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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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While Americans struggle with the rising costs of oil, lipstick, orange juice, and every other thing, Trump’s Defense Department asks for a raise. Plus, looking for the next generation of Black media.

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0:00.0	Good readings. It's another week in America.
0:07.6	But we are trying to stay positive.
0:10.0	Okay?
0:11.0	Just like our president, who is once again trying to speak his dreams and to exist, it's manifesting.
0:17.0	You know, currently it's peace in the Middle East.
0:20.0	He is a manifest. He does that. Not the president being a manifest. Yes, it's peace in the Middle East. He is a manifesto. He does that. Not the president being a manifest.
0:22.5	Yes, yes. Peace in the Middle East and affordable goods in the U.S. is what he's trying to manifest. Okay. His, what shall we say, Norman Peel style manifesting? I would argue it's actually Amanda from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She is a master manifester.
0:38.9	Unlike Amanda's manifesting, though, it is not working because the prices are high
0:43.4	and they're about to get higher, especially on the things that are made in places that really
0:47.6	rely on Iranian oil.
0:49.0	Things like lipstick, vaccines, plastic bags, Justice for the plastic bags under my count.
0:55.5	It's not great.
0:58.5	This week in El Paso, a woman named Daisy Rivera Ortega, is in iced attention.
1:04.1	Now, why is she in ice detention?
1:05.2	So she went in.
1:06.3	For an interview last week, she was applying for a program that protects spouses of active duty military from deportation. Hold on. Mm-hmm. So Daisy's not a criminal?
1:15.5	No, not at all. Okay. No, no, no. She hasn't been allowed to go home. Her husband, he's an army sergeant, who's been serving for Simone. How long do you think he's been serving? I mean, at least 20 years, right? 27 years. This is criminal. This is crazy. He told CBS News, quote, I don't really understand why, because she followed the rules of immigration. This is tragic. Okay, I'm sorry, but this is insane. But isn't that what Republicans have been saying forever? We want people to follow the rules.
1:45.0	And here we go follow the rules.
1:46.1	And look and days we following the rules.
1:46.9	Still not enough.
1:47.5	Well, also what was happening this week in Virginia, voters, they have voted for an effort by the state's Democratic Party to do some mid-decade redistricting.
1:57.8	This makes it so Dems could have the upper hand in four congressional races in
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