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Clare Malone, staff writer at The New Yorker covering politics, previews the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first of two confirmation hearings as President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Then, Ian Ward, reporter at POLITICO, where he covers the conservative movement and the American right for POLITICO Magazine, discusses the confirmation hearing of Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary nominee and her priorities for USDA.

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Peter Beinart, journalist, commentator, author of the Substack newsletter 'The Beinart Notebook', professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf, 2025), talks about his new book on calling for 'a reckoning' for  the state of Israel.

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Listeners tell us how their relationships with the social media platforms have changed in this second Trump era.

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Lovely clouds, a nice sunset, and a moment of peace after a full rainy day. I needed that.

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The nation’s largest health care union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers, is in the midst of a succession battle to unseat its long term president. Maya Kaufman, health care reporter for POLITICO New York in New York City, explains what's the driver behind the battle and what New Yorkers stand to gain, and lose, depending on the outcome.

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Today we have the final episode of Core Intuition. 16 years. 626 episodes. Thanks for listening and thanks @danielpunkass for recording the show with me!

Taking a short break from support email and questions to edit the latest Core Intuition. If you have ever listened to our podcast before and liked it, you will probably want to hear this one. (How’s that for hyping it up?)

Could what happened to Twitter, happen there? To determine, ask yourself if you could continue to use it if it was acquired by a billionaire for their own personal political use? What would you switch to? Would you have to give up your history and followers? And developers, ...

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of alleged sexual harassment, and a fictional portrayal of domestic violence. Over the last few weeks, the Hollywood stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have gone to battle over exactly what happened during the making and promoti...

Already, Donald Trump is “disappointed” about the pace of deportations under his presidency, The Washington Post reports. Trump officials have instructed ICE to aggressively ramp up the daily arrests to assuage his anger, even setting quotas and threatening discipl...

The Chinese AI upstart has rattled Silicon Valley — but how much the game has changed remains to be seen

Simple AA test on index page to test end-to-end flag logic

Micro Social is looking really good! Upcoming app for Micro.blog from @gregmorris.

Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies.

Over the weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials received instructions from the White House to ramp up deportations, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200. This came after President Donald Trump expressed disappointment with the results of his mass...

If I was on social media I’d probably post this link there but I am not and so I’m posting it here. Ajazz has put together a nice resource called “Unplatform” which is, in their words, an interactive guidebook, online library, and research journal intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web. As you know, I’m a big fan of owning your own space and so I love to see this type of projects.

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Jill Colvin, national political reporter for The Associated Press, talks about the latest national political news, including  the ICE raids in Chicago and Dallas, the freeze on foreign aid and on immigration support funding.

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Joe Biden called himself "the most pro-labor President in American history," and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was key to his enforcement efforts. As an administration with a much different posture on labor shapes up, Dan Kaufman, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018),  looks back through a century of the NLRB and NLRA.

=>"What Labor Could Lose" (The New York Review of Books, 1/19/25)

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Stephen Nessen, transportation reporter for the WNYC Newsroom, and Clayton Guse, WNYC/Gothamist editor on the NYC Accountability desk, talk about a new Gothamist series "State of Collapse" and the latest transportation news.

 

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I came across this Lego diorama of a head (bathroom) in boot camp. It's a reproduction of the final boot camp scene from the movie, Full Metal Jacket.  When I shared this image with friends, they were amazed that the heads were actually arranged like this. Yes, we...