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Badlands Daily: 7/2/26 - Brennan's Reverse Indictment, Hillary Panics, MK Ultra Hearing

CannCon and Alpha Warrior debut the rebranded Badlands Daily with a new intro and a packed Thursday. John Brennan sues the DOJ to preserve records, and Alpha delivers the standout analysis of the episode: this is a reverse indictment designed to force early discovery, protect his co-conspirators, and delay the RICO grand conspiracy case, a move so sharp it made Alpha genuinely angry. Trump tells Bill Pulte at DNI to declassify anything he wants, and Hillary Clinton responds on CNN by openly hoping career appointees slow-walk and refuse to cooperate, which CannCon and Alpha read as pure panic. The birthright citizenship ruling drives a long segment on birth tourism, Chinese sperm and surrogate schemes, the Saipan loophole, and the compassion the hosts admit is being stripped from them. Tim Walz pardoned an illegal alien who repeatedly raped a 10-year-old to shield him from deportation. On Iran, Ghost's rogue-ship analysis of the Strait of Hormuz strikes gets unpacked as likely Kabuki theater. The MK Ultra hearing brings Jack Ruby, Manson, and Tim Burchett's theory that algorithm-driven MK Ultra could manufacture assassins, leading into a spirited CannCon versus Alpha debate on the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 471: Five Year Delta, Solomon's Task Force, and the Psyop Debate

Jon Herold and Burning Bright mark the exact five-year anniversary of the first Devolution article, the same day Trump flew to the North Dakota Badlands to dedicate the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library and said "Badlands" on camera. After the celebrations, the show gets substantive fast. The election fraud disclosure landscape gets a full accounting: the DNI report, the White House task force with John Solomon and Derek Harvey, and the Florida RICO probe are all running simultaneously, and the guys raise the uncomfortable question of whether all three could end up tainting each other. Jon delivers the most detailed breakdown yet of Solomon's access to the Russiagate binder the night of January 19, 2021, and what that means for the burn bags story. Deep state media sources confirming Ratcliffe as Trump's actual intelligence advisor over Gabbard and Pulte gets its own segment as quiet vindication. The show closes on a genuine, frictional debate about whether psyops can only be defeated by counter-psyops or whether demanding the truth is both the moral and practical path forward, with Burning Bright's Watchmen ending and Jon's JFK secrecy quote as the competing frames.

Geopolitics with Ghost: Bonus Ep. 117 - Congress Sex Slush Fund, Venezuela Earthquakes & Syria Flashpoint - 7/1/26

Ghost opens this bonus episode with Thomas Massie's 420-0 House vote to expose which members paid off sexual misconduct allegations with taxpayer money, then delivers his GART closing remarks calling Congress a crime scene that needs a forensic team, not a press release. Colombia's post-election fallout gets a full breakdown: El Tigre's ties to Alex Saab and the Maduro orbit, Gustavo Petro's documented anti-cartel record being memory-holed, and the contradiction of neocon Republicans backing a man who was Maduro's lawyer. Venezuela's twin 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes have left 2,000 dead and 10,000 missing, and Ghost flags the Clinton Global Initiative activating on the ground with a pointed reference to Laura Silsby and Haiti. Burkina Faso formally severs ties with France, and Ghost maps out Ibrahim Traore's full story alongside a psyop trying to paint him as an Israeli puppet. Italy quietly blocks NATO's open-ended Ukraine commitment for 2027. Trump tells reporters Erdogan and Xi both stayed out of the Iran war at his personal request. The episode closes with Syria as the next flashpoint: IDF troops terrorizing villages inside Syrian territory, Erdogan warning Turkey is next, and Ghost's prediction of an Israel-Turkey confrontation finally coming into view.

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 60: Muting the Matrix, Hygge Book Club & Graham Allen's Pentagon Reveal

Episode 60 begins with an unexpected box of ceremonial cacao and quickly becomes a deep dive into what Shipwreck is calling her personal resistance. She is down 24 pounds since April, has become an evangelist for fiber, macros, and 15,000 daily steps on the treadmill, and shares why she now believes getting lean is a spiritual act rather than a vanity project.
From there, a new bedtime routine. ChatGPT recommended three books to help her wind down, and she reviews each one, including a Danish hygge guide, a Matt Haig quote collection she found suspiciously liberal, and a Debbie Macomber Christian romance she loved. She also unpacks the TikTok tarot reader who publicly found Jesus and got mobbed by the crystal community, and connects it to her own path from rocks to The Chosen.
Then the political detonations. Graham Allen turns out to have been a Senior Strategic Consultant to the Department of War, running propaganda for the Pentagon. She shares her theory that the whole Charlie Kirk saga feels engineered, and lays out her new opt-out philosophy: mute the rage baiters, learn to live on less, and hack the matrix instead of screaming at it.

Space Revolution Ep. 25: Independence Day, the Shape & Pattern of Truth

On the eve of America's 250th, Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Chris Ponder to kick off a brand new season of Space Revolution. The first 25 episodes tackled information, energy, and resources. This one launches the real fight: how do we as a human race actually triangulate truth and expose a lie fast enough to matter?
Chris is an expert at reading the shapes and patterns God wove into the universe, and he argues the same shapes show up in Sumerian tablets, in the Declaration of Independence, and in the way words themselves carry meaning. The conversation ranges from Uruk and the first 118 words, to Pluto's 248 year orbit lining up with America's founding, to Claude Shannon and the danger of instantaneous translation without shared meaning.
They set up the tension of the whole season: shine a light on evil without shredding privacy. Nail down the ideas behind our words so bad actors can't hijack them from twenty miles away. And they hand you homework. Read the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution before next week's episode. This is your invitation to help build the tool.

Badlands Media Special Coverage: 7/1/26 - Trump Dedicates Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora

President Trump arrives in Medora, North Dakota on the inaugural flight of the newly designed Air Force One and by train to the exact platform where Theodore Roosevelt arrived 140 years earlier, to dedicate the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. He donates TR's actual Congressional Medal of Honor from the White House Roosevelt Room to the library, where it will be displayed alongside the medal earned by TR's son on D-Day. Trump delivers a sweeping address drawing five lessons from TR's life for America's 250th year, covering everything from TR's 1884 grief and physical transformation in the Badlands to the charge up San Juan Heights, which happened 128 years to the day. Along the way: Panama Canal history, a Supreme Court win on presidential removal power, stock market at 82 all-time highs, and a sharp warning about communism. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Kao and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum also speak.

The Daily Herold: 7/1/26 - Election Declass Task Force, Trump in the Badlands & Israel's Exit

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with guests in the house, Trump landing in his hometown of Bismarck on the new Air Force One's first flight, and a source update that is carefully honest about what it does and does not say. A White House task force led by John Solomon and Derek Harvey is quietly gathering thousands of pages of 2020 election intelligence from the CIA, NSA, ODNI, FBI, and DOJ for declassification, and Jon flags it as a fourth separate track alongside the RICO case, the DNI report, and the PIAB review. His source says the evidence coming will be narrow in focus but strong enough that skeptics will have a hard time explaining it away. Jon immediately wonders whether releasing evidence instead of charging people means none of it is being used in a prosecution. Trump is in Medora for the Theodore Roosevelt Library opening and Jon is hoping for at minimum one Badlands shoutout and ideally the word boop. Netanyahu announced Israel wants to begin phasing out American financial aid this year, and Jon asks the obvious follow-up: does that mean the AIPAC money to American politicians dries up too? The OPM "something big is coming" post turned out to be digital retirement applications, and Jon is still keeping his promise to comment less on decoder behavior. Mostly.

Badlands Daily: 7/1/26 - Canary Trap Confirmed, DSA Communist Wins, NRSC Bombshell

CannCon and Ashe in America open July with the 250th anniversary countdown underway and a Wednesday show packed with vindication and consequence. CannCon's canary trap theory on the fake Alito retirement story gets picked up by Miranda Devine and hits a million views, as Nina Totenberg's bizarre on-air apology only strengthens the case that a Supreme Court leaker just got caught. CannCon and Ashe dig into the NRSC v. FEC decision, which strikes down party coordinated spending limits and which CannCon argues is Citizens United on steroids, then dismantle the ruling's admission that only provable quid pro quo counts as corruption using the Hunter Biden and Burisma paper trail as the perfect example. In Colorado, a 30-year Democrat incumbent is unseated by a 29-year-old open communist, and the Democratic Socialists of America keep saying the quiet part out loud: the goal is communism. James O'Keefe's latest Skid Row expose shows the cash-for-signatures fraud still running 16 days after the California primary. Stephen Miller breaks down the birthright citizenship ruling, Rosa DeLauro melts down over the budget, and CannCon and Ashe close on Tom Kean's return, the administrative state, and why they would together make the entire Congress.

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 050: Trump Plays JFK, NGOs Hold $14.2T, Alito Leak Trap Springs

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come back from the Great American Restoration Tour in Deadwood with the forty thousand foot view sharpened. They open with the MK Ultra hearings where Dr. Kinzer basically confirmed under oath that MK Ultra never actually ended, then chase Anna Paulina Luna's tease that influencer disclosures are coming and unpack how private corporate intelligence agencies really move money to influencers through oil and gas shell companies.
Then the payoff. Last week on air the guys asked Trump for a JFK speech and a five by five. This week Trump posted a JFK communism speech at ten twenty eight PM. Q drop 1028 reads five by five, loud and clear. Alpha and Josh walk through the receipts, then decode the BH Obama photo post and its hidden hat tip to Huma Abedin and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Plus the Phil Haney and Christopher Sign suicides that were not suicides, the Loretta Lynch tarmac tape Admiral Rogers used to force Comey, the Federal Reserve report showing US NGOs hold fourteen point two trillion in assets, Neville Roy Singham's Manhattan grand jury subpoena, the sealing the deal task force post, and the NPR Alito retirement story that turned out to be Trump's leaker trap.

Why We Vote Ep. 178: Watson Ruling, NRSC Decision & Tina Peters Update

CannCon and Ashe in America open with the highlights from GART 12 in Deadwood, where the audience acquitted them in a mock ECPA trial built around a fictional near-future where questioning elections is a federal crime. From there, the show shifts to a fact-check of Trump's Truth Social post welcoming Tina Peters to the White House, where Ashe corrects the record on her age, her isolation conditions, and the Republican Party's actual role in her release. The Colorado Supreme Court shocks everyone by striking down a redistricting plan that would have turned an evenly split congressional map into seven Democrat seats to one. Ashe's precinct in Douglas County was closed on primary day without adequate notice, prompting a broader discussion about access versus integrity and who actually gets suppressed when precincts disappear quietly. The back half digs into two major SCOTUS decisions: Watson, where the court declined to ban counting mail-in ballots received five days after election day in Mississippi, ruling that Congress never legislated on it; and NRSC v. FEC, which removes coordinated spending limits for political parties and hands the party establishment a financial weapon that dwarfs anything individual voters can do.