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Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have made vastly different proposals to address the housing shortage. Harris says that her administration will provide incentives to get millions of homes built while helping first-time homebuyers with their down payments. Trump says that deporting large numbers of undocumented immigrants will free up more housing for Americans, an idea that has been widely debunked by economists.

Host Elahe Izadi speaks with housing reporter Rachel Siegel about why housing has become such a hot topic this election season, and whether either candidate's plans are feasible. 

Today’s show was produced by Sabby Robinson, with help from Bishop Sand. It was mixed by Sam Bair and edited by Peter Bresnan, with help from Lucy Perkins. Thanks to Sam Fortier and Mike Madden.

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Old and new energy capture in Texas.

As part of our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Michael Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University, editor emeritus of Dissent and the author of several books, including What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party (FSG, 2022) and American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Knopf, 2011), traces the history of socialism in America.

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My plan for not losing my mind as we head into election day:

1. Travel this week.
2. Watch basketball instead of the news.
3. Call voters on election day.

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On the road this week. Stopped for a quick lunch and coffee at 8th Street Coffee House in Wichita Falls.

We, the people who are alive right now, are the first people to create knowledge that we know in advance will be part of LLM databases. So far we've heard from the resisters, the ones who don't want any part of this. But what about people who want to create knowledge in the maximally useful form? Are there any howto's for this? A busy writer's guide to creating human knowledge after the introduction of functional AI?

Amy Freitag, president of the New York Community Trust, talks about the work of the trust, its centennial, the changing needs of New Yorkers, and how to participate in its future.

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Lucia Starbuck, political reporter and host of Purple Politics Nevada at KUNR Public Radio, talks about the issues animating voters in the swing state of Nevada, what the polls show about Trump and Harris's chances of winning the state, and the unique political dynamics at play.

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I started to read Ben Thompson's email newsletter Stratechery this morning, it was about Trump on Joe Rogan's podcast, which I didn't want to listen to. I was surprised to see it begins with the story of podcasting, which has my name in it, which was gratifying. A lot of peo...

I like that Michelle Obama spoke to men in her speech, but it could have been done in a way that enters the male brain easier. I know there shouldn't have to be an easy way in, because child-bearing isn't easy, but we need more men's votes to win this election. Pragmatically, bending over backwards, with love and acceptance, not blame and threats, makes it more likely they'll listen. All of us who need health care need to be heard and believed, and most important -- helped. Anyway, to the men reading this who are planning on voting for Trump, think about the women you care about, and how you would feel if they needed help to survive and because you voted for Trump, that help didn't arrive in time. Would you forgive yourself for voting not to restore equal care for women if it caused the death of a friend or family member you care about? It really is that serious.

Warning: this episode contains strong language. The presidential campaign is in its final week and one thing remains true: the election is probably going to come down to a handful of voters in a swing states. Jessica Cheung,  a producer for “The Daily,” and Jonathan Swa...

Over the weekend, Michelle Obama delivered an extraordinary speech that reminded us how catastrophic Donald Trump’s presidency was, harshly criticized his debased moral character, and asked why the press expects Kamala Harris to meet basic standards of public conduct that aren’t expected of Trump. Could this closing message win over the undecided voters who will decide the race? We talked to Reed Galen, a former GOP strategist who’s working to pull remaining fence-sitters away from Trump for his group Join the Union.us, about why Michelle Obama’s message might reach undecided women and how it puts the media to shame. Listen to this episode here.
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SERIES 3 EPISODE 58: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN As Kamala Harris's lead among Hispanic voters nearly triples in less than a month, one of Trump's preliminary speakers at his Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden attacks them. “These Latinos, they love making babies, too" s...

If the Washington Post already had their endorsement written when is it going to leak?

It appears Trump expects to lose.

The utter hypocrisy of Matt Mullenweg’s actions isn’t really unsurprising to anyone who has watched Automattic for the last decade or more but it is my final straw.

A source familiar with Sydney WordCamp's operations told The Register that volunteers saw the takedown request as a personal threat – as non-compliance with the request would have led to them being forced from the event's organizing team.

WordPress.org is Matt Mullenweg’s personal website [source link in article]. Matt is also the owner of our largest competitor, WooCommerce. The conflict of interest was always there, but in the weeks following WordCamp US 2024, Matt crossed several lines that make it crystal clear that he has no intentions of running WordPress.org as an open and fair platform.

Bluesky comes up in the latest ActivityPub newsletter update from Ghost:

Another cool thing that happened last week was that we enabled a bridge to BlueSky — an alternative decentralized social network which doesn’t use ActivityPub, but instead uses its own alternative protocol.

I was confused on my first reading of this. They’ve enabled Brid.gy, not built anything specific for Ghost. Also, I’m sorry this is so nitpicky, but no one in the fediverse seems to be able to spell Bluesky correctly.