fight - in a swing state that could determine the election. Over the course of the

show, a universal truth emerges: That in every complicated set of politics, when we refuse to

give up on each other, we can build a better future.


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Opening Arguments - Enough Gaslighting – Trumpism Is Fascism.

Is it okay to call Trump a “fascist”? Is our democracy itself really on the line next month? And what might our legal system look like after a second Trump term? We look behind the headlines to begin to examine the nuances of these questions in this first of several planned episodes on the current state of the American right.

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The Economics of Everyday Things - Card Counting (Replay)

Casinos think they can stop skilled gamblers from eking out a tiny edge at blackjack. Is that a losing bet? Zachary Crockett doubles down.

 

  • SOURCES:
    • "Ben," former professional card counter.
    • Bill Zender, co-founder of Bill Zender and Associates casino consulting firm.