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On this week's episode: White House staff put Rod Rosenstein in a box with a geiger counter, a radioactive substance, and a flask of hydrocyanic acid … The US Senate is all about the advice, but not so much the consent … And Trump will kill it at the surprise self-roast he totally meant to do.

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Headline Sources:

Kavanaugh hearing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/09/27/kavanaugh-hearing-transcript/?utm_term=.293ea9c78fa6 https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/jeff-flake-moment-trump-kavanaugh/index.html

Trump accuses China of interfering in our elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/world/asia/trump-china-election.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

Schrodinger's AG: https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896140/rod-rosenstein-resigns-fired-mueller-trump-russia

Elon Musk being investigated by the SEC for fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/business/elon-musk-sec-lawsuit-tesla.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Trump reluctantly signs spending bill: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/trump-signs-spending-bill-to-avert-shutdown-despite-border-wall-frustration.html

Trump is literal laughing stock of the UN General Assembly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204story.html?utmterm=.026e47744247 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/25/world-leaders-stumble-upon-potent-response-trumps-claims-laughter/?utm_term=.d9ef07dca28f

On this week's episode: President Trump fills about 3000 graves with fake dudes ... We get to make fun of people who live in Eastern North Carolina with impunity ... And the American political spectrum looks like a train car with a crazy hobo named Donald in the middle.

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Headline Sources:

Trump yelling TREASON after anonymous NYT op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html

Trump claims Puerto Ricans died just to make him look bad: https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647377915/trump-denies-death-toll-in-puerto-rico-falsely-claims-done-by-the-democrats

Hurricane Florence pummels the Carolinas: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/hurricane-florence-dle/index.html

Manafort pleads guilty to all the crimes we have a name for: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/14/former-trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-appears-to-reach-plea-deal-823882

Jeff Bezos is giving a bunch of money to charity: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/09/13/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-announces-2-billion-charity-fund/1289788002/

Trump wanted to print cash to pay down the national debt: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/11/trump-once-considered-just-printing-money-to-lower-the-national-debt-woodward-reports.html

In this week’s episode, we learn that life without Heath is a lot less “pun”, Missouri puts the term ‘beat your meat’ in legal limbo if you don’t plan on eating your penis, the Mayor of London will get totally PWNED, and John McCain will show Trump what to do if he’s serious about making America great again.

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Headlines:

New Wapo/ABC poll shows 60% disapproval rating: https://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2018/08/31/National-Politics/Polling/release_528.xml

London Mayor gets his own revenge balloon: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/london-mayor-bikini-blimp-trump-baby-balloon/

Trump fucks Canada again: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta/u-s-mexico-reach-nafta-deal-pressure-turns-to-canada-idUSKCN1LC1E7 and https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/1/17808706/trump-off-the-record-toronto-star-canada

Death toll from hurricane Maria raised to over 3000: https://abcnews.go.com/US/death-toll-hurricane-maria-3000-puerto-rico-study/story?id=57179291

Missouri passes new meat labelling law: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/29/642937901/whats-meat-anyway-missouri-label-law-says-it-comes-from-an-animal-some-disagree

On this week's episode: The President yelling the N-word doesn't even make the back page ... The EPA will put the 'best' back in asbestos ... And that means Crayola can finally release their new childhood carcinoma shade.

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Headline Sources:

Trump revokes Brennan’s security clearance: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-intelligence-officials-bite-back-after-trump-goes-after-brennans-clearance/2018/08/18/91efe7a0-a255-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/revoke-my-security-clearance-too-mr-president/2018/08/16/8b149b02-a178-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7astory.html?utmterm=.c254e6c13af0

Saudis use US weapons to blow up kids in Yemen: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/17/middleeast/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl/index.html

Asbestos finally getting fair treatment by the EPA: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/opinions/trump-epa-needs-full-asbestos-ban-reinstein/index.html https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-thinks-asbestos-would-saved-world-trade-center/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-asbestos-707642/ 

Trump team can’t even put on a goddamn parade: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blames-dc-officials-for-postponing-his-planned-military-parade/2018/08/17/e96687c8-a205-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721

Alex Jones accused of destroying evidence related to Sandy Hook lawsuit: https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/17/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-lawsuit/index.html

Omarosa confirms what we all knew this whole time: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/donald-trump-omarosa-tapes/index.html https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/16/17693342/donald-trump-n-word-tape-racism-omarosa-manigault-controversy

On this week's episode: We win millions by asking Donald Trump what the lottery numbers WON'T be … Winnie the Pooh will be detained by communists … And we LOSE millions by asking ELI what the best STOCKS won't be.

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Headline Sources:

Trump says impressive list of stupid things this week even for him: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/mueller-investigation-jeff-sessions-tweet/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/donald-trump-shutdown/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/opinions/trump-has-no-earthly-clue-about-how-everyday-people-live-psaki/index.html

Update on Week One of Manafort Trial: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/400327-five-things-to-know-about-manaforts-first-week-in-court

Eli got in another Facebook fight and immediately wrote a headline while typing all loud: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/3/17644704/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-tweets-backlash-racism

Trump calls LeBron James and Don Lemon stupid: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-comes-to-lebron-james-defense-after-presidents-insultus5b660139e4b0b15abaa3d6e7 https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/michael-jordan-throws-support-behind-lebron-james-spat-trump-president-included-like-mike-hate-tweet/

China bans Christopher Robin: https://www.vox.com/2018/8/4/17651630/christopher-robin-banned-in-china-pooh

North Korean nuclear talks going nowhere: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45069951

On this week's episode: Trump wouldn't even commit treason ... We lament all the Disney movies we'll never direct ... And Russia has to wean the US off its breast milk tariff idea.

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Headline Sources:

Fallout from Trump/Putin summit: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576956/transcript-putin-trump-russia-helsinki-press-conference

Disney Fires James Gunn: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/entertainment/james-gunn-exits-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3/index.html

Trump whines about NFL National Anthem kneelers: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-flag-kneeling-tweetus5b526248e4b0fd5c73c56f20

Maria Butina arrested: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/maria-butina-charged-spying-russia-us-doj <> https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/politics/mueller-manhattan-madam/index.html

Eli wastes a headline making a specious argument about what Heath said about Tesla: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/19/technology/business/tesla-downgrade/index.html

Trump's UN delegation declares war on breast milk: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/07/09/the-pro-life-trump-administration-declared-war-on-breast-milk/

In this week's episode, Andrew Torrez of the Opening Arguments Podcast joins Noah to tell you about all the stuff you wish you didn't need to know about the future of the Supreme Court.

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On this week's episode: Despite all our rage they still put a kid in a cage ... Sarah Huckabee Sanders is forced to forage for bones as she did on her home world ... And Donald Trump tells the Pentagon to hire Buzz Lightyear for a big new project.

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Headline Sources:

Trying to find the right amount of kids in cages: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/factcheck-qa-on-border-detention-of-children-20180619.html

US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council: https://www.bbc.com/news/44537372 

The World Cup is happening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/06/14/the-world-cup-starts-today-why-it-matters-as-much-for-politics-as-sports/?utm_term=.89b20b457839

SHS gets denied service at VA restaurant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/23/why-a-small-town-restaurant-owner-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave-and-would-do-it-again/?utm_term=.64edc86233f1

SCOTUS rules in favor of people not wanting the gov’t to know where they are 24/7: https://gizmodo.com/cops-need-a-warrant-to-collect-your-phone-location-data-1827050891

Canada legalizes the ganj: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/health/canada-legalizes-marijuana/index.html

Trump announces new "Space Force" branch of the military: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/06/18/its-official-trump-announces-space-force-6th-military-branch.html 

Roundup Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-rrr-cut/as-trade-war-looms-china-cuts-some-banks-reserve-requirements-to-boost-lending-idUSKBN1JK094

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/23/zimbabwe-explosion-rocks-stadium-rally-president-emmerson-mnangagwa

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/19/27874178/godwins-law-suspended-by-godwin

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/21/middleeast/sara-netanyahu-indicted-intl/index.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-boy-recovering-from-rare-case-of-plague/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/world/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-baby/index.html

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/18/technology/google-invest-jd-china/index.html

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/trump-papers-filing-system-635164

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/federal-government-releases-national-near-earth-object-preparedness-plan

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rapper-xxxtentacion-shot-miami-condition-unknown-report-1121016

On this week's episode, Eli gets a chance to do the opening "It's Monday" (and totally nails it), Trump will pout when he learns that the G7 isn't a bingo night, and your mom should've thought about insurance before she decided to have diabetes.

Headline links: 

Trump shits all over G7: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-floats-end-to-all-tariffs-threatens-major-penalties-for-countries-that-dont-agree/2018/06/09/a06350be-6bf1-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1story.html?utmterm=.e227de9964ac

Ontario elects populist hack: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-election-ontario/populist-doug-ford-set-to-win-ontario-polls-promises-prosperity-idUSKCN1J318K

Puerto Rico’s government agrees to begrudgingly help figure out how many people the hurricane killed: http://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/court-orders-puerto-rico-to-release-stormrelated-death-data/1219559305

Largest primary night of the year: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/california-primary-takeaways/index.html

Lawsuit threatens pre-existing conditions provision of the ACA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/08/aca-lawsuit-could-jeopardize-52-million-americans-access-to-health-care/?utm_term=.b5f925aaf22a

South Korean women’s march: https://www.rt.com/news/429289-south-korea-spy-porn-women-protest/

Paul Manafort faces two more obstruction indictments: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/8/17442614/mueller-manfort-kilimnik-indicted-russia