President Trump is asserting greater federal power in Washington, D.C., seizing control of Union Station and pledging billions to remake the city. In South Asia, devastating floods in India and Pakistan have killed more than 800 people since June, displacing hundreds of thousands. In Minnesota, a gunman opened fire at a Catholic school, killing two students and injuring 17 others before taking his own life. Meanwhile, Florida’s controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center could be empty within days after a federal judge ordered its closure. In business, State Farm faces fire-claim rebukes while California unions hold steady.
Curious City - Do pigs need rescuing?
The story of Pigasus, who unknowingly accepted the Youth International Party (Yippie) nomination for president in Daley Plaza in 1968, shows that sometimes pigs need rescuing.
“My heart hurt for the pig,” said April Noga, executive director of Chicagoland Pig Rescue, of Pigasus’s run for president. “Because I put myself in the pig’s shoes of being pulled around a rally and then detained and not knowing what's going on. And used as, not entertainment but used as a prop. Because the pig is a sentient being.”
In our last episode, we dispelled a rumor that Pigasus was barbecued. Reporter Andrew Meriwether searched Grayslake and Libertyville for the farm where she lived out her days following the ‘68 campaign. In today’s episode, Noga tells us why pigs still need rescuing. She explains that Chicagoland Pig Rescue gets as many as 20 calls a month, from overwhelmed people in need of rehoming a small-breed pet pig, to concerned citizens who have spotted an injured, large-breed pig on the side of the road.
“Every case is a little different,” Noga said.
Noga explains how she started Chicagoland Pig Rescue and how pig rescuing and fostering works. She also introduces us to Ramona, a three-year old potbelly mix who was rescued from a home where she was neglected. Noga described Ramona — who is one of six pigs in Noga’s “house herd” — as an "automatic foster fail."
The Daily - Threats and Cash: How China Meddles in U.S. Local Elections
A curious news story emerged in New York last week. It involved the mayor’s race, a reporter from the news outlet The City and a bag of chips.
Michael Forsythe, a reporter on the investigations team at The New York Times, explains how the episode fits into a larger story about how China has been attempting to influence American politics.
Guest: Michael Forsythe, a reporter on the investigations team at The New York Times.
Background reading:
- In the past few years, community organizations have quietly foiled the careers of politicians who opposed China’s authoritarian government.
- Times reporters witnessed supporters of the New York mayor, Eric Adams, handing out cash-filled envelopes. Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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Start Here - Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting
A shooting at a Catholic school Mass kills two students and injures several more. Public health officials erupt as the White House announces the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez. And experts home in on the perpetrators of a series of swatting incidents.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Chill baby chill: Modi-Trump relations dip
Yesterday Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Indian imports to America, among the highest in the world. How will Narendra Modi respond? Why Palantir could be the most overvalued firm of all time. And film, vinyl and print media make a comeback.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: 5 Essential Privacy Tips For Bitcoin
Satsie from PayJoin Foundation explains why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, covers essential privacy tools like address management, VPNs, and running nodes, plus discusses PayJoin batching and silent payments for better on-chain privacy.
Satsie, board member of PayJoin Foundation joins us to talk about Bitcoin privacy fundamentals. We cover why Bitcoin isn't anonymous, essential privacy practices like avoiding address reuse and hardware wallet shipping risks, the importance of running your own node, and advanced tools like PayJoin transaction batching and silent payments for enhanced on-chain privacy.
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**Notes:**
• Bitcoin requires KYC through exchanges
• Address reuse is "really, really bad"
• Hardware wallets shipped to homes create risk
• PayJoin needs 5% network adoption minimum
• Node sync takes "couple days" currently
• Silent payments require blockchain scanning
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:24 Who is Satsie?
04:24 How private is Bitcoin?
06:06 Privacy is hard
07:58 Basic BTC privacy techniques
10:50 VPNs
11:57 Running a node
15:13 You are using somebody's node
17:28 What is Payjoin?
19:59 When would we use Payjoin?
21:10 Payjoin adoption
22:45 Multi-party Payjoin
23:54 Silent Payments
27:16 Current US privacy regulations
29:00 Soft forks
31:06 Resources
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 8.28.25
Alabama
- AL joins amicus brief in MA case re: transgender ideology and parental rights
- GOP Heath Allbright wins special election for HD 11 seat
- Several municipal races are headed to a runoff votes on September 23rd
- Anniston elects youngest and first African American mayor, Ciara Smith
- Sen. Britt & Tuberville support Trump's efforts to clean up capital city
- Chiropractor Brian Mann is sentenced to life in prison for poisoning of his wife
- Gov. Ivey orders flags at half mast following school shooting in MN
National
- MN shooter was transgender, hated Trump, and took his own life at church
- More on Lisa Cook at the Federal Reserve and Trump's call for her to resign
- HHS Secretary rescinds emergency authorization for Covid 19 vaccines
- Border czar Homan says Abrego Garcia WILL be deported from the US
- DC mayor expresses gratitude for Trump's federalization of police force
- US coast guard interdicts 76K pounds of drugs in Operation Pacific Viper
- Cracker Barrel to keep its Old Timey sign, and not go woke/broke
The Daily Signal - Catholic School Shooting in Minneapolis & the Atrocious Response | Aug. 28, 2025
On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:
- A transgender shooter kills two children and injures 17 children and adults at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
- The coverage from legacy media and many Democrat officials is wildly inappropriate, disrespectful, and dishonest.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Starlite: The Miracle That Never Was
In the 1980s, an Englishman by the name of Maurice Ward developed a material which he claimed could withstand temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius. Not only could the material withstand high temperatures, but it could also protect anything in proximity from high temperatures.
This product didn’t result in a revolution in material science. In fact, it was never produced at all, and in the end, the secret to its creation died with its inventor.
Learn more about Maurice Ward and the creation of Starlite and why it was never developed on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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NBN Book of the Day - Tracy Slater, “Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp” (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Executive Order 9066, which authorized the confinement of tens of thousands of Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in the Western U.S., sending them to cramped, hastily-constructed camps like Manzanar and Amache.
One such Japanese-American was Karl Yoneda, a well-known labor activist–and the husband of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish-American woman. Elaine soon followed her husband to the Manzanar camp, after authorities threatened to send her three-year-old mixed-race son, Thomas, to the camp alone.
The Yonedas time in the camp is the subject of Tracy Slater’s book, Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
Tracy is a Jewish American writer from Boston, based in her husband’s country of Japan. Her previous book was the mixed-marriage memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015). She has also published work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time’s Made by History, and more.
You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Together in Manzanar. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia.
Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.
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