Executive Disorder: Prairieland Sentencing, DOGE Deaths, DSA Sweep in New York

Summary

Podcast Summary: It Could Happen Here

Episode: Executive Disorder: Prairieland Sentencing, DOGE Deaths, DSA Sweep in New York
Date: June 26, 2026
Hosts: Garrison Davis, James Stout, Mia Wong, Robert Evans
Podcast by Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts

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Overview

This week’s “Executive Disorder” episode covers a tumultuous week in US and world politics and society (June 17–24). The hosts break down the Prairieland protest sentencing, examine the global fallout from cuts to USAID (“DOGE Deaths”), and analyze the sweeping success of New York’s DSA insurgent candidates. Additional news includes climate disasters, legal developments that impact migrants and citizens, and recent mass shootings. The tone alternates between darkly comic, grimly factual, and impassioned.

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Key Topics & Discussion Breakdown

1. Federal and Political Updates: White House, Courts, and Congress

• Judicial Pushback against Trump Administration

  • [01:32] Judge Sparkle Soukanan blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to assemble a citizen’s list for voter roll purges ahead of the midterms.
  • "I'm glad they can't do that haphazardly." — Garrison Davis [01:46]

• Revocation of Passports for Child Support Debts

  • [01:52] The State Department is now revoking passports for child support debts over $2,500, but only announced at certain embassies (e.g., Nigeria).
  • General consensus: The hosts are skeptical about the genuine intent and potential for targeting.

• USCIS Increasing Naturalization Fees & Removing Waivers

  • [04:30] Higher fees for citizenship and removing waivers for low-income migrants is seen as an intentional barrier to naturalization.

• Legislation Written with Claude AI

  • [04:43] Rep. Anna Paulina Luna used Claude chatbot to amend legislation. She deleted the tweet, then blamed staff.
  • "I don't know how for hundreds of years people wrote legislation without asking fucking Claude." — Host 2 [05:10]

• Blocking Backdoor Public Land Sales

  • [06:37] Bipartisan bill targets backdoor sales of public land, mainly due to Senator Mike Lee’s repeated attempts; hosts mockingly name it the "Fuck you, Mike Lee" bill.

• Military Leadership Purges & Geopolitical Risks

  • [07:38] Pete Hegseth pressures General Donahue (key figure in Afghanistan withdrawal) to step down, representing a trend of ‘brain drain’ in senior US military leadership.
  • "A surprising number of disasters have been averted…because people…had hung out…could just call." — Robert Evans [09:55]

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2. Executive Actions & Authoritarian Moves

• Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool "Algae Crisis"
  • [12:09] Trump spent $14 million to "fix" the pool using blue paint, which made it worse. Hydrogen peroxide dumped in, paint peeled, then he falsely blamed "radical left lunatics" and had the National Guard arrest people for touching the pool.
  • "It is, in fact, really bad that you can be arrested for putting your hands in a pool." — Host 3 [15:58]

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3. Prairieland Sentencing: Antifa Protesters Receive Extreme Sentences

• Federal Terrorism Charges for ICE Opposition

  • [16:28] In the "Prairieland" case, extreme sentences for alleged antifa activists:
    • Benjamin Song: 100 years (attempted murder for shooting at police).
    • Marcela Raeda: 70 years.
    • Others: 50 years (material support for "terrorists”), one got 30 years just for moving anarchist zines.
  • Judge O’Connor (not trial judge), quote: "Maximum sentences are to send a message to anyone who shares similar ideologies." [17:51]

• Hosts’ Reactions & Historical Context

  • “These are brutal sentences...I haven't seen many people get maximum sentences even for Islamic State material support.” — James Stout [17:51]
  • “It’s very clear attempt to have a chilling effect. That’s the goal here.” — Robert Evans [18:48]
  • Comparison to Haymarket: “An attempt to put the ideology on trial.” — Host 3 [19:39]

• Call to Action

  • Emphasis on mass movement and legal support for appeals, raising parallels to disparate uses of pardons for political prisoners (e.g., Peltier vs. January 6). [22:21–23:56]

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4. Global Affairs: Iran, Lebanon War, and Authoritarianism

• Israel/Lebanon Escalation & Genocidal Rhetoric

  • [28:10] Israeli National Security Minister Bengavir quoted:
    “Through every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn...You need to go berserk, to obliterate, to crush the terror.”
    • Reaction: “That’s just a genocide post.” — Garrison Davis [29:14]
  • Difficulties for a US-Iran "peace" deal given Israeli aggression and open genocidal intent in government.

• Congressional War Powers Pushback on Trump

  • Congressional resolution passes with some GOP support, but likely to be ignored.
  • Trump’s supposed “ceasefire” technicality to reset the 60-day war authorization clock is called out as "magical thinking." [31:50]

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5. Immigration and Legal Rights

• Court Orders Government to Return Wrongful Deportee

  • [33:00] Mr. Martinez Andino was hidden from lawyers, deported without contact or understanding documents, later ordered by DC court to have case processed as if never deported.
  • "He was told the only option he had...was to sign the paperwork." — Host 2 [34:52]

• New Risks for Green Card Holders

  • [35:00] Blanche v. Lau: Supreme Court allows returning green card holders to be treated as new applicants for admission—can be paroled and more easily removed for alleged "moral turpitude."

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6. Climate Catastrophe and Inequality

• Record Heatwaves Across India, Pakistan, Europe
  • [38:36] India: 123°F in New Delhi; Deaths likely undercounted. Many schools shut, night temps don’t drop.
  • France & Spain: Record deaths from heat and related incidents (e.g., drownings).
  • Emphasis that such events are occurring at only +1.4°C of warming.
  • “The way we’re powering all of our industries is causing the world to burn.” — Host 3 [44:00]

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7. "DOGE Deaths": The Human Cost of Cutting USAID

• Direct Consequences of Foreign Aid Cuts Orchestrated by Elon Musk (D.O.G.E. / “Department of Government Efficiency”)

  • [45:58] Massive global death and suffering from US foreign aid cuts under Trump & Musk, especially for children.
  • Musk denies any deaths, pushes conspiracy theories instead.
  • Notable case: Five-year-old Suza Kenyabi in DRC dies as medicine stranded in warehouse due to supply chain chaos from aid cuts. [46:55]
  • "If cutting USAID killed a child, a single child, it would be covered by the media like the biggest story in history." — Elon Musk (quoting a fan) [46:51]
  • Khanna (CA Dem): “He needs to answer for what he did with the Department of Government Efficiency.” [49:51]
  • Study estimates 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children under five.

• Firsthand Testimony

  • Clinics close worldwide; mothers forced to give birth on the street after clinic closures. Austerity is deemed "particularly evil." [56:34–58:00]

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8. DSA Sweep in New York: Grassroots Power & Electoral Insurgency

• Stunning Upsets in the Democratic Primaries

  • [58:00] All three candidates endorsed by NYC DSA’s Zoran Mamdani win their primaries. 9/10 DSA insurgents defeat establishment rivals.
    • Brad Lander defeats incumbent Dan Goldman (AIPAC-backed, establishment).
      • “As a proud Jewish New Yorker, I will join you in that fight to end occupation and apartheid and genocide.” — Brad Lander [recounted at 60:00]
    • Claire Valdez (state assembly, union organizer) wins with 56% despite dark money and WFP opposition.
    • Darieliza Avila Javier ousts Adriano Espaillat, Chair of Congressional Hispanic Caucus – huge upset, openly pro-Palestinian organizer.
  • Significant outside dark money (“AIPAC and SuperPACs”) and accusations of anti-Semitism misapplied to “dark money” rhetoric.
  • “Dark money…is a real term. There’s a book called Dark Money. It’s a term people have been using forever.” — Host 1 [63:16]
  • Host note on race-baiting and anti-Haitian bigotry in the 13th (Upper Manhattan) district (see [64:20–65:32]).

• Significance

  • Election demonstrates the strength of New York DSA as political machine; DSA’s organizing power at its zenith. Zoran Mamdani’s mayorship is noted as a product of “dueling factions”—DSA versus NYPD. [65:54]
  • "She could very likely be the farthest left Congress member in the history of the country." — Garrison Davis [67:52]

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9. Other News: Mass Shootings

• Montreal Mass Shooting

  • [68:22] 25-year-old man with incel ideology attacks police and civilians from hotel window (kill count: 2 plus shooter), blending incel misogyny, anti-capitalism, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti-pornography motivations.
  • History of incel-linked attacks in Canada is noted.

• Chico, California Shooting

  • [69:42] Little known yet, but shooter dressed as Columbine killer, suggesting a “Columbiner” fandom angle.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On political showboating and authoritarianism:

  • “It is, in fact, really bad that you can be arrested for putting your hands in a pool.” — Host 3 [15:58]

• On the Prairieland sentences:

  • “Very clearly politically motivated, as the judge openly said during sentencing.” — Garrison Davis [18:19]

• On USAID cuts and conspiracy as load-bearing:

  • "We've reached the point where [conspiracy theories] are now load bearing both for the personal mental health of the richest man in the world and for the federal government itself." — Host 1 [47:32]

• On climate catastrophe:

  • "The way we’re powering all of our industries is causing the world to burn." — Host 3 [44:00]

• On the DSA victory:

  • "This was a really big night for New York City dsa. And this election has cemented that. New York City DSA is possibly the strongest political machine in the city..." — Garrison Davis [65:54]

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Segment Timestamps

• [01:08] — Opening & “Executive Disorder” newscast introduction
• [01:32–11:01] — Political and legislative roundup: courts, AI in Congress, purges, and military leadership
• [12:09–16:14] — Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool saga and authoritarian responses
• [16:28–26:23] — The Prairieland antifa sentencing, implications, and calls to action
• [28:07–35:00] — Middle East escalation, Iran/Lebanon peace prospects, War Powers, and Congress
• [35:00–38:36] — Legal immigration developments: wrongful deportation, green card risks
• [38:36–44:22] — International climate disasters and systemic energy failures
• [45:51–58:00] — USAID cuts ("DOGE deaths"), Elon Musk’s role, global humanitarian impact
• [58:00–68:14] — New York DSA primary sweep: candidates, mudslinging, dark money, racial/racist tactics
• [68:18–71:59] — Recent mass shootings: Montreal (incel attack), Chico, CA (Columbiner)
• [71:59-end] — Episode sign-off and comic relief

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Final Thoughts

This packed episode underscores deepening authoritarianism, state repression, and humanitarian negligence at home and abroad, but also highlights flashes of resistance, shifting political tides (especially on the US left), and the urgent need for organized solidarity. The hosts balance grave topics with biting humor and clear-eyed analysis.

For support and links:

• [Prairieland defendants’ legal support and donation links are being promoted by the show.]
• [Court cases and climate resources referenced are to be linked in the episode notes.]

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Transcript

[Host 1]

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[Host 2]

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[Host 1]

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[Garrison Davis]

This is it could happen here. Executive Disorder, our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, and what this means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. Today I'm joined by James Stout, Mia Wong, and Robert Evans.

[Host 2]

Hey.

[Jana Kramer]

Hey.

[Garrison Davis]

This episode we are covering the week of June 17th to June 24th.

[Jana Kramer]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Should we start off with some little things?

[Host 1]

Yeah, let's start out with some small things.

[Host 2]

So I guess to begin with, a federal judge, Sparkle Soukanan, actually, who we've heard about before in the show, has bucked the Trump administration from, quote, haphazardly assembling a list of citizens that would be used to purge voter rolls.

[Host 1]

Great. Yeah, I'm glad they can't do that haphazardly.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Given the timing.

[Host 1]

Right.

[Host 2]

Like before the midterms, hopefully that means that this. This isn't going to happen in a way that will impact the mid. The State Department has announced it's going to begin revoking passports. People with outstanding child support of more than 2,500 United States dollars, they can contact an embassy to get a temporary passport to come back to the US but they'll only have their full passport restored. I guess if they pay their outstanding child support debt.

[Host 1]

Okay.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

I'm wondering what got this to their ears. How big a problem is this? I'm not against this. I'm just wondering why they moved to do this.

[Host 2]

I saw it on the Twitter feed of the US Embassy in Nigeria. And I would be interested, and I don't know how possible this would be to go after with public records to know which particular embassies are revoking passports of which particular people, if you see what I mean.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah. I think in general, revoking passports is a bad thing to do.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I think this isn't the way to go after chartered. You are a piece of shit if you're, if you're not paying your child support. But I think generally the possibility of someone being left, like, stateless, you know, that's not how we get to a better world here.

[Host 1]

I'm just wondering why they're doing this. Like, that's my. Like, this has to be. They have to be targeting somebody with this. Like, I don't believe this is about the problem of, like, there being a lot of people who are getting out of child support by fleeing the country. Like, I don't believe that's the motivation here. And I'm kind of curious what it is.

[Host 2]

I couldn't tell you for sure, but the fact that I saw this on the Nigeria embassy website, I mean, I can look right now and see what if other embassies have posted it, I guess. Here we go. U.S. embassy in Spain. I don't see it on their page, for example.

[Host 1]

Interesting.

[Host 2]

Okay, well, it'd be interesting to follow like this.

[Host 1]

Subjective, but yeah, sure.

[Host 2]

It's something I came across like, you know, about half an hour before we recorded this.

[Host 1]

No, it's noteworthy.

[Host 2]

A judge has quashed a subpoena aimed at Governor Waltz and Mayor Frey, along with other state politicians in Minneapolis, writing, quote, this course of events in and of itself establishes beyond reasonable dispute that the subpoenas were part of a broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration in its enforcement of immigration laws. And of course, this campaign played out against the backdrop of the Trump administration's well established history of using criminal investigations to retaliate against and pressure the President's political and personal adversaries. Very clearly it's a thing that the Trump administration has done with the doj. Right. But it's good to see it called out, I guess. Sure. USCIS is looking to increase fees for existing permanent residents to naturalize become US Citizens as well as removing fee waivers for lower income migrants. This will be a barrier to people. Right. And that is why it's happening. Yeah.

[Host 1]

Yep.

[Host 2]

A Rep. Anna Paulina Luna used Claude AI to amend legislation she's delayed deleted her tweet But I actually posted a link to her tweet on Blue sky, and it still contains, like, the cached text of the tweet if you want to go read it. She immediately responded by throwing her staff under the bus. Sure. Noble claiming that it was not uncommon for staff to use Claude. Fucking amend national legislation.

[Host 1]

People just don't like to do their job, do you? My God.

[Host 2]

Yeah. It's. Yeah. I don't know how for hundreds of years, people wrote legislation without asking fucking Claude. She left the. Like, it's. It had Claude responded in the text of the bill. That's great.

[Host 1]

Great stuff.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Claude is very popular in Washington, D.C. like, specifically Claude.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host 1]

I mean, it's widely agreed to be the best of the. Of the chatbots.

[Host 2]

The thinking person's chatbot.

[Host 1]

Yeah, yeah. The thinking man's chatbot.

[Garrison Davis]

There is, like, a weird bizarro universe where you get, like, the Mark Fisher Claude outputs that writes tons of legislation that gets suddenly passed.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Where the US Enters a very odd, odd time because they kept using this chat bot that really liked, like, certain.

[Host 1]

Certain writing from certain shit that people were reading online in 2001.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Has certain biases baked in.

[Host 1]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host 3]

I'm having this nightmare image. I'm having this nightmare image of people doing, like, prompt injection attacks specifically to, like, get Claude to, like, auto. Spit out certain lines of regulation.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah. Or just inserting trans. Appropriations bill.

[Host 1]

Claude. Amending prescription drug laws to allow me specifically to purchase Dilaudid over the counter. I can see a lot of good places to go here. Yeah.

[Host 2]

The Evans amendment.

[Host 1]

The Evans amendment, I just get to call.

[Host 2]

It can actually be delivered. You don't even have to purchase it.

[Host 1]

Yeah. They put it in a trash bag for me. Yeah.

[Host 2]

I drop it with a drone. Talking of inserting shit into bills, let's talk about Mike Lee, the only person worse for the planet than the sport of golf.

[Garrison Davis]

Mike Lee mentioned two weeks in a row.

[Host 3]

I'm around three.

[Host 2]

I'm mentioning Mike Lee until he stops with this shit. Let me tell you. A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced legislation to block the backdoor sale of public land through the reconciliation process.

[Host 1]

Huzzah.

[Host 2]

They might as well have called this. Fuck you, Mike Lee. Stop doing this bill.

[Host 1]

Stop it.

[Host 2]

It is exclusively one person who is doing this, and it is Mike Lee.

[Host 1]

The bill equivalent of spritzing a single guy on the nose with a bottle of water. Stop it.

[Host 2]

Get out of here. Yeah, he's been sl.

[Garrison Davis]

Down.

[Host 2]

It's. It's interesting to see like, you know, see less bipartisanship than you used to. But no one likes Mike Lee in this.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Apart from people in Utah who inexplicably

[Host 1]

elected him, there's nothing people in Utah hate more than the beautiful land in which they inhabit.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Not being able to mine and graze it as much as they like.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

The Atlantic is reporting that Pete Hexess has pressured General Donahue into stepping down. It seems Donahue will leave his job next week. Yeah, I guess. I mean, Robert, I'm sure you're familiar as well.

[Host 1]

Donahue is a massive figure. He's very famously like the last US military official to leave Afghanistan during the withdrawal.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

He's a pretty major guy and was widely considered to be kind of one of the folks you'd think would be sort of bulletproof, outside of the fact that he was involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Famously. Like. And I think most people assumed that because it was in a very, like, stereotypically heroic way and because this guy had such a reputation within, like, special operations, that he would be protected. But this is kind of further example of the brain drain that's been hitting all of the guys who know how to do stuff in the Department of Defense.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Like, it is quite remarkable when you look at a list of the people who have been purged, like, you know, quote unquote, retired. Right. Like, in terms of U.S. military leadership capacity, it has been significantly diminished. Yeah. By Pete Hegseth.

[Garrison Davis]

I, I just, I just want to

[Host 3]

put a note in here for later on. Hopefully, hopefully this never becomes relevant. But I really, really do not like that in a two year span, there has been a significant purge of both the senior leadership of the American and Chinese militaries. Really do not like that.

[Host 1]

Just, just, just put.

[Host 3]

Putting this note in the record that, like. Yeah, very, very similar.

[Host 1]

You mean all the guys who, like, know each other?

[Jana Kramer]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

No, I don't think that means that I know this guy. He would do, wouldn't do that for this reason. Like, everyone like that on both sides is gone. And that maybe is how traditionally disasters happen. Yeah.

[Jana Kramer]

Yeah.

[Host 3]

So don't like this.

[Garrison Davis]

Just, just putting a note.

[Host 1]

It's actually like, say what you want about, I mean, say many different things about like, the fucking militaries of both China and the United States. But it's really good actually when you have like, a professional officer cadre that's insulated from politics and also like, kind of socially know the guys in the other countries at the higher levels because they've, like, spoken like that's. Actually really useful in d. Escalation of conflict.

[Host 2]

Exactly. Yeah. It gives an informal de. Escalation mechanism and when that disappears, it

[Host 1]

can lead to problems.

[Host 2]

Yeah. When you're promoting like, like people of the hegseth fucking tendency especially. Right.

[Host 1]

A surprising number of disasters have been averted and not just because military officials, but because like people in two countries who were like high up in the government, like just kind of had hung out with each other at events and one was able to like call the other and be like, hey Joe, like, you guys aren't doing this, are you? Because my people are fucking flipping out. Those relationships are really load bearing in the US all not dying in atomic fire thing. So yeah, you know, there seems to

[Host 2]

be some kind of counterfactual. There's just a lie going around x.com that like Donahue, Donahue was the last soldier to leave Afghanistan, as Robert said. And like that like they were being shot at and there were like junior enlisted folks what being shot at. That wasn't happening. The last 13 US troops who died in Afghanistan were not shot by the Taliban. They were killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing.

[Host 1]

Again, because the Taliban was cooperating with our withdrawal. They were not like the Taliban was not fighting, shooting at the US as we were leaving because they wanted us to do what we were doing.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah. They got that outcome without having to do that.

[Host 1]

If you're the Taliban and the war is almost over and you know, if, you know what, you know one thing about the US as the Taliban, which is like if we just suddenly kill a bunch of their guys, maybe they don't leave.

[Host 2]

Yeah, no, they will return and do a fucking murdering people spree. Like I know people once again, right? Like things that have happened in the last five years seem to not exist in the mind of people who use X.com to get their news.

[Host 1]

Never existed for them, I guess.

[Host 2]

Finally some good News from Mogwai PDF who destroyed a Topmador Mi17 helicopter using FPV drones yesterday.

[Host 1]

Oh wow.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Not the first time it's happened in Myanmar. I constantly see when a drone is used in Ukraine in a sort of relatively novel way. People saying this is the first time it has happened and almost always it has already happened in Myanmar.

[Host 1]

Not always.

[Host 2]

Like there were some autonomous drones that killed people in Ukraine a couple of years ago that I'm not aware of existing in Myanmar. But like orientalism definitely plays a role in people's ignorance when it comes to like military firsts happening in the spring revolution. But yeah, in this instance, they seemed to hit it with multiple FPV drones taking out its, its landing gear than its engines.

[Garrison Davis]

I do have one short story here that I've tried to avoid covering because I really don't think it's that important.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

But much like the algae just keeps creeping back into the headlines. So last month, President Trump got super obsessed with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Spent $14 million in a no contract bid to get rid of the algae. Trump used his own pool guys and they drained the reflection pool. They painted the bottom American flag blue and then filled that thing up again.

[Host 1]

Brilliant marketing decision by whoever named that paint, by the way.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Yet somehow the algae returned and in an even worse state, turning the entirety of the blue reflecting water green. So in response, they started dumping gallons of hydrogen peroxide into the pool to kill the algae. Now, hydrogen peroxide, also a paint thinner, and strips of the American flag blue paint started peeling off the bottom of the pool, making the situation worse. Now here's where things get really interesting. This is the only reason why we're covering this, because last weekend Trump began making the completely unsubstantiated claims that the algae filled blue paint fiasco was the result of quote, unquote, radical left lunatics who vandalized the pool.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

The National Guard and the park police have since then been arresting people for standing near the reflecting pool. On Tuesday night, President Trump truthed, quote, six people have been arrested and seven people have been cited for the damage they did to our country's now beautiful reflecting pool. The 350 foot gash made by a very sharp knife or razors is actually numerous slashes over a very long 350 foot length. It was purposefully and criminally done and someone had to work very hard, probably in the dark of the night to create such a situation. Unquote, no evidence this has happened. Obviously people have been watching the pool nonstop. No one's been seen.

[Host 2]

National Guard waiting in there with a

[Garrison Davis]

knife cutting the floor.

[Host 1]

Now, Garrison, Garrison, Garrison, you're not seeing what the President saying. One man didn't wait in there with a knife. A team of hundreds, each made a single slash. That's the kind of discipline Andy is capable of. You don't probably dark of the night. Of course, in the dark of the night they wear black.

[Garrison Davis]

There's outlets like the Washington Post just react ported on Trump's claims without noting that this is just a lie.

[Host 1]

Just complete nonsense. Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

But as the, as the President has said, six people have been arrested, one of whom for sticking his Hand in the pool and touching one of the floating pieces of blue paint.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Trump has said they will need to drain the pool again to make further repairs ahead of the 4th of July 250th celebration.

[Host 1]

If you read the actual report that was made by, I think it was the parts department or whatever, like, analyzing what had happened in the reflecting pool, they did notice some, like, things that were described as cuts, but concluded they had nothing to do with the paint itself. Like, if you actually read the report, like, what he's talking about is not, like, what his own people said. He just saw cuts in the report and ignored that. It was like, but these were somewhere else and not relevant to the paint peeling and just went with it. Like, that's the root of all this.

[Host 3]

The thing with the story is like, yeah, on the one hand, it is very funny that the, that the pool. The pool green. But also the fact that Trump can just lie about this stuff and then also a bunch of people get arrested.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Is really bad.

[Host 3]

It is, in fact, really bad that you can be arrested for putting your

[Host 1]

hands in a pool.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 3]

That's very bad. I just, just on this fundamental level, not. Not a sign of a society that is functioning or healthy or at all not doing well.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, great. No, not a good.

[Host 1]

No.

[Host 3]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Not a good look for us on the USA 250th birthday.

[Host 3]

Yeah. Deeply authoritarian society.

[Garrison Davis]

Speaking of, let's discuss probably the worst piece of news this week.

[Jana Kramer]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Which is the sentencing in the Prairieland case where the Trump administration brought terrorism charges against what they allege is an antifa cell who attended a protest outside of an ICE detention facility last 4th of July. Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison. Song was convicted of attempted murder for shooting toward a police officer who was pointing a handgun at fleeing protesters. Marcela Raeda was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Zachary Evitz, Autumn Hill, Savannah Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Megan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison after being convicted of providing, quote, unquote, material support to terrorists. Now, some of these people weren't even involved in planning the protest, but just knew others who were. One of the people in this case wasn't even at the protest. Daniel Sanchez Desistrada, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison, did not attend the protest, but was convicted of concealing documents for moving a box of personal items and anarchist zines from one house to another that got him sentenced to 30 years in prison. One of the judges, Judge O', Connor, who was not the judge for the trial said that the maximum sentences are to, quote, send a message to anyone who shares similar ideologies.

[Host 2]

Yeah, these are brutal sentences, right? Like, yeah, these are the sort of things that you see in the potential liability. But in my experience, I haven't seen many people get, like, maximum sentences. Like, I. I'm familiar with guys who are convicted of providing material support to the Islamic State, for instance, who did not get sentences anywhere near this duration.

[Garrison Davis]

No, this is like, absolutely insane. Like, this is unprecedented.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Very clearly politically motivated, as the judge openly said during sentencing.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Deliberately admitted it was. Yeah, yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Like the Adam laughing guy who planned to attack power grids few years ago was just sentenced to 20. This is absurd. Like, song sentence of 100 years is. Is pretty insane itself for.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Even. Even for being convicted of attempted murder. But all of these material support charges and concealing documents at 30 to 70 years is. Is like.

[Host 1]

Yeah, it's outrageous. Yeah, it's a very clear attempt to have a chilling at that.

[Host 2]

Right.

[Host 1]

Like, that's the goal here. That's the goal with the. With the prosecutions and Minneapolis as well. Like. Yeah, you know, it's all the same. Part of the same strategy.

[Host 3]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

No, using conspiracy charges to rope in people to this larger case arguing that this conspiracy is evidenced through reading zines, through wearing certain clothes at a protest, being put out of, quote, unquote, antifa. And then they don't need to actually argue that every single person did a specific violent crime, but just this association with each other can lead to a conviction. And we are seeing this, you know, copied in Minnesota where just like one or two people are charged with doing violence, like, you know, kicking a vehicle. But what links the 15 defendants together in Minnesota are these conspiracy charges.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 3]

The thing that it reminds me the most of is just Haymarket, where, you know, in a very similar way, you have an attempt to not even necessarily go after the people who did the thing. You have an attempt to put the ideology on trial. I mean, the judge explicitly says this. Right. This is not a trial that is happening because something happened.

[Host 1]

This is specifically an attempt to send a message.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Host 3]

To send a message and to, like, stop resistance to everything the Trump administration has been doing and particularly to try to try to, like, bring down the level of resistance to ICE and border patrols, like raids and actions going forward.

[Garrison Davis]

The defendants will absolutely need support for what's going to be a lengthy appeals process.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

The worst case scenario is going to require building a mass movement to push for pardoning anti ICE protesters. Including the Prairie Line defendants in a post Trump government. A complicating factor in this case is that some of these defendants are also facing state charges, which a federal pardon would not cover in Texas. Yeah, but rallying behind these people is of the, like, utmost urgency. Same as all the anti ICE protesters around the country who are facing repression.

[Host 3]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

I do want to note that, like our previous coverage of Prairie, my previous coverage focused on how the government used these specific charges, how they use specific testimony and. And flimsy evidence to successfully argue a conviction, while also mentioning that some of the mistakes that the public defenders made during that case. Missing deadlines to file motions, not calling witnesses. Right. There is unique aspects of this case, and I think knowing what those are is important. When I was putting together that episode, a lot of the coverage I saw talked about how, you know, fucked up this situation is, and it really is. Right. But I think it's also important to actually know how the state is able to do this. Like, how they're able to argue this in very specific ways, to understand some of the unique aspects of this case and to know what the state and jurors considered relevant evidence. Saying certain things in group chats, but also just being at a protest with someone else wearing possibly matching clothing. Right. Understanding those specifics, I think is also important. But going forward, supporting these defendants, regardless of their conviction is of the utmost urgency. We will link to the support committee for the Prairie Line defendants and the donation link to help with legal costs and other expenses resulting from the state repression.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I'm sure these people will have a lengthy and challenging appeal process ahead of them. Like, they. They will need significant legal support.

[Host 3]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

If they're going to get out of prison. And, you know, like, if we look at, like, previous movements in the US like, like Biden pardon, Leonard Peltier, after decades. Right.

[Host 1]

Yep.

[Host 2]

Of him being in prison, like most of the rest of his life was spent in jail. And we can contrast that to how Trump pardoned the J6s very rapidly.

[Garrison Davis]

No. 100%.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Specifically in a post J6 pardon world, and considering the popular resistance to ICE, I think it's imperative that we go forward with this specific intention of. Even if the appeals fail, an anti ICE movement needs to include these people in their advocacy and getting them pardons in the future.

[Host 3]

Yeah. And I think it is also just worth saying that, you know, I think there's. There's an extent to which this repression would have happened regardless. But part of the reason why this is happening and part of the reason why the judge is saying this stuff. And part of the reason why they find the need to try to do a chilling effect and, you know, use fear and terror to stop anything else, you know, to stop any of the resistance is that the resistance is working. Right. That doesn't mean that people aren't getting hurt in unbelievably sort of hideous ways. It doesn't mean the deportations aren't continuing, but they have not been able to do the things that they wanted to do.

[Host 1]

No, they're. This is defensive, lashing out. Yeah.

[Host 3]

Yeah. You know, there is an extent to which they're doing this because they're losing, and they know it, and they have to. Something has to happen in order to change the balance of how this whole sort of conflict between ICE and people's communities has been unfolding. And this is one of the things they're trying to do to do that.

[Host 1]

Yeah. And more broadly, they're just trying to chill anything that could become part of successful resistance. Like, they understand that anything that's public to the administration that looks bad can make them look bad. Like, that's why they're lashing out at the fucking Reflecting Pool tool. Like, the goal is to just like. To instill a sort of instinctive fear of doing anything that could make the administration look bad. They're trying to, like, force their own sort of, like, Les Majest situation out through just, like, arresting people whenever they embarrass the regime.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

And specifically trying to criminalize common protest tactics and picking specific cases like, you know, Prairie Land and like, the 15 defendants in Minneapolis. And rather than actually focusing the majority of the case on alleged crimes, instead focusing on antifa as this scary specter. Right. It's anarchism, violent militancy.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

We're just discussions or. Aesthetics of militancy is really what is. Is really what the case is like resting on and convincing a jury that these people are a scary group of outside agitators. But by solidifying a conviction that actually criminalizes what are legal protest tactics. Like, this is the scariest part about the case in Minneapolis, in the Twin Cities, is that most of that document is covering legal, Like ICE Watch, Rapid Response networks. Right. Legal actions. But they're trying to criminalize people's coordination to do that legal action by focusing on a group that the government thinks is specifically, you know, militant or has certain political beliefs.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I would say that the Minneapolis indictment is not the Prairie Land indictment. Like that. It's a very different thing.

[Garrison Davis]

Totally and totally. Yeah.

[Host 2]

We made an episode and that people go back and listen to it. But like, I think people, I understand the fear that people, people are feeling, but like, I want you to know that, like, this isn't every case going forward. Right. For this is a case. Yeah. That they have had success and it extracted like a really horrific burden. Most of the cases they bought in Minnesota have been thrown out.

[Garrison Davis]

The details and evidence of these cases are very, very different.

[Host 1]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

I'm only invoking the comparison because the strategy from the DOJ is similar. Even if the specific details and evidence in these cases do why they differ. And regardless of those differences, I think both, both the defendants in both cases should receive the same amount of support.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Like I mentioned, links for the support committee and the donation link will be at the very top of the description below. Let's go on a break and return for more news.

[George Taveras]

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[Host 2]

We are back and we're talking about Iran. We saw a lot of back and forth over the weekend about the mou, about Trump threatening the Iranian delegation, about them not signing it.

[Garrison Davis]

The MOU of Versailles didn't work out.

[Host 2]

The MOU of Versailles. We have an MOU in place right at the time of writing. This rests on a very fragile piece in Lebanon. And I want to read something from Bengavir about Lebanon. He's a national security minister in Israel. Yeah. Last time we spoke about him, he was physically assaulting people from the flotilla. I think I'm just going to read this out. Through every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn. With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the idf. And this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration. I told the Prime Minister, even in our private meetings, for every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. Enough with the ping pong. In the Middle east, you don't win with measured responses and restraint. You need to go berserk to obliterate, to crush the terror. That's just a genocide post.

[Garrison Davis]

Like, there's, there's insanely genocidal.

[Host 1]

Yeah, super genocidal.

[Host 2]

I mean it. Like, he might as well just say, like, what I want is a genocide. The genocide is what I want. Like, in other historically documented genocides, it is relatively rare to have the person just being like, we're doing a genocide over here. This is a genocide.

[Host 1]

Seems like a good time for it. Yeah.

[Host 2]

Like, like it is historically somewhat remarkable to just be like, yes, we want to wipe them all out. Actually, if anyone wonders if this is genocide or not. Absolutely. Like, you will not find a clearer statement of genocidal intent than this. And so the Iran peace deal being contingent on Israel at least finding peace in Lebanon. Right now they're occupying southern Lebanon. It doesn't look like they're leaving. Is contingent on this government, which includes someone who is openly genocidal, finding a peace deal with Lebanon, which, I mean, what kind of peace, what kind of compromise can you come to with that person? Israel continues to be the force that continues to destabilize the region and cause more death and suffering. Let's move back to America. The Senate did pass a war powers resolution this week. It came through from the House. A resolution here. It expresses the will of Congress. It's slightly different from a piece of legislation. It is a setback for Trump. Right. It's not nothing. Especially because some Republicans supported it. Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Bill Cassidy. Of course, John Fetterman crossed the other way because he is a MAGA Republican. He just has a blue badge next to him. So in 2019, probably the most analogous kind of recent example. Trump vetoed a resolution concerning U.S. support for the Saudi led coalition in Yemen. Right. He will likely ignore this. History understanders will know that we didn't stop supporting the Saudis and he is very unlikely to change his policy about this, but he is clearly very upset about it. And this is important because Trump has a record, as we go into the midterms, of attempting to destroy the careers of any Republican who he considers to have spoken out against him. Right. So in a general sense, with a, with a war, Congress would have to approve it within 60 days, sometimes for national security reasons. It could be extended by the executive branch to 90 days. What the White House is arguing here is that the April ceasefire means that that clock has stopped and that the War Powers Resolution therefore pertains to a war that no longer exists. And if they start again, it will be a completely different, separate and unrelated thing. And that clock would start again from zero.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah.

[Host 2]

Jesus Christ. That's kind of magical thinking. But that's what they're going with. Right. Just before we recorded, it was reported that Trump had a lunch, like a closed door lunch with GOP senators, which resulted in him getting into a screaming match with some of those senators, including Cassidy. Clearly the peace deal, the 14 points that we, that we spoke about last time have been extremely unpopular with the Republicans. Right. Because Trump eventually caved on like, like Iran's coming out of this perhaps strategically in a better position than it went into this. Now, obviously the US has done massive damage to Iranian infrastructure to kill people. Right. And, but in terms of actually their military capacity, we, it seems to be a much less degraded than we initially thought. It looks like this continues to be one of the areas where Trump is bleeding GOP support. And so it is interesting to keep track of this. Let's move on to talk about immigration now. So the D.C. district Court had a ruling this week. It ordered the government to facilitate the return of a man, Mr. Martinez Andino, that they had deported to Honduras. The quote from the opinion, I'm going to quote kind of extensively here, I have removed, like when you get these opinions right, they will have in text citations for other court cases. And I've removed those for reading clarity. Quote. After being arrested, detained in Montana by immigration authorities, and moved between at least six detention centers in different states across the country, he seemingly disappeared. He was not permitted to contact his attorneys for more than 10 days. And neither Immigration and Customs Enforcement nor Customs and Border Protection would tell his attorneys where he was or in which agency's custody, despite repeated requests, not until his attorneys filed this lawsuit, initially seeking only a temporary restraining order directing defendants to tell them where and in whose custody plaintiff was located, did the government disclose that he had been removed to Honduras the same day, purportedly because he had voluntarily agreed to that departure. So this guy was kept without contact to his lawyer who was trying to contact him and who he was asking to talk to for 10 days. He disputes in this case that he voluntarily agreed to depart because he was deprived of access to his legal team because he wasn't able to understand the documents he was asked to sign. I can say from numerous interviews I've conducted with people who have been in detention that there is a great deal of pressure to sign those documents. And they're there all the time. Right. Like in the middle of the night when you can't sleep and it's freezing fucking cold. That document, it's right there on the wall for you to sign.

[Host 3]

Yep.

[Host 2]

The court ordered the government to, quote, ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Honduras. And they cited Abrego Garcia versus Noem. Right. So they're using that as like, a precedent here. That doesn't mean that he gets to come home and he's not going to be pursued by immigration.

[Host 1]

Right.

[Host 2]

That means that they have to process him and not hide him away from his lawyer for 10 days because effectively what they did was hid this man from his lawyers for more than a week and then forced him to sign a document he couldn't meaningfully consent to. Some background here. He entered as a 14 year old without family members. I don't like the term unaccompanied minor because I've spent time with migrants traveling to the US and there are often children who are traveling without their family, but they're still accompanied by somebody or somebody who's just decided to take care of them. But that would be the legal term here. Right. He was granted sij, Special Immigrant juvenile status, and then when he got back to Honduras, he contacted his lawyer, filed an affidavit stating that the paperwork he signed when he was detained was not explained to him. And he was, quote, told the only option he had detention was to sign for the paperwork. He, quote, asked to speak with his attorneys for days between nine days between March 31 and April 9, and his, quote, requests were ignored or denied. And he, quote, told immigration officials that he was afraid to return to Honduras and wanted an interview or a hearing with the judge. These Requests were also, quote, ignored or denied. He also says he felt terribly mistreated due to poor food and no access to showers. He also gave a different timeline of deportation than that which the government presented in his case, suggesting that he may not have entered the country at the time. The government said he was out of their custody, which is important, right? Because the government's saying we don't have him anymore. His timeline, when they landed, how long they sat on the tarmac, when they transited the border there is different from the one that the government provided. It's good to see this case. Right, but he will still face an uphill battle. I also want to talk very briefly about Blanche vs Lau. This is a ruling that returning green card holders are now considered, or can be considered applicants for admission, which means they can be placed on immigration parole when entering the country. The case here pertains to Mr. Lau, who returned in 2012 and was placed on parole while facing charges related to trademark counterfeiting. I do want to go back and reference that date again. 2012. This is something that happened when Barack Obama was president. Barack Obama loved to deport people. Anybody who's telling you that that isn't the case is lying to you. Mr. Lau later pled guilty and therefore was swiftly placed in removal proceedings because the government argued he was inadmissible. So when you are paroled, you're not technically admitted. You are paroled pending admission. Therefore, if you are found to be inadmissible, it is quicker to begin that removal. So this is where the Supreme Court had to decide, Right? Generally, green card holders are considered to have already been admitted when they are returning. This ruling, though, will have serious consequences for LPRs, legal permanent residents, green card holders. This pertains to crimes involving moral turpitude. I spoke about these a great deal, and I don't think we already have the space or time to go into them here, but we're just going to say that it is a broad and nebulous category because, quote from the Supreme Court opinion here, nothing in the INA required the border officer to have a clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude before deeming him an applicant for admission. So Mr. Lau had not been convicted of that crime. Right. He had been charged with that crime. Mr. Lau is still contesting whether this particular crime does involve moral turpitude, it seems. But nonetheless, this is a significant thing that green card holders, legal permanent residents, need to be aware of. That's it for James reads a bunch of court documents this week. I'll link to all the court docs in the thing if you guys want to get deep in there.

[Host 3]

So in other extremely bleak news, we're moving to the climate front where we are seeing a whole bunch of heat waves across the world. I want to start in India and Pakistan. So India has been dealing with very, very serious heat wave for a lot of parts of May and June. Temperatures just in parts of New Delhi have hit 123 degrees Fahrenhe, which is a nightmare.

[Host 1]

Yeah, that's, that's really bad.

[Host 3]

Yeah, yeah. In New Delhi it's consistently been over 100 degrees.

[Host 1]

We're also talking about over 100 degrees in one of the most humid and worst AQI places on earth. Like that's just hell, yeah, that's hell yeah.

[Host 3]

Yeah. And as we're going to get to in a second, in places where people don't have access to air conditioning and especially the, you know, the, the more rural and the more like the further out you get, you're dealing with people where you don't have good access to electricity and electricity grids tend to fail on the heat, especially when it is this hot and also this humid. Just that we know of the direct reporting from the Indian Health ministry is reporting a hundred dead from the heat. It's probably much larger than that. One of the very consistent things when you're reporting on this and you know, the BBC for example, will talk to researchers is that yeah, the deaths are probably way higher, but there's real problems with how heat related deaths are categorized because the thing that kills you is the heat. But you're dying from like another sort of like health factor you had going on. So we're probably not going to know what the magnitude of this was for a pretty long time. Things have been bad enough that almost half of the states in India have either and it depends a lot on the region, but a lot of these places have just straight up shut down their schools or have revised the schedules for their schools and effectively just started the summer break early because it is too hot to send kids to classrooms sometimes there's been sort of like zoom school a la sort of stuff people probably are familiar from, from like the lockdowns. But yeah, yeah, the BBC did a report from Bando, which is a district in Uttar Pradesh where there was a full week in May where It was between 1118 degrees, which is just a nightmare. And the other extremely dangerous part, and this is also true with the other places we want to be talking about but is particularly has been true in a lot of places in India, is that it's not really cooling at night. And that, as we've discussed on this show before in a whole bunch of different segments, but it's worth repeating every single time it is hot. That's one of the ways that things get very, very dangerous, because when there aren't periods you can cool off at night, that is like. That is part of the way that heat stroke and deaths from heat injury are exacerbated and intensified. Now there's also a heat wave going on across Europe.

[Host 1]

Yeah, a lot of heat waves to go around here.

[Host 2]

Yeah, fortunately.

[Host 1]

Yeah, yeah.

[Host 3]

Oh, yeah, yeah. So both the UK and France are seeing their hottest weather on record. France saw their hottest day on record and their hottest night on record, which is extremely bad. 40 people have died in France, I think, since the beginning of June just from drownings from people trying to escape the heat.

[Host 1]

Oh, my God.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 3]

Which is really weak. Yeah, that's.

[Garrison Davis]

That's brutal.

[Host 3]

Yeah. And there's also been, like, record temperatures of places in Spain. You're seeing temperatures that should not be happening, not just at sea level, but up in the mountains. You're seeing temperatures that are astounding and temperatures that you know the architecture of these places and their electrical grids and just like, do you have air conditioning? Right. Like, a lot of the places where these heat waves are striking are not places that they've necessarily hit before and they're not designed to handle this kind of heat.

[Host 2]

Yeah. I mean, people aren't familiar. Most of our houses in Europe are built differently from houses in the us. They're not particularly designed, like, especially as you get into Spain. Like, some of them were designed with shade in mind, but not with like a temperature conservation insulation. And so specifically air conditioning. Right. Air conditioning is much, much less common than it is in the United States.

[Host 1]

Yep.

[Host 3]

Yeah. It's also worth noting that, like, one of the things that's intensifying this in a lot of places in India, but this is true. The more into the developing world you are, like, the more fucked you are in a lot of ways about this. But, like, you're also dealing with a lot of places where just the trees have been cut down for industrial and sort of mining purposes, and that also is increasing temperatures. And I want to close by just saying that, right. We're seeing the hottest temperatures on record and this is what's happening under 1.4 degrees of global warming. Right. Like the versions of this where we're supposed to be stabilizing are, you know, the sort of, what's supposed to be the sort of habitable zone. Right. The case scenarios where we like quote unquote, deal with climate change are like 2 degrees of warming, 2.5 degrees of warming. It's already this bad. It is just going to get worse. And this is one of the just persistent kind of quiet crises that is happening in the backup of everything else, which is that. Yeah. The way that we're powering all of our industries is causing the world to burn.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Complicated further by like austerity measures and make it harder for people to fund cooling their homes in Europe. Right. And the things that you might need to buy or do to keep your house cool. Margaret and I made an episode a while ago about heat waves. So if you're looking for some resources, you might be able to find some there.

[Host 3]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Let's go on break and then we will return for a few more news stories. Hopefully not all of them depressing.

[Host 1]

Don't worry, I've got a happy one.

[Sam Taggart]

Yay.

[George Taveras]

This is George Taveras and Sam Taggart from Stratiolab. Okay, picture it. Your apartment after a Saturday workout. The gym bag, the couch, maybe even the car. Mi amor. It's a full novella of odors and not the glamorous kind.

[Sam Taggart]

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[George Taveras]

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[Sam Taggart]

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[George Taveras]

Because home should smell like you. Fabulous. Fresh, Unforgettable.

[Sam Taggart]

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[Host 1]

We're back. And as promised, I have some less depressing stuff to talk to you all about.

[Host 2]

Oh, sorry.

[Host 1]

No, I messed up. We're going to talk about the deaths of Millie Billions. So if you can recall back to the first months of the Trump administration in like February 3, 2025, this is a little bit after Musk started his, you know, the early stages of his work with Doge. He tweeted, quote, we spent the weekend feeding USAID at the wood chipper. I think we all remember that, that great moment. And this has been widely criticized and there are numerous articles, studies and reports that have come out and made the case that the cuts to USAID that Doge made have resulted in a tremendous amount of human death and suffering. Musk has consistently denied this. Earlier this week, he, quote, tweeted a fan who had written, if cutting USAID killed a child, a single child, it would be covered by the media like the biggest story in history. Musk added exactly in his quote tweet. Now, there actually have been several stories that specify individual children that have died because of cuts to usaid and we'll be talking about some of them.

[Host 2]

Oh yeah, but I want to quote

[Host 1]

from a recent article by Matt Novak and Gizmodo. The trillionaire oligarch even insisted that USAID is the one that's killed people, retweeting a conspiracy theory from Rand Paul that Anthony Fauci was to blame for the COVID 19 pandemic because federal funds were being used to conduct gain of function research. USAID money killed millions, Musk wrote Tuesday. Admittedly, U.S. intelligence agencies now endorsed the idea that COVID 19 escaped from a lab, but that only happened after President Trump took office for a second time. Before Trump took control, intel agencies were largely skeptical of the idea. So you're already seeing like the dimensions of sort of the spin here to all of the many deaths as a result of and this will come down to not just the USAID cuts, but anytime this is pointed out is the counterfactual will be well, but actually these groups were killing way more people because of and then insert this insane conspiracy theory, right? We've reached the point where they're now load bearing both for the personal mental health of the richest man in the world and for the federal government itself. Like the conspiracy theories aren't just a thing that are being signposted to get votes. They're a load bearing part of the ideology because otherwise everything's a failure. Right? Good stuff. Glad we're here. So Novak's article noted, and as I opened the episode by mentioning, a ton of people have done the important work of documenting just how many human beings have been killed as a result of the cuts that Elon Musk was integral in pushing. We'll talk more about that later, but I want to give one example from a Washington Post article published in September of 2025 that does specify a single child that was killed as a result of these cuts. Quote Fever ravaged the body of five year old Suza Kenyabi as she sweated and shivered on a thin mattress in a two room clinic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The pigtailed girl who had liked pretty dresses, was battling malaria and desperately needed medication that could save her life. That medication, already purchased by a US Taxpayer funded program, was tantalizingly close a little more than seven miles away, but it hadn't reached the clinic where Susa was being treated because President Donald Trump's suspension of foreign aid had thrown supply chains into chaos. The injection Susan needed had traveled thousands of miles to the central African nation USAID and other records show, only to be stranded in a regional distribution warehouse in the same city where she was gasping for air. Less than a week after her symptoms began, Suza was dead. Congolese government data shows that in Sousa's province, deaths caused by malaria nearly tripled in the first half of this year. So keep that in mind during this next bit. That's just one of many stories we may I think I will cover this at some point on BTV in more detail, but a couple of days ago, you know, the same week that we're recording this episode, Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, went on the IHIP News podcast, which I am not familiar with, but is apparently a sister podcast to what the Hill calls the Notable I've had it podcast. I don't know who any of these people are, but whatever Kana was asked, like what will your party do if the Democrats win the midterms? Here's what the Hill says happened next. I do believe that once we take power, there has to be accountability. There needs to be accountability for Elon Musk, khanna told Welch. You know, they're celebrating that he created 4400 millionaires, but they don't talk about the four and a half million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling the US Agency for International Development usaid, khanna added. He needs to answer for that. He needs to be subpoenaed. He needs to face investigation. He needs to answer for what he did with the Department of Government Efficiency. Khanna's comments were quickly exerted from the podcast itself and shared all around the Internet until they reached Musk and he made a comment of his own on the website that he owns. The standard applied by Doge was very simple and easy. Provide contact information for the recipients of AIDS that we can confirm it's not fraudulent, the Tech Trillionaire said in one of the posts. The reality is that money was being sent to corrupt politicians under the guise of aid. Liars and stock inside traders like Roe the robber should be in prison. Musk went on to claim that it's time to sue this liar.

[Host 2]

It would be great if he sued them. Like that would be a fantastic outcome.

[Host 1]

Great. I'd be fine with that. It looks like the direction Roe wants to go is much dumber because everything, everyone in US politics is annoying. Khanna responded to this by challenging Elon Musk to a televised debate. And I'm. Fuck off not gonna say what I think. I'm frustrated. Anyway, instead of going into that, I want to talk about where the number row cited came from, because that is worth discussing. This claim to four and a half million children who might die as a result of US aid cuts. On January 1st of 2025, the UCA Fielding School of Public Health carried out research that found that over the prior 20 years, USAID funding had helped save 91 million lives. Obviously, that same study also concluded that the massive cuts to US aid under Trump would imperil that work. And they calculated that the cuts would cause 14 million additional deaths around the world by 2030, including the deaths of more than four and a half million children under five. So if you look back to Rose phrasing, I think he actually did a reasonably good job of, like, citing this information, because what Rose said was, they don't talk about the four and a half million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling usa. Right. That's a reasonably accurate way to sum that up. So I'll give Roe some points there, although I'll take a couple of points away because this phrasing does somewhat omit that these are predicted future deaths. He's not like, not saying that, but he could have been a little clearer here.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

And I might also say, because I think you could argue that he undercounted the severity of what that study says, because the study does just notes that four and a half million children under five could die as a result of these, which suggests way more than four and a half million total children deaths. Right. There are a lot of children who are over five.

[Host 2]

Yeah, yeah. Most of the children are under over five.

[Host 1]

Most children are probably over five years old.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

I do want to quote from UCLA studies again here, just to clarify where their data came from, quote, the London based journal the Lancet analyzed data from 133 countries. The work combined two approaches. A retrospective evaluation covering the years 2001 to 2021 and. And forecasting models projecting impacts through 2030 based on reductions to the budget of USAID. U.S. citizens contribute about 17 cents per day to USAID, about 64 dollars per year. I think most people would support continued USAID funding if they knew just how effective such a small contribution can be to saving millions of lives, said Dr. James Machinko. And I, I agree with that. I think that's those are the kind of numbers that we should be putting out, which is like, yeah, this is how little money it costs per US tax pair to save this huge number of lives around the world. It's worth digging into some of the more specific reporting we've seen on the consequences of these US aid cuts because the reporting that Roe was citing is just predicting future possible deaths. Yeah, but there's documentation, as I cited earlier, about the people that Elon Musk and Doge have already helped to kill or. Right. Or who have the cuts that they have championed have led to these people's deaths would be the most accurate way of saying that.

[Host 2]

And celebrated like.

[Host 1]

Yeah, and celebrated it.

[Host 2]

Right.

[Host 1]

They have, yeah. So again, I'll probably do a whole BTB on all this stuff later, but I want to discuss one more story which was published earlier this year in the New York Times. The title of that article was In A Trail of Hunger and death behind US aid cuts. Trump last year very suddenly cut US aid to Afghanistan. You know, even after our 2021 pull out from the country, we had continued to send a significant amount, about a billion dollars worth of aid a year, which was more than a third of all of the aid flowing into Afghanistan. So given the status of that country, you can see how load bearing that is to their like, you know, infrastructure of health.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Cutting that has caused the worst child starvation crisis in 25 years in Afghanistan. And this catastrophe has been exacerbated by the closing of 450 health centers as a result of these cuts. Here's a selection from that Times article. The isolated province of Daikundi has lost many of its health clinics to the USAID cut. The clinic in Nalej, surrounded by parched fields of almond and mulberry trees, was a lifeline for 850 families. The villagers say its closure has hurt children the most. Zakiya, three months old, has been vomiting since birth and her condition is deteriorating, said her mother, Sharifa Kowari. For weeks she hoped her husband would bring back enough money from the coal mine where he worked to finance a taxi ride to the nearest clinic. But he said his pay was barely enough to put food on the table. The loss of the clinic erased years of monitoring that had saved children's lives. When I was giving birth, we were losing babies, babies, said Nick Bakht, Ms. Kowari's mother in law. One would hope that younger mothers these days wouldn't face that and another tragedy contained in that article. Quote In 2024, the United States funded over half of Afghanistan's nutrition and agricultural programs. Food insecurity has skyrocketed since last year's cuts. More than 17 million Afghans, 40% of the population, now face acute levels of hunger, 2 million more than last year. Seven provinces face critical food insecurity, the final stage before famine, according to the Integrated Food Security Classification, a group of international organizations that the United nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor global hunger. None were at this level a year ago. Malnutrition is also hitting cities affecting the most vulnerable, the very young, sick and elderly first, as it does elsewhere. Muhammad Ali, nine months old, was one of a dozen toddlers waylaying or dozing in a Kabul nutrition ward on a recent morning. He was too weak to ingest milk, said his mother. Her husband's meager income as a housekeeper means they often eat only once a day. And there's millions of stories like this already and just a hid. I mean the number of deaths already as a result of these cuts is hideous and undeniable. And one of the counters you'll see when this get brought up to Musk and his fawning fans is that like, oh, the money was just going to corrupt dictators and local rulers and like no, the damage that we're already seeing shows that it wasn't there was aid in place that was catching some people and it's not catching them now. And the human consequences of this have been atrocious and that's, that's just inarguable. Anyway, that's all I got for today.

[Host 2]

I remember that time receiving calls and messages from people like in the, the Burmese diaspora and on the Thai, Burmese border about one of the only clinics where people could deliver their babies closing down and people literally going to the clinic, finding it locked like inaccessible to them and delivering their babies on the street outside like this is within maybe days, hours after the USA after Elon Musk Tweeted about how he didn't go to a party because he was too busy axing this shit. Like, yeah, I've seen USAID all over the world and yeah, undoubtedly not every penny that goes into that goes directly to like buying food, because that's not how that shit works. Right? People have to administer this. People have to get things done. Sometimes the way you get things done is through things that we would consider corruption. I don't particularly care as long as it results in the person who needs food getting food or who needs medicine getting medicine. And like, there are of course, other ways to achieve that end and I think we should pursue them. But, like, this is one of the worst things that the Trump administration has done, one of the cruelest and most evil things that the United States has done in a very long time. And like, USAID often crowded out other agencies, right? Like, so they, so that like local networks, local NGOs, other NGOs couldn't exist in that space. And then bait and switching, like, this is particularly evil.

[Garrison Davis]

For our last main story, something that is arguably, arguably less depressing. On Tuesday night, we saw the first real test of Zoran Mamdani and New York City DSA's political power. All three of the Mamdani endorsed candidates won the Congressional Democratic primary, and nine out of 10 insurgent candidates on the DSA slate won their races for Congress, State assembly and State Senate. These insurgent candidates are non income as people challenging seats. Now, as for the bom, Donnie Slate, former City Comptroller Brad Lander beat incumbent Congressman dan Goldman with 65.8% of the vote in District 10, which is Park Slope to Lower Manhattan. Dan Goldman is an establishment Democrat who's supported by aipac. He got famous for Trump's first impeachment hearings. Oh, how well that went. Bradlander opposes aipac, has long called Israel's actions in Gaza genocide, but also describes himself as a, quote, unquote, liberal Zionist, the one that would vote against offensive weapons sales to Israel. When campaigning with Mamdani and Palestinian activists Mohsen Madhui, who's been targeted by the Trump administration, Brad Lander said, quote, as a proud Jewish New Yorker, I will join you in that fight to end occupation and apartheid and genocide, unquote. Lander's victory here is a pretty significant upset. He was projected to win. He was doing good in the polls. But unseating Goldman is not a small feat. The second congressional race I want to talk about is in Bushwick, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. And this was technically an empty seat. But the outgoing congresswoman threw her backing behind progressive Antonio Reynoso. The Brooklyn Bureau president. Mamdani and the DSA backed Claire Valdez, a State assembly member and a union organizer. There was a huge organizing push for Claire in the weeks leading up to the election. There's a massive ground game from DSA. 300,000 doors knocked. Meanwhile, a dark money super PAC dropped up to a million dollars in the last week of the election to blast pro Reynoso ads. And Reynoso had backing of a bunch of unions and the Working Families Party, more kind of like typical, you know, progressive Democratic establishment organizations in New York. This is the, quote, unquote, like commie corridor. This is like the kind of one of the further left districts in the country. And Reynoso is a progressive figure, but Claire was absolutely running to his left and had support from the UAW as well as the DSA. And come election day, Claire won with 56.1% of the vote, while Reynoso earned 35.8%. But the biggest upset of the night was in the 13th district, Upper Manhattan and parts of the West Bronx. Community organizer Darrelliza Avila Chavier beat the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Adriano Espaillat. Espaillat has been a powerhouse in New York city politics for 30 years. He's deeply tied to the New York City Democratic political establishment. And this was the closest race. Avila Javier won with 49.4% of the vote to Espaillat, 45.9%. Avila Javier has been very active in pro Palestinian organizing in New York City, including the Columbia encampments. Pro Esplat attack ads against her highlighted a tweet she wrote a few years ago reading, quote, unquote, fuck Kamala Harris. AIPAC pumped $650,000 into a pro ESPAT super PAC, which spent almost $3 million to help reelect him. And in total, espiat received over 7 million from the real estate Wall street pro Israel lobby and from GOP donors, as well as a collection of super PACs. In the lead up to this primary, things were getting pretty ugly. In response to a campaign speech where Mamdani quoted Zizek's translation of Gramsci quote, the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters. Before discussing how AAPAC and Super PACS are using dark money to hide the identity of donors while blanketing the airways in bad faith attacks, in response to this speech, New Jersey Democratic House Rep. Josh Gottheimer responded, monsters. Dark money. A Hidden hand turning us against each other. Swap APAC for Jews. And it's the oldest anti Semitic conspiracy theory in the books, unquote.

[Host 2]

It shall make up a bunch of shit. And it means a different thing.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah. If you swap this word for this word.

[Host 1]

If you change what this is.

[Host 2]

Yeah. If you said something completely different, it would have a different meaning.

[Garrison Davis]

But Mamdani has faced multiple questions about this in the past few days, and I think he has answered them fairly well. But, yeah, people trying to insinuate that Dark Money is like an anti Semitic term when it just refers to, like an actual process of hiding the identity of donors to a super PAC.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

And a term people have been using for 20 years.

[Garrison Davis]

It's a real term. It's a real. It's a real term.

[Host 1]

There's a book called Dark Money. It's a term people have been using for forever.

[Garrison Davis]

It's completely absurd. But things got way worse than this. While campaigning, Darielaza was harassed by people yelling, quote, unquote, Jew hater. And someone following her around screaming, she's Haitian.

[Host 1]

Jesus.

[Host 2]

Jesus Christ. Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Racial animus continue to be weaponized in the District 13 election. A senior advisor to Representative Espailt, who is then on leave, went on a Spanish language podcast to say that Mamdani wanted to change the racial demographics of Washington Heights, northern Manhattan by making it, quote, no longer a bastion of the Dominican community, unquote, but instead a, quote, unquote bastion of the Haitian Muslim community allied to him.

[Host 3]

Oh, boy.

[Host 2]

Anti Haitian bigotry, specifically among Dominicans, is a real and vicious thing. Right. We've made a whole podcast about this a couple of weeks ago. But I did wonder when I. When they. When someone was shouting, she's Haitian. If that was what was happening there.

[Garrison Davis]

Yes. And that was definitely weaponized by campaign advisors and volunteers going into this race.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Darieliza herself is a child of Dominican immigrants. She's Afro Latina. But this advisor's invocation of this great replacement theory style attack is an extremely disgusting play.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it's. This is. This exists in the discourse in Dominican Republic, to be clear. Like, it's not. They didn't. They didn't whip that one out of thin air.

[Garrison Davis]

But yeah, politicians from the Dominican Republic echoed this rhetoric on X the Everything app. In specific reference to this district 13 election. Come election day, Espayat's canvassers screamed at dairies of voters and volunteers, quote, dominicans only go to Cuba if you want communism. Shut up. Get educated. We don't want Islam here. Either we're Christians here, unquote.

[Host 2]

Jesus Christ. Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Very ugly weaponization of racial nationalism.

[Host 2]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Now this did not work, Terry. Elisa won in what is a massive upset. And her Palestinian activism was a, a big part of her campaign and proof that anti Israel politics do have a strong place in the Democratic Party moving forward. And to do that, you have to unseat these AIPAC backed candidates.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

This was a really big night for New York City dsa. And this election has cemented that. New York City DSA is possibly the strongest political machine in the city, at least in terms of elections. Right. And if you want to look at political power more broadly, it's like the New York City DSA and like the NYPD right now that are like strong dueling factions. And part of Zoran Mamdani's mayorship is a manifestation of those contradictions. But also based on this sweep of DSA candidates going against establishment Democrat incumbents, people are also reconsidering zoron. And the DSA's decision to curb Councilman Chose's primary challenge against Hakeem Jeffries.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Who knows how that would have gone. Possibly she could have tapped into this incredible momentum and beaten House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. That could have certainly been possible. DSI was also pretty thinly stretched this election. They had a lot of stuff going on. And it's possible that a primary of this scale would have prohibited their ability to win some of these other elections. We don't know. I don't think it's super useful to retroactively speculate so much. But this sweep is useful information going forward that supports the idea that there is a real hunger to unseat these establishment Democratic figures. And that has been proven Tuesday night in New York City.

[Host 2]

It's the, it's the polar opposite of what we've seen in California. Right. Which is like the Democratic Party doubling down without as many successful left primary challenges.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah. And I mean New York City DSA is like a uniquely highly organized like faction in the city. Like the fact that it was able to out organize the Working Families Party is, is significant.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

And to, to, to a pretty, to a pretty extensive degree.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

In Bushwick, the commie corridor, Greenpoint, Williamsburg,

[Host 2]

there's still space for, for those Dems to run under Working Families Party and run a spoiler, but we'll see how it goes.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah. And I mean if specifically, if Dariel is a. Gets into Congress, which it is almost certain that she will, based on how this night went, she could very Likely be the farthest left Congress member in the history of the country. Or at least in the past like 50 years, like significantly to the left of. Of of AOC and like the campaign itself was significantly to the left of AOC's campaign.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Garrison Davis]

Anyway, that is, that is what happened in New York Tuesday night.

[Jana Kramer]

Cool.

[Host 1]

I guess last. We should talk about a couple of mass shootings.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

That have unfortunately occurred in the last week. Two mass shootings that I wanted to talk about. One happened just the day before. We are recording this. So on June 23rd of 2026 in

[Garrison Davis]

Montreal, 25 year old Seth Hatfield of Lethbridge, Virginia allegedly started shooting from a hotel window in the Codenay borough of Montreal. Footage posted to social media shows the shooter firing at police on street level before being shot and killed himself. Two other people were killed during this incident, a police officer and a civilian.

[Host 1]

There's a manifesto, it's about 104 pages that is out. I have not gotten to read the whole thing yet, but early reporting on it suggests it's a lot of incel type rhetoric. A lot of discussion about like how it's. It's unfair that women are, you know, hypergamous and going for all of this like tiny number of attractive guys. And so this huge. It's very normal like incel stuff. He like lists out the different like classes of targets that he thinks are okay. One thing that does kind of make this interesting is he's grafting this like weird, kind of like reactionary anti capitalism to the inceldom, which has been done before. This is not like the first time I've seen this.

[Garrison Davis]

Also mixing in the west is preventing me from getting my girlfriend right.

[Host 2]

Yeah.

[Host 1]

Mixing in some anti Semitism and anti Zionism and also mixing in like at least some kind of left wing and right wing signifying. Really like there's some calls to ending capitalism that can seem kind of socialist, but then a lot of really reactionary anti immigrant stuff in there too. He's also really angry at pickup artists. The shooting took place outside of the head office of alo, which is the parent company of pornhub. And he was also really angry about pornhub. A big, a big chunk of the manifest was apparently him justifying like attacking executives of specific companies, including like the people who put out pornography. This is not like super weird stuff, unfortunately. But yeah, it is very sad. It's not the first time this has happened in Canada. There have been. In 2018 there was a van attack in Toronto that killed 10 that was kind of an incel linked attack. There was a 2020 machete. And then of course, there was the Cole Polytechnic attack, which was a couple of decades ago at this point, which is considered to be, in some cases, some people would argue, like the first of the incel, kind of like public, like mass attacks. And then also this week, there was a mass shooting in Chico, California. We don't know a whole lot about this one yet, but I did want to note that it's happened. Law enforcement officials have said that the shooter was wearing clothing like that of the Columbine killer, Eric Harris, and seems to have been like a Columbiner, someone who was, like, interested in mass shootings as a fan and was carrying out this almost as an act of fandom. Again, this is the kind of scene thing we've seen, unfortunately, well over a hundred times in the past. So it's very sad. We'll probably talk a little more about Chico in the future. There's just not a ton of information out, but I didn't want people to not be aware of it.

[Host 2]

Most countries sucks.

[Host 1]

Yeah, well, the news.

[Host 2]

Yeah, it's not a great time in America.

[Garrison Davis]

Yeah, well, to quote Zoron's quote of Zizek mistranslating Gramsci, the world is dying and the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

[Host 1]

No, no, no, no. I disagree. I think now is the time of the Monstars, the antagonists from the classic film Space Jam. This is their year.

[Garrison Davis]

Go, Nyx.

[Host 3]

Put a trans girl on your couch.

[Garrison Davis]

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[Host 1]

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[Host 2]

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