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Coming up on todays episode of Suspension of the Rules: we go deep on the Texas Senate primary results, the Enhanced Games and the missing congressman nobody is talking about. Last but not least, a very good grievance section where Ari grosses us out a bit... It's a good one! Ad-free podcasts are here! To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to ReadT...

On Tuesday, Texas voters participated in a slate of  primary runoff elections , including a highly publicized Republican Senate primary between state Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton defeated Cornyn by a 27.6-point margin and will go on to face state Rep. James Talarico (D) in the general election.  Ad-free podcasts are here! To listen to this podcast ad...

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard  announced  her resignation, effective June 30, to support her husband as he fights a rare form of bone cancer. Gabbard will become the  fourth  cabinet secretary to leave the second Trump administration, following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who were fired...

Isaac Saul interviews American political commentator and author of the newsletter BIG, Matt Stoller. Monopoly and antitrust law is one of the most complicated topics to cover in the US right now and Matt Stoller is one of the most interesting writers on the topic. We brought Matt on to share his world view, background and the lens of which he is processing this crazy monopoly and antitrust news th...

I have not been very happy with the president. And I haven’t been shy about that. Like most independents, with whom Trump currently has a  net –33 approval rating , I’ve found the first 16 months of his presidency alarming, frustrating, and disappointing. Less than a year into his new term, I was already writing about how  things had gotten pretty bad . I’ve since written about the ...

On May 8, President Donald Trump announced Russia and Ukraine agreed to a three-day ceasefire. Both sides  accused  the other of violating the truce, and heightened strikes resumed when it ended on May 11. Over the weekend, Ukraine  conducted  an overnight drone attack on Russia, including strikes in Moscow, killing at least four and injuring 12, according to local officials. T...

Coming up on todays episode of Suspension of the Rules: we go deep on some UAP/alien chatter, Trump's growing power, the gigantic slush fund made from tax payer money going to the aggrieved and more. Last but not least, a very good grievance section. It's a good one. Our next event! Today, I’m pleased to announce that we are  coming to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, on June 13 and 14  ...

The  midterm primaries  officially began on March 3, and on Tuesday, primaries were held in states across the country. Elections in Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama drew particular focus, where Republican candidates were facing challenges from President Trump or crowded fields for the party’s nomination. Our next event! Today, I’m pleased to announce that we are  coming to Berkeley Spr...

On Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ)  announced  that, as part of the settlement agreement in  President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service , it would create a new fund that could “issue formal apologies and monetary relief” to individuals and entities who claim to have suffered from lawfare and DOJ weaponization. The anti-weaponization fund will receive $1.776 billio...

On Friday, President Donald Trump  departed China after a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which the leaders discussed trade deals, diplomatic relations, the Iran war, and other issues. Trump and Xi each spoke favorably about the other and emphasized their interest in a mutually beneficial relationship between the countries, though the two sides did not mutually announce a...

The message Isaac gave to a group of students at St. Olaf College in Minnesota at the end of his campus tour. Ad-free podcasts are here! To unlock the rest of this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to  ReadTangle.com  to sign up! Our latest Suspension of the Rules. Isaac, Ari and Kmele let loose a bit in today’s episode, discussing Sen. Rand Paul’s son...

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)  released  its Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for April, which showed an increase of 3.8% from a year earlier, slightly higher than economists’ expectations. The latest inflation figures represent the highest annual increase since May 2023, up from 3.3% in March. On a month-to-month basis, prices rose a seasonally adjusted 0.6% after ri...

Coming up on todays episode of Suspension of the Rules: Sen. Rand Paul's son's big drunken mistake, a break down of the hantavirus, and this week's notable internet clips including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 2028 prospects . Last but not least, a very good grievance section. It's a very good one! Ad-free podcasts are here! To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium...

On Monday, 18 Americans  returned  to the United States from a cruise ship where passengers had contracted a rare strain of hantavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) transported the passengers to specialized quarantine facilities in Nebraska and Georgia; one American tested positive for the virus. As of Tuesday afternoon, three deaths — a Dutch couple and a German...

Over the past week, the United States and Iran have exchanged communications over plans to end the war between the countries, though talks have yet to produce a breakthrough. On Monday, President Donald Trump  said  the pause in fighting is on “life support,” calling Iran’s most recent response to a U.S. peace proposal unacceptable. Separately, the Strait of Hormuz remains mostly closed...

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia  struck down  a redistricting measure recently passed by voters that would have allowed the legislature to adopt a new congressional map designed to give Virginia Democrats a 10–1 advantage in the U.S. House. In a 4–3 decision, the court found that the process of putting the measure on the ballot violated the state constitution, affirming a county...

Last week, I  published  an exhaustive 6,000-word essay on the self-dealing and potential corruption of President Donald Trump’s second administration. I shared clips of the article on X, and it went viral. The initial feedback from readers within and outside the Tangle community overwhelmingly asked us to drop the paywall on the piece. After a few hours, we did. Since then, we’ve been i...

On Tuesday, Indiana held primary elections for the 2026 midterms. The state Senate primaries were closely watched after President Donald Trump supported challenges against incumbent Republican state senators in response to their opposition to a mid-decade  redistricting plan  last December. Six Trump-backed candidates  defeated  incumbent lawmakers, while another won an open-se...

Coming up on todays episode of Suspension of the Rules: Trump gets revenge on the Indiana GOP, we talk about Kmele and billionaires and CNN with Abby Phillip, and then a long conversation about ChatGPT's fact checking of Isaac's article on Friday which was titled "The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story". Last but not least, a very good grievance section where Kmele actually knock...

On Monday, May 4, the Supreme Court issued a  temporary stay  on a lower court’s order that mifepristone, a drug commonly used in early-term abortions, can only be prescribed and dispensed in person. The order pauses the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’s  decision  to prevent the drug from being accessed by mail. In a brief order, Justice Samuel Alito, who oversees appeals from th...

Back in March, the headline was everywhere: “Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad,” the title of a  25-country study  from the Pew Research Center. Associate Editor Lindsey Knuth interviewed one of the study’s coauthors, Jonathan Evans, and Pew’s associate director of global attitudes research, Laura Silver, to talk about Americans’ national pride, partisan...

On Thursday, April 30, the House of Representatives  passed  legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and end the department’s 76-day shutdown, the longest shutdown in U.S. government history. The House of Representatives and the Senate each had passed separate bills to end the shutdown; on Thursday, the House approved the Senate’s legislation in a voice vote under s...

On Saturday, Spirit Airlines  announced that it was canceling all flights and beginning an “orderly wind-down” of its operations. The budget airline had been struggling since the Covid-19 pandemic, and it  hasn’t posted  a profitable year since 2019. President Donald Trump had sought a deal to bail out the company before its shutdown but failed to reach an agreement with bondholders...

I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing. FULL EPISODE. Ad-free podcasts are here! To enjoy this podcast ad-free and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to  ReadTangle.com  to sign up! You can  subscribe to Tangle by clicking here  or drop something  in our tip jar by clicking here.   Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Ou...

I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing. Ad-free podcasts are here! To unlock the rest of this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to  ReadTangle.com  to sign up! You can  subscribe to Tangle by clicking here  or drop something  in our tip jar by clicking here.   Our Executive Editor and Founder is Isaac Saul. Ou...