It’s a new trend: GOP legislatures are advancing bills that place onerous new kinds of restrictions on public and school libraries in states like Idaho, Alabama, Georgia and others. On the front lines of taking on this trend is Emily Drabinski, the president of the American Library Association, who also grew up in Idaho and is openly gay. So we invited Drabinski on to the show to shed light on what it takes to battle the book banners targeting LGBTQ materials in states like her own, and what sort of toll this is taking on communities across the country.
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The Sunday Read: ‘What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living’
A Smart Bear
• Jason Cohen
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness
How to tell the difference between a truly great startup idea, and people saying "Sure, sounds good" when they really mean "No, I'm not buying."
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Rethinking how to clean and style your home
Guy Kawasaki on Masters of Scale: Evangelizing Innovation
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The Campaign Moment: The MAGA purge of the GOP
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An Engineering Experiment to Cool the Earth
"The must read of the decade" - exposing Trump's 2025 takeover blueprint
Joe and Alex discuss a bombshell New York Times piece from our friend Tom Edsall on just how deep the Trump dark money apparatus goes -- over 100 groups, $2 billion in funding... and very little of it out in the open. Why Project 2025 is a blueprint for turning America into a pro-Trump authoritarian state. What are we supposed to do about it? Then, Joe and Alex explain why right-wing pollsters have the media trapped in a false polling narrative -- why is the mainstream media so obsessed with pro-Trump polling?
Read Tom Edsall's piece in the New York Times here: https://nyti.ms/3VNI27C
Watch Jonathan Last's pod here: https://youtu.be/q1YN8ji-c-0?si=WozHfTZwtslpF3EC
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Why Trump’s Sordid New Dealings With Saudis Have Jamie Raskin Alarmed
This week, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump recently spoke privately with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Trump’s team won’t say word boo about what was discussed, and we can guess why: His private business dealings with the Saudis are going gangbusters even as he’s locking up the GOP presidential nomination, creating all kinds of opportunities for corruption. We talked to Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who explained why the Trump-Saudi relationship is absolutely crying out for serious scrutiny.
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BIDEN 52 TRUMP 48 - 4.5.24
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How Kenny Meyers uses Buttondown to market comics software.
Kenny Meyers uses Buttondown to market his comics software and support the comic community.
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What makes 2024's total solar eclipse so special
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Israel’s Deadly Airstrike on the World Central Kitchen
How Judge Cannon Is Quietly Strangling Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump
This week, special counsel Jack Smith made a surprise move in his prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents. He called on Judge Aileen Cannon to make a quick decision on a key matter, flaunting his frustration with her over numerous rulings putting the thumb on the scale for Trump. We chatted with Philip Rotner, a veteran lawyer who has written a series of pieces for The Bulwark arguing that Cannon is killing the case against Trump right in broad daylight. Rotner explains in unsettling terms why her interventions for Trump are likely to get uglier.
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TRUMP LIED ABOUT TALKING TO THE GARCIA FAMILY. OR HALLUCINATED IT - 4.4.24
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March Madness, Mulkey, and no men
Gerry Lopez: Surfing Icon on Mastering Waves and Life
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
• L. Jeffrey Zeldman
The More Things Change… (or: What’s in a Job Title?)
I’m designing for the web. The infinitely flexible web.
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The Accidental Tax Cutter in Chief
Trump’s Sick Vow to Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters Just Got Even Uglier
One of Donald Trump’s central campaign promises has been to pardon untold numbers of rioters who attacked the Capitol—people he’s described as martyrs, victims and “hostages.” Now, an important new analysis finds that many of the inmates Trump has referred to are ones who violently attacked law enforcement officers. We talked to Tom Joscelyn, lead author of that analysis and a former senior Jan. 6 committee staffer, who explains how his findings blow apart a lot of Trump-MAGA propaganda about that dark and terrible day.
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