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-- David responds to a Wired article that names him and other creators in connection with the progressive group Chorus and clarifies there is no content control or direction from the organization

-- Trey Gowdy says on Fox News that the country must confront keeping firearms out of the hands of young men after school shootings while Sean Hannity suggests metal detectors as the answer

-- Congressman Josh Brecheen faces angry constituents at a town hall who challenge him on false claims about the Trump economy and demand answers about high drug and grocery prices

-- Grocery prices rise as stores pass Trump’s new tariffs directly to consumers undermining his promises that foreign countries would pay for them

-- Rising prices, layoffs, and tariffs create inflation and early signs of a downturn that could become a severe Trump recession

-- A federal judge orders the closure of Trump and Ron DeSantis’s $245 million Everglades detention camp exposing waste and donor enrichment

-- Gavin Newsom uses Elon Musk’s Grok AI and Trump’s repeated falsehoods to suggest Trump shows signs of dementia sparking viral reactions

-- Trump claims Washington restaurants are booming, but data shows his crackdown and rising costs are actually hurting the industry

-- Congressman Mike Collins is caught on a hot mic saying Trump’s name is in Jeffrey Epstein’s files

-- After Robert F. Kennedy Jr fires CDC Director Susan Monarez, four top officials resign in protest, accusing the administration of pushing anti-science policies

-- Japan’s top trade negotiator cancels a planned Washington visit, citing “technical” issues with the deal, exposing Trump’s weakened leverage after cutting tariffs from 25% to 15% without securing concessions

-- On the Bonus Show: Putin escalates strikes against Ukraine, prosecutors are unable to get an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, 25 countries suspend postal service to the US over tariffs, and much more...

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-- On the Show:

-- Democrat Catelin Drey defeats Republican Christopher Prosch in an Iowa Senate special election flipping a Trump district and ending the GOP supermajority

-- Donald Trump deploys more than 2,200 National Guard troops from multiple states to collect trash in Washington DC as part of a beautification mission

-- The White House pushes back as questions mount over Donald Trump’s health after visible bruises, swelling, and cognitive slip-ups

-- Trump makes false claims about crime, autism, prescription drugs, and restaurants while Robert F Kennedy Jr rants about radioactive shrimp during a chaotic cabinet meeting

-- Cabinet officials and allies, including Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem, Kelly Loeffler, and others, lavish praise on Donald Trump in an extraordinary display of flattery

-- Support among young men who backed Trump in 2024 collapses as economic struggles, immigration raids, and broken promises sour his appeal

-- California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly raises concerns about Trump’s mental fitness

-- Trump mocks Gavin Newsom’s hand movements while Newsom fires back online

-- Trump posts a series of late night Truth Social rants boasting about fundraising, crime, and attacking Seth Meyers

-- Charlie Kirk tells Taylor Swift to reject feminism and submit to her fiancé, Travis Kelce, in a bizarre rant about their engagement

-- On the Bonus Show: Trump signs an executive order against flag burning, Trump wants to change the Defense Department's name to the Department of War, US threatens to withhold funding from states over truck driver English proficiency rules, and much more...

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-- Donald Trump takes a 10% government stake in Intel and signals plans to partially nationalize other defense companies

-- Trump makes shocking remarks to Vladimir Putin during their recent meeting

-- Trump tries to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook but she refuses to resign and cites the law protecting her role

-- Trump declares his love for Black people in a widely circulated video clip

-- Trump bizarrely calls himself the President of Europe and makes a series of incoherent claims about energy, crime, tariffs, and history

-- Trump appears with severe recurring bruises on both hands raising new questions about his health and transparency

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