News On Tap For Tuesday, May 27, 2025

A Monday Kind Of Tuesday

On today’s news menu, we’’ll catch you up on what you may have missed over the weekend, , check in with today’s crazy news, and lift up your spirits with some music and sports news..

First Round - Catching Up From The Weekend

• Memorial Day: Trump Vs Reality

• Donald Trump Chooses Memorial Day To Lash Out At His Political Foes Rather Than Honor Fallen Heroes

• Trump Politicizes West Point Commencement Speech, Blasting Diversity, Whining About His Convictions, & Telling Army Grads To Avoid "Trophy Wives"

• Meanwhile, At Veterans Affairs, The Trump Administration Plan For Brutal & Sweeping Budget Cuts Is Seriously Tanking Morale

• Trump Tariff Backtrack

• Trump Backtracks On 50% Tariffs On EU (Set On Friday), Sets New Deadline Of July 9 For Trade Deal

• EU Now Says It Will Fast-Track Tariff Talks With U.S. After Trump Tariff Two-Step

Second Round - New News To Make You Drink

• The Right's War On Education

• Trump Now Says He's Intending To Cancel All Federal Funds Directed To Harvard

• As Trump Targets Elite Schools, Harvard's President Says They Should Stand Firm

• Adam Serwer: The Trump Admin. Has Launched An Attack On Knowledge Itself & Is Threatening To Plunge Us Into A New Dark Age [Gift Link]

• The Corrupt Trump Govt.

• Trump Pardons Former Virginia Sheriff & MAGA Supporter Convicted Of Federal Bribery Charges

• Trump Blasts ‘Corrupt And Weaponized Biden DOJ’ While Pardoning Sheriff Convicted In Bribery Scheme

• Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After His Mother Attended $1 Million Fund-Raising Dinner At Mar-A-Lago

• Trump vs Putin & - vs Ukraine

• Trump Said To Be Considering New Sanctions On Russia As He Grows Frustrated Over Putin's Attacks On Ukraine

• Kremlin Calls Trump 'Emotional' After U.S. President Says Putin Is 'Crazy' For Continuing To Blast Ukraine

• Zelensky To Head To Berlin As Germany's Chancellor Merz Steps Forward As Key Backer Of Ukraine

• The Horror In Gaza Continues

• Israeli Strikes Kill 52 In Gaza Including 36 In A School-Turned-Shelter

• Israel's Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Calls Current Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'

• Palestinian Official Says Hamas Agrees To Trump Admin. Gaza Cease Fire Proposal, Israel Dismisses It & Says It Wasn't Trump's Idea At All

Third Round - Entertainment & More

• American Music Awards Return After 2-Year Hiatus; Janet Jackson Wows With First TV Performance In 7 Years

• American Music Awards Winners 2025: Billie Eilish Sweeps In All Seven Nominated Categories, Beyoncé & Eminem Take Home Two Each

• "Lilo & Stitch" & "Mission Impossible" Make For A Monster Memorial Day Weekend Box Office With $145.5M Haul

• WNBA's Indiana Fever Star Caitlin Clark To Miss At Least 2 Weeks With A Left Quad Strain

• Nebraska Baseball Crushes UCLA To Grab Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Winning Second-Straight Conference Title

• Trump Threatens To Withhold Federal Funding From The State Of California Over A Single Transgender High School Athlete Being Allowed To Compete

• Rest In Power: Fmr. Rep. Charlie Rangel, Powerful Voice For Harlem In Congress, Dies At 94

Today’s Special Guest

Joe Walsh, former Republican Congressman, former MAGA member – and friend of progressive podcaster Jo Carducci (JoJo From Jerz) will join us to talk about his new podcast, “The Social Contract With Joe Walsh.” We’ll also talk about what sane conservatives actually think about the second Trump era these days, and how the greater Midwest may have lessons in U.S. politics for all of us..

Your Bar Guest For Today

While you’re always welcome to join us from anywhere, we’ve got a great friend of ours up at the main bar today:

• Kimberley Johnson, author, activist, friend of the show, and podcast host of both “Start Me Up with Kimberley Johnson” & “The Seeker” will join us today to talk about issues in today’s news regarding women’s rights, gender equity, & gender equality. She may also mention that other podcast host & artist she occasional shares a refrigerator with, Bob Cesca.

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