On Tap For Wednesday, May 21, 2025

A Day For Sparkles & Swearing

On today’s news menu, Republicans in Congress are striving valiantly to screw the poor, we’re living in a kakistocracy in the U.S., and “Norm” is dead. Also, F*** Cancer.

First Round - The News Of The Day

• The Big Ugly Republican Bill

• House Republicans Are Grinding Ahead With Trump’s Big Tax & Spending Bill, But New Non-Partisan CBO Report Says It Will Massively Add To Deficit

• Steve Benen: Non-Partisan CBO Analysis Confirms Trump & Republican's Big Ugly Spending Bill Would Give To The Rich And Take From The Poor

• Senate Unexpectedly Passes The 'No Tax On Tips Act' In A Unanimous Vote, Taking Away Another Selling Point For The Republican Spending Bill

• Kakistocracy

• Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus During Senate Hearing, Denies DHS Will Host Citizenship TV Show

• New Documents Show Top Aide To DNI Tulsi Gabbard, Altered Intelligence About The Trump Admin Claim That Venezuela’s Govt. Controls A Criminal Gang [Gift Link]

• Trump DOJ Opens Inquiry Into Andrew Cuomo, As He's Running For NYC Mayor, Singling Out Another Political Target

• Sen. Ron Wyden Says He Has Proof Of Favors 'Promised' By Billy Long, Trump's Nominee For IRS Commissioner

Second Round - More News To Drink About

• They Don't Care About Us

• New Investigation Finds Giant Healthcare Corporation Unitedhealth Secretly Paid Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers For Ailing Residents

• Diseases Are Spreading. The CDC Is No Longer Warning The Public Like It Has For Decades

• Rogé Karma: Trump’s Plan To Cap Drug Prices Doesn’t Exist [Gift Link]

• Universities Are Now Struggling To Keep Cancer Research Afloat Amid Trump Administrations' Deep Cuts To Funding

• Fck Cancer

• Randi Rhodes' Update: Cancer & Our Messed Up U.S. "Health Care" System

• Rep. Gerald Connolly, Congressman Who Protected Federal Workforce, Dies At 75

Third Round - Entertainment & More

• George Wendt Dead: Cheers Actor Was 76

• Chris Brown Released on £5M ($6.7M) Bail So He Can Continue with His Upcoming Tour After Arrest in Serious Assault Case

• AMC Theaters to lower Wednesday night movie costs, starting in July

• Lilo & Stitch & Mission Impossible Aim for Memorial Day Box Office Record

Today’s Special Guest

Randy Rainbow, comedian, singer, actor, and parodist extraordinaire will join us at the bar to talk about his “National Freakin’ Treasure” summer tour, which begins May 31, in Washington, DC,, and his new children’s book, “Randy Rainbow and the Marvelously Magical Pink Glasses.”

Your Bar Guest For Today

While you’re always welcome to join us anywhere, we’ve got one of our great friends joining us at the main bar who you’ll also hear on today’s show:

• JoJo From Jerz, commentator, creator, and political firebrand, will come by the bar to talk about her new podcast “Sane(ish) with Jo Carducci” fill us all in on what’s going on in the New Jersey governor’s race. And of course, she’ll be good and not curse on air (That’s for social media).

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