Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

This week, we're connecting the dots between the stroke of a pen, handmade biscuits, and late-night truth social posts.

I know, I know. How are all of these things connected? Well, we're going to find out with NPR's White House correspondent, Danielle Kurtzleben, and MSNBC Morning Joe co-host, Jonathan,

Jonathan, welcome to it's been a minute.

Glad to be here.

Always happy to be here.

Would you rather be caught up in a tornado or a hurricane?

Hurricane.

Also hurricane.

Interesting.

I choose tornado.

Maybe that's just because of where I'm from, you know, the Midwest.

And I would just go down

into the basement and stick there as long as I can. But I think we can all agree that the past

few weeks have felt almost as overwhelming as natural disaster with the amount of news there has been

to cover and follow. Sometimes it feels like I am drowning in information. And that feeling might be by design.

Let's get into it. We are a little over two weeks into the new administration and President Trump has

signed at least 45 executive orders with a stroke of his pen, addressing all manner of American

life and government from the military

to K-12 education. And it's happening kind of rapid fire. Before you can understand what one

executive order means and how it might impact you, bam, another three decisions have been made

and you are stuck between Googling what tariffs are and making sure you can still

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