It’s another episode of your favorite podcast, and it is somehow one of the shortest episodes we’ve made in a long time but also as it turns out just about our normal two hours of yapping. What strange majicks make such a thing possible? Failure and editing, that’s what! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — The insatiable, broken-faced man
8:08 — WGAS NewsBag; Hegseth in group chat mess redux; unaccountable deportation program continues; FDA to ban some food dyes; SCOTUS hears gay marriage books in class case
58:06 — Political scientists say we really screwed up our COVID response
1:10:54 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:15:25 — Wrap-up! Sinners; The Last of Us 2;
1:29:00 — Bonus CIB, A Failed Conversation Edition
Relevant Linkage
NYT: Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
BBC: Trump backs defence secretary after reports of second Signal chat leak
Politico: Opinion | Former Top Pentagon Spokesperson Details ‘Month From Hell’ Inside the Agency
Politico: Top Pentagon official at center of Jackie Robinson controversy to resign
The Guardian: Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says
The Guardian: US senator says margaritas in photo with wrongly deported man planted by El Salvador – as it happened
NYT: An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’
BBC: Kennedy announces ban on artificial dyes in food and drinks
NYT The Daily: Were the COVID lockdowns worth it?
The Gist: Macedo and Frances Lee In Covid's Wake
The Gist: When Experts Circle the Wagons, The Public Wanders Off
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