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Badlands Daily: 6/22/26 - Starmer Out, Schumer's Slip, Gallego Next to Fall

CannCon and Zak Paine open GART week with a Monday show full of political fireworks before Deadwood. Trump called it on Truth Social over the weekend and it happened: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns, becoming the seventh British leader in ten years. Zak connects Starmer's tenure to the Jimmy Savile prosecution he buried and the Pakistani rape gang cases he never brought. Colombia elects Trump-backed political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella in a razor-thin vote, and CannCon flags the remarkable connection: de la Espriella was the attorney for Alex Saab, the Maduro associate who briefed the Trump administration on Central American cartel corruption, making his election look like the Venezuela playbook in one more country. Chuck Schumer goes on MSNBC and inadvertently confirms 25 to 30 million people would come off the voter rolls under the SAVE America Act. Politico drops a hit piece on Ruben Gallego's PAC spending covering Disney trips, a St. Barts birthday, an au pair, and Super Bowl attendance with Eric Swalwell, and CannCon says something big is coming. Ilhan Omar's husband goes from a $30M net worth to negative $95,000 in one year. A federal judge clears the DOJ to hand Biden's audio tapes to the Heritage Foundation. And the Iran deal continues its on-again-off-again cycle as Trump threatens to take over the Strait of Hormuz entirely.

The Narrative Ep. 71: Discombobulation Nation

Burning Bright brings Ashe in America on for Father's Day and the eve of GART Deadwood for a wide-ranging episode that earns its title. The two map out why Trump's second term has been more frictional than most truthers anticipated, why that friction is a feature, and why the Republican establishment quietly emerging from its cave right now is exactly what a counter striker wants. Ashe breaks down the GOP's legitimacy problem through the lens of her transformation program framework, while Burning Bright closes with a fight nerd segment applying GSP's neural fatigue, Gaethje's half beats, and Jon Jones' miraging directly to Trump's fifth gen narrative strategy. The war is a story. The story is a war.

The No Treason Podcast Ep. 36: Moral vs. Legal, Exigency & the Jury of 12

Jonathan Drake is still long winded, Section Two of Spooner's "Natural Law" is still just one paragraph, and yet somehow this takes an entire episode. Predictably, it earns every minute. The central distinction of the night is one that sounds simple until you think about it: being illegal is always immoral, but being immoral is not always illegal. Legal violations empower the executioner. Moral violations empower your neighbors to stop returning your calls. Meting out the punishment reserved for one in the case of the other is itself a short circuit. Jonathan then turns to the concept of exigency, arguing that justice delayed is justice denied, and that the modern legal system's bloat and cost are not accidental. The episode closes with a deep dive into Kian vs. Florida, a SCOTUS case challenging whether a six-person jury satisfies the constitutional guarantee, and Florida's breathtaking response: overturning the precedent would jeopardize 90% of federal civil verdicts. Jonathan's take? That is precisely the point.

Devolution Power Hour Ep. 468: CannCon Caught, SAVE Act Tanked, and Levin Melts Down

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show by finally finding the tape: CannCon saying, on video, that the gas price national average would hit $2.40 by July 4. Then things get serious. Tulsi Gabbard's final declassification releases get a full assessment and neither host is impressed. Russia collusion debunked again, Fauci lied to Congress again, Ukraine biolabs confirmed again. Chris Paul makes the case that officializing things people have known for five years is not disclosure. It is a limited hangout by definition. From there, the Save America Act gets the full treatment: Trump's attachment of transgender surgery language and women's sports to legislation that has nothing to do with either makes it impossible to pass for anyone, and Jon and Chris argue that is entirely the point. Kimberly Strassel's Wall Street Journal piece calling this the "die on this hill" presidency becomes a case study in how institutional media cannot see what is in plain sight. Mark Levin's on-air meltdown and Ben Shapiro's freak out over the Iran MOU round out the geopolitics. The show closes on a live dig into a mysterious Trump True Social post and the leaked Wired exposé on Peter Thiel's secret Dialogue society, which ranks its members by wealth and fame using an algorithm.

Flow Ep. 57: Iran Cards, World Cup Adventures & Double American of the Week

Episode 57 of Flow comes in hot the weekend before GART Deadwood with Cam Cooksey riding the high of attending the Czechia vs. South Africa World Cup match in Atlanta with Jackie. He walks through Trump's True Social posts: no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, no money for Iran, the "not just 13, an unlucky number" Supreme Court signal buried in the filibuster post, and the May 1st "I have all the cards" picture revisited as Netanyahu's reelection teeters. The Iranian resistance flag getting confiscated from fans at the World Cup and the team being sent back to Mexico sparks a bigger conversation about the regime versus the people. Trump trolls the country with back to back polls on renaming ICE to NICE and the correct spelling of Dumocrat. The UFC Freedom 250 fireworks and Justin Gaethje's White House lawn upset get a victory lap, and the July 4 flyover with F-22s and the new Air Force One gets teased. Father's Day gets a proper shoutout. Double American of the Week: William Williams and George Wythe.

OnlyLands Ep. 61: New Intro, World Cup Fever & The Gas Price Debate of the Century

Phil Scarborough dropped a new AI-generated OnlyLands intro that the crew watched three times and still could not fully process. That set the tone. From there it is wall-to-wall World Cup energy: Cam fresh off the Czechia vs. South Africa match in Atlanta, viral videos of Europeans discovering Bass Pro Shops and Waffle House, a US team winning odds debate that got personal, and the pride jersey question nobody can agree on. Then the show grinds to a loving halt over CannCon's gas price prediction from weeks ago, a chat jury poll, three rounds of clip evidence, and a legal argument about whether national average was implied. Biden wandered the stage at the Obama library looking for his granddaughter. The 2026 Patriot Games got announced. South Korea achieved thermonuclear fusion for a full minute. Jon built a fully automated news aggregator using Claude in about an hour. And Zak learned that the actual vote for independence happened on July 2nd, not the 4th, which John Adams predicted would be celebrated forever. It was not.

Spellbreakers Ep. 171: World Cup Party: America is Cool Again

No slides, no homework, just a party. Host Matt Trump declares his Juneteenth independence from slide preparation and delivers a warm, wide-ranging World Cup Friday night hangout. The big story? Europeans arriving for the FIFA World Cup and discovering that America is nothing like what their media told them. Buc-ee's, Waffle House, giant grocery stores, air conditioning, window screens, and the sheer size of the country are blowing Western Europeans' minds on YouTube, and Matt has the receipts. He connects this wave of foreign appreciation to Alexis de Tocqueville, the Frenchman who came to America in 1831 and never got over it, and then throws in a wild counterexample: Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood founder who visited Greeley, Colorado in the late 1940s and had the exact opposite reaction. Meanwhile, the US team is winning, Scotland drank Boston dry, and America is having its 250th birthday whether the media likes it or not.

MAHA News [6.19] Obesity Crisis, Shill Med Journals, Losing Family Farms, New MRI Tech

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back in a pre-recorded episode packed with substance. Nearly two thirds of American men are overweight or obese, but for the first time in 50 years obesity rates have ticked down. Is it MAHA, peptides, or just economic stress cutting back the Cheez-It budget? RFK sends a formal letter demanding answers from a medical journal that quietly removed a study linking vaccines to SIDS, and Big Pharma's media allies are furious that someone had the audacity to ask why. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul keep pressing on COVID shot injuries while legacy media stays conspicuously silent. Nineteen medical schools just signed a nutrition education pledge requiring 40 hours of training as a graduation standard. The US lost 140,000 farms and 20 million acres between 2017 and 2022, and Jordan has thoughts about developers, HOA lawns, and the slow death of the American farmer. And finally, a new full body imaging machine using ultrasonic waves scans you head to toe in 60 seconds with no radiation. Imagine a $30 full body scan. Jordan is already imagining it.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 115: Deal Signed, Vance Unloads & Israel Advances Anyway - 6/19/26

Ghost opens episode 115 on the day the Iran deal is officially ratified at Versailles, the Strait of Hormuz is declared open, and CENTCOM lifts the naval blockade entirely. But within hours, Israeli armor columns push north of the Litani River toward Nabatia, four IDF soldiers are killed including a battalion chief, and Iran cancels JD Vance's Geneva meeting in protest. Ghost walks through who actually signed the MOU for Iran (the head of parliament, not the Ayatollah, president, or foreign minister) and why that matters. The centerpiece of the episode is JD Vance's White House podium press conference, where he calls out Smotrich and Ben Gavir by name, reveals that two-thirds of Israel's defensive weapons are American-made and American-funded, and warns that Trump is the only world leader still sympathetic to Israel. Ghost frames this as the clearest American political statement on the US-Israel relationship in modern history. A US-Qatar brokered Lebanon ceasefire is reached Friday afternoon, but the IDF stays in its southern Lebanon security zone. Ghost closes with Naftali Bennett's new political vision for Israel, Laura Loomer calling for the AIPAC Tracker account to be banned, and his broader argument that Israel, Europe, and the Republican Party are all living off American taxpayers.

The Daily Herold: 6/19/26 - Tulsi's COVID Declass, Solomon Goes Gov & Israel Blows It

Jon Herold comes in on Juneteenth in surprisingly good spirits and with a lot to sort through. Tulsi Gabbard released her COVID declass video on her final day as DNI, and Jon's take is the same as it always has been: Fauci directing the intelligence community to suppress the lab leak was already true in 2021 and her saying it now does not make it more true, though it might finally convince the people who needed an authoritative figure to say so before they believed it. Jon also shares a rumor from a well-connected source that the election declass is delayed to around June 24 and is coming from the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board rather than the DNI. John Solomon just announced he is stepping aside as editor in chief to serve as an unpaid government employee identifying classified documents, and Jon finds the timing interesting. Israel bombed Hezbollah immediately after the MOU was signed, JD Vance publicly criticized Netanyahu, and Jon sees it as the clean exit ramp he has been hoping for. CJ Pearson turns out to be a registered foreign agent taking $20,000 a month from the Bahamas, and Jon wants the whole influencer ecosystem audited. Also: Jon tracked down the screenshot evidence on CannCon's gas price bet and played the tape.