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Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeBerny Belvedere: Renée DiResta, thanks for joining us on Zooming In, our flagship podcast here at The UnPopulist. You've been on before a couple of times. You've done podcasts with us, you've spoken at LibCon—in fact, during our first LibCon, LibCon 2024, your book generated intense interest. It seemed to be the book of the summer. You remember that?Renée DiResta: I do, thanks so much.Belvedere: It felt like at every other session, some panelist would say something like, “and to explore this further, I really recommend Renée DiResta's new book, which is just wonderful.” Right? I don't know why I did that in a nerd voice. Your endorsers are wonderful people.But Renée, welcome again. I want to dive right in. You have a new report out. It's put out by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It was written by you and two co-authors, Rachel Kleinfeld and Margot Treadwell. That's a powerful lineup. We've run Rachel's work in our pages before and it's top notch. The report is fantastic. It did not disappoint. For anyone interested in how the broader world of news and opinion discourse works today, it's immediately one of the most useful resources to pick up. And it's especially useful for practitioners, for people who work in the space, like we do.But to help with some scene setting, can you tell us about the report in broad brushstrokes? We'll then narrow in from there.DiResta: So I think about this as report part two. Last year, in September, almost one year to the day, we put out a provocation saying: “institutions need to change how they communicate in order to compete in the new media environment.” And we wrote a framing on why that was, on how social media was no longer this niche thing that those people over there did. If you wanted to reach the public, this is where people are—and you have to reach them where they are and in a manner that they find appealing. The way that you communicate is just different now.That attracted a lot of attention and it got us a ton of inbound, particularly from philanthropy, because we were also telling philanthropists you have to change how you think about outputs and outcomes that matter. For a lot of academics and others, participation in the public conversation is, if not discouraged, it's not really encouraged. It doesn't move the needle for your tenure committee, that sort of thing. How could philanthropists shift the thinking on why communicating to the public actually was critical? We got a ton of inbound on it and the question we got most often was: “How?”This report is the how. The basic premise is that most Americans now get their information and form their opinions through creators, podcasts, Substacks, group chats. Most traditional institutions have only minimal engagement or presence in those spaces. So that ecosystem runs on a very different model of legitimacy. People are following people, not institutions. They're following people that they find appealing or relatable. Somebody coming to you from their kitchen. Credentials and institutional polish actually can read as almost a sort of distance now.Those are the elites saying that stuff from over there, whereas this person is just talking to me in their kitchen. They're real.We write about how fact-based institutions have often thought about this shift to social as a repackaging job. “All right, how do I take my massive PDF”—and, by the way, this report is a massive PDF—“how do I take that and put out a couple screenshots on social media or generate a reel?” They see it more as engaging when you have something to release, when you have just put something out. So it's very self-serving. They're not using social media as a communicator in an ongoing conversation where they're having a back and forth with their audience. They're using it as a broadcast tool and they're reformulating the thing that they wanted to broadcast into a format that nominally works but is missing that dialogue.So our guide argues that it's a strategy problem—and that CEOs and boards have to own this. They have to think about it, not as the thing that happens after you've done your work, but as an active part of your ongoing relationship to the public. We framed the report as a series of questions to guide that thinking. We did a bunch of case studies, really spanning the communication ecosystem we have. How Jon Haidt turned some of his work into a movement. We have how Turning Point became a juggernaut. We have some of the Mamdani campaign stuff. Not endorsing any position there—but saying, “here's some interesting stuff that you can learn from how this group strategically chose to engage the public through these means.”Belvedere: I thought the guide did a really great job of bringing in real world examples. You also brought up David French and the reception he received. His case is a fascinating one because of what it represents and what it says about the subcommunity that he had that parting of the ways with, and the way they gate-kept him from continued access to it.But I want to pick up on something that you mentioned in passing just now in your broad overview. There's a line in the report that really struck me as I was reading it. As you put it, credentials and institutional polish—the CV virtues—now read as distance and disconnect rather than authority, which is what it used to read as. Do you think that's a permanent rewiring of how trust just works now?DiResta: It's an interesting question. Trust and authoritativeness are distinct. You trust your neighbor without necessarily thinking they're an authority. You just find them a trustworthy person. You would give them your keys. They can feed your dog, that sort of thing. And it doesn't matter what they do or what their professional credentials are. What matters is just that you have a relationship. You feel that this person is somebody who would support you if you need it, that they're going to level with you. They're going to tell you the truth, even if you might not want to hear it.That's the idea of trust as something that is deeper than expertise. Sure, it goes hand in hand with it at times. We would like it to be tightly coupled. We want people to trust experts, but the idea of relatability instead is: “Why would this person who seems just like me lie to me? Why would they deceive me? What do they get out of it?” Whereas people sincerely believe that elite institutions are working to serve their own agenda, and that is often seen as being at odds with the average, everyday person. You see this in politics when people ask, “Why is this politician talking about this thing, performing this action, when I just care about putting food on the table for my family?” You see that gap in what lands and resonates with people versus what people in elite or institutional positions want to talk about.Sometimes this is a disconnect that gets lamented in liberal spaces, particularly as, “well, if only they listened, they would understand that my policy proposal for this thing does help them 10 degrees and five years later.” But in the immediate here and now, it's that question of: Do I trust the person who's speaking to me? Do they seem just like me?I had this experience when I was a new mom. I was one of the first in my friend group to have kids. I didn't know what to do. I was living across the country from my family and didn't have much support. So I turned to the internet, right? Who are the people who are going to help me understand what I'm supposed to do with this baby? How do I make him sleep? How do I make him eat? How do I not screw this up? I think it's a very personal experience that a lot of people have where that sense that reading a PDF on an institutional website is not the same thing as somebody sitting there with you taking the time. There's a phrase that I think it was Jeff Jarvis who once said to me in conversation: “the media talks to the public and the influencers talk with them.”I think that's the best framing I've heard for that. Content creators understand how to talk with their audiences, where even people who may have better information, more expertise, authoritative content, are not necessarily communicating that in a way that feels real and connects to a sense that this person is telling me the truth.Belvedere: I'm wondering what's the right read on this broad question of trust that we're all grappling with. Take, for example, the aftershocks from a specific high profile instance of trust collapse—something like Covid. I think Covid's a really instructive episode in many different ways. There's been a lot of revisionism about it. What was different about Covid compared to other past trying moments in society is that Covid became politicized in a particular way by an extremely potent right-wing discourse-shaping machine. That's not going to stop being in place.“A lot of institutions are taught to stay on message at all times—if you hand your message to somebody else, you lose control of it. But you can't tell them what to say. They're going to say what they want to say. They might get it wrong. But counterintuitively, I think that actually generates more dialogue, more attention, and provides you with a way to accomplish something you might not be good at yourself. Your CEO might not actually be the best face to talk about this thing—the 20 year old you hired, who is much more comfortable with this, is actually the person who should be out there engaging, putting out the message, or working with a creator or creator lab and essentially briefing them.” — Renée DiRestaSo my overriding fear is that Covid is not an outlier. And that anything in society like Covid that requires elite management, whether it's the dissemination of information, policies that help curb some of the worst effects of not abiding by certain standards, all of that is going to run up against an information machine architecturally designed to demagogue that issue, to create a trust collapse, to point out any little mistakes and amplify them as though they're an example of the elites just completely botching everything. Is there any hope that that wanes?DiResta: That's a very interesting question—let me give you a couple of answers.Two things were true about Covid. I was writing about this in The Atlantic during the pandemic: the institutional communicators really dropped the ball—in my opinion, but I think that's been quite backed up at this point. I remember writing that it would be nice to see the CDC's website look more like Wikipedia, where you can see the change log, the public can understand in this fast moving situation—you can go back and read the edit history, you can see who made the change, you can understand how consensus forms in a scientific community. Because there's such a time lag, right? They are waiting until they are absolutely, 100% sure before they say something. In that time, the people are still looking for information, and they're going to get it from whoever is willing to give it to them. On social media, there's an incentive structure: if you're first, you get rewarded; if you're sensational, you get rewarded. If you're right? That doesn't really matter. Maybe you'll get a Community Note, maybe a fact check, but that's not really the point. The point is: Are you first, are you relatable, do you seem authentic, can your stuff go viral? It's a very different communication style and game.So the first thing that was true is that the institutions dropped the ball in comms during Covid communications. And I was writing about it as it happened, because my job was to study social media rumors and narratives around the vaccine. I was like: “Come on, guys! You gotta get in the game here! You're not going to content-moderate this out of existence—that's just not how it works. You're going to turn this into forbidden knowledge.” We did everything we possibly could to try to systematically change that. And the people who did respond were the first-person speakers who began to emerge: physicians. You saw doctors working shifts at Bellevue doing live updates about the morgue trucks—those were the people who managed to break through, because they had the credentials, but they were also able to say very directly to the public: this is the truth, this is what you need to know, Covid is real, even as the institutions weren't doing that.But the second thing that's true is that, as you note, the failures, flaws, and missteps get immediately weaponized. That turns into: “you can't trust those people, they didn't tell you the truth then, never forget what they did to us.” That rhetoric isn't really about finding truth, or understanding a novel pathogen, or whether a vaccine works—remember, this was the first time one had ever been rolled out in an emergency setting. It turns into: “here's why you can never trust those people, and you can only trust me.”That got reinforced through litigation. They lost all their court cases, but they still sued people who tried to deal with the falsehoods and misleading content, and any effort to label it or fact-check it got reframed as censorship. It was really wild to see what that machine juggernaut managed to do to reinforce that only it was going to tell its base the truth, and they couldn't trust anything on the outside. That's the kind of rhetoric you usually see from cults—“you can't trust anybody but me.” It's a very different style of communication, and I found it personally alarming to see it happen in the context of a pandemic, because it has serious downstream consequences.Belvedere: Yeah, and I mean, think about the way you just described that—an informational cult kind of environment, scaled up to half the country, or at least to a large share of people getting their news from less-than-ideal sources. I think it's going to continue to be a problem.DiResta: Let me follow up on that quickly. I spent about [six months] watching the vaccine rollout—February through August of 2021, as Operation Warp Speed rolled out. I watched what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other long-standing—just to be clear, long-standing—anti-vaccine activists did. These weren't people who simply didn't like the Covid shot; no, these were people who had been telling you vaccines cause autism, dating back to the 1990s. I watched them capitalize on this in the most incredible ways. They were absolutely transparent about it—they were like, “this is our chance to undermine confidence in the entire vaccine enterprise.” And that is exactly what they did. They didn't hide the ball—they were live-streaming taking about it. “This is our chance to tell the public that all of these things are poison.” And now we have kids dying of measles.That's the downstream effect of this: they managed to connect that distrust to other things. They didn't just create distrust around one incident or fact; they created the idea that nobody in the medical establishment has your best interests at heart. That's what they managed to achieve as a result of Covid.Belvedere: I want to stay on this, because I think we're all trying to figure out the right posture here. You bring up Joe Rogan and his effect on psychedelics policy: a lot of people know him through segments where he talks through his drug trips, or a guest's. Or, another example: online creators helping speed up the end of USAID. And there are other cases. But these are cases where influence and factual accuracy are completely decoupled. For organizations whose whole value proposition is getting reality right, being accurate—a lot of people in these spaces ask a question that is one neighborhood down but the same city: “Where's the liberal answer to Joe Rogan?” We've been asking that question since the post-mortem on 2024, and even before. A lot of our institutions feel saddled by the sense that in order to compete on reach, in this new marketplace of ideas, we can't really compete on accuracy's terms.Roger Ailes created Fox News in the '90s. It wasn't [presented] as a dominant player—it was a countervailing force: “the media is captured, so we're going to bring balance back.” “Fair and balanced”—that whole thing; a whole alternative institution positioned against the media itself. So [this side] has had an insurgent mindset from the start—Rush Limbaugh and others. I've brought this up a lot. Even the Ailes project, Fox News, it had institutional trappings, institutional clothing, but it really had this insurgent energy, whatever it said about itself early on. That posture was able to scale beautifully once podcasting, YouTube, and the internet more broadly made these tools available. It was disintermediation. People like Ben Shapiro with The Daily Wire, Charlie Kirk, really ran with the ball a lot better in these spaces, it seemed like. It never felt like liberals had their own Ailes moment, because it felt like they were fine with The New York Times and The Atlantic.Is the real gap here about talent, effort, and ability, or just needing to catch up after playing behind for so long? Or is it more that this is a different language, that [that side] can easily and naturally slot into, and for us it has to be more performative, a little contrived—like a theater kid having to learn how to act?DiResta: It's funny—there's so much in what you're saying there. First, when you can position yourself oppositionally—“we're the underdog, we're David, they're Goliath”—that's an archetype, a story everybody knows, that people immediately understand where you're positioning yourself. “They are all telling you the same thing”; “that is a monolith, that's the state propaganda machine manufacturing consent, we're the plucky little outlet trying to break through.” And then, of course, they maintain that outsider branding and status even as their audience becomes massive—quite a lot larger, in fact, than some of that so-called establishment media.You see this with a phrase that comes out of QAnon: “we are the media now.” What they're saying is: “we can break through, we can make stuff trend, we can make stuff go viral, we can take our (in the context of QAnon, I think it's fair to say) crackpot ideas and put them out there, get them seen, get them part of the discourse, and then people have to pay attention to us.” That's where “we are the media now” comes from. It was popularized by Elon, because he picked up that phrase and it is so much in the ether on X—I don't even know if he understands the provenance. But “we are the media now” becomes the idea that we're the opposition now, and all that legacy stuff—including Fox, mind you, which is legacy too—is old. You actually see the schisms now, especially since they're in power everywhere on the right: influencers going to war with Fox News.“I once had someone screenshot every social media post where I'd used a curse word and send it to my dean. And I was like: “I said all of that. That's 100% real.” This is the internet, after all. Would I use that language in a talk? Probably not. I'm from New York, so sometimes I do. But if you're constantly second-guessing, clarifying, checking yourself … and you do need to be correct, because in some cases your credentials are on the line when you're speaking about the thing you're actually presenting. But your delivery can afford to be a bit more flexible, a bit more relaxed.” — Renée DiRestaVenkatesh Rao wrote about this in “The Internet of Beefs”—one of the most astute assessments of how social media works, in my opinion. If you have conflict, that's fantastic: it benefits both parties, gets both parties attention, and there's no incentive to actually win the conflict, because the conflict itself is like a soap opera—it just keeps going. That's where you start to see right-wing influencers say, “Fox News is establishment, Bush-era media, and we'll tell you the truth—on social, on our platforms, on our streams, on our podcasts.” That's where you start to see that shift.There's also something Rachel and I wrote about in the first report: institutional and academic speakers are media-trained for a very different world, where you get a three- to five-minute segment. If you've never done TV before, they tell you roughly what you'll be asked, you prepare your talking points in advance because you have so little time, you deliver the soundbite, and the segment's over. That's completely different from what I experienced doing Rogan in 2019—a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with no prep. I'm going to be there and you either know your stuff or you don't. His audience either likes me or it doesn't. Half of them hated me!And that's fine—it is what it is. I showed up for a reason. There's a completely different vernacular, style, and approach when you're having a two-hour conversation with somebody, where you're going to listen to what they have to say, and you're responding back much more as a human than as a person who's there to digest for the public, in a three-minute hit, what you said in that report over there or what happened in the world and why you, the expert, with your credentials and your chyron should think about it. It's a completely different experience.So does it go back to the old way? I don't think it does—I haven't thought that for the better part of 10 years now. I started writing about the anti-vaccine movement in 2015, as a mom, saying: “I have got to say something about this.” What became MAHA is now a political movement that sits in power at HHS. What they understood was that empathy and relatability, the feeling that they are talking with you, matters so much more than a PDF or an academic paper that sits behind a paywall that nobody can read without an academic library license. That's not going back to normal. So the question that's motivated me and Rachel is: How do you teach people who do have the knowledge and the skill set to compete differently?Belvedere: On that note, on liberals' broad failure to penetrate a lot of these spaces, these subcommunities, these niche places where people gather … think about all the subcultures we have in the United States—there are plenty that liberals are just really poor at reaching, or at having any presence within at all.DiResta: I'm an independent. My complaint is about how liberals communicate versus how conservatives communicate. I spend a lot of time in both ecosystems, in person, and I try to engage with the media apparatus on the right too, partly because they make up conspiracy theories about me, so I feel like I have to. But there's a difference in how carefully you have to think through what you're about to say—what performance are you putting on in that moment? Conservatives use the word “based”—you're talking in a way that's almost intentionally provocative at times, and sometimes it goes way off the rails; sometimes it's not good at all. But there's a sense that when you're hearing from the liberal establishment, you're hearing qualifiers—everything is qualified.This is something I used to talk about when making content: on Instagram Reels, you've got three seconds to hook your audience. If you start with a qualifier about how what you're saying doesn't necessarily apply to all people, in all places, at all times, you're done—that took three seconds, that's it, we're done. So the question is: How do you get comfortable either owning an opinion unapologetically, or framing it in a way where you're just like, “yeah, whatever, somebody on the internet is always going to yell at me, I don't care, I'm going to say the thing anyway”? That's a limitation I just don't see in conservative spaces.Again, that means things can go way off the rails, and some of it is genuinely not good. But the flip side is that [liberal content] can sound stilted, practiced, polished. And the incentive structure is scary for the participant—for the academic who decides to try being more casual in their presentation. I once had someone screenshot every social media post where I'd used a curse word and send it to my dean. And I was like: “I said all of that. That's 100% real.” This is the internet, after all. Would I use that language in a talk? Probably not. I'm from New York, so sometimes I do. But if you're constantly second-guessing, clarifying, checking yourself … and you do need to be correct, because in some cases your credentials are on the line when you're speaking about the thing you're actually presenting. But your delivery can afford to be a bit more flexible, a bit more relaxed.What I've loved over the last few years since Covid is watching public health experts and epidemiologists start presenting as themselves: “here I am, I've got this expertise, and I'm also going to tell you about my kids, or this dress I bought, or this thing I did.” It makes them more relatable, more human—because they are, in fact, relatable and human. It's not an artifice. But they understand that doing this actually helps establish their credibility, more than just the credential. So if me saying a curse word on Twitter … normal people curse on Twitter.Belvedere: And not to be too cynical about it, but this is something intuitively understood by people on the wrong side of things. Trump will have a word randomly capitalized as a marker of his style, and without it, the message would feel too polished—even though, grammatically, it would be correct.One reaction people sometimes have to a discussion like this is: “all you're talking about is communication, this is social media stuff, it's more fluff than substance.” I think that couldn't be more wrong, because if we care about the issues we're writing about, if we want action taken on them …DiResta: Yes! It is a persuasive process.Belvedere: … if we want people to care about authoritarianism or corruption in government, raising the salience of those issues becomes really important. If we're collectively bad at it, if we don't have the “juice” that the other side does, our issues stay dormant, untouched, unlistened to, uncared about, while the other side's issues will be front and center, driving the conversation. You talk about issue salience needing to travel across networks before it becomes a thing. Could you unpack that? You've got multiple creators, adjacent communities … help us understand how that works.DiResta: So, often times, when you open your social media feed—whatever ranked platform you use, which is almost all of them—you're seeing what the platform has decided is important for you, and that's not the same as what's important to the person sitting next to you on the train. So you innately think a lot of people care about something, or are talking about something, when it turns out—take X as an example: you log in, there's a “trends” feature, and it'll surface a trend when there are maybe 200 posts about something. That's not a trend in any national sense; it's basically the platform tweaking a small number of people who'll respond to it. They see it and think, “there are 2,000 posts about this, I care a lot about that thing, I'm going to add my voice, retweet it, reshare it”—and if a sufficient number of people do that, it gets bigger, and eventually it shows up on something like a mass-movement leaderboard.I spent five years at the Stanford Internet Observatory taking a network-science approach to this. Let me give a specific example—we can stick with the pandemic, because I think it's quite important as a case study. I don't know how many people remember the Plandemic video. It featured Judy Mikovits, a woman with serious credential issues and at least one retracted paper, who'd had a series of dramatic career incidents that led to her being put into the autism-conference crankosphere. She was releasing a book and doing a lot of book promo, but she was never especially polished doing those direct engagements herself. The director, Mikki Willis, made the video—kept her on task, shot it very strategically. It's about 20 minutes long, and it argues that the pandemic is being used to keep people from “healing microbes on the beach,” and that's why they are locking down beaches, and so on—a very conspiratorial film.Now Mikovits had been saying these things on prior podcasts for a while, but it stayed confined; it got almost no reach outside the anti-vaccine networks, where that kind of content is normal and expected. What was different about Plandemic is that because of the polish, the packaging, the formatting, and Willis's own reach and network, it hopped out of the anti-vaccine ecosystem and started landing everywhere. We had a tool called CrowdTangle that let us pull where URLs were winding up and being shared, and the Plandemic link was showing up in the Corgi Club, the Beach Club, local school-board groups—everywhere. We could only see public data, so I'd imagine that's just the tip of the iceberg.The public really found it compelling. Reading the comments as part of that analysis, people were saying things like: “she seems so authoritative, she has this personal beef with Anthony Fauci, who I've also been hearing is untrustworthy; they are keeping us locked down in our houses, why is that happening?” It really landed and resonated. That's an actual moment where normally this speakers and those topics stay confined to a very specific niche part of the internet, with this video, they managed to absolutely blew out of the water. Here is how it works when you take something and you frame somebody in the right way, you make them seem relatable and resonant and you edit the content in a very compelling, exciting, and mysterious way. This is how you create a mass conversation about something. Ordinarily this person would have stayed confined to her niche, but in that particular moment, with that particular piece of content, they nailed it.Belvedere: I asked about that because on our side, we're trying to do some of the same work you're outlining. ISMA puts out LibCon and The UnPopulist—The UnPopulist is our flagship publication, LibCon is the conference series that we put out. The UnPopulist has buy-in from figures across the ideological spectrum; and the whole model of ISMA is to build a coalition—a realignment of liberal versus illiberal—and for us to be on that liberal side, spanning classical liberals, center-left, and center-right: people who are single-issue defectors, who have enough qualms with the authoritarianism we're seeing that they come over to our side. At our last LibCon, we had C-SPAN in the same room as a bunch of streamers broadcasting. It was an interesting mix, and that's the sort of work we're trying to do. As I said earlier, though, it's not necessarily the language that's easy for a lot of liberals to speak—it takes intentional partnerships, looking through different content forms, finding where a good ally or partner can be found.“These weren't people who simply didn't like the Covid shot; no, these were people who had been telling you vaccines cause autism, dating back to the 1990s. I watched them capitalize on this in the most incredible ways. They were absolutely transparent about it—they were like, ‘this is our chance to undermine confidence in the entire vaccine enterprise.' And that is exactly what they did. They didn't hide the ball—they were live-streaming taking about it. ‘This is our chance to tell the public that all of these things are poison.' And now we have kids dying of measles. That's the downstream effect of this: they managed to connect that distrust to other things. They didn't just create distrust around one incident or fact; they created the idea that nobody in the medical establishment has your best interests at heart. That's what they managed to achieve as a result of Covid.” — Renée DiRestaIt used to be that an organization could get away with just publishing a headline, an article image, and letting the feed auto-populate. Now every platform, the whole online space, requires more thoughtfulness, more intentionality, more strategic thinking. At the risk of asking for a One Neat Trick: is there one thing that, if a capacity developed overnight, would be a game changer for us on this path that we want to take—to be better communicators, to help the issues we care about get that amplification and resonance?DiResta: I think it is that co-creation and that incorporation of people who are innately good and talented at this. I was at LibCon this year with Whick and Soypill, two of the streamers who were there, because the first night of the conference happened to be the night Trump gave that speech about the election being rigged by China. As it happens, I have a lot of experience looking at Chinese influence operations around the 2020 election, so I'd been on Whick's stream before, and he asked if I wanted to come on. I said let's do it, and we broke it down live for the audience—here's what Trump's saying, here's a Georgetown professor who can help explain it—but done conversationally. It's funny, because you still carry that credential with you; you're still saying, “here's how I know this stuff.” And, of course, later on I'm going to write about this for Lawfare, I'm going to write about it on my Substack, I'm going to put it out as personal content. But in this moment the most impactful thing I think I can do is discuss it live with people who are watching it in a community, trying to make sense of it together. That's something streamers in particular are very good at—they bring people together to watch jointly.I don't know how many people have watched a Destiny stream, or, on the other side of the spectrum, a Hasan Piker stream, but it's the same appeal: people who are in a community, like-minded, enjoying that back-and-forth, not only listening to the streamer but participating in the community itself. It reminds me of being in New York in my 20s, gathering at someone's house to watch TV together on a Sunday night—that feeling of experiencing something together, reacting to it together. When you watch a news broadcast by yourself, it's not like that. When you're watching a stream, there's as much back-and-forth and community-building happening among the audience as there is between the audience and the influencer or streamer. That creates a feeling of belonging and participation, and when you want to ask people to take political action, there's a feeling that we're all in this together, we all want to see this thing accomplished. You see this when you watch political streamers across the spectrum doing fundraisers and things like that—“how can we galvanize and generate momentum?”This isn't limited to partisan politics—you can do the same with issue-based advocacy as well.One of the reasons institutions [struggle here] is a fear of relinquishing control. A lot of institutions are taught to stay on message at all times—if you hand your message to somebody else, you lose control of it. But you can't tell them what to say. They're going to say what they want to say. They might get it wrong. But counterintuitively, I think that actually generates more dialogue, more attention, and provides you with a way to accomplish something you might not be good at yourself. Your CEO might not actually be the best face to talk about this thing—the 20 year old you hired, who is much more comfortable with this, is actually the person who should be out there engaging, putting out the message, or working with a creator or creator lab and essentially briefing them like you would brief media: “here's your embargoed copy of my report, I'd love it if you talked about it, no pressure, no requirements, this is just me providing you with information about something we've done that I think your audience might care about—and then wherever it goes, goes.”Belvedere: And as you note in the report, this is already the cultural air a lot of these younger staffers breathe—they have to code-switch to seem more “professional,” to be someone who …DiResta: … doesn't curse on Twitter.Belvedere: Exactly. But that also gives them the advantage of understanding the discourse, the environment, the information landscape, far more natively. So they can put a message that the CEO might want in a way that will have more effectiveness.I want to bring up two of the case studies I found fascinating—David French and Zohran Mamdani. David French was trying to bring a [pluralist], depoliticized message into a very hostile, ideologically policed, polarized evangelical base. Zohran Mamdani, now the mayor of New York, built his campaign almost entirely on vibes, aesthetics, joy—messaging, sure, but messaging that met people where they were and responded to what they actually needed. One of those approaches got crushed by the gatekeepers; the other was able to bypass them. It's not that one was effective and the other wasn't—David French ran up against a buzzsaw that no Christian thinker, however winsome or articulate, probably would have fared well against. Mamdani certainly was very skilled in how he approached his campaign and carried it out. In these two profiles, is there a lesson there about why one got crushed and the other persevered?DiResta: It's very interesting, and I've thought about this a lot. So, first, some of it is: How heavy a hold does the establishment party have on the space you're speaking into? Are you entering fresh ground? Mamdani, of course, ran against an egregiously terrible establishment candidate. I mean, it was one of those “is this really the best we've got to offer?”Mamdani's politics weren't mine, but I'm from New York—I lived there for 30 years, still have a house and family in Brooklyn—and I watched that race, and I just thought … every time I saw Mamdani content in my feed, and there was a lot of it, because I'm still plugged into New York, I was like, “this is so inspiring. This is a person where that love of the city comes through.” I remember he did a thing with a bodega cat. I had a bodega cat, and it was amazing! In a way, the politics and the policy was almost secondary to the feeling that you were watching something genuine.The candidate he was running against—well, there were two, of course, including Curtis Sliwa, who really nailed it on the “genuine” front. I mean, my God, that man gave interviews that left my jaw on the floor—where he's like, “here's how they're trying to pay me to drop out of the race, let's talk about that.” It's a very New York political moment.Belvedere: Zero filter.DiResta: Oh, no filter. I mean, Cuomo doesn't lack a filter either. I'm New York Italian too—you know that. Someone should send him to his dean!It was wild watching that race and seeing what landed with the public. There was such a sense of “God, we need something new! We just need something new”—and that landed, I think, in a way, more than anything else, regardless of your opinions on specific policies. It was the way in which he turned people who found him personally appealing into organizers—fans became organizers. That's really the story of the Mamdani campaign. With French, by contrast, top-down control still held much more strongly. I don't think many New Yorkers love the Democratic Party establishment enough to say, “we really need to listen to what they tell us”—if anything, an official endorsement had become a bit of a negative signal by that point. That's at least how I experienced New York politics.Mamdani was also an unknown quantity, French was much more of a known quantity, so he had this experience of gatekeepers who used character assassination to attack, not so much his ideas as his person—finding things he'd said or done previously and using them to attack him personally and make it costly to associate with him and his ideas by extension. Once an establishment is well-networked enough to mount that kind of opposition, it's much harder to win. French was moving into a hostile, contested, polarized space. Mamdani, by contrast, faced an establishment, in his case the more centrist wing of the Democratic Party, that simply didn't have the social media clout or networks to make its attacks land. It was a very different dynamic.That's why we put French in a section of the report about figuring out what kind of space you're actually trying to participate in. Are you putting forward a policy or a vision that's going to be actively and adversarially rebuffed by very entrenched, well-networked forces? Or are you moving into a much fresher space—a new issue, a new take, less contested ground—where you are potentially going to run a very different kind of strategy?Belvedere: I think that's a great point. Trump is a good example in the political space—the GOP establishment was set against him initially. They had money behind other candidates, Jeb Bush chief among them, and had a war chest that was insane backing Jeb Bush. And that was … nothing in the end. It didn't amount to anything. All the work French had done in the past, caring about the Bill of Rights, about a constitutionally constrained vision of limited government—the intellectual energy the Republican Party used to draw on more heavily—had given way to something else. David went a different direction than a lot of evangelicals did, and there are enough of them to effectively block him now.Whereas Mamdani, I think, was able to bypass a lot of that resistance because there was more overlap with what a standard Democratic candidate might have offered—a lot of the same campaign substance, just a different approach on some issues. There were enough people who weren't already set against him. That's unlike the evangelical space, where mentioning French's name is practically like saying “Voldemort.” Which is sad, because on a lot of issues, especially theological tenets, there's still broad alignment between them.This is something that your report presses people to internalize: the idea that who you're speaking to matters, and how you're speaking to them matters. That's a lesson a lot of liberals still need to work out. There's a lot of trial and error right now, a lot of figuring out how to be effective in this new information landscape. But the report is genuinely helpful. I imagine a lot of people will read it and think: “okay, everything I thought I knew about what it takes to project credibility has been turned on its head, and I need to account for that or risk being left behind.” That's what makes it such an important read.DiResta: Thank you. We really tried to make it as tangible as possible—which is why it's long. We went back and forth at the end about whether to release different versions for different audiences: a philanthropist version, a C-suite version, a version for op-ed writers. In the end we put it all out as one document—you can always Control-F to find what's most relevant to you, there's an index, and AI can digest it too.But, in all seriousness, though, there has to be a shift. You mentioned Trump. His energy came from the internet. He was so good at tapping into … because he was almost a meme candidate at first; people didn't quite believe he'd be a serious thing. This was right around the time … I bring up Gamergate not for its specifics, but because it was a moment when people started realizing the internet could actually affect the real world. The Arab Spring was another one of those moments—realizing that people's voices online could genuinely accomplish things.“When you have this sclerotic sense that nothing happens in the United States, that no one is listening to you, that no change happens, that nothing you want to see in the world will ever be realized, that's an intoxicating moment. ‘Damn, we are the media now'—that phrase is literally about empowerment, the sense that someone powerful is listening to you and making something happen. That's the complete opposite of the faceless institution where you leave a comment in a form and never hear back, where nothing ever changes, your taxes don't change, your cost of living doesn't change. That's what Mamdani tapped into as well: ‘we are actually going to change things, we are going to do things, the world is going to be different starting day one, and here's how it's going to happen.' Whatever you think of the man's politics, he nailed that sense of empowerment—'this is a movement, and you're part of it.'” — Renée DiRestaYou mentioned my book. I'll give a shameless plug here—but only because the paperback just came out and it has a new epilogue. If you bought the Kindle version, go refresh it, because the new epilogue gets into exactly this. What was the appeal of DOGE? It was that the government was going to be transformed—that's great, it's a huge incentive for people who cared about that. Even liberals were like, “Maybe it's time to shake some stuff up.” But what DOGE did for the public, particularly Trump's base and Elon's base, was this: they'd tweet out some grant they found ridiculous, often with no real idea what it actually did, and Elon would respond with something like “killed,” “nuked,” “through the wood chipper,” about USAID.Belvedere: And a lot of those actually got Community-Noted on themselves—people pointing out that he was egregiously misreading the grant. They got fact-checked by their own system.DiResta: They did—but it didn't actually matter, because what mattered to the people participating was: “I said a thing, somebody powerful listened to me, and then a change happened.” When you have this sclerotic sense that nothing happens in the United States, that no one is listening to you, that no change happens, that nothing you want to see in the world will ever be realized, that's an intoxicating moment. “Damn, we are the media now”—that phrase is literally about empowerment, the sense that someone powerful is listening to you and making something happen. That's the complete opposite of the faceless institution where you leave a comment in a form and never hear back, where nothing ever changes, your taxes don't change, your cost of living doesn't change.That's what Mamdani tapped into as well: “we are actually going to change things, we are going to do things, the world is going to be different starting day one, and here's how it's going to happen.” Whatever you think of the man's politics, he nailed that sense of empowerment—“this is a movement, and you're part of it.” That's the same thing Trump tapped into online back in 2015: “we're going to change things, this is your movement, and I'm going to accomplish this for you.” Which can go off in some weird ways, when you look at exclusionary populism and authoritarianism, which you guys at ISMA focus so much on.I want to mention one more thing. In San Francisco, we recalled the school board: a very local, niche race that ended up becoming a story of national attention, for the same reason—people saying, “we've got to change something, what can we do?” The groups that grew out of that were advancing a very liberal policy—this was not the far-left, not the far-right doing it: “we'd like eighth-grade algebra back, we'd like schools reopened.” This is late 2021. “It would be nice for my kid not to have three years of no school.”It was an unapologetically liberal politics that was powering that, and it was unapologetic in how it framed itself, how it spoke, how it used social media. And I thought, “Okay, now maybe liberals will see”—again, not Democrats, but liberals, people who believe in the core liberal values—“people will start to see that there's real power in direct, unapologetic appeals.” And it is my sincere hope that we start to see that in a movement that rises to push back against the excesses of MAHA and things like that.[In the new edition of my book], the new epilogue is really about how these dynamics play out once a group is actually in power—because a lot of people think of social media as a tool of insurgency, and once you're in power, that's supposedly the end of it. What's been interesting watching Trump and DOGE is that they've kept that cycle going: people still believe they're having an impact, shaping policy.We saw a version of this with Obama, who was a very digital candidate—he rose to power on a lot of popular digital support, did interviews with content creators, that kind of thing. There were creators in the White House—my friend Destin Sandlin, who runs Smarter Every Day, did an interview with Obama. There was a sense that the administration was beginning to engage with new media, but there was still a divide: the new media was media, engaging with the president on certain terms, at certain times, in certain venues. What you're seeing from this administration is they're literally the press corps, seated front and center. Some of them are even working as special government employees, which is wild—and there are some real ethical issues there. But there's still a sense that the online movement, that source of validation that propelled someone to a win, is actively in there, working with them on governance and policy.Is that a mirage, to some extent? Yes—there's a veneer of them wanting to do something anyway and using online narratives to justify it. And I'd argue that once an influencer becomes a special government employee, they're no longer independent—they're speaking as an agent of the government at that point. But setting that aside, you really do see the way those boundaries are shifting, and that sense of personal participation is what keeps this particular populist movement feeling valuable to its participants.Belvedere: I remember when Madison Cawthorn infamously hired only comms people rather than policy people, and a lot of people in conservative-adjacent spaces saw that as the start of a new era. The model is no longer Paul Ryan-ing your way through, nor is it about governing—Cawthorn was actively, explicitly building a kind of image-only candidacy, seeing how far that element alone could carry him. It didn't carry him very far; a few things tripped him up, like, hilariously, a visit to Hitler's home. But he was building toward being a comms-only operation as the only thing that matters now. When Trump did the whole Alligator Alcatraz stunt, that's the same understanding at work—it's an ongoing comms exercise, you have to keep the performative aspect going, because the campaign never really stops.We're out of time. Thank you so much, Renée.Thanks for checking out 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

Katie Taylor makes her final walk to the ring at Croke Park as she takes on unbeaten French challenger Flora Pili — with 80,000 expected and Westlife on the bill.Matthew Brennan is your guide to what's actually happening on fight day, from the 4pm opener right through to the main event. We break down a stacked undercard featuring Paul Ryan vs Paddy Gallagher, heavyweight prospect Adam Olaniyan, Finglas favourite Bobby Flood, and the night's big clashes including Emmet Brennan vs Taylor Bevan, Paddy Donovan vs Tyrone McKenna, and Thomas Carty vs Dave Allen.Plus, Adam Smith on the emotion of a once-in-a-lifetime Irish sporting occasion.SUBSCRIBE at OffTheBall.com/join

Ten years ago, then-Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady released the "Better Way" Tax Plan — the blueprint that would eventually become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In this special anniversary episode of The Deduction, hosts Erica York and Kyle Hulehan sit down with the plan's original architects to talk through how it came together, the bold bets they made (and the ones that didn't pan out, like the border adjustment tax), what a decade of hindsight reveals about its economic impact, and where tax reform goes from here.GUESTSPaul Ryan — Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; former Chairman, House Ways and Means CommitteeKevin Brady — Former Chairman, House Ways and Means CommitteeHOSTSErica York & Kyle Hulehan, Tax FoundationTIMESTAMPS0:00 – Cold Open: The Walgreens Story0:35 – Welcome to The Deduction1:19 – How the Better Way Tax Plan Began3:12 – Becoming Speaker and Ways & Means Chair4:57 – Why They Decided to "Go Bold"6:18 – The Vision: Ending Corporate Inversions7:33 – Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax & Border Adjustment9:58 – Designing a Tax Code Built for Growth10:53 – The 2019 Results: Wages, Poverty & Inequality14:01 – Why Border Adjustment Didn't Survive Politically19:37 – The Corporate Rate as the "Crown Jewel"22:14 – Stopping the Inversion Wave23:36 – What's the Next Motivator for Tax Reform?25:22 – Kevin's Wishlist: What They'd Still Change27:21 – House vs. Senate: What Got Left on the Table28:57 – Revenue Neutrality and the National Debt30:38 – Winning Over Industry: Building Trust32:10 – The Case for Entitlement Reform34:07 – Fixing a Broken Budget Process38:23 – Final Thoughts: Why Think Tanks Matter39:51 – The Tax Foundation's Role Then and NowSubscribe to The Deduction for more conversations on tax policy and economics.Learn more at TaxFoundation.orgSupport the showFollow us!https://twitter.com/TaxFoundationhttps://twitter.com/deductionpodSupport the show

Ten years ago, then-Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady released the "Better Way" Tax Plan — the blueprint that would eventually become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In this special anniversary episode of The Deduction, hosts Erica York and Kyle Hulehan sit down with the plan's original architects to talk through how it came together, the bold bets they made (and the ones that didn't pan out, like the border adjustment tax), what a decade of hindsight reveals about its economic impact, and where tax reform goes from here.GUESTSPaul Ryan — Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; former Chairman, House Ways and Means CommitteeKevin Brady — Former Chairman, House Ways and Means CommitteeHOSTSErica York & Kyle Hulehan, Tax FoundationTIMESTAMPS0:00 – Cold Open: The Walgreens Story0:35 – Welcome to The Deduction1:19 – How the Better Way Tax Plan Began3:12 – Becoming Speaker and Ways & Means Chair4:57 – Why They Decided to "Go Bold"6:18 – The Vision: Ending Corporate Inversions7:33 – Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax & Border Adjustment9:58 – Designing a Tax Code Built for Growth10:53 – The 2019 Results: Wages, Poverty & Inequality14:01 – Why Border Adjustment Didn't Survive Politically19:37 – The Corporate Rate as the "Crown Jewel"22:14 – Stopping the Inversion Wave23:36 – What's the Next Motivator for Tax Reform?25:22 – Kevin's Wishlist: What They'd Still Change27:21 – House vs. Senate: What Got Left on the Table28:57 – Revenue Neutrality and the National Debt30:38 – Winning Over Industry: Building Trust32:10 – The Case for Entitlement Reform34:07 – Fixing a Broken Budget Process38:23 – Final Thoughts: Why Think Tanks Matter39:51 – The Tax Foundation's Role Then and NowSubscribe to The Deduction for more conversations on tax policy and economics.Learn more at TaxFoundation.orgSupport the showFollow us!https://twitter.com/TaxFoundationhttps://twitter.com/deductionpodSupport the show

Join Larry Kudlow as he speaks with Paul Ryan about the importance of working in America, what the modern welfare system does and more on WABC.

Paul Ryan's Big Idea to Revamp American Welfare The former Speaker of the House joins Potomac Watch to discuss new state experiments to help more Americans move off of food stamps and Medicaid. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the U.S. crossing the $40 trillion debt threshold and the prospect of “growing our way out of it.” The Agenda: —Kevin explains how we got here —Entitlement spending —What would Paul Ryan do —The DOGE effort —Growing our way out of debt —NWYT: Adulthood disappointments Show notes: —Kevin's Wanderland —Kevin on the tragedy of U.S. debt —Steve Hayes on DOGE —"DOGE—the UNIPARTY killed it because it was working too well." The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you'd like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the archives, in 2014 Michael spoke with Congressman Paul Ryan to discuss "The Way Forward: Renewing The American Idea." Hear Ryan's reflections on conservatism, poverty, entitlement reform, and the future of the Republican Party. Ryan also looks back on the 2012 presidential campaign, the influence of Jack Kemp, and, Michael asked him back then about his plans for the 2016 election, before Donald Trump was on anyone's radar. Original air date 20 August 2014. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This episode is sponsored by BONESUPPORT™, maker of CERAMENT® G with Gentamicin – the one and only FDA authorized, antibiotic-eluting bone void filler. For more information, visit BONESUPPORT.com.   Chris Kreulen, MD, from University of California – Davis Health is joined by Chris Murawski, MD and Paul Ryan, MD, FAAOS to discuss their ever-evolving approach to bone infection. Over the course of thirty minutes, they discuss their move towards single-stage surgeries, advancements in total ankle revisions, and their increased ability to preserve limbs. They also include their tips, tricks, and pearls for getting the most out of new technologies like CERAMENT G. Interested in staying in touch? Follow BONESUPPORT on LinkedIn.    References discussed in this episode: Winkler, E et al. Foot Osteomyelitis Location and Rates of Primary or Secondary Major Amputations in Patients With Diabetes. Foot & Ankle International, 107110072210885. Hennessy C et al. MORTALITY, RE-AMPUTATION, AND POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION RATES FOLLOWING 28,000 BELOW-KNEE AMPUTATIONS IN DIABETIC PATIENTS IN ENGLAND: A NATIONAL POPULATION STUDY, 2002–2022. Orthop Procs. 2025 Feb 10;107-B(SUPP_1):18-18.  Certain L. Embracing Change: Oral Antibiotics for Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis. Foot & Ankle International. 2025;46(10):1090-1091.  Khakzad T et al. Cementless one-stage hip revision arthroplasty with an injectable antibiotic bone graft substitute : a pilot study. Bone Jt Open. 2025 Sep 25;6(9):1146-1155 For additional educational resources, visit AOFAS.org

Marianna Sotomayor joins guest host Leigh Ann Caldwell to dig into the week's big primaries, with a focus on how Abdul El-Sayed's surprising win over Haley Stevens could help reunite a fractured Democratic Party. They break down El-Sayed's appeal to younger voters and the biggest challenges awaiting him in November's general. They also examine Speaker Mike Johnson's hands-off approach to members with troubled histories like Reps. Max Miller and Cory Mills—and how Johnson's handling of scandals differs from that of past speakers like Paul Ryan and John Boehner.

The undercard for Katie Taylor's Croke Park fight on September 5th has been officially confirmed - not that she needed one, judging by how ticket sales are said to have gone.In Part 1 of our special from Vicar Street, we hear from Jamie Conlan on how some of these fights came together. He manages Tyrone McKenna, who is in tough against heavy-handed world title challenger Paddy Donovan.We hear from both men on their all-Irish battle and why, for one, it's the biggest fight of his life - while for the other, it's a chance to have fun, lead his people to hallowed turf, and give them a day in the sun.Also on the card, Irish Olympic boxer Emmet Brennan - who grew up in the shadow of Croker - faces a monster test against UK KO artist Taylor Bevan. Emmet talks about what it's been like spending 18 months out of the ring, his delight at landing a slot like this, and why he credits quitting alcohol with so much of his recent success. He also explains why he believes he can exploit weaknesses in Bevan and earn himself a bumper promotional deal.There's an all-Irish clash at middleweight too, as Paul Ryan takes on Paddy Gallagher - both of whom have been guests on the show to tell their stories in 2026. We check in with both as they come to terms with winning the golden ticket so many of their fellow boxers coveted: a backstage pass on Jones' Road and the chance to say, “I fought there.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, the boys Dan Fraser, Jermayn Parker, and Stephen East come together to review and discuss Phantom comics, stories, and related news from around the world. Christian Moller joins the team with his reviews of the latest comics from Germany. Just a friendly reminder that we are a phan website and everyone has full-time jobs, children, and lives outside this website. Occasionally, life does get in the way, which included in this podcast a baby having to join us. We successfully managed to bore her to sleep, and hopefully you will last longer and enjoy the listen or watch.We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. If you agree and/or disagree with us, you can either email us; leave your comments at our YouTube channel, and/or leave them at our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. If you're one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.Note: "Simulacra" was included in Frew issues 2022 and 2024. For the sake of discussing these parts together, we have included our review of these parts together instead of reviewing them in the individual comics. Comics Kingdom storiesDaily 270: "The Grudge" by Tony DePaul and Mike Manley: 3 MinutesSunday 198: “1536”: by Tony DePaul and Jeff Weigel: 14 MinutesFrew (Australia) comicsFrew #2022: 21 Minutes & 30 Seconds"Floating Borders" by Claes Reimerthi and Kari LeppänenFrew #2023: 30 Minutes"The Dictator" by Donne Avenell and Knut WestadFrew #2024: 38 Minutes"The Year the Phantom Died" by Germano Ferri"Simulacra pt 3 & 4" by Julie Ditrich and Wendell Cavalcanti: 48 MinutesGiant Size #37: 56 Minutes & 30 Seconds"A Matter of Inheritance" by unknown Fratelli Spada creator, Giorgio Cambiotti, and Massimo Belardinelli"Operation Cave" by unknown Fratelli Spada creator, Giorgio Cambiotti, and Massimo BelardinelliGerman & Austrian comicsZauberstern #24: 1 Hour & 9 Minutes"Tod in der Familie, Teil 1" ("The Death of Diana Palmer Walker" & "The Phantom at Sea" & "Terror Cells of New York" part 1) by Tony DePaul and Paul Ryan"Der Fluch des Phantoms, Teil 1" ("Curse of the Phantom Part 1") by Ben Raab and Nick DeringtonPhantom 1 (Comics & Mehr): 1 Hour & 13 Minutes"Der Weisse Elefant" ("The White Elephant") by Claes Reimerthi and Heiner Bade"Der Geiste Pirat" ("The Ghost Pirate") by Donne Avenell and Heiner BadeThe Phantom news from around the worldFantomen Jungle Burst & Tropical Ice X-Zero energy drink flavours for sale (link): 1 Hour & 18 MinutesSaturday Morning Cards announces SDCC 2026 range (link): 1 Hour, 21 Minutes & 30 SecondsPublisher newsPhantom 2040: A New Shadow will feature a second season: 1 Hour, 24 Minutes & 30 SecondsFrew 90th anniversary book (link): 1 Hour & 27 MinutesMad Cave Studiosannouncesa third one-shot comic (link): 1 Hour, 30 Minutes & 30 SecondsAustralian Variant comic for Mad Cave Studios by Alex Trip (link): 1 Hour & 32 MinutesMythos Editoria poster book (link): 1 Hour & 33 MinutesResults for 2025 best Fantomen story (link): 1 Hour & 36 MinutesShakti Comics release a BIG poster by artist Avishek Biswas (link): 1 Hour & 39 MinutesEVoke announces volumes 6 and 7 into 2027: 1 Hour & 41 MinutesSy Barry updates: 1 Hour & 42 MinutesLuca Erbetta listing original cover art for sale (link): 1 Hour & 44 MinutesConventions, events & phan gatheringJanne Lundstrom, Kim W. Andersson and Jimmy Wallin attended Stockholm International Comic Festival (SIS): 1 Hour, 45 Minutes & 30 SecondsSammy J going to the UK with Hero Complex (link): 1 Hour, 46 Minutes & 30 SecondsLargest phan catch-up in Sydney, Australia: 1 Hour & 49 MinutesWe can only report and discuss what we have seen or been told by the phans. We may miss something, especially conventions in your corner of the world with Phantom-related guests, so please let us know of them so we can promote them on our website, socials, and podcasts. We are also looking for reviewers who can review comics from India, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, and some other locations that publish the Phantom. If you would like to join the team with regular reviews, please contact us.You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel. Support the show

Dublin actor, comedian and former international boxer Terry O'Neill joins us to talk about the upcoming show at the National Stadium, ‘In The Ring With Dan Donnelly & Dublin's Boxing Legends', taking place on May 9. Terry, who will perform a portion of his hit one-man show Rope-A-Dope on the night, will be joined by heavyweights of Irish culture including Brian Kerr, Damien Dempsey and Elite champion Kellie McLoughlin.Though he had just three organized bouts, Dan Donnelly's name remains legendary more than 200 years after his death. Terry explains how Donnelly's 19th-century clashes with Englishmen Tom Hall and George Cooper on the Curragh were the "Louis-Schmeling" of their day - symbols of the oppressed rising against the oppressor. We dive into the life of this hard-drinking man of the people and the macabre saga of his stolen arm, which became a literal ‘Irish Shroud of Turin'.We also trace the lineage of Dublin boxing royalty, from Frankie Kerr to Kenneth Egan, and Steve Collins to Kellie Harrington. Plus, we run the rule over today's stars: from Pierce O'Leary, fresh off his clinical IBO world title win at the 3Arena, to the resurgent Jono Carroll, and the relentless Paul Ryan and Emmet Brennan.With Donnelly still remembered two centuries on, we ask: which of today's fighters will be talked about in 2226? If Katie Taylor finally gets her Croke Park swansong - a hot topic on today's pod - she might just be the one Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I sit down with special guest, Paul Ryan. Paul is a retired US Navy Reserve Captain and he currently is Board Chair for the West Michigan Veterans Coalition. Not only will Paul share about his time in the Navy but he's also going to give great insight into the West Michigan Veterans Coalition. 

This week on Men of Steel, Case and Jmike are joined by Jay McKiernan to explore the Legends of Dead Earth annual for Superman: The Man of Steel from 1996. Written by Kurt Busiek, this issue delivers a sweeping space opera full of big ideas, bold heroism, and some seriously strong artwork to match. Spoiler alert: we all love this one. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CertainPOVMedia Men of Steel Full Episode Originally aired: March 6, 2026 Edited by Sophia Ricciardi Scored by Gen Moonen Certain Point Of View is a podcast network brining you all sorts of nerdy goodness! From Star Wars role playing, to Disney day dreaming, to video game love, we've got the show for you! Learn more on our website: https://www.certainpov.com Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/wcHHer4 PODCAST SHOWS: ▶ Men Of Steel - https://www.certainpov.com/men-of-steel​ FOLLOW US: ▶ Twitter: @certainpovmedia @menofsteelpod ▶ Instagram: @certainpovmedia  Notes   Story Overview and Setting The Legends of Dead Earth Superman Annual delivers a tight, space opera story set far in the future, featuring a new Superman analog named Caleb on the water planet Hydros (04:34). Caleb is introduced as a fisherman whose community is attacked by the Empire, triggering his journey with freedom fighters and discovery of his potential powers from absorbing stellar radiation. The story takes place substantially further in the future than the Legion of Superheroes, with hints suggesting several thousand years ahead, involving a cyclical rebirth of Superman-like figures. The setting and plot borrow heavily from classic sci-fi tropes, especially Star Wars, with Empire-like antagonists and clone troopers, making it easy for readers to engage with familiar themes while exploring a fresh character. Character and Costume Design Caleb's design and costume stand out as a major positive, combining classic Superman elements with a unique space barbarian aesthetic (09:52). The costume features a red belt breaking up the silhouette, inspired by Chris Prowse's Legion era designs, which help avoid the "columnar" look typical of Superman's outfit. The only notable design critique was the oversized bracers and a 90s-style hairdo, which some felt clashed with the otherwise sharp look. Caleb's character design matches his personality and setting, with long hair and a rugged vibe fitting the spacefaring, water-world environment, enhancing his appeal as a heroic figure. Plot Developments and Key Conflicts The narrative efficiently covers Caleb's rise and battles against the Empire, culminating in his confrontation with Lex Luthor the 60th (35:00). Caleb's powers develop over time, including space-time warping and remote sensing abilities, which provide a fresh take on traditional Superman powers adapted for a sci-fi setting. The Empire's force, led by a long-lived Lex Luthor using cloned armies and Kryptonian technology, creates a formidable adversary, deepening the story's stakes and enhancing the space opera feel. The story ends on an open note, with Caleb and his love interest Lang expecting a child on a remote planet named Solitude, leaving the final battle unresolved and inviting reader imagination. Creative Team and Storytelling Quality The story benefits from the involvement of veteran creators Kurt Busiek, Paul Ryan, and Joe Rubenstein, resulting in a well-crafted and engaging narrative (13:32). Busiek's experience shines through with a concise yet dense script that balances action, character development, and world-building without unnecessary filler. The art consistently supports the story's energy, with Paul Ryan's layouts and finishes providing clear, dynamic visuals that highlight the vast space battles and intimate character moments. The use of water metaphors and first-person narration by Caleb adds depth and a unique voice, enhancing the immersive quality of the story. Strategic and Thematic Insights The annual explores themes of legacy, cyclical rebirth, and moral responsibility in a far-future setting, positioning Caleb as both a fighter and a moral center (45:16). Caleb's ethical decision to protect a newly discovered Krypton-like world instead of exploiting it for military gain underscores his role as a leader with a strong moral compass. The story embraces the idea of multiple Superman-origin planets, enriching the DC Universe's multiverse concept and allowing fresh storytelling avenues. The Empire's conquest and use of cloned soldiers and stolen technology reflect classic villain archetypes, reinforcing the narrative's deliberate homage to space opera traditions while keeping the tone accessible. Audience Reception and Legacy Potential Hosts expressed high regard for this annual, considering it one of the best in the Legends of Dead Earth line due to its clear storytelling, strong art, and compelling character (49:10). The story's straightforward approach and well-paced plot make it highly recommended and enjoyable even for readers less familiar with extended Superman lore. Despite its quality, Caleb's story appears to be a one-off with no known follow-ups, though the hosts expressed hope that the character and concept could be expanded in future multiverse or alternate universe tales. The annual's blend of familiar sci-fi elements with a fresh Superman iteration creates potential for inspiring new stories that merge classic superhero themes with space opera drama.

Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced the planned expansion of its manufacturing operations in Derry and County Donegal, creating several hundred new jobs over the next six months in support of strengthening the company's manufacturing capabilities in electrical switchgear. The facilities support customers worldwide, as demand for these power systems continues to accelerate alongside AI adoption. Paul Ryan, president of Vertiv in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), highlighted the strategic importance of the investment for both the company and the region, saying: "This expansion represents a major vote of confidence in the skilled workforce and business environment of the Northwest region. The expansion of the facilities and creation of these roles in Derry and County Donegal will increase our manufacturing capacity and enable us to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale and speed." The new positions are being created to meet immediate operational requirements driven by strong growth across Vertiv's global markets. Roles will support the company's expanding production of electrical switchgear ? critical components used in data centres, communication networks, and industrial applications worldwide. Opportunities will span manufacturing, engineering, quality assurance, and support functions across Vertiv's three manufacturing facilities in the region: Campsie in Derry, and Burnfoot and Letterkenny in County Donegal. The majority of the roles will be for electricians, panel wirers, mechanical fitters, and general operators, with both full- and part-time opportunities available. Vertiv offers competitive pay, and recently enhanced its already strong employee benefits package. The investment reinforces Vertiv's long-term commitment to the region and reflects confidence in the local talent pool, infrastructure, and strategic location for serving international markets. The hiring increase will add to the more than 2,000 current Vertiv employees across Ireland. More information on roles available can be found at Vertiv.com/careers. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

‘Ravishing' Paul Ryan tells us about, er, descending from a boxing Hall of Famer in Tipp's ‘Trojan Giant' Paddy Ryan, giving himself his own nickname and why Tyrone McKenna owes him a tattoo. The exciting Dublin middleweight moved into headliner category last year with an impressive victory over Limerick's Edward Donovan at the National Stadium. That triumph came on the back of a career low, when he fell to his second stoppage defeat at the hands of Canada's Derek Pomerleau at the WBC Grand Prix in Riyadh. But Ryan is nothing if not resilient. And he's had to be in recent weeks, with his father passing away suddenly on Christmas night. We talk to Paul about growing up in a tight-knit family, the refereeing call that ruined amateur boxing for him and why he's always wanted to be a champion pro in the mould of his cult hero, Paul McCloskey. He's now taken over his dad's gym business while his own ambitions in boxing remain sky-high – and that means big nights in Dublin and Las Vegas. We also talked about hating every minute of school, holidays off the beaten track and… Bill Gates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ulf Granberg was a giant in the Phantom community as both a writer and editor but perhaps even more as a historian and Phantom-lore builder who added structure to the loose lore established by Lee Falk. Sadly, he recently passed, and Dan Fraser and Jermayn Parker talked about his legacy and reminisced about our chat with him almost a decade ago.At the end of us talking and remembering a legend, we include some snippets from our 3-hour chat with him from XEpisodes 97A and 97B.Ulf Granberg (born 1945) was the editor responsible for the Swedish Phantom comic book, Fantomen, from 1972 to 2012, a duty that also included heading the Team Fantomen production of Phantom stories. He had also written almost 40 Phantom stories.Granberg became the 12th editor of Fantomen in 1973, succeeding Per-Anders Jonsson, and continued until 1987, being succeeded by Mats Jönsson. In 2003 he returned as editor, succeeding Petter Sjölund. He did, however, remain in charge of the production between his two periods as an editor, serving as editor-in-chief.He retired from his Phantom duties with Fantomen 9/2012, after a total of 1001 issues. He was succeeded by Mikael Sol as editor for Fantomen and by Claes Reimerthi and Hans Lindahl as editors for the Team Fantomen production of stories.What this bio doesn't include is the behind-the-scenes stuff that many of us take for granted.He was important in the hiring of several key creators from around the world, including Cesar Spadari, Norman Worker, Jamie Vallve, Carlos Crus, Hans Lindahl, Claes Reimerthi, Dai Darell, Donne Avvenell, Felmang, Ferri, Joan Boix, Tony DePaul, Paul Ryan, Graham Nolan, David Bishop, Georges Bess, Kari Leppanen, Lennart Moberg, Sal Velluto, Bob McLeod, and Dick Giorando.He added to the lore of the Phantom and filling in the gaps.He created the first timeline of all 21 Phantoms. Even giving Lee Falk the list.He created the first Phantom map of Bangalla and the countries around Bangalla. The Bangalla map was very much liked by Lee Falk who asked for a copy.He added to the first Phantom adventures on how he got the skull ring and how he became known as the man who cannot die.He oversaw the origin of Devil.He oversaw the creation of Dogai Singh, perhaps the most dreaded Singh pirate, and of course Sandal Singh.He created the ‘Brain Trust' or Team Fantomen which was a group of creators who would meet once a year and map out the theme of stories for the next year or period of time.He oversaw the Lubanga storyline, which was controversial but also impactful, which saw Luaga lose the presidency of Bangalla. In 1999 after Lee Falk's death, the newspaper strip almost was cancelled. He pushed the continuous nature of it and suggested Paul Ryan and Tony DePaul/Claes Reimerthi to take over.You can email us at chroniclechamber@gmail.com or chat with us via our social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram. We love comments and feedback from the Phantom phans from around the world. Make sure you stay with us, and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast on our YouTube Channel.Support the show

Opinion Line Producer Paul Byrne talks to Chef Paul Ryan of Cork International Airport to get some tips on starters for Christmas dinner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

JB Promotion cards are becoming a regular event on the Irish sports scene - and each event is bringing new levels of entertainment. The most recent fight night ‘A New Dawn' brought us back to the National Sradium - the home of Irish boxing and had a little bit of everything.On episode 245 Ian and AL look back over the show & pick the standouts. You will also hear from heavyweight debutant Daniel Fakoyede who scored a sensational first round knockout on his debut. Gary Cully chats about a difficult year out of the ring and tells us whats next for him. And star of the show at the Stadium - Paul Ryan who had a huge win over Edward Donovan joins us to chat about a hectic 12 months, his love for WWE wrestling and more.

A fragile but momentous ceasefire has taken effect in Israel's two year war against Hamas, following the terror group's brutal attack on October 7th. With hostages and prisoners exchanged and hostilities paused, the hard work of forging a lasting peace begins. Dan Senor, host of the Israeli news and politics podcast, “Call Me Back,” joins Preet to discuss the diplomatic negotiations and military strategy that got us here and what's next for the region. He previously served in the Defense Department based in the Middle East in the early 2000s, and later as a senior advisor to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, and Paul Ryan's vice presidential campaign.  Then, Preet answers listener questions about the latest developments in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the unusual political message showing up at airport security checkpoints. In the bonus for Insiders, Senor addresses the prospect of military tribunals for Hamas leaders and systematic deradicalization efforts.  Join the CAFE Insider community to stay informed without hysteria, fear-mongering, or rage-baiting. Head to cafe.com/insider to sign up. Thank you for supporting our work. Show notes and a transcript of the episode are available on our website.  You can now watch this episode! Head to CAFE's Youtube channel and subscribe. Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on BlueSky, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 833-997-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What. A. Night. JB Boxing Promotions promised the most competitive all-Irish card in years and it certainly delivered in Dublin's National Stadium. The Rocky Road was there for it all. We hear from a buzzing Podge Collins who scored the best KO of the night when he took out Michael Osborne to move his record to 4-0. Peter Carr beat Sean Murray in an all-Leinster cracker and the stage was set for the Irish title fight between Daniel O'Sullivan and Dean Walsh. We hear from both men after perhaps the greatest Irish title fight at the venue. Christina Desmond was one of four debutants to emerge victorious - the others being Davey Joyce, Sarah Murphy and Danny Fakoyede. We hear from the Cork boxer who was roared on by double Olympic champ Kellie Harrington. Next up we're in Kevin Cronin's dressing room after he finally got over the line at domestic level, defeating Cathal Crowley in a gripping Kerry-Cork clash. Cronin's His manager Mick Conlan joined us too, to celebrate his man's win but also question the merits of the decision against Walsh, who he also manages. Spike O'Sullivan returned after 19 months out to outpoint Mateusz Pawlowski - and we caught up with the Cork veteran. We then sat down to chew over the night itself with promoter Jay Byrne and Paul Ryan, who beat Edward Dononvan in the headliner. Both boxers will be given another opportunity to impress after putting themselves on the line - and you can hear from them at the end of the show. A busy show on a busy night - it's the Rocky Road to Dublin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's no doubt 2025 has been an action packed one for Irish boxing - the next big show is Jay Byrne Promotios ‘A New Dawn' on Friday 10th October at the National Stadium. Top of the bill is a battle of 2 pals Paul Ryan v Edward Donovan which promises to be a tremendous match. There's a huge Cork v Kerry derby when Cathal Crowley takes on Kevin Cronin. Daniel O'Sullivan will face Dean Walsh, Shaun Murray v Peter Carr. Podge Collins, Glen Lynch, Kelsey Leonard & John Carlenter plus many more will feature a stacked card wirh 17 fights.Joining Ian & AL on this episode is Glen Byrne, Cathal Crowley & Tina Desmond.JB Promotions Insta: https://tinyurl.com/5n7ccbz2Triller TV: https://tinyurl.com/4ekjmt45Keep up to date with us on social media?

Send us a textOn this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Paul Ryan, founder of Credit Score Experts and author of Repair or Raise & Retain a Great Credit Score. We explored how to take control of your credit profile—and why it matters.Key Takeaways:Consider a credit freeze to protect yourself from identity theft and unauthorized access.Stay proactive—review and update your credit report regularly to keep your score accurate.Your credit score impacts more than loans—it can affect everything from insurance rates to employment opportunities.Each credit bureau calculates your score differently, so it's essential to monitor all three.Check for errors—they're more common than you think and can cost you in the long run.Whether you're educating others or refining your own credit strategy, this episode offers actionable insights for building a stronger financial foundation.Connect with Paul Ryan:Website (here)LinkedIn (here)Book:Repair or Raise & Retain A Great Credit Score and achieve your financial goals (free pdf here) (Amazon Kindle)Bio: Paul Ryan has an extensive background in mentoring, education, community service, and consulting. Because of his professional experience in finance, and his personal experience being a victim of identity theft, Paul was compelled to write a book about credit, to both share his own story and to educate others to achieve or maintain a healthy credit profile.Paul holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management, 2 certifications in the methodology of process improvement, and a certification in project management. He is a consultant, corporate trainer, and two-time author. His volunteer background includes leading fundraising for an affiliate of an internationally known non-profit, and is currently on the board of directors and the finance committee of an education and advocacy group supporting a Florida-based wildlife refuge. Besides being a volunteer, Paul is a proud dad, car enthusiast, athlete, foodie, DIYer, and originally from the Washington, D.C., area, residing in south Florida.Support the showThe Get Ready Money Podcast and its guests do not provide investment advice. All content is for educational purposes. Guest opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Get Ready Money Podcast and Tony Steuer.

Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss Paul Ryan's fresh alarms about the national debt—and what else the former House Speaker told his private audience at a recent Wyoming retreat, including his take on Trump's tariff policies. Then Bill digs into the nervous chatter brewing on Wall Street about their potential next-mayor, Zohran Mamdani. 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

New York Sun columnist and History Author Show host Dean Karayanis subs for Derek and covers the big stories in the news, making the case for investigating the Russia hoax, the crocodile tears over redistricting, and Paul Ryan emerging to criticize President Trump's tariffs.

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El pasado jueves el Congreso de Estados Unidos aprobó la denominada One Big Beautiful Bill, una ley de conciliación presupuestaria que aspira a ser el gran logro legislativo del segundo mandato de Donald Trump. No ha sido fácil sacarla adelante. Tras unas negociaciones muy accidentadas, el Senado la aprobó el martes gracias al voto de desempate del vicepresidente JD Vance. La Cámara de Representantes, que ya había aprobado una primera versión en mayo, ratificó la del Senado por 218 a favor frente a 214 en contra. Todos los demócratas votaron en contra, pero están en minoría. La premura por aprobarla la semana pasada se debía a que Trump quería celebrar el día nacional con esta ley. Los republicanos están encantados con la nueva ley, más conocida ya por el acrónimo BBB o simplemente triple B, pero carece de una base ideológica clara. En 2017 Trump delegó su agenda legislativa en Paul Ryan y Mitch McConnell, quienes impulsaron una ley de recorte de impuestos muy ambiciosa y cuyo objetivo era aligerar la carga fiscal para empresas y particulares. Hoy Ryan está retirado de la política y McConnell, aunque todavía senador, tiene ya poca influencia. La triple B extiende los recortes fiscales de la ley de 2017, pero financiándolos con recortes en el programa Medicaid y en el de cupones de alimentos, lo que afectará a unos 12 millones de personas, que perderán su seguro médico, y a más de un millón que se quedarán sin subsidio alimentario. Además, introduce nuevas trabas burocráticas, como revisiones semestrales de elegibilidad para Medicaid. Incluye algunas promesas de campaña de Trump como eximir de impuestos a las propinas, horas extras y los préstamos para la compra de automóviles. También permitirá la creación de las llamadas cuentas Trump para los recién nacidos. Medidas todas que expirarán antes de que termine la década porque Trump no puede pasar de 2029 como presidente. También elimina los subsidios verdes de la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación de Biden y promueve la extracción de combustibles fósiles en terrenos federales, aunque se desconoce cuántos inversores acudirán ya que el precio del barril de petróleo no es muy elevado. La Triple B no transforma la economía como lo hicieron el New Deal de Roosevelt o la desregulación de Reagan. Su enfoque apuesta por la rebaja fiscal pero no la financia disminuyendo el gasto. Se estima que la deuda se incremente, pero en la Casa Blanca no lo ven así. Los asesores del presidente esperan un crecimiento sostenido de la economía gracias a esta ley y una reducción consistente del déficit, una proyección un tanto optimista que depende de una desregulación masiva y un recorte de gasto muy acusado. No harán ninguna de las dos cosas. El aumento en el gasto en defensa y en control migratorio se comerán y superarán los ahorros de otras partidas. Críticos como Steve Bannon han señalado que los recortes a Medicaid afectan a la base electoral de Trump. Incluso Elon Musk, que se posicionó en contra de esta ley hace ya dos meses, ha propuesto crear el Partido de América para desafiar a los republicanos. Aunque Trump habla de ella como una legislación de carácter histórico, lo cierto es que la Triple B, más que una reforma estructural, es una continuación de la política económica del partido Republicano. En La ContraRéplica: 0:00 Introducción 3:47 La triple B de Trump 32:20 Renfe y los usuarios 38:39 Gasto en defensa 42:24 Gentrificación · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #trump #BBB Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Tara and Lee dive into the coming collapse of Social Security, now projected to go bust by 2034. With biting sarcasm and sobering facts, they expose how Congress raided the so-called “lockbox,” replacing real money with IOUs and creating a $6 trillion shortfall. The discussion unpacks how privatization—once proposed by George W. Bush and Paul Ryan—could have yielded five times the returns for Americans if enacted. Tara connects the crisis to broader systemic failures, including illegal immigration's impact on unpaid taxes and the misuse of Medicaid. Plus, a breakdown of Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill,” featuring 100% factory expensing and the potential for a blue-collar boom. A must-hear warning and call to action on America's financial future.

Send us a textCongressman Mike Quigley is in his 9th term representing Chicago's North Side and Lakefront as a Democrat in the House. He made waves last year after the first presidential debate as one of the first elected Democrats to publicly urge President Biden to step aside as the party's nominee. In this conversation, we talk through what led him to speak out, the reaction from the White House and his colleagues, and why he believes it's an important conversation for the party to have now. We also discuss his path in politics as a staffer, as a reformer on the Cook County Board, winning a 20+ candidate '09 special election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the House, favorite moments during his tenure, what he's learned visiting Ukraine, and what Democrats need to do to better connect with voters.IN THIS EPISODEGrowing up in a conservative, blue-collar household in in the Midwest...The teacher who made an impression on his politics and the advice he continues to quote today...Learning both theory at the University of Chicago and practical politics while cutting his teeth in Cook County politics...Why he lost his first race for office and how he turned a loss into a win a few years later...A decade on the Cook County Board as a reformer taking on the Chicago machine...How he won a 20+ person special election in 2009 to replace Rep. Rahm Emanuel in the House...Initial impressions and surprises in his early days in Congress...Two members who served as his mentors...Some of the work he's done in the House he's most proud of...Why Ukraine matters and what he's learned by traveling to the country several times...Why he was one of the first Democratic elected officials to call on President Biden to step aside as the '24 Democratic nominee in the aftermath of the debate...Reactions from colleagues and constituents after going public with his concerns about President Biden...Do Democrats have a larger problem of too many older Democrats refusing to retire and make way for younger leaders?Thoughts on how Democrats can better connect with voters...His favorite Chicago Blackhawks' memory and excitement for the new Chicago Pope...AND John Anzalone, big cats, Rod Blagojevich, burning your mortgage, cannon fodder, Frank Capra, Carol Stream, Forrest Claypool, Walter Cronkite, Paul Ehrlich, Sara Feigenholtz, John Fritchey, William Fulbright, Mary Gatey, Gabby Giffords, Newt Gingrich, Bernie Hansen, Kasie Hunt, Mark Kirk, John Lewis, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Vladimir Putin, Robert Redford, Branch Rickey, FDR, Paul Ryan, Helen Schiller, Glenn Schneider, Michael Sheahan, Adam Smith, spring chickens, John Stroger, Larry Suffredin, Studs Terkel, Harry Truman, The Weiner Circle, Gary Williams, working for the pension...& more!

Every month, we take an hour or two to discuss all things Phantom from around the world. This month for May 2025, we review comics from Australia and Germany, catch up on the newspaper adventures printed on Comics Kingdom and discuss every bit of Phantom related news from around the world with comic conventions, the latest comics soon to be released, and much more. If your one of the phans who can only listen to some parts of the podcast, below is a timeline of what we discussed.Daily / Sunday Adventures ProgressDaily #268 - "The Spark" by Tony DePaul and Mike Manley: 2 MinsSunday #197 - "The Ungraved" by Tony DePaul and Jeff Weigel: 12 MinsAustralia (Frew Comics)Frew #1997: 18 Mins"Firepower" by Dai Darell, Magnus Carling, Rafael Ruiz, and Coral Martínez"Waiting for Dad" by Shane FoleyFrew #1998: 33 Mins“Captured from Above” by Bernd Frenz and Janusz Ordon“Purple Haze” by Paul MasonGerman ComicsZauberstern #18: 51 Minutes"Goldbeard, der Pirat" ("Goldbeard the Pirate") by Joe Gill and Don Sherwood"Der Fluch des Kallai" ("The Curse of Kallai") by Dick Wood, Pat Boyette, and Vince Alascia"Kampf der Masken - Teil 2" ("The Den of Tigers") by Tony DePaul and Paul Ryan"Kampf der Masken - Teil 3" ("Mexico's Phantom") by Tony DePaul and Paul RyanPhantom News from around the worldThe Phantom census (link): 56 MinsNew USA newspapers publishing the Phantom (link): 58 MinsFrew Legacy Series Volume 1 and 2 (link): 1 HourFrew number 2000 details (link): 1 Hour, 4 MinsOther items available for sale at Frew booth: 1 Hour and 17 Min Fantomen Prince Rex Softcover album Volume 2 available for pre order (link): 1 Hour and 21 MinsDenmark e-Voke #3 and #4 (link & link): 1 Hour and 22 MinsSpanish Dolmen #18 out now:  1 Hour and 22 MinsPeter David passing (link): 1 Hour and 23 MinsHermes Press distribution update (link): 1 Hour and 25 MinsSydney Supanova guests & updates (link): 1 Hour and 28 MinsWe can only report and discuss what we have seen or been told, We may miss something especially conventions in your corner of the world with Phantom related guests. Please let us know of them so we can promote them. We are also looking for reviewers who can review comics from India, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy and some other locations that publish the Phantom. If you would like to join the team with regular reviews, please contact us.Make sure you stay with us and do not forget to subscribe and leave a review on our podcast. Support the show

Megan McArdle joins Jamie Weinstein to react to the first few months of Donald Trump's presidency and to explain why America needs to win the AI race. The Agenda:—Liberation Day: “It was shambolic”—Trump's shadow Cabinet—What DOGE got right (and wrong)—Elon Musk: A “managerial mad genius?”—Paul Ryan vindicated again—How to adapt to an AI world—Calm before the AI storm The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and regular livestreams—⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Ryan, 54th Speaker of the House, Trustee of the Ronald Reagan Institute, and Partner at Solamere Capital, joined The Guy Benson Show today to break down Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, explaining why it echoes the 2017 tax cuts he helped pass and why Democrats were wrong about those cuts then, just as they're wrong now. Ryan also praised Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership and made the case for passing the bill swiftly to avoid devastating tax hikes on American families across the board, and you can listen to the full interview below! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One day Trump sounds like Bernie promising the government will provide for everything. Then the next, he's like Paul Ryan the belt-tightener, prepping for austerity. And Code Pink was the order of the day when Mr. Tough Guy was in Saudi Arabia—attacking the foreign policy of the United States in the land of the 9/11 hijackers. Plus, Trump's SCOTUS appointees show some spine, Marco is truly pathetic, the big, insane reconciliation bill would gut Medicaid and hurt MAGA voters even if Trump denies it, and the DOJ investigates the hiring practices of Chicago's mayor. David French joins join Tim Miller. show notes David's podcast, "Advisory Opinions" Palestinians marching against Hamas in Gaza on Monday Go to https://surfshark.com/thebulwark or use code THEBULWARK at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN!

I can think of no more romantic way for you to spend a quiet moment alone with your partner on this Valentine's Day than drawing a warm bath, throwing in some scented oils, and reading aloud the latest Politics, Politics, Politics post. "Great point, Justin," you can say to each other as you make longing eye contact and renew your commitment to one another. But it is in that spirit of passion that I tell you: somebody's gonna get f***ed — either the House or the Senate. This is a Republican problem, and we are in strange days. Normally, the People's House, which has a far higher headcount, operates with majorities of 10, 15, 20, maybe even 30 seats, at least in a bygone, un-gerrymandered era. In those situations, you could craft policy where some members of your own coalition wouldn't have to vote for it. The Republicans don't have that luxury.Right now, the House majority is two. Two people. And reinforcements aren't coming until April with the Florida special elections. We have no idea when the New York special election to replace Elise Stefanik will happen. The House wants to pass one big, beautiful bill with all of Donald Trump's agenda in it. The Senate doesn't want that. They would rather pass two bills. Over the last few days, as Lindsey Graham moved a budget bill out of the Senate, the message has been clear: if the House can't act, the Senate will. Meanwhile, the House, constantly scrapping for power because of its easily divided nature, is saying, "No, we're sending you one bill. You figure it out." And here's the inside sauce on it: the reason the House wants one bill, many House Republicans don't like massive bills crammed with everything at once. They prefer voting on things individually. But Republicans can't afford to do that right now. They need members to vote against what they've pledged to vote for, and the only way they believe they can achieve that is by bundling multiple things together including some things that fussy members can't not vote for.For example? Budget hawks who won't raise the debt by one penny… are you not going to vote for border funding? Same for Border Warriors who want every illegal migrant out tomorrow along with their whole family… are you going to be an all-or-nothing puritan and not green light the tax cuts?The Senate sending two bills to the House is a problem for Republicans. The first bill, likely the border package, would pass easily. But when the second bill—probably tax cuts—comes around, budget hawks will balk. And if the House, Senate, and White House are all in Republican hands but fail to pass Trump's legislative agenda, that would be a disaster. The Senate's noise has some in the White House thinking the House is a lost cause. Yesterday, the House finally released a budget, and sources inside the chamber are unhappy. “The numbers are bad, campaign promises are broken, and member priorities are ignored,” As one source put it. "We need a speaker with big balls. In fact, I'd take (Elon's) Big Balls over Mike Johnson's any day."Which brings us to Speaker Johnson, the Hudsucker Proxy speaker. If you've never seen that movie, Tim Robbins plays a mailroom worker who gets unexpectedly elevated to CEO by a scheming board looking for a patsy. The movie ends with Robbins proving himself to be an exceptional CEO. Johnson would love for that to be his story. But the speakership in this situation is an impossible job. He can only afford to lose two votes, and one of them is already Thomas Massie. He got this job because, after Kevin McCarthy was ousted, every other candidate had at least four enemies. Johnson? He was just well-liked enough to slip through. Now, he's at the center of the storm.The House budget committee has angered members, and things are bleak. This doesn't mean the end, but it does mean they might have to split into two bills. If that happens, tax cuts might take a long time—or not happen at all. That's a problem because tax cuts are a kitchen table issue. If Trump's cuts aren't in place by next year, it would be a massive failure. The number one reason people voted for Trump was to get inflation under control. If taxes go up, it's a disaster.And the issue here is that there is no legislative North Star. Paul Ryan isn't walking through that door. He was a legislative guy, a wonk. Right now, there's no one like that in the House. And there's certainly no one like that in the White House. And that's where we land now. The big question? Considering all the noise that has been made by DOGE, does the idea of those savings factor into any of these budget talks?If not, then get ready for a bumpy ride with the first test being the expiration of government funding on March 14th. Chapters:- 00:00:00 - Introduction and Overview- 00:00:50 - Valentine's Day Special Opening- 00:01:19 - Discussion on House vs. Senate Republican Strategies- 00:02:38 - The House's Push for a Single Comprehensive Bill- 00:04:38 - Challenges in Passing Trump's Legislative Agenda- 00:07:27 - Interview with Matt Laszlo on Congressional Dynamics- 00:10:12 - Democrats' Internal Struggles and Strategy- 00:20:22 - Potential Government Shutdown and Democratic Response- 00:32:00 - Republicans' Legislative Challenges and Budget Issues- 00:39:00 - Lobbying Efforts to Influence Trump's Immigration Policies- 01:00:00 - Interview with Dave Leventhal on Lobbying and Immigration- 01:24:00 - Closing Remarks and Additional News Updates This is a public episode. 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Being the Republican House leader is a little like marrying Henry VIII. At some point, you're getting your head cut off.  But for now, Mike Johnson remains not just physically intact—but in a position of incredible power. Two weeks ago, Johnson was reelected Speaker of the House on the first ballot. Despite having only the narrowest of House majorities—the Republicans control the House by four votes, 219 vs. 215 Democrats—Mike Johnson was able to unite the Republican Party's warring factions—moderates, the Freedom Caucus, the Raw Milk caucus, libertarians, hawks, doves, and whatever Lauren Boebert is—behind him.  It was tough to pull off, as it would've taken only a couple of No votes to send him off to that Republican Valhalla where John Boehner chain-smokes and chugs merlot, Paul Ryan does push-ups, and Kevin McCarthy throws darts at a photo of Matt Gaetz. Now, Donald Trump will become president of the United States and Mike Johnson will have the task of shepherding his agenda through Congress. And because the Republicans control the House by only four seats, the Speaker might have to get very close to some moderate Democrats—particularly those with constituents itching for a tax cut.  Today on Honestly, Speaker Johnson breaks down this challenge. He talks about how the party moves forward with two different visions for America; why he thinks Biden was “the worst president ever”; he recalls an eerie experience with Biden in the Oval Office; and he even gives us a taste of his uncanny Trump impression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Emilie Choi, president & COO of CoinbaseAfter the collapse of FTX in 2022, “the whole industry was tarnished,” recalls Coinbase COO Emilie Choi. “Politicians came out criticizing crypto, saying it was a fraud.”But unlike FTX, Coinbase was a public company in the U.S. So when the SEC served it a Wells notice, announcing its intent to charge the company with violating securities laws, the executive team took an unusual step: They went on the offensive, publicly calling BS on the agency.“Well-regarded CEOs from TradFi, they were like, ‘You don't do that,'” Emilie says. “'You don't antagonize your regulator.' ... It was a combination of chutzpah and maybe desperation that we were like, ‘We have to go tell our story, because if we don't, nobody else will.'”Chapters: (01:14) - Working with founder CEOs (04:12) - Mission first (07:16) - Reviewing candidates (09:48) - Unusual hiring (11:22) - Crypto after FTX (16:29) - Operation Choke Point 2.0 (19:19) - Grin and bear it (21:24) - Channeling negativity (24:21) - Going to war with the SEC (26:20) - Donald Trump and Gary Gensler (28:38) - Was it worth it? (31:19) - Shipping challenges (34:03) - OKRs and personal goals (36:41) - Brian Armstrong and structure (40:56) - The COO guidebook (43:30) - Removing bureaucracy (46:50) - Investing in crypto (49:41) - After Coinbase (53:03) - Constantly on (54:53) - Favorite interview questions (56:28) - Who Coinbase is hiring (58:28) - Standing for something Mentioned in this episode: Google Chat, executive coaches, Mark Zuckerberg, LinkedIn, Jeff Weiner, speed reading, Warner Bros., Elizabeth Warren, Sam Bankman-Fried, Wells notices, Paul Grewal, Chris Lehane, Airbnb, OpenAI, FOIA requests, Balaji Srinivasan, Dan Romero, Kevin Scott, Microsoft, Patrick McHenry, Ritchie Torres, Fairshake PAC, A16z, Ripple, Stand With Crypto, Dogecoin, Robinhood, Charles Schwab, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Paul Ryan, Faryar Shirzad, Kara Calvert, Elon Musk, Earn.com, Ben Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Claire Hughes Johnson and Scaling People, Directly Responsible Individuals, Fidelity, BlackRock, Yahoo!, Stewart Butterfield, Brad Garlinghouse, Alibaba, Flickr, cognitive tests, and Loom.Links:Connect with EmilieTwitterLinkedInConnect with JoubinTwitterLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner PerkinsThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

0:00 - CNBC’s Joe Kiernan pushes on Paul Ryan over his call for unity, well wishes for Trump to succeed 14:46 - Worcester, MA, pronoungate, Trans Councilor Thu Nguyen 30:43 - Chicagoland govt schools and immigration enforcement 52:16 - Lorenzo Sewell is the Senior Pastor at 180 Church in Detroit. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about what it has been like to be selected by President-Elect Trump to give the prayer at the inauguration 01:03:29 - President Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent destroying the Democrats’ war against fossil fuels 01:17:17 - Ja’Mal Green is a real estate broker, philanthropist, and former candidate for mayor GenerationalGreen.com. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about his change of heart on President Trump 01:33:28 - John Eastman is a Former Constitutional Law Professor and Dean, Chapman University Fowler School of Law and Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. He joined Dan and Amy to talk about Schumer’s plan to try to take down Trump’s cabinet nominees & the new documentary ‘The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice’ 01:47:12 - OPEN MIC FRIDAY See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 2: The Tara Show - “Trump's Legal Problems Return” “Foreign Propaganda and the Tik Tok Bill” “The Gender Wars Continue” “John Thune Pulls a Paul Ryan” full 1718 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:11:27 +0000 OmXkt26v5OQ2AeDiZPmlvrgRgN3PXVOj news The Tara Show news Hour 2: The Tara Show - “Trump's Legal Problems Return” “Foreign Propaganda and the Tik Tok Bill” “The Gender Wars Continue” “John Thune Pulls a Paul Ryan” Tara presides over the Upstate's #1 all news/talk morning show every weekday on News/Talk 989 WORD.Tara's faithful listeners are affectionately known as "Tara-ists" because of their passion and participation in the show. Tara was named 2021 Best News Talk Show and Best overall Personality, AGAIN, by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association! Tara took home the same honors in 2018 and was also named 2016 "Personality of the Year!" In addition, Tara has also won over two dozen state and national journalism awards for column writing, news reporting and investigative reporting while working for three newspapers and writing for a variety of national publications. She won a first place reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for an investigative series about the weaknesses in Charlotte's overburdened court system, which regularly let murderers off the hook with less than 15 years in prison. Due to her work, that system has been reformed. Tara is also a winner of the prestigious first place Green Eyeshade Award, a national award for column writing from The Society of Professional Journalists. Tara took to the airwaves about 15 years ago to do a radio show heard up and down the coast and fell in love with bypassing her editors to talk straight to the people. Tara hasn't stopped reporting, and still brings her investigative journalism to the show. Tara is a mom, wife and talk radio convert-- and weekday mornings she's live and local on News/Talk 989 WORD. Are you a "Tara-ist"? It's time to get captured!      2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc. News False https://player.amperwavepodcasting.com?feed-link=https%3A%2

Episode 1424: Paul Ryan 3.0

(2:00) News Year EveNYC ramps up the police state for the big NYE partyBilderberg's new personnel and new focusEvery bureaucrat destroys 138 jobsTrump supports Mike Johnson for Speaker (as he supported Paul Ryan also)You'll own nothing - Americans can NEVER own their own homes, but here's a solutionCar prices have exploded in the last 5 years and Trump's tariffs would affect low priced cars the mostBiden & "Mr Monsanto' bully Mexico over GMO corn"Romeo & Juliet" and the Hollywood pedophiles that got away with it(44:13) Post ChristmasTrump trolls with Bah HumbugThe state isn't Santa ClausJ Edgar Hoover's FBI had an odd take on "It's a Wonderful Life"Why did Amazon butcher "It's a Wonderful Life" beyond recognitionYouTube finds a new thing to censor(1:09:05) LIVE comments (1:14:06) Hacking the Treasury, Hacking the Global Financial SystemTreasury Dept Hacked by Chinese?   They can't possibly know, so what are they up to?BIS, Bank of International Settlement - the central bank of central banks - is pushing ahead with CBDC.  However, in the USA & other Five Eyes countries it will likely be a stealth move with a defacto public/private version(1:26:55) H1-B Isn't About Free Markets, Government Corruption, Fraud — It's About THIS(1:36:17) A thank you to our producers by name (1:39:59) Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?Crocodile Dundee Star Dies at 90Newsweek (News-Weak) asks what will humans look like in 50,000 years62,000 babies murdered who were well past the point of feeling painAnglican Church tries to normalize transgenders by claiming that eunuchs were "trans"WATCH As churches get desperate over falling attendance, Prestonwood in Dallas goes theatrical with flying Santas, elves, smoke machines.  Maybe they should just convert the building to condos(2:00:10) Handel's Messiah censored for being Christian, Nutcracker censored for being Russian, Jews censored for being Zionists, and SIX MORE GOP dominated states are making it a hate crime to criticize Israel's government — DOES ANYONE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ANYMORE? (2:09:28) INTERVIEW "Free Indeed" from Addiction and Much More"Doc" Roberts and Jeff Weiss, authors of "Free Indeed" join to talk about the path out of addiction, prison ministries and the persecuted church in Pakistan.  TheWordSays.netIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

(2:00) News Year EveNYC ramps up the police state for the big NYE partyBilderberg's new personnel and new focusEvery bureaucrat destroys 138 jobsTrump supports Mike Johnson for Speaker (as he supported Paul Ryan also)You'll own nothing - Americans can NEVER own their own homes, but here's a solutionCar prices have exploded in the last 5 years and Trump's tariffs would affect low priced cars the mostBiden & "Mr Monsanto' bully Mexico over GMO corn"Romeo & Juliet" and the Hollywood pedophiles that got away with it(44:13) Post ChristmasTrump trolls with Bah HumbugThe state isn't Santa ClausJ Edgar Hoover's FBI had an odd take on "It's a Wonderful Life"Why did Amazon butcher "It's a Wonderful Life" beyond recognitionYouTube finds a new thing to censor(1:09:05) LIVE comments (1:14:06) Hacking the Treasury, Hacking the Global Financial SystemTreasury Dept Hacked by Chinese?   They can't possibly know, so what are they up to?BIS, Bank of International Settlement - the central bank of central banks - is pushing ahead with CBDC.  However, in the USA & other Five Eyes countries it will likely be a stealth move with a defacto public/private version(1:26:55) H1-B Isn't About Free Markets, Government Corruption, Fraud — It's About THIS(1:36:17) A thank you to our producers by name (1:39:59) Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?Crocodile Dundee Star Dies at 90Newsweek (News-Weak) asks what will humans look like in 50,000 years62,000 babies murdered who were well past the point of feeling painAnglican Church tries to normalize transgenders by claiming that eunuchs were "trans"WATCH As churches get desperate over falling attendance, Prestonwood in Dallas goes theatrical with flying Santas, elves, smoke machines.  Maybe they should just convert the building to condos(2:00:10) Handel's Messiah censored for being Christian, Nutcracker censored for being Russian, Jews censored for being Zionists, and SIX MORE GOP dominated states are making it a hate crime to criticize Israel's government — DOES ANYONE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ANYMORE? (2:09:28) INTERVIEW "Free Indeed" from Addiction and Much More"Doc" Roberts and Jeff Weiss, authors of "Free Indeed" join to talk about the path out of addiction, prison ministries and the persecuted church in Pakistan.  TheWordSays.netIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

Jonah made one singular endorsement this election season; he cast his presidential ballot for Paul Ryan. To thank Jonah for his lonely, intrepid work on the Ryan '24 campaign that wasn't, the former Speaker joins Jonah for a very special live taping of The Remnant from this year's Dispatch Summit. They discuss the pitfalls and peaks of Trump's economic plan, why incumbent parties continue to lose (and ways to avoid an infinity of single term majorities), how to solve the debt crisis, and the fame game in Congress—but the party doesn't stop there. Later in the show, Jonah and Paul debate the durability of American institutions, consider Trump's proposed cabinet appointments, and determine how Reaganite conservatives can walk the line between supporting good policy and descending into MAGAness. Show Notes —Yuval Levin's latest Dispatch piece The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch's offerings—including Jonah's G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vivek Ramaswamy burst onto the national scene last year as a wild card candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Here was a relatively unknown biotech executive with no political experience, pitching himself as someone who could carry on Donald Trump's movement. Trump ultimately won that primary contest handily, but Ramaswamy was a breakout star. There was even chatter that he might be Trump's V.P. pick.Trump, of course, ended up choosing JD Vance — Ramaswamy's friend and former classmate — who has a very different vision for the future of Trumpism. But Ramaswamy believes the future of the Trump movement is still up for grabs and is fighting hard for his camp to win out over the one that Vance represents, including in his new book, “Truths: The Future of America First.”In this conversation, we discuss the two competing visions that Ramaswamy sees as lurking beneath the surface of Trumpism, what he calls “national protectionist” and “national libertarian,” whether his vision is really so different from Paul Ryan-style conservativism, why he thinks these debates within the Republican Party are really deep down about identity and what it means to be an American.Book Recommendations:The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich HayekThe Bhagavad GitaThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich HayekThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our supervising editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

In this episode, Dinesh talks about how the police state has gone global, and why he is joining Tucker Carlson on a lecture tour in Australia to make the case for freedom and against the global elites.  Debbie joins Dinesh to discuss an ingenious idea for getting waiters and waitresses to vote for Trump, Paul Ryan's bizarre critique of MAGA, and how Paul Fetterman is becoming more conservative as he gets his mind back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Biden is back in Europe and looking as spry as ever. Biden is soooo religious. Attorney General Merrick Garland has been held in contempt of Congress. What's next? Snopes now admits that Ashley Biden's diary is indeed Ashley Biden's diary. A nuclear-powered Russian submarine and warships showed up in Cuba yesterday. Probably nothing to worry about. "Bad actors" taking advantage of our weak border security is becoming the norm rather than an exception. North Korea continues to send "poop balloons" over the border toward South Korea. Lia Thomas has been disqualified from the Olympics. Skid marks on Pride flags? Felony! Paul Ryan had an interesting visit to Fox News. Pentagon UFO encounter? Kevin Spacey is apparently bankrupt. Spacey recalls spending time with Jeffrey Epstein. Wesley Hunt has how many forms of ID??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler discuss the Hunter gun verdict and justice that "works," Paul Ryan's revealing interview, hostages saved in Gaza and a US hostage deal, Biden's polls tanking, and General Milley in the news again.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Republicans are in their feelings over Hunter Biden's conviction. Jamie Raskin and AOC slam the GOP over their verdict hypocrisy. More damning audio of Justice Alito has been released and Republicans are furious over the attacks. Paul Ryan is back on the scene to say that Trump is unfit to lead. Alex Jones is calling for the execution of any of Trump's enemies. Host: John Iadarola (@johniadarola) Co-Host: Sharon Reed (@SharonReedLive) SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport?sub_confirmation=1 TIKTOK ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@thedamagereport?lang=en INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/thedamagereport/ TWITTER: ☞ https://twitter.com/TheDamageReport FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/TheDamageReportTYT/

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, for the pro-Hamas American media, not all civilians are alike. The Sunday show hosts expressed their displeasure with Israel defending itself, insisting that Israel is not doing enough and must do more to protect civilians. There's something horribly immoral about the American media and how they report with self-righteous indignation their supposed concern for civilian deaths, but only the collateral death of civilians in Gaza that Israel is trying like no other military on the planet to avoid. The American media are using civilian deaths as a weapon against Israel, just as Hamas intended, while they ignore all the purposeful, targeted, and mass slaughter of civilians taking place throughout the globe. Only Israel faces relentless media attention and condemnation because the media (and the Democrat Party) are as antisemitic as our colleges, universities, and the Islamist front groups funded and networked in our own country. And they do not want Israel to defeat Hamas. The media keep telling us a fiction, that there's a big difference between Hamas Palestine terrorists and the Palestine population. It's a lie. A new poll shows that there's no daylight between them in the Middle East.  Also, Rep Pramila Jayapal, another Democrat-Marxist, excuses the horrendous rape of Israeli girls by the Hamas Nazi Palestinians. There's no other way to conclude that a Jewish girl's life is not as important as the life of those who voted Hamas into power. Later, the Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, hate Donald Trump types will get Biden re-elected. Conservatives in the Republican party are abused. Finally, Gov Ron DeSantis calls in and discusses his conservative record as Governor, something Nikki Haley doesn't have. Also, just like DeSantis defeated Gov Gavin Newsom in the Fox News debate, he explains that we need to win against the left! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices