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Nightly News Roundup

Nightly News Roundup

By: Jason Thompson
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A news headline show for people who love to hate the news and hate to love the news.

Art by Cory Drake.

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Episodes
  • Nightly News Roundup for March 24, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for March 24, 2026
    Mar 24 2026
    Trump held a press conference and declared victory over Iran four times in thirty-nine minutes while also wanting a ceasefire, not wanting a ceasefire, and sending Marines with no boots on the ground; a white plumber with an associate degree is now running Homeland Security because DEI is the problem; the president mailed his ballot two days after calling mail-in voting cheating; he ordered Republicans to kill the DHS deal on Sunday and signed it on Tuesday because his ICE agents couldn't find a bomb in a diaper bag; and a dead pilot tried to warn us about LaGuardia months ago and someone filed it and went to lunch. Tape rolls.

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    5 mins
  • Nightly News Roundup for March 23, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for March 23, 2026
    Mar 24 2026
    Donald Trump broke the airports, then deployed ICE agents who can't screen luggage to fix them; the administration paid a French oil company $928 million to stop building wind farms, announced the death of subsidies with a straight face, and called it energy independence; Iran and America are either negotiating or lying about negotiating while 2,000 people are dead and Jared Kushner holds the pen; Russian intelligence defeated the entire U.S. security apparatus with a fake help desk email; the Navy shipped 4,200 Marines toward a war it won't name while calling the deployment routine; the Pentagon recruited civilian volunteers to do ICE data entry by comparing deportations to wildfire relief; and a conservative magazine founder proposed a constitutional coup — with a Democrat as VP — as the last sane off-ramp anyone could find. Tape rolls.

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    6 mins
  • Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 17, 2026

    Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 17, 2026
    Mar 18 2026

    Donald Trump got ghosted by all thirty-two NATO allies for a war he started, then declared he never needed them — from inside a meeting with Ireland, a country not in NATO; the administration's anti-war conscience turned out to be an antisemite, which tracks; the president who ran on ending migrant farm labor quietly slashed migrant farmworker wages to fix the shortage his deportations caused; Jeanine Pirro went on Fox News to beg viewers to become federal prosecutors because the DOJ fired everyone with a résumé; Mike Johnson asked for $16.5 billion to restock munitions for a not-war that Congress never authorized; a Republican subpoenaed a Republican over Jeffrey Epstein files that implicate people nobody wants to name out loud; and DOGE fired the exact officials whose only job was preventing what's currently happening in the Strait of Hormuz. Tape rolls.



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