Balancing Seriousness with Humor in Policy Discussion

On today’s episode, Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams discuss the Donald Trump administration’s disregard for the courts. The White House has ignored a judge’s order to turn around a pair of deportation flights and failed to rehire federal workers. A constitutional crisis has arrived. Plus, get ready for a three-bleep Kai rant. And how anime helps explain the GOP’s attempt to get around the real cost of its $4 trillion tax cut.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Black War Hero’s Medal of Honor Page Deleted by Pentagon” from Newsweek
• “Donald Trump Is Itching for a Legal Showdown Over Deportations” by Vanity Fair
• “What court orders? Trump’s moving full steam ahead to slash more federal workers” from Politico
• “Exclusive: How the White House ignored a judge’s order to turn back deportation flights” from Axios
• “Trump admin live updates: Border czar says ‘I don’t care what the judges think’” by ABC News
• “Crematory horrors spur Maryland lawmakers to push for reform” by The Washington Post
• “A Congresswoman with Dementia Stopped Coming to Work. The DC Press Corps Never Noticed.” by Politico
• “The Budget Trick the G.O.P. Might Use to Make a $4 Trillion Tax Cut Look Free” by The New York Times
• @bbkogan.bsky.social on Bluesky
• “Republicans press for change in how CBO tallies cost of legislation” from Marketplace

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