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The Gist - Realign for Palestine

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, founder of Realign for Palestine and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, joins to discuss his effort to reframe Palestinian advocacy around coexistence and accountability. He critiques both Hamas and Israel, pushes for reform within the diaspora, and draws a sharp ideological comparison between Hamas and ISIS. Plus, a defense of the “beneficent billionaires,” spotlighting Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg for their under appreciated life-saving philanthropy—including tens of thousands of lives saved from drowning. Produced by Corey Wara
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WSJ Minute Briefing - Bitcoin Extends Its Rally, Trading Close to $112,000

Plus: MNTN and Hinge Health rise post-IPO. Advance Auto Parts shares soar on better-than-expected quarterly results. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares jump after President Trump teases taking the mortgage giants public. Ariana Aspuru hosts.


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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Kash Patel Shuts Down the Deep State’s Nerve Center

Symbolically, the closure speaks volumes.


Victor Davis Hanson walks us through the troubling legacy left behind at the FBI HQ on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”


“ Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, was the head of the Special Counsel's Office. Remember that? And he had the dream team—the all-stars, a hunter/killer team—with the Left. He was almost giddy about that they were gonna get Donald Trump on Russian collusion. 


“ That same office then gave us Christopher Wray. Why was he spying on parents at school board meetings? Why was he spying on what they called ‘radical-traditional Catholics’? Why did they go after abortion protesters, but not in the same way people who were protesting pro-life?”


0:00 Kash Patel Shuts Down the J. Edgar Hoover Building

0:17 The Controversial History of the FBI Headquarters

1:07 Kash Patel's Decision and Its Implications

2:17 The Mueller Investigation and Its Fallout

3:12 James Comey's Controversial Tenure

5:09 Christopher Wray and the FBI's Recent Actions

6:26 Closing Thoughts on the FBI's Washington Office

6:45 Conclusion


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WSJ What’s News - What’s in President Trump’s Tax Bill as it Heads to the Senate

P.M. Edition for May 22. The House passed President Trump’s sprawling tax-and-spending bill, after some last-minute changes this morning united Republican holdouts. WSJ tax policy reporter Richard Rubin talks about what made it into the bill, and what happens next. Plus, the Trump administration has blocked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students. And U.S. antitrust enforcers argue that large institutional investors who own shares in rival companies may be violating antitrust laws. Dave Michaels, who covers corporate law enforcement, joins to discuss what this could mean for those big institutional investors. Alex Ossola hosts.


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Divided Argument - Gorsuch Genie

We're joined by NYU law professor Rachel Barkow to talk about her new book Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. Listen to learn about five (or six) Supreme Court cases that arguably ignored the original meaning of the Constitution to enable our current policing and punishment practices. Along the way, a hypothetical genie offers Professor Barkow a very tough tradeoff.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - The Spider-Verse Swings Into Chicago

Look out! Here comes Spider-Man – along with his villains and other well-known Spider-Verse characters. It’s all part of a new immersive exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. It brings together a collection of artifacts, iconic moments from every era, and wall-to-wall artwork from Spider-Man’s first comic book appearance in 1962. Reset learns more about the superhero’s evolution and what the exhibition offers with Voula Saridakis, MSI’s head curator. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Motley Fool Money - Nike’s Turnaround Story

Turnarounds take longer than investors like to imagine.


(00:21) Jim Gillies and Ricky Mulvey discuss:

- Nike’s return to Amazon.

- The fundamentals and risks of investing in turnaround stories.

- A fitness company with a potentially brighter future.


Then, Motley Fool CIO, Andy Cross, and Senior Analyst, Asit Sharma, interview PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel about trends in digital advertising and his company’s future.


Members of any Motley Fool service can access the whole conversation here: https://www.fool.com/premium/4056/coverage/2025/05/15/pubmatic-ceo-rajeev-goel-interview?_gl=1*wfzp4p*_gcl_au*MTE4NzAwNDAyMS4xNzQ3OTM0ODk3*_ga*MzY5MTIzMDUyLjE3NDc5MjMyNTM.*_ga_B6G4KMLCV0*czE3NDc5MzQ4OTckbzMkZzEkdDE3NDc5MzkzODQkajU1JGwxJGgzMjk1NDE2NDEkZEpJOEZWXzVabC1XWnV6ZHBicHZxZ0pmcXBubWdVRElrcmc.


Companies discussed: NKE, CMG, UHC, BA, PTON, PUBM


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Jim Gillies, Andy Cross, Asit Sharma, Rajeev Goel

Producer: Mary Long

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The Journal. - Eggs Are Still Expensive. Is This Company to Blame?

Some consumers and lawmakers upset over high egg prices believe they’ve found a villain: Cal-Maine. The little-known company produces one out of every five eggs sold in the U.S. And in the midst of a national egg shortage and a bird flu epidemic, Cal-Maine has been raking in the profits. But are the accusations against Cal-Maine fair? WSJ’s Patrick Thomas investigates. Annie Minoff hosts.

 

Further Listening:

-An Eggspensive Dilemma 

-Bird Flu and the High Price of Eggs

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Science In Action - WHO Pandemic Agreement reached

This week, 124 countries agreed at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on measures aimed at preventing a future pandemic. The agreement very strongly favours a “One Health” approach, appreciating how so many potential pathogens originate in human-animal interactions. Still to agree on the terms of how to share pathogens and information with global science and vaccine researchers, eventually the treaty will need to be signed by at least 60 countries. But can the inequity between countries of the global south and north, and issues of intellectual property, be bridged?

A new study on origins of the Nigerian mpox epidemic points strongly to zoonotic crossovers and mobility of wildlife in West Africa. Edyth Parker of Redeemer’s University in Nigeria describes their phylogenetic tree.

Can the bovine form of H5N1 flu infect pigs, and could domestic pig populations then provide a crucible for further variants to develop? Jürgen Richt of Kansas State University and colleagues have been investigating. We need to keep up vigilance.

Lucy van Dorp of University College London, working with a consortium including London’s Crick Institute, has been looking at a moment in the past when human activity provided an opportunity for a bacterial human pathogen to change its lifestyle. According to their phylogenetic tree, the bacterium Borrelia recurrentis (which causes louse-borne relapsing fever in humans) adapted and moved from ticks to human body lice around about the same time as humans started using woollen clothing.

And Susan Lieberman, VP for International Policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society, was in the trenches of the Pandemic Agreement negotiations, and shares some of her hopes for its success.

Image: World Health Assembly formally adopts by consensus world's first Pandemic Agreement, Geneva, Switzerland - 20 May 2025 Image Credit: Magali Girardin via EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield

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Bad Faith - Episode 476 – The Forgotten History of Jewish Anti-Zionism (w/ Zachary Foster)

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Historian and founder of Palestine Nexus, an educational resource on Palestine, Zachary Foster joins Bad Faith to break down his viral article on the forgotten history of Jewish anti-zionism. By forensically examining the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, he disrupts mythology used to justify Israeli oppression of Palestinians in the present. Also, he weighs in on the recent shift in mainstream media coverage of Palestine, a new willingness to acknowledge the ongoing siege and starvation campaign, and what, if anything, it means for the fate of Palestinians.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).