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Send us a message!!! The Supreme Court closed out its term with four rulings in a single week.  Trump v. Barbara upheld birthright citizenship 6-3, striking down the executive order. West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox left transgender athletics to the states. NRSC v. FEC struck down coordinated party spending limits 6-3. Watson v. RNC upheld mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day, 5-4...

Send us a message!!! NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three congressional candidates, and all of them won. Two current members of Congress lost their seats, including one backed by Hakeem Jeffries. The hosts discuss what it means for a first-term mayor, just six months into office, to outperform the House Minority Leader in a congressional primary, and whether this has any impact beyond Brooklyn....

Send us a message!!! Happy Father's Day, Bloc. Season 3, Episode 25 is live. The boys open with some real talk for the dads: present, active, and fighting the silent battles nobody sees. Then it's straight to work. This week on Pardon the Politics: 🌍 G7 SUMMIT - ÉVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE The world's richest democracies gathered in France, and by all accounts, nobody flipped a chair....

Send us a message!!! The crew is back at full strength. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are all in the room for a packed S3E24 that centers on one question: the economy is “good,” but good for whom? We start with the number that set the week on fire. Inflation hit 4.2%, which is a three-year high. When asked if he was worried, the President said the words no campaign wants on tape: “I love it. I love the...

Send us a message!!! The Chairman of Chaos and Manny held it down this week, and this one covers alot. RECONCILIATION 2.0 | The Senate passed a $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill at 4:47 AM after an 18-hour Voterama. 52-47. Lisa Murkowski voted no. Democrats got nothing they asked for: no judicial warrant requirements before ICE can enter homes, no mandatory body cameras, and no SAVE A...

Send us a message!!! Trump Caught an L in Every Room: The Heritage Foundation says 1,055 out of 1,913 Project 2025 recommendations have been put in place, and they’re giving Donald Trump the credit. That means 55% of the plan has been carried out in just 16 months. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck start the show with that news and break it down.  Next, they cover Trump’s tough week on four different issues...

Send us a message!!! We sat down with Tamika Walker Kelly, the six-year President of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), the state’s largest professional organization for public school employees. Tamika is an 18-year NC public school educator, a North Carolina Teaching Fellows alumna, and someone our own Chuck Wills knows personally: she taught his daughter. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck...

Send us a message!!! Season 3, Episode 21. The chaos was in a crockpot this week, and it came out fully cooked. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back to break down one of the most brazen moves in recent political memory: Trump’s $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. Starting as a lawsuit over leaked tax returns, this deal ended with a taxpayer-funded slush fund controlled by Trump’s own DOJ, no publi...

Send us a message!!! They said it was a quiet week. They were wrong. This week, Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck break down three of the biggest stories shaping America right now: TRUMP IN CHINA: Donnie T touches down in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping. No major breakthroughs, no major blowups, but the optics, the semiconductor vulnerability, the farmer betrayal, and the Taiwan question tell a much deeper story...

Send us a message!!! It's Mother's Day weekend, but Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are still on the job. Season 3, Episode 19 of Pardon the Politics starts with the guys giving a salute to moms and mother figures everywhere, making it clear that pets don't count, before getting into the main topics. The episode starts in Ohio and Indiana, where last week's primaries gave an early prev...

Send us a message!!! Season 3, Episode 18 opens where it needed to: with North Carolina's teachers. This past week, thousands marched on Raleigh in the biggest public education demonstration in state history, and the reason is simple. North Carolina is the only state in the country where teacher pay is projected to go down in 2025-26. Not hold steady. Down. While the state sits on a $951 mill...

Send us a message!!! We were 30 minutes from recording when the text came in: "they shootin'." Saturday night, someone took a shotgun to the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. One Secret Service officer down — saved by his vest. The suspect is in custody. And within hours, Trump pivoted the entire news cycle to a $400 million White House ballroom. This...

Send us a message!!! Jeezy and Manny are holding it down this week for what might be Season 3’s most spiritually grounded episode yet. This week: Trump declared war on Pope Leo XIV, calling him "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy," then posted an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ. The Pope, from a plane over Africa, responded: "I have no fear of the Trump administration...

Send us a message!!! The 21-hour Iran peace talks in Pakistan just collapsed, and before the news could even settle, Trump posted a Truth Social declaring a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. "Effective immediately." The ceasefire expires on April 22. Nobody extended it. The two sides couldn't agree on nuclear enrichment or who controls the water that carries 20% of the wo...

Send us a message!!! Pam Bondi is out, Todd Blanche is burying Epstein, and Trump's already threatening Iran's power plants on Easter Sunday. Season 3, Episode 14  breaks down the second cabinet firing, Day 37 of Operation Epic Fury, the most one-sided budget proposal in modern history, and Byron Noem's very surprising online second life. No scripts. No spin. All receipts Correction...

Send us a message!!! Chuck and Manny hold it down without Jeezy, and the world did not slow down to be polite about it. Day 44 of the longest DHS shutdown in U.S. history, Trump's legally shaky presidential memorandum to pay TSA workers, ICE agents taking selfies in airports while officers sell plasma.  Then the FCC( Part 25 & Part 100), the Nexstar-Tegna TRO, and why Brendan Carr is genu...

Send us a message!!! Episode 75. Manny's back. The boys are back. And the world was not waiting. Mullin's confirmation hearing gave Rand Paul the confrontation he'd been holding for years. The Iran war hit a new threshold — nuclear facilities, a 48-hour ultimatum, and an alliance showing cracks in public. The SAVE Act is on the Senate floor and Manny has one question for Trump: how...

Send us a message!!! Manny's sick. The war isn't. Jeezy and Chuck come in two-handed this week and don't slow down. Week three of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war and they're asking the question everyone's dancing around: how deep into this are we really? Chuck says we might still be at the plate. Neither of them has a good answer for what that means — which is exactly why this co...

Send us a message!!! Some weeks, you watch the news and nod. This was not one of those weeks. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back, barely rested from the time change, and the week handed them more than they bargained for. Primary voters in North Carolina settled a score quietly, decisively, and in a way that should make every elected official in the country take notes. In Texas, something shifted. Yo...

Send us a message!!! The bombs have dropped. The Supreme Leader is dead. And Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are breaking down the most significant geopolitical event since the Iraq War in real time, unfiltered, and without the corporate media spin. In this episode, the boys cover everything you need to know about Operation Epic Fury. The coordinated U.S. and Israeli military campaign that killed Iran&apo...

Send us a message!!! Team USA brought home hockey gold, but back in Washington, it was the Supreme Court delivering the real overtime shocker. This week on Pardon the Politics , the crew breaks down the 6–3 SCOTUS ruling blocking Trump’s sweeping tariff authority and what it means for executive power, Congress’s spine (or lack thereof), and the looming instability of governing by executive order....

Send us a message!!! The government is (partially) shut down… again. This week on Pardon the Politics , we break down the DHS funding lapse, what it really means beyond ICE (think TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard), and why Congress heading home for 11 days hits different during primary season. Is Speaker Mike Johnson’s seat getting warmer? Are special elections signaling a serious swing? And can Democrats a...

Send us a message!!! From Carolina snowstorms to Capitol chaos, this week’s episode of Pardon the Politics is packed. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck dig into the icy fun at home before melting into a firestorm of whistleblower drama with Tulsi Gabbard at the center of an intelligence scandal that could shake D.C. to its core. The crew breaks down why Iran’s nuclear ambitions are heating up again and what...

Send us a message!!! It’s the first episode of Black History Month, and politics wasted no time choosing chaos. This week on Pardon the Politics, the crew goes rapid fire to keep up with a nonstop news cycle: newly released Epstein files with zero accountability, a controversial raid on 2020 Georgia election ballots, another looming government shutdown, and Trump’s surprise pick for Federal Reserv...

Send us a message!!! This week on Pardon the Politics, the crew unpacks the most chaotic political circus of 2026: Donald Trump’s bizarre and blunder-filled appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. From his leaning tower of a stance to a wig that’s giving panoramic Tesla roof, Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck pull no punches. They dive into Trump’s obsession with Greenland (again), his latest rambl...