Your morning 10-minute rundown of the most important stories in news and politics, hosted by veteran political strategist @mattwhitlock. New episodes T/Th.
🚢 Gavin Newsom finds new ways to tax Californians
Meet the kooky regulation on Cargo Ships that Joe Biden helped Gavin Newsom put in place to drive up your energy costs.
Congress and @epaleezeldin can fix it very simply.
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🏦 Wokest bank CEO wants to kill Trump's affordability agenda with "data rationing"
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon - famous for debanking President Trump - wants to "ration your data" and add new fees to online transactions.
Conservatives are calling on the CFPB to stop it.
🎙️ New Episode: June 30, 2026
-Preparing for new Iran peace talks
-Democrats defend socialist takeover as "big tent" - is it?
-Far-left bank CEO wants new fees on online transactinos
-Gavin Newsom wants to tax more energy
-SF Giants
-James Talarico's fans aren't helping him out
📰 Todd Akin lost a Senate race over ONE comment about rape.
Roy Moore lost Alabama over accusations involving underage women.
Mark Robinson lost a governor’s race after praising Nazis.
Graham Platner has the makings of ALL of them — at the same time.
And Democrats are still defending him to beat a moderate Republican.
🏦 Jamie Dimon vs. innovation
Whether it's his war against open banking - the ability to use financial apps without fees - or his war against the Clarity Act and Crypto, Jamie Dimon, architect of political debanking, is at war with any innovation that cuts into his bottom line.
🍗Meet Steve Cohen: the old white man who chose retirement over losing his seat to a black Republican woman.
Cohen argued that he was entitled to his seat representing a majority minority district - but is a perfect representation of the absurdity of Democrat arguments.