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Ep#488: SCOTUS Summary and Trump's villains

Announcements: https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/ @1:37 https://www.reddit.com/r/StandUpForScience/s/8zQSflSxAJ Vote Against Federal Homeopathy Bill @12:47 Follow-ups: Wisconsin DOJ announces settlement in alleged multi-state scheme @15:08 FEMA official who claimed he teleported to Waffle House ousted @18:59 Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots @20:22 Bolton Pleads Guilty @20:54 News: SCOTUS SCOTUS Lifts Spending Limits on Political Parties and Candidates @28:03 Supreme Court Rejects Efforts to End Birthright Citizenship @28:40 Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration @34:24 Justices Expand Presidential Power Over Regulators, but not Fed @37:03 SCOTUS Contradictory Rulings Hinge On 1 Critical Element Supreme Court Upholds Grace Period to Count Mail-In Ballots @41:30 SCOTUS Rejects Trump’s Request to Appeal E. Jean Carroll Verdict @48:13 E. Jean Carroll asks judge to release $5 million Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Against Bayer @49:45 Supreme Court Overturns Hawaii Gun Law @54:06 SCOTUS Allows States to Bar Transgender Athletes From Girls' Sports @57:45 Politics: Senate Defeats War Powers Rebuke of President After Fiery Clash @1:00:12 Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board @1:03:15 Health/Medicine/Science: CDC’s chief blocked a covid vaccine study. Now it’s in a top medical journal @1:05:49 Religious Nonsense: Bible stories are approved as required reading in Texas public schools @1:07:08 Final Stories: A Book Offering ‘Biblical Proof That Trump Will Save America.’...Just 1 Catch @1:09:50 Tulsi Gabbard @1:12:26

Ep#487: A bleachy dutch oven

Follow-ups: President Delays Clayton’s Nomination to Pressure Congress on Voting Bill @1:54 Georgia Republicans Shelve Redistricting Amid Mounting Protests @3:18 News: Every Major Controversy Surrounding 'The Odyssey' @4:20 She Changed Her ID to Comply with Kansas’ New Anti-Trans Law @17:19 Trump Admin Installs Chain-Link Fencing, Surveillance Cameras at Reflecting Pool @21:46 Politics: Makerfield Mayor wins seat @29:58 Ukraine strikes Moscow @34:55 Trump Appointee Suggested Seizing Greenland to Help Out Red Lobster @37:32 Supreme Court sides with a Texas man @41:09 'We Are DONE': Marjorie Taylor Greene Quits Republican Party @45:27 Congress Clears Housing Bill @47:37 Senate Votes to Direct End to Iran War Health/Medicine/Science: Pete Hegseth’s reckless vaccine policy backfires with flu outbreak @51:45 Florida's vaccine mandate removal: What it means for public health @53:27 Tennessee Pharmacies Sell Potent Ivermectin @54:28 Cancer ‘Treatment’ Involves Gassing Naked People in Plastic Bags With Bleach @57:10 RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine @1:03:22 Autistic children being injected with unapproved stem cell treatments @1:04:16 RFK Jr under fire for ‘bullying’ letter to scientific journal @1:06:31 RFK Jr. Goes After Journal That Removed Vaccine Study Final Stories: Can using the sauna reduce risk for Alzheimer’s disease? @1:09:51

Ep#486: Smokey and the Bandit true stories

Announcements: Vermont: Federal School Voucher Scheme @1:13 Follow-ups: Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence After Bill Pulte @1:54 News: Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire @5:13 Inside the demise of USAID—and what comes next FBI searches offices of Ohio voting-rights group @7:23 Gavin Newsom Says Trump Is Investigating Him @9:41 Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams 'Traitor' Trump Over Epstein Files 'Cover Up' @12:56 USPS voting quandary @15:59 Obama says 'doubtful' that any Iran deal will be different than past @19:12z Info on deal @22:15 Workers dump hydrogen peroxide into reflecting pool to fight algae @26:59 Federal authorities investigate giant ‘8647’ markings on National Mall @32:53 Trump and thousands of others watch UFC fight on White House lawn @34:40 Politics: GOP Convention @47:00 Muslims at Texas GOP Convention told to leave party, country @48:24 How Kratom Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet @53:24 Health/Medicine/Science: Rising measles cases offer a dire warning @58:20 Only half of U.S. adults trust the CDC's public health recommendations @59:05 Pseudoscience: Astrologers on Trump's 80th Birthday @59:58 Final Stories: FBI terror plot @1:03:41

Ep#485: Knicks, Trump, and Campylobacteriosis

Announcements: NDT new book review @1:40 Follow-ups: News: Critics Hammer Trump For Jinxing Knicks @5:06 John Bolton Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty @21:50 U.S. Is Investigating George Santos Over Kalshi Betting @25:40 Out of Many, Some @29:45 Hundreds of Math Professors Ask UC to Bring Back SAT/ACT Requirements @33:50 Health/Medicine/Science: Recent quackwatch - aluminium adjuvants @38:16 Another - campylobacteriosis @40:28 MI school waivers @42:07 Trump calling for narrower childhood vaccine recommendations @44:50 Courts may deliver the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest win @51:23 RFK Jr. Appears Disengaged @52:38 Pseudoscience: Do Probiotic Supplements Work To Improve Gut Health? @54:43 Religious Nonsense: Why Listen to the Pope, Speaking as the Pope, on AI? @59:06 Washington archbishop removes exorcist @1:07:31 Internet Searches for Vitamin A During US Measles Outbreak @1:09:37 Final Stories: Another debunking of the history books story. @1:16:03

Ep#484: Trump setbacks and follies

Gay pride at the White House? @0:54 Rogan @2:52 Announcements: CFI and Secular Humanism articles @4:26 “The U.S.: Where It's Been, Where It Is, Where It Should Go.” American history was built on a foundation of Enlightenment. A disturbing call, popular among some on the Right, for a medieval-style authoritarian government “How Rock and Sex Affected the Increase in Nones,” “Secular Approaches to Moral Education: Building Character without Commandments.” Follow-ups: The Failure of Facilitated Communication @6:25 $1.776B fund paused? @8:17 Judge Orders President’s Name Off Kennedy Center @14:13 Freedom 250th @15:49 News: Hegseth misogynist and racist move @23:12 Trump appoints housing official as acting director of national intelligence @29:32 In U.F.O. Files, Some Christians See Vexing Questions — and Demons @31:24 Politics: South Carolina Senate Does Not Act on New Midterm Map, Defying Trump @34:22 Meanwhile in Alabama @35:04 Trump’s Two-Track Process to Establish Christian Nationalism @36:15 Americans want to rebuild the wall between church and state Health/Medicine/Science: Hanta Virus misinformation @39:24 The Ebola outbreak now third-largest on record and “spreading rapidly.” @40:48 US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak Trump HHS Chaos Is The Health Crisis: Public Health Project Newsletter @44:41 Pseudoscience: British wellness coach dies ‘after detox ceremony using Amazon frog poison’ @54:01 Right, Let’s Talk about AG1 @56:43 Freshpet Chews on Astrology @1:00:48