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Robert walks the gang through the Liver King's recent arrest for terroristic threats and his rapid decline towards what will probably be an early grave.
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And on Tuesday, July 1, the Senate passed it in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance as the tiebreaker.
But bad policy only matters if people know about it, and a lot of people don’t — partly because there are an overwhelming number of provisions, and partly because the Trump administration is already flooding the zone with so many other major policy fights.
So I asked Matt Yglesias, the author of the Slow Boring newsletter, back on the show to go through what is in this bill and why it has been so hard to build momentum for pushback. We spoke on Thursday, June 26.
Mentioned:
“A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save” by Alicia Parlapiano, Margot Sanger-Katz, Aatish Bhatia and Josh Katz
The System by David S. Broder and Haynes Johnson
The Ten Year War by Jonathan Cohn
Book recommendations:
Proto by Laura Spinney
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
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Aerovironment’s CEO shares insights on the drone company’s game-changing merger and how unmanned systems are revolutionizing modern combat.
Andy Cross interviews CEO Wahid Nawabi to discuss:
- Multi-billion-dollar BlueHalo merger expanding capabilities across air, ground, space, and cyber
- Fast Innovation: 18-month product cycles vs. 10-year industry standard
- Record Growth: $764M backlog across 55 international customers
- Vertical Integration: In-house design enables optimized performance at lower costs
Companies discussed: AVAV
Host: Andy Cross
Guests: Wahid Nawabi
Engineer: Dan Boyd
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US Senate approves Trump's mega-bill on tax and spending, after Vice-President JD Vance casts tie-breaking vote. Also: Delhi bans fuel sales to old cars to tackle air pollution, and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies.
Today, we’re taking it way back to Bridget and Ryan’s first episode together. They’ll work on answering a question that quite a few listeners were wondering about: What are credit cards, besides little pieces of plastic with chips in them? We’ll learn how grownups use credit cards in the first place, and some potential pitfalls of swiping. Then things really get out of hand when the ghost pirates show up.
Check out the tipsheet for this episode for some ways you can keep the conversation about credit cards going at home.
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Partial verdict in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. Senate passes the president's "Big, Beautiful Bill" which heads to the House days before President Trump's July 4th deadline. Trump visits migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper with tonight's World News Roundup.
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