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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.

The Daily Herold: 6/30/26 - SCOTUS Triple Play, Justice Disclosures & Bolton's Hypocrisy

Jon Herold comes back from GART fired up about a Supreme Court that had a very busy few days. Birthright citizenship survives, Trump's executive order gets struck down, and Justice Thomas writes a 90-page dissent Jon agrees with completely. The Slaughter case overturns a 91-year-old precedent and hands Trump significantly more power to remove executive branch officials, which Trump is rightly celebrating. But the ruling Jon thinks actually matters most barely got covered: the Watson decision allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they were postmarked in time. Jon walks through why fixing elections is still the single most important issue in the country, because nearly everything else, including birthright citizenship, becomes solvable once the people in office are actually accountable to voters. He also digs into Supreme Court justice financial disclosures, including Sonia Sotomayor receiving thousands in concert tickets and theater reimbursements, and asks the harder question about where legitimate outside income ends and judicial corruption begins. John Bolton pleading guilty to mishandling classified documents gets a well-earned eye roll given his own public criticism of Trump on the same issue. Jon also commits, somewhat reluctantly, to cursing less after hearing the same complaint from multiple people at GART.

Badlands Daily: 6/30/26 - SCOTUS Slate Drops, Fake Alito Retirement, Birthright Citizenship Falls

CannCon and Zak Paine, fresh off GART in Deadwood, cover the Supreme Court's biggest decision day of the term as rulings drop live on air. The court upholds Title IX protections for biological female sports 6-3 in West Virginia v. BPJ, strikes down coordinated party spending limits in NRSC v. FEC, and expands presidential firing power over independent agencies by overturning 91 years of precedent. The birthright citizenship case goes against Trump's executive order, prompting an unusually measured public response from him as he quietly drops the sports and surgery provisions from his Save America Act messaging, a shift CannCon flags as deliberate sequencing rather than retreat. Then chaos breaks out live on the show: NPR and Politico both report Justice Alito is retiring, CannCon nearly posts about it, and within minutes the story is yanked as published in error. CannCon and Zak immediately clock it as a canary trap tied to the still-unsolved Dobbs v. Jackson leak investigation, betting someone on Alito's staff just got caught. The Chatrie geofence warrant ruling brings an unusual moment of agreement with the court's liberal wing on Fourth Amendment privacy grounds, and Colorado's court rejects a redistricting ballot push that would have flipped the state to 7-1.

Baseless Conspiracies Ep. 191: Israel's Stolen Children, GART Recap and TPS Fallout

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 191 fresh off the Great American Restoration Tour conference in Deadwood, swapping stories from the weekend, including a Secret Service motorcade sighting ahead of a Trump visit and the new trial by jury experience that debuted at the event.
The main topic is heavy: the Yemenite Children Affair, a documented Israeli government scandal in which as many as 4,500 Yemenite Jewish infants disappeared between 1948 and 1954. Parents were denied death certificates and bodies, yet some later received IDF conscription notices for children they had been told were dead. Jon walks through the 400,000 declassified documents, Netanyahu's 2016 public apology, and a sitting member of the Knesset's on-camera claims that children were sold to American families and used in medical experimentation, allegedly tied to a deal involving Israel's nuclear weapons program.
The episode also covers the Iraq corruption raids tied to sanctioned Iranian oil money, a breakdown of a Mark Wayne Mullin interview on the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, and closes with a satirical AI-generated fake news montage imagining a dystopian 2026 election aftermath.

Badlands Daily: 6/29/26 - Iraq Purge, Hormuz Sabotage, Wiener Heckled by His Own Side

Zak Paine and Ghost hold down Monday's show solo while CannCon travels back from GART, and they cover a weekend full of overlapping stories across three continents. Trump's weekend Truth Social post warning about communism finding its moment looks almost prophetic within hours, as California State Senator Scott Wiener gets publicly heckled at a trans march and again at dinner by his own coalition over his record on Gaza. Ghost connects a major Iraqi corruption sweep, including $11 million in cash and 98 billion dinars seized from a former deputy oil minister, directly to a string of rogue tanker incidents disrupting the Iran peace deal's Strait of Hormuz traffic pattern, tracing one ship back to the same company involved in the 2021 Suez Canal blockage and another to a sanctioned oil smuggling network laundering money through UAE and Iraqi banks. Ghost also floats a weather warfare theory connecting Iran's historic regional drought to the radar towers being struck in Qatar and the UAE. Zak and Ghost close with World Cup culture shock content, Turkey preserving an Alexander the Great battle site, and Colombia's transition following Petro's concession, including a resurfaced whistleblower account alleging Ukraine traded Biden-era weapons to Mexican cartels for cocaine.

Badlands Story Hour Ep. 173: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Chris Paul and Burning Bright return from Gart to break down Gore Verbinski's 2025 dark sci fi comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, written by Matthew Robinson and starring Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lou Richardson, Michael Pena, and Zazie Beetz. The premise is delightfully strange. A man from the future shows up at a Los Angeles diner on his 117th attempt to recruit the exact right combination of patrons to stop a rogue AI from ending the world. The guys give Verbinski his flowers (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) and argue this film is far smarter than its modest box office suggested.
The conversation drills into whether Rockwell is actually saving the world or trapped in his own dystopian power fantasy about a mother he could not protect. They tackle the AI's tagline ("it knows what you want") as basically the satanic argument against God, the World of Warcraft analog of people choosing the matrix because reality prime has gotten so bad, and Donald Trump's claim that real intelligence is the ability to predict the future.
From there it goes wide: the great cloud in the sky as a reflection of us, Marvel introducing multiverse Hegelian inversions to normie audiences, the Iran war as a predictable plot you can map, and why thinking in story structure beats decoding military comms every time.

Breaking Free of Psyops Ep. 12: The Dark Truth of Nikola Tesla - Part 2

Tesla once wrote that he hoped to live long enough to see "Bulwer's dream realized." Turns out that is a real reference, and Matt Ehret spends Part 2 unpacking exactly what it means. The dream belongs to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a 19th century novelist whose fictional tale of a hidden super race wielding a mysterious energy called Vril went on to directly shape Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy, Aleister Crowley's magical orders, the Nazi Thule Society, and H.G. Wells' Martian invasion thesis. Ehret traces Tesla's tele-automaton back to this same lineage of machine worship, then follows Bulwer-Lytton's own bloodline straight to his son Robert, the British Viceroy of India whose policies are tied to one of history's deadliest famines. Along the way: Blavatsky's surprisingly candid praise of Lucifer, the real story behind the founding of the India Congress Party, and why Isaac Newton might not have discovered quite as much as advertised.

Culture of Change Ep 153: Immigration Narratives & Their Transformational Change

Former ICE Denver Field Office Director John Fabbricatore joins Ashe for a conversation that goes well beyond talking points. He was there in Aurora when Tren de Aragua took over an apartment complex, while Colorado officials insisted it was a Republican fabrication. He was inside HHS trying to locate the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children the Biden administration let into the country and then lost track of. From cartels double dipping on smuggling fees to NGOs that somehow always seem to find hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts, this episode walks through exactly how the narrative diverged from the paperwork. Fabbricatore does not pull punches, and neither does Ashe, including on her own experience getting sued under the KKK Act by a DACA recipient. Bring your blood pressure medication.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 469 - LIVE from GART 12 in Deadwood

Jon Herold, Chris Paul, and Burning Bright broadcast live and freezing from a deck in Deadwood, South Dakota for GART weekend, and somehow still manage to get into the substance. Trump's truth post calling out the American energy cartel gets a full breakdown, with Burning Bright connecting it back to January's oil executive dinner and floating a theory that Trump may be laying groundwork for an actual DOJ investigation into price manipulation. The guys dig into Trump's pattern of tying must pass legislation, this week a housing bill, to the Save America Act, arguing it is a deliberate sabotage operation rather than incompetence. They explore the irony of sanctuary states suddenly discovering a love for states rights now that the federal government has an America First president, and whether Trump is provoking governors like Newsom into a fight he wants. Anna Paulina Luna's failed declassification task force and her recent public incident get a thorough takedown, with the hosts making the case that believing she holds real plan-critical information is itself a sign of misunderstanding what the plan actually is. The reflecting pool saga, a buried no-bid contract critique, and the Ronald McDonald activation code meme round out a chaotic but substantive live show.