Month: August 2025

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.1.25

Alabama

  • Congressman Moore calls "Dignity Act" an amnesty bill in disguise
  • Sen. Tuberville offers bill to curtail foreign student visas and enrollment
  • AG Marshall is all on board with bill to execute convicted child rapists
  • State lawmakers look to cut snack items from SNAP program budget
  • Recorded call of DHR worker confirms hot car death of boy was accident
  • ALEA to officially complete investigation into Jabari Peoples shooting death

National

  • President Trump announces trade deal with country of South Korea
  • Trump sends letters to 17 Pharma CEOs about lowering drug costs NOW
  • Senate confirms Joe Kent as Director of National Counterterrorismm
  • Sen. Grassley reveals Durham appendix docs found at FBI in "burn bags"
  • DNI Gabbard praises IC whistleblower for testimony about Russia/Trump collusion hoax.
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Money Girl - What Tax Do I Owe on My Home Sale? (Reissue)

Laura answers a question about selling your home and explains a legit way to skip taxes or pay significantly less, called the capital gains tax exclusion. 

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Unexpected Elements - Traffic science

This week, a viral video of a robo-traffic-cop in Shanghai has the team contemplating the science of traffic. How do traffic jams with no discernible cause actually form? Does the weather experience traffic jams? And why do our cords also seem to get tangled in their own little cord-traffic-jams no matter how hard we try to keep them separate?

Christine Yohannes from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Tristan Ahtone in Helsinki, Finland, join Marnie Chesterton to discuss all this, plus many more Unexpected Elements.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Christine Yohannes and Tristan Ahtone Producers: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, with Alice Lipscombe-Southwell and Lucy Davies

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NBN Book of the Day - Martin Shuster, “Critical Theory: The Basics” (Routledge, 2024)

Why does critical theory matter today? In Critical Theory: The Basics (Routledge, 2024), Martin Shuster, a Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, explores the history, thought and legacy of the Frankfurt School to demonstrate the urgency of critical theory for explaining the world. Beginning with the idea of needless suffering as a concept animating the theory and practice of thinkers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Benjamin, the book ranges widely across topics including subjectivity, the social world, art, culture and religion. An accessible introduction to complex, but urgent, thought, the book is essential reading for arts, humanities and social science scholars, as well as for anyone who would like to change the world.

Dave O'Brien is Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, at the University of Manchester.

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The NewsWorthy - Historic New Tariffs, White House Makeover & Timberlake Tour Struggles – Friday, August 1, 2025

The news to know for Friday, August 1, 2025!

We’re talking about historic new tariffs President Trump unveiled for countries all around the world. 

Also, the response to last month’s Texas floods is being scrutinized as new flooding impacts a different part of the country. 

Plus: the latest and most ambitious project yet in Trump’s White House makeover, which “rite of passage” is coming to public schools, and how Justin Timberlake is responding to backlash from his own fans. 

 

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What A Day - Why Red And Blue States Are Waging A Redistricting War

Republicans in the Texas State House released their plans to redraw the state’s congressional map this week. It’s a nakedly partisan gambit to maximize GOP wins in next year’s midterm elections, all at the behest of President Donald Trump. In response, some Democrats want the party to fight fire with fire. California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday he wants a special election in a bid to offset Texas’s shenanigans. Justin Levitt, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a former White House senior advisor to the Biden Administration, lays out the stakes for this mid-cycle redistricting war and why all of us should care.

And in headlines: Trump slaps a 35 percent tariff on Canada after complaining about the country’s plans to recognize a Palestinian state, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff are headed to Gaza, and Trump signs an executive order to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test to schools.

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Bonus Episode: Optical Technology (HISTORY OF EYEGLASSES + MODERN DAY VISION)

When were glasses invented? What happened back then if your horse stepped on them? How is the digital age changing adults’ and kids’ vision? The first half of this special bonus episode about Optical Technology features the charmingly hilarious director of the Museum of the Eye in San Francisco, Jenny Benjamin. Then we bop over to Houston, Texas for the ultra-knowledgeable real-life optometrist, Dr. Nadia Sledge to chat about the importance of annual exams and where our eyesight is trending in the digital age. Also: dark Roman trivia, Downton Abbey fashion, how online eye tests overlook critical conditions, and how you would have survived in the past without spectacles. 

Other episodes you may enjoy:

Ophthalmology

Medieval Codicology 

Experimental Archaeology 

Literary Olfactology

Proptology 

Disability Sociology

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Pod Save America - How Many Nobel Prizes Can Trump Win?

It's Liberation Day…again. After two missed deadlines and only a few trade deals done, Trump's global tariffs officially go into effect today. To mark the occasion, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro says the president not only deserves a Nobel Peace Prize—but also a Nobel Prize in economics. Meanwhile, Trump can't stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein, telling reporters on Air Force One that Virginia Giuffre was "stolen" by Jeffrey Epstein from the Mar-a-Largo spa. Trump pressures Senate Republicans to kill a ban on congressional (and presidential) stock trading. Jon and Dan discuss the latest, including Democrats' shifting views on Gaza, Kamala Harris's decision not to run for California governor, and Texas Republicans' attempts to steal the 2026 midterm elections by redrawing their congressional map. Then, Congressman Jason Crow joins Tommy in the studio to talk about recruiting Democrats to run for office, and why he's suing ICE after being denied entry to a detention facility in his district. 
 

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WSJ Tech News Briefing - Can These New Chips Solve AI’s Energy Problem?

Chip startups are battling to sell cloud-computing providers the custom-built inference chips of the future. But the question is, can they actually make a dent in AI’s projected energy demand? WSJ columnist and co-host of the Bold Names podcast, Christopher Mims joins us to explain. Plus, Hollywood is losing ground to YouTube as the tech giant wins the battle for TV viewers. Belle Lin hosts.

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Further Reading

How YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers 

The New Chips Designed to Solve AI’s Energy Problem 

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