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Here’s what we’re talking about today.
This is a quick rundown of the topics we’ll be covering on today’s show. You can hit play to listen, or read the transcript below if that’s more your style.
Transcript:
The man who calls himself the “anti-war president” just sent American troops to seize an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. We’re talking about helicopters and ropes and tactical teams and the whole thing. And when reporters asked, What happens to the oil in the tanker? Trump says, I think we keep it. I don’t know if this is foreign policy or simply piracy. We’ll talk about it.
We will then get to the economy, where the Fed Chair Jerome Powell drops a brutal warning and says he believes not only is inflation going to be trending up, but that the terrible jobs numbers we’ve been seeing may actually be better than the truth. In other words that the real job situation may be even worse. And meanwhile, the Fed is making decisions about interest rates, with most of the data missing because the Trump administration has canceled or delayed it.
We will also talk about measles. This is not an episode from 1925. This is an episode from 2025. The measles circumstances and outbreaks are exploding under Donald Trump. Anti-vax nonsense from RFK Jr. is part of it.
And we are also going to talk about whether authoritarians need to be popular, or whether the whole point of being an authoritarian is that you no longer need the people on your side. Plus, new photos of Trump once again show how bruised, bandaged and yellow he is, and legacy and corporate media is barely interested in the story.
Also, now that we’ve demolished part of the White House, is there a plan to rebuild and to put it back together? The truth is terrifying, but I will tell you, because I would never hold back the truth from you.
All of that today.
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