News On Tap For Thursday, May 22, 2025

Bad Policies, Worse Politics

On tap today, U.S. House Republicans are cheering their own political suicide, racist murders in DC & racist white lies in the White House, and [political news topic #3].

First Round - Today’s News To Make You Drink

• The Big Bad Ugly Spending Bill

• Republican-led House passes Trump's massive tax cuts & spending bill by a single vote

• Michael Cohen: The Many Reasons Republicans want to hide what’s in their newly passed megabill

• The Republican Plan to Bury Medicaid Users in Paperwork [Gift Link]

• Charlie Pierce: Sorry, Grandma and Grandpa, but Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is Also Coming for Medicare

• The House Passed Trump’s Megabill. Bond Investors Are Now Really Worried.

• Paul Krugman: If Foreign Nations Stop Believing The U.S. Is A Good Investment, The Bond Markets Will Hit A Wall. Here's What That Sudden Stop Would Look Like.

• The Corrupt Trump Regime

• Trump to host highly corrupt private dinner at his Virginia golf club tonight for investors in his private memecoin, with each seat an average of $1M

• Pro-Publica: New Investigation Shows More Than a Dozen Trump Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sank the Market, Netting Them A Fortune

• Hate In America

• Two Israeli Embassy staff shot and killed in front of Capital Jewish Museum in DC

• Trump confronts South African President with false claims of genocide in Oval Office ambush

• Trump Claimed a Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.

Second Round - More News To Drink About

Justice

• Supreme Court blocks Oklahoma from launching taxpayer-funded religious charter school in 4-4 vote

• Elie Mystal: An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas

• Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle Education Department, and orders admin. to reinstate all employees fired during illegal mass layoffs

• Federal judge dismisses charges against Newark Mayor Baraka, while sternly reprimanding Interim U.S. Atty Alina Habba & other prosecutors

Injustice

• Hidden Provision in Trump's Big Ugly Budget Bill Could Disarm U.S. Courts – Including The Supreme Court – From Enforcing Contempt Citations

• Charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver spark backlash after incident with ICE agents

• Elie Mystal: Progressives Need to Stand Up for Rep. LaMonica McIver

Third Round - Entertainment & More

• ABC News head tells 'The View' hosts - who are in the entertainment division - to tone down Trump criticism

• Taylor Swift now finally may have the chance to buy back her original recordings

• NY Knicks fans both inside & outside Madison Square Garden stunned by Game 1 collapse against the Indiana Pacers

• Caitlin Clark Speaks Out Against Racist Slurs Hurled at Angel Reese: ‘There’s No Place for That in our Society’ or the WNBA

Today’s Special Guest

Elie Mystal, legal expert and author of “Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America” will join us to recap his “Open Letter To Clarence Thomas” in The Nation preview, SCOTUS’ decision in the Oklahoma religious school charter case - which was surprisingly good - and other bad decisions sure to come in June from the Supreme Court & this Republican Congress.

Your Bar Guests For Today

While you’re always welcome to join us from wherever you are, we’ve also got a couple of our friends up at the main bar tonight:

• Frangela, the comedic duo formed from the genius of Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton, are long time friends of both Jody & Shawn. They’ll join us to talk about their podcasts “The Final Word” and “Idiot Of The Week” - which, to some degree, is always Donald Trump - and other topics in the news vexxing them this week.

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