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We begin with the House Republican budget that Speaker McCarthy barely got enough votes from his side to pass 217 to 215 which is dead on arrival and has nothing to do with raising the debt limit but is being used as leverage to exact Draconian cuts in an already inadequate social safety net. We … Continued
We begin with what Ukraine’s President Zelensky described today as a “long and meaningful” conversation between him and China’s President Xi Jinping in which Xi promised to send a peace delegation to Kyiv apparently pledging that China would remain neutral in the conflict, with Xi saying Beijing “will neither watch the fire from the other … Continued
We begin with the announcement today by President Biden that he is running for a second term at the end of which he would be 86. We examine the concern among some Democrats that it might be difficult to get young voters to the polls who are not inspired by the party’s gerontocracy with too … Continued
We begin with the unceremonious and abrupt firing of Fox News’s highest paid and highest rated prime time presenter, Tucker Carlson, with little to no explanation from the Murdoch family after Carlson had promised on his Friday show to be back on Monday. With speculation that his firing was a result of the Dominion settlement, … Continued
We begin with the Supreme Court stay on the abortion pill case keeping medication abortion legal for a while which brought a blistering dissent from Justices Alito and Thomas and will eventually go back to the conservative 5th Circuit and likely the Supreme Court. With both Alito and Thomas having the opposite of a judicial … Continued
We begin by mentioning what was predicted on yesterday’s program that the Murdochs would settle with Dominion and that just happened with Fox News agreeing to pay Dominion $787.5 million. Also today the House Republican caucus met behind closed doors where Speaker McCarthy tried to wrangle the 218 votes needed to pass his budget proposal … Continued
