Plutocrats & Populists

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Happy Thursday! We’re coming to you a day early with MAGA infighting, a showdown at Columbia University, a media vibe shift, and the story behind the original Egg McMuffin. Wretch on! Time Stamps: 2:26 - Front Page 55:10 - Obsessions 1:04:39 - Reader Mail 1:08:51 - Favorite Items If you have a story you want to discuss with us, email us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts dot com. Show Notes: The New York Times: The Populist vs. the Billionaire: Bannon, Musk and the Battle Within MAGA The New Republic: Why Don’t Plutocrats Care That Trump Is Tanking the Economy? The Wall Street Journal: Capitol Hill’s Republican Sycophant Caucus National Review: Does Trump Know Why He Was Elected? Axios: Trump vows to "lead the charge" to unseat GOP Rep. Massie AP News: Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be ‘first of many’ The Wall Street Journal: Faculty-on-Faculty War Erupts at Columbia as Trump Targets Elite School NPR: A top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece The New York Times: MeidasTouch Pops on Podcast Charts as Progressives Search for Answers The New York Times: Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? The New York Times: The Future of News Looks Niche The Wrap: Wall Street Journal Cuts Tech Reporters and Editors in Media Reconfiguration of Coverage Sports Illustrated: Yankees’ Wives Carrying On Team’s Abandoned Battle Against Beards CNN: Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office The Wall Street Journal: How Foundation and Eyeliner Became a Political Battleground WGN9: An early version of the Egg McMuffin included a surprising condiment Axios: MAGA's antisemitism divide BBC: Russian spy ring's plans to kill journalist 'beyond imagination' The Atlantic: Mitch McConnell and the President He Calls ‘Despicable’ The Wall Street Journal: The High-Pressure Tactics Attorney Gloria Allred Uses—On Her Own Clients

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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 Hatton.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.
0:24.3	Well, hello there. I'm Chris Steyerwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson.
0:29.3	Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media.
0:37.2	And Eliana Johnson, I'm, I feel insane because of the daylight
0:44.5	savings time shift. I each, each day this week, I have said, am I, have I, have I, has someone
0:52.3	slipped me ketamine? What, what is happening?
0:55.3	And then I remember, oh, it's Woodrow Wilson's fault.
0:58.6	It's the fault of the incredibly stupid and unpopular daylight savings time.
1:03.7	I don't like daylight savings time, but, you know, I'm going with the flow.
1:09.2	That's how I think of you is just basically.
1:11.7	It's just to really go with the flow kind of person.
1:14.9	You're just a vessel and you're just, life is just pouring through you.
1:19.6	You're not, you're not putting up a fight.
1:22.3	That's what, that's what I like about you.
1:24.0	It's the Zedness.
1:24.9	Totally. Totally.
1:26.2	We should, we should also say that next week is Inkstain
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