1A - How Did This Get Here: Your Wardrobe

A sleeve, a collar, soles, or laces — these elements of your wardrobe vary and define your style. But it takes many steps to get them from a factory into your closet.

How does something like a t-shirt become a finished product?

About 97 percent of clothing and footwear in the U.S. is imported, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association. Those imports are mostly from Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India.

We unpack it in this installment of our series, "How Did This Get Here," where we follow the supply chains and costs associated with some of your favorite products.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Dave Portnoy: Memecoins Are ‘Legalized Ponzi Schemes’

Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports founder aka stoolpresidente, joins CoinDesk to give his review on digital assets with a focus on the memecoins gamble. Plus, Portnoy reveals the best pizza spot in Toronto ahead of Consensus 2025.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Meaning of Israel’s Oct. 7 Failures

Journalist Jonathan Foreman joins the podcast today for a deep look at his seminal May 2025 COMMENTARY lead article, "The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7." We also begin by discussing the belly-up nature of the Trump "I'll end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day" fantasy. Give a listen.

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Marketplace All-in-One - A few “choice phrases” from the president can swing markets

The stock market is open with wind at its back. The Dow is up 2.8%, the S&P 500 is up 3.3%, and the Nasdaq is 4.1%. Market participants attribute this to President Doanld Trump saying he's not going to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. What should we make of this all? Also on the show: a look at Tesla stock movements and an idea to spur spending among China's retirees.

The Daily Signal - Will Congress Ensure Only Citizens Vote? | Ken Cuccinelli

By May 7, all U.S. citizens are supposed to have their federally required “Real ID” so that they can travel by air or enter a federal building. But what about using them to register to vote to ensure they are legally present in the country and eligible to vote in our elections?


The SAVE Act, introduced by Republican Texas Rep. (and University of Virginia alumnus) Chip Roy, recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now is awaiting action in the Senate. The SAVE Act, among other things, would require proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and strengthen verification processes to ensure voter rolls only contained eligible citizen voters.


The Daily Signal sat down with former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, former Virginia Attorney General, and current National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative Ken Cuccinelli to talk about the bill’s likelihood of making it to President Donald Trump’s desk.


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Big Technology Podcast - Generative AI 101: Tokens, Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Reasoning — With Dylan Patel

Dylan Patel is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis. He joins Big Technology Podcast to explain how generative AI work, explaining the inner workings of tokens, pre-training, fine-tuning, open source, and reasoning. We also cover DeepSeek’s efficiency breakthrough, the race to build colossal AI data centers, and what GPT-5’s hybrid training approach could unlock. Hit play for a masterclass you’ll want to send to every friend puzzled (or excited) about the future of AI.


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Time To Say Goodbye - Betting on the Pope and the Fragile Trump Coalition

Hello!

Today we’re talking Pope and the odds for each of the contenders. If you want a quick way to catch up with who the choices might be and what they represent politically, please tune in! Who is the continuation candidate? Who is the lib? And who is the arch right winger who only talks like an Elon Musk reply guy?

And we talk a bit about the Trump coalition and whether or not it might be feeling a bit shaky after all this chaos. Enjoy!



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Focus on Africa - A cocktail of long jail terms for Tunisian opposition leaders

Why were Tunisian opposition figures jailed on terror and conspiracy charges ?

Are new cybersecurity laws in Zambia really aimed at quashing political dissent ?

And Pope Francis remembered by someone who knew him

Presenter: Charles Gitonga Producers:  Frenny Jowi in Nairobi with Tom Kavanagh, Victor Sylver, Yvette Twagiramariya and Bella Hassan in London Technical Producer: Philip Bull Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Solving the Bitcoin Builder’s Dilemma with Arch Network

Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, discuss their recent $13M Series A led by Pantera Capital, how their technology enhances Bitcoin programmability, and their unique approaches to virtual machine architecture and validator consensus.


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Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, join us to talk about their recent $13M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. They explain how Arch differentiates itself from other Bitcoin L2s by enabling programmability on Bitcoin with their custom VM and FROST/ROAST threshold signature schemes. The founders discuss their approach to solving Bitcoin's programming limitations, creating a dynamic validator system that can scale over time, and building applications like DEXs and prediction markets directly on Bitcoin. They also share insights from their testnet phase and outline their roadmap toward mainnet launch.


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# Notes:

- Arch raised $13 million led by Pantera Capital

- Uses FROST/ROAST for dynamic validator sets

- Custom VM inspired by Solana's architecture

- Aims for instant finality vs Bitcoin's 10 minutes

- Uses transaction dependency graph for rollbacks

- Mainnet launch expected around June/July 2025


Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:35 Pantera Capital raise

01:57 Building Arch last 2 yrs

04:04 VC finally funding BTC dev

07:37 Arch ecosystem

09:07 Arch dev verticals

13:25 Distributed validator set

15:04 Arch ad read

15:36 Arch Virtual Machine

17:33 Developer adoption new VM

20:19 Builder reception

21:50 Testnet learnings

24:26 Under the hood of Arch

25:51 Bitcoin MEV

29:05 Apps for Arch

31:14 Migrating L1 assets to Arch

33:27 Wen Arch token

35:09 The future


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