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Morning Announcements is a daily show brought to you by the Betches Sup, here to help you make sense of the world in the wake of 2020’s chaos. Every morning, Betches co-founder and host Sami...

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Thursday, October 22nd, 2026 - Meta Owes New Mexico $25 Billion, Witkoff Calls Putin a “Humanitarian,” Musk Floats “Elon Inc.”

Today's Headlines: The EU says it’s investigating whether Russian, Iranian, and Algerian actors helped fuel the riots in France and elsewher...

11:10Oct 22, 2026

Wednesday, October 21st, 2026 - Elon Throttled Starlink, TX Gerrymandering Is Backfiring, Hacked Voting Machines

Today's Headlines: The WSJ reports that Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on the battlefield, and while the Tr...

8:39Oct 21, 2026

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 - New America, Election Offices Get Powder Letters, Paris Riots

Today's Headlines: Trump posted that New Mexico should immediately rename itself “New America,” claiming it would raise home values and inco...

10:22Oct 20, 2026

Monday, October 19th, 2026 - Half a Scaramucci: Zacharia Gone, No Kings Silenced, Putin Wants Trump and Xi in Beijing

Today's Headlines: Katie Zacharia lasted five days as White House press secretary (less than half a Scaramucci), and she went out with a far...

7:49Oct 19, 2026

Friday, October 16th, 2026 - Oregon School Shooting, Execution Livestream Cancelled, Guilfoyle's Alleged Burn Book

Today's Headlines: Another day, another school shooting. Four people were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore...

8:43Oct 16, 2026

Thursday, October 15th, 2026 - Starlink Goes Dark in Ukraine, Omar Deportation Plan Revealed, GA Breaks Voting Records

Today's Headlines: Elon Musk's Starlink cut off service to Ukraine without warning right as Russia launched two consecutive nights of ballis...

9:22Oct 15, 2026

Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 - Guilfoyle Fired, OpenAI Got Bugged, Pope Leo Has Lung Cancer

Today's Headlines: Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned as US ambassador to Greece after her grifting became too public to ignore, announced by new W...

7:57Oct 14, 2026

Tuesday, October 13th, 2026 - DHS Raids Ilhan Omar, Elon's Tries To Buy Midterms, Pro-Collins PAC Bought Ads in Wrong Portland

Today's Headlines: DHS raided Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation into alleged immigration fraud in her family's paperwork...

8:28Oct 13, 2026

Monday, October 12th, 2026 - Trump's Illegal Russian Oil Deal, Houthi Saudi Strikes Kill 13, Guilfoyle On The Chopping Block

Today's Headlines: Here’s what you may have missed over the weekend: Trump announced a deal to lift sanctions on Russian oil and import it —...

9:37Oct 12, 2026

Friday, October 9th, 2026 - Trump Skips Iran Strike, Hegseth Will Livestream Execution, Guilfoyle's $100K Amex Scheme

Today's Headlines: To end the week, Trump decided not to strike Iran before the November 3rd midterms, primarily because high gas prices are...

8:12Oct 9, 2026

Thursday, October 8th, 2026 - Voting Machine Seizure Plans, Trump Advisers Aid Putin's Allies, Paxton Trashes Trump

Today's Headlines: Pardoned election denier Tina Peters met with Trump at the White House to discuss how Howard Lutnick could legally seize...

8:05Oct 8, 2026

Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 - Trump: Let Iran Take Out LA, ICE Detained 500 US Citizens, Measles Hits 30-Year State Record

Today's Headlines: Another day of mad king things. Trump told a Nebraska rally crowd to "let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out Sa...

8:23Oct 7, 2026

Tuesday, October 6th, 2026 - Bolsonaro’s Son Wins, Cornell Seven Update, Starbucks Lied About Sugar

Today's Headlines: We’re starting today with news out of Brazil. Flavio Bolsonaro — son of coup-attempting former president Jair, who is cur...

7:43Oct 6, 2026

Monday, October 5th, 2026 - Russian Plague Death, Epstein Whistleblower Dead, Trump Doxxed Tom Cotton, Anthropic Lobbied the Vatican

Today's Headlines: This weekend has brought a lot, some would say too much, disturbing news. A lab worker at an anti-plague research institu...

9:21Oct 5, 2026

Friday, October 2nd, 2026 - Trump's Insurrection Act Threat, Letitia James Takes Cornell, US Tourism Tanks

Today's Headlines: Trump told TIME he won't rule out invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterm elections, threatened to "annihilate"...

4:56Oct 2, 2026

Thursday, October 1st, 2026 - FlyDubai Near-Hijacking, Hegseth's State of the Force Rant, Trump's Sketchy Midterm $500 Checks

Today's Headlines: A FlyDubai pilot stabbed his co-pilot mid-flight, the plane nosedived 17,000 feet in under two minutes, and six passenger...

5:23Oct 1, 2026

Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 - Jack Smith's Botched Hearing, SCOTUS OKs Third Country Deportations, Cornell Scandal Deepens

Today's Headlines: Republicans dragged Jack Smith back to Congress to testify about his Trump investigations, tried to catch him in a lie ab...

7:44Sep 30, 2026

Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 - Trump's Taxpayer-Funded “PSA”, FBI Got Hacked, Cornell Gang Rape Scandal

Today's Headlines: Trump is airing a taxpayer-funded TV ad nearly identical to one of his 2024 campaign ads, ending with "paid for by the US...

8:43Sep 29, 2026

Monday, September 28th, 2026 - NATO Prepping Evacuation, SCOTUS OKs Trump's Shady Voter Rolls, OpenAI's Massive Security Problem

Today's Headlines: So NATO is preparing for war, aka potential Russian aggression, with Poland and Lithuania developing cross-border civilia...

6:29Sep 28, 2026

Friday, September 25th, 2026 - China’s Xi Likes Granite, USS Lincoln Suicide Attenpts, Trump Ignores Press Ban Court Order

Today's Headlines: Trump spent day two of Xi Jinping's state visit showing him the White House construction zone and reporting that Xi "like...

7:02Sep 25, 2026