Posts

Posted on

The Gist - High Stakes, Low Standards: America’s Gambling Gamble

Jonathan D. Cohen, author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, joins to explain why our national rush into online sports betting might be a bigger mess than we realize. They talk sketchy app rollouts, bad state deals, and how betting lines went from shady corners to college campus. Plus, why Malaysian women’s doubles badminton at 3 a.m. says more about America than we’d like to admit.

Produced by Corey Wara

Production Coordinator Ashley Khan

Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠ad-sales@libsyn.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist⁠⁠⁠⁠

Subscribe to The Gist: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠

Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠GIST INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠

Follow The Gist List at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pesca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠

Posted on

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicagoans Step In To Fill Gaps Left By Restrictions On Gender Affirming Care For Young People

Illinois has joined a multi-state federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to limit gender affirming care for young people. This comes as the fourth major hospital in Chicago rolls back the kind of care offered to patients under 19 years of age. To fill in these gaps, a rapid response team of volunteers is working to connect families to alternate providers. Reset learns more from Asher McMaher, executive director Trans Up Front Illinois who is coordinating this team, Dr. Jessica Lapinski, a physician at Outpatient Family Medicine Transformed who provides gender affirming care, Michelle Vallet, parent of a trans teen who works to foster understanding among allies, and Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ health care reporter. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Posted on

Newshour - Besieged Sudan city residents face starvation, UN warns

The UN's food agency has warned that families trapped within the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. Also on the programme, an investigation into the gangs running illegal migration from France to Britain; we speak to 93 year-old Nobel prize winner Setsuko Thurlow about surviving the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.

(Photo: Houda Ali Mohammed, 32, a displaced Sudanese mother of four, prepares food at a camp shelter amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, July 30, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Jamal/File Photo)

Posted on

The Source - How Texans will pay the high cost of Trump’s “big beautiful bill”

Potentially life-saving public sector assistance for food, healthcare, and supporting a family is now more difficult for people in need to navigate. Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill creates new obstacles and requirements for people to qualify for SNAP, TANF, and Medicaid. These include longer applications, increased eligibility/work requirements, in-person interviews, and shorter periods before they have to recertify to continue receiving benefits.array(3) { [0]=> string(20) "https://www.tpr.org/" [1]=> string(0) "" [2]=> string(1) "0" }
Posted on

WSJ Minute Briefing - Indexes Fall Modestly as Trump Expects Chip, Pharma Tariffs Soon

President Trump's announcement of new tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals kept markets in flux. Plus: Drugmaker Pfizer boosted its annual profit guidance. And, data-software company Palantir reported strong quarterly earnings and raised its yearly outlook. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts.

Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter.

An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

The Daily Signal - VDH: Trump, Conservatives Are Faced With ‘Unknown Frontiers.’ Are We Ready To Face Them?

Just like Captain Kirk ventured into uncharted space, America is now stepping into political and economic territory no one thought possible. We’ve been told these ideas were impossible. But now, by doing what the Right has promised for decades, America is breaking every “rule” the expert class clings to.

 

Victor Davis Hanson breaks down what this means for the Trump administration conservative movement on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

 

“ On the budget, on the economy, on the universities, on the border—and I could apply this as well to the radical changes in military recruitment, in DEI—no one has ever said, ‘We're going to actually do what conservatives and Republicans have promised for a half-century.’ And when you do that, and you actually carry through your promises, you're in unknown territory. “

 

👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 

 

👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 

 

👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com 

 

(0:00 Exploring the Unknown

(0:58) Economic Counterrevolution

(2:09) Unexpected Outcomes in Policy and Economy

(3:17) Impact on Universities and Education

(4:59) Immigration and Border Control

(5:40) Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

The Daily Signal - VDH: Trump, Conservatives Are Faced With ‘Unknown Frontiers.’ Are We Ready To Face Them?

Just like Captain Kirk ventured into uncharted space, America is now stepping into political and economic territory no one thought possible. We’ve been told these ideas were impossible. But now, by doing what the Right has promised for decades, America is breaking every “rule” the expert class clings to.

 

Victor Davis Hanson breaks down what this means for the Trump administration conservative movement on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

 

“ On the budget, on the economy, on the universities, on the border—and I could apply this as well to the radical changes in military recruitment, in DEI—no one has ever said, ‘We're going to actually do what conservatives and Republicans have promised for a half-century.’ And when you do that, and you actually carry through your promises, you're in unknown territory. “

 

👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 

 

👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273 

 

👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com 

 

(0:00 Exploring the Unknown

(0:58) Economic Counterrevolution

(2:09) Unexpected Outcomes in Policy and Economy

(3:17) Impact on Universities and Education

(4:59) Immigration and Border Control

(5:40) Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

WSJ What’s News - Why Earning More Isn’t Saving Some American Families From Poverty

P.M. Edition for Aug. 5. Nearly 10 million American children are living in poverty, the most since 2018. Tens of millions more are precariously close, their families pushed to the brink by a storm of economic factors. Dan Frosch, who covers the U.S. economy with a focus on income inequality and poverty for the Journal, talked with a number of families in this position and joins us to discuss. Plus, with the resignation of a Federal Reserve official, President Trump has an opportunity to reshape the Fed. We hear from WSJ chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos about what the president might do. And a House committee has subpoenaed the Justice Department for reports of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Alex Ossola hosts.


Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

The Journal. - The FDA Boss on the Agency’s MAHA Makeover

Dr. Marty Makary has criticized the Food and Drug Administration for being "captured" by Big Food and Big Pharma. Now, the surgeon and former professor is in charge. In an interview with host Jessica Mendoza, the new FDA head talks about food dyes, AI, vaccines and the big changes he has in store for an agency that regulates one-fifth of consumer spending.


Further Listening: 

Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.


Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Posted on

Consider This from NPR - How gerrymandering became a blood sport

Fights over Congressional maps never used to be this intense. On Tuesday, Texas Republicans voted to issue civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state.

The GOP is trying to redraw house districts, and the proposed new map could give Republicans as many as five more House seats. That change could easily decide control of Congress.

This fight is rippling out to other states too with President Trump urging Republicans to follow the lead of Texas. And Democratic governors saying they might follow the same path.

Trump can be this transparent because there are no federal restrictions on redrawing districts for purely partisan gain. The Supreme Court said so in 2019.

Gerrymandering has been part of U.S. politics for hundreds of years. How did it become a bloodsport?

For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.

Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy