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Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Eliana are back, starting with Trump’s 100-day media blitz, Tim Walz’s code-switching, the private group chats shaping American politics, and—most importantly—the origin of Jo Jo potatoes. Wretch on! Time Stamps: Front Page: 1:29 Obsessions: 1:03:31 Reader Mail: 1:11:31 Favorite Items: 1:18:36 Show Notes: The Atlantic: Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump Time: Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview With TIME Axios: Scoop: White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump The Atlantic: The War That Would Not End Semafor: The group chats that changed America The New York Times: A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere’ The Wall Street Journal: Questioning Biden’s Capacities Was Taboo a Year Ago. Now It’s Everywhere. The New York Times: The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay The New York Times: A Hot Accessory, at the Intersection of Faith and Culture The New York Times: Vietnam on The Move Awful Announcing: Bill Belichick issues statement defending Jordon Hudson’s actions during CBS interview ESPN: Son of Falcons coordinator Ulbrich admits to Sanders prank The New York Times: How Ozempic Is Shaping Weddings The New York Times: ‘60 Minutes’ Chief Resigns in Emotional Meeting: ‘The Company Is Done With Me’ The New York Times: Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit The Washington Post: She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead The Washington Post: Streaming services should step up to make C-SPAN great again The New York Times: The Unabomber’s Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years Trying to Win Him Back.

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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 Hatton.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.
0:23.4	Hi, everybody. I'm Chris Steyerwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson.
0:27.1	Welcome to Ink State Wretches, where we break down. What's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media.
0:34.6	Eliana Johnson, good to see you even remotely, even a tiny image of you.
0:40.8	Happy Thursday.
0:42.8	Happy Thursday.
0:44.8	This is the second to last Inkstain Wretches that intrepid research assistant and
0:52.3	de facto co-producer of Inxtane St. Rich's Nate Moore will be with us.
0:57.0	He is in the final furlong of his journey at the American Enterprise Institute.
1:02.0	Nate, prepare a farewell speech for next week's episode.
1:06.0	Yeah, you're going to have to break it down, Nate Moore. You're going to have to break it down.
1:13.2	You'll have to reconnect us to the youth.
1:17.3	Nate is like the worst person to, I think, reconnect to the youth.
1:21.5	Well, to an extraordinarily square youth.
1:21.8	Yeah. The most wide whale corduroyd youth imaginable.
1:27.0	Exactly. All right. Well, we've hit the 100-d youth imaginable. Exactly.
1:28.2	All right.
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