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Pod Save America - This Is the Fight Democrats Need To Have

Donald Trump insists he has the right to render people to a foreign prison even though the courts say otherwise, and Democrats dig in for a critical fight. From El Salvador, Senator Chris Van Hollen briefs Dan on his effort to get answers about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Then, Jon and Dan look at the latest targets of Trump's retribution tour, most notably Harvard, his threats to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and Elon Musk's ultra-creepy project to populate Earth with a "legion" of his own offspring. Then, Tommy sits down with Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, about how he's trying to push back on Trump's defiance of the courts.

 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Two new children’s books view the natural world as a site of personal growth

Two new picture books explore how the outside world can transform our relationships with our communities and ourselves. First, Kiese Laymon is out with a children's book about three Black boys who connect during a transformative summer in the South. With City Summer, Country Summer, Laymon says he wanted to explore the experience of getting lost as a kind of experimentation. In today's episode, the author speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his wish to write a book about the emotional tenderness of Black boys. Then, The Littlest Drop is Sascha Alper's debut children's book, based on a parable from the indigenous Quechua people of South America. Brian Pinkney took over illustrations for the project after his father, Jerry Pinkney, died in 2020. In today's episode, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe brings Alper and Brian Pinkney together in conversation. The author and illustrator discuss the collaboration between father and son and Alper's desire to broaden the story beyond the climate crisis.

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Bad Faith - Episode 466 – Copaganda (w/ Alec Karakatsanis)

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Civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate Alec Karatkatsanis returns to Bad Faith to talk about his new book Copaganda: How Police & The Media Manipulate Our News. Alec zeroes in on the liberal media and political sphere to explain the establishment left's role in pushing the mythologies that fund the police, defund social services, and make the world less safe. Alec responds to growing pro-police arguments on the left, in particular the claim that the left needs to take crime more seriously if we want to win. Is Ana Kasparian right? Or does funding the police have no relationship to public safety?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Rare Earth Elements (Encore)

Modern society is completely dependent on a set of technologies that include computer chips, fiber optic cables, lasers, video screens, electric motors, and batteries. 


All of those things are dependent on a small category of chemicals called rare earth elements. 


Their importance in technology has made them a focal point of international trade and politics. 


Learn more about rare earth elements and how the world has become completely reliant on them, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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the memory palace - Episode 230: Helen Hulick Takes the Stand

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  • Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
  • Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin's great score to The Fox.
  • Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
  • Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
  • Franz Waxman's main title theme to Woman of the Year
  • Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
  • Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello's Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein's Big Stuff.
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