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Strict Scrutiny - S7 Ep21: The Conservative Push to Weaken Our Democracy

International law expert Rebecca Ingber of Cardozo Law joins Leah at the top of the show to talk about the US and Israel's war on Iran. Then, Leah welcomes guest co-host Chris Geidner of Law Dork to run through domestic legal news, including the omission of allegations against Trump from the Epstein files, the President’s MAHA Surgeon General nominee Casey Means’s confirmation hearing, the administration’s wildly illegal halting of Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the role of independent media in Trump 2.0, and some of the stories Chris has been breaking. They also unpack last week’s oral arguments and opinions before Leah is joined by Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket, to discuss how voting rights are under attack from all three branches of government.

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Python Bytes - #471 The ORM pattern of 2026?

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Michael #1: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026?

  • ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers
  • They are not the native language of agentic AI
  • Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs
  • Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding
  • Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs

Brian #2: pytest-check releases

  • 3 merged pull requests
  • 8 closed issues
  • at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request
  • Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool
  • Check out changelog for all mods
  • A lot of changes around supporting mypy
    • I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully --strict as I find it reduces readability
      • See tox.ini for explanation
    • But src is --strict clean now, so user tests can be --strict clean.

Michael #3: Dataclass Wizard

  • Simple, elegant wizarding tools for Python’s dataclasses.
  • Features
    • 🚀 Fast — code-generated loaders and dumpers
    • 🪶 Lightweight — pure Python, minimal dependencies
    • 🧠 Typed — powered by Python type hints
    • 🧙 Flexible — JSON, YAML, TOML, and environment variables
    • 🧪 Reliable — battle-tested with extensive test coverage
  • No Inheritance Needed

Brian #4: SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”

  • Adam Hill
  • This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust.
  • That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools
  • Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating
    • I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky.
      • And I like that
    • But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust
    • The contributors are all Adam
      • I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos
    • There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The “Peace President” Goes to War

Over the weekend, in the middle of the night, the Trump administration brought the United States into yet another Middle East war. 


Guest: Shane Harris, staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and intelligence


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Short Wave - Spring ice is thawing earlier in lakes. What does that mean for life below the surface?

Lakes are freezing later, thawing earlier and experiencing dramatic temperature swings in between. And all that throws off the delicate balance of life below the surface. And that has a major impact on the roughly 1.7 million ice fishers in the U.S. who spend millions of dollars buying equipment and guide services each year. Producer Berly McCoy explains how scientists are tracking those ecological changes by getting out on the ice — to fish. 


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The Indicator from Planet Money - Should the families of organ donors be compensated?

Two economists get into the business—and stakes—of organ donation, and they argue why the government should financially compensate their families.

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The Best One Yet - 💉 “Corporate Botox” — Block’s 50% firing. Coach Handbags’ anthropologist. Netflix’s wedding crashers. +Burger King AI Please

Jack Dorsey fired ½ of Block’s employees… So is AI Corporate Ozempic or Corporate Botox?

Coach hired an Anthropologist to study your room… and its handbag sales surged 25%

Wedding Crashers explains how Netflix losing Warner Bros is actually… a win.

Plus, Burger King’s new AI counts your “Please” and “Thank Yous”... (sorry).


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NPR's Book of the Day - Author was struck by story of mixed-race orphans behind ‘Keeper of Lost Children’

Keeper of Lost Children is the latest work of historical fiction by Sadeqa Johnson. The novel is told from three vantage points and follows the story of mixed-race children orphaned in Germany after WWII. At the heart of the novel is Ethel Gathers, a character based on a real-life woman named Mabel Grammer. In today’s episode, Johnson tells NPR’s Emily Kwong about the Google search that inspired her novel and how she views the responsibility of writing historical fiction.


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Global News Podcast - Trump warns of more US deaths in Iran war

President Donald Trump has warned that more American military personnel are likely to be killed as the US and Israel continue their attacks on Iran. Three US service members have already died after Iranian retaliatory strikes on military sites. Trump says Operation Epic Fury could last weeks. Also: the conflict widens as Israel and Hezbollah exchange fire, with the IDF hitting targets in Beirut's southern suburbs. Oil prices surge after Iran warns tankers to avoid the Strait of Hormuz. The UK says it will allow the US to use British bases. And we look at Mossad and the CIA's intelligence efforts to carry out the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - No need for Ctrl+C when you have MCP

Ryan sits down with Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic and Model Context Protocol co-creator David Soria Parra to talk the evolution of MCP from local-only to remote connectivity, how security and privacy fit into their work with OAuth2 for authentication and authorization, and how they’re keeping MCP completely open-source and widely available by moving it to the Linux Foundation. 

Episode notes:

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems created by Anthropic. You can keep up with—or join—the work the MCP community is doing at their Discord server. 

Connect with David on Twitter. 

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