Month: December 2024

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1A - Confronting The Shame, Success, And Stigma Of Scams

$10 billion. That's how much money was taken from Americans in fraud schemes last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

Many of those crimes – specifically those involving imposters – often start with a phone call or a text and a made-up claim. Victims can hand over thousands of dollars. And they often feel ashamed about being duped by these criminals.

How do we let go of the stigma around being scammed? And what's being done about the increasingly elaborate ways scammers are stealing people's money?

The Washington Post's Michelle Singletary helps us answer
those questions.

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The Bulwark Podcast - Susan Glasser: A Lame Lame Duck

A sense of Biden's irrelevance has descended on Washington, with Trump flying off to Paris and meeting world leaders, and also openly conducting his own foreign policy—often at odds with the current US policy. Meanwhile, following the diminishment of our foes in the Middle East, and after all the assistance America gave to Israel and Ukraine, Biden isn't being given credit—or he's choosing not to take it. Plus, the MAGA media mob is doing all it can to get Trump's nominees through, and a postscript from Tim on the danger of romanticizing someone who was "radicalized" by a bad experience.

Susan Glasser joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Susan's most recent column
Cathy's piece last year on the Daniel Penny case
Noah Smith piece on how insurance companies aren't the main villain in the healthcare system

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Federalist Radio Hour - Hegseth Is A ‘Citizen-Soldier’ — Here’s How That Threatens The Military Industrial Complex

Mark Lucas, executive vice president of the Article III Project, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how the propaganda press is maligning Department of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Lucas, a friend of Hegseth's for years, explains how Hegseth is a "true citizen-soldier" and how that makes him a "disrupter" to the military-industrial complex. 

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Tech Won't Save Us - Patreon Preview: Spain Doesn’t Have Water for Data Centers w/ Aurora Gomez Delgado

Our Data Vampires series may be over, but Paris interviewed a bunch of experts on data centers and AI whose insights shouldn’t go to waste. We’re releasing those interviews as bonus episodes for Patreon supporters. Here’s a preview of this week’s premium episode with Aurora Gomez Delgado of Tu Nube Seca Mi Río. For the full interview, support the show on Patreon.

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Chapo Trap House - 892 – Talking Points Memo feat. Jael Holzman (12/10/24)

We catch up briefly on news around the arrest of the alleged UHC CEO assassin. Then, journalist and musician Jael Holzman returns to the show to discuss a new piece she has for Rolling Stone on the potential threats to trans people in the coming Trump administration. We look at the rather grim potential of massively undermining of trans medical care, the equally grim state of Democratic opposition, and the general fecklessness with which Democrats have handled what Joe Biden once called the “civil rights issue of our time” in both policy and rhetoric. Read Jael’s piece here: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-trans-health-care-republicans-democrats-1235198473/ Purchase Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die” here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/if-i-must-die-poetry-and-prose/21530923?ean=9781682196212&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAgdC6BhCgARIsAPWNWH3V8BcDXv-gg8uxdBjH7qVFtCKGHzt5Z5bMBSUunOfyar68lDFw5EwaAtCmEALw_wcB
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK SPOTLIGHT: Crypto Will ‘Never Go Back’: Jeremy Allaire

Insights into the past, present and future of the crypto industry with Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire.

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Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire joins CoinDesk Spotlight to discuss his vision for crypto in 2025 under the Trump administration. Plus, the state of stablecoin development and regulation around the world.

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Focus on Africa - Can the AU have influence in Libya?

Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso, is visiting Libya, in his capacity as chairman of the African Union's committee on the Libyan crisis. His aim is to get the country's rival governments, led by Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah in the west and Marshal Khalifa Haftar in the east, to the reconciliation table. Does the AU have any influence in Libya?

Also why are young women in Kenya opting for irreversible surgery as a means of contraception?

And a new regulation in Spain giving migrant workers a chance to get their papers in order. Is it good news for all migrants?

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Susan Gachuhi in Nairobi. Bella Hassan and Sunita Nahar in London Technical Producer: Jonny Hall Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi