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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 “Big Balls” and all his Doge teenage mutants are on their way out as head Doge Elon Musk slinks to the exits, unhappy with Trump’s pretty much ignoring efforts to cut the federal deficit as the mostly dysfunctional Re¡publican … Continue reading Buh Bye “Big Balls” (Guest Law Professor/Author Leah Litman) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Donald Trump had one of the best weeks of his 4-month presidency this week, with his “Big Beautiful Budget Bill” sneaking through as his personal music of the night. The “let’s protect the rich folks, screw everyone else” budget … Continue reading The Music of the Night (Guest: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 The grifting is like a Musk rocket ship, soaring off to near space while the passenger has a big giggle. In this case, it’s a $400-million airplane for Donald Trump’s personal use now (after a $1-billion taxpayer-funded retrofit), and … Continue reading High Flying Bribe, With Extra Legroom – (Guest: Economist Justin Wolfers) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 The mainstream media are finally catching on to the rampant corruption throughout the Trump administration: grifts and gifts that are putting untold billions into Donald Trump’s pocket, much of it from foreign sources. It’s a worldwide, nakedly corrupt bribery … Continue reading Five Pencils-Two Dolls-Thin Gruel for Kids, Billions for Trump and Friends (Guest: Journalist Susan Demas) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Democrats remain divided on how to take on the increasingly unpopular Trump, ranging from Schumer’s very strong letter, Gretchen Whitmer’s balancing opposition to Trump with the state’s need, to a full out denunciation from Illinois Governor J.D. Pritzker. Governor … Continue reading A Strong Letter from Chuck Schumer (Guest: U-M Law Professor Sam Bagenstos) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market The “Underwater” episode of A Republic, If You Can Keep It isn’t a tribute to Jacques Cousteau, Lloyd Bridges or the Navy’s submariners … but the reality facing Donald Trump as he approaches the 100 day mark. At this point … Continue reading Underwater: Trump at 100 days →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” We are still 565 days away from the 2026 general election, but the field of candidates in Michigan is already filling out in what’s become the perpetual campaign…and assuming King … Continue reading Candidate Cornucopia →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” Thousands demonstrate against Trump’s destruction of the government and economy. Is this a replay of the movements that brought Civil Rights laws in the 1960’s, the end of the VietNam … Continue reading A Temporary Reprieve for the Penguins (Guest: Christina Hines) →

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This week’s show is sponsored by: EPIC-MRA Public Opinion Research MIRS News Fulton Fish Market This week on “”A Republic, If You Can Keep It” Republicans everywhere are reassessing after stumbling in a couple of Florida special elections that should have been slam dunks, and losing a State Supreme Court election in a Wisconsin landslide … Continue reading Smoot-Hawley Great Depression Sequel (Guest: Senator Mallory McMorrow) →

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The most unqualified national security team ever assembled demonstrates its total lack of competence…and defends itself by attacking Atlantic Magazine and Jeffrey Goldberg. Their fallback defense: no harm, no foul. The attack was successful so it’s no big whoop. Trump, who appears to be out of the loop on a lot of what’s happening inside … Continue reading Intimidation, Retribution and Extortion →