This week we discuss CNN having the worst primetime ratings in over 30 years, Kamala has another "word salad" moment on Stephen Colbert, Signature Bank having a fundraiser for Congressman now investigating them, Matt Stoller on the National Adderal Shortage, Google releases an AI ChatGPT competitor called Bard, the history of the potential Ebola Lab Leak, How Banks Created Overdraft Fees, and Congress introducing a Tik Tok Ban.

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Andy is joined by Ian Smith, Holly Walsh, Andy Parsons and from The Spectator, Kate Andrews. This week the panel discuss the war in Ukraine one year on, Keir Starmer's missions, and the editing of Dahl.

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The US has finally stopped pretending to be pro-peace: with China proposing a plan for a ceasefire, Secretary of War Antony Blinken announced that stopping the war is unacceptable. And when CodePink’s Medea Benjamin called for Blinken to act as a diplomat instead of a war hawk, she was dragged out of the room by security. The US does not want peace.

So to dig deeper into the US’s aggression, we asked Twitter superhero Michael Tracey to help us unearth more evidence of warmongering weapons-dealers calling themselves politicians.

What he found was a 2014 interview with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, after a trip to Ukraine with best bud John McCain, unknowingly giving away the US’s entire efforts of regime change.

“With him being forthright about the decisive role that the United States played in ousting Yanukovych from power,” Tracey explains, noting that Murphy didn’t know this would become a hot topic. “He’s talking about it as though he’s recounting just an average day’s work that wouldn’t have any noteworthy political content.”

But he tells us why Murphy’s confession is so important: “If today somebody who was not a US senator uttered the same exact words that Murphy did in these clips to describe US conduct in 2014 in Kyiv, they would be accused of being a Russian propagandist.”

Watch the full interview with Michael Tracey on the state department-funded report that Russia is kidnapping Ukraine’s children, Ron Desantis pretending not to be a war hawk, and the House hearing on TikTok, where free speech and free market are only cool if the US gets to do it.

Plus, watch this week’s Thursday Throwdown: "Suck on this!" – Thomas Friedman celebrates 20 years in Iraq.

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-24 Friday

• Headlines for March 24, 2023
• "France Is Furious": Anger Grows at Macron for Raising Retirement Age as Millions Strike & Protest
• Rep. Ro Khanna on Regulating Banks, TikTok, China, Ukraine & His Vote on the "Horrors of Socialism"
• The Candidate and the Spy: James Bamford on Israel's Secret Collusion with Trump to Win 2016 Race
• Cop City: Judge Denies Bond to People Rounded Up in Mass Arrest for Opposing Police Training Facility

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump planning a big show around his potential arrest, Desantis sinking in polls after Trump attacks, MAGA declares war on Desantis, Fed risks bank failure with Rate Hikes, Markets in chaos over Yellen and Powell Incompetence, Putin and Xi meet and pledge a new bond between Russia and China, Rolling Stone covers for alleged Pedophile Reporter, Biden prosecutes anti-Hillary meme poster, Vivek's fake anti-elitism exposed in Jordan Peterson interview, and Waco Survivor and author David Thibodeau joins us to talk about his personal experience in the Waco, Texas tragedy 30 years later.

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-21 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 21, 2023
• "Stop Dirty Banks": Bill McKibben & Ben Jealous on Ending Big Bank Funding for Fossil Fuel Expansion
• U.N. Warns "Climate Time Bomb Is Ticking" as Cyclone Freddy Death Toll Tops 560 in Malawi & Mozambique
• Remembering Mozambican Rapper Azagaia: Police Crack Down on Protests After Death of Cultural Icon
• War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-22 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 22, 2023
• Andrew Bacevich on China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion
• The U.S. Owes Iraq "Just Compensation": Muslim Peacemaker Sami Rasouli on 2003 Invasion & Aftermath

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-23 Thursday

• Headlines for March 23, 2023
• A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During Mental Health Crisis
• "Disaster": Iraqi Journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on U.S. Invasion, Sanctions, Occupation & What's Next

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We’re joined by historian Dr. Eleanor Janega to discuss daily life among the pre-modern peasants, townspeople and nobles of Hell on Earth.

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The FBI’s investigation into activists spreads beyond Denver. In Colorado Springs, a provocatively dressed woman with pink hair shows up to volunteer at a left-wing nonprofit organization. And just like Mickey, she’s taking orders from the FBI. But after several activists are arrested, the pink-haired woman’s cover is blown. 

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Ryan and Emily discuss Trump's imminent arrest, Desantis finally attacking Trump on Covid and White House chaos, China Boosts Russia's War Effort with new drones, Biden Vetoes Anti-Woke ESG Bill, Google unveils an AI Rival to Chat GPT called "Bard", Republicans split over bipartisan Rail Safety bill, and we're joined by Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham to discuss the questions around the Ebola Lab Leak theory in wake of new evidence.

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Democracy Now! 2023-03-20 Monday

• Headlines for March 20, 2023
• "Catastrophic": Iraqi Writers Sinan Antoon & Feurat Alani Reflect on U.S. Invasion 20 Years Later

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We talk to writer, podcaster and union organiser Sopo Japaridze about the protests over the 'Foreign Agents' law in Georgia

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We’re joined by Celebrity Jeopardy! champion Ike Barinholtz to discuss Donald Trump’s potentially imminent arrest, the dismal state of the metaverse, the anti-vaxer quest for clean seed, and Ike’s new series with da god Mel Brooks, History of the World, Part II.

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Context managers power Python's with blocks. They sandwich a code block between enter code and exit code. They're most often used for reusing common cleanup/teardown functionality.

Table of contents

1. Files opened with with close automatically
2. Context managers work in with statements
3. Context managers are like a try-finally block
4. Life without a context manager
5. Using a with block requires a context manager

>>> with open("my_file.txt") as f:
...     contents = f.read()
...

>>> f.closed
True

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Will talks to Betsy and Gloria, two LA public school teachers, ahead of the three-day teachers’ strike planned to begin this Tuesday. They discuss their demands, the conditions in the schools, engaging the local community, and challenges from the LA school district superintendent.

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#!/usr/bin/python3

print("Hello, World!")

#!/usr/bin/python3

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Hello, World!")

$ python3 /path/to/your/script.py
Hello, World!

$ /path/to/your/script.py
Hello, World!

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Grüß Gott")

>>> "Grüß Gott".encode("unicode_escape")
b'Gr\\xfc\\xdf Gott'

$ /usr/bin/python3 -c 'print("Hello, World!")'
Hello, World!

$ python3 -c 'print("Hello, World!")'
Hello, World!

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Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump's claims that he will be arrested on Tuesday, Lawyer Bradley Moss (@BradMossEsq) joins to give his legal opinion on Trump's legal scenario, MAGA demands Desantis block arrest of Trump, Pence is frozen on Trump criticism, Credit Suisse rescued on brink, Biden Sec confirms small banks won't receive same treatment, Putin tours Ukraine Warzone, US infuriated by China's Ukraine Peace Deal, the 20 year anniversary of Iraq, Saagar looks into the insane Anti Lab Leak propaganda, and Krystal looks into Jon Stewart's interview with Larry Summers on Socialism for the Rich.

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For more than 60 years, John Cale has continued to make exciting, challenging and culturally relevant music, including his most recent release, Mercy. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with the Velvet Underground legend about his new music, collaborations and legacy. Plus, the hosts share some of their favorite spy songs and bid farewell to jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

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John Cale, "EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "NIGHT CRAWLING," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
The Velvet Underground and Nico, "Femme Fatale," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground and Nico, "I'm Waiting for the Man," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
John Cale, "Dying On the Vine (Fragments)," Artificial Intelligence, PVC, 1985
John Cale, "MERCY," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man," ...And I Know You Wanna Dance, Imperial, 1966
Tony Allen, "Secret Agent," Secret Agent, World Circuit, 2009
The Fugs, "CIA Man," Virgin Fugs, ESP-Disk, 1967
Gene Vincent, "Private Detective (feat. The Shouts)," Private Detective (feat. The Shouts) (Single), Columbia, 1964
Rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me," Somebody's Watching Me, Motown, 1984
The Untouchables, "I Spy (For the F.B.I.)," Wild Child, MCA, 1985
Lori & The Chameleons, "The Lonely Spy," To the Shores of Lake Placid, Zoo, 1982
Desmond Dekker & the Aces, "007 (Shanty Town)," Action!, Lagoon, 1968
The dB's, "A Spy In the House of Love," Like This, Bearsville, 1984
Big Boys, "Detectives," The Skinny Elvis, Touch and Go, 1993
Steely Dan & Tom Scott, "Aja," Aja, ABC, 1977
Wayne Shorter, "Speak No Evil," Speak No Evil, Blue Note, 1966
Poster Children, "She Walks," Flower Plower, Limited Potential, 1989

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“Why has the Left turned its back on free speech?” asks Christian Parenti, professor of economics and author of Radical Hamilton.

As Democrats censor Matt Taibbi over the Twitter Files, smear journalists Seymour Hersh and Jeff Gerth for reporting facts they don’t like, bury coverage on the Ohio train derailment, and vote for censorship bills in the name of stopping Putin, Parenti recalls a time when it was the Left who were the defenders of the First Amendment.

But now, as US leaders move deeper and darker into warmongering and censorship, lying to us at every turn to grow their power and wealth, Parenti instead asks: “When will the Left stand up to the deep state?”

The most recent move by the rich and powerful is the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank. “This is triage,” Parenti explains. “This is a tourniquet on a shattered leg, and that has to happen. You cannot let the US financial system collapse and not bring down the rest of the economy.” But while he agrees that the bailout is necessary in the short run, Parenti explains that the collapse is the fault of the capitalist system itself. Hear his analysis on how to fix it.

Plus, listen to the full interview on how the FBI intervened in the election, why liberal media is against free speech, and Christian and Aaron’s debate on Trump’s anti-war message.

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Unlocked for Paddy's Day! Ciarán shows the Irish classic sitcom Father Ted to the class

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