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On this week's episode: India embraces ignorance as their national anthem ... Trump will make “at least Jack Teixeira got Minecraft discord server cred” a genuine consideration ... And Ron DeSantis almost kills Big Bird with his disaster of a campaign launch.

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Prosecutors have recording of Trump discussing sensitive Iran document: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/31/trump-recording-classified-iran/
And they have video of staff moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago right before DOJ and FBI showed up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/30/trump-mar-a-lago-surveillance-camera/

Uganda enacts even more draconian anti-gay laws: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-museveni-approves-anti-gay-law-parliament-speaker-says-2023-05-29/

Taco Bell challenges “Taco Tuesday” trademark: https://apnews.com/article/taco-tuesday-trademark-taco-bell-911e62f2dc664c2a428c6741a94955e5

Ron DeSantis campaign launch and everything else he does going very badly:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/what-happened-ron-desantis-us-presidential-campaign-launch-twitter-elon-musk

India removes evolution and the periodic table from public education: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-cuts-periodic-table-and-evolution-from-school-textbooks/

Meteorite crashes into New Jersey home: https://apnews.com/article/meteorite-hits-home-hopewell-new-jersey-91fecf2eb7e5ffb938bfb68920dc6011

On this week's episode: The price of freedom might be Robux ... Mickey Mouse kicks DeSantis in the balls so hard their vocal ranges match ... And we start a GoFundMe to clone George Santos and ask it what George would say.

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Headline Sources:

George Santos charged with telling all the lies and doing all the crimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/nyregion/george-santos-charges.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/guide-george-santos-lies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/nyregion/george-santos-vote-expulsion.html
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/politics/george-santos-treasurer-campaign-committee/index.html

Guardsman Jack Teixeira, Pentagon leak suspect, to remain jailed as he awaits trial:
https://apnews.com/article/guardsman-teixeira-military-classified-documents-leak-detention-65658c291d097c37d2b272ae5fb24a5d

Russian mercenary leader offered to sell out Russian troops to Ukraine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/14/prigozhin-wagner-ukraine-leaked-documents/

Marjorie Taylor Greene is in a legal mess after Milo allegedly scammed her out of $7K: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-in-a-legal-mess-after-milo-allegedly-scammed-her-out-of-7k/

New York education officials issue guidance about Indigenous team names: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/20/us/new-york-schools-indigenous-ban-guidelines/index.html

Ron DeSantis still getting ass handed to him by Disney: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/18/disney-cancels-1bn-florida-campus-2000-jobs

On this week's episode: Someone tries to make a fagioli out of New Jersey ... The Supreme Court proves they’re above reproach by jumping really high ... And Tucker Carlson wants to connect with you on LinkenIn.

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Enrique Tarrio and three other “Proud Boys” found guilty of seditious conspiracy: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-verdict/index.html

King Charles crowned: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/06/world/coronation-king-charles-uk

Senate GOP Says Congress Can't Do Anything About Clarence Thomas' Ethics Mess: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus-ethics-clarence-thomas_n_6451572ee4b0bc1dad79bce9

Fox News asks Media Matters to stop embarrassing them with Tucker Carlson revelations: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/fox-media-matters-leaked-tucker-carlson-videos

Someone dumps 500 pounds of raw pasta in New Jersey: https://apnews.com/article/pasta-dump-old-bridge-new-jersey-48ff3c58ea645d9bf15ad8591623541d

Louisville officer who killed Breonna Taylor hired by police force in nearby county: https://www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1171597304/breonna-taylor-officer-myles-cosgrove-police-hired
Vermont To Allow Nonresidents To Use Its Assisted Suicide Law:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vermont-assisted-suicide-non-residents_n_64513468e4b0a36ba6c3c1a9
Fake doctor Steve Gevorkian gets in trouble for practicing medicine without a license: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-fake-doctor-stephan-gevorkian-practicing-medicine-without-license/

On this week's episode: The Supreme Court puts evil on pause ... Belgium proves you don’t have to be a bigot to destroy beer for stupid reasons ... And bad people lose SO MUCH MONEY.

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Headline Sources:

Fox pays Dominion $787 million settlement: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/foxs-primetime-hosts-dominion-settlement-1234717513/

Supreme Court temporarily protects access to abortion pill: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/politics/supreme-court-abortion-pill-mifepristone/index.html

Elon Musk’s no good, very bad week: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/elon-musk-had-a-rough-week-across-tesla-twitter-and-spacex.html https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/4/21/twitter-drops-state-affiliated-government-funded-labels

Belgium destroys beer for labeling itself as champagne: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/europe/belgium-destroys-beer-champagne-intl-hnk/index.html

Arbitrator says Mike Lindell has to pay $5 million to guy who proved him wrong: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/20/mike-lindell-prove-wrong-contest/

On this week's episode: The image of Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit is Eli's patronus ... Gwyneth Paltrow wins the homeopathic equivalent of a three million dollar settlement ... And Lauren Boebert puts the pee in GOP.

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Headline Sources:

Trump Indictment: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/nyregion/alvin-bragg-trump-investigation.html https://www.salon.com/2023/03/31/reportedly-caught-off-guard-by-34-count-indictment--melts-down-all-night-on-truth-social/ https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/30/desantis-trump-indictment-00089865

Gwyneth Paltrow wins her trial even though she’s a crazy person:
https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/3/28/23660309/gwyneth-paltrow-ski-court-trial-utah

Ron DeSantis got tricked so hard by Disney: https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/30/23663345/disney-desantis-florida-board-reedy-creek

Scientists make mammoth meatballs: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/28/world/mammoth-meatballs-cultured-meat-climate-scn/index.html

Lauren Boebert is wrong about public urination so many times in a row: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lauren-boebert-obsesses-public-urination-crime-hearing-1234705824/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGPxOD5X_5Q

On this week's episode: Congress takes on the tick-a-ma-tocks ... Noah makes Eli listen to astronomy words ... And we explore the burgeoning alt-right semen sector.

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TikTok CEO in the hot seat - 5 takeaways from his first appearance before Congress: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/23/tech/tiktok-ceo-hearing/index.html

Florida principal resigns because students saw David’s sculpture penis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/24/florida-principal-michelangelo-david-parents/

Gettr is considering pivoting the business to an anti-vaxxer semen marketplace: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/covid-vaccines-infertility-antivax-gettr-social-media-1234697898/
https://www.pcmag.com/news/authorities-seize-27m-from-gettr-platform

Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson Asks Fans To Calm Down After Getting Slammed: https://kotaku.com/brandon-sanderson-wired-wheel-of-time-mistborn-1850262249

Scientists may have solved the mystery of Oumuamua: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1164814086/scientists-think-they-know-why-interstellar-object-oumuamua-moved-so-strangely

Russia recruits Steven Seagal to teach martial arts to its soldiers: 
https://www.newsweek.com/steven-seagal-opens-center-teach-russian-military-recruits-martial-arts-1789837

On this week's episode: Watching the January 6th tapes backwards shows they were actually cleaning ... We get an inside look into just how incompetently the Tories handled COVID ... And Dilbert gets called in for a tough meeting with HR.

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Fox News' Tucker Carlson is not credible, White House says after Jan. 6 coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fox-news-tucker-carlson-is-not-credible-white-house-says-after-jan-6-coverage-2023-03-08/

Mitch McConnell fell and hurt himself: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized/index.html

Matt Hancock: More leaked texts mock people in hotel quarantine: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64831240
Boris Johnson’s massive maths mistake over Covid deaths is an embarrassment: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-covid-coronavirus-whatsapp-math-b2292682.html

Scott Adams says Black people are a hate group:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/03/06/scott-adams-dilbert-cartoon-controversy/

Elon Musk publicly mocks laid-off Twitter employee with a disability then apologizes: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/elon-musk-publicly-mocks-laid-off-twitter-employee/story?id=97708515

IMF downgrades UK growth forecast, predicting only economic decline among G-7 countries: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/imf-downgrades-uk-growth-forecast-predicting-only-decline-in-g7-.html
Sunak hails ‘new chapter’ in UK-EU relations as Northern Ireland deal is agreed
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/27/rishi-sunak-deal-eu-brexit-northern-ireland-protocol 

On this week's episode: We’ll lend a whole new meaning to smeared in the press ... We’ll talk about Navy SEAL cum astronaut George Santos ... And Donald Trump orders food at McDonald's SUPER DUPER BIGMACLY WELL.

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Train derailment spills toxic chemicals all the hell over the place in Ohio: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/us/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine-friday/index.html

George Santos can’t stop lying about his lies: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/fact-check-george-santos-piers-morgan-lies

McCarthy gives Capitol surveillance footage from J6 to Tucker Carlson:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html
Mike Lindell is gonna sue McCarthy for not giving it to Lindell-TV: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3872605-mike-lindell-says-he-will-sue-mccarthy-for-sharing-jan-6-footage-only-with-tucker-carlson/
Tucker Carlson text messages released during Dominion lawsuit against Fox News: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/tucker-carlson-text-messages-dominion-lawsuit-fox-news.html

Bing AI loses its mind: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/microsofts-controversial-bing-ai-chatbot/story?id=97353148 https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23599072/microsoft-ai-bing-personality-conversations-spy-employees-webcams

German Ballet Director Formally Apologizes For Smearing Feces In Critic’s Face: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-goecke-smeared-feces_n_63ec06ebe4b0063ccb291466

Tucker Carlson fawns over Donald Trump ordering McDonald's: https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-fawns-over-trump-ordering-mcdonalds-treat-yourself

On this week's episode: Sarah Huckabee Sanders enters the state of the union from the top rope ... Marjorie Taylor Greene gets jealous of people with thought balloons and goes for a DYI ... And the House Oversight Committee holds an Acme hearing that does NOT end well for them.

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Headline Sources:

SHS does the Republican response to Biden's SOTU address: www.gimmebackmyfuckingcheeseplate.com
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/politics/republican-response-sarah-huckabee-sanders-biden-sotu/index.html
https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1623710847691366400

Supreme Court investigation into the leak of the Dobbs draft: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/supreme-court-investigation.html

Chinese spy balloon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident

Republicans held a hearing to prove Twitter's bias against them and it backfired HARD: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/media/republicans-hearing-twitter-bias-reliable-sources/index.html

Girl asks police to run DNA test on Christmas cookies for evidence of Santa Claus: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150596852/girl-asks-police-to-run-dna-test-on-christmas-cookie-for-evidence-of-santa-claus

Internal memo at Project Veritas describes James O’Keefe as ‘outright cruel’: https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-okeefe-outright-cruel-to-project-veritas-employees-internal-memo

On this week's episode: The US addresses the balance of trade with Brazil by exporting insane insurrections ... Ron DeSantis continues trying to make it illegal to learn just how racist he is ... And Tucker Carlson tells us about the dangers of M&Ms and the power of cigarettes.

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Ron DeSantis removes black history AP courses from Florida high schools: https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-florida-education-6603c0aa4de0098423eb7b6c04846d0c

Biden Says U.S. And Allies Are Sending Tanks To Ukraine: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tanks-ukraine-biden_n_63d13bd8e4b01a43638ae4be
Ukraine Ministry of Defense tweeted the BEST idea for how the US can spin it: https://twitter.com/defenceu/status/1613599573955444751

Earth’s core hasn’t stopped spinning: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/world/earth-core-turning-scli-scn-intl/index.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1

Brazil Congress: Lula vows to punish supporters of Bolsonaro after riot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64204860

Tucker Carlson's war on M&M's: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/business/m-m-candy-controversy-tucker-carlson.html
Tucker Carlson rips menthol cigarette bans, saying nicotine "frees your mind": https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-rips-menthol-cigarette-bans-says-nicotine-frees-your-mind-1775482