Month: November 2024

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - HBO’s ‘Somebody Somewhere’ Will Sing Its Last Song In Season 3

How does one say goodbye to what feels like the utterly perfect television series? Season 3 of HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere,” which just kicked off on Oct. 27, will be the Peabody award-winning comedy-drama’s last hoorah. The show takes viewers to Manhattan, Kansas, where finding your people is possible. Reset sits down with members of the cast and crew Bridget Everett, Jeff Hiller, Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen to discuss the show’s Midwestern roots, queer communities and navigating adult friendships. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Patriot’ is a posthumous memoir by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, died in a Siberian prison this past February–and in his diary entries, Navalny wrote that he knew he might not make it out alive. Those diaries are part of Navalny's new memoir, Patriot, published posthumously with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya. The book details some of Navalny's darkest moments in his fight for a more democratic Russia, but also showcases the leader's characteristic humor. In today's episode, Navalnaya joins NPR's Ari Shapiro to talk about a pivotal conversation between the couple during a prison visit, the duality of her late husband's personality as a serious politician and an ordinary family man, and taking up the mantle of the Russian opposition movement after Navalny's death.

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Up First from NPR - Campaigns Go West, Job Numbers and the Election, Union Canvassing Push

Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump visit Arizona and Nevada, reports offer a picture of the economy ahead of Election Day, and labor unions deploy thousands of canvassers.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - Turn up the PA: the last in our swing-state series

Our series concludes with an examination of the state with the most electoral-college votes: Pennsylvania. It is practically a must-win for either candidate—and it is on a knife-edge. As more and more people become influencers, fame is becoming more fickle and the entire economics of influencers is shifting (10:43). And how Gen Z is resurrecting goth culture (17:25).


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Unexpected Elements - The Swing of Things

On this weekend ahead of the US election, we clock the importance of so-called swing states – and swing into action looking into not politics, but the science of swings.

We examine how a pendulum swung by French physicist Foucault demonstrated that the earth is spinning, and hear about how the gibbon became the king of swingers – and what current-day elite climbers can learn from them.

We also hear from educator Francis Mavhunga at the University of Eswatini who has regularly used swings in his physics classes, and now shows a new generation of teachers how to integrate children’s lived experiences into the classroom.

Plus, how science has revealed new secrets about the ancient silk road, and what your brain can see when your eyes can’t. And, just to swing back to the beginning, presenter Marnie Chesterton digs into the archives to find out if science and tech can provide a foolproof voting system, and how astronauts vote.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton with Chhavi Sachdev and Godfred Boafo Producer: Harrison Lewis with Florian Bohr, Julia Ravey, Dan Welsh and Imaan Moin Sound Engineer: Gareth Tyrrell

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 11.1.24

Alabama

  • Congressmen Moore and Strong call Biden/Harris policies "garbage"
  • Congressman Moore expresses confidence in a Trump victory for president
  • Gov. Ivey permanently appoints Azzie Oliver as Montgomery district attorney
  • Attorney for Kent Davis files lawsuit re: his firing from ADVA by the governor
  • 1819 News CEO Bryan Dawson talks about Governor's "supreme" powers

National

  • Another Harris surrogate, Mark Cuban, insults all female Trump supporters
  • RFK Jr. tasked to clean up government corruption if Trump wins White House
  • House oversight wants answers from FBI on severely revised crime stats
  • Federal lawsuit filed in WI against DOT for providing data to outside groups
  • MI SoS getting letter from congresswoman about illegals registered to vote
  • JD Vance sits down with Joe Rogan Experience for 3 hour interview
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The Daily Signal - Michigan Is a Road to the White House, Rep. Huizenga Says

Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan.

“It's interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the road to the White House, the road to the Senate [Republican] majority, and the road to our own majority in the House of Representatives, I think runs right through Michigan.”

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Opening Arguments - When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It’s Fine Though

OA1082 - Donald Trump recently promised that he and House speaker Mike Johnson have a “little secret” about how they are going to win next week’s election. Is he just trolling, or have Republicans identified real vulnerabilities in our federal election system? We assess the legal realities surrounding one particularly doomerist prediction in The Nation to try to understand just how concerned we really should be.

The Washington Post has just revealed that Elon Musk has his own little secret: his numerous past violations of federal immigration law. How much does this matter, and what would happen if ICE received this information about someone who didn’t happen to be the world’s wealthiest person? 

Finally, for our dessert course Matt has the scoop on a tasty footnote from this week’s news about how the Librarian of Congress just helped to fix the ice cream machine at your local McDonald’s.

 

 

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