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CannCon opens Thursday's Badlands Daily solo with a USAID watchdog report on a new round of debarments, from a contracting officer an inspector general found misusing government equipment to two men convicted of defrauding taxpayers through a Project HOPE program. He then reads The New York Times on a military judge throwing out "clean team" confessions in a Guantanamo 9/11 case, comparing the acc...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright open Devolution Power Hour by living in the word "fake." Jon walks through how often Trump calls elections and other stories fake, and why critics who treat that word as dangerous put themselves in a pickle: either Trump is telling the truth, or they have to say he is lying when he speaks. From there they sit with Benjamin Franklin on printers: if nothing that might o...

This time Shipwreck gets into foreign interests, Hollywood screenwriter and typhoid fever. First up, the crew gets into political ads, with Massie, Jon and Trump in the mix. Then it's on to Satan and Bible. From there, the conversation moves to foreign interests, with Democrats, Israel and Trump in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to Muslim and English. After that, the talk turns to Russian plague...

Steve Kwast, Alpha Warrior and Chris Ponder take on the problem of privacy in a world where the internet, AI and sensors leave almost nothing hidden. Kwast argues that you can't use the tools that created the problem to solve it, and makes the case for a new, trustless information system like the one Ponder has been building, which Kwast says entangles each piece of information so it can't be alte...

President Trump announces at the White House that every eligible child in America has now been automatically enrolled in a Trump Account, the tax-free investment accounts created under last summer's tax bill. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls it the beginning of an "ownership society," and Senator Ted Cruz explains the $1,000 deposit for newborns and the app and QR codes families can use to c...

This time Jon Herold gets into Flynn interview, gold bars and elections fake. First up, the conversation moves to Flynn interview, with Vikings and Kwass in the mix. Then the focus shifts to gold bars, with Rush, Trump and CIA in the mix. From there, the talk turns to Flynn interview, with Django and Trump in the mix. Later, the crew gets into elections fake, with Ben Franklin, Trump and Democrats...

JB White opens with the death penalty. He walks through President Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order restoring capital punishment, Pam Bondi's April 2025 comments on seeking it, and the September 2025 memorandum on enforcing death penalty laws in Washington, D.C., as proof the administration hit the ground running. He argues Bondi was used strategically, says he doesn't believe her exit was...

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday's Badlands Daily with an NAACP lawsuit, flagged by Mark Elias, seeking records on the Justice Department's plan to send about 1,000 federal personnel to polling places for the midterms. They question why ICE or the National Guard near the polls would worry eligible voters, and Ashe argues that watching polling places won't catch election fraud. They also...

DEFCON ZERQ, with Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid, welcomes Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for a roughly 90-minute interview about the fight ahead of the midterms. Flynn uses Joshua Chamberlain's bayonet charge at Little Round Top as a metaphor for Americans who are tired of being attacked, and explains how he uses social media as information operations. He says he believes people around President Trump are k...

Ashe in America and CannCon open with Media Matters' list of "key election denial activists," which leaves them off, and shout out those who made it, like Mark Cook, Kevin Moncla and Clay Parikh. Then it's Runbeck: the vendor says 3,126 Maricopa County vote-by-mail packets reached the Postal Service six days early by mistake, and the hosts weigh that alongside a ballot error in Colorado and a vend...

President Trump speaks in Baltimore to launch Arsenal II, Anduril's new $3.7 billion shipyard at Sparrows Point, the largest U.S. yard project since World War II. With Pete Hegseth and Naval Academy midshipmen looking on, he credits sailors on the USS Billings for Caribbean cartel work and for delivering aid and oil from Venezuela, and he congratulates Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and the Navy te...

Jon Herold digs into toilet paper, foreign intelligence and trade deficit, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the talk turns to Bible and CeCe. Then the crew gets into toilet paper, with Russia, Hillary Clinton and Supreme Court in the mix. From there, it's on to President Donald, Trump and Republican Party. Later, the conversation moves to smaller venues, with Trump and Republican...

CannCon and Zak Paine take on Reuters article, logical explanation and red diesel. First up, the crew gets into pneumonic plague, with COVID, Nicholas Holscher and Los Angeles in the mix. Then it's on to Guinea flatworms, with Mexico and YouTube in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to Brennan, CIA and Congress. Later, the focus shifts to Reuters article, with Wiles in the mix. After that...

Zak Paine and Jon Herold dig into sleep paralysis, adoption agency and Ouija board, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the focus shifts to botched execution, with Florida in the mix. Then the talk turns to North Carolina, Appalachian Mountains and Gatlinburg Mountains. From there, the crew gets into ghost story, with Gatlinburg Mountains, Georgia and Appalachian in the mix. Later,...

This time Ashe in America digs into prophetic words, case study and Spirit within. First up, it's on to case study, with Trump and Cyrus in the mix. Then the conversation moves to Saul, Jonah and Peru. From there, the focus shifts to Israel's history, with Abraham and Testament in the mix. Later, the talk turns to Joy, Nick Vujicic and Substack. After that, the crew gets into Christian nation, wit...

President Trump rallies in Grand Island, Nebraska, a state he reminds the crowd he has carried three times, ahead of the November 3 midterms. The headline moment: he signs an executive order on stage waiving the off-road requirement so anyone can buy tax-free red dye diesel. He tells farmers about ending the estate tax, or death tax, on family farms, giving them the right to repair their own equip...

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada get into toe fungus, health goals and keynote speaker, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the crew gets into Face ID, YouTube and Safari. Then it's on to toe fungus, with Brave, Gateway Pundit and Safari in the mix. From there, the conversation moves to cooked salmon, with ChatGPT and Claude in the mix. Later, the focus shifts to heal...

Jon is back in the spaceship studio after a weekend of fan boats, alligators and a surprise engagement party, and there is plenty to unpack. First up is Brazil, where Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round over Lula and heads to a runoff, and the online victory lap crediting the USAID cuts for a run of right-leaning wins across South America. Jon makes the case for keeping the same election standard...

CannCon, Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior are back for Week 5. CannCon reports from the Packers game in Tampa, where a native Floridian learned what 92 degrees with no Gulf breeze feels like and Green Bay fans still drowned out the home crowd. Alpha's 49ers are 4-0, his fantasy teams rally late behind Chuba Hubbard, and the crew argues over whether it's fair to wish an ankle sprain on Atlanta's Drake...

CannCon is back from a sweltering weekend in Tampa with a Packers win and a full docket. It starts in Siberia, where a lab worker's death from a suspected plague has nearly 200 people under observation, and with why, after COVID, nobody trusts the officials telling us not to worry. His fix for gain-of-function research: give it its own island, far away from the rest of us. Then the Ninth Circuit p...

JB opens the week with some perspective for Gator fans after the loss at Mizzou, plus a victory lap for the Jaguars, then gets down to what he calls a world of competing confusions. A lab accident and a researcher's death in Siberia set up "Poor, Poor Russia": why Russia is running China's old playbook, why geopolitics is never binary, and how rogue actors inside every nation-state, Russia's silov...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down October Surprise and Admiral Rogers, Hillary, Comey and pre-Q levels and Josh on Flynn, Bongino and Mockingbird fights, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: SAVE Act and Supreme Court predicates. You won't want to miss this one.

Burning Bright and Jonathan Drake break down Burning Bright opens with GoT and Narrative branding, Burning Bright teases the MAGA King and Tolkien and Overton windows and excommunication, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Drake and BB introduce Aragorn as MAGA king analog. You won't want to miss this one.

Jonathan Drake digs into Fractional reserve and Bitcoin teaser, Credit based on productive value and Free banking versus modern finance, with plenty of commentary along the way. Also on the docket: Centralization and parallel systems. You won't want to miss this one.

With Jon out tonight, Chris Paul is joined by Burning Bright for the Saturday Power Hour. They open on why they would rather spoil the movie than pretend it isn't scripted, casting Trump as a Dungeon Master who sets the boundaries of the game, and why the midterms matter less than the mass psychological shift underneath them. From there: Trump as Deadpool, speaking to several audiences at once as...