News Roundup: Groks and Bills and Alligators

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Politics, News, Currentaffairs, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

...oh my.

Daniel and Jack talk about the latest lunacy with Musk and Grok, The Big Beautiful Bill, social murder, the expansion of ICE, recent SCOTUS rulings and the assaults on trans rights and birthright citizenship, Alligator Alcatraz, the horrifying flash floods in Texas and the cuts to the National Weather Service, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Big content warnings for this one. Lots of dead children in here. Because that's the news in July 2025.

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Episode Notes:

Kevin Kruse on third parties https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/third-party-in-the-usa/

If Books Could Kill - Supreme Court goes full TERF https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-supreme-court-goes-full-terf-teaser/id1651876897?i=1000715268706

5-4 - US vs Skrmetti https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/united-states-v-skrmetti/id1497785843?i=1000715260782

5-4 - US vs CASA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trump-v-casa-inc/id1497785843?i=1000716294077

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0:00.0	And we're back with another news brief, although I don't know, I don't know how brief it's going to be.
0:05.5	It's a news roundup. It'll be fine. Roundup, yeah. Yeah, let's not promise brief. Let's not be
0:12.7	writing any checks. We can't cash. Because, yeah, things keep on happening, don't they? A lot's
0:18.7	been happening. Yes, it turns out the news is happening.
0:21.9	Mostly bad news,
0:23.1	but sometimes occasionally some good news,
0:25.4	but I think mostly everything we're going to cover today is mostly bad.
0:28.6	So yeah.
0:29.6	Yeah,
0:30.0	yeah,
0:30.5	because it's,
0:31.2	it's 2025 and that's how 2025 rolls.
0:35.5	It's how it's been going all year so far, yes.
0:38.7	Doesn't exactly mark 2025 out amongst recent years.
0:42.9	Yes.
0:43.8	Each year is kind of worse than the last.
0:45.5	Although I think 2021 was better than 2020.
0:48.3	I would give it that, you know, once, once that scene started rolling out and, you know,
0:52.5	things were a little bit lighter on that regard.
0:54.1	I think, you know, but every year since it has gone down.
0:57.7	So, yeah.
0:58.7	Yeah.
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