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Devolution Power Hour Ep. 452: WHCA Shooting, Uniparty Exposed, Trump's 2020 Post

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open an already packed Saturday show to breaking news: a gunman breached security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, setting off a chaotic media response. The guys break down the event in real time, analyzing the official story, the shooter's profile, the lax security setup, Trump's immediate press conference pivoting to the ballroom, and why the level of public skepticism this time appears noticeably higher than after Butler. From there, the conversation shifts to the coordinated influencer campaign manufacturing the illusion that everyone has turned on Trump, including a sharp breakdown of how algorithmic consensus and social reputation pressure drive that behavior. Chris Paul unpacks his "western town" controlled opposition metaphor, illustrating how Trump operates outside the circular firing squad entirely. Trump's True Social post tying the SPLC indictment directly to the 2020 election and calling for it to be wiped from the books gets its own segment. The show closes on a substantive exchange about black pilling, hopium, and what realistic expectations actually look like.

Flow Ep. 49: JD Vance Concerns, Second Gilded Age & Abraham Clark

Cam Cooksey brings on special cohost Caleb Epp for a deep, no-holds-barred conversation. The two dig into Trump's True Social posts on Iran negotiations, the lingering blockade, and the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extension. They wade into whether JD Vance is controlled by defense interests and what Peter Thiel's influence on the presidency could mean long term. A debated clip raises questions about Trump's faith. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation comes up as a striking example of government waste exposed. A wealth inequality video sparks talk of a Second Gilded Age and what it means for regular Americans. A live shooter incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner unfolds in real time in the chat. The show closes with a tribute to Abraham Clark, the Declaration signer who refused a deal to free his captive sons. A genuinely great episode with two guys who aren't afraid to ask hard questions.

People Ep. 21: Dr. Ron Elfendein - The Doctor Who Refused to Break

What happens when a doctor follows the rules, saves lives during a pandemic, and gets indicted by his own government anyway? Alpha Warrior sits down with Dr. Ron Elfenbein, the Johns Hopkins-trained ER physician who built one of the country's first drive-up COVID testing operations, pioneered the "test to treat" monoclonal antibody model adopted nationwide, and was personally honored by Maryland's governor for his pandemic work. Then the Biden DOJ came knocking.
Dr. Elfenbein walks through the federalization of monoclonal distribution, the mysterious "equity" rationing that left red states scrambling, and the four-month gap between his Fox News appearances warning people would die and his federal indictment. The "fraud"? A $250 billing dispute the government somehow translated into five felony counts and 50 years in prison. A jury convicted. A chief federal judge, an Obama appointee, then wrote a 93-page opinion essentially calling the case Stalinesque. The DOJ appealed anyway.
This is a conversation about medicine, lawfare, and the personal cost of speaking up. Four years in, he is still fighting. Find him at dropthecase.com.

OnlyLands Ep. 53: Bitcoin Beef, Gilded Age 2.0 & Caleb's Origin Story

The crew is fully assembled this week, plus a guest appearance from Caleb, who kicks things off by casually mentioning he served legal papers to an unstable stalker at a GOP event for fifty bucks. Just a normal Thursday in Colorado. From there, the conversation takes a sharp turn into wealth, power, and money systems as the gang unpacks whether we are living through a Second Gilded Age, what Bitcoin actually is versus what people think it is, and whether Satoshi Nakamoto could be an intelligence agency. The Federal Reserve takes its usual beating. Meanwhile, a lengthy detour through Thailand's gold culture accidentally becomes one of the more interesting segments in recent memory. Caleb also gets brainstormed into potentially starting his own show, and the quartering gets publicly embarrassed by the entire internet. A chaotic, surprisingly substantive episode that proves the best conversations happen when nobody has an agenda.

Spellbreakers Ep.163: Was Amy Eskridge Murdered for Her Antigravity Research?

Was Amy Eskridge killed because of what she knew about antigravity? Host Matt Trump, a physicist, actually watched her lecture to find out. What he found was a talented, balanced science communicator who probably wasn't doing cutting-edge classified research, but whose story opens a fascinating window into decades of gravity modification experiments, disappeared researchers, and suppressed science. From the Mansfield Amendment to Ning Li's vanishing act to the Podkletnov effect, Matt walks through the serious and the speculative with equal parts rigor and curiosity. A tribute to a young woman who loved a strange subject, and a reminder that even in fringe science, the questions matter more than the answers.

Why We Vote Ep. 170: Maricopa Win, Virginia Redistricting & Intel Bombshell

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off their last Friday night edition before moving to Tuesdays with a packed election integrity rundown. First, a Maricopa County court delivers a big win for recorder Justin Heap, stripping the board of supervisors of the election authorities Steven Richer quietly handed over before leaving office. Then, Virginia's "Restore Fairness" redistricting amendment passes 51-49, but six legal strikes from a circuit court judge could unwind the whole thing before it's ever certified. The show shifts to FBI Director Kash Patel's bombshell Fox News appearance, where he announces arrests are coming over 2020 election interference. The bulk of the episode digs into the newly declassified National Intelligence Council memo from January 2020, which assessed that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all had the capability to compromise US election infrastructure and that centralized databases were the most vulnerable entry point. The conclusion? The machines should never have been trusted. They were never safe.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 101: Weather Wars, Syria File & Lebanon Ceasefire - 4/24/26

Ghost opens episode 101 with a deep rabbit hole: the theory that US radar bases in Qatar and UAE functioned as weather modification systems deliberately draining Iraq, Syria, and Iran of rainfall for years. Ghost walks through the historic drought data in the Tigris Euphrates River Basin, the 2024 Dubai floods and cloud seeding admissions, and whether destroying the Qatar radar station triggered a sudden rainfall recovery across the region. From there, Ghost connects the dots to the $2 trillion "Syria File," revealed by Qatar's former defense minister, detailing how the US, Israel, Gulf States, Turkey, and NATO funded the Syrian civil war. The back half covers the Hajjaz Railway revival, MBS as the real architect of the Lebanon ceasefire Trump announced, Smotrich calling for redrawn Israeli borders, Israel Katz waiting for a US green light to resume the Iran war, and Trump telling reporters a nuclear strike would be a stupid idea.

MAHA News [4.24] Psychedlic Executive Order, Rescheduling Marijuana, RFK’s Senate Hearing

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back, and yes, they're talking about drugs. The good kind. Trump signed an executive order to fast-track psychedelic treatments for veterans and mental health, with ibogaine and psilocybin leading the charge. Meanwhile, marijuana has officially been rescheduled from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3, opening the door for actual research and giving CBD entrepreneurs a reason to cautiously celebrate. Then things get serious: RFK Jr. faces the Senate and delivers a clinic in citing CDC's own studies against their narrative, while Senator Ron Johnson drops data showing the FDA actively masked vaccine safety signals, including over 20,000 reported deaths in 2021. Plus, Pete Hegseth scraps mandatory military flu shots. Jordan's internet, however, was not rescheduled to a better tier. It had a rough day.

The Daily Herold: 4/24/26 - Wipe 2020, Polymarket Arrest & Firing Squad

It is a slow Friday, so Jon Herold opens the phones and the conversation gets real fast. Trump posted a middle-of-the-night Truth Social calling for the 2020 presidential election to be permanently wiped from the books with no further force or effect, and Jon unpacks why that kind of rhetoric matters even if nobody knows exactly what it means yet. Then the callers come in hot: a wide-ranging discussion on blackpilling, burnout, hopium addiction, and why Chris Paul keeps getting misrepresented by people who cannot sit still long enough to hear a full sentence. A special forces soldier just got arrested for betting on his own Maduro operation on Polymarket, and Jon finds it hard to be outraged when Congress has been doing the same thing forever and walking free. The DOJ also quietly dropped its criminal probe of Jerome Powell, which Jon finds very Tillis-shaped. Plus: the firing squad is officially back as a federal execution method, Todd Blanche made a significant speech at the NRA on embedding second amendment protections into regulatory infrastructure, and Wickoff is heading to Pakistan for Iran talks without Vance, which is apparently a thing now.

Badlands Daily: 4/24/26 - Trump Links SPLC to 2020, Cole Trial Date, Missing Congressman

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week with a Friday that hits on every front. Trump drops a Truth Social post calling the SPLC indictment another Democrat hoax tied to ActBlue and says the 2020 election should be wiped from the books entirely. Chris unpacks why that statement is a deeper level of disclosure than the autopen story and what it signals about where this is all heading. The Virginia redistricting saga continues with Wall Street Journal hand-wringing from Republicans and CNN legal analysis confirming the referendum has real procedural problems, while CannCon lays out the full redistricting math and what it means for the midterms. New Jersey Republican Tom Kean has been missing for over a month with no proof of life and five seats now vacant in the House. The Brian Cole Jr. J6 pipe bomb case gets a terrorism enhancement and WMD charges but his defense team shocks the courtroom by demanding a trial date. CannCon plays his 2022 interview with Bridget Thorne revealing ACLU clerks had personal laptop access to Georgia's entire voter database on election night. Plus, the IRS moves to require nonprofit fiscal sponsorship disclosure, closing a major dark money loophole.