The Pour Over Today - Castro Indicted for Murder, Harvard Caps “A” Grades, SpaceX Makes Finances Public, & More

Starting point is 00:00:01 Hey, this is Catherine. And this is Joe. Today we're talking about former Cuban president Castro being indicted by the U.S. for murder. Harvard faculty voting to limit the number of A's they'll give out to students. SpaceX, making their finances public ahead of its IPO, and other top headlines for Friday, May 22nd. Stay informed while remaining focused on Christ with the pourover. Here's your quote of the day.

Starting point is 00:00:29 judge yourself and beware of passing judgment on others. Thomas Akemppus. Let's get started with some espresso shots. The U.S. has indicted 94-year-old former Cuban president Raul Castro in the 1996 deaths of four Cuban Americans. Castro, serving as Cuba's defense minister at the time, allegedly ordered the shootdown of two planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group flying. rescue missions and dropping pro-democracy leaflets. The murder charges come amid a U.S. pressure campaign, including a fuel blockade that has left many Cubans without power and food. Some Republican lawmakers celebrated what they saw as justice deferred, while a group of Democratic senators introduced a

Starting point is 00:01:23 resolution to stop President Trump from using military force on Cuba. Trump said there are no escalation plans, but that Cuba is, quote, on our mind. Havana called the charges a, quote, political maneuver with no legal foundation, and domestic detractors called them, quote, propaganda to build a case for invasion. Pray with us. Oh, just one, though we long for justice, we confess that sometimes we can't see it clearly through the forests of motives, implications, and consequences of the world stage. So we pray to you who sees all and through all.

Starting point is 00:02:10 May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Call evil to account, lift up the needy, and protect the good. Bring healing to people and lands and use your church for your glory and the world's good. Amen. Harvard is taking a red pen to its own grading curve. On Wednesday, the oldest college in America announced that faculty had voted over well, to cap A's at roughly 20% per undergrad course, and have Latin honors, think cum laude,

Starting point is 00:02:50 hinge on percentile rank, not GPA. There remains no limit on the number of A minuses that can be awarded. Gradeflation, a trend across higher education for decades, has accelerated since the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022. At Harvard, A's have ballooned from 25% of grades in 2005 through 2006 to 60% last year, prompting one professor to call the top grade, quote, meaningless. However, nearly 85% of undergrads disapprove of the change, arguing it could quote, heightened competition, discourage intellectual risk-taking, and infringe on faculty

Starting point is 00:03:33 autonomy. The new rules won't touch current undergrad's just future crimson classes. The grind Kind of working for worldly merits can feel discouraging. Christians can rejoice because we serve an honest master who is far more generous with us than we deserve. In all your endeavors, work to please him. Colossians 3, verses 22 through 24 says, Don't work only while being watched as people pleasers, but work wholeheartedly fearing the Lord.

Starting point is 00:04:12 Whatever you do, do it from the heart. as something done for the Lord and not for people, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ. SpaceX took one giant leap toward its public blast off. The Rocket Maker filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, pulling back the curtain on its financials for the first time in company history. It reported $18.67 billion in 2025 revenue,

Starting point is 00:04:49 a 33% year-over-year boost, but a net loss of $4.94 billion driven by heavy spending on AI development. SpaceX is on course to raise roughly $75 billion at roughly $1.25 trillion valuation from the stock sale. The company, which will trade under the ticker SPCX on NASDAQ, is expected to start its investor roadshow in early June and debut on the market shortly after. Elsewhere on Wall Street, Chipmaker, NVIDIA, beat expectations again, with an 85% jump in quarter one revenue, showing no signs of the deceleration analysts have been bracing for. Here's a verse to consider when the offerings of the world start to eclipse the promises of God. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For everything in the world, the lest of the flesh, the lest of the flesh, the lest of the flesh.

Starting point is 00:05:53 of the eyes and the pride in one's possessions is not from the father, but is from the world. And the world with its lusts is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains forever. 1 John 2 verses 15 through 17. Hey, it's Bailey. And if you're listening to this, I may or may not have just had my first baby. While we're overjoyed to bring home our bundle of joy, navigating this new season is really daunting. But thanks to HelloFresh, I have one less thing to worry about. What's for dinner? HelloFresh takes care of meal planning and grocery shopping. Delivering fresh ingredients and delicious recipes, even sleep-deprived new parents can follow, straight to my door. Plus, they have

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Starting point is 00:07:41 Tuesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued the state, arguing prediction markets fall under federal oversight. At least 14 other states have introduced legislation to regulate or ban the booming betting industry. Another one bites the dust. Representative Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky, became the latest Republican lawmaker to lose his re-election bid to a Trump-backed candidate. President Trump called Massey the, quote, worst Republican congressman in history.

Starting point is 00:08:17 After the seven-term incumbent criticized Trump's handling of Iran and the Epstein files, Massey said voters chose someone who will, quote, Go along to get along. It's the end of a cobera. After a decade as CBS's late-night host, Stephen Colbert aired his final late show last night, putting the 33-year-old Letterman launched franchise to sleep. The network called the cancellation, quote, purely financial,

Starting point is 00:08:48 while Colbert, a frequent critic of President Trump, says the move was political. The late-night Jimmy's, Fallon and Kimmel, went dark to honor Cobar's finale. James Murdoch has hopped from Fox to Vox. The Democrat donating son of conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is paying roughly 300 million for half of Vox Media after leaving his father's News Corps in 2020 over editorial disagreements. The deal includes New York Magazine, Vox.com, and Vox Media's podcast network, while Eater,

Starting point is 00:09:26 The Verge and SB Nation are staying put. The DNC's long-awaited 2020-Election autopsy dropped Thursday. The 192-page report calls out poor messaging, abandoned rural voters, and a disorganized ground game as a few potential causes of death. Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released the postmortem after months of internal pressure and accusations that he was burying it, but warned the reports fall short and risks distracts. from midterms. That's all the headlines we have for today. Here's some good news.

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The Pour Over Today - Castro Indicted for Murder, Harvard Caps “A” Grades, SpaceX Makes Finances Public, & More

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