The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.12.25

Alabama

  • GOP House Delegate support the passage of the NDAA for 2026
  • Congressman Moore is endorsed for senate primary by OH senator Moreno
  • Fannie Mae offices to relocate from CA to Birmingham Alabama
  • SCOTUS heard oral arguments over IQ levels in death row inmate case in AL
  • Scholastic Books under scrutiny after LGBTQ books sold at middle school
  • Governor Ivey announces new tractor assembly plant coming to Monroeville

National

  • President Trump fully pardons CO elections clerk Tina Peters
  • US senate votes down bill to extend Obama care subsidies and tax credits
  • Director of National Counterterrorism says 18K people on terrorism watch list now here in the US
  • US Navy submits report on Sen. Mark Kelly and his part in subversive video
  • Secretary of Ed says $1B in financial aid fraud has been identified & halted
  • Dept of Housing says housing prices directly due to mass migration
  • Executive Director for BLM in OK indicted on 25 counts involving $

Getting Hammered - Bonus: Karen Vaites and MKH on School Closings, Literacy, and Why Them Kids Ain’t Learnin’ Good

We're excited to offer some interviews as bonus content on Getting Hammered with friends of the show on topics we care about. Today, Karen Vaites, an expert on literacy and curriculum, who really knows the nitty-gritty about how students learn, what works, and what we can replicate. We rant a bit about school closings and Randi Weingarten, then get on to the business of moving forward— the Mississippi Miracle, the Southern Surge, and whether skepticism is warranted. We are optimists. There is good news! We're trying to spread the word and help spread the strategy. That's where you come in.

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Unexpected Elements - Chicken, with a side order of science

Over the Christmas season, it is estimated that some 3.6 million families in Japan will tuck into KFC over Christmas (other fried chicken is available), which inspired the Unexpected Elements team to chew over all things chicken!

First up, we discover that chicken may never have become domesticated if it wasn’t for rice farming. We also ponder whether the chicken or the egg came first (are you Team Chicken or Team Egg)? Next, we find out that humans are surprisingly smart at translating chicken chatter.

We’re then joined down the line by Dr Jingmai O’Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum of Natural History, who reveals more about the links between dinosaurs and birds.

Plus, how Brazil became a poultry superpower, and what happens to chickens in tornadoes.

All that, plus many more Unexpected Elements.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Camilla Mota and Godfred Boafo Producers: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, with Sophie Ormiston, Ella Hubber and Robbie Wojciechowski

Money Girl - How Should I Prioritize Retirement Accounts at Multiple Jobs?

982. Laura answers a listener's question about how to prioritize retirement contributions when you have multiple jobs and accounts.

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Opening Arguments - But Who Will Execute the Executer? The Supreme Court.

OA1215 - We examine why the potential merger of Warner Brothers Discovery with either Netflix or Paramount would almost be certainly illegal under better circumstances before mourning the imminent loss of the independence of the one government agency which is supposed to stop this kind of thing. What exactly is the Federal Trade Commission, and why was destroying it a top priority for Project 2025? We then take a closer look at this week’s oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, in which the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority is poised to turn the FTC and dozens of other independent agencies into tools for Trump’s corruption and graft. Finally, in today’s footnote: why is an actual government website hawking the Trump Gold Card, and can the President really just make up a completely new way to give anyone with one million dollars a new path to US citizenship?

  1. Trump v. Slaughter oral arguments (12/8/2025)

  2. Humphrey’s Executor v. US, 295 US 602 (1935)

  3. Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)

  4. Rebecca Slaughter’s SCOTUS brief

  5. Trumpcard.gov

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What A Day - ICE Polices The American Dream

The Trump Administration has put billions of dollars into building an immigration superstructure meant to punish those who have done nothing wrong and intimidate everyone else – including legal immigrants and US citizens. Weirdly enough, that’s proving not to be very popular. According to new polling from the Associated Press, Trump is now deeply underwater on the subject of immigration – with 60 percent of respondents opposing his handling of the issue. So to talk more about what’s happening with immigration, from the Administration’s plans for 2026 to its many horrifying offenses, we spoke to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. He’s a Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council.

And in headlines, dueling healthcare bills fail in the Senate, nature-lovers push back on plans to make President Trump the face of their National Park adventures, and Disney becomes the first major studio to license its characters to OpenAI’s video generator.This holiday season, gift someone a Friends of the Pod subscription or treat yourself. Learn more at crooked.com/friends. Subscribing is the best way to support independent progressive media.

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Pod Save America - Trump’s A+++++ Affordability Message

Donald Trump holds a campaign-style rally to hit his affordability message: making fun of the very idea of an affordability message, and telling parents to buy their kids fewer dolls. And when asked by Politico what grade he’d give the economy right now, he answers: “A+++++.” Jon and Dan discuss how Trump’s communications effort is landing and then turn to the rest of the news, including Indiana Republicans’ decision to reject a new Trump-backed congressional map, Trump’s jaw-droppingly low approval rating in a new AP poll, and Democrats’ continued fight to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies before they expire at the end of the year. Then, Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, talks to Jon about the administration’s seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela and the illegality of the strikes on boats in the Caribbean—including what Smith saw when the Pentagon showed him the video of the infamous double tap strike.

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The Best One Yet - 🐭 “WaltGPT” — Disney’s OpenAI deal. SpaceX’s $1 Trillion IPO. Savannah Bananas Interview. +Waymo backseat baby

Disney invested $1 Billion in OpenAI… And licensed its top 200 characters to Sora.

Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX plans to IPO in 2026… but it’s all about the SpaceX logo on a t-shirt.

The Savannah Bananas have married co-founders… so we brought ‘em on the pod.

A woman just had a baby in a Waymo robotaxi… It’s a self-driving delivery.


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WSJ Tech News Briefing - The Race to Run AI From Space

SpaceX and Blue Origin are trying to move the trillion-dollar data-center boom into orbit, but getting there will take a whole lot of cash. Wall Street Journal reporter Micah Maidenberg lays out what’s ahead in this new space race. Plus, WSJ reporter Ellen Gamerman explains what’s next for Tilly Norwood, the AI actress who’s shaking up Hollywood. Katie Deighton hosts.


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Native America Calling - Friday, December 12, 2025 — Persistence pays off for tribes working to remove disturbing public monuments

After years of discussions, Taos, N.M. decided to remove Kit Carson’s name from a widely used park in the center of town. Carson’s renown as a Western frontiersman grew from greatly exaggerated tales in pulp novels and newspaper articles. Only later did his violent exploits against Navajos and other tribes emerge. He was among the main figures in the Long Walk, the forced march of 10,000 captive Navajos. More than a third of them died.

In Michigan, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removed a Washington Monument-style obelisk commemorating the construction of shipping locks on Lake Michigan. The obelisk sat atop the remainder of a burial ground. Lock construction destroyed the main part of the sacred area but the Bay Mills Indian Community and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians continue to hold ceremonies there. We’ll talk with tribal advocates about their years-long work to change how their histories are viewed by the public.

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Jeremy Lujan (Taos Pueblo), Taos Pueblo tribal secretary

Jesse Winters (Taos Pueblo), Taos Pueblo second sheriff

Dr. Gregorio Gonzales (Comanche and Genizaro), tribal historic preservation officer for the Pueblo of Cochiti

Paula Carrick (Bay Mills Indian Community), tribal historic preservation officer for Bay Mills Indian Community

 

Break 1 Music: Take Your Troubles to the River (song) Vincent Craig (artist) Self-titled Release (album)

Break 2 Music: She Raised Us (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) LifeGivers (album)