UNBIASED Politics (6/26/25): What To Know About NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani, an Update in the Middle East, Senate's Federal Land Sale Blocked, and More.
Episode Format:
DOJ Whistleblower Says Top U.S. Attorney and Judicial Nominee Told DOJ to "Ignore Court Orders" (1:00)
Health Insurers Reach Agreement With HHS To Make Reforms to Pre-Authorization Requests (4:30)
Trump Administration Formally Finds California in Violation of Title IX; Here's What It Means (10:49)
Zohran Mamdani Beats Former Gov. Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary; What to Know About Him and His Policies (14:47)
Senate's Federal Land Sale Blocked From Big Beautiful Bill (32:00)
Updates in the Middle East; Trump and Hegseth Deny New U.S. Intelligence Report About Nuclear Site Damage (35:02)
Rumor Has It: Was a Tourist Denied Entry Into the U.S. Because of a JD Vance Meme? (42:39)
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DOJ Whistleblower Says Top U.S. Attorney and Judicial Nominee Told DOJ to "Ignore Court Orders"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/trump-doj-bove-judge-order-whistleblower.html
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/trump-deportations-doj-whistleblower
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-dept-whistleblower-erez-reuveni-emil-bove/
Health Insurers Reach Agreement With HHS To Make Reforms to Pre-Authorization Requests
https://www.ahip.org/news/press-releases/health-plans-take-action-to-simplify-prior-authorization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgY0QUV9iKQ
https://ahiporg-production.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Prior-Authorization-Consensus-Statement.pdf
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/health-insurers-simplify-pre-approvals
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/18/health-insurance-prior-authorization-doctors
https://x.com/annarmatson/status/1937251172152472021?s=46
https://san.com/cc/trump-administration-looks-to-streamline-prior-authorization-process/
Trump Administration Formally Finds California in Violation of Title IX; Here's What It Means
https://www.advocate.com/politics/gavin-newsom-rejects-mcmahon-threat
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/01/teen-trans-athlete-ab-hernandez
Zohran Mamdani Beats Former Gov. Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary; What to Know About Him and His Policies
https://www.zohranfornyc.com/platform
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/results-new-york-city-mayor-primary.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/new-york-mayoral-primary-results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/nyregion/mamdani-globalize-intifada.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-israeli-settlements.html
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLD4lS_OYMB/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2rgzye9no
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/politics/zohran-mamdani-mayor-new-york-city-primary
https://forward.com/culture/573654/intifada-arabic-israeli-hamas-war-meaning-linguistics/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
https://council.nyc.gov/districts/
https://www.nyc.gov/site/intergovernmental/city/city-legislative-process.page
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/what-is-democratic-socialism.html
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/#discredited
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLD4lS_OYMB/
Senate's Federal Land Sale Blocked From Big Beautiful Bill
https://newrepublic.com/post/197167/republicans-remove-sale-public-lands-budget-bill
https://apnews.com/article/public-land-sales-senate-mike-lee-bf4c3a046a107efc7d4ffe005fdb9d2d
https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1937340623213985907
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48444
https://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Parliamentarian
https://ballotpedia.org/Budget_reconciliation_in_U.S._Congress#Budget_reconciliation_process
https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/senr-budget-rec-NEW25684-20250617.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html
https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/F45D5D1E-65F5-4631-8C8F-E8C67E0DBCBD
https://www.jordanismylawyer.com/episodes/june192025
Updates in the Middle East; Trump and Hegseth Deny New U.S. Intelligence Report About Nuclear Site Damage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/iran-nuclear-sites.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqZ-2a9dEfE
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-conflict-us-trump-06-25-25-intl-hnk
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/26/defiant-khamenei-says-iran-will-never-surrender-to-the-us
Rumor Has It: Was a Tourist Denied Entry Into the U.S. Because of a JD Vance Meme?
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/25/norwegian-tourist-jd-vance-meme/