Month: March 2025

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Trump Administration Goes After Chicago, Deerfield Schools

Chicago Public Schools and a suburban school district are under a civil rights investigation from the Department of Education. And the center of the investigation? School locker room policy. The investigation, announced last week, comes after politically conservative groups filed complaints about trans students being allowed to change in the locker room that lines up with their gender identities. The Trump Administration says it is investigating alleged violations of Title IX, while the Chicago and Deerfield school districts insist they are in accordance with Illinois law. Reset digs into what’s at stake with Chicago Sun-Times reporter Violet Miller. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - Intelligence Officials Testify, Trump’s Auto Tariffs, DOGE Access

A group chat among top U.S. national security officials discussing airstrikes in Yemen has been made public, sparking outrage and raising questions about the Trump administration's handling of classified information. President Trump imposes a 25% tariff on car imports to boost U.S. manufacturing, but auto industry leaders warn it could raise prices and disrupt markets. And, the Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive personal data from multiple federal agencies is sparking legal battles over privacy and security.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - You spin me right round: Europe’s populists reckon with Trumpism

For Europe’s hard-right politicians, Donald Trump’s second White House bid looked like validation and opportunity. Now that he is in it, the tensions and trade-offs are becoming clear. The Houthis’ grip over Yemen and the Red Sea is only strengthening, even as other Iranian proxies are waning (10:03). And a look at the boom in Christian entertainment (15:51).


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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S10 Bonus: Quinn Li O’Shea, Braid

Quinn Li started into tech well before college. In High School, she was into fashion and would take pictures of herself and her friends. She wanted to share these pictures, and found her way to Squarespace - which ultimately, led her getting into HTML and CSS - and the rest is history. Outside of tech, she plays a lot of tennis, and teaches Aerial. I had to ask what this was, and she explained it was the art form that you see in the circus, when people are climbing the sheets in the air, acrobatically.

Quinn Li has been focused on productivity throughout her career. As she started to swing her focus to building connections at work through play. One of the games she and her team built went viral on TikTok - and they knew they were on to something.

This is the creation story of Braid.

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Bay Curious - Behind the Fillmore’s Iconic Music Posters

These days, when you see a show at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, you might be lucky enough to get your very own poster for free. They’re a highly anticipated parting gift given out at the biggest shows. “The posters are artifacts, pieces of time,” says this week's question asker ,Ben Kaiser. “They’re as much [a part] of the concert as the concert.” That got him wondering: the posters of the Fillmore are so legendary, who is the person behind them? From 1985 to 2019, the answer was Arlene Owseichik. In this episode, we meet the woman behind the posters, and learn about the creative process that went into the creation of each one.


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Curious City - “Enemy Alien”: How Chicago photojournalist Jun Fujita avoided Japanese internment camps

Jun Fujita is the Japanese-American photographer behind some of the most recognizable photographs taken in Chicago in the 20th century, including his shots of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, the Eastland passenger boat disaster of 1915, and the 1919 Chicago race riots. Fujita was also a published poet and something of a regional celebrity, known for socializing with William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Fujita’s foreign identity also made him the subject of government inquiry and suspicion on multiple occasions — during both World War I and World War II — according to Graham Lee, Fujita’s great-nephew and the author of a new Fujita biography, “Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera.” After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Fujita’s assets were frozen, his business was shuttered, his cameras were taken away, and he constrained himself to Chicago to avoid possible internment, Lee said. How did Fujita navigate this perilous time for an immigrant in Chicago? We sat down with Lee to discuss how Fujita, a “supremely confident person,” came to rely on both the support of his community and his wits.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: The Piasa Bird, Bots and the Post Office, and Horoscopes for AI

The guys explore the legend of the mysterious Piasa Bird. A Conspiracy Realist at the US Post Office inspires an exploration of post-human automation. Uncle Sam writes in with thoughts on discovering a possible scientific basis behind astrology. The guys crack up reading infamous Australian town names. All this and more in this week's listener mail segment.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.27.25

Alabama

  • Governor Ivey issues ban on 2 Chinese AI platforms, DeepSeek & Manus
  • SoS Allen commends Trump on recent election integrity executive orders
  • AG Marshall suggests customers using 23&Me DNA services delete accounts
  • CHNV parole program closure leads Haitians in Albertville to self deport
  • ALGOP Chairman shocked at judge's ruling on election case in Conecuh county
  • Part 4 with therapist Melea Thompson re: pornography exposure and children

National

  • DC Appeals court rules in favor of judge stopping  deportations of illegals
  • 2 Appeals courts rule in favor of Trump, DOGE and stop to refugee program
  • CIA,DefSec put a nail in the Atlantic's story about SIGNAL and war plans
  • Lawsuit filed in LA against Power company for live lines causing wildfires
  • House Judiciary Committee member grills NPR CEO re: biased coverage