Since USAID was gutted, Food for Peace was handed to a department with zero disaster expertise. Rwanda and El Salvador — Trump political favorites — are getting aid. Sudan, with 21 million people facing starvation and the world's worst hunger crisis, is getting nothing.
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The hosts deliver a dose of rare good news: after weeks of alarm about Bill Pulte — a housing finance official who was reportedly using confidential mortgage data to manufacture prosecutions of Trump's enemies — bipartisan pressure forced Trump to withdraw the nomination. The replacement is Jake Clayton, a more credentialed choice with counterterrorism experience. But the broader debate has been reopened: should Democrats block reauthorization of FISA Section 702 to deprive Trump of intelligence collection authorities? Ben says yes — even defensible programs shouldn't get renewed if they might be abused by a bad-faith administration. And should the DNI position itself be abolished? Ben argues no — the role of coordinating the intelligence community and producing the presidential daily brief is essential; the problem is presidents who don't take it seriously. He cites Avril Haines's declassification campaign before Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a model for what good DNI leadership looks like.
Bill Pulte — a housing finance official who used confidential mortgage data to target Trump's enemies — was withdrawn as DNI nominee after bipartisan pushback. The hosts read it as a sign Republicans may be pushing back more than they were a year ago.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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