Month: February 2025

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What A Day - The True Cost Of USAID Cuts

Thursday marked one month since President Donald Trump officially took office. Since then, he’s signed dozens of executive orders. And the fallout from all his unilateral actions is starting to become clear. The administration’s funding cuts for foreign assistance have already hit millions of people receiving aid around the world through USAID, as well as many American businesses and nonprofits who do business with the agency. Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin, who resigned in protest as deputy head of communications in East Africa for USAID this month, describes the toll Trump’s cuts are taking on vulnerable people in Kenya.

And in headlines: The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the new head of the FBI, former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced he won’t run for re-election, and the administration slashes deportation protections for around 500,000 Haitian migrants.

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The NewsWorthy - FBI’s New Era, Israel Grieves & Searching for Good – Friday, February 21, 2025

The news to know for Friday, February 21, 2025!

We’re talking about the latest federal employees to lose their jobs and which conservative firebrand is just starting his job as head of the FBI.

Also, a heartbreaking handoff in the Middle East that could compromise the future of the ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Plus, the CDC is pulling its ad campaign for flu vaccines, a political rivalry is spilling onto the ice hockey rink, and college students are inspiring others to search for life’s good moments.

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Pod Save America - Is Trump’s Honeymoon Over?

Donald Trump and Elon Musk make their bromance official in a joint interview with Sean Hannity, but polls suggest the American people may already be souring on DC's new it-couple. Trump takes his feud with Volodymyr Zelenskyy to dangerous new levels, calling Ukraine's leader a "dictator." And, after claiming he wouldn't cut Medicaid, Trump sides with the House GOP on a massive reconciliation bill that would do just that. Jon and Dan discuss how Trump is reshaping our relationship with Russia and the world, the potential political ramifications of cutting entitlements, and the latest with the DOGE firings. Then, Dan is joined by former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann to talk about the Justice Department purges, the prospects for the corruption case against Eric Adams, and more.

 

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The Best One Yet - 🍸“The Spy Who Primed Me” — James Bond’s Amazon deal. Microsoft’s quantum leap. OpenTable vs Resy.

James Bond’s creative control was just acquired by Amazon… so we need to talk about “Infinite Scarcity.”

Microsoft just defied physics… it’s a quantum creation that’s not a solid, liquid, or gas.

OpenTable has overtaken Resy for America’s coolest restaurants… all thanks to 1 move.

Plus, Google searches for “Is it safe to fly” are up 20x… so we ran the numbers.


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Short Wave - This Is Your Brain On Dessert

Ever eat a full meal ... and find you still have room for dessert? If so, you're not alone. Sugar is a quick form of energy that many people crave — even when they're full. Today, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber dive into a new study on the neural origins of the "dessert brain."

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The Indicator from Planet Money - Chicken meat, Gulf of Mexico lawsuit and Social Security beyond the grave

Surprisingly stable chicken meat prices, a lawsuit threat against the Gulf of Mexico's name change, and the Trump administration's false claims about Social Security beyond the grave are all under the microscope on this edition of Indicators of the Week.

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The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure

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NPR's Book of the Day - New books from Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates look at tech revolutions past and future

Reid Hoffman has invested in AI for years. The LinkedIn co-founder said he used AI to vet his new book, Superagency, written with Greg Beato, which makes an optimistic case for an AI-powered future. In today's episode, Hoffman joins NPR's Steve Inskeep for a conversation about the book that touches on his decision to back Kamala Harris for president in 2024 and on his falling out with Elon Musk. Then, Bill Gates joins NPR's Scott Detrow for a conversation about his new memoir Source Code. Much of Gates' writing has focused on the future – but here he reflects on his early life, from his childhood to the birth of Microsoft. He speaks with Detrow about the death of Gates' high school best friend and the opportunity he saw in personal computing.

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Talk Python To Me - #494: Update on Flet: Python + Flutter UIs

As Python developers, we're incredibly lucky to have over half a million packages that we can use to build our applications with over at PyPI. However, when it comes to choosing a UI framework, the options get narrowed down very quickly. Intersect those choices with the ones that work on mobile, and you have a very short list. Flutter is a UI framework for building desktop and mobile applications, and is in fact the one that we used to build the Talk Python courses app, you'd find at talkpython.fm/apps. That's why I'm so excited about Flet. Flet is a Python UI framework that is distributed and executed on the Flutter framework, making it possible to build mobile apps and desktop apps with Python. We have Feodor Fitsner back on the show after he launched his project a couple years ago to give us an update on how close they are to a full featured mobile app framework in Python.

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Flet: flet.dev
Flet on Github: github.com
Packaging apps with Flet: flet.dev/docs/publish

Flutter: flutter.dev
React vs. Flutter: trends.stackoverflow.co
Kivy: kivy.org
Beeware: beeware.org
Mobile forge from Beeware: github.com

The list of built-in binary wheels: flet.dev/docs/publish/android#binary-python-packages
Difference between dynamic and static Flet web apps: flet.dev/docs/publish/web
Integrating Flutter packages: flet.dev/docs/extend/integrating-existing-flutter-packages
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - TBD | Elon’s Endgame

As someone whose companies receive billions of dollars from the government, it’s worth asking why Elon Musk is so zealous about cutting government spending. 

Guest: Max Chafkin, features editor and tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek and cohost of the Elon, Inc podcast.

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