News On Tap For Friday, May 30, 2025

Raising A Glass To A Long Short Week

In today’s news menu, the right-wing war on immigrants rolls on, there’s another Trumper tantrum over tariffs, , [story reference two], and a we get éclaircissement on a few things, including the winner of the National Spelling Bee. Plus, Matt McNEil & Cliff Schecter will belly up to the bar with us!.

First Round - The News Of The Day

• The Right’s Dirty Immigration Wars Roll On

• U.S. Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin. To Revoke Temporary Protected Legal Status Of 500,000 Immigrants From Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua & Venezuela

• DHS Sec. Kristi Noem Claimed An Immigrant Threatened To Kill Trump. Investigators Now Believe He Was Set Up.

• New Investigation Proves Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority Of Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted Of U.S. Crimes

• Fascism Is Here

• State Department Set To Launch An ‘Office Of Remigration’ A Concept Of Which Has Explicitly Neo-Nazi Roots

• The Office Of Personnel Management's New So-Called ‘Merit’ Hiring Plan Includes A New Highly Politicized Test (Which Is Explicitly Against The Law)

• More Tariff Turmoil

• Trump Tariffs Reinstated By Federal Appeals Court While Appeal Winds Its Way Through The Courts

• Trump Goes After Leonard Leo And The Federalist Society In Fury Over Tariff Ruling

• Trumpland's Corruption Continues

• SEC Drops Lawsuit Against Binance, The World's Largest Crypto Exchange, After New Trump-Backed Stablecoin Launches On Their Platform

• Will Bunch: Your Guide To Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 Billion Corruption Scandal That’s 10 Times Bigger Than Watergate

• Paul Krugman: It's Time To Call Crypto What It Is - A Criminal Enterprise
  

Second Round - More News To Drink About

• Don't Let The Door Hit Ya…

• Trump To Hold Goodbye Media Event For Elon Musk Today At White House

• On The 2024 Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Ketamine, Ecstasy, Mushrooms, And Family Drama, While Advising Donald Trump

• Michelle Goldberg: Elon Musk’s Real White House Era Legacy Is Disease, Starvation, And Death [Gift Link]

• Unhealthy America

• New Supposed White House Health Report Included Fake Citations, Apparently Created By Ai

• Ai Experts Find Definitive Proof RFK Jr's MAHA "Health" Report Used ChatGPT

• American Doctors Are Now Relocating To Canada To Avoid The Trump Administration

• Inequality In America

• CEO Pay Rose Nearly 10% In 2024 And Outpaced Workers' Wage Gains

• Who Gets Hurt When Congress Cuts Healthcare And Food Aid? Everyone But The Rich.

• Climate Crisis

• Recent Canadian Wildfires Are Record-Breaking – And Will Threaten US Air Quality For Days

• Charlie Pierce: This Swiss Village Was Buried by a Glacier. Climate Change Deniers Should Take Notice.
  

Third Round - Entertainment & More

• 13-Year-Old Faizan Zaki Wins 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee In His Fourth Appearance

• Faizan Zaki Wins 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee A Year After Heartbreaking Runner-Up Finish

• Miley Cyrus Releases New Album, Her Ninth, Called 'Something Beautiful'

• Eddie Murphy And Martin Lawrence's Kids Marry In Quiet Private Wedding, Officially Making The Two Comedians In-Laws

• In The Knick Of Time: Defiant Knicks Keep Season Alive With Game 5 Win Over Pacers In East Finals

• Charlie Woods, Tiger's Son, Wins His First American Junior Golf Tournament

Your Bar Guests For Today

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

• Matt McNeil, a proud Minnesotan & proud progressive, is also the host of "The Matt McNeil Show" weeknights on your favorite progressive radio station, as well as the writer of the Progressive Citizen X blog. Matt will join us today to talk about the five year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, things in Minnesota politics the rest of the nation may not know, and whatever else is on his mind.

• Cliff Schecter, author, columnist, political commentator, & former Democratic campaign PR creator, is joining us at the bar today to talk about the day's news & his latest effort, Blue Amp, a media platform to help amplify the good & expose the bad. Also, he's going to try REALLY hard not to swear. (Don't temp him, Donnie!)

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