Podcasts about Tiananmen Square

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orBQo7TcJY0 Caught between a suffocating marriage and a passionate affair, Anne Delbridge fights to find her own freedom, independence, and voiceamidst the turmoil surrounding the pro-democracy student uprising in Tiananmen Square, China. What movie have you seen the most times in your life? Hard to say. I've seen Casablanca quite a few times, and The Apartment. I tend to binge watch films that attract my attention for one reason or another. How long have you been working on this screenplay? When I first wrote it, it took me about a week to write the first 60 pages, and then about 4 months to write the next 30 because the script was taking me to a place I didn't really want it to go. When I finallystopped fighting it, I was able to finish the last act in about a week. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

This Vermont Conversation was originally published on May 15, 2024.Nicholas Kristof has been an eyewitness to some of the most iconic political and social transformations of modern times. As a reporter and columnist for the New York Times for the last four decades, Kristof has been telling searing stories about revolutions, genocides, and the impact of global inequality. His work has garnered the top prizes in journalism, including two Pulitzer Prizes. The first was in 1990 for his coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests in China that he shared with his wife, reporter Sheryl WuDunn, the first Pulitzer awarded to a husband-wife team. They have also co-authored five books.Since 2001, Kristof has been a regular op-ed columnist for the Times. His powerful dispatches about the genocide in Darfur earned him a second Pulitzer in 2006. The former head of the International Rescue Committee said that Kristof's coverage saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Sudan. Kristof has now written a memoir, “Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life.” He tells the story of growing up on a sheep and cherry farm in rural Oregon, and then attending Harvard and Oxford. He continues to focus his reporting on human rights, global health, poverty and gender inequality. In 2021, Kristof left the Times to run for governor of Oregon, but his foray into politics was cut short a few months later when the Oregon Secretary of State ruled that as a result of living and working out of state for years, he did not meet residency requirements. He returned to his job as a columnist for the New York Times.Despite reporting from some of the world's grimmest places, Kristof remains stubbornly optimistic. “One thing you see on the front lines, that I've seen, is that there has been a real arc of both material and moral progress, and that has left a deep impression on me,” he said. “Side by side with the worst of humanity, you end up encountering the best.”Kristof has seen authoritarian regimes up close, only to come home to see authoritarianism creeping into American politics. Is he worried about the fate of democracy in the U.S.? “It's not a binary question, but a spectrum,” he replied. “I don't think that the U.S. will become North Korea or China or Russia. But could we become Hungary? Or could we become Poland under the previous government? I think absolutely. I worry about political violence … DOJ, the military could all be heavily politicized, civil service. I worry about all that. I don't think that I will be sentenced to Guantanamo. But could there be real impairment of democracy, of governance of freedoms? Absolutely. And I, you know, I've seen that in other countries.”Kristof continues to report on human rights abuses and repression, but he insists that he is guided by hope. “I think of despair as sometimes just paralyzing, while hope can be empowering.”

On Sunday, June 1st, 1980, Ted Turner pressed a button—and CNN went live, beaming 24/7 news into homes across America and changing the media landscape forever, while shrinking time and space forever. In this episode, we sent Julia Thompson to track down and interview people who were at CNN's Atlanta headquarters on day one. What follows is the story of a visionary who dared to build a 24-hour news network on a tight budget—in a world dominated by 30-minute broadcasts and networks spending over $100 million a year on their news. With his own money and a vow to stay on the air “until the world ends,” Ted Turner took on the giants. It's a modern-day David and Goliath tale—driven by technology, entertainment, risk, and pure tenacity. This is how CNN was born. This episode features interviews with: Richard Roth (CNN original. Covered Gulf War, Berlin Wall fall, Tiananmen Square protests, and more) John Huey (former Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief, Fortune Editor. WSJ journalist covering CNN's launch) Jack Lechner (TV/Film Producer. Professor. Multiple-Time Jeopardy! Winner) Steven Livingston (Author, The CNN Effect. Professor) Web Barr Listen to Hi Barr's newest podcast, Media Moguls with Web Barr on your favorite podcast app now. CREDITS 'You Had To Be There' is a Hi Barr production. Created by Hi Barr. 'CNN Launches the 24/7 News Cycle' was written and hosted by Julia Thompson. Produced by Julia Thompson and Web Barr. Edited by Julia Thompson. Edit, Sound Mix, and engineering by Vishal Nayak. Original score by Teeny Lieberson.   Artwork created by Dylan Lathrop. Special thanks to our parents, friends and chosen family. And most importantly, thank you to the artists who've inspired us because they had to do it. MORE FROM HI BARR Sign up to receive our newsletter. Follow us on Instagram and YouTube. For business inquiries, please email: contact@hibarrmedia.com. Were you at one of the events covered on the show? If so, we'd love to talk! Please get in touch via email and/or social media channels like Instagram or X. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

pWotD Episode 2875: 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 374,299 views on Sunday, 16 March 2025 our article of the day is 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.The protests were precipitated by the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political elite about the country's future. The reforms of the 1980s had led to a nascent market economy that benefited some people but seriously disadvantaged others, and the one-party political system also faced a challenge to its legitimacy. Common grievances at the time included inflation, corruption, limited preparedness of graduates for the new economy, and restrictions on political participation. Although they were highly disorganised and their goals varied, the students called for things like rollback of the removal of "iron rice bowl" jobs, greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. Workers' protests were generally focused on inflation and the erosion of welfare. These groups united around anti-corruption demands, adjusting economic policies, and protecting social security. At the height of the protests, about one million people assembled in the square.As the protests developed, the authorities responded with both conciliatory and hardline tactics, exposing deep divisions within the party leadership. By May, a student-led hunger strike galvanised support around the country for the demonstrators, and the protests spread to some 400 cities. On 20 May, the State Council declared martial law, and as many as 300,000 troops were mobilised to Beijing.After several weeks of standoffs and violent confrontations between the army and demonstrators left many on both sides severely injured, a meeting held among the CCP's top leadership on 1 June concluded with a decision to clear the square. The troops advanced into central parts of Beijing on the city's major thoroughfares in the early morning hours of 4 June and engaged in bloody clashes with demonstrators attempting to block them, in which many people – demonstrators, bystanders, and soldiers – were killed. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.The event had both short and long term consequences. Western countries imposed arms embargoes on China, and various Western media outlets labeled the crackdown a "massacre". In the aftermath of the protests, the Chinese government suppressed other protests around China, carried out mass arrests of protesters which catalysed Operation Yellowbird, strictly controlled coverage of the events in the domestic and foreign affiliated press, and demoted or purged officials it deemed sympathetic to the protests. The government also invested heavily into creating more effective police riot control units. More broadly, the suppression ended the political reforms begun in 1986 as well as the New Enlightenment movement, and halted the policies of liberalisation of the 1980s, which were only partly resumed after Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour in 1992. Considered a watershed event, reaction to the protests set limits on political expression in China that have lasted up to the present day. The events remain one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:39 UTC on Monday, 17 March 2025.For the full current version of the article, see 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Jasmine.

Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution. She uses her position as a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai to find books, has one friend she can trust, and is tormented by her older brother. After being involved in the violence of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, she loses hope in China and raises Lin, her daughter, to pursue a life in the West. Both Lemai and Lin suffer from unnamed mental anguish at various points in their life and are both haunted by the past. In Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Toronto, they grapple with people from their former lives, and Lin's attempts at erasing her Chinese identity nearly make her go mad. This is a passionate debut novel about the mother-daughter bond, Chinese cultural identity, and the struggles of being a foreigner in America. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer, born and raised in Shanghai. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire's Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest. Her plays have been performed in various festivals and theatres across Canada. More essays and fiction are forthcoming in the Toronto Star, Electric Literature, Hamilton Review of Books, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, 49th Shelf, etc. Su is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Canadian Authors Association. She devotes her interstices of time between writing and a full-time job to reading, playing the piano, nature walks, and wrestling with her children. Connect with her at https://www.instagram.com/suchangwrites/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Lemai never forgets the humiliation of her teachers and the burning of books during the Cultural Revolution. She uses her position as a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai to find books, has one friend she can trust, and is tormented by her older brother. After being involved in the violence of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, she loses hope in China and raises Lin, her daughter, to pursue a life in the West. Both Lemai and Lin suffer from unnamed mental anguish at various points in their life and are both haunted by the past. In Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Toronto, they grapple with people from their former lives, and Lin's attempts at erasing her Chinese identity nearly make her go mad. This is a passionate debut novel about the mother-daughter bond, Chinese cultural identity, and the struggles of being a foreigner in America. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer, born and raised in Shanghai. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire's Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest. Her plays have been performed in various festivals and theatres across Canada. More essays and fiction are forthcoming in the Toronto Star, Electric Literature, Hamilton Review of Books, Ex-Puritan, Open-Book, 49th Shelf, etc. Su is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and a member of the Writers' Union of Canada and the Canadian Authors Association. She devotes her interstices of time between writing and a full-time job to reading, playing the piano, nature walks, and wrestling with her children. Connect with her at https://www.instagram.com/suchangwrites/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff is joined by Dr. Mark Clifford who serves as President of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong and author of the book, “The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic.” They discuss Jimmy Lai's early life in China, his rise as a successful entrepreneur, and his eventual transition into media, where he became a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party. The discussion also covers the impact of the Tiananmen Square protests on Lai's activism, the role of his media outlets during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong, and the international response to his imprisonment.

*This podcast episode discusses trauma, which some listeners may find triggering. In 1989, tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, and the world watched in horror as a brutal moment in history unfolded. But for Philippa Smethurst, who was teaching in China at the time, the impact was more than headline – it was witnessed firsthand in the tear-streaked faces of her students, mourning friends and loved ones lost to the violence.Without realising it, Philippa became a lightning rod for their trauma. Decades later, as a psychotherapist, she continues to help people unpack the hidden wounds they carry. Because trauma isn't just a moment in time – it's something that can linger in our bodies, shaping the way we react, trust, and navigate the world.In our latest Career Interrupted podcast episode, Philippa shares powerful insights from her 30 years of experience, breaking down the ways trauma manifests – from fight, flight, freeze, and dissociation to trust issues and brain hijacking. What to listen out for:[01:28] Witnessing a watershed moment in history. [05:50] Dealing with micro traumas.[10:53] The trauma thermometer.[14:46] Develop a noticing brain.[19:38] The stale gingerbread man.  [26:50] Treat yourself as if you matter.What you'll take away from this episode:✔️ How to recognise trauma responses in yourself and others✔️ The lessons that can come out of dealing with trauma✔️ Practical steps to build resilience and reclaim controlPlus, Philippa shows off her fun visual tools to help you understand trauma in a whole new way (say hello to the ‘stale gingerbread man'!!!) You'll want to tune in for that alone!

4/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic  by  Mark L. Clifford  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989. 1930S

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1/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic  by  Mark L. Clifford  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989. 1925 HK

2/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic  by  Mark L. Clifford  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989. 1932 HONG KONG

3/4: The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic  by  Mark L. Clifford  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Troublemaker-Became-Billionaire-Greatest-Dissident/dp/1668027690 Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989 HONG KONG 1850 

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Holy moly, AI enthusiasts! Alex Volkov here, reporting live from the AI Engineer Summit in the heart of (touristy) Times Square, New York! This week has been an absolute whirlwind of announcements, from XAI's Grok 3 dropping like a bomb, to Figure robots learning to hand each other things, and even a little eval smack-talk between OpenAI and XAI. It's enough to make your head spin – but that's what ThursdAI is here for. We sift through the chaos and bring you the need-to-know, so you can stay on the cutting edge without having to, well, spend your entire life glued to X and Reddit.This week we had a very special live show with the Haize Labs folks, the ones I previously interviewed about their bijection attacks, discussing their open source judge evaluation library called Verdict. So grab your favorite caffeinated beverage, maybe do some stretches because your mind will be blown, and let's dive into the TL;DR of ThursdAI, February 20th, 2025!Participants* Alex Volkov: AI Evangelist with Weights and Biases* Nisten: AI Engineer and cohost* Akshay: AI Community Member* Nuo: Dev Advocate at 01AI* Nimit: Member of Technical Staff at Haize Labs* Leonard: Co-founder at Haize LabsOpen Source LLMsPerplexity's R1 7076: Censorship-Free DeepSeekPerplexity made a bold move this week, releasing R1 7076, a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek R1 specifically designed to remove what they (and many others) perceive as Chinese government censorship. The name itself, 1776, is a nod to American independence – a pretty clear statement! The core idea? Give users access to information on topics the CCP typically restricts, like Tiananmen Square and Taiwanese independence.Perplexity used human experts to identify around 300 sensitive topics and built a "censorship classifier" to train the bias out of the model. The impressive part? They claim to have done this without significantly impacting the model's performance on standard evals. As Nuo from 01AI pointed out on the show, though, he'd "actually prefer that they can actually disclose more of their details in terms of post training... Running the R1 model by itself, it's already very difficult and very expensive." He raises a good point – more transparency is always welcome! Still, it's a fascinating attempt to tackle a tricky problem, the problem which I always say we simply cannot avoid. You can check it out yourself on Hugging Face and read their blog post.Arc Institute & NVIDIA Unveil Evo 2: Genomics PowerhouseGet ready for some serious science, folks! Arc Institute and NVIDIA dropped Evo 2, a massive genomics model (40 billion parameters!) trained on a mind-boggling 9.3 trillion nucleotides. And it's fully open – two papers, weights, data, training, and inference codebases. We love to see it!Evo 2 uses the StripedHyena architecture to process huge genetic sequences (up to 1 million nucleotides!), allowing for analysis of complex genomic patterns. The practical applications? Predicting the effects of genetic mutations (super important for healthcare) and even designing entire genomes. I've been super excited about genomics models, and seeing these alternative architectures like StripedHyena getting used here is just icing on the cake. Check it out on X.ZeroBench: The "Impossible" Benchmark for VLLMsNeed more benchmarks? Always! A new benchmark called ZeroBench arrived, claiming to be the "impossible benchmark" for Vision Language Models (VLLMs). And guess what? All current top-of-the-line VLLMs get a big fat zero on it.One example they gave was a bunch of scattered letters, asking the model to "answer the question that is written in the shape of the star among the mess of letters." Honestly, even I struggled to see the star they were talking about. It highlights just how much further VLLMs need to go in terms of true visual understanding. (X, Page, Paper, HF)Hugging Face's Ultra Scale Playbook: Scaling UpFor those of you building massive models, Hugging Face released the Ultra Scale Playbook, a guide to building and scaling AI models on huge GPU clusters.They ran 4,000 scaling experiments on up to 512 GPUs (nothing close to Grok's 100,000, but still impressive!). If you're working in a lab and dreaming big, this is definitely a resource to check out. (HF).Big CO LLMs + APIsGrok 3: XAI's Big Swing new SOTA LLM! (and Maybe a Bug?)Monday evening, BOOM! While some of us were enjoying President's Day, the XAI team dropped Grok 3. They announced it with a setting very similar to OpenAI announcements. They're claiming state-of-the-art performance on some benchmarks (more on that drama later!), and a whopping 1 million token context window, finally confirmed after some initial confusion. They talked a lot about agents and a future of reasoners as well.The launch was a bit… messy. First, there was a bug where some users were getting Grok 2 even when the dropdown said Grok 3. That led to a lot of mixed reviews. Even when I finally thought I was using Grok 3, it still flubbed my go-to logic test, the "Beth's Ice Cubes" question. (The answer is zero, folks – ice cubes melt!). But Akshay, who joined us on the show, chimed in with some love: "...with just the base model of Grok 3, it's, in my opinion, it's the best coding model out there." So, mixed vibes, to say the least! It's also FREE for now, "until their GPUs melt," according to XAI, which is great.UPDATE: The vibes are shifting, more and more of my colleagues and mutuals are LOVING grok3 for one shot coding, for talking to it. I'm getting convinced as well, though I did use and will continue to use Grok for real time data and access to X. DeepSearchIn an attempt to show off some Agentic features, XAI also launched a deep search (not research like OpenAI but effectively the same) Now, XAI of course has access to X, which makes their deep search have a leg up, specifically for real time information! I found out it can even “use” the X search! OpenAI's Open Source TeaseIn what felt like a very conveniently timed move, Sam Altman dropped a poll on X the same day as the Grok announcement: if OpenAI were to open-source something, should it be a small, mobile-optimized model, or a model on par with o3-mini? Most of us chose o3 mini, just to have access to that model and play with it. No indication of when this might happen, but it's a clear signal that OpenAI is feeling the pressure from the open-source community.The Eval Wars: OpenAI vs. XAIThings got spicy! There was a whole debate about the eval numbers XAI posted, specifically the "best of N" scores (like best of 64 runs). Boris from OpenAI, and Aiden mcLau called out some of the graphs. Folks on X were quick to point out that OpenAI also used "best of N" in the past, and the discussion devolved from there.XAI is claiming SOTA. OpenAI (or some folks from within OpenAI) aren't so sure. The core issue? We can't independently verify Grok's performance because there's no API yet! As I said, "…we're not actually able to use this model to independently evaluate this model and to tell you guys whether or not they actually told us the truth." Transparency matters, folks!DeepSearch - How Deep?Grok also touted a new "Deep Search" feature, kind of like Perplexity or OpenAI's "Deep Research" in their more expensive plan. My initial tests were… underwhelming. I nicknamed it "Shallow Search" because it spent all of 34 seconds on a complex query where OpenAI's Deep Research took 11 minutes and cited 17 sources. We're going to need to do some more digging (pun intended) on this one.This Week's BuzzWe're leaning hard into agents at Weights & Biases! We just released an agents whitepaper (check it out on our socials!), and we're launching an agents course in collaboration with OpenAI's Ilan Biggio. Sign up at wandb.me/agents! We're hearing so much about agent evaluation and observability, and we're working hard to provide the tools the community needs.Also, sadly, our Toronto workshops are completely sold out. But if you're at AI Engineer in New York, come say hi to our booth! And catch my talk on LLM Reasoner Judges tomorrow (Friday) at 11 am EST – it'll be live on the AI Engineer YouTube channel (HERE)!Vision & VideoMicrosoft MUSE: Playable Worlds from a Single ImageThis one is wild. Microsoft's MUSE can generate minutes of playable gameplay from just a single second of video frames and controller actions.It's based on the World and Human Action Model (WHAM) architecture, trained on a billion gameplay images from Xbox. So if you've been playing Xbox lately, you might be in the model! I found it particularly cool: "…you give it like a single second of a gameplay of any type of game with all the screen elements, with percentages, with health bars, with all of these things and their model generates a game that you can control." (X, HF, Blog).StepFun's Step-Video-T2V: State-of-the-Art (and Open Source!)We got two awesome open-source video breakthroughs this week. First, StepFun's Step-Video-T2V (and T2V Turbo), a 30 billion parameter text-to-video model. The results look really good, especially the text integration. Imagine a Chinese girl opening a scroll, and the words "We will open source" appearing as she unfurls it. That's the kind of detail we're talking about.And it's MIT licensed! As Nisten noted "This is pretty cool. It came out. Right before Sora came out, people would have lost their minds." (X, Paper, HF, Try It).HAO AI's FastVideo: Speeding Up HY-VideoThe second video highlight: HAO AI released FastVideo, a way to make HY-Video (already a strong open-source contender) three times faster with no additional training! They call the trick "Sliding Tile Attention" apparently that alone provides enormous boost compared to even flash attention.This is huge because faster inference means these models become more practical for real-world use. And, bonus: it supports HY-Video's Loras, meaning you can fine-tune it for, ahem, all kinds of creative applications. I will not go as far as to mention civit ai. (Github)Figure's Helix: Robot Collaboration!Breaking news from the AI Engineer conference floor: Figure, the humanoid robot company, announced Helix, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model built into their robots!It has full upper body control!What blew my mind: they showed two robots working together, handing objects to each other, based on natural language commands! As I watched, I exclaimed, "I haven't seen a humanoid robot, hand off stuff to the other one... I found it like super futuristically cool." The model runs on the robot, using a 7 billion parameter VLM for understanding and an 80 million parameter transformer for control. This is the future, folks!Tools & OthersMicrosoft's New Quantum Chip (and State of Matter!)Microsoft announced a new quantum chip and a new state of matter (called "topological superconductivity"). "I found it like absolutely mind blowing that they announced something like this," I gushed on the show. While I'm no quantum physicist, this sounds like a big deal for the future of computing.Verdict: Hayes Labs' Framework for LLM JudgesAnd of course, the highlight of our show: Verdict, a new open-source framework from Hayes Labs (the folks behind those "bijection" jailbreaks!) for composing LLM judges. This is a huge deal for anyone working on evaluation. Leonard and Nimit from Hayes Labs joined us to explain how Verdict addresses some of the core problems with LLM-as-a-judge: biases (like preferring their own responses!), sensitivity to prompts, and the challenge of "meta-evaluation" (how do you know your judge is actually good?).Verdict lets you combine different judging techniques ("primitives") to create more robust and efficient evaluators. Think of it as "judge-time compute scaling," as Leonard called it. They're achieving near state-of-the-art results on benchmarks like ExpertQA, and it's designed to be fast enough to use as a guardrail in real-time applications!One key insight: you don't always need a full-blown reasoning model for judging. As Nimit explained, Verdict can combine simpler LLM calls to achieve similar results at a fraction of the cost. And, it's open source! (Paper, Github,X).ConclusionAnother week, another explosion of AI breakthroughs! Here are my key takeaways:* Open Source is THRIVING: From censorship-free LLMs to cutting-edge video models, the open-source community is delivering incredible innovation.* The Need for Speed (and Efficiency): Whether it's faster video generation or more efficient LLM judging, performance is key.* Robots are Getting Smarter (and More Collaborative): Figure's Helix is a glimpse into a future where robots work together.* Evaluation is (Finally) Getting Attention: Tools like Verdict are essential for building reliable and trustworthy AI systems.* The Big Players are Feeling the Heat: OpenAI's open-source tease and XAI's rapid progress show that the competition is fierce.I'll be back in my usual setup next week, ready to break down all the latest AI news. Stay tuned to ThursdAI – and don't forget to give the pod five stars and subscribe to the newsletter for all the links and deeper dives. There's potentially an Anthropic announcement coming, so we'll see you all next week.TLDR* Open Source LLMs* Perplexity R1 1776 - finetune of china-less R1 (Blog, Model)* Arc institute + Nvidia - introduce EVO 2 - genomics model (X)* ZeroBench - impossible benchmark for VLMs (X, Page, Paper, HF)* HuggingFace ultra scale playbook (HF)* Big CO LLMs + APIs* Grok 3 SOTA LLM + reasoning and Deep Search (blog, try it)* OpenAI is about to open source something? Sam posts a polls* This weeks Buzz* We are about to launch an agents course! Pre-sign up wandb.me/agents* Workshops are SOLD OUT* Watch my talk LIVE from AI Engineer - 11am EST Friday (HERE)* Keep watching AI Eng conference after the show on AIE YT* )* Vision & Video* Microsoft MUSE - playable worlds from one image (X, HF, Blog)* Microsoft OmniParser - Better, faster screen parsing for GUI agents with OmniParser v2 (Gradio Demo)* HAO AI - fastVIDEO - making HY-Video 3x as fast (Github)* StepFun - Step-Video-T2V (+Turbo), a SotA 30B text-to-video model (Paper, Github, HF, Try It)* Figure announces HELIX - vision action model built into FIGURE Robot (Paper)* Tools & Others* Microsoft announces a new quantum chip and a new state of matter (Blog, X)* Verdict - Framework to compose SOTA LLM judges with JudgeTime Scaling (Paper, Github,X) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sub.thursdai.news/subscribe

Forecast = Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so we can expect continued Musk-y days ahead in these remaining DOGE days of Winter. ‍ In this week's episode of GreyNoise Storm⚡️Watch, we have a bit of an AI-theme. First, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, has sparked significant privacy and security concerns by accessing sensitive federal systems like Treasury databases and Education Department records through AI-driven analysis. Critics highlight undisclosed partnerships with vendors like Inventry.ai, which allegedly introduced algorithmic bias by disproportionately targeting diversity programs and climate initiatives while retaining fossil fuel subsidies. Cybersecurity experts warn about unvetted API integrations and data security risks, as Inventry.ai processed taxpayer information without proper FedRAMP authorization. These issues have led to bipartisan calls for stricter AI procurement rules and transparency mandates to rebuild public trust. Meanwhile, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek faces scrutiny over its claims of rivaling GPT-4 at lower costs, with analysts questioning its $5.6M training budget and geopolitical alignment. The models show systematic pro-China biases, refusing to answer 88% of sensitive questions about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan while promoting CCP narratives in responses. Security researchers flag its opaque training data—potentially using OpenAI outputs—and anti-debugging features that hinder independent audits. These concerns have triggered bans in Australia, South Korea, and U.S. agencies like NASA, with EU officials noting non-compliance with cybersecurity standards. On the defense front, Splunk's DECEIVE AI honeypot introduces innovative deception tech by letting users simulate systems via text prompts, democratizing access to advanced threat detection. While it offers dynamic behavioral analysis and safe sandboxing, security professionals caution about LLM hallucination risks that could tip off attackers and ethical questions around logging fabricated credentials. The open-source tool shows promise but remains untested against sophisticated adversaries. Rounding out the cybersecurity landscape, Censys research exposes the BADBOX botnet's infrastructure and BeyondTrust vulnerabilities, while VulnCheck highlights 2024's exploitation trends and Zyxel's unpatched telnet flaws; and GreyNoise's latest Noiseletter showcases new platform features + upcoming events. Storm Watch Homepage >> Learn more about GreyNoise >>  

For he flatters himself in his own eyesthat his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.-Psalm 36:2 This Episode's Links and Timestamps:00:00 – Scripture Reading02:13 – Introduction15:48 – Whether the “Man Flu” is, in fact, a thing.34:42 –We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan – Donna Lu, The Guardian39:43 -White House Cancels Subscriptions to Politico After Spending $8.2M Since 2016 – HeadlineRoundup, AllSides44:48 -Report: Christianity Today received $1.8M in USAID grants in 2023 – Mik Olson, NTB56:58 -Secretary Hegseth says a major financial overhaul of the Pentagon is coming so it can actually pass an audit – Harris Rigby, NTB1:06:20 –“Captain America” in 2025: "To me, Captain America represents a lot of things.. and America isn't one of them." – Graham Allen, X.com1:17:02 –‘Bolívar: American Liberator' by Marie Arana - Goodreads

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Yasheng Huang is a professor at MIT and the author of many books, including his most recent work, “The Rise and Fall of the EAST”. I reached out to Professor Huang because, after reading his book, I wanted to learn more about Chinese history. In this episode, Yasheng and I discuss: Imperial China v. The Roman Empire; Keju; The origin of Civil Service Exams; Purges: Hard and Soft; Meritocracy v Aristocracy; Enlightenment Thinkers; The American Founding; Stalin and Mao; Xi Jinping; Autocratic “Stickiness”; Liberal Democracy; Global Economics; Anthony Fauci; Robert F. Kennedy; Public Health; COVID; Planning for Future Pandemics; Tiananmen Square; Taiwan; Donald Trump; Student Protests;And much more! I hope that you enjoy this chat. Links to Professor Huang's content: X: @YashengHuangBook: The Rise and Fall of the EAST - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300281934/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east/Links to my content: Instagram, on which I post shorts from this and prior episodes: @danielethanfinneran https://www.instagram.com/danielethanfinneran/X: @DanielEFinneranMessage me on X, or send me an email at daniel.ethan.finneran@gmail.com (especially if you have in mind someone whom I can interview!) My sister project, PNEUMA, on which I put out sleep stories, meditations, and mindfulness content. Search “Pneuma meditations” on any podcast streaming platform. If you enjoy these conversations, please share them with family and friends! Thank you. 

Berkeley, California based author Yang Huang shares tales of growing up in China, post cultural revolution. And how, on the heels of the Tiananmen Square protests, she was empowered to write in hopes of propelling a more tolerant and hopeful world through her stories.

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DeepSeek blames DDoS for recent outages. Hackers behind last year's AT&T data breach targeted members of the Trump family, Kamala Harris, and Marco Rubio's wife.The EU sanctions Russians for cyberattacks against Estonia. ENGlobal confirms personal information was taken in last year's ransomware attack. CISA issues a critical warning about a SonicWall vulnerability actively exploited. A large-scale phishing campaign exploits users' trust in PDF files and the USPS. Apple patches a zero-day affecting many of their products. A ransomware attack on an Ohio-based operator of skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities affects over 70,000. President Trump has a tumultuous first week back in office. Our guest is Bogdan Botezatu, Director, Threat Research and Reporting at Bitdefender, to discuss the dark market subculture and its parallels to holiday shopping. A nonprofit aims to clean up the AI industry's mess.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest We are joined by Bogdan Botezatu, Director, Threat Research and Reporting at Bitdefender, to discuss the dark market subculture and its parallels to holiday shopping. Check out Bitdefender's research on the topic here. Selected Reading DeepSeek Blames Disruption on Cyberattack as Vulnerabilities Emerge (SecurityWeek) DeepSeek FAQ (Stratechery) We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan (The Guardian)  Hackers Mined AT&T Breach for Data on Trump's Family, Kamala Harris (404 Media) European Union Sanctions Russian Nationals for Hacking Estonia (SecurityWeek) ENGlobal Says Personal Information Accessed in Ransomware Attack (SecurityWeek) CISA Warns of SonicWall 0-day RCE Vulnerability Exploited in Wild (Cyber Security News) Hackers Use Malicious PDFs, pose as USPS in Mobile Phishing Scam (Security Boulevard) Amazon Prime Security Warning As Hackers Strike—What You Need To Know (Forbes)  Apple plugs exploited security hole in iOS, updates macOS (The Register) Nursing Home, Rehab Chain Says Hack Affects Nearly 70,000 (GovInfo Security) A Tumultuous Week for Federal Cybersecurity Efforts (Krebs on Security) Initiative Aims to Enable Ethical Coding LLMs (IEEE Spectrum) Share your feedback. We want to ensure that you are getting the most out of the podcast. Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey as we continually work to improve the show.  Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at cyberwire@n2k.com to request more info. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday, DeepSeek just wiped $1tn off the US stock market——should we embrace its groundbreaking AI despite concerns over censorship, data security, and ethical implications?

Title: DeepSeek's AI Disruption: Shaking Tech Markets and Redefining AI Development Description: In this episode, we delve into the groundbreaking impact of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, and its AI model, R1. The emergence of DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through global tech markets, prompting a reevaluation of AI investment strategies1.... • Technological Breakthrough: DeepSeek's R1 model, developed with a relatively modest budget of $5.6 million and using less advanced Nvidia H800 chips, has demonstrated capabilities comparable to leading models like OpenAI's o13.... This has raised questions about the necessity of massive investments in AI infrastructure by U.S. companies3.... R1 has shown impressive results in areas such as mathematics, coding, and reasoning, even surpassing OpenAI's model on some benchmarks3.... • Market Turmoil: The launch of DeepSeek's AI assistant has triggered a significant sell-off in technology stocks, with major companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Alphabet experiencing substantial declines in their stock values1.... Nvidia, for instance, saw a historic drop, losing around $465 billion in market value1.... This market reaction reflects investor concerns about the potential disruption DeepSeek poses to established AI leaders1.... • Security Challenges: Amidst its rapid rise, DeepSeek faced a significant cyberattack, which led to the temporary suspension of new user registrations7.... This highlights the security challenges that can accompany rapid growth and popularity in the tech industry7.... • Censorship and Content Limitations: DeepSeek's AI assistant has been observed to avoid or self-censor when addressing sensitive Chinese issues, such as the Tiananmen Square incident, indicating the influence of government censorship on AI outputs in China14.... • The Future of AI: The development of R1 calls into question whether the massive spending on advanced GPUs is needed for achieving artificial super intelligence, suggesting that a fraction of the expected costs may be needed8. This development may have deflationary effects on the global economy over time8. Additionally, it appears that having proprietary data will become increasingly important for companies training models18. This episode will explore the implications of DeepSeek's advancements on global AI investment strategies, cybersecurity, and content governance. It will also consider whether tech companies should re-evaluate their business strategies2....

How did the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai become one of Hong Kong's leading activists for democracy—and China's most famous political prisoner today? Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was 12 years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled; no work was beneath him, and he often slept on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At 21, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong's fast-food industry. But then came the Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989. His reaction to the violence was to enter the media business to push China toward more freedoms. He started a magazine, Next, to advocate for democracy in Hong Kong. Then, just two years before the city was to return to Chinese control, he founded the Apple Daily newspaper. Its mix of bold graphics, gossip, local news, and opposition to the Chinese Communist Party was an immediate hit. For more than two decades, Lai used Apple and Next as part of a personal push for democracy—in weekly columns, at rallies and marches, and, memorably, sitting in front of a tent during the 2014 Occupy Central movement. Lai also took his activism abroad, traveling frequently to Washington, where he was well known in Congress and in political circles. China reacted with fury in 2019 when he met with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. A draconian new security law came into effect in Hong Kong in mid-2020, effectively making free speech a crime and censorship a fact. Lai was its most important target. Apple Daily was raided on August 10, 2020. He was arrested and held without bail before being convicted of trumped-up charges ranging from lighting a candle (“incitement to riot”) to violating a clause in his company's lease (“fraud”). At the end of 2023, a lengthy trial began alleging “collusion with foreign forces” and printing seditious materials. China's most famous political prisoner has been in jail for more than 1,100 days and could spend the rest of his life there. Join us to hear from Mark Clifford, author of The Troublemaker, and learn all about the billionaire behind bars. This program is generously supported by the Ken and Jaclyn Broad Family Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode delves into the complex and often misunderstood events surrounding the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, challenging the widely accepted narrative of a brutal massacre. Trevor examines various reports and perspectives, revealing that while violence occurred in Beijing, the narrative of thousands of students being killed in the square itself may be significantly exaggerated or even fabricated. He discusses the involvement of American foreign policy and intelligence agencies in the protests, suggesting that the movement was not solely a spontaneous call for democracy but rather influenced by external forces seeking regime change in China. Through a careful review of testimonials, journalistic accounts, and historical context, Trevor aims to shed light on the realities of what transpired, emphasizing that the tragedy in Tiananmen Square was not as straightforward as often portrayed. As he explores these themes, he invites listeners to reconsider their views on the incident and its implications for understanding modern China.To financially support the Podcast you can make:a per-episode donation via Patreon or one-off donation via credit card; orone-off or regular donations via Paypal orif you are into Cryptocurrency you can send Satoshis. We Livestream every Monday night at 7:30 pm Brisbane time. Follow us on Facebook or YouTube. Watch us live and join the discussion in the chat room.You can sign up for our newsletter, which links to articles that Trevor has highlighted as potentially interesting and that may be discussed on the podcast. You will get 3 emails per week. After the fiasco mentioned in episode 454 I can't use Mailchimp anymore so for the moment, send me an email and I'll add you to a temporary list until something more automated is arranged.We have a website. www.ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can email us. The address is trevor@ironfistvelvetglove.com.auYou can send us a voicemail message at SpeakpipeTranscripts started in episode 324. You can use this link to search our transcripts. Type "iron fist velvet glove" into the search directory, click on our podcast and then do a word search. It even has a player which will play the relevant section. It is incredibly quick.

There are two main ways that historians have conceived of the causes of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, both as a struggle between liberalism and authoritarianism and between a people's socialism and a new rising state capitalism. This episode explores the arguments of Yueran Zhang, who suggests that there is a different explanation that can be understood from the motivations of the students and workers who stood up to the regime. Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can support the podcast via Patreon hereOr you can just say some nice things about it here Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today is Roger Huang, an author, journalist on Forbes, Bitcoin Magazine and more, and a Bitcoin advocate, whose work bridges the intersection of Bitcoin, geopolitics, economics, and history. Roger is the author of “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?”, an exploration of Bitcoin's potential within China's political and monetary landscape. From the impact of inflation on historical events like Tiananmen Square to the implications of digital surveillance and central bank digital currencies, Roger provides a comprehensive analysis of how Bitcoin can challenge state control and empower individuals. In this episode, we explore Roger's journey from his roots in China to his upbringing in Canada, and how his disillusionment with the traditional financial system inspired him to advocate for Bitcoin as a tool for freedom and decentralization. Roger shares powerful stories about the Chinese surveillance state, the role of inflation in shaping politics, and the growing global influence of China's economic strategies, including the Belt and Road Initiative and CBDC development. ► If you got value, please like, comment, share, follow and support my work. Thank you! -- SPONSORS -- ►► Get your TREZOR wallet & accessories, with a 5% discount, using my code at checkout (get my discount code from the episode - yep, you'll have to watch it): https://affil.trezor.io/SHUn  -- SPECIAL OFFERS – ►► Enjoy the Little HODLer products, learn about sound money while having fun! use code EFRAT for 10% off on non-sale items: https://thelittlehodler.com/  ►► Get 10% off on all books, inc. “The Inverse of Clown World”, using the code EFRAT https://bitcoininfinitystore.com ►► Join me in any of these upcoming events: https://www.efrat.blog/p/upcoming-events  -- LINKS – Roger's Twitter: https://x.com/Rogerh1991 Roger's New Book “Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?”: https://bit.ly/4jePMsf  Roger's Nostr npub: npub12qxvc5evxqt3rky25mfskywugalx5vnhppfl32cu903cnwpyu0uqkmq8u9 China Law Translate Website - Roger recommended source: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/  Efrat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/efenigson Efrat's Telegram: https://t.me/efenigson Watch/listen on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/yourethevoice Support Efrat's work: ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/efenigson   ⁠ Support Efrat with Bitcoin: https://geyser.fund/project/efenigson -- CHAPTERS – 00:00 Coming Up…  01:01 Introduction to Roger Huang and His Work  03:00 Roger's Background and Early Interest in Bitcoin & Writing  08:38 Mao's Economic Policies and Their Consequences  13:18 Inflation and Political Unrest in China's History, and Tiananmen Square Protests 18:07 Human Rights Violations & Digital Surveillance in China  22:44 Social Credit Score System in China and the Rest Of the World  28:58 Censorship: The Dangers of “Everything Apps” like WeChat  35:44 What “Cashless Society” Looks Like in China  38:03 The Rise of CBDC's in China  49:54 China's Belt & Road Initiative - Acquiring Geopolitical Power  53:51 Roger's Personal Passion for Bitcoin  57:55 Conclusion and Where to Follow Roger

Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.------------Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting------------Keep Talking SubstackSpotifyApple PodcastsSocial media and all episodes------------Support via VenmoSupport on SubstackSupport on Patreon------------(00:00) Intro(01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s(07:10) Was was China like in the 1970s?(10:09) The palpable fear in China in the 1970s(14:55) The details of Mao Zedong the Cultural Revolution(20:40) What preceded Communism in China?(25:32) Why was Communism appealing to Chinese revolutionaries? (30:11) China in the 1970s and how it reopened to the world(37:10) Why did China not become free after the 1980s?(41:39) 1989 and Tiananmen Square(45:28) China in the next few years(52:19) How might China become free?(55:26) Why China matters

The episode with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times op-ed columnist Nick Kristof focused on his recent inspirational and hope-filled book, "Chasing Hope." The conversation began with Kristof speaking to Michael Krasny about the effects on him and the moral challenges he faced covering Tiananmen Square, as well as the lessons he gleaned from his early reporter's work in Cambodia and the U.S. He opined on the fight for democracy and weighed the effect on him of the oppression and suffering of children.Krasny then brought up the role and impact of Kristof's parents, and Kristof spoke of compassion fatigue and what he believes needs to be done. He emphasized the need for more stories that call attention to humanitarian crises and the public good. The two then spoke of journalism as an act of hope and discussed contrasts between former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and President-elect Donald Trump, as well as Kristof's past decision to run for Governor of Oregon.When Krasny asked Kristof about his views on race versus class and New York Times coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kristof spoke about rising anti-Semitism, the meaning of the word genocide, and his feelings of frustration at the slow pace of change despite remarkable progress on many fronts. The conversation turned to journalistic ethics, human rights, and Kristof's wife Sheryl's Chinese ancestry.Kristof also addressed the concept of "white saviors" and answered a listener's question about the effect of Artificial Intelligence. The two then returned to further consideration of journalistic ethics, Janet Malcolm, journalists as storytellers, Tiananmen Square, and Gaza. Kristof spoke of making the ineffable effable and of David Brooks' dichotomy of a resume versus a eulogy. It was a brilliant and enlightening conversation with one of America's leading journalists.

The incoming Trump administration's border czar, Tom Homan, announced that mass deportations will commence on January 21, 2025, beginning in Chicago. Targeting illegal immigrants with criminal records, this initiative has sparked fierce resistance from Democratic leaders. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston likened the plan to a "Tiananmen Square moment," despite the administration's insistence that enforcement focuses solely on criminal activity, not families or children. Critics argue that progressive mayors are prioritizing political theatrics over addressing community safety and economic burdens tied to unchecked illegal immigration. Conservatives view this as a necessary response to years of open-border policies that have strained local resources and increased crime. The deportation plan underscores a broader demand for accountability and a return to law and order, resonating strongly with voters frustrated by the failures of liberal immigration policies.

This was fun! Last Wednesday saw the first-ever live recording of On Humans. The event was held at the London Business School, courtesy of the LBS's China Club. My guest was MIT Professor Yasheng Huang, familiar to regular listeners from the China trilogy published earlier this fall. In this new episode, we keep tackling the origins of modern China. This time, we draw insights from Huang's two upcoming books: Revisiting the Needham Question and Statism With Chinese Characteristics. The conversation is structured around five themes: 1) the "Needham Question"; 2) Keju exams; 3) Scale; 4) Scope; and 5) The Eighties. Expect juicy insights to questions such as: Why was more Buddhism linked to more inventions in ancient China? How does footbinding relate to China's technological decline? Has China's GDP growth stopped serving Chinese workers? Towards the end of the conversation, Huang also shared his memories of working in China through the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square. Enjoy! MORE LINKS Get the On Humans newsletter at ⁠⁠OnHumans.Substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find On Humans on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠BlueSky⁠! Feeling generous? Join the wonderful group of my patrons at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/OnHumans⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠or get in touch for other ways to support! Email: ⁠⁠makela dot ilari at outlook dot com⁠⁠⁠

Twenty four years ago, thousands of students were massacred in the Korean city of Gwanju by the country's military regime—its own, unknown Tiananmen Square. The failure of President Yoon Suk Yeol's bid to reimpose martial rule is being cast as proof of how robust democracy has since become in the country. The truth, however, is that it proves how fragile rights and freedoms can be, if voters don't choose their leaders wisely.

Have you ever been mistreated as a result of your faith in Christ? If so, this episode of Godly Goosebumps—in which Pastor Dudley shares the recording of an interview conducted during a weekend worship service at Shepherd Church—is sure to encourage and inspire you. Join Pastor Dudley as he revisits his moving conversation with Bob Fu, an educator and advocate for the persecuted Church in China and the founder and president of ChinaAid. Born, raised, and educated in China, Bob was a student leader during the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations before accepting Christ and ministering as a house church leader in Beijing. Ultimately, he and his wife, Heidi, were arrested under the charges of "illegal evangelism" before a miraculous escape enabled them to enter the United States of America as religious refugees. This jaw-dropping episode points to an important Biblical truth: The persecuted will be rewarded. 

My poems were written in anger after Tiananmen Square. But what motivates most prison writing is a fear of forgetting. Today I am free, but the regime has never stopped its war on words. By Liao Yiwu Because of industrial action taking place by members of the National Union of Journalists at the Guardian and Observer this week, we are re-running an episode from earlier in the year. For more information please head to theguardian.com. We'll be back with new episodes soon.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

[SEGMENT 2-1] Democrats backing away from stupidity 3 Congratulations Americans, Patriots. Why am I congratulating you? Because YOU forced Democrats to regain part of their sanity. I'm not sure what step this is in the 12-step program, perhaps Step 12, but it's coming. I've NEVER seen an administration so decisive in its actions. The people being selected know their jobs. And they are already making an impact. The FBI is running scared. I saw that McCabe hates that Kash Patel has been picked to run the FBI. In any other Democratic circles, this pick would be heralded. An Indian running the FBI. He has to be the first, right? But no hoopla. And Vivek Ramaswamy co-chairing DOGE with Elon Musk. Another first for many reasons, but no hoopla over it.   And while we will soon feel the effects of the Trump economy first-hand and in a great way, the most impactful to date involves illegal immigration.[SEGMENT 2-2] Democrats backing away from stupidity 4   Remember when Johnston compared his city's commitment to protecting illegal immigrants to the iconic “Tank Man” moment during the Tiananmen Square protests? With zero irony, he boasted about deploying 50,000 angry soccer moms to protect migrants from deportation. “It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” he gushed. This was the same guy who told federal immigration officials, “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants.” His bravado didn't last long. President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, responded with a mic drop: CNN's Kasie Hunt visibly stunned after playing a clip of Tom Homan saying he would gladly throw Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in jail for defying Trump's deportation operation. This is the best video you will watch all day. Homan: Me and the Denver mayor agree on one thing. He's… pic.twitter.com/ab4XMw5GrK — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 28, 2024 “He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail.” Now that reality has set in, Johnston is singing a different tune. He's gone from "Come get me, Bro!" to "Don't taze me, Bro!" With Denver's resources drained and voters increasingly restless, the mayor's focus has shifted from grandstanding to damage control. Funny how that works. Now that Tom Homan has threatened to throw Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in prison, he says he ”regrets” making tough guy comments about having his police force stand against federal forces to stop mass deportations “I certainly did not mean to stoke fear on either side of… pic.twitter.com/tB2yfn8csM — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 29, 2024 REPORTER: It sounds like you're walking back the comments from a couple days ago saying that you would be willing to send Denver police officers. Do you regret making those comments and now getting questions like this? JOHNSTON: Yeah. REPORTER: Me asking you about that, and I'm sure Denver police officers are now going home to their families and saying, "Hey, I hear the mayor is telling you that you might be deployed to face off against federal forces." Do you regret making those comments?  JOHNSTON: Yeah. What I wanted people to understand was the scale of what could be coming if we take the president at his word, which is I don't think anyone envisioned U.S. military troops being deployed to American streets to gather up women and children.  [SEGMENT 2-3] Democrats backing away from stupidity 5 Give me your Leftist position and I will show you multiple Democrats who are backing away from Biden administration policies. It's almost as if Democrats were PRAYING for somebody to bring back sanity.   Talk about backtracking. But Johnston made the right decision. Because the Trump administration is serious about enforcing the laws. And if it means locking up a few hard asses, then so be it. Sanctuary cities like Denver operate in open defiance of federal immigration laws. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 expressly prohibits policies that block local officials from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. Despite this, Leftist mayors nationwide have flaunted sanctuary policies, betting that the Biden administration's Department of Justice would look the other way. But under Trump, that bet didn't pay off. His administration cracked down on sanctuary jurisdictions, threatening to withhold federal funding and enforce existing laws. This enforcement resonated with voters who saw sanctuary policies as a betrayal of their safety and sovereignty. Why Voters Backed Trump—and Why They'll Do It Again Trump's appeal in 2016 and beyond wasn't just about “building the wall.” It was about rejecting Leftist policies that prioritize illegal immigrants over American citizens. Sanctuary cities like Denver epitomize the broader Democratic Party's indifference to working-class Americans. When voters in Colorado and across the country see their tax dollars funding migrant shelters while their own communities crumble, it's no wonder they rally behind someone promising to put America first. Sanctuary City Spectacle: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both? The Democrats' immigration debacle is a tragicomedy of errors. Sanctuary policies like those in Denver don't just fail—they spectacularly implode, leaving taxpayers holding the bag. Johnston's flip-flop from “Tiananmen Square defender” to reluctant realist underscores the absurdity of it all. At the end of the day, Johnston and his ilk are a symptom of a larger problem: a political party more interested in virtue signaling than governance. Illegal immigration is not a crisis of compassion; it's a crisis of competence. And as long as Leftists continue to prioritize their progressive agenda over the rule of law, cities like Denver will remain stuck cleaning up the mess. Thankfully for Denverites, Coloradans, and all Americans, this nonsense is about to come to a necessary and hopefully final end.   Dallas Mayor changes to MAGA Admittedly I treat these flip-floppers with skepticism. It's easy to abandon something when you see that it's a loser. And the Democrats as a party are losers. Still, the fundamental principles should preclude a switch. Take me for example. I can't stand the Republican Party. But I have never abandoned them, for three reasons. One, the Democrats are f'g crazy. Two, Republicans freed the slaves. Three, as Trump proved, Republicans are redeemable. Perhaps that why Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson flipped as well. He left the Democratic Party last fall. And some say that Johnson's departure should have served as an early warning for Democrats. Early? Democrats should have seen this coming since 2016.     Many political pundits were stunned when President-elect Donald Trump led Republicans to sweeping wins earlier this month, breaking apart traditionally Democratic coalitions to clinch a second term and secure majorities in the House and Senate.  The red wave didn't shock Johnson, however, who said during a Fox and Friends appearance this week that “it turns out I was kind of a canary in the coal mine.” “I didn't think I was going to be some anomaly that everyone needed to worry about,” he said. “I thought that I was going to be a harbinger of things to come.” On Fox & Friends @Johnson4Dallas discussed how @GOP mayors across the country are excited to work with @realDonaldTrump to deliver on the promise of making our cities great again. pic.twitter.com/BsMaQuJbNg — Republican Mayors Association (@GOPMayorsAssn) November 20, 2024 Johnson governed one of the largest cities in the country as a Democrat for over four years before shocking colleagues by joining Trump's MAGA movement. Citing desires to use conservative principles to restore urban centers like his own back to glory, the mayor said that too often, Democratic policies “exacerbate homelessness, coddle criminals, and make it harder for ordinary people to make a living.” In the months leading up to the election, Trump received sharp criticism for saying Democrats had destroyed former manufacturing bastions and big cities like Detroit and Milwaukee. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kevin-jackson-show--2896352/support.

[SEGMENT 2-1] Democrats backing away from stupidity 3 Congratulations Americans, Patriots. Why am I congratulating you? Because YOU forced Democrats to regain part of their sanity. I'm not sure what step this is in the 12-step program, perhaps Step 12, but it's coming. I've NEVER seen an administration so decisive in its actions. The people being selected know their jobs. And they are already making an impact. The FBI is running scared. I saw that McCabe hates that Kash Patel has been picked to run the FBI. In any other Democratic circles, this pick would be heralded. An Indian running the FBI. He has to be the first, right? But no hoopla. And Vivek Ramaswamy co-chairing DOGE with Elon Musk. Another first for many reasons, but no hoopla over it.   And while we will soon feel the effects of the Trump economy first-hand and in a great way, the most impactful to date involves illegal immigration.  [SEGMENT 2-2] Democrats backing away from stupidity 4   Remember when Johnston compared his city's commitment to protecting illegal immigrants to the iconic “Tank Man” moment during the Tiananmen Square protests? With zero irony, he boasted about deploying 50,000 angry soccer moms to protect migrants from deportation. “It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?” he gushed. This was the same guy who told federal immigration officials, “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants.” His bravado didn't last long. President Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, responded with a mic drop: CNN's Kasie Hunt visibly stunned after playing a clip of Tom Homan saying he would gladly throw Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in jail for defying Trump's deportation operation. This is the best video you will watch all day. Homan: Me and the Denver mayor agree on one thing. He's… pic.twitter.com/ab4XMw5GrK — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 28, 2024 “He's willing to go to jail. I'm willing to put him in jail.” Now that reality has set in, Johnston is singing a different tune. He's gone from "Come get me, Bro!" to "Don't taze me, Bro!" With Denver's resources drained and voters increasingly restless, the mayor's focus has shifted from grandstanding to damage control. Funny how that works. Now that Tom Homan has threatened to throw Democrat Denver Mayor Mike Johnston in prison, he says he ”regrets” making tough guy comments about having his police force stand against federal forces to stop mass deportations “I certainly did not mean to stoke fear on either side of… pic.twitter.com/tB2yfn8csM — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 29, 2024 REPORTER: It sounds like you're walking back the comments from a couple days ago saying that you would be willing to send Denver police officers. Do you regret making those comments and now getting questions like this? JOHNSTON: Yeah. REPORTER: Me asking you about that, and I'm sure Denver police officers are now going home to their families and saying, "Hey, I hear the mayor is telling you that you might be deployed to face off against federal forces." Do you regret making those comments?  JOHNSTON: Yeah. What I wanted people to understand was the scale of what could be coming if we take the president at his word, which is I don't think anyone envisioned U.S. military troops being deployed to American streets to gather up women and children.  [SEGMENT 2-3] Democrats backing away from stupidity 5 Give me your Leftist position and I will show you multiple Democrats who are backing away from Biden administration policies. It's almost as if Democrats were PRAYING for somebody to bring back sanity.   Talk about backtracking. But Johnston made the right decision. Because the Trump administration is serious about enforcing the laws. And if it means locking up a few hard asses, then so be it. Sanctuary cities like Denver operate in open defiance of federal immigration laws. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996 expressly prohibits policies that block local officials from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. Despite this, Leftist mayors nationwide have flaunted sanctuary policies, betting that the Biden administration's Department of Justice would look the other way. But under Trump, that bet didn't pay off. His administration cracked down on sanctuary jurisdictions, threatening to withhold federal funding and enforce existing laws. This enforcement resonated with voters who saw sanctuary policies as a betrayal of their safety and sovereignty. Why Voters Backed Trump—and Why They'll Do It Again Trump's appeal in 2016 and beyond wasn't just about “building the wall.” It was about rejecting Leftist policies that prioritize illegal immigrants over American citizens. Sanctuary cities like Denver epitomize the broader Democratic Party's indifference to working-class Americans. When voters in Colorado and across the country see their tax dollars funding migrant shelters while their own communities crumble, it's no wonder they rally behind someone promising to put America first. Sanctuary City Spectacle: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both? The Democrats' immigration debacle is a tragicomedy of errors. Sanctuary policies like those in Denver don't just fail—they spectacularly implode, leaving taxpayers holding the bag. Johnston's flip-flop from “Tiananmen Square defender” to reluctant realist underscores the absurdity of it all. At the end of the day, Johnston and his ilk are a symptom of a larger problem: a political party more interested in virtue signaling than governance. Illegal immigration is not a crisis of compassion; it's a crisis of competence. And as long as Leftists [SEGMENT 2-4] Democrats backing away from stupidity 6   Zuckerberg wants to work with Trump…   What's the body count of people who now have to look stupid after Trump's victory? Biden…the guy who want to kick Trump's butt behind the bleachers. Why does Biden choose those obscure places to fight. What's wrong with in front of the bleachers, or in front of the barn. The only reason you take somebody behind somewhere to fight is if you're afraid of getting your butt kicked. I remember as a kid, a big guy in Jr. High wanted to fight me at lunch, and said let's meet at the back of the building. I said, “I'm fighting you in the front of the building so everybody can see you get your butt kicked. There will be more than ONE version of the story, and the PEOPLE will decided. I was a politician even then. Anyway, Biden met with HITLER. Scarborough and his chica met with Hitler. The president of Mexico called…     The guy who BANNED a sitting president Silenced MAGABecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kevin-jackson-show--2896352/support.

In this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara and the panel dive right into the breaking news that special counsel Jack Smith asked a judge to drop all charges against President-elect Trump stemming from Smith's investigation into the January 6 U.S. Capitol breach. The decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and it would seem that all the dominos are falling into place. Sara and the panel shift the discussion to defiant Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, who compared his constituents' willingness to defend their sanctuary city and stand against the federal government to their Tiananmen Square moment. Prominent Republicans voiced their outrage, and Mayor Johnson was forced to walk back his incendiary remarks. The panel focuses attention on the absence of government relief and aid in hurricane-ravished North Carolina, where the North Carolina National Guard posted photos and video showing its around-the-clock assistance to all who needed aid, only for it to be exposed as older and outdated footage. Turns out the National Guard vacated the area some time before and was trying to appear as though Guardsmen were still on the ground helping the hurricane victims. The episode concludes with the re-emergence of Kamala Harris, who has been silent since her concession speech. Kamala Harris is back on the radar as her aides announced she is considering her political future with perhaps a 2026 California gubernatorial run or a 2028 presidential run in mind. Sara and the panel encourage her to make another bid for president in 2028. Sara is joined by Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker and BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Tuesday, and we're flipping through the headlines you need to know before the holiday break. First, the 160th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre is on Friday, and Colorado is still grappling with how we've interpreted our own shameful history. Then, Mayor Johnston is already backtracking on some controversial comments he made on Trump's “Operation Aurora,” DPS votes to shut down more neighborhood schools, and state legislators look to overhaul the system for filling vacant seats. Host Bree Davies is joined by Westword editor Patty Calhoun to dig into these headlines plus the Casa Bonita union vote and more. Bree and Olivia talked about our show last week on endangered architecture with Historic Denver's John Deffenbaugh; here's the correct information on the location of our smoke stacks in the City and County's seal. Bree also mentioned our list of local volunteer opportunities we published in the Hey Denver newsletter.  For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter Hey Denver at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm What do you think? Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418‬ Learn more about the other sponsors of this November 26th episode: PineMelon - Use promo code CITYCASTDENVER for $35 off your first delivery Unit E Records Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Woke astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson refused to concede to Bill Maher that boys are more athletic than girls so we're breaking down the biological advantages of men, newly-elected members of Congress are in DC to set up their offices and Democratic Representative Susie Lee from Nevada circulated a guide for newcomers, Denver mayor Mike Johnston compared his city's efforts to stand up against President Donald Trump's mass deportations to Tiananmen Square, Joe Rogan's heated take on the war in Ukraine, and much more!GUEST: Josh FirestineOrder your Home Gym today at https://www.getjackedup.com/. For the whole month of November, Jacked Up Fitness is offering 20% off site wideConnect your Mug Club account to Rumble and enjoy Rumble Premium: https://support.locals.com/en/article/how-do-i-connect-my-locals-account-to-my-rumble-account-on-rumble-vhd2st/SOURCES: https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/sources-november-25-2024

In this episode, I talk about how even the legacy media is starting to turn on Kackles Kamala, why they're turning, and what it all means for November. -- Try Liver Health Formula by going to https://GetLiverHelp.com/Turley and claim your FREE Blood Sugar Formula gift. That's https://GetLiverHelp.com/Turley *The content presented by sponsors may contain affiliate links. When you click and shop the links, Turley Talks may receive a small commission.* Join my new Courageous Conservative Bootcamp and get equipped to fight back and restore foundational values.  Learn more at http://fight.turleytalks.com/join Highlights: “Is the chaos at the border going to be a symbol of your presidency? You can't promise you're going to do all these wonderful things while at the same time blaming Congress for having thwarted those very things!” “Think about Kamala's non-answer to the southern border: we're about finding solutions, not creating problems. But you did! You did create the problem! You're trying to find a solution to a problem you created! Status quoists believe that. They still believe in the very establishment that everyone sees as profoundly broken.”  Timestamps: [00:21] Kamala's ‘60 Minutes' interview with Bill Whitaker [03:34] How she's going to pay for her domestic agenda [05:21] Kamala's response when asked about the border [08:50] Whitaker pointed out that Kamala is an illegitimate candidate [10:51] CBS confronted Tim Walz about lying being in China during the Tiananmen Square protests [13:30] How our politics is being realigned to two groups: brokenists and status quoists  -- Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. FOLLOW me on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/DrTurleyTalks Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! https://advertising.turleytalks.com/sponsorship Sign up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts to get lots of articles on conservative trends: https://turleytalks.com/subscribe/. **All clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

Megyn Kelly is joined by The Daily Mail's Maureen Callahan, author of "Ask Not," to discuss the fallout from Doug Emhoff's alleged assault of his ex-girlfriend, breaking down his semi-denial about it and what key details he didn't address, how the corporate media is trying to bury the story, the shocking details about the story, the corroborating facts that give credibility to the accusations, whether the nanny and the accuser could go public in the future, how most of the media is clearly trying to help and promote Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, NPR admitting their hit piece about Rich Lowry was wrong and a mistake, the knee-jerk instinct to assume the worst about a conservative, the failed effort to cancel Rich over nothing, an MSNBC producer caught on O'Keefe Media hidden camera saying the network is doing all they can to get Kamala Harris elected, MSNBC's hypocrisy on trust and journalism, a new report that suggests the Kamala Harris campaign is panicking over Tim Walz's lies, all the times he explicitly claimed he was in Hong Kong for the Tiananmen Square protests, new disturbing reporting about more than 100 alleged sexual abuse victims of Diddy, mostly silence from the music and A-list Hollywood communities, and more. Callahan's book: https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Not-Kennedys-Women-Destroyed/dp/0316276170  Tax Network USA: https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN Home Title Lock: https://HomeTitleLock.com and use the promo code MEGYNFollow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing Jack Smith's giant Trump January 6 case filing that was conveniently unsealed the day after the VP debate, how this is evidence of "election interference" through a "paper trial," and more. Then Mike Davis, founder of the Article III Project, joins to talk about Jack Smith's "political" filing, the corporate media celebrating the filing, why this is an attempt by Smith and others to hurt Trump's electoral chances before November, what actually is in the indictment that Smith says he fond through using forensic evidence tracking Trump's phone, and more. Then Michael Knowles, host of The Daily Wire's "Michael Knowles Show," joins to discuss Tim Walz's tendency to say he just "talks like everyone" when he is caught in a lie, how that's an insult to Americans, his new spin about the Tiananmen Square lie, Walz's new exaggeration that his son witnessed a shooting, the truth about the Minnesota abortion law under Gov. Tim Walz, the reality of "comfort care" for babies that are born alive after botched abortions, Melania Trump's strongly pro-choice stance in her new memoir, the reaction from "The View" saying she hates Christmas (and her husband), and more.Davis- https://article3project.org/Knowles- https://www.dailywire.com/Blackout Coffee: https://BlackoutCoffee.com/MK or use the code MK for 20% off your first order Tax Network USA: https://TNUSA.com/MEGYN Hungryroot: Go to https://Hungryroot.com/megyn to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies.  Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Dave Smith brings you the latest in politics! On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined by co-host Robbie "The Fire" Bernstein to discuss the vice presidential debate, Time Walz's response to questions about the validity of his presence at Tiananmen Square, the discrepancy between issues that political figures care about and what the American public cares about, and so much more!Part Of The Problem is available for early pre-release at https://partoftheproblem.com as well as an exclusive episode on Thursday!Support Our SponsorsSheath - https://sheathunderwear.com use promo code PROBLEM20Small Batch CigarYo Delta -Get your tickets to Porch Tour Herehttps://porchtour.comFind Run Your Mouth here:YouTube - http://youtube.com/@RunYourMouthiTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/run-your-mouth-podcast/id1211469807Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4ka50RAKTxFTxbtyPP8AHmFollow the show on social media:X:http://x.com/ComicDaveSmithhttp://x.com/RobbieTheFireInstagram:http://instagram.com/theproblemdavesmithhttp://instagram.com/robbiethefire#libertarianSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's a special VP debate episode, with Megyn Kelly joined by Eliana Johnson, Rich Lowry, Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, Dan Turrentine, and Eric Bolling to discuss the brilliant performance by JD Vance, how pathetic Tim Walz was, the terrible CBS moderator Margaret Brennan, Vance taking over the debate and interrupting the fact check by the moderator, the shockingly horrible answer Tim Walz gave about his lie over the Tiananmen Square protests in Hong Kong, his "knucklehead" comment, his freezes and stumbles and how he could have answered differently, and more.Birch Gold: Text MEGYN to 989898 and get your free info kit on goldHungryroot: Go to https://Hungryroot.com/megyn to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

Megyn Kelly begins the show discussing the breaking news about Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and explosive abuse allegations made by his ex-girlfriend, the media and left's push to make Emhoff the new face of "masculinity," and more. Then Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, hosts of The Fifth Column, join to discuss how media bias shapes the narratives around critical issues like abortion and Emhoff allegations, the way the CBS moderators subtly inserted bias into so many of their questions and fact checks, the truth about Tim Walz' abortion policy in Minnesota, the worst moments from Walz's VP debate performance, his terrible answers on foreign policy and his Tiananmen Square trip lie, the gaffes and awkwardness that left viewers questioning his readiness for leadership, the ridiculous way CBS inserted climate change into the VP debate during the second question, how Vance expertly turned the question around, why Margaret Brennan and Norah O'Donnell's VP debate moderation was so terrible, the way they kept trying to "move on" in an annoying way, their focus on appeasing the elites rather than the topics viewers care about, Trump's decision to decline an interview with 60 Minutes, what happened to Trump last time he did a 60 Minutes interview, CBS' challenging interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates regarding his anti-Israel new book, the meltdown from some on the left over it, Coates being portrayed as an expert now and his non-nuanced take on the issue, and more.More from The Fifth Column:https://wethefifth.substack.com/Home Title Lock: https://HomeTitleLock.com and use the promo code MEGYNClub for Growth: Text GROW to 60967Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow 

Today, we sit down with Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer to discuss the latest details on Iran's latest missile attack on Israel. And does America bear any responsibility to intervene? We also recap last night's vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz. Spoiler alert: Our predictions were right! Vance, of course, was the most well-spoken person in the room. Knucklehead Walz tried (and failed) to support his arguments with the Bible and apparently lied about being in Tiananmen Square? Pre-order Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy   ---   Timecodes:   (00:40) VP Debate Recap (07:17) Nervous Tim Walz (11:51) Vance opening answer (16:35) Hurricane Helene and Climate Change (18:44) Immigration (42:09) Walz lied about being in China (44:20) Abortion lies (52:50) Intro to Israel/Iran issue & Josh Hammer (54:15) Hezbollah & Iran proxies (01:06:00) What has Biden/Harris gotten wrong? (01:10:40) The Left's Hamas support (01:13:11) America's responsibility   ---   Today's Sponsors:   Carly Jean Los Angeles — Go to https://www.carlyjeanlosangeles.com and use code ALLIEB to get 20% off your next CJLA order (one-time use only) and start filling your closet with timeless staple pieces.   Good Ranchers — get bonus $25 off with my code ALLIE! Go to Go.GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE, get the ALLIE box.   Covenant Eyes — You can join a safe, confidential community of women where your story and struggle matter. Get the free resource by visiting the QR code on screen: http://ariseforwomen.com/.   Jase Medical — Go to Jase.com and enter code “ALLIE” at checkout for a discount on your order.   ---   Relevant Episodes: Ep 1076 | Hurricane Aftermath: Christians Step Up While Biden Vacations | Guest: Ron Simmons https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1076-hurricane-aftermath-christians-step-up-while/id1359249098?i=1000671464494 Ep 905 | What's Really Going On in Israel? | Guest: Josh Hammer https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-905-whats-really-going-on-in-israel-guest-josh-hammer/id1359249098?i=1000634310661 Ep 1067 | This New European Law Is About to Change the World | Guest: Justin Haskins https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1067-this-new-european-law-is-about-to-change-the/id1359249098?i=1000669739236 Ep 1074 | OBGYN Busts Myths on Miscarriages & Late-Term Abortions | Guest: Dr. Christina Francis https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1074-obgyn-busts-myths-on-miscarriages-late-term/id1359249098?i=1000670827855   ---   Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered,” Sara and her panel break down the debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz. Walz's overly folksy demeanor is criticized while Vance is praised for his calm, polished approach, which reinforces him as a strong GOP leader. The panel highlights how Vance embodies Trump's spirit without overshadowing him, pushing back against biased media narratives. They also discuss Trump's evolution, noting how his aggressive style once alienated independent voters but has since matured, especially after facing opposition from deep-seated institutions like the FBI and CIA. This comes into focus with Trump's multiple indictments. Sara delves into Walz's controversy over false claims about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, calling it part of his pattern of dishonesty. Concerns also rise about Walz's alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party revealed by DHS whistleblowers. Walz's bizarre claim about "becoming friends with school shooters" adds further concerns about his transparency. Meanwhile, the panel critiques media outlets like Politico and MSNBC for their biased coverage, contrasting absurd praise of Walz's performance with critiques of Vance's appearance, highlighting the media's disconnect from reality. Sara and her guests conclude that independent media may be the future as the public increasingly distrusts mainstream outlets. The episode also touches on “Vindicating Trump,” Dinesh D'Souza's latest film, which showcases Trump's resilience against attacks, from character assassination to legal battles, reinforcing his strength as the GOP's leader in these turbulent times. Sara is joined by Jason Buttrill, chief writer and researcher for Glenn Beck, and Dinesh D'Souza, filmmaker and best-selling author.   D'Souza's latest work, “Vindicating Trump,” is available as both a book and a movie, with the film currently in theaters. www.VindicatingTrump.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the 1st of October 1949, a huge crowd gathered in Tiananmen Square. In the shadow of Beijing's imperial Forbidden City, they listened as Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China. The trials and tribulations of the Chinese people were over, he told them, and their liberation from the shackles of imperialism had finally arrived.To mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the PRC, we're joined by Dr Jeremiah Jenne, an expert in Late Imperial and Modern China. He explains how the nation transitioned from imperial rule to Chinese Socialism and all about the key characters whose opposing visions for China's future created so much chaos along the way.Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Sign up HERE for 50% off for 3 months using code ‘DANSNOW'.We'd love to hear from you - what do you want to hear an episode on? You can email the podcast at ds.hh@historyhit.com.You can take part in our listener survey here.