Native America Calling - Monday, February 9, 2026 – 2026 State of Indian Nations

The past year has seen Leonard Peltier’s release from prison, record revenue from casinos and other economic development, and the addition of a new federally recognized tribe. It is also seen major upheaval in federal funds and staff that directly affect Indian Country. Looking ahead, tribes are navigating the potential loss of lucrative federal contracts and indications that consultation and treaty rights are taking a back seat. We’ll get the annual status update from National Congress of American Indians President Mark Macarro.

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Dr. Renae Ditmer (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians), journalist and independent economic development consultant

 

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Python Bytes - #469 Commands, out of the terminal

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Michael #3: Ending 15 years of subprocess polling

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  • The standard library's subprocess module has relied on a busy-loop polling approach since the timeout parameter was added to Popen.wait() in Python 3.3, around 15 years ago
  • The problem with busy-polling
    • CPU wake-ups: even with exponential backoff (starting at 0.1ms, capping at 40ms), the system constantly wakes up to check process status, wasting CPU cycles and draining batteries.
    • Latency: there's always a gap between when a process actually terminates and when you detect it.
    • Scalability: monitoring many processes simultaneously magnifies all of the above.
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The Allusionist - 224. Cosmic Hairball

Pack your oxygen tank, we're going to space. There’s a lot of etymology up there.

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Short Wave - These bacteria may be key to the fight against antibiotic resistance

In 1928, a chance contaminant in Scottish physician Alexander Fleming’s lab experiment led to a discovery that would change the field of medicine forever: penicillin. Since then, penicillin and other antibiotics have saved millions of lives. With one problem: the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. Today on Short Wave, host Regina G. Barber talks to biophysicist Nathalie Balaban about the conundrum — and a discovery her lab has made in bacteria that could turn the tides.


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The Best One Yet - 🇺🇸 “Team Polo” — Ralph Lauren’s Olympic win. Jennifer Garner’s baby IPO. Snap’s glasses revenge. +Black History’s founder.

The real winner of the Olympics? Ralph Lauren… the stock’s near a gold-medal all-time-high.

Actor Jennifer Garner’s baby food biz IPO’d… Once Upon A Farm’s growth hack is 1st time mommas.

Snap’s CEO is turning their spectacles into their own business… But will Zuck zuck ‘em?

Plus, we found the founder who invented Black History Month… exactly 100 years ago.


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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘Room 706,’ a woman confronts her extramarital affair during a hostage crisis

Kate loves her husband and their family, but she’s also involved in a long-standing affair with a married lover. Ellie Levenson opens her novel Room 706 with the secret lovers in their London hotel room. There, they soon find themselves trapped during a hostage crisis. In today’s episode, the author talks with NPR’s Scott Simon about why she chose to tell a story about modern womanhood and motherhood through such extreme circumstances.


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Trump Starts the Steal

Trump has called for elections to be “nationalized,” something neither the president, nor the federal government, has the authority to do. But as he’s already sent the FBI to raid Fulton County, Georgia’s election offices with director of intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and with the midterms on their way, it’s time to ask how much damage a vindictive president could do.


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Are we in an economic ‘doom loop’?

Trade wars. Financial panics. Inflation. How come it feels like it’s all bad news in the global economy these days? Economist Eswar Prasad’s answer: something he calls the ‘doom loop.’ That’s where massive geopolitical and economic forces feed off each other and send us careening into disorder. Sounds dire. But it’s not hopeless.

On today’s show, are we in a doom loop? And if we are … how do we get out of one?

Eswar Prasad’s new book is called “The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder”.

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Global News Podcast - Japan’s prime minister wins landslide election victory

Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has led her party to a decisive election victory. Her Liberal Democratic Party won more than two thirds of the seats in the lower house of parliament. It gives Ms Takaichi wide scope to push through her conservative agenda. She's promised to boost defence spending, tighten immigration and revise Japan's pacifist constitution. Also: Thailand's incumbent prime minister has claimed victory, after early vote counts gave him a big lead in the country's general election. The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner, Jimmy Lai, has been sentenced to twenty years in prison under the territory's strict national security law, which China says is necessary for stability. The man convicted of shooting dead fifty one people at two mosques in New Zealand seven years ago has begun an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Seattle Seahawks have won the Super Bowl -- the biggest prize in American football.