Daily-Dose

Contents

• From New Yorker
• From Vox
• From The Hindu: Sports
• From The Hindu: National News
• From BBC: Europe
• From Ars Technica
• From Jokes Subreddit

From New Yorker

• Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomas’s “Stop the Steal” Texts - Several experts say that Thomas’s husband, the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, must recuse himself from any case related to the 2020 election. - link

• The Day Foreign Journalists Felt Forced to Leave Moscow - After a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry, dozens of outlets moved their reporters out of the country. - link

• The Biden Official Who Pierced Putin’s “Sanction-Proof” Economy - In the run-up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daleep Singh, a national-security adviser, searched for areas where “our strengths intersect with Russian vulnerability.” - link

• Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer” - The author reads his story from the April 11, 2022, issue of the magazine. - link

• The Ukrainian and Russian Chefs Cooking for Ukraine - Olia Hercules’s family is stuck in a Russian-controlled city in Ukraine. Alissa Timoshkina’s friends are fleeing Moscow. Recently, they began a campaign to raise money for the war effort through their recipes. - link

From Vox

• Today, Explained, Vox’s Flagship Daily News Podcast, Debuts on Public Radio Through Partnership with WNYC Studios -

  

  Beginning today, the award- winning explainer show hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will air on local public radio stations including Philadelphia’s WHYY, Oregon Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, Cincinnati Public Radio, New Orleans Public Radio, Baton Rouge’s WRKF, and more. 

  Vox’s flagship daily news podcast Today, Explained is making its debut on public radio today via a distribution partnership with WNYC Studios. Marking Vox Media’s first major foray into terrestrial radio, the partnership will bring Vox’s signature explanatory journalism to the public radio ecosystem with more than 50 public radio stations across the country airing the show at launch (with more expected to join in the coming months), including Philadelphia’s WHYY, Oregon Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, Cincinnati Public Radio, New Orleans Public Radio, Baton Rouge’s WRKF, and more (full station listing below). Hosted by WNYC and NPR alums Sean Rameswaram and Noel King, Today, Explained empowers audiences to understand the world around them, each day breaking down a single news story or cultural phenomenon in an approachable, inspiring, and helpful way. The radio edition will continue this mission, shepherding public radio listeners through politics and policy, business, pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters.

  “Broadcasting this podcast on public radio stations across the country has been a dream of mine since we launched back in early 2018,” says Rameswaram, who joined Vox after holding roles at WNYC Studios’ Radiolab, WNYC and PRI’s Studio 360, and more, and co-created Today, Explained. “From the jump, the show has tackled the news by interrogating all perspectives and angles while appealing to the broadest audience imaginable. We champion journalism from our colleagues at Vox Media, but also local papers, member stations, well known entities, and international outlets that fly under the radar. Sharing our work with public radio stations is the ultimate fulfillment of our mission to help as many listeners as possible understand the news.”

  “I am thrilled to be returning to public radio stations across the country with Today, Explained,” says King, who joined Vox earlier this year after serving as a host of NPR’s Morning Edition and Up First, and previously as a producer on WNYC’s The Takeaway. “Public radio airwaves are a valuable, limited resource, and for stations to choose our show is both an honor and a testament to the work our team does every day. I’m so glad we’re finding a home in the public media ecosystem that we have known and loved since the start of our careers.”

  Though the list will continue to grow, the networks carrying Today, Explained as of today includes (the full list of stations is available here):

  • WEVO / New Hampshire Public Radio (Concord, NH)
  • WITF (Harrisburg, PA)
  • WVPS / Vermont Public Radio (Burlington)
  • WVXU / Cincinnati Public Radio (Cincinnati)
  • WHYY (Philadelphia)
  • WRKF (Baton Rouge, LA)
  • WWNO / New Orleans Public Radio (New Orleans)
  • WCBU (Peoria, IL)
  • WGLT (Normal, IL)
  • KOPB / Oregon Public Broadcasting (Portland)
  • WUOM / Michigan Radio (Ann Arbor)
  • WUFT (Gainesville, FL)
  • WLPR / Lakeshore Public Media (Lowell, IN)

  About WNYC Studios

  WNYC Studios is the premier producer of on-demand and broadcast audio, and home to some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and popular podcasts, including Radiolab, On the Media, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Death, Sex & Money, Dolly Parton’s America, The Experiment, and The United States of Anxiety. WNYC Studios is leading the new golden age in audio with podcasts and national radio programs that inform, inspire, and delight millions of curious and highly engaged listeners across digital, mobile, and broadcast platforms. Programs include personal narratives, deep journalism, revealing interviews, and smart entertainment as varied and intimate as the human voice itself. For more information, visit wnyc studios.org.

  About Vox Media Podcast Network

  Named by Adweek as 2021’s “Hottest in Podcasts,” Vox Media Podcast Network has over 150 active shows featuring industry-leading editorial voices and storytellers from Vox Media’s networks and beyond. From daily news and tech to culture and sports, and talk and interview shows to news and rich narrative storytelling, the Vox Media Podcast Network is one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most topically diverse collections of premium podcasts. Learn more about the Vox Media Podcast Network here.

  About Vox Media

  Vox Media is the leading modern media company, reaching audiences everywhere they are. Known for editorial properties including Vox, SB Nation, New York Magazine, The Dodo, and NowThis, the company’s portfolio features the most relevant, respected, and engaging editorial properties and voices. The company is also home to award-winning storytelling businesses such as Vox Media Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network, as well as innovative technologies that support the entire media industry, including the Concert advertising marketplace. Vox Media proves that quality can scale.

• How to listen to Today, Explained on the radio -

  

  Vox’s daily news podcast is now available on public radio stations across the US.

  Beginning April 4, you can listen to Today, Explained on many local public radio stations across the US, with more added regularly. That’s because we’re partnering with WNYC to bring our daily news podcast to stations from New Hampshire to Portland and many regions in between.

  Don’t worry, we’re still dropping episodes Monday through Friday on your favorite podcast platforms. We’re just giving you one more way to listen to the show, say, while driving through Michigan en route to a long-overdue vacation or in between celebrations at Mardi Gras.

  Listeners in earshot of these stations and radio networks can tune in as follows.

  WEVO/New Hampshire Public Radio

  WITF, Harrisburg, PA

  WVPS/Vermont Public Radio

  WVXU/Cincinnati Public Radio

WHYY, Philadelphia, PA

WRKF, Baton Rouge Public Radio

WWNO/New Orleans Public Radio

WCBU, Peoria, IL

WGLT, Normal, IL

KOPB/Oregon Public Broadcasting

WUOM/Michigan Radio

WUFT, Gainesville, FL

WLPR/Lakeshore Public Media

Why are we taking Today, Explained to the radio?

Not everyone is a podcast listener (yet), and we want to reach as wide an audience as possible. By partnering with local public radio stations, we’re aligning with journalists who share our mission to empower people with the information and insight they need to understand the world and communities in which they live.

Is anything changing about the show? Will we still get songs?!

Today, Explained is always evolving, and we don’t want to rest on our laurels — all 1,000+ episodes of them. We’ve continued to update the show over the past four years, most recently adding Noel King as our newest host. That change allows us to plan even more ambitious series and field reporting from Sean Rameswaram, Noel, and the entire Today, Explained team.

That said, the spirit of the show will remain unchanged. Every day, the show will help our listeners by diving deep to explain one story or issue.

And, yes, there will always be original songs.

Questions about how to listen or want to recommend we consider your city for radio play? Email us at todayexplained@vox.com.

• Vox’s Future Perfect Thinks Ahead on How to Pandemic-Proof the World -

  

  What can we do now to prepare for the next pandemic?

  As we enter year three of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s evident that the world, and the US in particular, was not remotely prepared for a global health crisis. Even as we continue to navigate the current pandemic, the challenges we have faced make it abundantly clear that we must begin to look ahead. More than any other single existential threat, either natural or anthropogenic, a contagious and deadly infectious disease pandemic has the potential to truly derail humanity’s present — and its future. Over the next week, Vox’s Future Perfect will publish a series of stories that explain how we can fortify our pandemic defenses to meet the next crisis with speed and resilience. Vox’s Future Perfect covers the ideas and research that can make the future a better, more perfect place for everyone around the world.

  Contributors to the package include Dylan Matthews, on developing vaccines for the next pandemic now, and on how to test and trace a virus we haven’t discovered yet; Kelsey Piper, on why experts are afraid of a manufactured pandemic and how we can stop it; Sigal Samuel, on h​ow to future-proof your life from pandemics and other threats; Dylan Scott, on America’s need for more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic; Umair Irfan, on how to find the next pandemic virus; Muizz Akhtar, on how the sewer system can be a major line of defense; and Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg, on how 3D printing can help fight the next pandemic.

  Many of the solutions presented will take years to execute, and the goal of the package is to allow readers to understand what we can do now to make them a reality.

From The Hindu: Sports

• Spring Grove, Moonshot and Successor show out -

• ITF advances Davis Cup tie in September to avoid clash with Asian Games: AITA - The Davis Cup tie between India and Norway and that of nine other Asia nations, will now be held on September 14-15 while the ATF itself rescheduled the tennis event at Asian Games to September 18-24

• Four Australians in ICC's Most Valuable Team of Women's WC, no Indian makes cut - Australia skipper Meg Lanning was named captain, while her deputy Rachael Haynes and Beth Mooney were also picked in the team

• 1st Test | Bangladesh crashes to 53 after Maharaj takes seven wickets - South Africa raced to a 220-run victory in the first Test after Bangladesh crumbled in their chase of 274

• IPL 2022, RR vs RCB | With momentum on their side, Rajasthan faces RCB in battle of Royals -

From The Hindu: National News

• Vinay Mohan Kwatra appointed India's new Foreign Secretary: Government - He will succeed Harsh Vardhan Shringla who is retiring this month-end

• Association of University Teachers asks Governor to suspend Periyar varsity V-C, registrar - Teacher’s body alleges that the officials abused their authority

• IUML leader join CPI(M) in Kannur -

• IndiGo suspends some pilots over calls for mass sick leave on Tuesday - Pilots have been unhappy over continued pay cuts

• Pipe bursts during NH widening hit potable water supply - Residents call for better attention by KWA authorities

From BBC: Europe

• War in Ukraine: ‘My son hides bread, afraid there won’t be any food’ - For those escaping besieged Mariupol, the suffering is far from over, especially for their children.

• Ukraine war: Bucha street littered with burned-out tanks and corpses - A BBC team witnesses utter devastation in the town of Bucha, after Russian soldiers pulled out.

• Hungary election: PM Viktor Orban criticises Ukraine’s Zelensky as he wins vote - Near-complete results show Viktor Orban has won a fourth term in Hungary’s election by a landslide.

• Victory for Hungary’s Orban means a headache for the EU - EU hearts will sink as “illiberal democrat” Viktor Orban wins another term, Katya Adler writes.

• Ukraine war: Family’s bid to reach safety ends in tragedy - The father of 31-year-old Maksim Iovenko describes how his son and family ended up on a deadly stretch of highway outside Kyiv.

From Ars Technica

• NASA will make a second attempt to fuel its big rocket Monday [Updated] - “I would be really surprised, in a pleasant way, if the test went off without a hitch.” - link

• Comcast wanted man to pay $19,000 after falsely advertising service on his street - Comcast’s ordering website falsely stated that Internet service was available. - link

• 13th Doctor teams up with a pirate queen in Legend of the Sea Devils trailer - It’s the second of three specials counting down to Jodie Whittaker’s exit from series. - link

• Phasers locked: Paramount+ releases official trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - “Our mission: to chart the stars and push the boundaries of what is known.” - link

• Russia inches closer to its splinternet dream - New impetus for sovereign Internet after backlash from Russia’s war on Ukraine. - link

From Jokes Subreddit

• A father and son are hanging out in their living room watching TV -

  Suddenly the dad’s feet are cold and he asks the son to get him his slippers from upstairs.

  While upstairs the son sees two of his sister’s friends so he goes up to both of them and says, “My Dad told me to come up here and fuck both of you”.

  “you’re lying”, They say

  The son says he can prove it and calls down, “Dad, did you say both of them?”

  The father quickly replies, “what’s the point of fucking one”.

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• Two married buddies are out drinking one night, when one turns to the other and says.. -

  “You know, I don’t know what else to do. Whenever I go home after we’ve been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!”

  His buddy looks at him and says, “Well, you’re obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, rub my hands on my wife’s ass and say, ‘How about a blowjob?’ … and she’s always sound asleep.”

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• Bill Clinton dies and goes to hell -

  The devil awaits him. He says “Bill, don’t worry, it’s not as bad down here as they say. I let you pick your eternal punishment for yourself.”

  “What are my options?” Bill asks.

  So the devil shows him around.

  Behind the first door is Ronald Reagan. He’s chained up, and getting whipped by a bunch of little devils constantly. Bill declines.

  Behind the next door is JFK. He’s on a wheel, getting his bones broken, healed and broken again. Bill declines as well.

  Behind the third door is George Bush. He’s chained to the wall. At his knees is Monica Lewinsky, sucking him off. Bill says “great! I’ll take that one”

  The devil shouts into the room:”Alright Monica, you can leave now”

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• The nun and the Russian soldier. -

  A soldier ran up to a nun.

  Out of breath he asked, “Please, may I hide under your skirt, I’ll explain later.”

  The nun agreed.

  A moment later two military police ran up and asked:

  “Sister, have you seen a soldier?”

  The nun replied, “He went that way.”

  After the military police ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her
  skirt and said, “I can’t thank you enough, Sister. You see, I don’t want to
  go to Ukraine.”

  The nun said, “I understand completely.”

  The soldier added, “I hope I’m not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!”

  The nun replied, “If you had looked a little higher, you would’ve seen a
  great pair of balls too. I don’t want to go to Ukraine either.”

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• Brazilian Hell -

  A man dies and goes to hell…

  There, he finds that there is a different hell for each country.

  He goes to the German hell and asks,

  “What do they do there?”

  He is told: “First, they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day.”

  The man doesn’t like it, so he moves on and checks out the American hell, the Russian hell and hells of other countries.

  He finds that they’re all more or less the same as the German hell.

  Then he comes to the Brazilian hell and finds that there is a long queue of people waiting to get in.

  Amazed, he asks, “What do they do here?”

  He is told: “First, they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Brazilian devil comes in and beats you for the rest of the day.”

  “But that is exactly the same as all the other hells; so why are so many people waiting to get in here?” wonders the man.

  He is told, “Because the maintenance here is so bad that the electric chair does not work. Someone has stolen all the nails from the bed, and the Brazilian devil is a former government servant, so he just comes, signs the attendance register, and then goes to the canteen.”

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