CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: The Empire Strikes Back – Inflation Hits 5% While Elizabeth Warren Goes After Bitcoin

China shuts down mining and starts censoring crypto exchange terms while U.S. senators and CFTC commissioners attack crypto.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

In a week so filled with the optimism coming out of El Salvador, of course there had to be another side of the story. 

On today’s episode, NLW looks at three examples of the existing power structure fighting back against the rise of crypto:

  • China shutting down mining in two provinces and apparent censorship of exchange-related terms on Baidu and Weibo
  • A CFTC commissioner’s extremely negative comments on decentralized finance 
  • Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s full-throated assault on bitcoin from yesterday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing


Is bitcoin devolving to just another partisan issue?

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SCOTUScast - Borden v. United States – Post-Decision SCOTUScast

On June 10th, 2021, the Supreme Court decided Borden v. United States. The issue before the Court was whether the “use of force” clause in the Armed Career Criminal Act encompasses crimes with an intent requirement of mere recklessness. Justice Elena Kagan authored the four-justice plurality opinion in which Breyer, Sotomayor, and Gorsuch joined, reversing the judgement of the Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, concluding that, quote, “a criminal offense with a mens rea of recklessness does not qualify as a “violent felony” under the ACCA’s elements clause.” Justice Thomas filed an opinion concurring in the judgement. Justice Kavanaugh filed a dissenting opinion, in which Roberts, Alito, and Barrett joined. Joining us today to discuss this decision is Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director & General Counsel at the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, and author of over 150 briefs in cases in the Supreme Court.

On Our Watch - Perceived Threat

A 16-year-old Black kid walks into a gas station in Stockton, Calif. to buy gummy worms for his little sister. When the teen gets in an argument with the clerk over a damaged dollar bill, a white officer in plainclothes decides to intervene — with force. In the fourth episode of On Our Watch, we trace the ripple effects of this incident over the next 10 years in a department trying to address racism and bias. But can the chief's efforts at truth and reconciliation work when the accountability process seems to ignore the truth?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Listener Mail: UFOs in South Georgia, a Cheese Photo Arrest, and the Horror of Assault Kit Backlogs

A caller inspires the guys to look into explanations for a strange UFO sighting in south Georgia. Investigators use a photograph of a man holding cheese to capture and analyze fingerprints. A listener breaks down some of the reasons why sexual assault kits end up getting caught in the notorious, ongoing national backlog -- and the guys explore what would happen if that backlog was fixed. All this and more in this week's listener mail.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Democrats Saving Joe Biden from His Party

The progressive left is having a fit over its more moderate members, who have failed to support their transformative designs. But aren’t they saving Joe Biden’s presidency from the unforeseen consequences of pursuing a sweeping agenda on which he didn’t even run? Also, the journalistic backlash against reporting on Israel objectively. Source

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Headlines From The Times - Next U.S. ambassador to India might be L.A.’s mayor … Huh?

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is political royalty in the City of Angels. His father was a former district attorney. The mayor won his last election with over 80 percent of the vote. There were even rumors he would run for president in 2020. Now, amid speculation that the Biden administration will tap Garcetti as the U.S. Ambassador to India, people from Kolkata to Calexico are saying ... huh? Him? Today, we speak to L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez — who says Garcetti's ambition might actually make him good for the position — and to former Los Angeles City Council candidate Dinesh Lakhanpal, who's welcoming of the idea, if a bit skeptical.

More reading:

Garcetti likely to be named ambassador to India, source says 

Column: If Garcetti leaves early for India ambassador post, how will he be remembered? 

Letters to the Editor: Eric Garcetti as ambassador to India? Talk about failing up

CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 06/10

The US announces vaccine donations to poor countries as President Biden begins his first foreign trip. Keystone Pipeline killed. Will this summer see a tick explosion? CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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World Book Club - Manu Joseph: Serious Men

Serious Men tells the intertwined stories of wily Ayyan Mani - who tries to pass off his son as a mathematical genius - and life at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai, where Ayyan works, and where veteran scientists battle over their pet theories about how life began on Earth.

Serious Men won the Hindu Best Fiction Award in 2010 and the 2011 PEN Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. It’s an unsettling comedy about inequalities in Indian society; it’s a portrait of a man doing his best for his family with unorthodox methods and unexpected results, and it’s a look at the romance and frustrations of scientific research.

Manu Joseph is a novelist and columnist.

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