Tara Devlin — Tara is one of my faves from the Political Voices Network, and her Tarabuster Substack is a regular destination for me. Links in the description for that. Today Tara and I talke…

Nitwittery — Donald invited attacks against Los Angeles and San Diego again. He also said he can do whatever he wants. He said the $5000 that we’ll never see has to be spent inside the US. He…

Episode 1029 uses H.G. Wells’ Eloi and Morlocks from “The Time Machine” to explain how the Republican intellectual class spent decades designing policy in comfortable think tanks while ignoring the ug...

Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration has to date canceled enforcement actions inherited from the Biden administration against 205 corporations,…

" They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. "    --   Denis...

Clock Blocker — 28 days out, are we feeling good about November 3? Donald encouraged attacks against Los Angeles and San Diego. Donald doxed Tom Cotton over the Sunshine Protection Act and Da…

Officials have deported LGBTQ people to Sierra Leone, where they could face life in prison for same-sex activity.

Evaluating the health records of over 2.5 million children, researchers found no evidence that receiving the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine before age two increases the risk of a childhood autism...

Fart Barking — What’s the deal with Donald’s weird puppet legs. Donald’s screwy TIME Magazine interview. He regrets nominating all three of his Supreme Court justices. He pl…

Episode 1027 tracks the widening cracks in MAGA's coalition as elite Conservatives and Republican officeholders begin quietly distancing themselves from Trump while his approval craters to 31%, provin...

Donna Halper Returns — The great Donna Halper is here and once again we focused on her areas of expertise: the news media and, of course, a little bit of Rush discourse in there, too. For tho…

Episode 1026 marks the 18th anniversary of the 2008 financial crash by pointing out MAGA voters' selective amnesia about who was president when, then pivots to a Springfield civic meeting on election ...

Not A Black Hole — It’s just me and Jody today. Donald fell asleep in public again yesterday, just after whining about “Sleepy Joe.” MLB and Donald discuss a new baseball st…

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.

Episode 1025 opens with a longer off-the-cuff discussion of Mehmet Oz stripping people from Obamacare and the GLP-1 "bridge" program from Medicare, both moves that seem designed to serve Trump's ego a...

Stabby Lips — What the hell happened on the tarmac with President Xi yesterday? The White House released a bizarre AI image of the event. It’s fun to see a bully in fear and pain. A Tru…

Driftglass Day — You know Driftglass him from the award winning Professional Left podcast – proleftpod.com. He’s also an every-three-weeks regular on this show. Like David yesterday, Driftgla…

Kaz-ack-a-stan — David has internet problems so it’s just me and Jody on the show! Sleepy Donald did a thing at the UN today. The Cuban delegation walked out of the speech while Trump c…

" Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. "    --   Groucho Marx ...

The ruling was particularly notable because DOJ’s own attorney conceded during oral arguments last month that Washington’s case was factually indistinguishable from the department’s other voter roll l...