Don’t Say Goodbye, Say Wretch You Later

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dearest Wretches, we’re stepping away from the mic. But before we go, Chris and Eliana dig into Trump’s legal battles with CBS and the Pulitzer board, Elon Musk’s Washington exit, Democrats’ hunt for lost masculinity, and the waning influence of BLM. We’ll miss the community that’s grown with us over the years—thanks for wretching with us. Time Stamps: 1:55 - Front Page 37:50 - Obsessions 46:51 - Reader Mail 52:24 - Favorite Items Show Notes: The Wall Street Journal: Paramount Has Offered $15 Million to Settle CBS Lawsuit. Trump Wants More. New York Post: Shari Redstone in ‘tough spot’ as Paramount board fears settling with Trump will open Pandora’s box on bribery lawsuits: sources The New York Times: A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He’s Exiting Washington CBS News: Elon Musk says he's "disappointed" by Trump's "big, beautiful bill" and what it means for DOGE The New York Times: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner The New York Times: Six Months Later, Democrats Are Still Searching for the Path Forward The Washington Free Beacon: EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Democratic Party’s Strategic Efforts To Enhance Receptivity in Masculine-Coded Heteronormative Cohorts Through Data-Driven Holistic Outreach Vulture: Fame and Frustration On the New Media Circuit Fox News: Washington Post announces another buyout program targeting veteran staffers, other departments The Washington Post: Struggling to declutter? Try the ‘poop rule.’ The New York Times: 5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold The Wall Street Journal: Six Friends Tried to Plan a Girls’ Trip in a Group Chat. Things Went Sideways. Law360: Pulitzer Board Can't Pause Trump Defamation Suit In Florida Semafor: Inside the identity crisis in anti-woke media The Weekly Dish: Claire Lehmann On Staying Independent Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY: In Memoriam: Tom Robbins (1949-2025) The Wall Street Journal: How a Lawyer in the Hamptons Became the King of DWI Cases

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0:00.0	Is there anything you would have done differently?
0:02.0	We reported a true story.
0:04.0	Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq.
0:10.0	Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.
0:16.0	Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.
0:23.4	Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson.
0:26.9	Welcome to Inkstein-Reges, El Rechos, to our friends where we break down what's going wrong
0:31.4	and what's going right with the American news media. And Eliana Johnson, did you know,
0:37.1	do you know that this is the
0:39.4	197th episode of ink-stained wretches? Did you know that? I did not know that, but that's
0:46.6	amazing. For four years and 11 months since June 30th, 2021, we have been pumping out delightfully wretched content.
0:57.0	And now it is time for us to step back, to step away.
1:03.0	And so this will be the last of the wretches, at least for the foreseeable future.
1:09.0	Yes, time for me to have a baby.
1:12.7	Yes, maternity leave.
1:14.6	I'm going away on a trip.
1:19.3	You're going away to experience the miracle of life.
1:25.3	And I mean, they're both equally important, obviously, but both of equal weight.
1:32.0	So this is a bittersweet occasion to get to do a wretch before we part.
1:34.7	But we're going to do it just like normal.
1:36.0	Just like we're supposed to.
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