News On Tap For Friday, June 06, 2025

They've Got L.D.E.

In your News On Tap today, it’s the end of the week, and we’ll talk about that ridiculous fight - or fake fight - between Trump & Musk, the Big Bad Bumbling Bloated Budget Bill, Pete Kegbreath’s latest mistake, and we’ve got the hosts of Tru Blu Politics - Karen from Chicago & Anita from San Antonio - in the bar too.
Grab a drink, grab a seat, & join us!

First Round - The News Of The Day

• Monster Fight Or White House Kayfabe?

• Trump And Musk’s Relationship Flames Out As Intensely And Publicly As It Started

• Trump Tells ABC Musk 'Lost His Mind,"; Trump "Not Particularly Interested" In Talking To Musk Right Now

• A Timeline Of Musk And Trump’s Devolving Relationship

• Nervous Republicans Flee Trump-Musk Blast Radius

• David Rothkopf: Enjoy The Trump-Musk Fight But Remember: They’re Both Monsters.

• The Big Bad Bumbling Bloated Budget Bill

• Problems Are Proliferating In The Senate For Republicans & Trump’s Big Ugly Tax & Spending Bill

• Senate Republicans Open The Door To Cutting Medicare Funding In Big Ugly Tax & Spending Bill, While Falsely Claiming They're Cutting Waste

• Hans Nichols & Stef W. Kight: Republicans Are Grabbing The Third Rail Of Policy With Their Medicare And Medicaid Cuts

• Trump's Troubled Economy

• Job Growth Held Steady In May, But On Jobs, 2025 Is Off To The Worst Start Since The Great Recession (Excluding The Pandemic)

• The True Cost Of Trump’s Tariffs Is Coming As Rising Prices & Layoffs Add Up

• Steve Rattner: Manufacturing Jobs Like Those Trump Has Championed Are Never Coming Back To The U.S.

Second Round - More News To Drink About

• Immigration Wars

• Breaking News: Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to U.S. to face criminal charges from Pam Bondi & Trump's DOJ

• ICE Officers Stuck In Djibouti Shipping Container With Deported Migrants, Now Facing Malaria And Potential Rocket Attacks [Gift Link]

• ICE Agents Mistakenly Detain Deputy U.S. Marshal In Tucson, Feds Confirm

• ICE Agents Arrest 15 People, Including 3-Year-Old Child, In San Francisco

• Judge Grants Bond, Releases Massachusetts High School Student Arrested By ICE

• The Right's War On Education

• In Emergency Appeal, Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Gut Education Department

• Judge Blocks Trump Admin. Effort To Deny Visas To Foreign Students Coming To Harvard

• Charlie Pierce: Trump Continues To Go After Harvard - And Keeps Failing - With Vengeful, Reckless Stupidity

Foreign Affairs

• Russia Launches One Of War’s Largest Air Attacks Days After Ukraine’s Bomber Raid

• Trump's Off-The-Cuff Comment To Germany's Chancellor That Russia's War On Ukraine Is "Like Two Children Fighting In A Park" Has Ukrainians Spitting Mad

• Leftovers

• Trump's DC Parade Will Halt National Airport Flights For Several Hours On June 14th

• As D-Day Heroes Mark 81st Normandy Anniversary, Hegseth Dishonors Veterans & America By Appearing At Ceremonies

Third Round - Entertainment & More

• After Days Of Flip-Flopping & Backlash, National Park Service Closes Washington DC's Dupont Circle Park Through WorldPride Festivities This Weekend

• Why George Clooney’s "Good Night And Good Luck" Broadway Show Is Doing A CNN Broadcast This Weekend

• 2025 Tony Awards Predictions: Best New Musical, Best Leading Actress And More

• Coco Gauff Advances To French Open Final

• Tyrese Haliburton Helps Indiana Pacers To Stunning Win Over OKC Thunder In Game 1 Of NBA Finals

• Florida Panthers Look To Even The Stanley Cup Finals Series Against The Edmonton Oilers In Game 2

• Women's College World Series: Texas Tech Evens Series With 4-3 Win, Setting Up Decisive Game 3

Your Bar Guests For Today

While you’re always welcome to join us from anywhere, we’ve got a couple of our friends up at the main bar today who you’ll hear on today’s show

• The Hosts of Tru Blu Politics, Karen from Chicago & Anita From San Antonio, will be joining us at the bar today to talk about all the insanity we’ve seen in our politics this week - and to celebrate the good things that happen this week too!

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