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Bay Curious - Unsung Heroines: Rebel Girls of the Bay Area

Women have dramatically influenced San Francisco Bay Area history since before the Gold Rush, but their stories are often far less well known. Rae Alexandra's new book, Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area shines a light on these untold stories, highlight these women's impact on the social, cultural and political life of the Bay Area.


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Headlines From The Times - $6.2 Billion Nexstar-Tegna Merger Closes Despite Lawsuit and SoCal Defense Startups Secure Funding Boost

A deal to merge two of the largest local television news companies, Nexstar and Tegna, closed Thursday despite a lawsuit from the attorneys general of eight states to block it. The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department approved the $6.2 billion deal, clearing the way for Nexstar to expand its already massive broadcast operation. Meanwhile, Muslims around the world are celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. It's a day traditionally greeted with joy as families and friends gather in prayer, enjoy traditional delicacies, and take part in vibrant festivities, but this year the celebration comes amid conflict, with war in and across the Middle East. In business, Edison International's CEO received a significant pay raise despite ongoing scrutiny over its potential role in the fatal Eaton Fires, and a new bipartisan bill restored billions in federal funds to help Southern California aerospace and defense startups. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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Up First from NPR - Trump’s Hormuz Deadline, Congress DHS Funding, ICE In Airports

President Trump has given Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face strikes on its power plants and Iran is threatening to close the vital shipping waterway indefinitely if he follows through.
Congress returns this week with airport lines growing and TSA agents going unpaid, as President Trump links any DHS deal to a long list of new demands including voter ID and ending mail-in voting.
And hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to help address chaos in airports across the U.S., but mixed messages have left questions about what they will actually do ease security lines.

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(0:00) Introduction
(01:57) Trump's Hormuz Deadline
(05:50) Congress DHS Funding
(09:18) ICE In Airports

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The Daily - The Republican Identity Crisis Over the Iran War

The war in Iran has created strong divisions among President Trump’s supporters. An anti-interventionist wing of the Republican coalition and some senior administration officials partial to Mr. Trump’s criticism of long overseas conflicts have quickly become uneasy about the war, which has shown no immediate signs of ending.

Robert Draper, a domestic politics journalist for The New York Times based in Washington, discusses Mr. Trump’s justification for the war and whether he is explicitly violating a pact he made with his base not to start another.

Guest: Robert Draper is a journalist based in Washington, D.C., who writes about domestic politics for The New York Times.

Background reading: Joe Kent, a top U.S. counterterrorism official, resigns over the Iran war.

High gas prices, driven up by the war, loom over the midterms.

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Start Here - Have an ICE Flight: Trump’s Plan for Airport Lines

As TSA agents wait for paychecks, federal officials scramble to send ICE agents to assist at airports. President Trump threatens to strike Iranian energy infrastructure. And analysts react to the president’s acknowledgement that the White House is “considering” drawing down forces in the Middle East.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.23.26

Alabama

  • Sen. Britt supports a bill that withhold paychecks from Congress during government shutdown
  • Media outlets in Spain report that U of A student fell off dock into water
  • 3 bill in state senate caused Dems to filibuster before Spring Break, bill will be re-offered upon state lawmakers return
  • A petition against House Speaker Ledbetter's standing within the ALGOP has been dropped
  • Central AL Water to drop the addition of fluoride into the water


National

  • ICE agents to help TSA in airports during DHS government shutdwon
  • Senator Mike Lee says SAVE American Act can be passed, he has a plan
  • US Senate passes Trump's nominee to head up DHS, Markwayne Mullin
  • Riverside county sheriff in CA seizes ballots from 2025 for hand recount
  • 20 Nations agree to help US in freeing up vessels moving through Strait of Hormuz
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Python Bytes - #474 Astral to join OpenAI

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Brian #1: Starlette 1.0.0

  • As a reminder, Starlette is the foundation for FastAPI
  • Starlette 1.0 is here! - fun blog post from Marcello Trylesinski
  • “The changes in 1.0 were limited to removing old deprecated code that had been on the way out for years, along with a few bug fixes. From now on we'll follow SemVer strictly.”
  • Fun comment in the “What’s next?” section:
    • “Oh, and Sebastián, Starlette is now out of your way to release FastAPI 1.0. 😉”
  • Related: Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills
    • Simon Willison
    • example of the new lifespan mechanism, very pytest fixture-like 
      @contextlib.asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app):
async with some_async_resource():
    print("Run at startup!")
    yield
    print("Run on shutdown!")
app = Starlette(
routes=routes,
lifespan=lifespan
)

Michael #2: Astral to join OpenAI

  • via John Hagen, thanks
  • Astral has agreed to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team
  • Congrats Charlie and team
  • Seems like **Ruff** and uv play an important roll.
  • Perhaps ty holds the most value to directly boost Codex (understanding codebases for the AI)
  • All that said, these were open source so there is way more to the motivations than just using the tools.
  • After joining the Codex team, we'll continue building our open source tools.
  • Simon Willison has thoughts
  • discuss.python.org also has thoughts
  • The Ars Technica article has interesting comments too
  • It’s probably the death pyx
    • Simon points out “pyx is notably absent from both the Astral and OpenAI announcement posts.”

Brian #3: uv audit

  • Submitted by Owen Lemont
  • Pieces of uv audit have been trickling in. uv 0.10.12 exposes it to the cli help
  • Here’s the roadmap for uv audit
  • I tried it out on a package and found a security issue with a dependency
    • not of the project, but of the testing dependencies
    • but only if using Python < 3.10, even though I’m using 3.14
  • Kinda cool
  • Looks like it generates a uv.lock file, which includes dependencies for all project supported versions of Python and systems, which is a very thorough way to check for vulnerabilities.
  • But also, maybe some pointers on how to fix the problem would be good. No --fix yet.

Michael #4: Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio

  • Python’s asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12
  • Formerly fine async code can now stop working, so heads up
  • The fix? Use a set to upgrade to a strong ref and a callback to remove it
  • Is there a chance of task-based memory leaks? Yeah, maybe.

Extras

Brian:

Joke: We now have translation services

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What A Day - The Iran War Is Fueling Antisemitism

The MAGA Right is at war over the role that Israel has in American foreign policy and the war with Iran. If you listen to Tucker Carlson or former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, you would think that President Donald Trump was bamboozled into this conflict, lured by the evil "Israel lobby." The way some on the American Right (and the American Left) are talking about Israel has edged into outright antisemitism. And with multiple violent attacks on synagogues around the world over the last few weeks, the lack of distinction between "Israel the country" and "Jewish people" is having a very dangerous impact. Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent at Vox, joins the show to talk about the rise of anti-war antisemitism.

And in headlines, President Trump threatens to escalate the already high-stakes war with Iran, the Trump administration plans to make airport security lines even more unpleasant by sending in ICE officers, and the White House grounds welcome a statue of Christopher Columbus.

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Strict Scrutiny - Absentee Ballots, Asylum, and Too Many A**holes to Count

Leah, Kate, and Melissa preview this week’s arguments at the Court, including Watson v. Republican National Committee, a challenge over when election offices must receive absentee ballots in order for them to be counted. They also cover a flood of legal news, including the quagmire that is the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office, rulings from lower courts both encouraging (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia) and grim (the wrong-like-clockwork Fifth Circuit), and the showdown between Senator Rand Paul and Trump’s pick for DHS head, Markwayne “NOSPACES” Mullin.

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