S6E14 Baseball in Tokyo, Democracy in Peril, and Elon Musk’s Chainsaw - Beach Talk #132

On today’s Beach Talk, Betsey Newehuyse and I break down the headlines as the President floods the zone with controversy, wielding Executive Orders like a wrecking ball to smash the federal government to pieces. In these gloomy, fear-filled times, we need a break—so we turn to baseball and college hoops. March Madness is here, and my LA Dodgers take on Betsey’s Chicago Cubs in Tokyo, where fans are out in full force for their favorite Japanese superstars.  

Meanwhile, I’ve been writing open letters to Senator John Thune, urging him to step up and put the brakes on the President’s anti-democratic agenda. And now, Michael Kruse of Politico has taken notice, quoting my letters in his latest profile: "Does John Thune Have a Red Line When It Comes to Trump?"

But the headlines only get darker—the administration is rounding up immigrants, with ICE Director Tom Homan invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to detain so-called “Venezuelan Terrorists” without due process. They’ve been shipped off to El Salvadorian prisons—unnamed, unidentified, uncharged. And then there’s what I’m calling "The Chainsaw Massacre", a brutal purge of funding and jobs, engineered by Elon Musk himself. We dive into the real, personal stories behind these losses.

Join us for all this and more on Beach Talk—because the news never stops, and neither do we.

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