Podbit · The Ben Shapiro Show
SCOTUS allowed mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted if postmarked before it. Ben Shapiro says the bigger threat to election integrity isn't late counting on the back end — it's ballot harvesting on the front end, where bad actors gather and submit ballots en masse.
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This section tackles one of the more technically complex cases of the term. Shapiro opens with extensive background on Roundup's contested safety record: the EPA's 1974 approval, the 2015 IARC 'possibly carcinogenic' classification, more than 100,000 lawsuits citing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a 2017 email scandal suggesting Monsanto influenced a key scientific paper, and the EPA's 2020 reversal of its own findings. He notes his wife's personal concern about Roundup, especially since they live near a golf course. The legal question is then distilled: can a state court require a cancer warning on Roundup's label when the EPA-mandated label carries no such warning? Kavanaugh's 7-2 majority says no — federal law expressly preempts state labeling requirements, and forcing every product to carry state-mandated warnings on top of federal ones would destroy entire industries. The unusual dissent, written by Ketanji Brown Jackson and joined by Gorsuch, argues preemption doesn't apply and that Monsanto should simply stop selling Roundup. Shapiro finds the majority's legal reasoning sound but urges those concerned about glyphosate to direct their anger at the EPA, which controls the label.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Monsanto, holding that federal EPA labeling law preempts state-level cancer warning requirements for Roundup.
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as possibly carcinogenic to humans based on evidence of cancer.
More than 100,000 plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, citing cancer concerns.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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