Month: April 2025

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The Gist - Trump 47: It’s Not a Heart Attack, It’s Gingivitis

David Frum, former Bush speechwriter and Atlantic contributor discusses Republican cowardice, Democratic excess, and the structural dangers facing American democracy. Frum argues that Donald Trump’s 2025 threat is deeper, more organized, and more perilous than ever before. Plus, Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s apt remarks puncture the often hollow spectacle of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - We Say Goodbye To The Father Of Chicago’s Famous Riverboat Architecture Tour

Thanks to Bob Irving, millions have seen Chicago’s skyline from the best seat in the house — the river. He created the Chicago Architecture Center’s boat tours, which are now a staple of the city’s tourism industry. Irving died earlier this month at the age of 93. Reset reflects on his life and legacy with Geoffrey Baer, WTTW host and architecture boat cruise docent; Laurie Petersen, editor of the AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture; and Linda Miller, president of Friends of Historic Second Church. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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Consider This from NPR - A severe autism advocate responds to RFK Jr.’s research initiative

About one in 31 children in the U.S. has been identified with autism spectrum disorder, according to CDC data released this month.

When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed these findings, he declared that autism is a rapidly growing "epidemic" in the U.S. and vowed to identify the "environmental toxin" he says is to blame.

Which of Kennedy's remarks rang true to those in the autism community?

Jill Escher is the president of the National Council on Severe Autism, and had both gratitude and criticism for the new initiative.

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State of the World from NPR - Preparing to Pick a New Pope

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a funeral ceremony over the weekend and next week the College of Cardinals will convene their conclave at the Vatican to choose his successor. In this episode we speak to one of those cardinals, who will attend his first papal conclave. And we go inside the room where it all happens, the Sistine Chapel famous for its ceiling of frescos by Michelangelo.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Strange News: One Card To Rule Them All, Pop Culture and Space, Horrors of Kenyan Death Cults, and More

History's largest credit card merger looms on the horizon. Commentary on not-quite-space and a celebrity named Katy Perry. Ben takes the crew around the globe to learn more about wildlife piracy, the horrors of Kenyan cults, and the fascinating web of fentanyl, casinos, China and Mexican drug cartels. All this this and more in this week's strange news segment.

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1A - ‘If You Can Keep It’: America In Constitutional Crisis

Big news is happening at a breakneck pace these days. But on the cusp of the 100th day of President Donald Trump's second administration, let's take a pause to go back in time to Sept. 30, 1962.

On that day, President John F. Kennedy sent U.S. military forces to protect James Meredith on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Meredith was the first Black student admitted to the school. That night, JFK addressed the nation from the White House.

In his address JFK describes a moment when the word of the Constitution no longer prevails, is by most definitions a "constitutional crisis."

Some of you think that moment is here.

As part of our weekly series on the state of our democracy, "If You Can Keep It," we're posing a big question: Are we in a constitutional crisis?

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Motley Fool Money - The Compounding Consumer Crunch

Lower income consumers are already struggling, and the end of the de minimis exemption will make things even harder for them.


(00:21) David Meier and Dylan Lewis discuss:


- Domino’s earnings sending the same warning signals as Chipotle – lower income eaters aren’t ordering as often..

- Temu and Shein pushing tariff increases to American consumers over the weekend.

- Old Dominion Freight Lines and Saia signaling fewer goods are coming into the U.S.


(15:53) Motley Fool Analyst Anthony Schiavone and Ricky Mulvey take a look at homebuilders and the four major economic forces hitting those stocks. .


Companies discussed: DPZ, CMG, PDD, SAIA, ODFL, DHI, DFH.


Host: Dylan Lewis

Guests: David Meier

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl


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