250: Skepticrat250 - Feud for Thought Edition

On this week's episode: We’ll go full tea on the Musk-Trump breakup ... At least 1.6% of America showed up to make sure Trump had a shitty birthday ... And Heath's getting married.

To support our show on Patreon, go here:
https://www.patreon.com/skepticrat

To hear more from Evil Giraffes on Mars, go here:
https://www.facebook.com/EvilGiraffesOnMars

Get great deals while supporting the show by checking out our sponsors:
policygenius.com
groundnews.com/skepticrat
betterhelp.com/skepticrat
quince.com/skepticrat
auraframes.com (code: SKEPTICRAT)

Headline Sources:

Best worst best best messy breakup fight of all time: https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-timeline-twitter-truth-social-apology-regret-b2767891.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/11/politics/musk-vance-wiles-phone-call

Trump’s expensive stupid teeny tiny parade: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/us/trump-military-parade.html
And wanting to use it on protesters: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/trump-military-parade-protests.html

Democratic lawmaker forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s press conference: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygn48djrko

NYC mayor's race in final stretch with Andrew Cuomo somehow still in front: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/nyregion/debate-takeaways-mayor-nyc.html
Mamdani and Lander cross-endorse each other to leverage ranked-choice voting: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mamdani-lander-endorsement-nyc-mayor.html

New China trade ‘deal’ takes US back to where it started: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/us-china-trade-deal-trump.html

Anti-Trump protests are yuge: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-anti-trump-rallies-us/