{"podcast":{"title":"Tangle","slug":"tangle-2208048","podcast_index_feed_id":2208048,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66510864c0852400122bc7be","website_url":"https://www.readtangle.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66510864c0852400122bc7be/1754663840350-d73bf770-ad2c-4062-af8f-2954eda67f56.jpeg","author":"Isaac Saul","episode_count":1213,"summary":"Independent, non-partisan politics news where you'll hear the best arguments from across the political spectrum on the news of the day. Plus, fascinating interviews with people in the political world. Check out our newsletter: https://www.readtangle.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T08:19:24.513356+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tangle-2208048"},"episode":{"title":"Spirit Airlines shuts down.","slug":"spirit-airlines-shuts-down","published_at":"2026-05-04T20:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tangle-2208048/spirit-airlines-shuts-down","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tangle-2208048","url":"https://www.readtangle.com/","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66510864c0852400122bc7be/e/69f8fac33371a53209cba76f/media.mp3","summary":"On Saturday, Spirit Airlines  announced that it was canceling all flights and beginning an “orderly wind-down” of its operations. The budget airline had been struggling since the Covid-19 pandemic, and it  hasn’t posted  a profitable year since 2019. President Donald Trump had sought a deal to bail out the company before its shutdown but failed to reach an agreement with bondholders. About 17,000 Spirit employees and contractors are expected to lose their jobs; union representatives  are negotiating  with the airline to grant compensation packages to affected workers. Ad-free podcasts are here! To listen to this podcast ad-free, and to enjoy our subscriber only premium content, go to  ReadTangle.com  to sign up! Corruption in the Trump administration? “After reviewing the evidence of the first 15 months of President Trump’s second term, I believe the president is profiting off the office and making foreign policy decisions based on business interests to a level we’ve never seen or even conceived of before, and apparently nothing is being done to stop it.” Gold phones, Qatari planes, Syrian golf courses, cryptocurrency schemes, ballroom donations. Market moves, board seats, lawsuits dropped, lawsuits threatened. Pardons, prosecutions, profits, profits, profits… This past Friday, Executive Editor Isaac Saul waded through all of it in a thorough exploration of the charges of corruption against President Donald Trump. In case you missed it, you can read the piece here . We’ve also decided to make this Friday edition open to everyone, so please share it with anyone you think would be interested! You can read today's podcast ⁠ ⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠ and today’s “Have a nice day” story  ⁠here⁠ . You can  subscribe to Tangle by clicking here &nb…","meta_description":"On Saturday, Spirit Airlines announced that it was canceling all flights and beginning an “orderly wind-down” of its operations. The budget airline…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1919,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tangle-2208048/episodes/spirit-airlines-shuts-down/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tangle-2208048/spirit-airlines-shuts-down.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}