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Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as Carlo Anez, Founder and Lead Instructor at IgniteCyber Academy and DEFCON Training Instructor, breaks down how to build practical blue team skills using open-source labs, MITRE ATTACK, and real-world defender workflows, and where AI fits into the picture without replacing the analyst.At Defender Fridays, we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.What We'll DiscussIn this episode, Carlo Anez draws on years of SOC operations, detection engineering, and cybersecurity instruction to make the case for hands-on, open-source training as the foundation for developing confident, capable defenders.Key Topics:Why cybersecurity training must move beyond passive learning and into real defender workflowsHow the OpenSOC initiative uses open-source tools like Wazuh, MISP, The Hive, and TimeSketch to simulate a small-scale fusion center environmentHow open-source stacks build transferable skills that translate to enterprise platforms like Splunk and LimaCharlieWhere AI fits in the SOC: summarizing noisy alerts, mapping activity to MITRE ATT&CK, drafting investigation questions, and improving report clarityWhy AI literacy means knowing how to validate AI output against evidence, not just knowing how to write promptsWhy the analyst owns the evidence, the decision, and the communicationHow the DEF CON boot camp and online pilot program structure five days of scenario-based training around a final analyst report and CTF capstoneAbout Our GuestCarlo Anez is the Founder and Lead Instructor at IgniteCyber Academy and a DEFCON Training Instructor. He spent five years at Rapid7 doing detection engineering, threat hunting, and DFIR workflows, and has supported SOC operations, government contractors, and projects with DARPA, the US Army, and the US Navy. He currently creates SOC-focused content with TCM Security and leads Blue Team Village at DEF CON, where he also presents and trains annually.Register for Live SessionsJoin us every Friday at 10:30am PT for live, interactive discussions with industry experts. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just curious about the field, these sessions offer an engaging dialogue between our guests, hosts, and you, our audience.Register here: https://limacharlie.io/defender-fridaysSubscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the notification bell to never miss a live session or catch up on past episodes on our website!Sponsored by LimaCharlieThis episode is brought to you by LimaCharlie, the Agentic SecOps Workspace (ASW), where AI agents operate security infrastructure using the same controls and authority as human analysts, with every action visible, governed, and auditable.Why LimaCharlie?Eliminate vendor sprawl and tool complexityDeploy and scale effortlessly on native multi-tenant architectureReduce costs with intelligent data routing and free 1-year retentionBuild custom solutions with 100+ security capabilities on-demandAccelerate response with agentic AI that acts directly within predefined workflowsTry the Agentic SecOps Workspace free: https://limacharlie.ioLearn more: https://docs.limacharlie.ioFollow LimaCharlieSign up for free: https://limacharlie.ioLinkedIn: / limacharlieioX: https://x.com/limacharlieioCommunity Discourse: https://community.limacharlie.com/Host: Maxime Lamothe-Brassard - Founder at LimaCharlieGuest: Carlo Anez - Founder & Lead Instructor at IgniteCyber Academy

With just days left until the USMNT kicks off its World Cup campaign in Los Angeles against Paraguay, Jason went live to take stock of the team. TBSS Chief Correspondent Jonathan Taylor Tannenwald (support Jon's work by subscribing to the Philadelphia Inquirer) joins the show from Irvine, where he's covering the USMNT camp ahead of World Cup kickoff. Jonathan gives some insight into key US defender Chris Richards' status for the World Cup opener before he and Jason open a discussion about a few of Mauricio Pochettino's pending choices for his World Cup lineup. Then the Rodius arrives to give some national team thoughts and his DEFCON for the tournament outlook. Jared didn't just come for USMNT analysis, though: he brought a game. The Gamemaster puts Jason and Jonathan through two rounds of a "closest total" game you'll have to hear to understand. Support the show by joining The Best Soccer Show Patreon. You get access to an incredible Slack community and bonus content from Jason (and occasionally Jared). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier talked about Wemby/Brunson to get you all set for Game 4 of the NBA Finals. And the Brendan Sorsby situation just keeps getting weirder after a judge granted him a temporary injunction against the NCAA!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 June Gloom 2: Down to Frown is upon us dear listeners, and things are dark. Lucky for you, and us, we are joined this week by special guest and NWPPVIP Tommy Bechtold! Tommy is a comedian, and actor, and if you have been fortunate enough to see Tommy perform stand up or listened to our episodes on DEF-CON 4, BEVERLY HILLS VAMP, TRIAL OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK, you know he is hilarious. Truly a ray of sunshine in this otherwise gloomy month. In this episode we head down South to talk about 1976's NASHVILLE GIRL. Directed by Gus Trikonis (THE EVIL), this 1970's hicksploitation film follows a 16-year-old runaway, played by Monica Gayle (SWITCHBLADE SISTERS), as she makes her way to the big city of Nashville (spoiler in the title!) to pursue a career in the music industry as a county singer.  In this episode,  we laugh, we cry, we ask whyyyyyy would anyone not listen to us explore diners, fashion, and the highly questionable choices of the 70s when newspapers were the gateway to all our dreams. And does this have anything to do with another film from the 70s with "Nashville" in the title? Listen and find out! For more about the New World Pictures Podcast, including previous episodes, t-shirts, mugs, sweatshirts, other merch and more, we DARE YOU to head here: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com/For all the shows in Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network, head here:  https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/ 

Josh Reid is back from vacation and Alpha Warrior is fired up because John Thune just said publicly he will not bring the Save America Act to the floor and laughed when asked if Trump can do anything about it. The duo opens with an LA Uber driver story that captures exactly what is happening on the ground. Spencer Pratt voters who hate Trump are watching Karen Bass steal the election in real time and finally calling it what it is. From there they dig into the Iran and Israel kabuki, the water treatment warning strike, why Iran keeps notifying US bases before missiles land, and the IDF eavesdropping on American peace negotiators in Turkey and Pakistan. They unpack NDAA Section 224, the bill Netanyahu personally helped write to integrate Israeli and US military tech, and Alpha drops what he learned from being on the call about the July 7 2025 cyber event that was not the CCP. Plus the first US Army firing squad executions since 1961, the Black Hawks rehearsing urban combat in LA during the stolen election, Bolton pleading guilty right on Alpha's six to nine month cooperation timeline, and the most provocative theory of the year. What if Q has always been cover for a second military playbook that nobody is supposed to see?

In this episode, I breakdown how this Brendan Sorsby situation could ruin the foundation of college sports as we know it! I also breakdown how the Spurs won Game 3, Sydney Johnson getting escorted out by police, the Indiana Bears?, and so much more! 0:00 Brendan Sorsby granted eligibility to play via Texas courts 30:41 Spurs win Game 3 in MSG 46:15 Sydney Johnson might not be the guy for Washington 58:57 Chicago Bears moving to Indiana? Click here to Subscribe! www.youtube.com/user/jalenhunter7…ub_confirmation=1 Social Media: IG: www.instagram.com/the_unpopular_pod/ Twitter: twitter.com/imsayinthou FB: www.facebook.com/TheUnpopularPodcast1 Podcast Store: teespring.com/stores/the-unpopular-podcast?page=1 Promotion Request: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQL…wform?usp=sf_link THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT!!! #sports #podcast #sportspodcast #NBAFinals #Shai #Lubbock #Chicago #Hammond #Music #Indiana #Finals #Cincy #SydneyJohnson #SanAntonio #Mystics #JalenBrunson #WashingtonDC #BrendanSorsby #KAT #Spurs #Texas #TexasTech #Knicks #ChicagoBears #Bears #WNBA #NewYork #Wemby #StanleyCupPlayoffs #NHL

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In episode 323 of Absolute AppSec, co-hosts Ken Johnson and Seth Law focus heavily on core application security vulnerabilities, legacy operational struggles, and the challenges of generative AI systems. After briefly discussing Seth's recent trip to BSides Vancouver and confirming upcoming conference training logistics for Black Hat and DEF CON, the duo dives into the persistent problem of secrets and sensitive data leaking into log files. Referencing an article and talk by Alan Reyes, they unpack the compounding nature of logging failures, noting how system-level integrations and production error conditions often dump entire object blocks or environment variables into third-party tools. They caution that while pattern-based scanners exist, they remain too brittle to capture complex edge cases, and utilizing expensive AI agents to screen every real-time log line is economically impractical. Transitioning to AI security, Seth explores a multi-page research paper analyzing prompt injection. The paper establishes that because large language models mathematically process data through tokenization without any physical or architectural separation between instructions and data contexts, prompt injection cannot be completely solved at the model level. Likening prompt injection to automated social engineering, they argue that the onus currently falls entirely on developers to implement deterministic validation, guardrails, and secure application-level harnesses.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid finally get to take a victory lap. The leaked Trump and Netanyahu phone call dropped this week, the one where Trump reportedly told Bibi he would be in jail if it weren't for him, and even Mark Levin confirmed the leak was real. Josh argues the White House leaked it themselves as a strategic move, and the entire save Israel for last thesis Alpha and Josh have been pushing for over a year just got vindicated in public. From there the guys unpack Chevron's grip on Israeli oil infrastructure, why Trump fired Rick Grenell for trying to renegotiate the Chevron deal in Venezuela, the Israel to Gaza pipeline play, the six hundred billion dollar defense pacts that make Gaza essentially untouchable, and why Megyn Kelly went on Sean Ryan in full doom mode this week. The deep state operatives got caught flat footed and the unified messaging took hours to spin up. Plus Bill Pulte rug pulling Tom Cotton for DNI and the genius double hat strategy that gives Pulte mortgage fraud and intelligence community access simultaneously, the Iranian decentralized ELF command structure, the Q plus comms cascade with double posted patriots are in control memes, and Scavino's every journey has an end tied to Ender's Game.

Parce que… c'est l'épisode 0x304! Shameless plug 24 et 25 juin 2026 - Troopers 26 et 27 juin 2026 - leHACK 19 septembre 2026 - Bsides Montréal 1 au 3 décembre 2026 - Forum INCYBER - Canada 2026 24 et 25 février 2027 - SéQCure 2027 Description Notes A systematic approach to evading antivirus software Collaborateurs Nicolas-Loïc Fortin Philippe Pépos Petitclerc Crédits Montage par Intrasecure inc Locaux réels par NorthSec éléments de cadrage. Premièrement, la modernité : on ne parle plus vraiment d'antivirus mais d'EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response). Selon lui, l'antivirus a été fusionné dans le concept d'EDR, qui correspond à un antivirus auquel s'ajoutent des capacités de télémétrie, de visibilité et de réponse pour les équipes de défense (Blue Team). Deuxièmement, pour rendre la recherche constructive comme première étude dans ce domaine, il a mis de côté les modèles statistiques pour se concentrer d'abord sur les moteurs déterministes, c'est-à-dire ceux dont le résultat est certain (par exemple, chercher un hash précis dans un fichier). Capacités versus signatures Pour généraliser son approche, Philippe travaille avec un « AV générique » plutôt qu'un produit en particulier, l'objectif étant de bâtir un plan d'évasion applicable à n'importe quel antivirus rencontré. Il introduit une distinction centrale : la capacité de détection, qu'il décompose en « une analyse plus une raison ou une façon de regarder ». Il compare cela aux signatures : la signature, c'est ce qu'on cherche (par exemple le hash lui-même), tandis que la capacité, c'est comment et où on le cherche. Hacher un fichier et comparer le résultat constitue une capacité ; le hash recherché est la signature. Construire l'inventaire des capacités Pour cartographier ces capacités, Philippe a combiné deux sources. D'une part, la littérature scientifique sur les techniques de détection, abondante, bien qu'on ignore lesquelles ont réellement été adoptées dans les produits commerciaux (beaucoup relèvent du secret industriel, difficile à citer en recherche académique). D'autre part, l'observation des techniques d'évasion utilisées « in the wild », même non documentées sérieusement, car leur popularité révèle indirectement quelles détections fonctionnent vraiment. Il a ensuite classifié ces capacités selon les mêmes principes que l'analyse de programme classique, produisant une arborescence où chaque technique s'inscrit dans des classes successives, ce qui permet de « couper des branches » pour identifier précisément la méthode en jeu — une démarche qu'il rapproche de la philosophie d'ATT&CK. La cartographie statique et dynamique La cartographie se divise en deux grandes catégories. Les analyses statiques examinent un fichier sur disque sans l'exécuter : hashes, recherche de séquences d'octets (avec ou sans « trous »), reconstruction d'information sémantique comme un graphe de flot de contrôle (CFG), ou simple analyse de chaînes de caractères. Ces analyses « cheap » sont fréquentes mais faciles à évader, car l'apparence d'un fichier se modifie aisément. Les analyses dynamiques se subdivisent entre le virtuel (sandbox, émulation, dans un faux système) et le concret (sur le vrai système). On y trouve le traçage d'appels de fonction, le hooking, et la réapplication de détections statiques à des moments clés — puisque scanner la mémoire est coûteux, l'antivirus utilise des déclencheurs pour choisir quand inspecter. Philippe souligne cet effort d'économie de ressources inhérent à chaque implémentation. La technique du « probing » Une contribution importante est le probing (sondage) : on teste un programme, on le modifie légèrement, puis on le reteste pour comparer les détections. Si le programme part non détecté, il peut rester non détecté ou le devenir. S'il part détecté, trois issues sont possibles : devenir non détecté, rester détecté avec le même identifiant, ou être détecté avec un nouvel identifiant. Comme les antivirus retournent des identifiants distincts plutôt qu'un simple verdict binaire, on extrait davantage d'information. En choisissant intelligemment la transformation, on isole la capacité réelle. Par exemple, ajouter un octet inoffensif casse un hash : si la détection reste identique, elle n'était pas basée sur un hash. Pour le dynamique, utiliser un packer (crypter) qui chiffre le payload et le déchiffre à l'exécution permet de révéler la présence d'une sandbox. Différences entre moteurs et stratégie d'évasion Tous les moteurs testés possèdent une sandbox détectable, mais leur usage varie énormément : certains détectent beaucoup via leur sandbox, d'autres presque rien. Philippe note que la capacité marketing (« on a du behavior, du sandboxing ») peut exister tout en ayant une banque de signatures si mince qu'elle ne se déclenche presque jamais. Les philosophies d'implémentation diffèrent : chaque éditeur capitalise sur sa technologie de prédilection. Sa méthode d'évasion consiste à « blinder » chaque capacité détectée : une fois la présence d'un unpacker ou d'une sandbox identifiée, il associe les techniques d'évasion connues qui neutralisent spécifiquement chacune, construisant un ensemble minimal couvrant toutes les capacités trouvées. L'objectif n'est pas une évasion universelle unique, mais un flowchart indiquant quoi faire et quoi éviter — ajouter du code inutile risquant de se faire repérer. Les résultats détaillés figureront dans sa thèse, le protocole étant maintenant stable et prêt à être lancé à grande échelle. Le volet CTF et l'intelligence artificielle L'équipe montréalaise de Philippe, active depuis une dizaine d'années, monte presque toujours sur le podium au Nordsec et vise une qualification au DEF CON. Leur distinction : une propension à sortir des sentiers battus et à trouver des solutions « weird », parfois des bypass transformant un défi de six heures en trente minutes. Sur l'IA, le Nordsec a levé cette année ses restrictions. L'équipe constate que le harnessing et le prompting ont moins d'impact que de simplement relancer le modèle plusieurs fois : la température et la répétition comptent davantage. Les modèles plus puissants, surchargés d'outils, « se creusent des trous » en polluant leur contexte. L'IA réussit aujourd'hui environ 95 % des défis sauvegardés, ce qui soulève des questions sur le plaisir et l'avenir des CTF — un défi que Philippe fait confiance aux organisateurs du DEF CON pour relever. Notes A systematic approach to evading antivirus software Collaborateurs Nicolas-Loïc Fortin Philippe Pépos Petitclerc Crédits Montage par Intrasecure inc Locaux réels par NorthSec

Documents released by the U.S. Justice Department show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spent years corresponding with figures in the cybersecurity community and repeatedly tried to involve himself with two of the world's biggest hacker conventions, DEF CON and Black Hat, in Las Vegas. According to emails reviewed by Politico, Epstein's interest in cryptography and cybersecurity extended back to at least 2010, and he discussed topics ranging from network security to ways of pushing negative information about himself down in internet search results. Though he expressed a desire to attend these major events — even at times proposing to bring high-profile guests — there's no clear evidence he ever actually got into either conference, and organizers like Jeff Moss have said there's no proof he followed through on plans to attend.The documents also reveal Epstein's broader tech network, including contacts with researchers and entrepreneurs introduced through academic and startup circles. Among those mentioned was Italian security researcher Vincenzo Iozzo, who communicated with Epstein about potential business opportunities and emerging technologies but has denied doing any technical work for him. An FBI file included in the release also alleges Epstein may have had an unidentified “personal hacker” who developed offensive cyber tools sold to governments, though the name was redacted and some of the claims remain unverified.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Jeffrey Epstein spent years building ties to well-known hackers - POLITICOBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Host David Shipley speaks with cybersecurity professional Cheryl Biswas about her journey into the industry and why she believes Arctic sovereignty must be viewed as a cybersecurity challenge as much as a geopolitical one. Biswas traces her path from political science and a help desk role at CP Rail to cybersecurity, inspired by the discovery of the Stuxnet malware and the global security community that formed around it. She discusses her experiences speaking at BSides Las Vegas, attending DEF CON, helping build a major Canadian bank's threat intelligence program, and recently earning her Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation. The conversation then shifts north. As Canada invests billions in Arctic defence, communications, transportation, and critical infrastructure, Biswas explains how every new connected system can create new cyber risks. The discussion covers threats to satellites, navigation systems used by ships and aircraft, undersea communications cables, government services, healthcare, energy systems, and the fragile supply chains that support northern communities. They also explore why collaboration with northern and Indigenous communities is essential, the importance of improving connectivity across the Arctic, and how Canada can work more closely with international partners to strengthen resilience in one of the world's most strategically important regions. Cheryl also shares advice for newcomers to cybersecurity and discusses the kind of strategic threat intelligence and research work she hopes to pursue in the future. Chapters 00:00 Weekend Show Kickoff 00:46 Cheryl's Cyber Origin Story 02:30 Stuxnet and Hacker Community 04:06 From BSides to DEF CON 05:10 Threat Intelligence Career Today 05:50 Arctic Sovereignty Meets Cyber 07:41 Canada's Arctic Reality Check 10:14 Why Cyber Matters Up North 12:07 Maritime and Navigation Risks 15:50 Undersea Cables and Fragile Supply 19:55 Solutions, Collaboration and Technology 24:22 Talk Feedback and How to Connect 25:42 Dream Role and Advice to Newcomers 29:16 Closing Reflections and Sendoff #Cybersecurity #ArcticSovereignty #Canada #CriticalInfrastructure #ThreatIntelligence #CISSP #CyberSecurityToday #DavidShipley #DEFCON #BSides #ArcticSecurity #NationalSecurity #CriticalInfrastructureProtection #ThreatIntel #CyberRisk

The people melting down over Jaxson Dart introducing a president are the same emotional hall monitors who spent years telling America that dissent was sacred when Colin Kaepernick took a knee.I disagreed with most of what Kaepernick said. I thought parts of it were naive, performative, and unfair to law enforcement officers who actually walk into the fire every day while the keyboard revolutionaries post black squares from climate-controlled apartments. But I still defended his right to do it because that is the damn point of the First Amendment.Freedom of speech does not mean “approved speech from approved people on approved networks.” That's not liberty. That's corporate HR with a rainbow logo and a superiority complex.Now a quarterback introduces a president and suddenly the same crowd starts clutching pearls like the Republic is collapsing because somebody shook hands with orange Voldemort on camera. Spare me. You either believe adults can speak freely in public or you don't. The standard cannot change because the jersey switched teams.The funniest part is the same people who told us kneeling during the National Anthem was “a courageous conversation” now think introducing a president is violence adjacent. America has become a theater production where every extra thinks they're the main character and every disagreement is treated like DEFCON 1 by people whose greatest hardship is low Wi-Fi bars at Starbucks.Sometimes the most American thing you can do is let somebody say something you hate and not demand they be digitally waterboarded for it afterward.That is the difference between liberty and ideological narcotics.And if a grown adult cannot emotionally survive a quarterback introducing a politician, then maybe the problem is not democracy. Maybe the problem is a generation raised to believe disagreement itself is oppression.Freedom is messy. Always has been.You know, George Washington literally had newspapers calling him a tyrant while building the country?Yeah, George Washington didn't demand emotional safe spaces. He crossed an icy river with farmers and literal psychopaths because freedom requires tolerance for friction, not just applause for your own tribe.Some of you would not survive a Thanksgiving dinner in 1997 without filing an HR complaint against your uncle and demanding grandma deplatform the turkey. Gobble freaking Gobble! See less

A fiery breakdown of the political chaos unfolding in South Carolina after a failed push to redraw congressional maps. State GOP infighting erupts as lawmakers, including members of the South Carolina Senate and House, trade blame over a blocked redistricting plan tied to constitutional challenges and election timing. Critics point fingers at leadership, delayed special sessions, and internal party fractures that may reshape the state's political future. Featuring commentary from State Rep. Adam Morgan and references to Gov. Henry McMaster, the episode dives into allegations of missed opportunities, strategic delays, and what comes next for GOP control in a razor-thin congressional landscape.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with an unsettling pattern. Tulsi Gabbard's husband Abraham just got hit with a rare bone cancer, Pam Bondi has been quietly fighting thyroid cancer for months, and Alpha walks through the Judith Vary Baker SV40 history that suggests the deep state has had weaponized cancer biotech since the 1950s. His takeaway is direct. John Ratcliffe needs to go either way, and the intelligence community needs to be consolidated down to one or two agencies. From there, the boys celebrate. Ken Paxton crushed John Cornyn sixty four to thirty six in Texas, Trump's endorsement record in 2026 just hit one hundred seventeen and zero, and the RNC is sitting on a hundred twenty four million dollars in cash while the Democrat party is actually negative three million in the hole. ActBlue and USAID drying up has consequences. Plus the Camp David fake out as a tickle the wire baited operation, Trump's Q plus retruth and the War CTO timestamps, Stephen Miller saying fraud alone would balance the federal budget, the Tucker Carlson Qatar investigation, the Save America Act setup, and Alpha's Epstein DNA harvesting deep dive into Regina Dugan, New Albany Company, 23andMe, and the final Q post about the war for your DNA.

New York City is at Defcon 1 as the Knicks are returning to the NBA Finals for the first time this Millennium. Dr. Tom "The Scientist" Haberstroh, Pulitzer Prize Winner Amin Elhassan... and producer Anthony Mayes consult the analytical table to try and figure out what alternate reality Kenny Atkinson and James Harden are living in. We are joined by diehards Ben Lyons, who accumulated a veritable gift shop of Knicks collectibles to share with us, and Chef Eric Adjepong, who shared the celebratory meal he would cook for the team, to celebrate the most dominant playoff run in NBA History. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the Illuminati YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Basketball Illuminati is now part of the Count The Dings Network. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Count The Dings Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to support the show, get ad free episodes and exclusive content at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/countthedings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ILLUMINATI MERCH HAS RETURNED⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Check it out here:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/CTDMERCH⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Basketball Illuminati! On⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠basketballilluminati@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@bballilluminati⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@basketballilluminati⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The USMNT fanbase freaked out on Thursday over the news that Chris Richards has "torn ligaments". But will he miss the World Cup? Jason runs down the saga and checks the DEFCON of the fan base to start the show. Jonathan Tannenwald (OMGFGPG13 IT'S JTT) joins to unpack the Richards news and dive into the World Cup roster ahead of Tuesday's big release. We get a look at JTT's USMNT roster spreadsheet. Love the show? Want more Jason Davis in your life? Join the Best Soccer Show Patreon at patreon.com/thebestsoccershow and become a Bestie. Perks include:

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid have a very good Tuesday. Thomas Massie just lost his primary to a Trump endorsed candidate, Bill Cassidy went down the day before, and Trump just yanked his Cornyn endorsement in Texas and pinned it on Ken Paxton, which sent John Thune into a televised meltdown. The duo argues this is the establishment quietly getting hauled out before November, and the so called America first dissenters are the visible piece of a much bigger infiltration operation. Alpha then drops the receipt he has been sitting on for twenty six hours. A whistleblower contacted him alleging an October 2024 dinner meeting in the Hamilton County Ohio area, an attorney connected to a very famous homicide trial, and a roster of influencers many of you interact with daily on X. He reads the post verbatim for legal reasons. From there the guys explain why Massie conceded without crying fraud, why the Save America Act is supposed to fail, and why August is the likely window for a national emergency on election integrity. Plus Harmeet Dhillon's voter roll lawsuit against twenty nine states, Joe DiGenova's Fort Pierce team for the Brennan grand jury, Alpha's $1,776,000,000 prediction coming true, and the six story military command center quietly being built under the East Wing.

#Lockboss Show: Red Team Tools Explained with Deviant Ollam — Tubular Picks, Decoders, Safety Straps and MoreIf you want to understand physical security at the highest level, you go straight to the source.In this episode of the #Lockboss Show & Giveaway, PJ sits down with Deviant Ollam, penetration tester, DEF CON and Black Hat presenter, and author of Practical Lock Picking, one of the most referenced books in the physical security world. CLK Supplies is now carrying his line of Red Team Tools and this conversation goes deep into the products, the purpose behind them, and how professionals actually use them in the field.We break down:Deviant Ollam's background and his work in physical security and penetration testingWhat Red Team Tools are designed for and who uses themRTT Quick-Connect Tubular Lockpick and Impressioning HeadTubular Bitting Decoder and its real world applicationsDeadbolt Safety Strap and what vulnerabilities it addressesLever Door Handle Shroud Guard and how it works in the fieldAdditional tools from the Red Team Tools lineupThe philosophy behind building tools for real security work versus recreational useWhat locksmiths and security professionals can learn from the penetration testing worldWhether you are a locksmith, a security professional, or just deeply curious about how physical security actually works at the highest level, this episode is packed with insight you won't find anywhere else.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with the Thomas Massie scandal that broke today, an alleged relationship with Anessa West, a South Africa trip with corroborating photos, and a hush money offer from something called a cow money fund. Pair that with Marjorie Taylor Greene quietly relocating to a five million dollar house in Costa Rica, which conveniently does not extradite to The United States, and the dynamic of the so called America first dissenters starts to make a lot more sense. From there they widen the scope. UAE and Saudi Arabia are now bombing Iran while Trump backs off kinetically and the federal gas tax disappears. Trump heads to China with seventeen CEOs and the NVIDIA chief, John Brennan goes on television to brag that a legion of deep state operatives still resists from inside the DOJ and CIA, and James O'Keefe drops video of Susie Wiles allegedly running the White House around Trump. Plus the State Department's admission that the UN ran a migration pipeline through the Darien Gap, Tulsi Gabbard's task force on a hundred twenty four biolabs in fifty six countries, the Wisconsin FBI investigation, SCOTUS outlawing gerrymandering, and Alpha's six to nine month test for whether Comey is cooperating.

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Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come in fired up after a Sunday show that hurt some feelings, and they are not slowing down. The duo opens with the David Morens indictment, the two unnamed coconspirators that almost certainly point to Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric, and the six day perjury statute clock ticking on Fauci. The DOJ said today they will not charge Fauci with perjury, which the guys read as a tell that the actual charge will be something much bigger. From there they roll into Kash Patel's Hannity sit down where Patel openly used the words grand conspiracy, talked about a hidden room of unburned burn bags inside the FBI, and credited rank and file good guys for leaving breadcrumbs. Alpha and Josh argue this was military intelligence preservation all along, finally being entered legally into evidence. Then the receipts. They reconstruct exactly how 2020 was stolen, walking from Soros funded 2018 secretary of state races to COVID timing to mail in ballot rule changes that state supreme courts later ruled unconstitutional. Plus the Strait of Malacca confirmation from Glenn Beck, the IRGC missile incident in UAE, and why the church may be next.

So here's how this one goes: Moon tries to do a normal, responsible adult thing and sell some old band gear online. You know — clean out the closet, get some fans some cool stuff, move on with life like a functioning human being. But instead, he sells a signed snowboard… and the guy who bought it just disappears. Gone. Vanished. Radio silence.Naturally, instead of assuming something simple like “the guy got busy,” the entire show immediately escalates things to DEFCON 1. We're talking theories, worst-case scenarios, and yes… someone suggests checking the obituaries within minutes. Because if there's one thing this daily podcast does well, it's turning a mildly concerning situation into a full-blown investigation with zero qualifications.Moon, meanwhile, is trying to be a decent human being. He's checking in, spacing out messages, wondering about etiquette — like how many “hey man, just making sure you're alive” texts before you officially become the weird guy. The rest of the crew? Not helpful. At all. They're ready to Google, cross-reference, and possibly start a documentary titled “The Snowboard That Waited Too Long.”And just when you think we might resolve the situation like adults… we pivot. Hard. Into one of the most unnecessary but passionate debates of the day: Dustbusters. Yes, handheld vacuums. Suddenly it's a full-on argument about cleaning habits, laziness, and who's doing the absolute bare minimum to keep their house from looking like a crime scene. Because nothing says comedy podcast like going from “is this guy alive?” to “you don't even vacuum right.”This episode is a perfect example of what makes this a daily podcast worth your time — it's unpredictable, it's ridiculous, and it somehow turns real-life situations into comedy gold. You'll get concern, overthinking, questionable logic, and arguments that absolutely did not need to happen… but we're all better for having witnessed them.So if you like your entertainment slightly chaotic, mildly unhinged, and very self-aware, welcome to the show. We don't solve problems — we just make them way funnier.Follow The Rizzuto Show → linktr.ee/rizzshow for more from your favorite daily comedy show.Connect with The Rizzuto Show Comedy Podcast online → 1057thepoint.com/RizzShow.Hear The Rizz Show daily on the radio at 105.7 The Point | Hubbard Radio in St. Louis, MO.Influencer Lottie Weaver Says She'll ‘Never Make' Her Kids Share Their Toys with Other KidsWoman Loses 10 Years Of Memories After Straining Too Hard While Pooping, Internet Says 'Memory Dump Got Literal'Man Sneezes Out ‘Loops' of His Large Intestine During Breakfast in Florida DinerIntestinal infection linked to animal yoga, health officials warn75 best 'Star Wars' characters, definitively ranked for Star Wars DayAverage adult has four true loves - and it's not just other peopleSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our latest installment of The UnPopulist Live took place on Friday, April 24, when senior editor Berny Belvedere sat down with Center for New Liberalism co-founder Jeremiah Johnson and New York City New Liberals political director Tibita Kaneene to discuss NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's first 100-plus days in office.What follows is the full video and transcript (lightly edited for flow and clarity) of the conversation. We hope you enjoy.Berny Belvedere: Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Berny Belvedere, senior editor at The UnPopulist. I'm joined by Jeremiah Johnson of the Center for New Liberalism. Jeremiah, tell us about your newsletter.Jeremiah Johnson: I write a blog called Infinite Scroll where I talk about the politics of the social internet—the ways that social media is changing culture and politics and how we discuss things. It's a little bit unserious nonsense, and a little bit very serious stuff.Belvedere: As all good cultural commentary is, so you're within the acceptable range. Tibita, why don't you introduce yourself a little bit?Tibita Kaneene: Hi, I'm Tibita Kaneene. I'm the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. Belvedere: The topic today is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. As liberals, we're [naturally] interested in how he's doing as mayor. I was hoping we could start with something that Mamdani himself said at an event marking his 100 days in office, which was about 10 days ago. I have a quote from Mamdani that sets up the first question I want to think about together with you—on this issue of democratic socialism versus other types of liberalism out there today, like an abundance variant or even more mainstream liberalism.So here are Mamdani's own words: “On January 1st, I told New Yorkers that City Hall would hold a singular purpose—to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before. For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that.” And he cited achievements that he thinks fulfill that claim, such as the opening of new childcare centers and buses running faster. After he did that, he said: “That is the change that government can deliver.” And this is the critical part: “It's the change that democratic socialism can deliver.” He said: “I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.”Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom Mamdani brought in for that 100-day event, said: “I have been on platforms with hundreds and hundreds of mayors and all kinds of public officials. This is the first time I've ever been introduced by someone who talked proudly about democratic socialism.”I want to start on this theme. Thoughts?Kaneene: I think it's interesting that the two accomplishments he highlighted were delivering actual positive change, abundance type change. More schools, more seats in preschool—the whole idea of abundance is that we should have more good things, and that government should be functional and competent. And then the buses operating better: more and better transit is a pretty fundamental abundance issue. Belvedere: Just to follow up on that point: he promised both faster and free busing, and he's been able to deliver on one of the two—on “faster,” but not “free.”Kaneene: Yeah. There's this idea going around: “affordability in the front, abundance in the back.” Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results. I think that's what his challenge is, and what he's doing for the most part.Johnson: The grand rhetorical gestures are what they are, and he has a point of view on how he views the world. I am not a socialist, but if you are going to tell me that I'm going to have a socialist mayor, probably the variant that I would want is what has sometimes been called sewer socialism. This comes from Milwaukee. Generations ago, they had a couple of mayors who called themselves socialist, but rather than focusing on revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, they really focused on civic governance. How do we make the city work better? How do we provide public infrastructure? How do we make the sewers operate without overflowing? And by solving practical problems, they maintained their popularity.That is what I see Mamdani doing, at least in the first 100 days. He's not been all that focused on the big rhetorical flourishes, the big ideological ideas. He'll talk about them if he's asked. He'll mention it in a speech. But if you're in New York and you see what's actually happening and you see the things he's doing on the ground, a lot of it is just more like: “We've got a big sidewalk shed problem and I'm going to tackle it.” Or we had a big multi-week blizzard here in New York and he had a campaign about shoveling the snow faster than it's ever been shoveled before. Just competent, good governance stuff.I think that's what's allowed him to maintain his popularity thus far. The question is, as he moves deeper into his term, past the first 100 days, as he starts to actually focus more and more on the grand ideological projects, the publicly owned grocery stores, the free buses, all these big ideas that he has—are those going to work as well as the more basic stuff has worked? Because no matter what you call it, everybody likes it when city government functions efficiently. What comes after that is not quite as clear.Belvedere: I think a fair assessment of Mamdani would have to include that he is taking a few shots here—not just the kinds of things that might be dismissed as [Band-Aids]. They've attempted to put a plan in place for free childcare, and they're extending that to younger and younger ages—for the first time, two-year-olds are in play for getting free childcare. That's not a small thing. That's not like filling a pothole. But he is including enough of that other stuff that makes me think there's going to be a significant element of incrementalist-style change that he's going to produce, and then there will be a battle about what is driving that—is some kind of democratic socialist vision driving it, or is this mainstream liberalism or abundance liberalism dressed up as something else?“There's this idea going around: ‘affordability in the front, abundance in the back.' Affordability is a very popular campaign issue and idea, but it's also an empirical goal. So once that's established, to deliver on it you have to focus on consequences as opposed to ideological or rules-based things. You have to actually make the rent cheaper. [It's not enough] to merely enact policies that can be seen as pro-tenant and anti-landlord—they have to have the effect of making housing better, cheaper, more plentiful. Now that he's in office, he has to do that. Democratic socialism is a broad idea, but when it gets down to brass tacks and you're an executive, then you have to actually do things—appoint competent people and enact policies that actually have results.” — Tibita KaneeneI think all of us invested in the wider Mamdani discourse have to keep a couple of things in mind at all times. First—and this is the thing from which all other evaluative mistakes about Mamdani flow—you have to know that he is committed to the advancement of democratic socialism. It's not just something he's flirting with, it's not something incidental. Time and again, he brings this up. Now, his actions might be different, but we're just talking about how he's casting his own story and the story of his government.Every politician at this level is capable of downplaying philosophical influences. They know how to make passing nods to their past associations or affiliations while simultaneously creating distance from those views now. They all know how to do that. Mamdani could easily, if he wanted, tell a compelling story about how the ideology was critical to his formation and that he will keep with him the good parts—kind of like Obama after the Reverend Wright situation—but that he owes the people of New York a commitment to their well-being, not a commitment to a political program. Or he could say that what matters are results, not labels. There are a thousand ways for a politician to put a philosophical influence in the passenger seat, the rear seat, or even outside the car entirely. But Mamdani is fully leaning in rhetorically to the advancement of democratic socialism. So the idea that it was empty campaign rhetoric, and that he would, once in office, pivot to a rhetorical downplaying of democratic socialism's influence on his decision-making—that idea should at this point be put to bed.When we think about that, the second thing naturally comes up about Mamdani, especially for those of us who really want to analyze him correctly. There's a lot of people out there who weaponize him as a prop in their broader culture war takes. But for those of us doing our best to give his mayorship a good-faith assessment—we have to focus on the things that he's doing, not on the story he's telling about the things that he's doing. We have to not worry so much about socialism as a term. What he does matters more than what he says. That's not a grand philosophical conclusion, but I think it has particular application to Mamdani in one extra way. Given that he's rhetorically committed to advancing democratic socialism, the invocations of it will continue—those won't go away. But here's the really interesting thing: he'll find ways to frame his actions and policies—even ones that aren't exclusively democratic socialist—as though socialism is the thing driving them.Johnson: Well, yeah, this is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: “Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?”The free childcare thing, right now, is just a very limited pilot—it's like 2,000 seats. They have plans to expand it to the whole city, but for now it's very limited. The benefit of popularity is that it gives you a little bit of a leash. It lets you kick your own team to some extent. You can betray the cause a little bit and they'll forgive you. But ultimately, you do have to succeed. You do have to actually make things better. And that's the open question: Is there going to be enough funding to actually make free childcare a thing city-wide? Or is it going to remain a limited pilot?Belvedere: I agree—it's empirically going to be borne out whether he can achieve the things [he's promised]. He'll need to. We'll see in the data whether he's succeeding. But this actually happens more subtly than just, “let's check to see if the rents have gone down.” Think about the term you brought up—”sewer socialism.” That is a subtle way for him to retain the democratic socialist mold even though he's talking about things that mayors from totally different political persuasions would be doing also.Years ago, when Pete Buttigieg was first emerging as a candidate for [national political office], he went on Ezra Klein's podcast. Klein gave him a chance to talk about what he was proud of accomplishing as mayor. Buttigieg said: “filling potholes.” He expressed how it can seem silly and mundane, but that it makes people's lives materially better. He was giving an incrementalist pitch for what he was doing. If Mamdani is doing the same things, but leaning into the frame that instead encompasses all of that under democratic socialism—even when a lot of the policies are the kinds of things that candidates from other persuasions do—that's why I'm saying it's not so much the words or how he labels what he's doing but the actual things he's doing that matters.Johnson: What's interesting about that is this is very different from how democratic socialism normally operates in the United States. Because the median person who is a democratic socialist and is in a position of public power is a member of Congress. We don't have a lot of extremely far-left, explicitly socialist mayors, but we do have a lot of the Squad [in D.C.]—your AOC, your Bernie Sanders, that group of people. And the incentives when you are in Congress are frankly to just simply be as extreme as you'd like. You're in a deep blue district, probably D+70, and so you just need to be as pure and say as many outlandish things as you want to. There's no punishment for any of that.But being an executive is different. We're already seeing this with the budget hole that New York City faces. Mamdani has a budget hole that he constitutionally has to fix. New York City cannot run deficits. So he has to fix that, and there's a limited number of ways he can do it. He can't just pick the policy he wants. There are state laws about which taxes can be raised and which cannot. So he needs the cooperation of the governor and the legislature if he wants to do certain things.When he made a video about, “well, we're going to increase property taxes on second houses,” he made sure to highlight a particular person's $200 million mansion. But now that guy is upset that he got singled out and is saying, “maybe I'm going to cancel my $6 billion planned center in New York and take it somewhere else.” Actions have consequences when you are an executive in a way that they very much do not when you are a legislator. So that's something to watch—he's going to face a lot more constraints than are typical for his kind of politician.Kaneene: Yeah, that's true. I think we've seen him be very practical on policy [issues]—the biggest example would be the SEQRA reform at the state level that's been proposed by Kathy Hochul. He supported her version. If you look at it relative to other U.S. states, it's one of the best environmental review reform bills—better than California's, for example.Belvedere: What is SEQRA?Kaneene: It's the State Environmental Quality Review Act. It's an environmental review required for any project, be it housing or energy, and it generally slows things down a lot. Its purview extends far beyond things that you and I might describe as environmental, and it's a huge source of red tape. The state legislature was trying to attach a prevailing wage requirement to that bill, which would have made building housing particularly expensive. Mamdani did not support that. Carl Heastie, who's the assembly speaker, is not a DSA person—he's to the right of Mamdani. You could see a world where Mamdani would attach to that proposal in opposition to Gov. Hochul, but he did not. And it worked: just yesterday, the State Assembly removed the prevailing wage, and that battle has been won. So SEQRA will probably go through now with no prevailing wage.“Some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself. But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, ‘To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.' And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.” — Jeremiah JohnsonAnother thing—shortly after the election, a DSA candidate named Chi Ossé announced that he was going to take on Hakeem Jeffries, who's the Democratic leader in the House, in a primary challenge. And Mamdani not only declined to endorse—he publicly said, “You should not run.” He went to a DSA meeting and made a speech saying, “We should not endorse Ossé.” And Ossé actually dropped out. So that is him going to bat, not for a DSA person, but for a centrist Democratic leader. He's done very practical things both on the politics and on the broad policy side that I would say deviate from purely ideological DSA framing.Johnson: I want to give the two possible paths forward if you are Mamdani, speaking in broad generalities. I think what a successful Mamdani mayorship looks like is: he essentially uses his popularity to kick in the teeth of certain special interests. Political popularity lets you do things that piss off your own side, and they'll forgive you for it. If Mamdani wants to take on certain union requirements—New York has hundreds of regulations about when you have to use union labor, and it drives up costs and there's a lot of bureaucracy around it—if he wanted to take some of that on, the left would forgive him because he's so charismatic and popular among his base, and it would lower costs. Whether it's the environmental laws that Tibita is talking about, or unions, or getting rid of the community board veto that makes it so hard to build housing—using his popularity to kill off some progressive sacred cows could let him get a lot accomplished.The other thing that could happen is that he falls into the “everything bagel” paradigm—where, “I want to maintain my popularity, so I'm not going to try to piss off anybody in my coalition. I'll give the environmentalists all the environmental regulations they want, I'll give the unions everything they want, I'll give this group and that group” … until you end up in the same place the Biden administration ended up. They passed a lot of really ambitious legislation without actually being able to accomplish any of it because of this thicket of red tape, this kind of anti-abundance approach. There's a middle ground in between, but those are the two paths I see in terms of how he actually uses and leverages his current popularity. It's an open question. It's still early days.Belvedere: So, Tibita, I wanted to bring up the piece that you wrote for us a while back, where you did a profile of Mamdani.What I thought was brilliant about that piece—and I hadn't seen it anywhere else—was that you took the abundance liberalism frame, assessed his democratic socialist tendencies and some early manifestations of what that could look like, looked at some of his projected hiring, and assessed what his mayorship was trending toward. I wanted to see if you had a follow-up to your own pre-Mamdani-in-office assessment now that he's governing. The title was: “Will Mamdani Govern More as a Democratic Socialist or as an Abundance Liberal?” And the subtitle was: “His policy evolution and the team he's assembling suggests that he could be moving in a market-friendly direction.” What do you think about that now?Kaneene: Sure. So that piece came out three days before the election. On election day, Mamdani came out in support of the pro-housing initiatives on the ballot. Those were very abundance-oriented. We already thought he supported them, but that was good confirmation. Then his first deputy mayor, Fuleihan, is just a very experienced, very competent person to run the city. He's not ideological—he's competent, has experience under a variety of past administrations; he's older, senior, knows a lot of people, and just helps get things done. Would be a good deputy mayor for a Democrat of a variety of political stripes. His Deputy Mayor for Housing, Leila Bozorg, is just an amazing person. She was Deputy Commissioner of HPD. Everyone there who I know thinks she's amazing. The most prominent DSA person would be Cea Weaver—she's a longtime tenant advocate. But there's really not a super ideological DSA person in the senior executive team.Then I mentioned some of the things he's done from a policy standpoint. On the rent freeze—since that piece came out, he's reconciled somewhat with the guidelines board. They're voting on May 7. They're probably going to freeze it for a year. But he has had to come up with ways to offset the rent freeze by lowering costs for landlords. He looked at the math, he has good advisors around him, and so for the first year he's going to provide some relief on insurance costs. Affordability in the front, but abundance in the back in the sense that he has to make the math work. He can't actually force landlords to lose money because many of these buildings are already underwater. What would happen is we'd just lose supply because these buildings would fail to operate.Belvedere: Let me ask you about that, because “abundance in the back”—abundance is very far in the back there. I don't know many YIMBY advocates who on this point would say the answer is to freeze rent.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—among his housing policies, it's the most problematic. That's why I focused on it in the piece. It's a price control, which reduces supply, which is counterproductive for trying to increase housing supply and thereby reduce the price of housing. Now, he has done some other positive supply-side things. For example, the ELURP—the Expedited Land Use Review Procedure—he's actually used that process to approve a housing development in the Bronx that was previously blocked by Vicky Paladino, the only MAGA city council member who, prior to the ballot initiatives, was able through member deference to unilaterally block development in her district. She even made a speech saying, “before, I blocked it; now because of this expedited process, I'm not able to block it.” So she's letting it happen. So that's a victory. He was able to green-light new housing supply within the first few months based on a new law that he has shown no shyness in using.There are a bunch of other projects. There's one in my community board district, the Bloomingdale Library, where they put out an RFP for a private developer to come in, build a new library and build a bunch of housing—mainly market rate with some affordable housing built in—at no cost to the city. He also has the Sunnyside Yards, a project in Queens above a rail yard that should produce over 12,000 homes. He famously went to see Trump at the White House and convinced him to sign on.Belvedere: I want to get to his relationship with Trump in a second. But first, you've given us good information about how Mamdani is doing on the housing front, and you've mentioned some things you wish he'd do differently. Let's move on to some of his food policies for a second. He had the food vendor reforms, and then the grocery store stuff. He wants essentially a publicly run store—one per borough?Kaneene: Yeah, one per borough.Belvedere: Maybe that's an incremental approach where he wants more over time, but the plan is for one per borough for now. Some essential goods would be at a significant discount, and not necessarily all products. The rest would be at normal price. Thoughts?Johnson: Yeah, I think this has the potential to quietly undermine … and none of this has broken ground yet, none of this is happening as of right now, but there's a plan, and the details of the plan do not fill me with confidence. What you need to know is that grocery stores, by their nature, are a very competitive, very low-margin business. This is already a fiercely competitive field. It's very hard to make money in it. And so anybody with any sort of rational expectation here should expect the publicly owned grocery stores to lose a lot of money, because they're going to be poorly run relative to traditional private grocery stores. And maybe you just don't care—maybe you're like, “I don't care if they lose money because I just value having a public grocery store.” But this is one of those things where it really easily could turn into that second scenario I talked about: he makes sure to give unions a lot of giveaways when he's building this type of grocery store, the actual building of the thing takes twice as long as we thought and twice as much money because of all the rules we had to follow.“I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that [Mamdani] can say, ‘Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,' and morally there's been no compromise at all. … he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.” — Tibita KaneeneHe's already talking about the one they want for Manhattan. They've picked out a site. It's going to be something like three years and an obscene amount of money—far more money than it should take. Thirty million dollars to build one grocery store, which is far above what it would cost a private actor. And on top of that, the original justification for this whole thing was that there are food deserts in the city. Where he's chosen to build it is not a food desert. There's like five grocery stores within a 10-minute walk of this place.Belvedere: He talks about people being priced out of essential goods. And so he would need to substantiate that in a way that justifies this kind of cost and disruption.Johnson: We have tools to address that. If people can't afford food, that's why SNAP exists, that's why food stamps exist. Giving people money is such an easier solution than trying to build an entire public-sector grocery store that is going to be terribly run. Every time anything happens at that grocery store, the media is going to pounce on it. There's going to be shoplifting. If Mamdani lets them shoplift, it turns into a national story. If he has them arrested, also a story—that pisses off the left. There are landmines all over this, and it seems to me like he's going to end up stepping on some of them. There's going to be needless scandals about how they were built, which contractors got cushy deals. If you have a limited amount of political capital, one grocery store per borough is meaningless. It doesn't do anything. Why would you waste your time on this?Belvedere: And what you were saying, when you called food assistance just the easier option—not only is it the easier option, but it's the option where there is the least amount of state intervention required to achieve the eventual goal of getting people these goods. You don't have to have a state-run market—you can give people the tool that they use to then exchange at that market. It's a more back-end kind of assistance. But it also, as you were saying, allows you to focus on a whole lot of other things you said that you wanted to do for the city, rather than engaging in something where, yes, you're connecting a campaign promise to an actual thing that you're doing—there's consistency there, you can win from that—but the potential pitfalls you noted could really be an albatross. And as a different kind of objection to just “easier”: as liberals, we want to do the least government-involved version that we can whenever we can.Kaneene: I'm a little more sanguine about it. I'm agnostic about whether we should have a state grocery store or not. The main thing for me is I don't think it's going to provide any savings, for the reasons Jeremiah said—they're low-margin businesses. This one is a 17-minute walk from a Costco. You're not going to beat the ability to use your SNAP card and order from Amazon. All that being said, this was a campaign promise he focused on. I think during the campaign he realized that these stores are not going to actually be able to provide cheaper food without the city simply taking a big loss—and that's why he kept repeating that it's going to be one per borough, it's going to be a pilot. So I think it's something that he needs to do. He'll struggle to break even, he'll do his five, and the positive side is it will actually prove that these grocery store chains, whatever you might think about them, are operating pretty efficiently. And we might have reasons to hate Amazon, rightly or wrongly, but that's actually the cheapest food you can get. So I don't think it's as terrible as maybe Jeremiah thinks.But I do share the concern of it becoming a bigger issue, where he says now we're going to have publicly owned gas stations. I don't think there's any risk of that. I would bet money there's not going to be more than five. There might not even be five.Johnson: And my thing is more just—look, this is not going to sink the city, the fact that we try this experiment with five grocery stores. This city of nine million people will be fine. But it's one of those things that if I were him, if I put myself in his shoes trying to accomplish his goals, I would not want to waste my time on this, because there are just landmines everywhere. You're going to get caught up in some extremely stupid controversy—some worker at the store is going to complain that their boss mistreated them. And all of a sudden, it becomes DEFCON 5 because you're a socialist and how can you not side with the workers? There are so many things like that that have the potential to sap away your political capital. Why would you want to spend your political capital on something that frankly does not matter? It will not make food more affordable for nine million New Yorkers. It will be a cute little thing for like a couple hundred people who live near it. Why are you wasting your time on it?Kaneene: The base wants it. So he has to—while he's doing all the efficient and effective things that we want him to do, he does have to maintain his base. There are a lot of people who, if you ask them—casual people who don't follow politics—“name three things that Mamdani says he's going to do,” they would say: freeze the rent, fast and free buses, and grocery stores. They might not know anything else about him.Belvedere: And there's a listener who just chimed in and said: “I thought the idea was to bring fresh food to food deserts, not replace grocery stores.” That tees off a question about Mamdani that we'll find out as his mayorship continues: is this incrementalist approach—this sewer socialism, now recast in a positive light as something worth doing, this more bite-sized approach to reform—is it a beginning point to a far broader vision for how things need to be organized and done? Or is it the terminal point, where he's okay with one per borough?I think that question goes to how we interpret these actions. Are they a kind of red carpet for a farther-reaching democratic socialist reconfiguration? Or something you're just sprinkling in? Some people fear that it's the prelude to a far greater push. The way they're doing childcare is in that kind of phased, gradual way—by this year we're going to hit this amount of two-year-olds, then eventually we're going to cover down to six-week-old children, etc. So are we fine with the grocery stores because of their limited nature? If they were a prelude to a greater push, would people worry about them a little more?Johnson: Well, I'm sure there are some people out there who have that view, that Mamdani is doing this and we're going to build on it, it's going to be more and more of this kind of thing until we finally reach utopia. But reality has a way of smacking you in the face. The grocery stores are not going to be very successful, and therefore you won't get many more of them. The childcare is nice right now as a pilot for just 2,000 kids, but it's also very expensive even for just 2,000 kids—the price tag is well over a billion dollars. Somebody's going to have to pay for that, and it's not going to be the city. The city absolutely does not have that money. So it has to be the state.Belvedere: Can I tell you what he said? You evaluate it—you and Tibita. What do you think about this promise? He said: if you make less than a million dollars, you don't have to worry about any further taxes. And if the tax burden doesn't increase on people making fewer than a million dollars per year, that's something that many New Yorkers will find palatable.Johnson: Well, but it's also nonsense. Like—reality will slap you upside the head. This is the thing that Democrats have been doing that pisses me off, frankly. Mamdani says it's up to a million dollars. Cory Booker is trying to introduce some bill in Congress: if you make less than $120,000, you shouldn't have to pay income taxes. Everybody's saying no tax on tips, no tax on pet products, no tax on Social Security, no tax for the elderly, no tax on property. Everybody wants to be the anti-tax party, and say only millionaires and billionaires should ever have to pay a tax of any kind.Look, I'm not on the far left, but if you want to have a welfare state, if that's a thing you desire out of your government, the middle class has to pay taxes. There is no way to make the math work, that you can just tax billionaires exclusively and have this rich, lush, Scandinavian-style social democracy. It does not work. Reality will kick you in the face. You're going to eventually have to break your promises or deal with the reality that you can't deliver. Some of this stuff is fantasy land, and that's where it ultimately will come down.Kaneene: Yeah, I mean—that's the main bulwark against any expectation or fear of him really bringing on real European-style socialism, is that he's not willing to tax the middle class. And that's the real reason we don't have to expect—or worry, to put it neutrally—that we'll have any such program in the United States, because a middle-class tax increase is just politically untenable.“This is what happens when you win an election and you're a young, popular guy and you have a very good social media team—you get to set the terms of the debate. You get to set the framing through which you are viewed. And that's how things operate in the early days. But in the long run, it's hard to hide from the results. Whether you want to or not, four years from now—three and a half, I guess—he's going to be running for reelection. People are going to be asking: ‘Did my rent actually go down? Did groceries get less expensive? Is the city well run?'” — Jeremiah JohnsonBut to go back to the idea of the childcare pilot—actually, if you look at it, already the numbers of new seats are behind the ramp-up he had said he was going to do. And if you look at the budget, he's not budgeting for more money for pre-K seats. There's no more money. He's not increased the money coming from the state. And other examples—like the city FHEPS, which are basically housing vouchers—during the campaign he said he would support a lawsuit to increase housing vouchers, a classic demand subsidy which, as we know, is not good for increasing housing supply or lowering prices. But he came into office and now he's not going to increase housing subsidies. Again, the reality presented itself and he's made a choice. There are things he has to continue with as pilot programs, as ideological statements, that he's not going to bust the budget for or increase taxes on the middle class for. He's at least being advised correctly that even on taxing the wealthy, there's a maximum point of revenue—there's a point beyond which if you increase the marginal tax rate, you actually bring in less money. Taxing the rich has an actual objective limit, which he has to take into account because he cannot run a budget deficit at the city level.Belvedere: I want to ask about his relationship with Trump, but in the form of a thought experiment, to put the point provocatively.Imagine we're all sitting around 30 years from now talking about this era in politics, and we're talking to people who didn't live through it, telling them about the world-historical awfulness of Trump, and threat that he was—the would-be authoritarian who did more than any other president in our annals to degrade our institutions and veer us off a liberal democratic path, even in a fascist direction. Biden famously said “semi-fascist,” some people have moved beyond that [and have dropped the qualifier]. This is the kind of figure we're talking about. The man who defied federal judges to deport hundreds of people to foreign gulags. And they're now flipping through images and footage from this era and they see Mamdani in photos with Trump. They see and hear him in interviews, maybe downplaying his awfulness. He's had a recent interview where he said he has a “productive relationship” with Trump. Trump threatened to deport Mamdani—a U.S. citizen. What do you think about his stance toward Trump? Is there any worry there? Is it refreshing that he's able to just work with him despite his awfulness? I have some issues with the way he's approached the Trump relationship. What do you guys think?Johnson: Yeah—again, this is something I've said several times here, but the purpose of popularity is that it lets you kind of stab your own team in the back, at least a little bit. If a moderate Democrat went down to the White House and shook hands with Donald Trump and took a smiling picture with him and said, “I have a productive relationship with him and we're going to work together on important things,” the left would howl in outrage about how this is an unbelievable betrayal, that this person is a Republican in disguise enabling fascism, and so on. If Mamdani does it—he's popular. He's their guy. He's so charismatic and popular among his base that they're like, “oh cool, it's a strategic play, he's doing this for us.” It lets you get away with things that you otherwise couldn't get away with. From the perspective that Mamdani's got a strategic streak to him, it makes sense that he would rather the president not be persecuting the city, and so he's going to try to make that happen.Kaneene: I'm a consequentialist. He went to the White House with a goal of getting funding for the Sunnyside Yards project. He thought making that a Daily News cover would be a means to that end. He was correct. He went down there, took a picture, came back. During this time he was asked if he still thinks Trump is a fascist. He said yes. Trump has since lashed out at him on social media saying he's terrible. I don't think that privately he's saying nice things to Trump, or that Trump has any illusion that Mamdani likes him. I think Trump is actually impressed with Mamdani and kind of respects what he did—something that Trump could never do, which is get elected mayor of New York City, winning over the kind of elite Manhattan class that never liked Trump. He realizes Mamdani has a very powerful political base that he has to reckon with.So I don't have any issue with what he's done with Trump. He's constantly opining on issues—whether it's the Iran war or tariffs—on which he disagrees with Trump, doing so eloquently and powerfully on social media.Belvedere: Take the Iran war, for example. He told a story in an interview of a woman who was being harassed because she maybe looked Iranian or Middle Eastern, and it's a powerful story about how the war is creating divisions at home. He told it through a vivid narrative. You hear it and you start to gravitate toward his side because he's telling something that matters to human beings. He's a really capable politician. I'll give him that, and I want to see how he continues to navigate what is an extremely thorny proposition, but I'm a little worried. He's been able to keep ICE off New York City streets based on whatever overtures he's made to Trump—that is a real gain, for sure. He's essentially told Trump, “You can be the FDR to my LaGuardia.” He's casting Trump as someone who is actually going to make a positive contribution to New York. It's just too glowing, for me, about a guy who's undoing a lot of what we think of as important in America.In the most prominent interviews he's given [recently], he's backed off from that strong language about Trump. That's something to think about moving forward, how he handles that relationship. I would like a little more moral clarity from him when it comes to Trump, [even given that he has to have a working relationship with him].Kaneene: I think there is moral clarity. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think that he can say, “Trump, I want you to pay for this housing development in Queens,” and morally there's been no compromise at all. I think that in a time where we have …Belvedere: … He was asked directly, “Is Trump trustworthy?” And he said, “I'm going to keep talking to him.” To me, it's like—are we at a point where we can't say he's not been trustworthy? He absolutely has not been trustworthy. Declining to say he's untrustworthy … it's just a small warning to me that he's not willing to interact with Trump in the way Trump deserves.Kaneene: Yeah, but—it might be the case that he feels he can trust what Trump says to him in a personal meeting. That might genuinely be true. And he still says Trump is a fascist. He still speaks out against a lot of his policies. I don't think there's been any moral compromise. I think he's like a moral beacon in a time where we don't really have any kind of moral leadership in the executive branch in Washington.Johnson: It's just, what are you trying to accomplish? Is anyone's life better off because he called Trump a fat pig who deserves to die? What are we talking about here? It would be one thing if he was being like, “Well, Trump is going to help us fund this housing project, so we're going to help him with ICE in the city.” But he's not doing that. He's just being less than maximally mean.Belvedere: We're almost out of time, so let's get from you guys your broadest possible assessment of his mayorship so far. A hundred days in, a little more than that now, what do we think? What's your assessment?Johnson: Given what I expected out of him, seven out of ten so far.Belvedere: Tibita?Kaneene: I'd give him a B so far. A big reason—we'll see what happens with the city budget and with the rent freeze. Those are, I think, the two things for the first year. He has a chance to move to a B-minus/C-plus or up to a B-plus in the next 60 days based on those two things.Belvedere: What would it look like for him to crush the next part of the year, from your perspective?Kaneene: On the budget, on the merits, I think the city council is correct. If he came around to that, that would be a big deal. If he followed through on proposing substantive property tax reform—which I think he will do eventually—but if he did that, that would be a big deal.Johnson: That's the white whale of New York politics, actually reforming our property tax system.Kaneene: In particular, if he got rid of the tax disadvantage for multifamily homes, I think that part is doable. That would be a big deal.Johnson: If you're outside New York City, you should just know our property tax system is a mess. We have high property taxes, but beyond the fact that they're high—maybe that's fair, New York does a lot of things—the system itself is just a confusing maze. The valuations are all over the place. There's just weird stuff all over the place with our property tax system. Every mayor would love to regularize it, normalize it. And there's enough special exceptions that it's really hard to do without people getting furiously angry who benefit from the special exceptions. So if he could get that done—holy crap, yeah.Kaneene: Yeah. Speaking of pissing off some supporters—I think he has the political capital to piss off some homeowners in order to reduce the costs for apartment dwellers. I think he can do that, especially if he's seen as someone who is freezing the rent and doing the grocery stores and what have you.Belvedere: Jeremiah, one last question for you. You're a culture watcher. You spot trends and memes and people's reactions to politics. What do you think it is about Mamdani—and some of the others in his cohort—that they seem to do really well with younger people? What can liberal politicians learn from this cohort? They have vastly different characteristics—Bernie Sanders is an old white dude, Mamdani is very different—and yet they have the same kind of buzz and ability on that front. What can liberal politicians do better to match that?Johnson: Yeah, I mean, some of this is messaging strategy. Mamdani comes from a family in the arts. His mom is a professional filmmaker. His videos are very well produced. He understands clipping culture—what really matters is not the event itself, it's the 20-second clip that comes out of it that will get played a million times on social media. Part of it is just the messaging strategy itself.But I also think—look at what Mamdani doesn't do. He doesn't dress weird, he doesn't try to do memes. His accounts never post memes. He's never dressing in funny outfits. He's not cursing. He's well-dressed and presentable and optimistic and he talks like he wants to change things. I think there's an impulse among middle-aged, moderate liberals sometimes to be like, “To chase the kids, we've got to do the memes. Someone get me a 20-year-old who knows memes for my internet account.” And it's just very cringe-worthy. It's terrible. What people respond to is when you believe what you're saying.Belvedere: That wraps up our time together today. Thank you guys for joining me. I'm Berny, senior editor at The UnPopulist. Tibita is the political director of the New York City chapter of the Center for New Liberalism. And Jeremiah Johnson is co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism, and his newsletter is excellent. Thanks for joining. See you next time.Thanks for reading The UnPopulist! Subscribe to support our project.© The UnPopulist, 2026Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.We welcome your reactions and replies. Please adhere to our comments policy. Get full access to The UnPopulist at www.theunpopulist.net/subscribe

Any thoughts the Carolina Hurricanes might have a bit of rust after a week since finishing off Ottawa, were quickly dispelled in gaining a quick upper hand over Philadelphia to kick off round two.Vic and Neil review that game and preview two games on opposite sides of the playoff schedule as the Canadiens and Lightning conclude their epic opening round series in Tampa while the Wild and Avalanche open their second round series in Denver.Finally, the urgency level is officially approaching DEFCON 1 in Edmonton and Charlie McAvoy may be on the sidelines to start 2026-27 after his antics at the end of the Bruins season ending loss to Buffalo Friday.X: https://twitter.com/NHLWraparoundNeil Smith: https://twitter.com/NYCNeilVic Morren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vic-morren-7038737/NHL Wraparound Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nhlwraparound/#NHLWraparound #NHLWraparound.com #ShortShifts #NYCentric #CelebritySeries #HallofFameEdition #StanleyCupdate #SummerCoolers #Smith'sPix #NeilSmith #VicMorren #PatrickHoffman #NHL #SummerCoolers #AnaheimDucks # #BostonBruins #BuffaloSabres #CalgaryFlames #CarolinaHurricanes #ChicagoBlackhawks #ColoradoAvalanche #ColumbusBlueJackets #DallasStars #DetroitRedWings #EdmontonOilers #FloridaPanthers #LosAngelesKings #MinnesotaWild #MontrealCanadiens #NashvillePredators #NewJerseyDevils #NewYorkIslanders #NewYorkRangers #OttawaSenators #PhiladelphiaFlyers #PittsburghPenguins #StLouisBlues #SanJoseSharks #SeattleKraken #TampaBayLightning #TorontoMapleLeafs #UtahMammoth #VancouverCanucks #VegasGoldenKnights #WashingtonCapitals #WinnipegJets #RickTocchet #OwenTippett #GarnetHathaway #NikolaiEhlers #AlexanderNikishin #RodBrind'Amour #MikeReilly #LoganStankoven #JasonBlake #TravisSanheim #MatveiMichkov #SeanCouturier #K'AndreMiller #NoahJuulsen #SethJarvis #AndreiSvechnikov #DanVladar #FrederikAndersen #BrandonBussi #ColeCaufield #NickSuzuki #JurajSlafkovsky #IvanDemidov #MartinSt.Louis #NoahDobson #NikitaKucherov #BrandonHagel #BraydenPoint #JakeGuentzel #AlexandreTexier #AndreiVasilevskiy #JakubDobes #JonCooper #CaleMakar #DevonToews #QuinnHughes #BorckFaber #NathanMacKinnon #ConnorMcDavid #JasonDickinson #LeonDraisaitl #StanBowman #CharlieMcAvoy #ZachBenson

The Microsoft offices in downtown Houston initialized something in 2010 that its founders never intended to scale. Michael Farnum and his team triggered a regional conference with 120 attendees, built for the Texas cyber community. No grand ambitions. No national aspirations. Just a gathering for people who knew each other, wanted to learn together, and could afford to show up without corporate sponsorship covering a $2,700 entry fee.Meanwhile, Philip Wylie was running monthly meetups in Denton, traveling constantly, and discovering that building community meant something different than building an audience. The former professional wrestler turned pentester had launched DC940, authored bestselling books, and established himself as a global keynote speaker. But by fall 2024, the logistics became unsustainable. He stepped down from his DefCon group leadership role.That same night, walking away from the venue, an idea crystallized. The Dallas-Fort Worth area housed one of the world's largest cybersecurity communities, yet lacked a proper hacker conference. So Wylie sent a text message to Farnum. No expectations beyond advice. Within weeks, they had formalized a partnership that would bring CyberHackCon to the Plano Event Center, the same venue that hosted DalHackCon two decades earlier.What started as Houston's 15-year regional experiment had evolved into a national conference ecosystem. Companies were bypassing Black Hat and RSA entirely, sending whole teams to what was becoming CyberSecCon instead. The infrastructure now includes youth programs, executive events, OT-focused conferences, media arms, venture advisory, and nonprofit partnerships. Five full-time employees orchestrate an operation that refuses to gate its primary educational content behind paywalls, maintains community as the entry point for everything, and somehow preserves the feel of a high school reunion even as it approaches 400 attendees.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Building Community in Cybersecurity05:15 The Evolution of HusekCon to CyberSecCon12:00 The CyberSec Community Ecosystem20:14 Introducing Cyber Hack Con29:04 Call for Papers: Seeking Deep Tech Talks32:20 Engagement and Community Involvement33:44 Conference Experiences: Big vs. Small39:03 Post-Conference Content and Accessibility40:48 Creative Concepts: Cybersecurity-Themed Bar IdeasSYMLINKS[CyberSecCon] - https://www.cybrseccon.com/ Official website of CyberSecCon, a community-driven cybersecurity conference focused on accessibility, education, and bringing together professionals across all experience levels.[CyberSec Media] - https://www.cybrsecmedia.com/ Media platform that publishes cybersecurity talks, videos, and educational content from CyberSecCon and related community initiatives, available for free access.[DEF CON] - https://defcon.org/ One of the world's largest and most well-known hacker conferences, recognized for its deep technical content, hands-on learning, and strong hacker culture.[Michael Farnum – LinkedIn] - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfarnum Professional profile of Michael Farnum, cybersecurity leader and co-founder of CyberSecCon, where he shares insights on community building and industry initiatives.[Phillip Wylie – LinkedIn] - https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillipwylie Professional profile of Phillip Wylie, penetration tester, instructor, and keynote speaker with extensive experience in cybersecurity and community mentorship.

Believe it or not, there are facts about what's going on that have been completely ignored by the mainstream press and – most certainly – have not been discussed by the world press. Could this be why we have been fed all sorts of disinformation and misinformation? On this blast from the past on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis welcomes Olav Phillips back to the show for ‘DEFCON Puzzle II: The Final Nail‘! The original broadcast was on April 7, 2014.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open the show in an unapologetically good mood, because the FAGA crowd insisting nothing was ever going to happen had a rough day at the office. Comey was indicted. Fauci's right hand man David Morens was indicted. The Southern Poverty Law Center got hit. Eric Swalwell's career imploded. ActBlue is being unwound. And Todd Blanche, the guy everyone was suspicious of two months ago, has quietly turned into the most aggressive acting AG in recent memory. The duo walks through why the Comey indictment is a pressure play to flip him onto Brennan, why retracting the Brennan subpoenas was misdirection, and how predicate crimes in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Minnesota are all being stitched into one massive RICO that they argue traces back to Watergate. From there it gets darker. The Morens indictment opens the door on EcoHealth Alliance, the 72 Ukraine bio labs, Soros, Burisma, and what they call the globalists' real dirty secret: genetic modification programs run through autonomous zones in third world countries. Plus the Strait of Malacca prediction, General Dan Cain's signal, and Trump's silent energy war on China.

Rumman Chowdhury wants to remind you that “AI isn't doing anything.” We do things. AI is not to blame for layoffs or if you're denied medical coverage. People are. Eight years ago, Rumman coined the term “moral outsourcing” to describe this excuse where we blame tech for decisions that people make. Why do the semantics matter? Because, Rumman says:In world one where, “AI did X,” it's very scary. It's like, “oh my gosh, this thing that is bigger and smarter than me has come and descended and now it's gonna wipe out every job. “ [But if we center on people, then we have agency and accountability and we can say] “no, you built a thing that was broken and flawed.” Rumman is the founder and CEO of Human Intelligence PBC, which is building evaluation infrastructure to make Gen AI systems safe, trustworthy, and compliant. She also served as the U.S. Science Envoy for Artificial Intelligence under the Biden administration, led AI ethics teams at Twitter and Accenture, and is a Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard.In this conversation:Why "moral outsourcing" is the sneakiest trick in tech — and how execs use AI as a shield for decisions humans madeHow to avoid — or at least how to mitigate — creating AI that's biasedRed teaming AI and creating bias bountiesThe "grandma hack" and other ways regular people accidentally jailbreak AI modelsHow AI companies are quietly rewriting their terms of service to dodge liability when things go wrongWhy the benchmarks you see when a new model drops are "basically spelling tests"AI psychosis, parasocial chatbots, and the cold emails Rumman gets once a month from people who think AI is aliveWhat builders can do right now to take back agency — and why Rumman is more excited about agentic AI than anything that came beforeChapters:(00:00) - "The thing I believe in the most is human agency" (02:14) - Why builders have more agency than they realize (04:00) - What is a bias bounty? (06:41) - What 2,000 hackers at DEF CON found (09:40) - The grandma hack (11:30) - Why guardrails fall apart (14:54) - Anthropic's new bug-finding model and the cat-and-mouse game (19:10) - Why most evals are "basically spelling tests" (21:30) - How to actually evaluate an AI agent (27:16) - "Moral outsourcing" and the AI layoff lie (29:41) - Inside Rumman's tenure as U.S. AI Science Envoy (33:06) - The legal loophole AI companies use to dodge liability (36:31) - AI psychosis and the cold emails Rumman gets (39:36) - Why Google's AI overview is quietly dangerous (45:31) - The problem with "AI literacy" (49:01) - Can we trust anything we see anymore? (51:11) - What builders can do right now to take back agency Support Future Around & Find OutFollow Dan on LinkedInGet the free newsletterBecome a paid subscriber and help future proof FAFO!

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What if the reason problems keep reaching you at DEFCON 1 is not your team's competence, but your rules of engagement? In this episode of The Game Changing Attorney Podcast, Michael and Jessica Mogill respond to three questions that hit a nerve with many firm owners: why problems keep getting escalated late, why team performance can feel inconsistent from week to week, and why meetings sometimes turn into silence instead of collaboration. This conversation is about the leadership signals you may be sending without realizing it, and how small adjustments can change the way your team communicates, performs, and contributes. Here's what you'll learn: How to define escalation criteria so you hear about the right issues earlier, without becoming the bottleneck Why emotional consistency from leadership affects performance more than motivation does A simple way to structure meetings so every person contributes, not just the most outspoken If you want a team that operates with urgency and ownership (without waiting for a crisis), this is your playbook. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:46) Respect for the Work Behind Success (00:04:34) One Year to Become Competent, Decades to Become Elite (00:08:41) Q1: Why You Hear About Problems Too Late (00:10:32) Define Escalation Criteria (Rules of Engagement) (00:11:38) Q2: Inconsistent Team Performance and Emotional Leadership (00:12:40) "Monday Mogill" and Leadership Whiplash (00:12:50) Composure, Judgment, and Not Carrying Stress Forward (00:17:48) Breathwork and Not Making Decisions While Reactive (00:19:08) Q3: Why Meetings Get Blank Stares (00:22:12) Invite Pushback (00:22:25) Wrap Up Links & Resources: 'Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong' Andy Glaze Jocko Willink Learn what sustainable growth can look like for your firm at crispcoach.com. Do you love this podcast and want to see more game changing content? Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Past guests on The Game Changing Attorney Podcast include David Goggins, John Morgan, Alex Hormozi, Randi McGinn, Kim Scott, Chris Voss, Kevin O'Leary, Laura Wasser, John Maxwell, Mark Lanier, Robert Greene, and many more. If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: 455. From Addict to UltraRunner: The Ultimate Redemption Arc with Andy Glaze 375. AMMA - Stop Being The Bottleneck: Lead Your Firm Without Being Needed 284. AMMA - Elevate Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

The Daily Quiz - General Knowledge Today's Questions: Question 1: What is the idiom used to describe a situation where there is little difference between two options or choices? Question 2: What is the technical name for the pair of intersecting lines in a firearm scope? Question 3: What does the military acronym DEFCON stand for? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Fedor joined Baskin and Phelps to preview the first-round playoff series between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors. He discussed the Cavaliers' chemistry issues and the Raptors' struggles against top-tier opponents while discussing the significant organizational pressure surrounding the postseason outcome.

Andy and Jeff talk about Chris Fedor's "DEFCON 1" statement and if it would truly be that catastrophic if the Cavaliers don't at least make it to the Eastern Conference Finals.

We've got a special super sized episode of TBSS this week. Jason starts the show checking in with the Besties about their feelings around the USMNT two months out from the World Cup. What's your DEFCON after the March window? Then Jared shows up to engage Jason in a blind ranking of 8 MLS Cup champions from years past. If you want bonus content and an invite to join the Besties Slack community, jump into our Patreon at patreon.com/thebestsoccershow See you next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rae Baker is an expert in Maritime Intelligence, focused on hunting vessels and tracking elusive AIS signals in her role as Senior OSINT Analyst in Adversary Intelligence. Rae specializes in Human Targeting and Corporate Reconnaissance, utilizing her skills to chart illicit organizations. These practiced skills serve well in Rae's volunteer positions with OSINT-oriented non-profits and speaking engagements at Recon Village; DEFCON, Shmoocon, and the Layer 8 conference. Further emphasis on her skills and knowledge can be demonstrated in the certifications and awards she's achieved, including Associate of ISC2 (CISSP), SANS GOSI, AWS Solutions Architect, and Trace Labs OSINT CTF First Place Black Badge as well as the Most Valuable OSINT badge. J. Overton is a co-host of the Sea Control podcast, editor of “Sea Power By Other Means,” and a member of the Military Writers Guild. Links - Rae's Web Site DEEP DIVE: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence Rae's LinkedIn page

If you were a Democrat right now, you wouldn't just be frustrated… you'd be pacing the living room like a coach who blew a 40-point lead and is now blaming the Gatorade.Because let's be honest about it. You had everything.2008 rolls in, the clouds part, the choir sings, and there's Barack Obama, political rock star, walking onto the stage like the headliner at a sold-out arena. Hope. Change. History. The whole thing felt less like an election and more like a movie trailer narrated by Morgan Freeman.And what did they do with it?They burned through that moment like a lottery winner who buys jet skis for people he doesn't even like. Trillions spent, promises made, divisions widened… and now, when people look back, the legacy isn't carved in marble, it's scribbled in pencil with a lot of eraser marks.So then comes Trump.Now here's where it gets fascinating. Because Trump wasn't supposed to happen. He was the political equivalent of a glitch in the matrix. The system froze, rebooted, and suddenly there's a guy from reality TV rewriting the rules of engagement like he's playing a different sport entirely.And instead of saying, “Okay, maybe we need to rethink some things,” Democrats reacted like somebody flipped over the Monopoly board.They didn't just oppose him. They went DEFCON everything.Investigations, accusations, impeachments, headlines that read like movie plots. At some point you expected a narrator to pop in and say, “In a world… where tweets are considered acts of war…”And when that didn't work?Things escalated.Because now it wasn't just about stopping Trump. It was about making an example out of anyone who even looked like they owned a red hat. Regular people getting swept up, questioned, scrutinized. You'd think they were dismantling a global crime syndicate, not dealing with folks whose biggest offense was posting spicy Facebook memes.And then came the masterstroke… or what they thought was the masterstroke.Joe Biden.Now look, every political party has that moment where they say, “We need a safe choice.” But this wasn't safe. This was political bubble wrap. This was, “Let's install someone so non-threatening that nothing can possibly go wrong.”Except everything did.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid return with a deep dive into psychological warfare, geopolitical strategy, and what they describe as the systematic dismantling of the global “old guard.” Using a military-style lens, they break down recent developments in the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, and shifting alliances across the region. The episode explores how Donald Trump's messaging may function as strategic communication aimed not just at the public, but at adversaries. They also examine how emotional reactions, media narratives, and influencer networks shape perception in real time. From data breaches and digital vulnerability to algorithm-driven narratives, this conversation frames modern conflict as a battle for the mind as much as the battlefield.

Or Eshed, co-founder and CEO of LayerX Security, shares why the browser has become the most critical (and overlooked) security layer in modern work. He explains key browser risk areas including phishing, cookie theft, compromised extensions, and data exfiltration, and how AI now increases the urgency around these risks. He also provides examples of real-world breaches that are reshaping how organizations think about risk. Key Takeaways:  Security risks that are unique to the browser along with simple habits you can adopt to reduce browser-based risk How extensions like Grammarly use browser APIs to learn from user interaction behind the scenes Why most existing security tools fail to detect browser-based threats and the rising costs of account takeovers How AI-powered copilots could ultimately become a key defensive layer by reducing human error in real time Guest Bio: Or Eshed is co-founder and CEO of LayerX Security. Or has over 15 years of cybersecurity experience as an ML developer, security and intelligence researcher, and cybersecurity analyst. His work has led to the arrest of at least 15 threat actors and the exposure of the largest browser hijacking operation in history, with over 50 million browsers compromised. He has also written and spoken extensively on topics of cybersecurity, including at key conferences such as DEF CON and BSides Las Vegas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About this Show: The Brave Technologist is here to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of emerging tech. To make it digestible, less scary, and more approachable for all! Join us as we embark on a mission to demystify artificial intelligence, challenge the status quo, and empower everyday people to embrace the digital revolution. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a curious mind, or an industry professional, this podcast invites you to join the conversation and explore the future of AI together. The Brave Technologist Podcast is hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine, and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API. Music by: Ari Dvorin Produced by: Sam Laliberte  

In this special documentary episode, Patrick Gray and Amberleigh Jack take a look back at hacking throughout the 1990s, from the feel-good vibes of the early hacking communities to the antics of young hackers who wound up on the run from the FBI. Part one features recollections from: Jeff Moss (The Dark Tangent), DefCon and Black Hat founder Chris Wysopal (Weld Pond), L0pht member, co-founder, @Stake Kevin Poulsen (Dark Dante), 1990s hacker turned journalist Elias Levy (Aleph One), author of Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack, 1996 How the World Got Owned is produced in partnership with SentinelOne. Show notes Elias Levy (Aleph1), Former Principle Engineer, Google Kevin Poulsen, Journalist Jeff Moss, DefCon founder Chris Wysopal, @Stake founder, L0pht member Hackers testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998 Hackers May ‘Net' Good PR for Studio DefCon Archives | DefCon 1 A Not So Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Innocent Hackers Want Their Computers Back Breakdowns in Computer Security Unsolved Mysteries, Season 3, Episode 4 The Last Hacker: He Called Himself Dark Dante. His Compulsion Led Him to Secret Files and, Eventually, The Bar of Justice Justia appeal summary, Kevin Poulsen, 1994 Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit, Phrack Magazine, November 1996 From subversives to CEOs: How radical hackers built today's cybersecurity industry

Evan, Michelle, & Courtney Cronin discuss the Yankees opening up the MLB season with a 7-0 win over the Giants despite Aaron Judge going 0/5 with 4 Ks. Evan believes we are on the brink of a Myles Garrett trade because of modified language in his contract. Why is one Super Bowl champion QB calling NFL teams "dumb" and do we like that the 2026 football season starts on a Wednesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan, Michelle, & Courtney Cronin discuss the Yankees opening up the MLB season with a 7-0 win over the Giants despite Aaron Judge going 0/5 with 4 Ks. Evan believes we are on the brink of a Myles Garrett trade because of modified language in his contract. Why is one Super Bowl champion QB calling NFL teams "dumb" and do we like that the 2026 football season starts on a Wednesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan, Michelle, & Courtney Cronin discuss the Yankees opening up the MLB season with a 7-0 win over the Giants despite Aaron Judge going 0/5 with 4 Ks. Evan believes we are on the brink of a Myles Garrett trade because of modified language in his contract. Why is one Super Bowl champion QB calling NFL teams "dumb" and do we like that the 2026 football season starts on a Wednesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan, Michelle, & Courtney Cronin discuss the Yankees opening up the MLB season with a 7-0 win over the Giants despite Aaron Judge going 0/5 with 4 Ks. Evan believes we are on the brink of a Myles Garrett trade because of modified language in his contract. Why is one Super Bowl champion QB calling NFL teams "dumb" and do we like that the 2026 football season starts on a Wednesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Evan, Michelle, & Courtney Cronin discuss the Yankees opening up the MLB season with a 7-0 win over the Giants despite Aaron Judge going 0/5 with 4 Ks. Evan believes we are on the brink of a Myles Garrett trade because of modified language in his contract. Why is one Super Bowl champion QB calling NFL teams "dumb" and do we like that the 2026 football season starts on a Wednesday? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RSAC spotlights public-private partnership gaps. DarkSword leaks to GitHub. The FCC blocks new foreign-made routers. Citrix patches a critical NetScaler flaw. DOE rolls out an energy-sector cyber strategy. CanisterWorm spreads through npm. Researchers flag suspected KACE SMA exploitation. QualDerm reports a 3.1-million-record breach. A Russian access broker gets 81 months. Intern Kevin checks in from RSAC. Maria Varmazis speaks with Jake Braun, longtime DEF CON organizer and former White House official about the DEF CON 33 Hackers' Almanack. Slow down, you vibe too fast.  Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Maria Varmazis speaks with today's guest Jake Braun, longtime DEF CON organizer, former White House official, and lead on DEF CON Franklin, about the DEF CON 33 Hackers' Almanack. You can read more about it here. Selected Reading Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers (The Register) Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones (TechCrunch) US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America (The Register) Critical Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Poised for Exploitation, Security Firms Warn (SecurityWeek) DOE Sets 5-Year Plan to Harden US Grid Against Cyberattacks (GovInfo Security) New CanisterWorm Targets Kubernetes Clusters, Deploys “Kamikaze” Wiper (Hackread) CVE-2025-32975 (Arctic Wolf) 3.1 Million Impacted by QualDerm Data Breach (SecurityWeek) Russian hacker who helped Yanluowang ransomware gang gets nearly 7-year prison sentence (The Record) This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow (404 Media) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ken Carman and Daryl Ruiter analyze the Cleveland Cavaliers' performance and the immense pressure facing the franchise this postseason. They discuss rumors of a potential trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo and whether Evan Mobley has reached his developmental ceiling. Additionally, the conversation highlights a viral radio call from a recent NCAA Tournament upset. 03:20 - College Basketball's Growing Interest 06:24 - Viral High Point Radio Call 13:43 - Greatest Sports Broadcasting Catchphrases 18:31 - Cavs Trade Rumors and DEFCON 1 24:58 - Pressure Cooker and Mobley's Future 37:15 - Debating Evan Mobley's Maturation

Description:If parenting has you oscillating between “I've got this” and “I need to lie down immediately,” press play. Today, we're stepping into one of the most humbling arenas for compassion and grace: your own living room. Because fierce compassion isn't just for coworkers and complicated relatives—it's also for the tiny humans melting down over the wrong color cup or the soccer uniform that didn't get washed in time for game day. And it's for YOU, standing there, wondering how you got so activated over this nonsense. Jen and Amy are talking to Mandy Grass—nationally recognized Board-Certified Behavior Analyst, founder of The Family Behaviorist, former teacher, and mom in a blended family of seven kids (ages four to sixteen). Yes, seven. Her house is less “quiet retreat” and more “ongoing behavioral case study.” The data is… robust. For nearly two decades, Mandy has been translating behavior science into practical, no-guilt tools for families. Her central message feels radical in a culture obsessed with control: kids' behavior is communication—not a moral failure. And neither is your exhaustion. In this conversation, we talk about: What Mandy actually hears when parents say, “We've tried everything” How shame and blame sneak into parenting—and how to gently escort them out Why so much of parenting work begins with the parent, not the kid (I know. We had feelings about this too.) And one tiny shift you can make tonight that will cool the temperature at home (no sticker charts required) Here's the truth: we cannot regulate our kids if we are operating at DEFCON 1 ourselves. Fierce compassion means holding boundaries without losing your humanity. It means seeing your child clearly—and offering yourself the same grace when you inevitably lose it over bedtime negotiations. Mandy also shares about her new podcast, The Behavior Blueprint, a grounded, step-by-step guide for parents who are tired of quick fixes and ready for something that actually works in real life—not just on Instagram. It's equal parts instruction, compassion, and “oh thank God, it's not just me.” Take a breath. Your child isn't the problem. You aren't either. And that might be the fiercest compassion of all. Thought-provoking Quotes: "In behavior analysis, every behavior has a function –attention, escape, access to something tangible, and an automatic or a sensory function."– Mandy Grass “Do I have ADHD, anxiety, or am I just a mom?” – Mandy Grass “Our default is take away, take away, take away. And really what we want to do is reinforce the behavior we want to see more of.” – Mandy Grass “You're not gonna get it right every time, but at least it doesn't feel like you have no idea what to do.”– Mandy Grass Resources Mentioned in This Episode: The Behavior Blueprint podcast with Mandy Grass - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-behavior-blueprint-with-mandy-grass/id1872526999 Too Much Junk on Your Social Media Feeds? I'll Show You How to Clean It Up - https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/too-much-junk-on-your-social-media-feeds-ill-show-you-how-to-clean-it-up?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A Guest's Links: Website - https://www.thefamilybehaviorist.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thefamilybehaviorist Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560942080087 Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@thefamilybehaviorist TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thefamilybehaviorist Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-behavior-blueprint-with-mandy-grass/id1872526999 Connect with Jen!Jen's Website - https://jenhatmaker.com/ Jen's Instagram - https://instagram.com/jenhatmakerJen's Twitter - https://twitter.com/jenHatmaker/ Jen's Facebook - https://facebook.com/jenhatmakerJen's YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JenHatmaker The For the Love Podcast is presented by Audacy.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another shooting occurred yesterday at a high school hockey game, when a transgender father targeted his family and then turned the gun on himself. When will society admit that transgenderism is a mental illness, not something to be affirmed or celebrated? Glenn also discusses a Palestinian activist suggesting that dogs should be banned in New York City. Is Canada about to team up with China? Glenn discusses the possibility of the Canadian government forming an “anti-Trump” trade alliance and what that would mean for Canada. Independent Institute senior fellow Judy Shelton joins to discuss America's struggling economy and how everything she predicted decades ago has sadly come true. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins to discuss how close the Senate is to passing the SAVE Act and why the Lee-dubbed "zombie filibuster" needs to go. Glenn lays out why the gold standard needs to come back for America to get out of its mess. Money is more than just something you spend. Glenn explains how every modern problem in America today can be traced back to a progressive policy gone wrong. Why is America intentionally destroying itself from within?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices