Podbit · The MeidasTouch Podcast
Russia has adapted its strategy to exploit Ukraine's Patriot interceptor shortage — caused by the Iran war — and launched a massive ballistic missile strike on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, killing over 20 people. Trump has refused to supply more interceptors, even as Witkoff reportedly has a framed Putin letter in his office.
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The Great American State Fair — Trump's repurposing of America's 250th birthday celebration — is imploding in real time, and the day's events provide a grim highlight reel. A stage literally collapsed during rehearsals, narrowly missing a group of young girls who were dancing. [1] — Ben Meiselas "Stage collapse at Great American State Fair: A stage at the Great American State Fair collapsed during rehearsals, nearly injuring a group …" 38:25 Fox News showed near-empty grounds while Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins appeared on camera to insist the fair was 'hitting every mark' and drawing 150,000 visitors daily. Meiselas also highlights the Temu Arch — a prototype of the triumphal arch Trump wants to build — which was reportedly oozing unidentified material. The human cost is personified in a Fox DC segment showing a Trump-hat-wearing woman who, after suffering heat exhaustion with no air conditioning or adequate medical support nearby, dunked herself in a religious tent's baptism pool. She described the experience as a fair highlight. Meiselas connects the stage collapse to a wider pattern: like the reflecting pool destruction and the general mismanagement, this is what happens when grifters run events and blame others for the results.
A stage at the Great American State Fair literally collapsed during rehearsals, nearly injuring the young girls dancing on it. The Trump regime had promised 150,000 daily visitors; footage showed near-empty grounds, a structural failure, and a heat-stricken attendee seeking emergency care in a baptism pool.
A stage at the Great American State Fair collapsed during rehearsals, nearly injuring a group of young girls practicing for the July 4th performance.
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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