This Week in Outrage

Lisa and David talk about the week’s events for the holiday. Note: This one we just recorded and popped up here using Substack’s auto-editing so we’ll see what we have. No usual in-depth show notes this time. We will be back to usual episodes next week. Get full access to Outrage Overload Newsletter at outrageoverload.substack.com/subscribe

This week, Lisa and David talk about America 250, the Trump-led Great American State Fair, and the the fight over the nation’s semiquincentennial; new ‘Patriot Passport’ design; “Alligator Alcatraz” officially shutting down; European heat wave; Trump standing by claims that vandals damaged the Reflecting Pool; Iran war ceasefire, MOU, and Israel; major earthquakes around the world; Judge permanent...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the UFC fight at the White House, partisan approval, the planned sniper attack; the Reflecting Pool mess; Fox News TV coverage and the Iran MOU; Obama Presidential Center opening; Peter Thiel’s secret society agenda leaked; DOJ approves merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery, putting Trump ally in charge of CNN; Fox Corp buying Roku; and more. Added...

This week, Lisa and David talk about our visit to Washington, D.C.; Mitch McConnell hospitalized; French village says Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit; UFC fight on South Lawn of White House; Judge orders Trump admin to restore altered museum and park sites signage; effects of killing USAID and other programs targeted by the Trump administration, including the effects on screwworm, and yet spen...

This week, Lisa and David talk about California’s ‘Jungle primary’; bottom-of-the-barrel talent abandoning Freedom 250; judge says Trump’s name must come off of the Kennedy Center (David will believe it when he sees it); judge reverses course on Trump IRS case dismissal, ordering investigation into possible misconduct; judge pauses Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund for review; DOJ lau...

This week, Lisa and David talk about starting the summer season; skepticism around the latest White House shooting reflecting a broader distrust of the administration; countering the “MAGA is tanking” narrative; ending of “The Late Show” without a CBS farewell; Trump’s slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters and other Trump allies; the DNC autopsy report; DOJ drops ‘Broadview Six’ case with accusations of p...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Trump’s personal looting of U.S. taxpayers; Xi appears to insult Trump and threaten over Taiwan; Eileen Wang, Mayor of Arcadia, admitted to acting as a foreign agent promoting CCP propaganda; former Acting FBI Director accuses Kash Patel of political purge; “Lil X” with Musk and Trump in China; meet “Chud the Builder” now facing a possible sentence of up to 60...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Louisiana exoneree elected, then denied office; Kyle Rittenhouse hospitalized after brown recluse spider bite; Flock camera controversies; racialized voter suppression; blatantly discriminatory tactics; DHS shuts down immigration detention watchdog while deaths and concerns about conditions rise; Hantavirus status update; federal judge restores NEH grants targe...

This week, Lisa and David talk about White House Correspondents’ Dinner aftermath; Comey indicted for 8647 post; MAGA influencer Craig Long caught in prostitution sting; Minnesota women use Tinder to honeytrap ICE agents; Trump’s new surgeon general nominee; Bongino says he planted fake info to catch ‘snakes’ in FBI; man pleads guilty to 2002 murder of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay; AI Sector bubbler,...

This week, Lisa and David talk about White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting; Devin Nunes departing Trump Media; Trump mobile phone announced June 2025 still not shipping; Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges; police sergeant caught naked claimed he was ‘wringing out sweaty clothes’; Trump bringing back firing squads; entire NSF science advisory bo...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Eric Swalwell sexual misconduct accusations and the California gubernatorial race; sparse crowd for JD Vance at Turning Point USA event; MAGA is pushing that Trump assassination attempt was staged; FBI Director Kash Patel accused of excessive drinking and unexplained absences; JD Vance tells pope to “be careful” talking about theology; Trump’s insane proposed a...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Melania press conference, why?; Matt and Tawni Browning Secrets of Polygamy docu-drama; why Europe is begging J.D. Vance to campaign for their rivals; Trump posts video of a woman being bludgeoned to death; judge says US must turn over evidence of Renee Good’s killing by federal agent Jonathan Ross; FAA releasing a “manic” ad campaign targeting gamers on Twitch...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Hegseth fires Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George; White House ‘OnlyFarms’ website; the Daily Mail photos of Kristi Noem hubby wearing fake breasts; report finds AI sycophancy influences user behavior and relationships; OpenAI secures $122 billion funding at $852 billion valuation ahead of IPO; Anthropic Claude code leak; rumors of White House unrest and para...

This week, Lisa and David talk about No Kings 3 street interviews; Democrats flip Trump’s Mar-a-Lago district; Todd Blanche gaslights about ICE at polling places; why aren’t the generals saying “No”; Hegseth stopped promotions of Black and female officers as report alleges chief of staff claimed Trump wouldn’t want to be seen with a black female army officer; popular MAGA influencer turns out to b...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the ‘Bachelorette’ 22nd season canceled; Ms. Rachel uses her platform to call for end to ICE child detention; the case against privatizing the Postal Service; Trump didn’t get even one judge to agree with his “big lie” suit; Trump to deploy ICE at airports while TSA agents still unpaid; ICE collecting DNA from arrested protesters; Rubio defrauding legal immigra...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Karoline Leavitt performing for an audience of one; Trump’s weird shoe obsession signals broader, gutless sycophancy; DOGE staffers testify to prioritizing executive mandates over program merits in grant reviews; Facebook new policies will give us more clickbait videos; Washington state Spanish hotline provides accented AI English; what’s up with Ben Shapiro’s...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the Iran war and Israeli influence on the US; OpenAI KillGPT; Noem avoids direct denial of Lewandowski affair under oath; judge rules Kari Lake had no authority to dismantle VOA; tariffs updates; Israel hacked Tehran traffic cameras to effect Khamenei assassination; Trump’s scorched alumni; inventions by women; Punch the monkey; almost one third of Gen-Z men be...

This week, Lisa and David talk about war with Iran; Trump’s Board of Peace; Trump SOTU “Democrats are destroying the country”; Men’s Olympic Hockey team controversies; Epstein files; Clinton deposition; more ICE atrocities; Hegseth bars troops from Ivy League and MIT attendance; bizarre baseball promotions; and more. Added Context for Video of Ghislaine Maxwell in Canada Recent footage circulating...

This week, Lisa and David talk about new potential theme song; Winter Olympics wrap up; judge rules masked ICE arrests constitute illegal "secret policing"; Trump tariffs and the Supreme Court ruling; Trump impeachment political realities; RFK Jr. Kid Rock shirtless HHS ad; Lunar New Year; Fat Tuesday; and more. Links: Outrage Overload Podcast Yergz Radio (yergzradio.com) Dare Talk Radio (daretalk...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Winter Olympics; Grand Jury refuses to indict Democrats involved in ‘illegal orders’ video; Trump revokes the “endangerment finding” on greenhouse gases; FAA forced to close El Paso airspace because Kristi Noem’s CPB wanted to play with their new deadly military laser toy to shoot down a party balloon; two US Navy ships collide in Caribbean; Epstein files DOJ i...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the Epstein files; Olympics opening ceremonies; Washington Post layoffs; Tulsi Gabbard accused by whistleblower of suppressing a report of NSA-intercepted call between foreign nationals and someone close to the White House; LA Dodgers Plan to attend a White House ceremony celebrating World Series win; Supreme Court lets California’s new Prop 50 congressional ma...

This week, Lisa and David talk about partial government shutdown; nationwide strike to protest ICE; the ‘Melania’ movie opens in theaters; Trump struggled to recall the word “Alzheimer’s” while discussing his father’s dementia; David critiques Tangle for normalizing Trump via misleadingly B grade; Lisa lists some of Trump’s pardons so far; latest Epstein files dump; Trump to sue his own administra...

This week, Lisa and David talk about the latest shooting of an observer by federal agents and David’s crisis of complicity; the Heated Rivalry phenomenon; One Battle After Another; the TikTok deal; DOGE theft/misuse of user data; and more. Note: if you want to skip the conversation about the conditions of our democracy and David’s crisis, and just listen to the fun stuff about TV, movies (spoilers...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Minneapolis Federal Prosecutors resign amid authoritarian pressure from Trump admin; Renee Good relatives hire George Floyd family lawyer; Trump admin ramping up efforts to have ICE agents generate video content for social media; Fed Chair Jerome Powell responds to DOJ investigation; Dan Bongino exits FBI; journalist Laura Jedeed says ICE offered her a job afte...

This week, Lisa and David talk about Dr. Oz new drinking guidelines; Pete Hegseth seeks to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) by reducing his retirement rank and pension; oil CEOs call Venezuela “uninvestable”; Trump administration to halt billions of dollars in federal funding for social services programs in five states: Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado; ChatGPT wants you to s...