In Which We Discuss:

1. There’s cross traffic in the race for president - we’ll tell you who’s in and who’s out.

2. Joe Biden has seemingly thought A LOT about the assasination of Barack Obama.

3. David Koch is dead, survived by Russian authoritarian government and the MET.

4. Trump did not successfully buy Greenland last week. Let’s depose him.

5. The future of oxygen is up in smoke, literally.

6. Pray for RBG because how many cancers is too many?

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Domestic terrorism has had a big week

2. After 12 hours of debate, we still can’t pick the generic white moderates out of a Democratic Debate lineup

3. The people of Puerto Rico overthrew their government last week. Now if only we could overthrow ours...

4. Trump, unsurprisingly, can’t find a National Intelligence Director. Or an intelligent person to work for him in general.

5. Trump furious that Elijah Cummings can’t stop Trump’s own family from slumming up Baltimore

6. Go and demand some impeachment, people!

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In Which We Discuss:

1. As the earth literally shook all around us, at least we could take comfort in the fact that the USGS was having the Best. Week. Ever.

2. Donald Trump regaled us with tales of fourth of July glory, commemorating the forgotten Battle for LaGuardia, Terminal C.

3. Somehow Pete Buttigeig is now the fundraiser to beat in the Democratic Primary

4. The Census citizenship question Just. Wont. Die.  Possibly because neither will Donald Trump.

5. Justin Amash, founding member of the Freedom Caucus, is leaving GOP BECAUSE IT’S TOO RADICAL FOR HIM.

6. Marianne Williamson has more in common with Mormonism’s Joseph Smith than you’d want or need.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Lila was in the thick of the biggest news of two weeks ago

2. #DemDebate Real Talk: 

3. Partisan gerrymandering is no big deal if you have a lifetime appointment

4. SCOTUS is super confusing these days, but ultimately still as horrible as you’d expect

5. We’ve been gone a month, so here are all the times we almost went to war

6. Trump is celebrating the 4th of July by scheduling counterprogramming to PBS’s celebration because what better way to celebrate America than by getting better ratings than Carole King?

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens, helicopters, and computer beeps who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram! 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Robert Mueller holds emergency press conference to remind us that unlike Barr, he has, in fact, read his own report.

2. It remains to be seen whether magic will be enough to get Marianne Williamson, or even Kirsten Gillibrand, into the third Democratic debate.

3. The word “Mueller” is in the news so Trump’s got a genius plan to create a diversion by tanking the entire economy of both the US and Mexico.

4. Math is vindicated once again after study shows that the Trump tax cuts...SHOCK...didn’t work.

5. It’s [name any day] in America so obviously there was another mass shooting.

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In Which We Discuss:

1. The earth is a huge disaster, and Joe Biden has a plan to solve it...with fracking!

2. Harris and O’Rourke are already in the market for new reasons to run after already forgetting their original ones

3. No one wants to be in the Senate anymore

4. Tio Sanders and AOC are the duo of our dreams

5. Barr is officially in our contempt, and now the Judiciary Committee’s too

6. When you consider it a victory that your new abortion law doesn’t send women to prison over miscarriages, your bar is too low

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In Which We Discuss:

1. Breaking the shutdown record was just too fun not to try it again.

2. The Green New Deal is fun and exciting, and if you don’t think so...well...you’re probably not running for president

3. We’ll tell you all the detail of the Virginia abortion mess.  Oh, wait, did you think it was only about racism?

4. Let’s abolish the State Of The Union

5. What if we all just announced we’re running for president only once?

6. Trump doesn’t do work. Now we’ve got the numbers.

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 In Which We Discuss:

1. Don’t worry, we didn’t need a border wall anyway. Trump just wanted us to think really hard about one as an exercise.

2. Roger Stone and his favorite back tattoo subject now have even more in common.

3. Michael Cohen is in the mob. Really.

4. Puerto Rico is still a place that exists to everybody that isn’t Donald Trump.

5. 2020 Updates: Don’t forget (or do) that Howard Schultz is a nobody.

6. No matter who the president is, we’re always up to the same tricks in Latin America.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram! 

In Which We Discuss:

1. Anybody you’ve ever heard of (and some that you haven’t) is running for president.

2. Shutdown update, day 6000: No news. Shutdown continues. Send park janitors...or something.

3. GOP finally draws soft line in the sand with Steve King, so they do eventually semi-censure white nationalism. Just takes 16 years to get their story straight.

4. Trump is a foreign agent. Deal with it.

5. If anybody’s selling Iran-bombing excuses or plans, John Bolton is in the market.

6. You could be picketing right now.

7. We’re calling Trump’s wall Peaches from now on so now it’s friendly.

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!

In Which We Discuss:

1. Donald Trump is one of the many Americans who doesn’t really understand what Medicare is

2. Apparently Democrats are taking literally anybody these days

3. If Georgia’s governor can’t win by getting more votes, he’ll win by purging his opponent’s voters. Democracy!

4. Kanye armed only with a MAGA hat and a dream, discusses the infinite universe with Donald Trump

5. Jared Kushner paid less in taxes than you did last year

6. Melania cosplays her way around Africa as a Nazi villain

Brain Trust Live is Lila Nordstrom and Brent Thornburg's look at the week in political news. Join the millions of sirens and helicopters who love our podcast and tell your friends about BTL!  Then rate us on iTunes or find us Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Stitcher, or Instagram!