Thank *you* for coming on and being your usual hard-nosed, clear-eyed, reality-based (and good-humored -- despite, well, everything) self, @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social. 🙏🙏🙏

Thanks for inviting me @jheil.bsky.social for this deep dive discussion:

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi on the manhunt for Charlie Kirk's killer, the state of the bureau under Kash Patel, and America's political violence epidemic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/6GRV...

I'm posting some of my favorite pods from the week. Don't know about you but I needed a break. Here's @jheil.bsky.social and Rob Reiner talking about Spinal Tap 2. Comes out on Friday and that's turning it up to 11! open.spotify.com/episode/3FwP...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Been remiss about posting, so playing catch-up here on the past 3 superb episodes of #ImpoliticJH. See thread below for guests and links:

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! As Oasis prepares to take the stage in NY, the great Chuck Klosterman explains why America is finally falling for the Gallahger brothers 30 years after their reigen as kings of Britpop. Apple: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/04EC...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Two cracking new eps of #ImpoliticJH, the first with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social talking Trump, Putin, Zelensky, Europe, the state of play in the war in Ukraine, and last week's exercises in summitry, sophistry, and sound & fury, signifying next to nothing: puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! @danpfeiffer.bsky.social is back, talking @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, @jbpritzker.bsky.social, the redistricting wars, & 2028; young Democratic phenoms @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social; and the story Dems need to be telling about Trump & the GOP. Links below:

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! On Friday's ep of #ImpoliticJH, the fabulous @cbrennansports.bsky.social talks abt her new bestselling book, "On Her Game," abt @CaitlinClark22 & the transformation of the @WNBA and women's sports. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3y2H...

🎧New pod alert: Our founders Adam Pritzker and Daniel Squadron joined the latest episode of #ImpoliticJH with @jheil.bsky.social to chat about how we can catalyze the power of the states to uphold American values and achieve the American Promise.

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🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Sheee's baaack ... by popular demand, @nicollewallace.bsky.social joins #ImpoliticJH to talk MAGA & Epstein, Brennan & Comey, her new podcast "The Best People" and her endless love for @thebearfx.bsky.social. How many F-bombs does she drop? Hit one of the links below to find out!

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Been off the socials so I'm a little late on cranking up the hype machine, but while the past two eps of #ImpoliticJH could hardly be more different, both are 🔥. See below ...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Former UBS Americas CEO and 3-time Obama appointee Robert Wolf joins the show to gab about Elon's exit; Trump, trade, and why the 🌮 meme is such a 🎯; and his take on "Original Sin" + regrets about Joe Biden. open.spotify.com/episode/3Ibq...

New episode of Hacks On Tap is up -- in which @murphymike.bsky.social and I stand back as @davidaxelrod.bsky.social lets off steam (and vents his spleen) about a panoply of Trump 2.0 perfidies. www.hacksontap.com/episodes/vla...

🚨🎙️🚨 Two new pods for your Memorial Day listening pleasure: (1) Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson" join the show to talk about their buzzy new book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." open.spotify.com/episode/2CqU...

🚨🎙️🚨 Moochpod alert! Talking through the Waltz-Rubio shakeup, why Trump sucks so bad at firing people, the culture of sycophancy in his cabinet, and why his war on dolls is a tell that he's gonna cave on tariffs with the one & only @scaramucci.bsky.social. Links below:

🚨🎙️🚨 ICYMI pod alert! Didn't have a chance to flag last week's drops (I was uplugged and off the grid). But you don't want to miss the timeless NeverTrump stylings of @gtconway.bsky.social & Stuart Stevens or a fascinating visit with Susan Morrison about her biography of Lorne Michaels. Links below:

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! As Trump 2.0 hits the 100-day mark, my @puck.news political superfriend @peterhamby.bsky.social joins Impolitic to break down what we've seen, what's mattered most, and how Democrats and Resistance 2.0 are faring. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... open.spotify.com/episode/6PMf...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! On Weds, I intv'd Chris Krebs @thekrebscycle.bsky.social about how/why the Trump admin is dismantling America's cyberdefenses. An hour later, Trump issued his outrageous order that the DOJ investigate Krebs—whose professionalism+patriotism shine through on the pod. Links below.

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! On the heels of the GOP's shellacking in WI thanks to Musk and the financial market meltdown thanks to Trump, journalistic legend @ronfournier.bsky.social and WI Dem chair @benwikler.bsky.social assess our co-presidents' "Appetite for Destruction." Links below:

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🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Two fresh eps to feast your 👂s on: (1) @markwarner.bsky.social & @therickwilson.bsky.social go deep and wide on Signalgate; (2) @peterbakernyt.bsky.social & @sbg1.bsky.social on fallout from that fiasco + why Trump's DC is starting to feel like Moscow on the Potomac. Links below.

All credit due to you, LAC!

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Two new eps of #ImpoliticJH and one new #HacksOnTap in 3 days: @weissmann11.bsky.social on Trump's war on the judiciary (and on him!); new @puck.news star @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social on Capitol Hill as Capitol Hell; and @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social w me & Axe on Hacks. Links below.

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! @lievschreiber.bsky.social discusses his humanitarian aid work at BlueCheck Ukraine, his friendship with Zelensky, which side actually wants the 🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war tio end. and his plans to return soon to the stage (under the auspices of Hugh Jackman!). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! As Senate Democrats seem prepared to fold their hand when they finally have some cards to play, @repauchincloss.bsky.social explains why voting for the CR makes Democrats "acquiescent to the chaos and corruption of the [Trump] administration." puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New Hacks On Tap is up! @murphymike.bsky.social and I are joined former Clinton WH political director Doug Sosnik to weigh in on the tariff wars, Wall Street waking up to Trumponomics, the politics of stagflation, the market's Tesla Chainsaw Massacre, and more. www.hacksontap.com/episodes/the...

🙏🙏🙏 And yep, @mashagessen.bsky.social is indeed incredible.

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! In the wake of a paradigm-shifting and maybe -shattering fortnight viz the war in Ukraine, @mashagessen.bsky.social joins #ImpoliticJH to discuss Trump's affinity for Putin and what it means for Ukraine, Russia, and the whole of Europe. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! With prices rising, markets falling, and growth stalling, my once-upon-a-time teacher and forever pal @rbreich.bsky.social explains why Trumponomics is leading the US towards stagflation — and why Dems, pace James Carville, shouldn't just play possum. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Former @washingtonpost.com executive editor Marty Baron discusses how Jeff Bezos's acts of obeisance to Trump are debasing a once-great newspaper—and how the Fourth Estate is holding up against the White House's efforts to undermine America's free press. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! In the wake of the awful, shocking, embarrassing fuckshow just now in the Oval Office, my conversation yesterday with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social is all the more enlightening, bracing, and ominous abt what lies ahead for Ukraine ... and the world. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

New Hacks on Tap is up! With Axe & Murphy MIA, we've got The Bulwark's @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social & @americanprogress.bsky.social's Patrick Gaspard hacking away at Elon emailing govt works, Trump dumping on Zelensky, Carville predicting a GOP collapse, & more. www.hacksontap.com/episodes/rus...

Right back atcha @joycewhitevance.bsky.social.

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🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! In Part 2 of our doubleheader on Trump 2.0 & the courts, @joycevance.bsky.social joins #ImpoliticJH to discuss the Eric Adams case: why the DOJ's move to drop charges against NY's mayor is unwarranted & improper, and a threat to the rule of law. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! In Part 1 of a special two-part #ImpoliticJH on the battle being waged in courts across the country against the Trump-Musk agenda, we have the one & only @preetbharara.bsky.social — thoughtful, razor-sharp, deeply concerned but refusing to yield to panic. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! @draperrobert.bsky.social discusses his new NYT Mag profile of MAGA youth power broker Charlie Kirk, the first 4 weeks of Trump 2.0, and whether Dems are starting to find their voice as the opposition party (beyond calling Elon Musk a dick, that is). puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! On the eve of NBA All Star weekend, we take a break from politics to talk hoops w/ the great and powerful Woj: from Luka's hero worship of Lebron and Woj's devotion to St Bonaventure bball to whether he misses the Woj Bomb era like a phantom limb. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

Per Trump, the only thing bigger than the Super Bowl is the, ahem, Gulf of America. But Jonathan Martin delivers a Superdome field report suggesting Trump is — shockingly! — full of it. Oh and @murphymike.bsky.social is his usual brilliant self on a new Hacks on Tap: hacksontap.com/episodes/mak...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Talking through the constitutional vandalism of Trump and his second-term allies/enablers -- and whether the courts will be the guardrail that saves us -- with @tribelaw.bsky.social on today's new #ImpoliticJH. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! @nytimes.com columnist & podcaster @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social returns to #ImpoliticJH to chop up his conversation-sparking essay "Don't Believe Him" — about how Trump "is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! @thebulwark.bsky.social maestro @jvl.bsky.social joins #ImpoliticJH to lay out his argument that "we are in a constitutional crisis already." Essential listening on the fast train to the dark side ... puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! Senator @brianschatz.bsky.social joins #ImpoliticJH to talk Trump 2.0 week two — from the president's "disgusting" attempt to politicize the tragic midair crash over DCA to the risk of "millions" dying if RFK Jr. is confirmed at HHS, and more. puck.news/podcasts/imp...

🚨🎙️🍺🚨 New #HacksOnTap episode is up — in which CBS News's Robert Costa joins me and @murphymike.bsky.social to talk abt the chaotic launch of Trump 2.0, the laws of political gravity, and which of Trump's cabinet picks is most likely to get got. www.hacksontap.com/episodes/the...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! It's a Circus semi-reunion on today's episode of #ImpoliticJH, as I'm joined by my pal Jen Palmieri to talk about Trump's first week in office, how Dems are coping, and the #MeToo backlash. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... or open.spotify.com/episode/6b63...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alert! The dynamic duo of presidential historians — @beschlossdc1776.bsky.social & Jon Meacham — weigh in on the first week of Trump's second term ... and which of the JFK/RFK/MLK govt files they're jonesing hardest to see. podcasts.apple.cm/us/podcast/i...

🚨🎙️🚨 New pod alerts! Talking about the Trump 2.0 inaugural with fellow hacks @davidaxelrod.bsky.social & @murphymike.bsky.social on the latest episode of #HacksOnTap ... and covering the same ground (under a similar title!) with @joe-scarborough.bsky.social on #ImpoliticJH. Links below ...