Day: March 27, 2025

Team Trump’s Amateurs and Incompetents Exposed on the Signal Group Chat Prepare to Bomb the Houthis Again, Maybe This Time With “Clean Opsec”?

We begin with a pending escalation of strikes on the Houthis following the last one that was the subject of a Signal group chat among the top Trump officials revealing war plans and leading to concerns about the amateurism and incompetence of Team Trump and their ability to keep secrets and execute foreign and defence policy professionally. Joining us is Dr. Annelle Sheline, a research fellow at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and an expert on religious and political authority in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked as a journalist in Egypt and Yemen and served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor until recently resigning over US policy on the war in Gaza. We discuss her article at Responsible Statecraft, “Trump appears all in for Netanyahu’s political survival.”

RFK Jr’s Brutal Cuts to HHS as His Quackery Harms Kids From Cod Liver He Recommends Instead of a Measles Vaccination

Then we look into RFK Jr’s cuts to HHS axing 10,000 employees on top of the 10,000 already cut along with the Trump Administration pulling the US out of Gavi, a program that vaccinates children across the world in poor countries where diseases that result in pandemics often originate from. Joining us is Thomas Bollyky, director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a professor of law at Georgetown University and is the author of Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways and the founder and managing editor of Think Global Health, an online magazine that examines the ways health shapes economies, societies, and everyday lives around the world. We discuss his article at Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Global Health Crisis: America Is Retreating, and China Won’t Fill the Void.”

Are We About to See a Defeat of Musk in Wisconsin After Successfully Buying the White House, the Senate and the House?

Then finally, now that Musk has turned his sight on buying the Wisconsin Supreme Court, we assess whether we are about to see a defeat of Musk whose successful spending binge in buying American politics has got Trump back in the presidency and Republicans elected to the House and Senate. Joining us to discuss whether on Tuesday, after $100 million is spent, Wisconsin voters will stand up against this increasingly unpopular plutocrat is Ruth Conniff, the Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner who formerly served as Editor-in-chief of The Progressive Magazine where she worked for many years from both Madison and Washington, DC. She is the author of Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers, and her latest article at The Wisconsin Examiner is “Big worries, small protest as Trump and Musk threaten livelihoods and health in Wisconsin.”