Legion of Wretches
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week, we dive into Trump’s showdown on two fronts: immigration and Ivy League endowments. Then we head to space to marvel at the bravery of Blue Origin. And finally, we unwrap the explosive piece on Elon Musk’s quest to spawn a generation of genetically gifted super-babies. Wretch on!
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Time Stamps:
1:57 - Front Page
51:48 - Obsessions
1:00:56 - Reader Mail
1:06:41 - Favorite Items
Show Notes:
Mediaite: Fox News Reporter Confronts Trump AG Bondi on ‘Gang Member’ Claims — Straight-Up Asks ‘Why Not Show the Evidence?’
The Washington Free Beacon: Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk
The Washington Post: Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
The Washington Post: Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times
Financial Times: CNN’s Mark Thompson: ‘Our entire industry is going through a revolution’
The Wall Street Journal: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
Politico: GOP representative: ‘Left has to look in the mirror too’ after condemning Shapiro arson attack
The New York Times: One Giant Stunt for Womankind
The Washington Free Beacon: Holding Space: Women Rejoice as Bezos Gal Pal, Others Make History
The New York Times: How Trump Might Unwittingly Cut Emissions From Online Shopping
The Wall Street Journal: Porsche Heir’s Plan to Build a Private Tunnel Has His Alpine Neighbors Fuming
NBC News: Government's case against Mahmoud Khalil is reliant on tabloid accounts, review of evidence shows
Red State: Salem Media Group Strikes Deal With Donald Trump Jr. and Lara Trump
Freddie deBoer: John Oliver is (Still) Part of the Problem
The Wall Street Journal: Navy SEAL. Harvard Doctor. NASA Astronaut. Don’t Tell Mom About This Overachiever.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've 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. Hi, I'm Chris |
| 0:25.1 | Stier-Walt. And I'm Eliana Johnson. Welcome to Inkstain Wretches, where we break down what's |
| 0:29.6 | going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. Eliana Johnson, we missed you. |
| 0:38.0 | Josh Crossauer was great. It was great to have him, but we missed you. Josh Crossauer was great. |
| 0:39.5 | It was great to have him, but we missed you. |
| 0:41.3 | So welcome back. |
| 0:42.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm happy to be back. |
| 0:45.5 | And we will have another guest episode next week when you are off. |
| 0:51.4 | So I know. |
| 0:52.8 | I mean, lots of guests into the show. It's super exciting. But for this week, |
| 0:58.4 | same old. Same old. Same old. It's good, though. It's good to have you back. I hope you're having |
| 1:03.7 | a pleasant Passover. I'm very happy to be back and had a great, had a great Passover. |
| 1:09.7 | Oh, that's fantastic. Yes, thank you. |
| 1:12.0 | And I, I'm gearing up for Easter, which of course will be celebrated with spectacular |
| 1:19.0 | quantities of roast meat. Every, every occasion is a good occasion. We're going to be doing the |
| 1:26.3 | standing rim. That's what's up for us. |
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