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The Supreme Court rejected Trump's attempt to void the E. Jean Carroll $5 million sexual abuse verdict. Kara Swisher calls it the end of the road on that judgment — and notes it comes on the same day the Court handed Trump losses on immigration rulings too.
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Kara Swisher opens the wins and fails segment by noting too many fail candidates — including the Trump family mining deal in Kazakhstan where Don, Eric, and the Lutnick family stand to profit, and the ongoing human tragedy in Venezuela. But she chooses to focus on two personal losses. Om Malik, one of the earliest and most influential tech bloggers, died this week after long struggles with heart issues. Kara describes him as one of the most joyful figures in early tech media, someone who had called people on bad behavior long before it was fashionable, and who later became a venture capitalist. Ed Daley, Kara's longtime assistant, also died — a victim of complications from diabetes. Kara describes him as an unsung hero of her business-building years with Walt Mossberg, someone who took her children on camping trips and gave everything to the people around him. Both tributes are deeply personal and reflective of an era in tech media that feels increasingly distant.
Om Malik was one of the first tech bloggers to blend reporting with attitude, calling out the industry before it was cool. Ed Daley was Kara Swisher's longtime assistant who quietly helped build the businesses that became Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher's media empire. Both died this week.
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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