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3 days ago | cascadepbs.org | Brandon Block

Or, as Cory Doctorow puts it, “ensh-ttified.”Listen to the full sessions on the weekly Cascade PBS Ideas Festival podcast. “The thesis of ensh-ttification is whether or not you’re paying for the product, you’re the product,” said Doctorow, a journalist and tech activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who coined the term in a 2022 article and has expanded his analysis into a forthcoming book of that name.

4 days ago | cascadepbs.org | Laurel Demkovich

“To be conservative has now been equated with being angry and engaging in grievance politics, and it’s just not for me,” said Flake, former ambassador to Turkey and current director of the Institute of Politics at Arizona State University. Listen to the full sessions on the weekly Cascade PBS Ideas Festival podcast. Flake served in the U.S. Senate from 2013 to 2019 and knows firsthand what it’s like to stand up to President Donald Trump.

4 days ago | cascadepbs.org | Farah Eltohamy

Valdez said her lot rent — what she pays for the ground under her mobile home — had nearly doubled in the past decade, and she expected to face another $100-a-month increase in July. “$100 – it’s like worth a week of groceries for my kids, it’s half of my energy bill, it’s a pair of shoes for my kids, it’s even having to choose to have a Saturday evening at the movies, or an ice cream or something,” she said.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Kamau tells host Rachel Belle about the delightfully different flavor of attention that came with winning Celebrity Jeopardy; how rare it is to find his favorite kind of burrito in California’s Bay Area, a region famous for burritos; and how losing a family member means he’ll never taste his favorite birthday cake again. Listen to last week's episode of Your Last Meal with W. Kamau Bell!Subscribe to Your Last Meal on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Maggie Mertens

Washington’s OSPI first caught the federal government’s attention thanks to the release of findings from a yearslong investigation into a discrimination complaint against La Center School District in Clark County.