Nightly News Roundup

By Jason Thompson

A news headline show for people who love to hate the news and hate to love the news.

Art by Cory Drake.

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Nightly News Roundup episodes:

January 14, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 13, 2026
Tonight: Trump lies about the economy while groceries testify otherwise. Iran blinds protesters and cuts the internet. AI threatens blackouts so servers can keep drooling. ICE kills Renee Good and calls it enforcement. Prosecutors quit rather than prosecute widows. A synagogue burns from hate. Claudette Colvin remembered too late. America keeps the lights flickering. Tape rolls.

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January 13, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 12, 2026
Tonight: Trump occupies Minnesota, ICE kills Renee Good, and DHS blames the body. Mark Kelly sues after the Pentagon threatens to court-martial a senator for speech. DOJ goes after Jerome Powell to bully rates. Pam Bondi disappoints Trump by not arresting his enemies on schedule. Iran burns while diplomacy “comes first.” Prosecutors get fired for obeying judges. Chinese hackers read Congress’s emails. America governs by tantrum. Tape rolls.

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January 10, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 9, 2026
Tonight: ICE shoots Renee Good, calls it self-defense, and insults her on camera. Vice President Vance weaponizes tragedy while the press takes notes. Trump pitches Venezuela like a $100B timeshare, threatens Greenland, and declares himself NATO’s savior. DOJ buries Epstein files. Ramaswamy’s bodyguard runs a fentanyl warehouse. Trump accuses Petro of trafficking, Bogotá panics, Republicans mediate, cocaine wins again. America exists in a house with broken windows and people arguing if glass is real. News lies loudly. Tape keeps rolling.
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January 09, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 8, 2026
Tonight: Theo Jesterfield watches ICE kill a driver and draft the alibi, Trump get checked by his own party and melt down anyway, and the president declare himself the only law that matters. Healthcare math survives Congress. Epstein files stay buried. Gaza buries children. Federal agents shoot civilians in Portland and erase the receipt. If you feel rattled, congratulations—you’re still human. The news lies loudly. The tape keeps rolling.
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January 08, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 7, 2026
Tonight: Theo Jesterfield watches an ICE shooting turn into fan fiction, Venezuelan oil get laundered through U.S. banks, and Big Oil collect welfare with a military escort. Trump yells at defense contractors, agrees with RFK Jr. by accident, threatens Greenland like it’s a hostile takeover, and rewrites January 6 on an official government website. Markets flinch. Allies blink. Memory fights back. Strap in. Power lies loudly. The tape still rolls.
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January 07, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 6, 2026
Tonight: On the fifth anniversary of January 6th, Theo Jesterfield revisits a planned insurrection Donald Trump pointed at the Capitol on live TV. Trump eyes Greenland like a hostile acquisition, the DOJ releases less than one percent of the Epstein files and calls it transparency, the NRA sues its own charity, and Dan Bongino fights Matt Gaetz online like democracy’s unpaid intern. Congress defunds public broadcasting and calls it patriotism. Accountability hides. Memory refuses. Strap in. History doesn’t forget—no matter how hard they try.

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January 06, 2026 Nightly News Roundup for Jan. 5, 2026
Tonight: Theo Jesterfield watched Donald Trump treat war like a stock tip, Congress like an inconvenience, and transparency like a rumor. Wall Street chased regime change profits, the Pentagon misplaced millions of munitions, Elon Musk automated exploitation, and the Epstein files disappeared into a mystery warehouse. Meanwhile, the flu bulldozed the country while Americans debated vaccines with vibes. Your markets juiced. Your oversight missing. Your republic wheezing. Strap in. January already poured a double.

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December 18, 2025 Nightly News Roundup for Dec. 17, 2025
Tonight: Theo Jesterfield placed odds on Donald Trump’s prime-time address and liked his chances of starting a new hemisphere-sized mess. Epstein files loomed, and Ghislaine Maxwell rediscovered faith in courts. Dan Bongino ditched the FBI for the mic. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat JD Vance in a poll and didn’t bother to whisper it. Mike Johnson lost control of his caucus over healthcare math. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. punished pediatricians for language while kids lost care. Your republic, wobbling. Your news, weaponized.

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December 17, 2025 Nightly News Roundup for Dec. 16, 2025
Tonight: Susie Wiles opens the morgue and names the monsters running the cockpit. RFK Jr. praises vaccines, then poisons the well as measles explodes. Bari Weiss promises dialogue; Nielsen hands CBS a toe tag. Trump books a mystery address just ahead of the Epstein files. Pete Hegseth hides strike footage while the body count grows. Trump sues the Pulitzer Board and discovers discovery. Kash Patel live-tweets investigations into vapor. A Parkland survivor endures another massacre. Your democracy, rattling. Your news, distilled into venom.
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December 11, 2025 Nightly News Roundup for Dec. 10, 2025
Tonight: The Coast Guard hijacks a tanker, Trump shrugs “We keep it,” and the Caribbean turns into a live-fire garage sale. Peskov beams as Trump’s “civilizational erasure” rant lands like Kremlin fan mail, NATO wobbles, and Kyiv gets benched. Epstein files erupt, Noem gets sidelined for stealing screen time, citizenship becomes a paywall, Powell white-knuckles a $27T economy, and FIFA mugs America with a World Cup contract. Your news, distilled into venom.
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The podcast currently has 310 episodes available.