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#1044 - Nick Shirley - Inside Minnesota's $10B Childcare Fraud Scandal

Nick Shirley is a YouTuber, content creator, and investigative journalist. In just a few weeks, Nick Shirley has gone from relative obscurity to the center of one of the largest political fraud scandals in recent history. By uncovering tens of millions of dollars in alleged fraud in Minnesota, his work has forced immediate reactions from both state and federal officials, something no journalist has accomplished this fast before. So what’s behind this fraud scandal, and how deep does the corru...

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487. Is Starmer Rethinking His Approach to Europe? (Question Time)

What do Keir Starmer’s comments on 'closer alignment' with the EU single market actually mean? After the Bondi terror attack, how can a centrist government respond to national trauma without fuelling culture wars? And, according to teens, how seriously should we be taking AI? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more. The Rest Is Politics is The Rest Is Politics is .com/politics⁠ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected]

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Geopolitics

China Vs USA: Who Will Win the AI Race?

Who really controls AI; governments, corporations, or no one at all? Is AI becoming a new kind of global arms race? And, can we keep humans in charge of systems that move faster than we do? Rory and Matt are joined by President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. Tino is a former justice on the Supreme Court of California, an executive appointee to the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations and a Professor of Law at Stanford University. To listen t...

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Should Donald Trump 'Make Iran Great Again'?

"Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS. . HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA." It was a characteristically Trumpian post from the American president on Truth Social (where else?) today which led to more fevered speculation that the US might be about to step in to topple the Iranian regime. Protests across Iran are into their third week, and evidence of the slaughter of Iranian civilians is becoming clearer and clearer. One Iranian official told Reuters that some 2,000 protesto...

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Is ICE acting like America's 'Gestapo'?

The images coming out of Minneapolis since the killing of Renee Good are nothing short of dystopian. Day after day, Minnesotans dragged from their vehicles, off the streets, and out of their houses. Often, seemingly, for the crime of nothing other than their ethnicity. Donald Trump took to Truth Social yesterday to tell Minnesota: "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!". ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are flooding the streets with personnel. Joe Rogan has compared their t...

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Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’

The shocking events of January have sent a message: America works differently now. M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist and the author of books about living under autocracy, including the National Book Award-winning “The Future Is History.” They have been a clear, relentless and perceptive voice on what it means and what it is like to live in a country that is turning into a different kind of regime. And they wrote an essay this week on the seizure of the president of Venezuela, calling it,...

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Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?

State Representative James Talarico of Texas might have been our most requested guest last year. And he seemed to come out of nowhere. Talarico started breaking through with viral videos on TikTok and Instagram. And in those videos, he didn’t sound like your typical Democrat. He’s forthrightly Christian, quoting Scripture to defend progressive positions and challenging Christian nationalism on Christian grounds. And he is now running for Senate in Texas — in a primary field that includes U.S....

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Business

How to Build Popular Podcasts and Blogs

Many of you have asked me about strategies for building a popular blog and podcast. I've covered some aspects of growing a podcast in a previous post, and then Mari Takahashi (@atomicmari) — a successful ballerina, gamer, and content creator — sent me some very good questions that I haven't discussed before. This episode goes into detail about how I've built The Tim Ferriss Show into a podcast that has almost 300 million downloads, and how my blog receives between three and four million uniqu...

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Technology

Bob Metcalfe — The Man (and Lessons) Behind Ethernet, Metcalfe's Law, and More

Bob Metcalfe (@BobMetcalfe) is an MIT-Harvard-trained engineer-entrepreneur who became an Internet pioneer in 1970, invented Ethernet in 1973, and founded 3Com Corporation in 1979. About 1.2B Ethernet ports were shipped last year — 400M wired and 800M wireless (Wi-Fi). 3Com went public in 1984, peaked at $5.7B in annual sales in 1999, and after 30 years became part of HP last year. Bob was a publisher-pundit for IDG-InfoWorld for about 10 years and a venture capitalist for about 10 years with...

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