Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Opinion | Antisemitism Cracks Open on the New Right - The New York Times
… the term "America First," popular with the New Right and the older, Lindbergh right, has always been misleading. It actually means some Americans first or "real" Americans first, and "real" Americans do not include the ideological or religious enemies of the New Right...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Christian Now?! (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #505)
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Christian now. Good luck figuring out why. (1:50)
— A Christian singer, Bobbi Storm, disobeyed a flight attendant, sang on a plane, then acted like a victim. (26:32)
— A Florida church refused to rent space to a mom who conceived her kids through IVF. (36:08)
— A Christian dad claims his gay daughter's counselor interfered with their anti-gay bigotry. (45:45)
— A West Virginia prison finally released an atheist inmate denied parole for refusing to profess Christianity. (1:07:52)
— Federal judge: Atheist parolee jailed for rejecting Bible study can seek financial damages. (1:15:09)
— Let’s discuss a bizarre hypothetical question involving a skydiving Christian baby. (1:19:50)
Interview:
— A Christian singer, Bobbi Storm, disobeyed a flight attendant, sang on a plane, then acted like a victim. (26:32)
— A Florida church refused to rent space to a mom who conceived her kids through IVF. (36:08)
— A Christian dad claims his gay daughter's counselor interfered with their anti-gay bigotry. (45:45)
— A West Virginia prison finally released an atheist inmate denied parole for refusing to profess Christianity. (1:07:52)
— Federal judge: Atheist parolee jailed for rejecting Bible study can seek financial damages. (1:15:09)
— Let’s discuss a bizarre hypothetical question involving a skydiving Christian baby. (1:19:50)
Interview:
Monday, November 20, 2023
The News Roundup – Domestic and International (The 1A) 2023-11-17
Domestic
It’s been a busy week for the GOP in Congress. Lawmakers managed to avoid another government shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s grace period in his new role seems to be over. Some 19 House Republicans didn’t vote for the bill, putting the Louisiana representative on notice that he may not always be able to count on them when it comes time to vote.New polling indicates that there’s a significant gap in politician rhetoric and public sentiment on Israel’s war on Gaza. A growing number of Americans believe that the IDF has gone too far and hurt too many innocents in its efforts to fight Hamas.
After several scandals have dimmed the institution’s reputation in the eyes of the public, the Supreme Court has adopted its first code of ethics. However, analysts are skeptical if it will make much of a difference.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/mike-johnson-israel-gaza/
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year at a summit in San Francisco. The two leaders spent time together as after many months of tensions between the two nations.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired controversial home secretary this week and brought in former Prime Minister David Cameron as foreign minister.
International
Israeli military strikes on the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City continued this week, as they focus in on what the IDF claim are Hamas operation centers in medical facilities. Palestinians working in Gaza’s main hospital are burying their dead in a mass grave.US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time in a year at a summit in San Francisco. The two leaders spent time together as after many months of tensions between the two nations.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired controversial home secretary this week and brought in former Prime Minister David Cameron as foreign minister.
Interview:
Overcooked Ham in Trump's many court cases (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #51)
It’s been one year since Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump for the willful retention of classified documents, and the crimes surrounding the attempted coup. This week 
- we take a look at new reporting about the meeting where Trump’s lawyers tried to convince DoJ not to indict.
- New motions and responses to the request for the DC trial to be televised.
- The DC Circuit Court temporarily lifts Trump’s gag order.
- Judge Cannon continues to add delays to the proceedings in Florida.
- Plus, we have some great listener questions.
Interview:
Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence | Catholicism | The Guardian
Michael Zacharias, 56, received concurrent, maximum life sentences for counts of sex trafficking a minor and sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion. He received concurrent 20-year sentences for two counts of sex trafficking of an adult by force, fraud or coercion, and one of similarly trafficking a minor...
Vulgarities, insults, baseless attacks: Trump backers follow his lead - The Washington Post
"We're Christians, and we can look past that," Carpenter said. "We see the good that he did our country when he was in." Asked what she thought of GOP rivals arguing they could deliver Trump-like policies without the baggage, she said: "They're weaker than him."…
Jen Castle, the national director of abortion services for Planned Parenthood (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
This week we announce a Triumphant Trifecta of legal victories, ending high-school proselytizing in West Virginia, eliminating a religious test for public office in New Jersey, and stopping $1.5 million of South Carolina state funds from going to a religious school. Then we hear Jen Castle, the national director of abortion services for Planned Parenthood, deliver an impassioned speech in acceptance of FFRF's "Freedom From Religious Fundamentalism" award.
Interview:
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Mike Johnson to publicly release 44,000 hours of sensitive January 6 footage
The move by Johnson will grant the general public a stunning level of access to sensitive and explicit January 6 security footage, which many critics have warned could endanger the safety of staff and Congressmembers in the Capitol complex if it gets into the wrong hands. The hours of footage detail not only the shocking assault rioters made on US Capitol police as they breached the building but also how the rioters accessed the building and the routes lawmakers used to flee to safety...
Dallas lives with JFK legacy – but hate that spawned assassination simmers
In Dallas, the buckle on the Bible belt, the hostility was a toxic mix of racism, anti-communism and religious bigotry aimed at America's first Catholic president – some feared that Kennedy was being controlled by the pope. Extremist groups such as the John Birch Society and the Minutemen were small but vociferous.
Mike Rawlings, a Democrat who was mayor of Dallas from 2011 to 2019, said: "There was definitely a very conservative bent. The John Birchers were the worst of it but still there was a lot of folks that were that way. It was the Tea Party and Maga [Make America great again] before the Tea Party and Maga."…
Texas: Republican-controlled school board votes against climate textbooks
Republican board member condemns photos in some textbooks for being unfairly critical of oil and gas industry…
Video doesn’t show President Joe Biden falling down plane stairs in Poland - PolitiFact
We don't know who the person in the video is, but it's not Biden. News footage of Biden arriving in Poland shows him descending the stairs without incident. He first appears at the 6:15 mark of this livestream posted on Facebook by ABC News...
Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions about a gendered division of labor in prehistoric times
The myth that female reproductive capabilities somehow render them incapable of gathering any food products beyond those that cannot run away does more than just underestimate Paleolithic women. It feeds into narratives that the contemporary social roles of women and men are inherent and define our evolution.
Our Paleolithic ancestors lived in a world where everyone in the band pulled their own weight, performing multiple tasks. It was not a utopia, but it was not a patriarchy...
Suggesting that the female body is only designed to gather plants ignores female physiology and the archaeological record. To ignore the evidence perpetuates a myth that only serves to bolster existing power structures.
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