Nightly News Roundup

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A news headline show for people who love to hate the news and hate to love the news. Art by Cory Drake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4D AGO

    Nightly News Roundup for May 21, 2026

    Two officers who bled on January 6th sued to block their attackers from a $1.8 billion taxpayer payout. Donald Trump tried to attach a personal ballroom fund to the same bill. Mitch McConnell called it "utterly stupid and morally wrong." Iran spent the ceasefire rebuilding everything the U.S. bombed and now threatens to go global. Trump says he's in no hurry. He's golfed seven times since the war started. His son is getting married this weekend; the president's attendance is unclear. The EPA cleared coal plants to dump heavy metals into American rivers because AI data centers need the power. Five thousand troops deployed to Poland via a Truth Social post that surprised the Pentagon — reversing its own cancellation from one week prior. A 250-foot arch bearing a sitting president's name cleared a hand-picked commission on a century-old technicality for a structure never built. An Ebola outbreak killed 130 people before detection; an aid group attributes the delay to Trump health cuts. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    6 min

  2. 5D AGO

    Nightly News Roundup for May 20, 2026

    Two cops who bled defending the Capitol sued to stop their attackers from collecting a $1.8 billion taxpayer payout. Donald Trump is in no hurry to end a war with a country threatening to go global. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping condemned irresponsible foreign policy, agreed on pandas, and couldn't close a pipeline. Thomas Massie lost the most expensive House primary in history for asking about Epstein. A Tennessee county owed $835,000 after jailing a retired cop 37 days for a Facebook post. Cyanide bombs returned to 245 million acres of public land. Meta fired 8,000 people to build AI, then used AI to watch the ones it kept. Minimum wage will kill jobs. Taxing the rich will kill jobs. AI taking your job is just the market. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    5 min

  3. 6D AGO

    Nightly News Roundup for May 19, 2026

    The reason confidence artists are rarely prosecuted for their crimes is that their victims are often too embarrassed to admit they’ve been conned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    5 min

  4. MAY 19

    Nightly News Roundup for May 18, 2026

    Donald Trump went to Beijing and came home empty — no trade deals, no Iran progress, just a Taiwan lecture from Xi Jinping. His acting attorney general, formerly Trump's personal defense lawyer, unveiled a $1.7 billion taxpayer slush fund for presidential allies. Gulf royals talked Trump off a bombing run with a courtesy call. A jury dismissed Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit in under two hours. Trump's own ethics filing revealed 3,600 stock trades worth up to $750 million. Mike Johnson called congressional trading an "extreme sacrifice" on a $174,000 salary. Kristi Noem secretly freed 19 prisoners without review; twelve reoffended. In Oklahoma, a teen convicted of rape received community service while his victims sat beside him in class. The bill is yours. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    6 min

  5. MAY 13

    Nightly News Roundup for May 12, 2026

    Donald Trump flew to Beijing for a lavish state dinner while telling Americans he doesn't think about their financial situation. Iran threatened to choke the Strait of Hormuz. Vladimir Putin test-fired a Sarmat nuclear ICBM and scheduled its combat deployment by year's end — while Washington offered him sanctions relief to pursue peace. The top one percent hit a 36-year wealth record; working-class wages didn't move. Trump Mobile charged $100 for a phone that might never ship. Jeffrey Epstein survivors testified steps from Mar-a-Lago and got the answer they always get: nothing. The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Tennessee erased its one Black-majority district. South Carolina almost did too. The FDA commissioner resigned over fruit-flavored vapes. A $1.2 trillion missile shield still has no specifications. Courts keep ruling Trump's tariffs illegal and then pausing those rulings. The letter never came. The war continues. The bill is yours. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    8 min

  6. MAY 8

    Nightly News Roundup for May 7, 2026

    Trump gave Iran a one-pager and called it diplomacy. Markets called the ceasefire a buying opportunity. A kindergarten in Kyiv called it morning. This episode moves fast because the week did — from a UFC fighter's foreign policy assessment ("fantastic shape") to the dollar's worst six-month slide in half a century; from bipartisan harassment settlements being shredded on Capitol Hill to E. Jean Carroll submitting a $7.4 million interest invoice to the Supreme Court; from a Fort Worth jury and a seven-year-old girl who told her killer her mom said no, to a ceasefire that lasted until Russia found a kindergarten. Forty minutes. No filler. The memo is pending. The math isn't. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    5 min

  7. MAY 7

    Nightly News Roundup for May 6, 2026

    Donald Trump threatened to resume bombing Iran if they didn't sign a one-page war-ending memo, oil crashed to $89, and markets celebrated; he then asked UFC fighter Justin Gaethje whether the war effort was in good shape and accepted "fantastic shape" as official foreign policy assessment; the dollar logged its worst six-month slide in fifty years — Trump called it a competitive advantage, economists called it a hidden tax, Americans called it rent; Rep. Nancy Mace subpoenaed a decade's worth of taxpayer-funded congressional harassment settlements, found bipartisan shame and shredded records, and confirmed the fund remains active; Trump asked the Supreme Court to determine whether presidents can defame sexual assault accusers for free while E. Jean Carroll submitted a bill for $7,462,492.74 in interest; a Fort Worth jury sentenced Tanner Horner to death for murdering 7-year-old Athena Strand — she told him her mom said he couldn't; Ukraine declared a ceasefire at midnight and Russia struck a kindergarten by morning. The memo is pending. The math isn't. The kindergarten is gone. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    5 min

  8. MAY 6

    Nightly News Roundup for May 5, 2026

    Marco Rubio's stated strategic objective in the Strait of Hormuz is to recreate conditions that existed before America destroyed them — full stop — while Big Oil banks billions monthly, Iran hits the UAE twice in 48 hours, 20,000 sailors remain stranded, and Pete Hegseth insists the ceasefire holds; gas prices reached $4.48 nationally, up 41% since February, and Rubio told Americans they're "very fortunate," supporting the claim with an unsourced $8-per-gallon hypothetical he produced without evidence; Trump accused Pope Leo XIV of endorsing Iranian nuclear weapons because the Pope called for peace, Rubio flew to the Vatican to repair the relationship, then told reporters en route he essentially agrees with Trump; Senate Republicans buried $1 billion for "security enhancements" tied to Trump's $400 million White House ballroom inside an immigration enforcement bill, the same ballroom Trump swore would cost taxpayers "not one dime"; Pete Hegseth confirmed at a Pentagon briefing that Iran lacks kamikaze dolphins while declining to confirm whether the U.S. possesses them, General Dan Caine cited Austin Powers, all during an active shooting war with 20,000 stranded sailors; the Trump administration shuttered the legally required independent office investigating civil rights abuses in immigration detention as use of force against detainees hit unprecedented levels, took the complaint website offline, and blamed Congress for a closure Congress didn't mandate; and Kash Patel, possibly days from dismissal as FBI Director, spent two hours with Sean Hannity on UFO files, AI crime-stopping, and a secret burn bag in a room absent from FBI headquarters blueprints. The dolphins denied. The diplomats departed. The dollars danced. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    7 min
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A news headline show for people who love to hate the news and hate to love the news. Art by Cory Drake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Information

  • Creator
    Jason Thompson
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    281
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jason Thompson
  • Show Website
    Nightly News Roundup

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