Episode description

-- On the Show:

-- Farron Cousins, host of Farron Balanced and Ring of Fire, fills in for David. Subscribe to Farron on YouTube: youtube.com/farronbalanced

-- Donald Trump reverses a Biden policy phasing out plastic straws

-- Attorney General Pam Bondi instructs the DOJ to investigate DEI, not white-collar crime

-- JD Vance convinces Elon Musk to rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned after his racist social media posts surfaced

-- A current DOGE staffer was once fired for leaking company secrets

-- Trump purges the prosecutors investigating Elon Musk's businesses

-- Trump revokes Joe Biden's security clearance just to spite him

-- Donald Trump gets triggered by "President Elon Musk" appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine

-- Trump speaks to reporters and exhibits signs of cognitive decline

-- Republicans are gutting the Department of Education, which will disproportionately harm red states

-- Democrats are desperate for a new party leader and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may be the pick

-- On the Bonus Show: Another Capitol rioter going back to prison, Bernie and Josh Hawley team up to help consumers, Trump trying to eradicate "anti-Christian bias," and much more...

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