Behind The Eight Ball (feat. Adam Klasfeld; Tara Setmayer)

Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

Today, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the Arkansas ban on gender affirming care; bigot Kim Davis has asked the Supreme Court to overturn marriage equality; a federal judge has ordered improved conditions for immigrants detained at 26 Federal Plaza; how the State Department grappled with the release of a triple murderer in the CECOT prisoner exchange; Trump’s new jobs numbers guy suggests suspending monthly job reports; Putin visits Alaska as talks swirl about a new Trump Tower Moscow; core inflation continues to rise in the United States; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urges prosecutors to jail Beto O'Rourke; Sherrod Brown announces his bid for Senate in 2026; and Allison and Dana read your Good News.

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Guest: Adam Klasfeld
All Rise News

All Rise News - Bluesky, @klasfeldreports.com - BlueSky, @KlasfeldReports - Twitter, @senecaprojectus - Instagram
General commanding troops in LA delivers, then revises, damaging testimony to Trump | All Rise News

Guest: Tara Setmayer
The Seneca Project, @senecaproject.us - Bluesky,  @senecaprojectus - Twitter
The Seneca Project - YouTube, The Stakes with Tara Setmayer and Michelle Kinney - YouTube
Tara Setmayer, @tarasetmayer.bsky.social - Bluesky, @TaraSetmayer - Twitter, @thetarasetmayer - Instagram

Stories
Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling | ABC News

V Spehar (@underthedesknews) - Instagram

Trump’s pick for BLS commissioner floated suspending the monthly jobs report before apparently backing off | CNN Business

Eighth Circuit Upholds Arkansas’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth | American Civil Liberties Union

Russia Has High Hopes for Trump-Putin Summit. Peace With Ukraine Isn’t One of Them. | WSJ

‘Can We Extradite Him?’ How U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer | The New York Times

CPI rose in July by 2.7% on an annual basis. Here's what that means. | CBS News

Paxton urges Texas judge to jail Beto O’Rourke over fundraising related to redistricting fight | POLITICO
 

Good Trouble 
Protest Putin in Alaska! Thursday, August 14 - 5:00 p.m. Valdez, AK, Small Boat Harbor Boardwalk. Putin will be traveling to Alaska to meet with Trump. They will discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Join Alaskans all over the state and rally to show that we oppose rolling out the red carpet for Putin and Trump and to show our solidarity with Ukraine. Bring Ukrainian Flags if you have them.

 

From The Good News
Republican Rep. LaMalfa hammered in profanity-laced town hall - ABC News

Rose Haven

CT State Community College

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