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Trump’s Press Conference Tirade of Child-like Petulance That Biden Had Been Taken Away Like His Favorite Toy, and Now He’s Stuck Having to Run Against a Black Woman We begin with Trump’s press conference today at Mar-a-Lago at which he rambled on about his grievances, starting off with a tirade of child-like petulance that Joe … Continued


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With Millions From Republican Billionaires, AIPAC Unseats Another Member of The Squad We begin with a second member of The Squad of progressive Democrats in the House who has been primaried by AIPAC with money from Republican billionaires. This time in Missouri yesterday, where Cori Bush lost her seat to Wesley Bell in the Democratic … Continued


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What the VP Pick Tim Walz Brings to the Electoral Map We begin with an analysis of what Governor Tim Walz brings to the Harris/Walz ticket and speak with Jonathan Alter, an analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. He is a former senior editor and columnist for Newsweek and the author of The Promise: … Continued


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Governor Tim Walz May be Kamala Harris’ Pick For VP We begin with the latest speculation that Kamala Harris’s pick for Vice President will be Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, since the favorite candidate, Governor Josh Shapiro, may be disqualified because he worked for the Israel embassy in Washington in 1996. Given the dissatisfaction among young … Continued


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Russia Swaps Innocent Hostages For Putin’s Spies, Criminals, and Hackers We begin with today’s prisoner swap with Russia that involved an exchange which took place at an airport in Ankara, Turkey, with 24 prisoners imprisoned in seven different countries, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine arrested in … Continued


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With Assassinations in Tehran and Beirut, Netanyahu Taunts Iran and Hezbollah to Bring It On We begin with the assassination of Hamas’s top negotiator by a missile in Tehran, where Ismail Haniyeh was attending the inauguration of Iran’s new president. We discuss the near certainty that Israel was behind the assassination, along with the killing … Continued


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Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Plans, Now That Leonard Leo and the Federalists Have Stacked the Courts We begin with President Biden’s call for reform of the Supreme Court on Monday, which fell short of adding new justices to the bench; but that hasn’t stopped the Republicans from fulminating that he plans to stack the court, … Continued


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Venezuela’s Maduro Defies Most of the World, Claiming Victory When the Vote Was as Much as 70 to 30% Against Him We begin with the election results in Venezuela and the victory claimed by Maduro that are widely seen as fraudulent. with Chile’s leftist president saying “Maduro’s regime must understand that the results are hard … Continued


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A Former State Department Official Who Just Quit Over Gaza on Netanyahu’s 4th Address to a Joint Session of Congress We begin with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 4th address today to a joint session of Congress and speak with a former State Department official who recently quit over the war in Gaza and President Biden’s … Continued


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