{"podcast":{"title":"Morning Announcements","slug":"morning-announcements-1365801","podcast_index_feed_id":1365801,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/BMLLC2929394709","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/67cb16b0-4547-11eb-9ed3-6b741810f44a/image/55a1491a758283a582368bc107960e04.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Betches","episode_count":1384,"summary":"Morning Announcements is your daily news rundown from Betches News--because the world’s a mess, and someone’s gotta explain it. Every morning, Betches co-founder and host Sami Sage cuts through the chaos to break down what actually matters, one unhinged headline at a time. All in under 10 minutes, so you can stay informed without spiraling.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T18:20:26.430593+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801"},"episode":{"title":"Wednesday, June 24th, 2026 - Tulsi Gabbard Was Run by a Cult, Senate Passes War Powers Resolution, SpaceX Stock Is Already Tanking","slug":"wednesday-june-24th-2026-tulsi-gabbard-was-run-by-a-cult-senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-spacex-stock-is-already-tanking","published_at":"2026-06-24T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801/wednesday-june-24th-2026-tulsi-gabbard-was-run-by-a-cult-senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-spacex-stock-is-already-tanking","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/titlepl.us/redirect.mp3/BETCHES/3/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMLLC5953342205.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/titlepl.us/redirect.mp3/BETCHES/3/traffic.megaphone.fm/BMLLC5953342205.mp3","summary":"Today's Headlines: Anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to between 50 and 100 years in prison after a judge stacked consecutive sentences for each count — normally they'd run concurrently — in what was explicitly viewed as a test case for how courts will handle dissent against the Trump administration, and separately the DOJ indicted 15 Minnesota protesters for \"violently opposing federal law enforcement\" by trying to block ICE arrests, so the message is clear. The Washington Post dropped a blockbuster investigation revealing that Tulsi Gabbard's political career was effectively run by her cult leader guru Chris Butler, who emailed her directives from a special address telling her what policies to support, how to behave on television, and writing her tweets down to the word and exact time to post. Ukraine, meanwhile, is winning the intelligence war against Russia using an underground network of \"vidmas\" — female honey pots drawn from Ukrainian folklore — to locate Russian troops for drone strikes, and separately knocked out power to half of Russian-occupied Crimea. On the Iran war beat, the Senate passed a war powers resolution to prevent further military action in Iran on its tenth attempt — ten! — with four Republicans joining Democrats, Fetterman voting for the war, and Mitch McConnell still missing. In a rare bipartisan effort, Congress also passed a housing bill banning private equity from buying more than 350 homes at once and relaxing local building regulations, which won't fix the housing crisis immediately but is technically something. In other news, Foreign hackers from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are infiltrating American homes through smart devices and cheap consumer gadgets like digital photo frames to steal data. Also, the Trump administra…","meta_description":"Today's Headlines: Anti-ICE protesters in Texas were sentenced to between 50 and 100 years in prison after a judge stacked consecutive sentences for each…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":595,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/morning-announcements-1365801/episodes/wednesday-june-24th-2026-tulsi-gabbard-was-run-by-a-cult-senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-spacex-stock-is-already-tanking/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/morning-announcements-1365801/wednesday-june-24th-2026-tulsi-gabbard-was-run-by-a-cult-senate-passes-war-powers-resolution-spacex-stock-is-already-tanking.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}