Month: March 2025

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Up First from NPR - Canada’s New Leader, ICE Arrest Columbia Student, Congress and The Budget

Canada's ruling Liberal Party has a new leader, Mark Carney, a former central banker who now faces the challenge of steering the country through economic turmoil and a tense trade relationship with the United States. Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist, has been arrested by ICE agents. And, House Republicans unveil a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running through September, but with Democrats opposing it, passing the bill will require almost every GOP vote.

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Start the Week - How political ideology affects the brain

In The Ideological Brain Leor Zmigrod studies the impact of political ideology on the makeup and shape of the brain. She found that those on the political extremes, as well as those with the most dogmatic beliefs, display more cognitive rigidity.

The historian John Rees focuses on the small group of firebrand parliamentarians at the heart of the English Civil Wars. The Fiery Spirits describes how the radical republicans influenced more moderate MPs and led to the defeat, and execution, of Charles I.

2025 is the centenary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher and fifty years since she became the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK. The political commentator and broadcaster Iain Dale publishes a biography of her later this year, and questions the role of ideology within Thatcherism.

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Headlines From The Times - Egg Prices, Bitcoin, and a Corrupt Cop

Egg prices are soaring, and Democrats see it as a way to win back voters, while Trump shifts blame to Biden. An L.A. sheriff’s deputy is caught smuggling heroin for the Mexican Mafia. Trump launches a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, marking a major shift in U.S. crypto policy. Meanwhile, the government suddenly drops a lawsuit against Zelle, signaling a major pullback on financial regulation.
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Opening Arguments - “But He’ll Be Great for the Economy!”

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.10.25

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville offers the Sunshine Protection Act for at least 3rd time
  • State senator says AL's transgender school should not get taxpayer funds
  • George Soros funds protests against DOGE, one group started in Huntsville
  • KY man gets additional charges for engaging in sex with AL student
  • Hundreds took part in commemorating 65th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday"

National

  • Man shot and injured outside WH after brandishing a gun to SS agents
  • House GOP has a funding bill/CR approved by President Trump
  • ICE agents arrest pro-Palestine activist over protests at Columbia University
  •  DHS Secretary says tariffs on Canada/Mexico are about the flow of fentanyl
  • Stacy Abrams of GA defends her Non profit for getting $2B from EPA
  • Missouri awarded $24B after suing China for the Covid 19 pandemic
  • Joe Biden's use of "autopen" to sign docs brings up questions of legitimacy
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The Daily Signal - Canada’s New PM, Noem & Rubio Deport Pro-Hamas Rioters, & Middle East Updates | March 10, 2025

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  • President Trump and cabinet secretaries had a full weekend, we’ll get you up to speed on the economy and immigration/visa actions.
  • Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is out as the Canadian Liberal Party selects Mark Carney as his replacement.
  • Israel has cut off all electricity from Gaza as the window for Hamas releasing its remaining hostages closes.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Messier Objects

In the 18th century, a French astronomer who was a regular comet hunter kept finding things in the sky that weren’t comets, but they also weren’t stars or planets. 


He created a list of these objects, not because he was trying to catalog the night sky, but rather to help other comet hunters avoid these common objects.


It turned out his list consisted of some of the most incredible objects inside and outside of our galaxy.


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NBN Book of the Day - M. Chirimuuta, “The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience” (MIT Press, 2024)

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The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press, 2024), Mazviita Chirimuuta argues that the standard ways neuroscientists simplify the human brain to build models for their research purposes mislead us about how the brain actually works. The key issue, instead, is to figure out which details of brain function are relevant for understanding its role in causing behavior; after all, the biological brain is a highly energetically efficient basis of cognition in contrast to the massive data centers driving AI that are based on the simplification that brain functionality is just a matter of neuronal action potentials. Chirimuuta, who is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, also argues for a Kantian-inspired view of neuroscientific knowledge called haptic realism, according to which what we can know about the brain is the product of interaction between brains and the scientific methods and aims that guide how we investigate them.

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Strict Scrutiny - The Conservative Push to Sue the Media Into Oblivion

After covering the latest goings-on in Trumpland, Melissa and Kate turn to this week’s SCOTUS arguments and opinions, touching on the Court’s decision to weaken the EPA’s clean water regulations and Mexico’s bid to hold American gun manufacturers liable for cartel violence. In the second part of the episode, Kate and Melissa talk with David Enrich of the New York Times about his new book, Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. 

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