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Hosted by Melissa Diaz · EN · 133 episodes
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Austin-based stand up comedian, podcaster and bookworm Melissa Diaz reports on current events. Some light humor. Some dark Humor. A lot of ranting. Tune in weekly, Monday/Wednesday/Friday, forever, or until the aliens invade.
Melissa Diaz hosts The Melissa Diaz Report, a news show with 133 episodes published.
Topics: (MSN) 'He's still the best candidate': Maine voters stand by Graham Platner despite scandals (India Times) China Approves World's First Commercial Brain Implant, Beating Neuralink to Market (GRoundNews) Fewer Ame
Topics: The New York Fed says that more Americans are skipping meals because food is too expensive (Yahoo News) Silicon Valley turns transhumanism into a "secular religion" promising immortality and minds uploaded to chi
Topics - Memorial Day weekend - The new Art - Secret Service agents exchanged gunfire with a shooter who allegedly shot at officers outside the White House. The suspect was killed, and a bystander was struck by gunfire a
TOPICS * Ted Turner, founder of CNN and 24 hour news cycle, died last wednesday * 80% of companies using AI agents are cutting staff * Sean Duffy debuts YouTube reality show funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and other com
Topics - Pete Hegseth’s first hearings in Congress since the start of Iran war (AP) - Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass” (New York Times) - Tucker Carlson on a New York Times interview
TOPICS Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael” The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President D
TOPICS Looksmaxxing in 60 Minutes Anthropic announces they will not release their latest artificial intelligence model President Trump signed an executive order Saturday directing the FDA to expedite review of psychedeli
TOPICS The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence The world's wildest company retrea
Topics Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followers Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than eve
Topics Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By Wyden Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor,
Topics - Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows - Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury - Washington Square Park, once a hu
Topics - Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room. - Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry." - Two men who
- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judg
Welcome to the dating recession: Why young Americans are giving up on love - Fox News Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP) Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…
- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned dron
Disney names parks boss Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO to succeed Bob Iger Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion says singer has never contacted them. On the new A.I.-only social network Mol
Topics - Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell (NYTimes) - 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike Against NYC’s Richest Hospitals (Indypendent) - The Department of Homeland Security has promised to send hundre
Topics - 2025's biggest business story: The rise of Artificial Intelligence. - Iranian President declares "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe. - Say goodbye to the dining room. It’s disappearing f
- The Justice Department on Friday released thousands of unclassified files related to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though many remain heavily redacted. - Wall Street Journal published a repo
Topics - Anti-artificial intelligence activist Sam Kirchner has been missing for two weeks - Hep B vaccine controversy - Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining - AI Actress signs NDAs for multi-million dollar film projects
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The Melissa Diaz Report is hosted by Melissa Diaz. The show is categorised under news (commentary) and has published 133 episodes.
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