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The Daily Herold: 6/11/26 - Iran Peace Deal Signed, Epstein Op Confirmed & Debanking Probe

Jon Herold comes in Thursday on a slow news day that gets spectacularly un-slow mid-show. Trump posts a detailed plan to bomb Iran and take Kharg Island, Jon raises a Sun Tzu objection, and then within the hour Trump posts again canceling everything because a peace deal has been approved by every party in the region. Chris Paul had predicted the reversal in the Badlands private Telegram chat before it happened, and Jon finds that deeply satisfying. Jon also spends significant time on the New York Times Epstein book video and arrives at the opposite conclusion the Times intends: the entire narrative confirms the Epstein story was a coordinated op against Trump, not evidence of a coverup. MTG going on CNN to call Trump a traitor over the files does not help his read on her. Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo in a criminal political debanking investigation, and Jon says expand it immediately to PayPal, YouTube, Instagram, and every platform that kicked people off for political speech. The USPS just proposed new ballot tracking standards tied directly to Trump's election integrity order, and Jon connects it to the USPS blockchain voting patent that has been sitting quietly for years. Senate Democrats are apparently wargaming how to stop Trump from stealing the midterms, and Jon calls it the most telling projection he has seen in months.

The Choice (S4E3): Moon to Blood

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 3 of The Chosen, which opens on David grieving his and Bathsheba's dying child and closes on Thomas screaming at Jesus to heal Reyma as she bleeds out in his arms. The hosts unpack the showrunners' bold choice to bookend the episode this way, even though the David death was prophesied punishment for adultery and the Reyma death looks senseless. The point lands either way. God saves some and does not save others, and faith is trusting him in both directions.
In between: Jesus blistering the Pharisees with the "woe to you" speech from Luke 11 about cleaning the outside of the cup while greed festers on the inside, Quintus losing his grip and micromanaging the streets because his tax revenue is in the red, Atticus speaking on behalf of Rome, Gaius refusing the order to arrest Jesus, and Peter actually leading. Plus the modern parallel that no one wanted to bring up but did anyway, the abortion question. If God knit the child together in the womb, who is anyone to decide it is not the right time.

Badlands Daily: 6/11/26 - ActBlue CEO Pleads Fifth Again, Bolton Cooperation Confirmed

CannCon and Alpha Warrior bring the Thursday show with the ActBlue CEO finally in front of congress and doing exactly what everyone expected. Debra Wallace Jones pleads the Fifth on every single question, including how many foreign contributions ActBlue accepted, how much came from Russia, and whether the 38 million flagged donations her own board chairman acknowledged were fraudulent. CannCon explains the full scope of what the hearing is building toward: criminal charges, not just public theater, with laundering of taxpayer dollars through overseas venues back into US campaigns as the core of the eventual indictment. Alpha updates his Bolton cooperation theory after CannCon pushes back with the Petraeus and Berger comparison: Alpha argues the defining indicator is not the fine size but the timing of the plea, and six to nine months is absolute confirmation of cooperation because no one with resources pleads that fast without a deal. Trump signs the Secure America Act funding DHS through the end of his term, and Alpha's border patrol contacts say the danger level agents are operating under is higher than anything publicly reported. The Knicks pull off the biggest NBA Finals comeback in history, and Hakim Jeffries walks directly into a 1994 Madison Square Garden clip of Trump courtside with Marla after telling reporters Trump does not know who the Knicks are.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 465: Iran Oil Heist Exposed, War Economy Switch, and DNI Sidelined

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open the Wednesday show with Trump's True Social feed doing most of the heavy lifting: an Apache helicopter gets shot down over the Strait, Trump announces Iran's military is "completely defeated," and then discloses mid-interview that the US secretly extracted 100 million barrels of Iranian oil through the supposedly closed Strait over the past month. Burning Bright unpacks why that disclosure confirms what financial media had already noticed: oil prices never moved the way they should have if the blockade was real, because it was never real. The Strait has been a narrative operation against the global energy cartel, not Iran. Trump's $1.5 trillion Recon 3 defense budget post lands with the SAVE Act attached, and McConnell and Collins immediately say it won't pass. Burning Bright's war economy switch theory frames the whole thing not as a weapons bill but as a translation layer for funding a domestic technology and manufacturing overhaul modeled on the post-WWII fifties boom. Trump's clip calling out how Steve Hilton got "approved quickly" once heat was applied gets a full breakdown alongside a resurfaced Tim Pool 2021 clip calling election fraud talk "voter suppression." Bill Pulte takes over DNI on June 19 and Trump asks for a FISA 702 extension, while Burning Bright argues Intel is simply being siloed and put in a closet while the real operation runs elsewhere.

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 58: Lindsey Graham Wins, Bongino's AI Pitch & A Wi-Fi Meltdown Mid-Show

Episode 58 starts with Shipwreck reluctantly addressing Lindsey Graham's re-election, after a commenter forced her to learn the actual origin story of his ladybug nickname. From there she breaks down the Karmelo Anthony guilty verdict in the Austin Metcalf stabbing case, her frustration at people defending the convicted teen, and why she changed her voter registration to independent after one too many Trump campaign texts.
Then comes the centerpiece: a Bobby Sauce roast of Dan Bongino's claim that AI data centers are the only thing that can save Social Security and Medicare. Spoiler, the Wall Street Journal opinion piece he cited came from a $35 billion AI company. Shipwreck also calls out the people raging against data centers on Facebook while posting their ChatGPT created birthday invites, and shares her own theory that nuclear power and AI are about to reshape everything.
Then her Wi-Fi crashes mid-show thanks to squirrels chewing the coax cable, so she pivots to a phone stream of late night Instagram videos that crack her up, including a Bill Gates rant, a lightning strike fake accent, and Limp Bizkit grandma. Plus a fence post update, abortion thoughts, and why GART still scares her.

Space Revolution Ep. 22: The Culture of Space.

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Ashe in America to a conversation he calls the culture of space, and it earns the title. Technology is the last thing downstream. Upstream sit policies, values, beliefs, and ultimately worldview. Get those wrong and the most beautiful technology becomes the cruelest weapon.
Ashe brings twenty years of corporate change management to the mic, asking the questions other people are afraid to. Are the ethics of Neuralink an afterthought, the same way Dolly the sheep just quietly went into the shadows? Can a nation as big and diverse as ours actually share a moral foundation? Why did the federal government just claim sole authority over AI regulation?
Kwast answers from his Geography of Innovation study, which found no correlation between where invention happens and the moral climate around it. The takeaway: free markets and good people will figure out useful applications, but only if our interior life is in order. Along the way they unpack progressives as the true opposites of conservatives, USEIP as a model of free association, and why the most exciting thing about the coming age is that evil can no longer hide in the dark like a cockroach.

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 6/10/26 - Secure America Act, Iran Bombing & Oil Secret

President Trump signs the Secure America Act, fully funding DHS through the end of his term with $38 billion for ICE and $26 billion for Border Patrol after more than 100 days of Democrat obstruction. He confirms bombing of Iran has resumed following the shooting down of a US helicopter and announces for the first time that the US military has been covertly extracting millions of barrels of Iranian oil nightly, which is why oil sits at $85 a barrel instead of the predicted $250. Trump also drops the 74th all-time stock market high, touts the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool opening, confirms Washington DC is at its lowest crime rate in 58 years, and signals he may not renew USMCA when it comes up July 2. The World Cup starts tomorrow, and someone should probably tell Iran.

The Daily Herold: 6/10/26 - Decode Debunked, FISA Expiring & Tim Pool's Memory Problem

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a lighter news day and makes the most of the material he has. Trump himself just debunked the June 30 Tulsi decode by announcing Pulte takes over on June 19, and Jon asks the obvious question: do any of the people who built entire posts around that date plan to retract them? Trump also signed the Secure America Act and made live comments claiming the reason Steve Hilton got approved quickly in California while Spencer Pratt got bumped is because he put enough heat on them. Jon reads that as an interesting but incomplete theory about how the fraud system responds to pressure. FISA 702 is expiring this week, Trump is posting that it must pass for World Cup and America 250 safety, and Jon's read is simple: the intelligence community does not need a law to surveil people and will continue doing so regardless. Jon also plays a Tim Pool 2021 clip where Pool calls election fraud talk voter suppression and warns it could get him demonetized on YouTube, then looks at Pool's current viral California fraud posts and has some thoughts about the consistency. The Save America Act hit 50 votes on a Mike Lee amendment with Susan Collins, SpaceX goes public Friday, and LA County voters are allegedly voting to raise their own taxes.

Badlands Daily: 6/10/26 - Save Act Dead, Declaration Day, Pratt Voters Were Never Counted

CannCon and Ashe in America open the Wednesday show in a fighting mood, and it only intensifies. John Thune tells the country on camera that the SAVE America Act cannot pass the senate and the solution is to go vote harder in the next election, prompting Ashe to read directly from the Declaration of Independence and make the case that two hundred fifty years of American history have brought us to exactly the long train of abuses Jefferson described. CannCon and Ashe dismantle Thune's argument with the precise point Badlands has been making for years: the filibuster is an arbitrary senate rule the majority can change at any time, not a constitutional constraint. California wraps its primary coverage with new viral evidence of the fraud: a street interview of a woman saying she voted for Karen Bass because they told her to, combined with CannCon's report that illegal alien voters in California have no legal liability for casting a ballot because the state sends it to them. Ashe notes they watched the SPLC hearing before the show and she was already well past composed before they went live. The intelligence community's infiltration of congressional staff gets a pointed discussion, and both CannCon and Ashe agree that the people running congress are not the elected ones.

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 047: California Voter Fraud Awakening, Bolton Flips & The Two Playbooks Theory

Josh Reid is back from vacation and Alpha Warrior is fired up because John Thune just said publicly he will not bring the Save America Act to the floor and laughed when asked if Trump can do anything about it. The duo opens with an LA Uber driver story that captures exactly what is happening on the ground. Spencer Pratt voters who hate Trump are watching Karen Bass steal the election in real time and finally calling it what it is.
From there they dig into the Iran and Israel kabuki, the water treatment warning strike, why Iran keeps notifying US bases before missiles land, and the IDF eavesdropping on American peace negotiators in Turkey and Pakistan. They unpack NDAA Section 224, the bill Netanyahu personally helped write to integrate Israeli and US military tech, and Alpha drops what he learned from being on the call about the July 7 2025 cyber event that was not the CCP.
Plus the first US Army firing squad executions since 1961, the Black Hawks rehearsing urban combat in LA during the stolen election, Bolton pleading guilty right on Alpha's six to nine month cooperation timeline, and the most provocative theory of the year. What if Q has always been cover for a second military playbook that nobody is supposed to see?