News On Tap For Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025

Standing Tall Against Terrorist Thugs

Today’s “News On Tap” will put some steel in your spine, as we celebrate a few more wins, and point out how weak & stupid Trump’s halfascism & mob thugocracy is. There’s key shutdown news too, as Russ Vought is about to try another illegal move, and JV Vance gets it wrong on the shooting in Texas too. Plus a red alert in Election Land, and some “Excellent” entertainment news. Plus, John Fugelsang is stopping by tonight before his big livestream later tonight. But first…

First Round - When We Fight, We Win

• ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Sees Huge Boost In Post-Suspension Return; 6.26M Viewers Over TV, More Than 26M Views On YouTube & Social Media

• Federal Judge Rules It’s Unconstitutional For Trump Admin. To Require States To Cooperate With ICE In Order To Get FEMA Grants

• Adam Serwer: The Surrender Of America’s So-Called Elites Proves They’re Lower Than Cowards. Most Americans Are Better Than That. [Gift Link]

Second Round - Trump’s Mob Thugocracy

Tilting At Windmills

• Newly Appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan Will Attempt To Charge James Comey, Despite Prosecutors Finding No Probable Cause

• Lindsey Halligan, The Wildly Unqualified Lawyer Trump Just Named To Prosecute Trump’s Enemies

• Benjamin Wittes & Anna Bower: Lindsey Halligan’s Choices Are A Loser In Every Direction

Criminals & Rats

• Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan Still Involved In Detention Contract Talks, Despite Claiming He’d Recused Himself

• House & Senate Democrats Are Now Investigating Law Firms Over The Legality Of Their Alleged Work For The Trump Admin.

• Hegseth Orders Rare, Urgent Meeting Of Hundreds Of Generals & Admirals - & No One Knows The Reason For The Meeting

• Rats Beginning To Abandon Ship: Top Trump Aide Taylor Budowich Ditches The White House As Staffer Exodus Increases Pace

Third Round - Shutdown Fight: Russ-ian Attack

• White House Begins Plan For Mass Firings If There’s A Government Shutdown [Gift Link]

• Russ Vought At OMB Now Planning To Illegally Execute Mass Firing Plans During Coming Shutdown

• CBPP: Trump Administration’s Rumored Mass Layoffs Of Federal Workers Are Illegal

• Flashback, Feb. 2025: How Civil Service Laws Apply To Trump’s Purges Of Govt. Workers

• Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin. Mass Firing Of Federal Employees Was Illegal

• Republicans’ Shutdown Blame Game Is Fracturing Their Party

Fourth Round - Making America A Disaster

Violence In America

• Texas ICE Facility Shooting: One Dead, Two Injured; FBI Claims ‘Anti-ICE’ Shell Casings Found

• JD Vance Rushes To Exploit ICE Shooting, Blaming Democrats For Violence, Before Knowing Any Details About Shooter

• Early Bio On Texas ICE Shooter: Another Perpetually Online Young White Man, Who Was Vaguely Libertarian, & Despised Both Major Parties & Politicians

• Data Proves Right-Wing Violence Is Vastly More Frequent And More Deadly Than Left-Wing Violence In The U.S.

The Trump/Epstein Cover Up

• Top Trump WH Allies & Republicans Working Behind The Scenes To Prevent Epstein Vote On House Floor

• Inside The White House Struggle To Tame The Epstein Crisis

• Congressman Massie Says Congressional Republican Leaders Directly Threatened Supporters Of The Push To Release Epstein Files

Fifth Round - More News To Drink About

Foreign Affairs

• NORAD Scrambles U.S. Fighter Jets To Intercept Russian Warplanes Near Alaska

• Palestinian President At U.N. Pledges Hamas Will Have No Role In Governing Postwar Gaza

• Paris Court Sentences Former French Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy To 5 Years In Prison For Criminal Conspiracy In Libya Case

Election Land

• New Poll In New Jersey Governor’s Race Shows Democrat Mikie Sherrill And Republican Jack Ciattarelli Tied

• Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza: Message To Democrats - Data Proves Supporting Trans Rights Doesn’t Cost Elections. It Helps Win Them.

Sixth Round - Entertainment & More

• Broadway Box Office: ‘Waiting For Godot’ With Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter, & ‘Hamilton’ With Leslie Odom Jr. Lead A Sell-Out Week

• South Park Savages FCC Chair Brendan Carr, In New Episode After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, While Kyle’s Mom Goes To Israel To Yell At Netanyahu

• Rick Moranis Officially Ends Retirement For ‘Spaceballs 2,’ Sequel Announces Full Cast As Filming Starts

• Cleveland Guardians Beat Detroit Tigers, Take Sole Possession Of First Place In Al Central

• Seattle Mariners Hold Off Houston Astros, Secure Division Title For First Time Since 2001

• A’ja Wilson Scores 25 Points As Vegas Aces Even WNBA Semifinal Series At 1-1 With Blowout Win Over Indiana Fever

• Phoenix Mercury Make Historic Comeback, Tie Up WNBA Semifinal Series With Minnesota Lynx

Tonight’s Bar Regular:

John Fugelsang, broadcaster, podcaster, comedian, & friend – & the Host of “Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang” weeknights on Sirius XM – is stopping by the bar for a couple rounds tonight before he heads to the 92nd Street Y for a conversation with Cristela Alonzo about his great new book, “Separation of Church and Hate” - which you can also watch on livestream if you can’t get there. He’ll talk with us about today’s news, and about several of the topics he’s written about recently on his great Substack.

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