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17 Mar

15 Things Just That Happened

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode covers an exceptionally busy three-day news cycle, highlighting a breadth of significant political and global developments. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Hamas  Trump Administration  Shin Bet  International Criminal Court  U.S. Military  Chuck Schumer  News Cycle  Diplomatic Tensions  Enemies Act  Biden Pardons 

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"That didn't happen. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. It did not happen. In Europe, the former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and taken to the Hague."
Rhode Island, United States
"Whether it's this guy in Rhode Island with the spending a freeze right there's a judge in new york this was part of let's just talk about the biden administration strategy for a minute."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"I was driving on the Washington beltway which people as you may know is a highway of it's terrible uncommon uncommonly traffic okay so I was on the beltway and the outer loop of beltway and suddenly everything stops."
Washington DC, United States
"In the opinion section of the new york times this weekend going deep into how scared everybody is on campuses and isn't this terrible and people won't even speak to me megan o'rourke writing this piece because they're so fearful."
Hawaii, United States
"Well or they're on vacation when some government thing happens that they probably should be in Washington for this was Obama's problem he was vacationing in Hawaii and he had to use the auto pen to sign something and."
El Salvador
"Anyway, they're now in El Salvador."
Israel
"Netanyahu announces that he is trying to fire the head of the Shin Bet the intelligence service which should be a lead pipe cinch and something that an executive who is also the head of the parliament should be able to do in a country like that."
Philippines
"The former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and taken to the Hague."
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
"The former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested and taken to the Hague."
South Africa
"We kicked out South Africa. We kicked out South Africa's ambassador from the United States as part of an overall effort to make the claim that South Africa is mistreating its white minority."
Wisconsin, United States
"Four detentions of people, non-Native Americans, a doctor at Brown, a woman in Puerto Rico on her way home with her husband to Wisconsin, both detained by ICE on the grounds that their visas were invalid."
Puerto Rico
"Four detentions of people, non-Native Americans, a doctor at Brown, a woman in Puerto Rico on her way home with her husband to Wisconsin, both detained by ICE on the grounds that their visas were invalid."
Colombia
"Trump cancels hundreds of millions of dollars in Columbia University funding, sends Columbia a letter explaining how it can get back in its good graces."
Yemen
"We then, of course, struck the Houthis. We hit the United States, hit the Houthis in Yemen in what we are told is going to be a multi-day campaign until the Houthis either stand down from attacking the shipping lanes or whatever."
China
"And it could also mean that some of the more non-interventionist types that have been embedded in the Pentagon want to shut down that work because they're not interested in competition with China."
Macao
"And yesterday, polls come out showing Trump in relatively— people say, oh, he's underwater, he's underwater. He's at like 47%, which for a president in our current context is pretty high."
Mexico
"The plane had to be turned back mid-flight. It's that his ruling was issued while one of the three planes had not yet taken off. So now there's a question of whether or not it took off in contravention of its order, or if indeed the White House is obliged."
Syria
"His wife Nur Ud Ala in 2016 in a program in Beirut. Anyway, everything in this story is a red flag for something else and the Times tells it as though it's writing about the journey of a plucky young person caught in terrible circumstances who's just trying to make good on his ambitions and gets to America in order to study."
Qatar
"Right there's Hamas and Hotel Rooms, I don't know that they're still at Doha, some of them may be in Turkey, whatever they're not safe in hotel rooms they're not safe anywhere right now there's this bizarre interregnum where the first family of the three-phase deal ended."
Turkey
"Right there's Hamas and Hotel Rooms, I don't know that they're still at Doha, some of them may be in Turkey, whatever they're not safe in hotel rooms they're not safe anywhere right now there's this bizarre interregnum where the first family of the three-phase deal ended."
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