Month: October 2024

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Shoal searching: the South China sea simmers

A constellation of islands, reefs and rock-piles has been the source of disputes for decades. As a new phase in the conflict begins, how to calm things down? In the first of a series of first-person dispatches, we speak to a student in Gaza (09:50). And after a conservation success story, Europe’s wolves are again villains in the popular imagination (18:19). 


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail 10.17.24

Alabama

  • District judge orders stop to SoS program on AL voter rolls ahead of election
  • AG Marshall files amicus brief with TN law re: transgender surgery on minors
  • State lawmaker files bill to deal with illegal gambling underway in AL
  • Montgomery city council delays vote to rescind ordinance on firearms
  • ADPH reports 47 cases of pertussis in Wiregrass region

National

  • FBI quietly updates crime stats for 2022, proving Donald Trump right again
  • County election officials in VA refuse to certify votes made in "secret"
  • Lawsuit in WI is against ActBlue for money laundering with stolen ID
  • Report  released about election integrity efforts in all states before Nov.
  • Backlash ensues after Kamala Harris entertains idea of "reparations"
  • Harris interview on Fox was dicey, as Brett Baier did not give her a pass


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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Brianna Wu Says She Didn’t Change. The Progressive Movement Did.

It would have been unthinkable for Brianna Wu to have appeared on Honestly a decade ago (if the show had existed back then). But Brianna isn’t most people. I actually can’t think of anyone else quite like her.


She’s a trans woman who advocates passionately for trans healthcare, but thinks many trans activists have alienated women and feminists. She’s a progressive who once called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “one of the best politicians in America,” but is today a staunch supporter of Israel. She was cyber-attacked by an alt-right mob during Gamergate, but now thinks the political left acts just like that mob.


Brianna says her politics haven’t actually changed. Instead, it’s the Democratic Party that has morphed. And she says they’ve become unelectable. But Brianna is not sitting idly by while it runs itself into the ground. She wants Democrats to get back to common sense, kitchen table issues, which is why she’s launched a political action committee and is fundraising big time in the 2024 election cycle. 


At The Free Press we cover a lot of people whose politics have shifted over the past few years. But very few have experienced that evolution in public in the way that Brianna has. On today’s episode, Brianna tells us how Gamergate changed her life, the story of her political evolution, why she is a staunch supporter of Israel, and a critic of niche left causes, and what Democrats risk if they continue to alienate voters. 


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WIRED Politics Lab - WIRED Investigates: The JD Vance Adviser Secretly Posting About Using Drugs

On Wednesday, a WIRED exclusive revealed that one of J.D. Vance’s financial policy advisers has posted a lot on Reddit about illicit substances. Given Vance’s hard stance on drugs, WIRED’s Tim Marchman and Makena Kelly join Leah to discuss why it matters that a member of his staff seems to have been using them.

 


Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Makena Kelly is @kellymakena. Tim Marchman is @timmarchman. Write to us at politicslab@WIRED.com. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.



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NBN Book of the Day - Keith E. Whittington, “You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms” (Polity Press, 2024)

Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at public universities have long assumed that their freedom to teach is unassailable and that there were firm constitutional protections shielding them from political interventions. Those assumptions might always have been more hopeful than sound. A battle over the control of the university classroom is now brewing, and the courts will be called upon to establish clearer guidelines as to what – if any – limits legislatures might have in dictating what is taught in public universities. 

In You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms (Polity Press, 2024), Keith Whittington argues that the First Amendment imposes meaningful limits on how government officials can restrict the ideas discussed on university campuses. In clear and accessible prose, he illuminates the legal status of academic freedom in the United States and shows how existing constitutional doctrine can be deployed to protect unbridled free inquiry.

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The NewsWorthy - Swaying Undecided Voters, Big Tech Goes Nuclear & Kindle in Color – Thursday, October 17, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, October 17, 2024!

We'll tell you how Harris and Trump are looking to capture the support of undecided voters, with less than 20 days to go until Election Day.

And what to know about a record settlement, likely ending a quarter-century of lawsuits against the most populous archdiocese in the U.S.

Also, what we know so far about the death of a former member of the group ‘One Direction.’

Plus, why three major tech companies are now investing in nuclear energy, which high-end fashion brand helped with NASA’s first redesigned spacesuit in four decades, and the first-ever Kindle with color is here.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Michelangelo (Encore)

In 1475, Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, Italy. 

Over the next 88 years, he left a legacy of paintings and sculptures unlike any artist before or since. 

His art shaped the city he came from, the era he lived in, and, eventually, the entire world of Western art. 

Today, the works he created are some of the most treasured and valuable artworks in the entire world. 

Learn more about Michelangelo and how he became the greatest artist of the Renaissance on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. 


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What A Day - Trump Is Losing With Ladies

Polls have shown that former President Donald Trump is increasingly weak when it comes to support from women. Recent Wall Street Journal polling found that Vice President Kamala Harris has a 13 point lead over Trump among women. In an attempt to reverse those trends, Trump went on Fox News to speak to a crowd of all women where he called himself the “father of IVF.” Erin Ryan, host of Crooked’s Hysteria and the weekend edition of What A Day, joins us to debrief.

And in headlines: Democratic Representative Colin Allred dragged Republican Senator Ted Cruz during the Texas Senate race debate, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his “Victory Plan” to his country’s Parliament, and an abortion rights group in Florida sued the state after Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration ordered TV stations to stop airing their pro-abortion ad.

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