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UNBIASED Politics

A New Qatari Air Force Facility, the Legality of Mass Layoffs Amid Shutdown, Effects to Special Education, RFK's Autism/Circumcision Claim, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

Education

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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SUBSCRIBE TO JORDAN'S FREE NEWSLETTER. Get the facts, without the spin. UNBIASED offers a clear, impartial recap of US news, including politics, elections, legal news, and more. Hosted by lawyer Jordan Berman, each episode provides a recap of current political events plus breakdowns of complex concepts—like constitutional rights, recent Supreme Court rulings, and new legislation—in an easy-to-understand way. No personal opinions, just the facts you need to stay informed on the daily news that matters. If you miss how journalism used to be, you're in the right place. In today's episode: Court Says National Guard in Chicago Can Remain Federalized But Not Deployed (0:33) Trump Administration Issues Mass Layoffs Amid Shutdown; Are They Legal? How Will Special Education Be Affected? (6:30) Hegseth Announces New Qatari Air Force Facility in Idaho; Here's What You Need to Know (19:16) RFK Jr. Claims Possible Link Between Circumcision and Autism; Here's What the Studies Say (24:51) Israel and Gaza See Hostages Released and Prisoners Returned (30:49) United States and Argentina Finalize $20B Currency Swap (33:24) Quick Hitters: Trump Orders Military to Be Paid Despite Shutdown, Letitia James Indicted, South Carolina Shooting (36:22) GOOD NEWS (38:00) Critical Thinking Segment (38:59) SUBSCRIBE TO JORDAN'S FREE NEWSLETTER. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok. All sources for this episode can be found here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis.

0:06.9

Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Monday, October 13th. Let's talk about some news.

0:12.6

I do just want to say I do typically take federal holidays off. Those that have been here for a while,

0:17.7

you know this, but because I just took a week off recently, as many

0:21.7

of you know, I decided to kind of just push through and get an episode out today because I didn't

0:26.2

need to take today off too. But I don't want to set the precedent that I put episodes out on

0:30.7

federal holidays because I typically don't. So let's start today's episode talking about

0:35.9

the National Guard ruling out of Illinois.

0:39.2

With that, I do want to say also that I do kind of feel as if these National Guard stories are getting pretty repetitive.

0:46.8

I don't know if you guys feel the same way, but I definitely feel it.

0:50.0

I've covered the National Guard deployment in L.A. in D.C., in Portland, now in Chicago.

0:55.4

And the story is virtually the same every time.

0:58.3

The exception is D.C., because as we've talked about, the laws are a little bit different in Washington, D.C.,

1:04.1

but it is going to get to a point likely after today's episode where I'm just going to start referring

1:10.5

people back to past episodes

1:12.4

like I usually do when topics get repetitive. At the same time, I do always talk about the

1:19.1

stories that are most requested ahead of every episode, and this was one of the most requested

1:23.7

stories. So we're going to talk about it since we haven't talked about Chicago specifically

1:27.8

yet, but just know that, number one, I'm not going to get into all of the legalities of Title 10 and

1:34.2

the Posse Comitatis Act. I just did that on Thursday. And two, after today, I'll likely just

1:39.8

start referring everyone back to past episodes whenever there is a similar Title 10 National Guard situation

1:47.0

that arises. So if you hear this story and you still don't understand all of the legalities and you

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