Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert F Kennedy Jr

Is saturated fat really the villain it's been made out to be? Or has decades of poor research and dietary policy misled us?In this video, Dr. Bret Scher dives into the controversy surrounding RFK Jr.'s call to remove the cap on saturated fat, and the Wall Street Journal's misleading take on it.We explore:✅ Why saturated fat doesn't just mean pizza and ice cream✅ The science behind whole foods vs. processed foods✅ How carbs, fats, and metabolic health interact✅ What the evidence really says about saturated fat and heart disease✅ Why individualized, whole-food diets matterRemoving the cap on saturated fat isn't about giving fat a health halo, it's about making room for nutrient-dense, metabolically supportive diets.

On this episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast, Ben, Brett, and Jordy discuss Trump's escalating economic chaos as the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates, gas prices surge, and Trump threatens to cut off trade with countries around the world. The brothers break down Trump's latest remarks on Iran and Venezuela, his bizarre push to demolish the Kennedy Center, and the growing consequences of his policies at home and abroad. They also discuss Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's major address to the European Parliament and the rapidly strengthening alliance between Canada and Europe as Trump threatens both with new tariffs. Finally, they cover the latest chaos inside the Trump regime, RFK Jr.'s dangerous rhetoric amid the measles outbreak, and the growing stakes heading into the midterm elections. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Deals from our sponsors!  Smalls: For a limited time only, get 60% OFF plus FREE SHIPPING and FREE TREATS for LIFE at https://Smalls.com/meidas Magic Spoon: Save $5 OFF your next order when you go to http://magicspoon.com/meidas The Perfect Jean: F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code TRUTH15  at https://theperfectjean.nyc/TRUTH15 #theperfectjeanpod Armra: Go to https://armra.com/MEIDAS or enter MEIDAS to get 30% off your first subscription order! Subscribe to Meidas+ at https://meidasplus.com Get Meidas Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Scott MacFarlane Reports: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scott-macfarlane-reports/id6807138300 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 18, 2026: 8 am — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro calls out RFK Jr. amid measles outbreak To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When tech executives warn about AI extinction and the political response is a shrug and a "hoax," what's left to do besides laugh through the existential dread? Jump headfirst into the utter absurdity—from human shields protecting the Kennedy Center to soaring gas prices and RFK Jr.'s wild chemtrail theories—Stephanie Miller breaks it all down.Former U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner breaks down President Trump's endless court battles and the real threats to democracy, minus the stuffy legal jargon. Plus, dynamic comedy duo Frangela stops by to deliver a high-energy, cathartic sanity check on GOP chaos and why staying politically engaged is the ultimate flex.Tune in for a sharp, fearless reality check that trades doom-scrolling for big laughs, legal truths, and just enough hope to get you through the news cycle.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The news to know for Friday, September 18, 2026! We'll tell you what a new U.N. report says about whether America may have committed a war crime in Iran, and how the White House is responding. Also, how much time does Congress have to get a handle on artificial intelligence? The so-called "Godfather of A.I." gives his prediction, and it's not long at all. Plus, what RFK Jr. is now saying about vaccines and children's health, where a heat wave is still breaking records just days from the start of fall, and why you can find cheap cheeseburgers all around the country today. Those stories and even more news to know in about 15 minutes!    Join us every Mon-Fri for more daily news roundups!  See sources: https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/shownotes Become an INSIDER to get AD-FREE episodes here: https://www.theNewsWorthy.com/insider Get The NewsWorthy MERCH here: https://thenewsworthy.dashery.com/ Sponsors: Upgrade your sleep with Boll & Branch. Get 15% off your first order plus free shipping at BollAndBranch.com/newsworthy with code newsworthy. If you want to take your language skills to the next level, don't wait to try Rosetta Stone Sapphire! Get 20% off when you sign up today at https://www.rosettastone.com/newsworthy To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to ad-sales@libsyn.com    

AI is quickly becoming a 2028 litmus test for Democrats. Playbook spoke with some of the party's potential presidential contenders grappling with the latest wave of AI doom. Then the other stories animating Washington: Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar sends a message to President Donald Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy gets candid about RFK Jr. Plus Democratic strategist Rob Flaherty joins Playbook for a 200-second interview on the politics behind AI.  For more news and analysis, subscribe to the Playbook newsletter: politico.com/playbook 

Almost every conversation about AI is about power — what it can do, what jobs it will replace, and who it will enrich. Almost no one is asking what it would mean to bring care to this technology. In this solo episode of Care More Be Better, host Corinna Bellizzi, PhD, draws on Carol Gilligan's ethics of care, her own doctoral research into regenerative enterprise, and her personal experience using Claude and ChatGPT in dissertation research to make the case that AI can be an amplifier of care — but only with intention, transparency, and accountability. She covers the copyright settlement Anthropic reached with authors in July 2026, the attention question, the RFK Jr. MAHA report hallucinations, and the four questions everyone should ask before adopting any AI tool. Complete Blog: https://caremorebebetter.com/can-ai-be-used-responsibly-the-ethics-of-care-in-a-machine-age/ Chapter Markers 00:00 — Opening Question: What Does It Mean to Care When Machines Mediate How We Learn? 01:00 — Introduction: A Solo Episode on AI Ethics 02:00 — AI Is Already in Your Life Whether You Chose It or Not 03:00 — What Ethics of Care Actually Is — Gilligan, Noddings, and the Care Tradition 05:00 — Ethics of Care and Regeneration as Near-Synonyms 05:30 — The Care Questions AI Raises: Copyright, Ecology, Labor, Attention 06:00 — The Copyright Reckoning: Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement and 35+ Active Cases 06:30 — The Ecological Footprint: Water, Energy, and Whose Community Hosts the Data Center 07:00 — The Labor Question: Whose Words Trained the Model? 07:30 — The Attention Question: What Happens to Wonder When Answers Arrive Instantly? 08:00 — The Whale Bends Story — and What Was Lost 10:00 — Using AI in Doctoral Research: Building Intelligent Queries 12:00 — Claude vs. ChatGPT: The Hallucination Problem 13:30 — The RFK Jr. MAHA Report: What Happens When Nobody Checks 14:00 — Using Claude for the RSD15 Paper: Editing Without Outsourcing the Thinking 16:00 — AI in Podcast Production and the Disclosure Question 17:30 — The Website Disclaimer: What It Says and Why 18:30 — AI as Amplifier of Care — Used With Intention 19:00 — Four Questions to Ask Before Adopting Any AI Tool 20:00 — The Freedom Not to Use AI: Your Integrity Is Yours 20:30 — Closing: Embracing Technology with Intention, Purpose, and Integrity "Ethics of care moves us from thinking in rules and regulations, in inputs and outputs, to who is affected and what do they need. This show's name is essentially a care ethics thesis. Care more, be better. The order matters. You have to care first." — Corinna Bellizzi, PhD | Care More Be Better | Episode #301 Resources and References: In a Different Voice — Carol Gilligan (1982) Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics — Nel Noddings (1984) The Ethics of Care — Virginia Held (2006) Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis — Paul Hawken Anthropic copyright settlement — Reuters MAHA Commission report — Washington Post coverage RSD15 Conference — Relating Systems Thinking and Design Claude — Anthropic DuckDuckGo — AI-free search option Brave Search Startpage AI Disclosure — caremorebebetter.com Scary Smart — Mo Gawdat From Ideas to Income with AI — Zach & Jason Francis, Ep. 296 (previous episode) CONNECT & SUPPORT CARE MORE BE BETTERSubstack: https://caremorebebetter.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/caremorebebetterTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@caremorebebetterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/caremorebebetterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareMoreBeBetterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-more-be-betterCAUSE PARTNER: If you value open dialogue, sustainability, and social equity, I invite you to support our new cause partner —Prescott College. To learn more about this effort and to support the show, visit: https://caremorebebetter.com/support/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

September 17, 2026; 5pm: The enriching of Donald Trump, his sons, and many others at the expense of the American people have reached such astronomic levels that it has left the confines of investigative journalism and become comedy fodder. For more, follow us on Instagram @deadlinewh To listen to this show and other MS NOW podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. For more from Nicolle, follow and download her podcast, “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace,” wherever you get your podcasts.To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

America Out Loud PULSE with Malcolm Out Loud and Dr. Stephanie Coxon – Can you give me a summary of the COVID-19 vax mechanism that is causing harm? Do you think stem cell injections in this type of situation could be a problem? Is there a possibility that shedding from the close encounter with her husband could be the cause of her Alzheimer's?

Dr. Sina McCullough and Farmer Joel Salatin examine the evolving public account of two infant deaths in Lancaster County and the clash between Governor Josh Shapiro and RFK Jr. They then ask why Amish communities have become a focus of the vaccination debate - and whether public health, religious liberty, electoral politics, and land are now colliding.From Episode #263: Pennsylvania's Measles Fight, Amish Freedom, and the Questions Behind the Headlines✨ Subscribe for the Full Episode: https://beyondlabels.supportingcast.fmFind Joel Here: www.polyfacefarms.comFind Sina Here: www.drsinamccullough.comFollow on InstagramFollow on XSubscribe on RumbleSubscribe on YouTubeDISCLAIMER

Hour 2 Segment 1 Tony starts the second hour of the show talking about Harmeet Dhillon recruiting and campaigning for civil rights warriors. Hour 2 Segment 2 Tony talks about Travis Kelce being a victim of a $35M Ponzi scheme. Hour 2 Segment 3 Tony gets into three more things: the federal reserve rate increasing, Paramount leaving California, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking at the Children’s Health Defense conference. Hour 2 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the second hour of the show playing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s speech at the Children’s Health Defense conference. Tony also shares a story about his late brother. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 Segment 1 Tony starts the first hour of the show talking about Abdul El-Sayed getting $10M in campaign aid from Chuck Schumer. Hour 1 Segment 2 Tony talks about Thomas Massie speaking on the Iran war. Hour 1 Segment 3 Tony talks about new details regarding the shooting and killing of two at an Arizona gay bar. Tony later talks about a James Talarico super pac is paying for votes. Hour 1 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the first hour of the show talking about Thom Tillis’s opinions on Thomas Massie wanting to impeach Pete Hegseth. Hour 2 Segment 1 Tony starts the second hour of the show talking about Harmeet Dhillon recruiting and campaigning for civil rights warriors. Hour 2 Segment 2 Tony talks about Travis Kelce being a victim of a $35M Ponzi scheme. Hour 2 Segment 3 Tony gets into three more things: the federal reserve rate increasing, Paramount leaving California, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking at the Children’s Health Defense conference. Hour 2 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the second hour of the show playing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s speech at the Children’s Health Defense conference. Tony also shares a story about his late brother. Hour 3 Segment 1 Tony starts the final hour of the show joined with Dr. Matt Will, economist from the University of Indianapolis, to talk about the federal reserve rate increase. Hour 3 Segment 2 Tony talks about the House passing the Russian sanction bill, and sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk. Hour 3 Segment 3 Tony talks about how to not deny reality from the Biden administration to the current Trump administration. Hour 3 Segment 4 Tony wraps up another edition of the show talking about Hakeem Jeffries not ruling anything out for impeachments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9/17/26, Co-Host — Carrie Baker Immunologist Dr. Jonathan Bayuk: infections & diseases here and now—the flu & covid, shots you and your kids need --is this the time? What about measles? RFK, Jr's influence. Gazette and Recorder Ex Editor Dan Crowley on covering data centers, artificial intelligence, local responses & the effect in college and high school classrooms. Feminist Futures with Carrie Baker; At Smith College this Friday and Saturday --"One Body: Dispatches from Idaho." Carrie is a professor in Smith's Program for the Study of Women and Gender, a Contributing Editor of Ms. Magazine and an attorney. She interviews Jimmy Maize, the writer and co-director; Jen Jackson Quintano — lumberjill, turned abortion activist and actor; and Maridee Slater, associate producer and co-director.  THE HEADLINER at the upcoming Northampton Jazz Festival—Lakecia James—Saturday, Sept 26 at the Academy of Music-- the 6x Grammy-nominated saxaphonist.

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50 days until the midterms, probably! David Waldman and Greg Dworkin don't spare a minute of the 155 they offer you today to keep you up-to-the-minute on the news. Donald K. Trump guesses that there's more important things in life than being adored, but he can't imagine what that would be. Therefore, he's doing as much as he can to get everyone to hate him. He's doing a fabulous job. Outside of the cult, Trumpism is now discredited, and every poll is a little more blue each day. Of course, the Gop and friends are pitching in where they can. Dan Sullivan retired halfway in his debate with Mary Peltola. Roger Marshall started his debate losing but really got the crowd going with an RFK Jr.name drop. Voters hated Ted Cruz long before Trump came around and will hate him when Trump goes away. Sure, James Talarico is doing great, but you got to give some credit to Ken Paxton and his crew. Texas Gop Bo French seems like he's in a league of his own... though he really isn't. Bo is determined to rid Texas of all people darker than him, and any Jewish people regardless of shade. French finally crossed the line however, by picking on University of Texas football. A Trump Judge™ has partially blocked the Postal Service's mail-ballot rules ahead of the midterms. Donald Trump Jr.'s latest wedding is sponsored by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev. Russian friends are the best! While MAGA makes the world safe for corruption, The SNP, Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru UK-exit, just as Donald hoped to see them bow and scrape some more. A gender war has exploded in Utah over the courts, abortion and representation. Gops are solving it by getting rid of the women.

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

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unpack Donald Trump's trip to Ireland, his apparent struggle to stay awake at a 9/11 memorial, and the increasingly conspicuous signs that the president's hold on his party may be starting to weaken. They dig into JD Vance's careful balancing act between loyalty to Trump and positioning himself as his successor, including the growing machinery behind a potential 2028 campaign, before turning to RFK Jr.'s surprisingly commanding performance at the Republican mini-convention and the extraordinary political path that brought him into Trump's orbit. Ted Cruz also makes his inevitable return, while Trump's own reaction to the prospect of a Republican successor looms over the entire discussion. Finally, Michael and Joanna take a close look at the new E. Jean Carroll documentary, her decision to come forward, the consequences she faced, and why her story takes on an even more powerful dimension when told in her own words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After surviving five years inside a satanic ritual-abuse trafficking network as a young child, Lynne Scott Haggerman shares the encounters with Jesus and angels that shaped her life, the message she says God gave her as a command to “Heal My People,” and the unshakable truth she shares with Brad that God's children are not for sale. . Now a leading LifeWave distributor donating X₂O systems and X39 wellness patches to organizations helping rescued children heal, Lynne joins Brad Wozny for a powerful conversation about faith, restoration, and the sacred responsibility before us now...to stand for the innocent, restore what darkness tried to destroy, and help ensure every rescued child knows they were never forgotten by God...that there is hope, healing, and an incredible life still waiting to be lived. .

Allie sat down with Nicole Shanahan, lawyer, philanthropist, founder of the Bia-Echo Foundation, and RFK Jr.'s former running mate, to discuss her faith journey and conversion to Christianity after the loss of her unborn child to miscarriage. She told us about her journey on the campaign trail and how she lost friends and supporters over her political stance. They also talk about some "right-wing" vaccine conspiracy theories and how some of them might not be as far-fetched as they might seem. Nicole told us about the "tech wife mafia" in Silicon Valley and how these women and Hollywood have changed progressive culture for the worse. And Nicole shared what she's doing to help the beautiful state of California. Share the Arrows 2026 is on October 10 in Dallas, Texas! Tickets are on sale now at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠ Share the Arrows is sponsored by: A'del Natural Cosmetics: AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Range Leather: RangeLeather.com/ALLIE We Heart Nutrition: WeHeartNutrition.com Buy Allie's book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.toxicempathy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Timecodes: (01:17) Nicole's miscarriage (09:10) Nicole's conversion and baptism (21:46) Experiences on the campaign trail (26:01) COVID vaccine conspiracy theories (29:03) Pro-life perspective (37:57) Women's fertility longevity and IVF (48:57) Progressives being used to make enemies (51:23) Nicole's daughter's autism diagnosis (01:00:31) Do vaccines cause autism? (01:06:15) “Tech wife mafia” and the Great Reset (01:15:34) Helping California --- Related Episodes: Ep 902 | Kat Von D on Becoming a Christian https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-902-kat-von-d-on-becoming-a-christian/id1359249098?i=1000633896154 Ep 1102 | Did Trump Just Stop the Great Reset? | Guest: Justin Haskins https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1102-did-trump-just-stop-the-great-reset-guest/id1359249098?i=1000677374601 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

Jordan and Nate spend most of this episode diving into RFK Jr.'s recent podcast dive into psychedelics, from his RNC speech on corporate regulatory capture to clips on ibogaine's ability to resolve opioid withdrawal and psilocybin's potential as fast acting depression treatment. Along the way they swap their own microdosing experiences and get refreshingly honest about which ceremonies actually worked for them (spoiler: not all of them). From there they pivot to healthcare fraud, breaking down Dr. Oz's staggering figures on stolen taxpayer dollars and a memorable rant about the "legal fraud" hiding in plain sight, like the true cost of a hospital saline bag. The back half is a genuinely funny, wide ranging conversation about tobacco and nicotine culture, Big Pharma's quiet takeover of the pouch market, and why moderation and self awareness might matter more than any strict health routine. They close with practical talk on journaling, intuitive eating, and training by feel.

It's 860 days until the legally defined end of the 47th Presidency, and this week Trumapalooza was in full swing, offering cash prizes to every American if the "right result" happens in November. Other Titles Considered: Trumpsabigloser Robot Interruptions Straitjacket Diplomacy Special Show Links: Trump promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms. How would that work? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-promised-5000-checks-if-republicans-win-the-midterms-how-would-that-work Here are 5 pieces of GOOD NEWS to help you balance your day. https://www.threads.com/@benjifaun/post/Dc_RofZEmGu?xmt=AQG0GsvJGYdWB9Pc0gv1W3onTBZhwPmZhgJ5uFMEJzahOcOhNbUrgqkFZcd3xAp1ZaP_rik&slof=1 RFK Jr. accuses Democrats of turning the federal government into a ‘child trafficking ring' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jr-gop-convention-dallas-b3048323.html

Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, we remember the victims, heroes, first responders, and ordinary Americans whose courage defined one of the darkest days in our nation's history. The Chicks look back at their own memories from 9/11, powerful footage from that day, the heartbreaking final calls made by victims, the heroic passengers of Flight 93, and the fighter pilots who were prepared to sacrifice their own lives to protect Americans on the ground. We also revisit Howard Lutnick's incredible story of survival and the devastating loss suffered by Cantor Fitzgerald. Then we're breaking down some of the biggest moments from the RNC convention. RFK Jr. reflects on his political transformation, unloads on Democrats, discusses censorship and Charlie Kirk, and explains why his view of Donald Trump changed dramatically. JD Vance also takes the stage with a fiery message about immigration, affordability, 9/11, young American men, and the future of the Republican Party — before a protester waving a Mexican flag sparks one of the wildest moments of the convention. Plus, the Gorman family delivers an emotional message about sanctuary policies, Spencer Pratt sounds off, and we discuss whether JD Vance is already positioning himself for the presidency. It's an emotional look back at September 11 and a packed breakdown of where America and the Republican Party are headed 25 years later.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS TO SUPPORT OUR SHOW! Get your Glow Up Gear from Bon Charge. Visit https://BonCharge.com/chicks and use code CHICKS for 15% off sitewide.Get started with 20% off your first order of Creatone today! Visit http://ToneToday.com promo code CHICKS.Get 20% off your entire order of Laundry Sauce when you use code CHICKS20 at LaundrySauce.com/Chicks20Right now, Trees.com has up to half off select plants. And you get an additional 20% off any purchase. Go to https://Trees.com and use code CHICKS at checkout.Subscribe and stay tuned for new episodes every weekday!Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramTikTokXLocalsMore InfoWebsite

In a shock to few paying attention, the 2024 debate hosted by Lindsey Davis and David Muir was rigged - Kamala reportedly demanded real time fact checking of Trump - and ABC delivered. Remember Muir's fact check after Trump said Haitians were eating peoples' pets in Ohio? Bingo. RFK Jr shares the story of the exact moment he realized that his media-driven assumptions about President Trump were all wrong, and why he says he left the democrat party.    

Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, we remember the victims, heroes, first responders, and ordinary Americans whose courage defined one of the darkest days in our nation's history. The Chicks look back at their own memories from 9/11, powerful footage from that day, the heartbreaking final calls made by victims, the heroic passengers of Flight […]

JB White marks the 25th anniversary of September 11th with a personal, emotional opening before diving into his usual mix of sports and politics. He previews the Gators facing Campbell, keeps needling LSU over their ongoing standoff with the SEC, and shares a candid health update on managing diabetes and a recent blood thinning procedure. On the politics side, he walks through a Peter Navarro thread alleging Fox News quietly muzzles pro Trump coverage, replays a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speech on leaving the Democratic Party, and keeps building his case for why America's real strength rests on the alliance with Japan rather than any so called alliance with Russia and China. There is also an update on next week's Badlands Media event in Las Vegas and a few sponsor reads along the way. It is reflective, opinionated and unmistakably JB heading into a busy stretch.

On today's episode, Conspiracy Friday hits the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with James, Glenn, and Dwayne (Charlotte was expected in the title but out babysitting). Glenn walks the classic conspiracy stack and the debunks — Pentagon missile/hole claims, NORAD war-games confusion, Rumsfeld's pre-day trillion, “laughing Israelis” that weren't, and Saudi foreknowledge questions — while James refuses to let the Blob's Islamophobia frame make America forget who did it, and Dwayne brings Howard Lutnick's Cantor Fitzgerald story (658 colleagues gone) plus a hard line that soft “Islamist vs Muslim” splits don't wash. Then the room flips to something hopeful: the GOP's first real midterm convention in Dallas and RFK Jr.'s home-run speech — Butler phone call three hours after the ear shot, Charlie Kirk as bridge, Kamala ghosting the call, Democrats lawfaring him to stay on ballots he'd left, and every promise Trump made him kept. Second half hits electrostatic cloud seeding and the “law of capture” rain fight, Flock/motor-voter centralization after a Louisiana-linked driver's-license vault hit the dark web, a fake AI drone-shoplifter cleanup, and the usual PJ's Exit 33 send-off. Don't miss it!

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Conspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought it was high time for a long COVID update.  Derek looks at a new Boston Children's Hospital research on viral reactivation, as well as the findings of a 2026 meta-analysis pooling 200,000+ participants. Matthew surveys the Canadian LC landscape, where insurance-industry money is quietly funding McGill's Institute for Transforming Healthcare and McMaster's FALCON trial, testing the pseudoscientific "Lightning Process" on Long COVID patients, led by researcher Dr. Jason Busse, who has deep insurance-disability ties. Finally, Julian unpacks Phil Parker's Lightning Process — Ericksonian NLP dressed as neuroscience, with roots in hypnotherapy, cult techniques, and pure "neuro-bollocks." Show Notes Kennedy Hires Covid Vaccine Skeptic to Look at Dubious Claims of Military Deaths A New Brunswick woman's account of being left to find her own way with long COVID Canadians frustrated by long COVID as they grapple with its effects December 2023 release on Canadians' experiences with long-term COVID symptoms Fourth Report on longer-term symptoms among Canadian adults "Dealing with the Fallout": post-COVID condition's continued impact Survey record confirming the CCAHS was a one-time collection RFK Jr.'s workforce cuts wiped out federal tracking of key health data Trudeau kept Harper's health care funding formula 2025 National Health Expenditure Trends snapshot Canada Health Transfer deductions for non-compliance are declining Carney refuses to commit to enforcing the Canada Health Act Canada's affordability crisis and health care Ontario should join Alberta in challenging the Canada Health Act Alberta's new health system structure under Premier Smith Alberta's "Bill 11" and Ford's hospital privatization Union concern over Saskatchewan's move toward privatization McGill launches initiative to strengthen Canada's healthcare system Sectoral Asset Management's healthcare-investing focus Manulife launches Global Longevity Institute committing $350M by 2030 Manulife advances longevity leadership in Canada with support for the National Institute on Ageing's landmark survey National Institute on Ageing releases 2025 Ageing in Canada Survey FALCON study Petition calling to pause McMaster's FALCON trial Original 2011 PACE trial publication Peter White's ties to Swiss Re The PACE team's insurance-company consulting work The yawning gap in ME/CFS research funding  Trial By Error: BBC Takes On The Lightning Method Can Lightning Method Help Kids with CFS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emmy award-winning investigative reporter who writes the Bette Dangerous substack, Heidi Siegmund Cuda explains why Donald's AI Slop is more dangerous than it appears. Also Trump just had another long phone conversation with Putin in which he received his most recent marching orders, and RFK Jr's penis obsession continues.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

DC correspondent John Fredericks joins us from Dallas with today's goings on at the RNC midterm convention. Our question - does America care? And how will the media cover it? Trump advisor Peter Navarro says he's the guy who likely got Maria Bartiromo fired - but it's not how you might think. Why Fox News is as unbelievable and biased as all the other outlets. RFK Jr drops a story we'd never heard before that might explain why Jake Tapper is such a devout card carrying member of the Trump Derangement Club.  

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Heading into the holiday weekend, RFK Jr terminated almost all grants dedicated to the Office of Minority Health. Now, $38 million over four years will be redirected from postpartum screenings and assistance for Black and Native American families to "research" on erectile dysfunction, testosterone, and sperm counts. Derek reports on this disturbing news, as well as how the kratom industry appears to be influencing Kennedy's decisions. Show Notes HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED RFK Jr. Bails on MAHA Event After Being Cornered on ‘Gas Station Heroin' Kratom drink Feel Free gains popularity despite growing concerns about addiction, health impact and death How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump's Cabinet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to build your family's future on a foundation of true health and freedom. Join us at Future Foundations—because your future generations deserve the best start to the mission that will outlive us… Check it out here. Use code FREEDOM25 for 25% off!    Whether you're looking for tinctures, topicals or teas or a deeper connection to your INNATE healing capacity, Noble Task Homestead is here to serve you. Join the movement. Visit NobleTaskHomestead.com/noblestan today and enjoy a 10% discount on your order.   San Diego area residents, take advantage of our special New Patient offer exclusively for podcast listeners here. We can't wait to experience miracles with you! Welcome to a new episode of the Future Generations podcast! Today we're joined by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental attorney, author, and leading voice in the health freedom movement. In this episode, RFK Jr. delivers a deeply data-driven presentation on the Pfizer COVID vaccine trials, breaking down the all-cause mortality numbers, the myocarditis risk to children, and the story of 13-year-old trial participant Maddie DeGary. He then expands into a sweeping warning about vaccine passports, programmable digital currency, and the systematic transformation of rights into privileges. This is a passionate, uncompromising episode about medical freedom, government overreach, and the moral line we cross when we sacrifice children to protect adults.   Highlights: "People who are opposing the vaccine are invariably much better informed than those who do not."   "What Pfizer did with its vaccine makes what Monsanto did with glyphosate look like a Sunday school picnic."   "Not a single healthy child died [from COVID-19]. Not one."   "No people in the history of the world have ever complied their way out of totalitarianism." Timestamps: 02:36 Vaccine Opponents Are Better Informed 04:43 Pfizer, Liability & the Monsanto Comparison 08:25 Pfizer's All-Cause Mortality Data (Table S4) 10:30 48% More Likely to Die Within Six Months 13:03 No Healthy Child Died From COVID (Johns Hopkins) 15:09 VAERS: 20,000 Deaths Reported From One Vaccine 22:39 Myocarditis: 123x Greater Risk Than COVID for Boys 25:21 Maddie DeGary — The 13-Year-Old Pfizer Tried to Erase 29:21 Vaccine Passports: Rights Become Privileges 36:47 Three Laws of Government Power Resources:   Remember to Rate, Review, and Subscribe on iTunes and Follow us on Spotify!   Learn more about Dr. Stanton Hom on:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drstantonhom    Website: https://futuregenerationssd.com/  Podcast Website: https://thefuturegen.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/drstantonhom   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanhomdc   Stay Connected with the Future Generations Podcast:   Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futuregenpodcast   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/futuregenpodcast/     About Robert F Kennedy Jr: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has spent his entire career in public service. Starting in 1985 as an attorney for the environmental nonprofit Riverkeeper, he eventually became one of the most influential environmentalists in the United States, focusing especially on the impact of pollution on human health and the conservation of healthy ecosystems.   Kennedy went on to co-found the Waterkeeper Alliance and served as its president for 21 years. Under his direction, it became the world's largest nonprofit devoted to clean water, with more than 1 million volunteers and branches in 40 countries. He also co-founded the nonprofit Children's Health Defense, an organization dedicated to understanding and addressing the dramatic rise in autism and other childhood chronic conditions.   Whether it was hunters and fishermen impacted by pollution on the Hudson River, or families and farmers challenging transnational pharma and chemical corporations, Kennedy has also been on the side of the people. Through hundreds of legal victories suing corporations and government agencies, Kennedy learned the inner workings of the system and became deeply familiar with the science of human health, both from a conventional and alternative perspective. Now, as Secretary of HHS, he is putting that knowledge to work to align it with the public interest, particularly those whose voices have not been heard.   Kennedy comes from an illustrious political family. The son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Bobby Jr. was a lifelong Democrat but became increasingly estranged from the party in the 2010s as it drifted away from its traditional values. 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We take Labor Day seriously around here. Which is to say, "off." We take Labor Day off. Not always, of course. Which undermines the earlier premise. But we're not not doing it today, so who cares? What we are doing is re-running our September 8, 2025 show. And won't you be surprised by how very similar certain parts of the news still are? Here's what we were up to at about this time, one year ago: David Waldman catches us up on the multiple disasters since Friday. Greg Dworkin catches us up on the multiple disasters since Thursday. Boooo! Trump was booooooooed at the US Open. If they don't want to hear boos, they shouldn't invite Trump. Or Winsome Earle-Sears. Tiny hands, deep throat, Donald K. Trump was an FBI Snitch according to Mike Johnson, the last guy anyone would trust to keep a secret. The Miami Herald and New York Times seek to unseal records on Jeffrey Epstein's estate, while we all know that Jeffrey Epstein and everyone on the Epstein list has been brought to you by capitalism. Zohran Mamdanimentum continues as Americans are beginning to see capitalism about as badly as they do Trump. LG Energy specialists squeezed into 90+ day rotations to set up a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia were caught in violation of that "+" part, were belly-chained and hauled out of the country. The plant they were setting up won't be hiring Americans any time soon, thanks to Karen-Republican Mar-a-Lago wannabe Tori Branum. Don't expect to hear more from Branum but do expect a lot more plants to be shut down. The Department of War begins its Midway Blitz, which is not a war, it is simply a police action. Why do so many Republicans think Trump is more liberal than he is? If people die in Florida because of lack of vaccines, it will be a surprise to Florida Surgeon General Ladapo. RFK Jr. will have seen it all coming, as he always does a year or so later. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists will save lives in the future by ignoring the CDC today. Ironically, the owner of one of the most punchable faces in politics, Scott Bessent, keeps wanting to punch others in their faces. This time it was the quite punchable Bill Pulte and for the same reason as Scott picked ever punchable Elon Musk. Scott heard both were bad mouthing him to Donald. Scott almost took Bill out, back there on the cement slab they have over the White House septic tank. E. Jean Carroll won her judgement against Trump again.

Look Forward covers the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos, a rare ICE action even critics of the agency find themselves agreeing with. A federal judge ruled that AI-generated child sexual abuse material is protected under the First Amendment, a genuinely alarming decision we break down in full. New reporting suggests Trump is secretly planning to extend the Iran war timeline specifically to influence November's midterms and somehow, the administration is already positioning this as something that will end up being blamed on Democrats. Meanwhile, 33 Democrats joined with Republicans to push through a bill in the House to smash down free speech on college campuses if the college refuse to work with Israel because of the Gaza genocide.In corruption news: a whistleblower reveals the Trump administration is attempting to implement it's mail-voting scheme despite an active court stay blocking USPS from carrying it out. The DOJ blocked an ICE agent from facing charges in a shooting death despite prosecutors' own objections. RFK Jr. was personally behind the effort to scrub Pennsylvania measles deaths from the CDC's public tally. Trump's own super PAC hasn't spent money on key midterm races, with Republicans privately fearing it never will.Plus: Conservative Cubans, and a judge telling RFK Jr.'s HHS to stop using fake AI-generated studies to justify teen pregnancy policy, and the FBI lowering its standards in a very weird yet highly specific way.Look Forward is a weekly progressive political podcast covering U.S. politics, government policy, Democratic strategy, elections, voting rights, Supreme Court rulings, and political news. Featuring progressive commentary, political analysis, and unapologetic opinions on the fight for democracy. Hosted by Jay and Brad. A TNP Studios production. New episodes weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major platforms. For more TNP Studios content, check out The Nerdpocalypse (movie & TV news), Black on Black Cinema (Black film reviews), and Dense Pixels (video game news).

The Lindsay Clancy trial drags on as a lone juror holds out. What has the rest of the jury decided, and are we headed to a mistrial? The answer is yes, and we can't believe the results. On much lighter news, we remember Steve Irwin on the anniversary of the Crocodile Hunter's untimely death. Donald Trump repeats the hilarious story about the "fat shot" not working on his fat friend. JD Vance is asked if his recent weight loss is due to taking shots or being friends with RFK Jr. Joel Osteen preaches his 1,000th "sermon" about living your best life now. And the most important news of the day: It's officially Week 1 of college football. SPONSOR: - BlazeTV - In a world full of noise, we need a stronghold for bold voices, free thinkers, and fearless commentary that helps make sense of the chaos. At BlazeTV, we’ve built a home for some of the strongest, smartest voices in conservative media—people who tell it like it is, ask the tough questions the mainstream won’t touch, and aren’t afraid to challenge the narrative. When you subscribe to BlazeTV, you’re not just watching content—you’re supporting a movement. You’re backing creators who think for themselves, speak boldly, and refuse to be silenced by Big Tech or corporate media. You’re supporting investigative journalism that exposes corruption and original documentaries that shine a light on the deep state. So, if you’re ready to keep winning, shop your values and make sure we don’t lose the ground we’ve gained — go to https://www.BlazeTV.com/RICK and subscribe today, and you’ll save 20 bucks right now off our annual plan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

-- On the Show: -- Producer Pat Ford fills in for David -- A disheveled Donald Trump makes nonsensical claims about wind turbines, Iran, and data centers during an interview with GB News -- Vice President JD Vance fills in as Press Secretary and struggles to answer press queries regarding rising gas prices and military strikes -- Senator Ted Cruz prepares a 2028 presidential campaign while trailing far behind other conservative candidates in early polling and betting odds -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is avoiding scheduling televised debates against Democratic Senate challenger James Talarico -- Fox News fires host Maria Bartiromo after she reportedly leaks network coverage guidance regarding election fraud claims to the White House -- Reverend Adam Hamilton runs a competitive Democratic Senate campaign in Kansas despite Republican attacks targeting his views -- The Lincoln Project releases a targeted media advertisement mocking Donald Trump as weak and airing it directly in his local viewing areas -- The official White House website launches a games section featuring politically charged arcade titles like "Flappy Bill" and "Build the Wall" -- On the Bonus Show: The military moves away from the "Operation Epic Fury" name, Markwayne Mullin says RFK Jr. is helping stop "birthright tourism," and much more...

Maria Bartiromo is suddenly out at Fox News, and questions are already swirling about what really happened behind the scenes. The Chicks break down the reported dispute involving coverage of China election interference, Donald Trump's reaction to Bartiromo's departure, and JD Vance's response when reporters asked whether she could be headed to the White House.Vance also faces tough questions about Iran, reveals the bizarre RFK Jr. diet behind his recent weight loss, and gets pressed over his continued friendship with Tucker Carlson. The hosts react to Vance's defense of Tucker, his comments about Abdul El-Sayed, and growing criticism from conservatives who want him to clearly address some of Carlson's more controversial statements.Plus, the Lindsay Clancy trial gets even more chaotic as jury issues, courthouse drama, and the massive online movement supporting Clancy continue to raise questions. Ben Shapiro fires back at Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk's PAC starts spending big ahead of the midterms, Enes Kanter Freedom takes legal action against the WNBA, and the hosts react to even more wild stories from the week.Stick around for the lighter side of the show, including '80s nostalgia, a hilarious AI-generated Chicks song, ridiculous police social media posts, listener comments, and more.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS TO SUPPORT OUR SHOW!Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code CHICKS at https://cowboycolostrum.com/CHICKSFor a limited time Jones Road Beauty is giving you a FREE full sized Mascara on your first purchase with code CHICKSBEAUTY at https://JonesRoadBeauty.comTreat yourself to the most advanced bras and shapewear on the market from Honeylove. Save 20% off at https://HoneyLove.com/ChicksSubscribe and stay tuned for new episodes every weekday!Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramTikTokXLocalsMore InfoWebsite

Air Date: 9/2/2026 Today we look at how public health is being gutted by a system that took ordinary parental worry and organized, radicalized and monetized it into an anti-science "wellness" movement large enough to seize real political power. Full Show Notes Transcript Be part of the show! Leave a voice message, message us on Signal at the handle bestoftheleft.01, or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! TOP TAKES KP 1: We Need to Accept That We Elected an Actual Madman to Be President - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 8-11-26 KP 2: The 'Anti-Science Disinformation Ecosystem': Experts Decode Trump's War on Health and C Limate - Zeteo - Air Date 10-22-25 KP 3: Welcome to the Vaccine Free-for-All - Radio Atlantic - Air Date 9-4-25 KP 4: Fauci Takes the 5th Amendment While MAGA Cracks His Diary Open & Calls Him Hitler - The Daily Show - Air Date 7-30-26 KP 5: The Infodemic — and the Scientists Fighting Against It | Jessica Malaty Rivera Part 1 - TED Talks Daily - Air Date 8-7-26 KP 6: The Anti-Vaccine Movement Part 1 - Throughline - Air Date 9-25-25 KP 7: Skepticism of Science in Health Care: Who Doesn't Trust Whom and Why? | Robert Field - Fondation Brocher - Air Date 12-16-24 (00:59:02) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR In 1955 Newspapers Announced the Polio Vaccine Like a War Victory My commentaries on YouTube - Share them! DEEPER DIVES (01:09:24) SECTION A: THE CURRENT DAMAGE A1: Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health Part 1 - Reveal - Air Date 8-11-26 A2: Sick Boy – How RFK's Crank Health Agenda Is Making America Ill Again - The Bunker – News Without the Nonsense - Air Date 4-13-26 A3: Fauci, RFK Jr., and the Latest in American Health Part 2 - Reveal - Air Date 8-11-26 (01:35:53) SECTION B: HOW WE GOT HERE B1: The Anti-Vaccine Movement Part 2 - Throughline - Air Date 9-25-25 B2: Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine - Yale Insights - Air Date 11-27-25 B3: To Be a Trump Republican You Have to Dare to Be Stupid - Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 8-27-26 (01:59:55) SECTION C: WHY IT WORKS C1: Fall Of The House Of Misinformation: Science At Work Part 1 - Unbiased Science - Air Date 4-17-24 C2: Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38 - CrashCourse - Air Date 11-11-14 C3: Fall Of The House Of Misinformation: Science At Work Part 2 - Unbiased Science - Air Date 4-17-24 (02:23:55) SECTION D: RESPONDING TO THE MOMENT D1: One Crisis After Another | Jessica Malaty Rivera Part 1 - Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab - Air Date 5-13-26 D2: Why Doctors Are Mad at Me for My Debate - Doctor Mike - Air Date 12-17-25 D3: One Crisis After Another | Jessica Malaty Rivera Part 2 - Pandemic and Emergency Readiness Lab - Air Date 5-13-26 D4: The Infodemic — and the Scientists Fighting Against It | Jessica Malaty Rivera Part 2 - TED Talks Daily - Air Date 8-7-26   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" has been off-grid with no access to news, social media, or his phone since July 31. Watch live as guest-host Dr. Drew Pinsky tells him everything he missed in August. Watch Dave's live reactions to finding out about Nick Shirley's reporting on the migrant crisis in Ceuta, Spain and Gavin Newsom signing the "Stop Nick Shirley Act"; Elon Musk donating to Republicans ahead of the midterm elections; Scott Galloway admitting he felt "doxxed" after Zohran Mamdani's administration publicly listed people targeted by the new pied-à-terre tax; Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s clash with CNN's Dana Bash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussing IVF and egg freezing as her past "defund the police" comments resurface; Karoline Leavitt leaving her post as White House Press Secretary; Donald Trump's latest moves involving South Korea, North Korea, and Kim Jong Un; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the escalating U.S.-Canada tariff and trade war; the controversy over renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"; WNBA stars Sophie Cunningham and Gabby Williams, coach Cheryl Reeve, and former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom weighing in on transgender athletes in the WNBA and women's sports; Perez Hilton being hospitalized after livestreaming a self-harm incident; the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and "Transformers" Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving California; Milo Yiannopoulos being arrested by ICE and deported; Luigi Mangione pleading guilty to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the latest developments involving Lindsay Clancy's trial; and much more.

It's been a summer of food-safety scares and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new cooking show probably isn't going to make things better. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto and Kelli Wessinger, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King. Packaged salad mixes are displayed in the refrigerated produce section of a Target store. Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast⁠.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two mothers. Five children. One diagnosis now stands between a crime and a courtroom. A Bronx judge just found Dimone Fleming not responsible for stabbing her 3-year-old and 11-month-old sons in a family shelter. In Massachusetts, a jury is deciding whether Lindsay Clancy was too sick to be guilty after she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. Pat puts both cases on the table and asks the question a lot of people only whisper: Why are moms no longer connecting with their kids? Nobody seriously pretends postpartum psychosis is fake. The fight is what comes after — responsibility, culture, family, and whether a country that medicalizes every collapse still knows how to protect children. Pat also covered: Gov. Josh Shapiro announced measles deaths the county coroner says didn't happen Can you name Trump's top 25 achievements without looking them up? Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) almost got hit by a train at his own train-safety presser Looksmaxxing just turned into skipping showers and calling it pheromone-maxxing The Left turned America into the new safe haven for political Islam Is postpartum psychosis a real emergency, or has it become a courtroom shield? Have you watched the bond between mothers and kids change in your own family or community? If you want unfiltered truth and commonsense analysis that cuts through the noise, hit subscribe and turn on notifications. Watch Pat Gray Unleashed weekdays on BlazeTV and catch the full show for the complete conversation. 00:00 Pat Gray UNLEASHED! 00:17 Day 79 of Mitch being Missing 01:24 Dimone Fleming Declared Not Guilty for Murdering her Sons 04:09 Bill Maher on Trump Renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America 05:38 Bill Maher Apologizes to Donald Trump 09:26 Josh Shapiro Lies about RFK Jr. & Measles Deaths 12:02 Reporter Asks Josh Shapiro about his Lies 17:06 RFK Jr. on HHS Food Wins 23:05 Richard Blumenthal Almost Hit by Train 25:03 Sebastian Gorka on President Trump 26:40 Preview of President Trump's Top 25 Accomplishments 31:52 Fat Five 44:00 What will be the Outcome of the Lindsay Clancy Trial? 52:46 Top 25 Achievements from President Trump 1:05:43 Is the U.S. in Control of the Strait of Hormuz? 1:13:01 U.S. House of Representatives Back in Session this Week! 1:13:39 Democrats Lead in EIGHT SWING STATES!!! 1:14:24 Ken Paxton had a "Please Clap" Moment 1:15:40 James Talarico & Mark Cuban Alliance?! 1:17:26 Rescue Operations in Nepal after Flood 1:20:05 Abdul El-Sayed's Football Thoughts 1:23:22 Kathy Hochul in a Hijab 1:25:03 Muslims are EVERYWHERE! 1:30:18 Everyone Renames Everything These Days Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday, August 31, 2026 Today, Judge Talwani in Boston has once again blocked Trump's efforts to curtail mail-in voting; more than 1.2M Texas voters have been flagged; Wyoming's Republican governor calls for an investigation into Justice Department primary election poll watchers; Trump calls on the FCC to help him rig polls in his favor; Rep Jim Clyburn endorses expanding the Supreme Court to include 13 Justices; military leaders warn Hegseth against continuing the war in Iran as the U.S. arsenal becomes severely depleted; Senator Ron Wyden calls for a criminal investigation into RFK Jr. for lying to Congress during his confirmation hearing; three fired journalists from Stars and Stripes have filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon; a Filipino nurse has been detained by ICE in Arizona; Donald Trump refuses to attend the Ground Zero 9/11 memorial because they won't let him speak; right winger Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported by ICE; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Thank You, HomeChef For a limited time, get 50% off and free shipping for your first box PLUS free dessert for life! HomeChef.com/DAILYBEANS. Must be an active subscriber to receive free dessert. Thank You, AG1 For a limited time, save 20% on your first subscription order of AG1 Next Gen or AG1 Pro at DRINKAG1.com/DAILYBEANS. The Trump Epstein Memorial Bookmobile The Daily Beans is proud to partner with Miles Taylor and our friends at DEFIANCE.org For a limited time, members of the Daily Beans community can receive a FREE 3-month full membership to DEFIANCE.org and gain access to one of the fastest-growing pro-democracy movements in America. Join here: https://www.defiance.org/beans Diamond Dames - Subscribe here: Diamond Dames - A Ted Lasso PodcastDiamond Dames - YouTube playlist The Latest Breakdown→ Trump DOJ Nears CONTEMPT Over Epstein Cover-Up?! StoriesWyoming governor requests investigation into activity of Justice Department monitors during primary | AP News Trump's war on Iran is rapidly draining US navy budget, documents and interviews reveal | US military | The Guardian Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report | The Guardian Trump Plans to Mark 9/11 at the Pentagon, Not Ground Zero | The New York Times Good Trouble Mobilize →Operation Take Up Space - Commondefense.us/otus lindsey.knapp.75 on Instagram →Voter Registration Deadlines - Vote.org Voter Registration Volunteer Opportunities · Mobilize →Helpline Orientation- Spanish Speakers Needed! · VoteRiders →Help save Texas from Ken Paxton! →NO HATE in WA State →Stand With Minnesota →iceout.org Good NewsSteppin' Out AVL The Visibility Brigade Oct 9 -Southwest Funny Fest:Dana Goldberg's Southwest FunnyFest - City of Albuquerque -Email Dana@DanaGoldberg.com for sponsorship informationTickets for Dana Goldberg: Outrageous - Sep 23 - Den Theater - Chicago →Share your Good News & Good Trouble - The Daily Beans →Beans Talk audio -beans-talk.simplecast.com Subscribe to the MSW on YouTube - MSW Media - YouTube Our Donation Links The Trevor Project - trevorproject.org/beans Blue Wave California - ActBlue.com/donate/msw-bwc Donate to Public Citizen - https://citizen.org/beans/ Donate to It Gets Better / The Daily Beans Fundraiser Pathways to Citizenship - boomerang - pathways Dana and The Daily Beans support of Human Rights Campaign ONE CAUSE HRC The Daily Beans supports It Gets BetterNational Security Counselors - Donate, WhistleblowerAid.org/beans Dr. Allison Gill - The Breakdown | Allison Gill, Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com - Bluesky, MSW & The Daily Beans Podcast @muellershewrote - Instagram, MSW Media - YouTube →Federal workers email AG - fedoath@pm.me Dana Goldberg - Dana is on Patreon! At Dana's Dugout, @dgcomedy - Bluesky, @dgcomedy - IG, Dana Goldberg - Facebook, DanaGoldberg.com More from MSW Media - Shows, Cleanup On Aisle 45 pod, The Breakdown | Allison Gill Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! patreon.com/muellershewrote Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:https://apple.co/3XNx7ckWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?https://patreon.com/thedailybeanshttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/https://apple.co/3UKzKt0 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Did you hear how RFK Jr. just bragged about closing down "thousands" of hospice organizations? We sit down with Dream regular and death coach Megan Carmichael to get to the bottom of why this announcement feels so wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists used mRNA technology, which was used for some Covid-19 vaccines.But that technology - and vaccines more generally - have become increasingly controversial in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic. The Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, is a vaccine sceptic. In August 2025 cancelled $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccine research. The move impacted 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, according to Kennedy's department. We speak to Tom Whipple, host of the BBC's Inside Science programme, about the science of this new vaccine. And we ask how funding cuts for vaccine research could impact health outcomes not just for Americans, but for the world.For more episodes, just search 'The Global Story' wherever you get your BBC Podcasts.