Month: April 2025

Posted on

Bay Curious - The Berkeley Park That Was Once All Trash

Bay Curious listener Tom Rauch grew up in Berkeley in the 1960s. Some of his most vivid memories from that time are of the old Berkeley dump. “It really was just this big, giant pit where you backed up your car, opened up your trunk and just shoveled whatever you had into this open pit,” he said. Fast forward to today, and the dump is long gone. In its place is César Chávez Park, a big grassy expanse with sweeping views of the entire San Francisco Bay.


Rauch recently started to wonder about the old dump, and submitted some questions to Bay Curious. How did it go from a squalid mass of junk to a beautiful shoreline park where people go to walk their dogs, fly kites and have picnics? And what are some of the challenges of turning a big pile of trash into a recreational space? Reporter Dana Cronin takes us on the journey to find out.


Additional Reading:



Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts


This story was reported by Dana Cronin. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Alana Walker, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

Posted on

The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 4.3.25

Alabama

  • Sen. Britt talks about the bill to stop judges placing nationwide injunctions
  • Sen. Britt also talks about the negative effects of social media on teens
  • The AG's office is charging business in Baldwin county for fraud practices
  • Governor Ivey signs the Paid Parental Leave Act of 2025 into law
  • Another bill on Ivey's desk increases bond amount for building 2 prisons
  • The Post election audit bill passes senate committee

National

  • President Trump issues varying tariffs on a total of 180 countries
  • Trump also petitions SCOTUS re: the Alien Enemies Act and deportations
  • Russia plans to send special negotiator to DC in a week for peace talks
  • 2 Republicans offer bill to extend timeframe to investigate covid aid fraud
  • Docs from House Judiciary committee show FBI placed gag orders on agents wanting to publicly confirm that Hunter Biden's laptop was real
Posted on

The Daily Signal - Trump Announces ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs, Planned Parenthood Back in Court, and Xavier Becerra Announces Campaign | April 3, 2025

Description: 


  • President Donald Trump announces new tariffs on products from dozens of countries.  
  • The justices at the Supreme Court hear arguments for a major case that could determine if South Carolina is allowed to not fund Planned Parenthood. 
  • And a former Biden administration official announced his run for governor in, you guessed it, California.  


Keep Up With The Daily Signal


Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email


Subscribe to our other shows: 


The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast 


Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women 


The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown 


Follow The Daily Signal: 


X: https://x.com/DailySignal 


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ 


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ 


Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal 


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal 


Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal 


Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.


Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

Honestly with Bari Weiss - Debating Pronouns with John McWhorter

John McWhorter is one of the greatest living experts on the English language—and many others, too. He’s an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia, a columnist at The New York Times, and he’s an unsung Broadway aficionado. He once told us he could not do an interview because he was busy rehearsing a cabaret show for his bungalow colony. It all sounds like a scene out of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.


But in his day job, he is thinking about words, language, and—the not-so-controversial topic of pronouns. John is a true independent mind. He has been one of the most outspoken critics of liberal excess—his last book was called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. But now? Now he’s taking a position that we suspect will provoke the other side.

In his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words, John makes the provocative case that the English language evolves in ways that don’t always make sense. But, he says, that’s okay. And he takes it a step further—saying the wide adoption of they/them in the singular, instead of he/him or she/her, works.


What are the stakes of these little words? For example, as a society, are we disrespecting women (and men) when we fail to acknowledge, in our language, who has dealt with the challenges of womanhood or manhood and who has not?


And what are the consequences of letting children adopt they/them pronouns, especially if it pushes them toward medical transition? At the same time, how do we create a society that is kind and inclusive but also reflective of reality? And can we even have both?


The broader context of this language conversation is about what can and cannot be said. We talk about this broader context—the state of the woke left, but also the rise of the woke right.

Bari puts all of these questions to the premier linguist and culture expert John McWhorter on this episode of Honestly.


If you liked what you heard from Honestly, the best way to support us is to go to TheFP.com and become a Free Press subscriber today.


Ground News - Go to groundnews.com/Honestly to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on today’s biggest news stories.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

Everything Everywhere Daily - Mass Extinction Events

We like to think of the Earth as a very stable place. While there might be seasonal variation in the weather, things don’t really change that much within our lifetimes. 


However, if you take a longer perspective, a much longer perspective, things can change a lot. 


In fact, there have been five times in the history of the Earth when life on Eath completely changed. When over half of the species on the planet completely disappeared. 


Learn more about the Earth’s mass extinction events and what caused them on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.



Sponsors


Subscribe to the podcast! 

https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

--------------------------------

Executive Producer: Charles Daniel

Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer

 

Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere


Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com


Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily

Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip

Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

The NewsWorthy - Trump’s Tariff Blitz, Bids for TikTok & ‘Tush Push’ Debate – Thursday, April 3, 2025

The news to know for Thursday, April 3, 2025!

We're talking about a major step in a massive global trade war. President Trump announced new tariffs on virtually the entire world.

Also, tornadoes tore through several states, and more severe weather is on the way.

Plus, a major American company is making an 11th-hour bid for TikTok, the Supreme Court made a decision about vape products in the U.S., and what’s recession pop? We’ll fill you in on the latest trend in music.

Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes! 

 

Join us every Mon-Fri for more daily news roundups! 

See sources: https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes

Become an INSIDER to get AD-FREE episodes here: https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/insider

Sign-up for our Friday EMAIL here: https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/email

Get The NewsWorthy MERCH here: https://thenewsworthy.dashery.com/

Sponsors:

Get 15% off OneSkin with the code NEWSWORTHY at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod

New customers visit Huel.com/newsworthy today and use my code NEWSWORTHY to get 15% off your first order plus a free gift.

To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to ad-sales@libsyn.com

Posted on

the memory palace - Episode 229: Teammates

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

During mid-April, 2025, I'm doing a southern book tour, with stops in San Antonio, Houston, Gainesville, Montgomery, New Orleans, and Oxford. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Radiotopia is a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts that’s a part of PRX, a not-for-profit public media company. If you’d like to directly support this show, you can make a donation at Radiotopia.fm/donate. I have recently launched a newsletter. You can subscribe to it at thememorypalacepodcast.substack.com. 

Music

  • La Copla from Atahualpa Yupanqui
  • Yes, Brick by Brick and Waende by Caeys
  • Space in Between by Federico Albanese
  • Kieke by Shida Shihabi


Notes

  • My favorite work on Mays is James Hirsch's glorious biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend. I also recommend John Klima's Willie's Boys, about the Black Baron's 1948 season.
  • If you're looking to get more context for the city during those years, I'd recommend Diane McWhorter's history, Carry Me Home. 


Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Posted on

NPR's Book of the Day - To confront radical change, ‘Slate’ writer Scaachi Koul wrote a new book of essays

Three years ago, Scaachi Koul went through a divorce, a process that she says was "disorienting." But divorce, the Slate writer says, also offered a framework for rethinking everything: her relationship with men, family, conflict, and herself. Her new book of essays Sucker Punch works through this personal evolution. In today's episode, Koul speaks with NPR's Leila Fadel about one of the primary relationships in these essays: the writer's relationship with her mother. They also discuss Koul's shifting perspective on fights, her interest in speaking with the man who sexually assaulted her, and her loose interpretation of Hindu fables.

To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and support NPR's book coverage, sign up for Book of the Day+ at plus.npr.org/bookoftheday

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy
Posted on

The Indicator from Planet Money - Why the great vinyl shortage is over

There have now been a few major vinyl booms. And unbeknownst to many, a small village in the Czech Republic has been responsible for manufacturing a large number of these albums. On today's show, how this dominant player became a problem for its competitors in the U.S.

Related episodes:
Rumor has it Adele broke the vinyl supply chain
'Let's Get It On' ... in court (Update) (Apple / Spotify)

For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy