Badlands Media - The Daily Herold: March 25, 2026 – Iran Confusion, Tech Expansion, and Signals Behind the Noise

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

Jon Herold hosts The Daily Herold and breaks down a wide-ranging set of developments centered on uncertainty in the Iran narrative, emerging technology initiatives, and ongoing legal battles shaping the broader landscape. He opens with a focus on the confusion surrounding Trump’s rhetoric on Iran, emphasizing that the lack of clarity appears intentional and strategically designed to keep adversaries guessing, as discussed in the episode transcript. The episode moves through key updates, including discussions on economic signals, AI policy direction, and new appointments tied to science and technology initiatives. Jon also highlights major developments in defense and space, including a proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system and renewed efforts to establish a permanent U.S. presence on the moon, all of which are referenced directly in the source material. Legal and political narratives are another focal point, with attention given to the Missouri v. Biden case and its implications for government involvement in social media moderation, as well as renewed claims surrounding the classified documents case. Jon questions the limits of these rulings and whether they truly address deeper systemic issues, consistent with the commentary in the transcript.

That's a hell of it. Well, good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Daily Herald here on Badlands Media. I'm your host, John Herald, and lots of interesting stuff going on today, actually. Maybe not lots of stuff, but a couple interesting stories that I want to talk through. We got a lot of it having to do with the Iran War, Trump's rhetoric on the Iran War and how nobody knows what the hell is going on. I think that's brilliant and by design. We're going to talk about that a little bit. interesting appointments to a science and technology council i have some economic stuff

what else some ai stuff um moon bases those are always fun to talk about and yeah and we'll just kind of plug away and see what else oh jimmy raskin says he's got this like super secret and damning doj memo from the documents case and we'll see what you guys want to talk about. Yeah, Trump commenting on FISA, we'll talk about that as well. That just came out. I think he truthed about that a little bit ago. Yeah, about nine minutes ago, 10 minutes ago.

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Bitcoin is on the rise, 71,200. And then a few things on the presidential website. we have further continuation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council. So they're still reviewing this stuff. Who knows how long it's going to, like what their goals are with this. Still haven't gotten the National Resilience Strategy, which is disappointing. That may have something to do with this review they're doing. I don't know.

But one of the bigger stories is this. Trump announces appointments to the President's Council of a. advisors on science and technology. Today, President Donald Trump appointed the first members to his president's counsel of advisors on science and technology established by executive order. PCAST brings together the nation's foremost luminaries in science and technology to advise the president and provide recommendations on strengthening American leadership in science and tech.

It'll be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratzios. I think the, you know, there's lots of interesting names on here. The one that I would say kind of upsets me is the Mark Zuckerberg. He's probably my least favorite on this list. And this goes all the way back to when it was still Biden was in office, I believe. I don't remember if it was before or after the election. I think it was before. And Zuckerberg comes out.

He goes on Joe Rogan and does start doing a couple of these interviews and making the rounds. And he starts fessing up to like all the censorship and bullshit. shit that Facebook pulled and I felt like I was crazy because a lot of people in the the truth community were like oh my gosh this is awesome see we told you so look at all these things and I'm saying he's admitting to basically crimes in my opinion but like severe wrongdoing and we're just going to let him off the hook like why why are we not like screaming for him to be investigated where's the punishment then he goes and he gives a bunch of money to Trump's inauguration campaign and all these things he's having meetings at the white house

he's got insider access and I know all these you know, bajillionaires do. But I'm not a fan of like I feel like we almost forgot what we went through when, you know, when Trump was in office the first time and then in the Biden years. Because there's so many things that like we were wronged in many big ways. And instead of seeing like accountability and justice and I know we're waiting for a lot of those things to come and maybe we'll get it we don't know but like one of the people that i would love to see some accountability from or for whatever is mark Zuckerberg and here he's getting on this

presidential council of science and technology and i personally think that's bullshit and obviously i don't know everything trump knows maybe he you you know what what do they say he um they turned him and he's like witness against everybody else for all the crimes and all those things maybe that's true i don't know but because i don't know i'm not going to like pretend that's true i'm not going to speculate to that degree so i'm going to be upset about this i think it's bullshit i would much rather see a general quast on this than a mark zuckerberg and you know who's notice noticeably missing is elon musk it's weird that he's not on here but we have a couple uh oracle people i don't know not a fan mark is several billion dollars above the law

Yeah, that's what it feels like and that's that's kind of the problem. It's kind of the problem and and I know like you know the whole trust Trump I trust he knows what he's doing How are these appointments made? Was it him? Was it somebody else? Was it who gave the most money? Like we don't know and what role these people actually play? I don't know like how much impact they're going to actually have on the fields of science and technology.

I don't know yet to be determined. But it's kind of frustrating to see bad behavior getting rewarded. I still don't know if I can get on Facebook. I know Badlands is a Facebook. I guess that wasn't banned from Facebook. I deleted mine back in the day. Like on myself, but I know Instagram I was booted off of there forever. We finally just got back on with Badlands.

Like there's a whole bunch of censorship issues on all these platforms that haven't, excuse me, haven't been corrected. And we haven't had any accountability for it yet either. But they're getting presidential appointments. So, yeah, there's my rant on that. And I'll move on. Let's go to this two social post. And then we'll get into a great story from CNN where they're like, the fucks is going on.

They have no idea. But this from Donald Trump about 20 minutes ago, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have been working to pass a clean extension of FISA Section 702. You know what, I'm going to look this up just to make sure I don't butcher it. So we all know and are on the same page about what exactly this is. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a legal authority that allows the U.S. government to conduct warrantless, targeted surveillance

of certain non-U.S. persons located abroad to collect foreign intelligence using U.S. communications infrastructure and providers. What Section 702 does, it authorizes the intelligence community, primarily the NSA, to collect specific categories of foreign intelligence information. It permits a lot of things. They targets must be non-U.S. citizens. But I think the issue here comes down to FISA abuse and how often it's been. been misused by the intelligence community. When we are looking to pass something like this and get a reauthorized, we are basically putting trust

back into the intelligence community, the same one that we have been told, have been conducting illegal psychological warfare against the American people, the same ones that have targeted not just us, but Donald Trump and so many people in the movement. These people are like the real root of a lot of the problems. And there's like many tentacles to it.

But we're giving them like the ability and the tools to continue to do their bullshit. And so like right off the bat, before I even get into this post fully, I'm not a fan of this either. I'm not on board with this. Not only like I want the intelligence communities to be completely dismantled. And we should be having a debate whether we even need them at all, let alone giving them the same tools they've been weaponizing and abusing for decades.

Like no. And when you get bipartisan Congress congressional support to do anything, you know it's a problem. It's a uniparty construct. That's so stupid. Anyway, they want a clean extension of FISA's Section 702, a law that passed many years ago by Congress to collect intelligence on foreigners and non-citizens. When used properly, that's the key word, when used properly, FISA is an effective tool to keep Americans safe. for those reasons I've called for a clean 18 month extension. What is 18 months?

And that gets us into, hold on. Would that be September of 2027 if it's like reauthorized today? September, October, 27. However, the critical and common sense reforms that were made in the last reauthorization of FISA must remain intact to protect the American people from abuses. Do we know if the reforms that they made have helped with any of the abuses? I'm pretty sure I had the same stance last time it passed.

I think it's bullshit. I mean, nobody understands this better than me as I was a victim of the worst and most illegal abuse of FISA in our nation's history by radical left lunatics who lied to the FISA court to spy on my 2016 presidential campaign in their attempt to rig the election in favor of cricket Hillary Clinton.

That is why, since the first day of my already historic term, second term, my administration has worked tirelessly to ensure these reforms are being aggressively executed at every level of the executive branch to keep Americans safe, protecting their sacred civil liberties guaranteed by our great constitution. The ongoing successful military activities against the terrorist Iranian regime, it is more important than ever that we remain vigilant, protect our homeland, troops, and diplomats stationed abroad, and maintain our ability to quickly stop bad actors seeking to cause harm to our people and our country.

The fact is whether you like Pfizer or not, it is extremely important, important to our military. I have spoken to many generals about this and they consider it vital. Not one said, even tacitly, that they can do without it, especially right now with our brilliant military operation in Iran. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter, President Donald J. Trump. So, you know, obviously I never served in the military.

I'm not a general. Those people obviously have more insight and more knowledge. and way more firsthand experience with this than I do, or any of us do, probably. That doesn't mean we have to agree with it. It doesn't mean we have to be okay with this. And I know there's going to be a lot of people, the cheerleaders who are like, yeah, let's get Pfizer going again,

the same ones who were decrying it back when it was abused against Trump. And that's even like Cash Patel, which, by the way, we have a great, great like saga unfolding surrounding Cash Patel's girlfriend and Michael Flynn and that cohort. Cash Patel, all these people, like, they were super against Pfizer when they weren't in the FBI. I'm just, today's a rough one for me, guys. I'm feeling salty today with the two things we started off with, this and that science technology thing.

Whatberg Forge says, MEDA shut down my whole business. I can't have my catalog on there anymore, and my reach is a percent. of 1% of followers now. But hey man, Zuckerberg's on the science technology board. You should be okay with your censorship. Kalsang Kujo, the new military AI is suing the administration for trying to use on everyone. Think about that, like the with the advancements and technologies of AI, like if you thought you couldn't trust the government before when they didn't have AI,

you think you can trust them now like now the AI if anything is giving them more plausible deniability it's like oh well we didn't do it the the AI went rogue it's not our fault if we think we can trust our government or any of these people to not abuse the power that they are asking for and being given without our without our vote they are taking it from us illegitimately so our elections are fraudulent and we have no way to hold these people accountable. If you think they're not going to abuse that, you are smoking something that I would like to smoke with you. I think I need some of that. It's ridiculous. There's no way that these people are going to actually use this for good. I know we want to trust that because Trump's in

office, but this is kind of right in line with what Trump does. He pushes stuff forward. It should expose it. We should decry some of this stuff. He wants us to think for ourselves. And I know in this audience, we do a pretty good job of that. But for the most part, people ignore it. They ignore the stuff that goes against their biases. It just is what it is. Does Trump need that to drop the hammer out for the midterms? Even so still bullshit.

Yeah. I believe we were able to abuse us more effectively. So yes. Keeping us safe. This is from misbehaving Irishman. Is a dog whistle we should all worry about. Yeah. Project Leathers.

I'm not a general, but I did stay at a holiday in last night. Love that. I got a cheaper gas story. I'll pull that up. Here in a minute. Tie. What else? Too much social media, dude, ignore it, move on.

I've been pretty good about social media. I'm not engaging in any of the BS on Twitter. I've been like muting or ignoring most of the drama. Just sticking to the info. I haven't been posting that much. I mean, I don't think social media is affecting my train of thought right now. these are these are my principles my values that are when i see things that go against them it gets me a little upset richard roars says john the tech is 50 to 100 ahead of what we are aware of and that's the

problem we are we can't even like imagine the ways that these people are controlling us and like spying on us manipulating us p j corgan uh something is very wrong today's wednesday and we should be at our max level of fs to give but i'm on e yeah You're right. The math on that is right. Is the cost of the fucks to give higher now too? Like when, where's the, what's the correlation between gas prices and how many Fs we give? Do we know? Does anybody know? Maybe Polymathen has a conversion rate on that. People always want the easy button. Polymathen, I put all our savings into a brewery. I started with two partners. We opened in fall of 2019.

Whitmer killed it with COVID lockdowns in just six months. Oh my gosh. I mean, I've always wanted to own a brewery. That sounds amazing, Polly. I didn't know that about you. But yeah, you should come to North Dakota and start your brewery.

You can start it with me. We can start a brewery together. Bad brews. If you have billions of dollars, you can have a small chair at the table. Definitely not cool of that shit big Zuckerberg. Yeah. It's exact.

It's like the normados are supposed to see the hypocrisy, but they don't give a shit. Just give them a beer and a factory life. and they're trying to get their F on, not who they should vote for. Yeah, let's, let me see what Ty just sent over. There we go.

This has to do with gas prices. I shouldn't be checking gas prices every day, like I do the silver and gold and Bitcoin, but anyway, Trump administration waives summer gasoline regulations to address surging fuel prices. The wave regulations on the types of gasoline that are sold during the summer

in an effort to ease surging fuel prices during the Iran war. The EPA issued an emergency waiver to lift restrictions on the sale of E15 gas, a fuel blended with ethanol. The sale of E15 is restricted from June through September due to regulations designed to reduce air pollution. See, that's so stupid. Why do we have those in the first place?

And clearly they're not that important if we're waiving them to keep costs down. Like if they were serious about, you know, hey, we want to reduce pollution because of the effect it's going to have on us down the road. We clearly don't care about that right now because we want the prices to be lower. during this war so get rid of that that shit altogether the EPA also issued a waiver to remove all federal impediments to selling E10 gas which is blended with 10 percent ethanol EPA waivers will work to prevent disruption in America's fuel supply by keeping E15 and E10 on the market and giving Americans more fuel options see these are moves when

when moves like this are made that signals to me that we may be looking at a longer conflict than people want to believe maybe we're not I know yet Yesterday we sent in that, or not when I say we, the Trump administration said they sent over a proposal. Initially, they said they, you know, it's all been agreed to. I ran him out and denied it. And then they said we were talking an hour we heard that Iran is against the proposal. We'll get into that story too. But they're taking steps for the summer, which, yeah, it doesn't even start until May 1st.

That's, you know, a month and a half from now. Seems like they're concerned about this well into the future. just saying Frederick Leathers when I thought how to understand this it seemed to me a wearisome task until I went into the sanctuary of God then I discerned their end truly you set them

in slippery places you make them fall to ruin I like that somebody's hungry for ice cream now oh yeah they that's a good story too I forgot to pull that up Wahlberg they raised the enlistment age and loosen the restrictions

now ask yourself why they would do this just like logically the army raises enlistment age by seven years as military draft fears continue I'm not even saying military draft like that's not my concern but why would why would a military or a country that doesn't even have to be the United States why would any military

especially one in conflict raise the maximum enlistment age for their military is because maybe they anticipate the need for more people in the military probably we were told you know during the Biden years that the enlistments were down right and then when Trump gets back in there it's surging we've never had as many people join the military people can even believe how many people they've never thought it was possible you know like how Trump talks hilarious but now we need

more would you say this is a good sign about what they're anticipating into the future and maybe does nothing do with Iran maybe it's China who knows The former maximum Melissaman age was 35. But they raise it. And they also, what else did they do? They losing the restriction.

I think it was something like if you have a, if you were like, a weed charge or something, you could still get in. I don't remember. It's because 40 is the new 30. PJ. How old are you, PJ?

Are you 40? What about the $150 million dollar put bet on Trump's announcement the other day that paid off 1.5 billion. Maybe. Maybe that's a problem. I think I have that story. Spencer says maybe reducing the regulations now is just good timing and an excuse to get rid of some of the global warming agenda.

People won't can't fight it when prices are up. Yeah, that's a good point. But Trump typically doesn't care about that stuff. Like Trump has gone to war against the, the climate agenda. He's done multiple policies and stuff and implemented. multiple changes that fly in the face of the climate shit, the Green New Deal shit.

He doesn't care. I don't think that's it. Marijuana charges ignore. That's what Spetzel says. Ziggsax says maybe to reinvigorate a military atmosphere from experiences. Parents to children and future generations could be. What was weird about this whole thing is

to me like I feel like the future of warfare is not with like overt boots on the ground type stuff and I know there is probably always going to be some some level of that needed if you know you're fighting wars like what we're seeing in Iran with all the bombs

and the anti air missiles and the drones and all that stuff the narrative stuff the online stuff the cyber stuff that's where the future war is so again why are we raising the enlistment age why do we need more people just just pointing this stuff out

that's grinding my gears lately guys today's a grinder gears wednesday okay let's go through this story for a little bit probably won't go through the whole thing even though it would be worth it because it's awesome this goes back to what we've been talking about with trump and i said this yesterday right like the way trump is approaching this conflict and his rhetoric around it he is all over the map he is contradicting himself sometimes within the same true social posts he'll come out one day and say we won the war and then he says oh we're meeting our objectives you know it could be done here in a couple weeks he's just constantly contradicting himself and the reason he does this i said this yesterday is because when when you have like the media and the intelligence community and all these

all these people that constantly try to manipulate us through control of our mind through controlling the narratives they can't do that when they don't know what the hell is going on trump is carpet bombing the entire spectrum of the narrative hitting it all and so they can't control any aspect of it there's nothing they can do and this article is like a perfect summary of of him doing that i think it's a master class i really do people look at it and say he's just a liar which he is i mean that's what he's doing when he's pulling these siops some people will say he's incompetent i totally disagree with that some people think it's like a meme like a joke i get that reading But no, he's doing it intentionally.

And he's taking the weapons away from our enemies in a lot of ways. And not like Iran, our enemies, but the people here domestically that are constantly screwing us over, the intel community, the media. Let's just read a little bit of this. Epic flurry, how Trump's words on Iran have yo-yoed over the weeks of war. For the course of nearly a month since the first U.S. strikes in Iran, President Donald Trump has yo-yoed from demanding unconditional surrender to teasing a possible detente. Confusion has become a mark of this war. So true. Trump has dubiously claimed

Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. months after declaring the U.S. obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities. He's given a multitude of reasons for launching a war in the first place. He's declared victory scores of times, only to qualify those claims later on. He's demanded Iran's unconditional surrender and suggested he already won the war. Then he announced over the weekend that held productive talks with Iran. Though the country's foreign ministry at first denied Trump's claim, the Iranians later acknowledged the U.S. initiated conversations. Now 1,000 U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division are preparing to deploy to the

Middle East after Trump repeatedly refused to save ground troops would be necessary. And they took a comprehensive view. They have clips here of how many times you can win a war. They talk about unconditional surrender versus a deal. They talk about ahead of schedule. and then on an unclear timeline, the best case slash worst case for who should lead Iran, sometimes it's the same person.

Trump's worst case is playing out. Will the U.S. can make ground troops? The answer is not no, but sometimes it is no. It shows their utter lack of comprehension and ability to control the narrative. And I think it's fantastic. And we are going to talk about this more tonight on the power hour. Yeah, this is discombobulating.

This is the discombobulator that Trump talks about. Trump is a rug. This is from King B. There are elites and then there are the rest of us. That's it. I disagree with the rug part, unless he's doing it intentionally. But, yeah, there are elites.

There are the rest of us. And we should be grateful for the scraps we get, guys. London and China, our targets look harder. Spencer, why do so many people think a nuclear threat is the only possible imminent threat seems to be the mainstream media talking point. That's a good point, but we haven't gotten a clear picture of what that threat is.

You know, I think that's the part that is frustrating to most people, I would say. But that's what they're harping on in the mainstream too, and on social media. They're calling out Trump or trying to be like, well, if there's an imminent threat, what was it?

Based on the public narrative and, you know, the typical discourse, the threat didn't change. We took away the narrative threat. in June with Operation Midnight Hammer. But I doubt we're going to get get the truth on that for a while. 2020 Joe says, sounds like John is having a tough week.

I'm having a good week. Don't get me wrong. I'm having a good week. I'm just salty about a few stories. Being thankful for scraps is not possible for me during tax season. Yeah. Yeah. What is this?

Brian Official sends. Oh yeah, this is weird too. Let me pull this up. Trump says that. Iran gave him a present and doesn't say what it is. Because they're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.

They gave us a present, and the president arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that president is, but it was a... Right off the bat. I'm going to rewind it because understanding how Trump talks. talks this is confusing he says they did something yesterday they gave us a present then he says it arrived today so wouldn't that wouldn't it have given wouldn't they have given it to us today then or they gave it yesterday and somebody brought it back they gave it to maybe one of his

negotiators who brought it back today I don't know because they're going to make a deal they're going to make a deal they did something yesterday that was amazing actually they gave us a present and the president arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people. Is that nuclear-related?

No, it wasn't nuclear-related. It was oil and gas-related. And it was a very nice thing. they did, but what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people. Because, you know, you don't know, because the leadership was killed, all gone, Khomeini, all gone, as the expression goes, the past Supreme Leader. And then the new Supreme Leader was racked up, at a minimum racked up pretty good, and everyone else was gone. And then many of the people in the third tier are gone, but we're dealing with a group of people that I think turned out. And the

the present, the gift they made to us was very significant. And they said they were going to do it. And it happened. And they're the only ones they could have done it, Jennifer. Was it related to the straight of the flow? Yeah, it was related to the flow and to the straight. Yeah. What do you guys think that is?

It's oil and gas related. It's something that you, it's tangible, right? He said it arrived yesterday. Something you could send. So what could it be? and it comes from the leadership, whoever he's negotiating with, has to do with the straight of Hormuz

and the flow of oil. It got there quickly, right? He said, we got it yesterday, or they gave it to us yesterday, and it got here today. So it's something you fly by plane, but it's big, worth a lot of money.

I doubt it's a tanker. A lease is exact? I mean, I was kind of thinking that too, like is it some sort of oil rights or some sort of old, like, contract? I doubt it's a dick and a box. although that would be funny.

Yeah, I'm curious what you guys think it might be. I honestly have no idea. Contract, yeah, that's... Maybe they sent back their uranium and rich uranium. John took away the production of nuclear material, not the material, nuclear material, stashing hidden away. It's not their oil tankers.

Pallets of cash. It could be Intel. It's a good guess. The WMD's Bush was looking for. Maybe it's a person. maybe they sent back a person yeah I don't know I wonder if we'll figure it out

I wonder if they'll tell us eventually what it is guard tickets that's probably what it was sent them guard tickets that's why he's so excited about it discombobular these are all great guesses all San Qura says it's 5% of future profits remember I said it we were probably getting that regardless

something like that probably even more they have verified its oil tankers well then what the heck Trump when Trump is discombobulating all of us says not what he said I love those kind of guessing games

so those puzzles those are fun let's talk about what else with Iran war Iran rejects US ceasefire offer demands sovereignty over straight of the Hormuz Iran will not accept a ceasefire offer

from the US according to Iranian state media as far as news agency state media outlets said there have been increased U.S. efforts to put a ceasefire into effect and begin in indirect talks with Iran. The Associated Press reported that Iran has received President Donald Trump's 15-point peace plan. I think I have a, yeah, this from Zero Hedge. They apparently countered with five conditions for ending the war themselves.

And their five conditions are a complete halt to aggression and assassinations by the enemy. The establishment of concrete mechanisms to ensure that the war, is not reimposed on the Islamic Republic guaranteed and clearly defined payment of war damages and reparations the conclusion

of the war across all fronts and for all resistant groups involved throughout the region and international recognition and guarantees regarding Iran's sovereign right to exercise authority over the Strait of Hormuz I mean I feel like the two sides are

rather far apart from the Trump's 15 points to these five points. It's going to be interesting. Another story here. Let's get into some of the Badlands news stories. Andrewill and Palantir are developing software for Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense Project. This stuff is still taken off. We're going to gather on software for President Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defense Initiative,

the $185 billion program means to build a space-based system designed to intercept ballistic cruise and hypersonic missiles with hundreds of companies competing for contracts. You know, when General Kwasht talks about this, I get the impression that this defense system isn't going to be like traditional, okay, we're shooting a rocket and trying to just hit the missile in midair, even though there's probably going to be some level of that too. but it's taking out the missiles while they're in the silos before they're even shot it's like the technology to be able to detect when these missiles are about to go live and get shot out and taking out those missiles then in the silo that's what real like golden dome defense looks like rich a roared john but what's the point i don't know what you're asking or why you're asking that let's do this one the story i mean this has been a long time coming

Missouri versus Biden settlement limits federal pressure on social media platforms. The fact that this case is finally over is what is kind of crazy. It's been such a long time. I think that started back in 2022. Long time. Four years. Settlement in the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit has imposed new restrictions on how certain federal agencies interact with social media companies. And in the case through a consent decree that establishes long-term limits on government

involvement in content moderation decisions. The fact that they have any involvement at all is stupid. The agreement bars officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the SISA, from pressuring social media platforms to remove, suppress, or reduce the reach of constitutionally protected speech. Why is it just those agencies? I know they were the ones that were

focused, the focus of the lawsuit. but shouldn't it just be government-wide? Like none of you people in government should be able to pressure social media platforms to remove, suppress, or reduce the reach of constitutionally protected speech. It also prevents federal officials

from threatening legal, regulatory, or economic consequences to influence how companies moderate content. Under the terms of the settlement, the government is subject to a 10-year court-enforceable injunction outlining those limits. The agreement marks the resolution of all remaining claims in the case, which alleged coordination between federal officials and social media platforms over content, moderation decisions. And I still do not believe that we have free speech in this country. I've said that a million times. The DOJ is seeking house intel records tied to former CIA director

Brennan. I'm assuming this has to do with the Rico Grande case. This is a fun one. NASA accelerates plan for permanent moon base with more frequent missions. NASA announced a major push Tuesday to establish a permanent presence on the moon, lining its efforts with President Trump's national space policy. Jared Isaac said the agency is aiming to build a lasting lunar base with a shift toward faster timelines and more frequent missions. The plans call for a phased approach, beginning with robotic deliveries and early infrastructure, and progressing towards long-term human habitation.

As part of the effort, NASA said it plans to increase lunar landing cadence, targeting crude missions as frequently as every six months as capabilities and commercial systems mature. Let's see what else. The agency also outlined a push to expand advanced propulsion, including the development of nuclear power and propulsion systems with the goal of enabling deeper space exploration beyond the moon. I mean, yeah, obviously, if we're going to go to the moon, it's going to be a staging ground. They want a permanent lunar base to strengthen U.S. leadership in space and eventually get us to Mars. why haven't we been able to go back guys i'll rocky 20201 says i'll assure you if we are spending billions of dollars on bombs it's definitely going to what we want not iran bombs away i'm late

uh phil's garbo says i'm late did we talk about cash's uh girlfriend's post on flin we're getting there i'm plugging away i got like 14 minutes left so let me see if there's any other stories No, did that. Did that. This is the story. I think we touched on this yesterday, the day before Monday. Say Wednesday. Yeah.

There's a bunch of mysterious trading patterns that were taking place right before Trump announced the potential peace deal and oil prices. I mean, some insider trading, it felt like. This is what Raskin said. I was talking about earlier. Raskin says he has damning memo on Trump classified documents.

case. He says he's obtained. What he says is damning memo containing previously unknown allegations about President Trump's handling of classified documents when he was out of office. Can't wait to see it, Jamie. You do a douchebag. I think it might be. Ooh, this is interesting. We haven't, we haven't seen these yet, but the House Intel Committee released or is releasing a hidden transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson, and this has to do with the Eric Chilomela fellow. and Alexander Vindman and the 2019 impeachment. Again, they haven't been released yet,

but they're going to redact them and put them out. They voted to release it. So this is going to be a fun document to go through whenever it does eventually get out. Just want to note that for you guys. Meta is laying off hundreds of workers as they continue to pivot more with AI. Ooh, here's everybody's freaking out about the midterms again, as they always do, because the Democrats have flipped Trump's Mar-a-Lago district in Florida. I think it was a district he carried like plus.

Yeah, 11 points. 11 points swing towards Democrats. Not so. Don't care. Elections are fraudulent. This is another story. I think we're going to talk about this a little bit tonight. Foreign investments in Paramount Warner Brothers deal flagged by Democrat senators

and FCC letter. And then here. Here you go, Phil. This is what we're going to discuss. So everybody's freaking out, losing their minds over this post from Alexis Wilkins, who is Cash Patel's girlfriend. I'm curious to see what you guys think of this. So back when, I don't even remember when it was.

I don't know when they started dating. I heard that they met at a General Flynn event, like they reawaken to her in Nashville. That's where Cash and her met. They start dating, whatever. He becomes the FBI director. And a lot of people went after Alexis Wilkins. I have no idea who she is. I've never seen anything from her.

I think she's country music, something. Never heard any of her songs. I don't know what she does. who she has nothing about her but a lot of people were calling her Mossad okay she sued like three people to the tune of five million dollars or something crazy which is ironically less than the lawsuit filed against me which is absolutely hysterical but anyway um she sued a few people okay and then she puts out this post and it's basically calling out the Flynn network I'll read a couple of tweets of this.

A foreign linked influence network has been running coordinated operations against the Trump administration for 22 months. I know it's real because they ran one against me. I was targeted. Something I knew was far from organic. This level of media is isolating, unwanted, and unwarranted. I've been targeted too. So I can relate, Alexis. There was nobody to help.

Nobody to jump in and say, this is a false up and help me. that she was dating the director of the FBI. Well, I don't believe in problems without solution. So I spent the last few months learning to build programs to utilize publicly available information to prove that this is way bigger than me. This is about creating chaos in the Republican Party. It's about organized effort to lose Republicans, the midterms. Not the midterms. And so for President Trump's agenda, I have the data for you to see.

And don't get me wrong, I think all those things are happening. there are people attempting to create chaos in the Republican Party and just all over there are organized efforts to subvert Trump constantly that is going on I don't know if she's right about where it's coming from I think it's coming I think it's all like part of a controlled opo dynamic when I see stuff like this and these conflicts of people online especially the big big influencers I see them all on the same side they're not actually a conflict with each other They're just helping control the narrative for the people that we are all in conflict with.

In July 2025, she says, I was falsely labeled a Mossad spy in a coordinated campaign designed to isolate an official of the U.S. government by using the person publicly nearest to him. He's talking about her boyfriend. Across the full operation, July's events and others dating back to 2024, six chapters, 22 months. The data shows 3.1 million retweet engagements. 80% of all activity was peer amplification. 659 accounts retweeted the same post. Some retweeted one second apart. 15 pairs retweeted within 10 seconds.

Like all this, I don't care. This is all stupid. And then here we go. The network has a trail. Catholics for Catholics list General Flynn, Michael Flynn, the general Flynn that we know, as current senior advisor on their own website. Flynn is the anchor of the digital infrastructure

that has been repeatedly activated at every major Republican fracture point. Over 22 months of documented data, the same accounts appear at every chapter. This network does not rebuild between deployments. It stays ready. She goes on to talk about Ivan Rakeland. Talks about this coordinated narrative falsely identifying FBI director's girlfriend

as Mossad Honeypot. She calls it a foreign amplification, which I'm sure they did. calls out Candace Owens Joe Kent lists a whole bunch of like I wonder if I retweeted anything in here I think I saw that Colonel Watkins was in this list

Alexander Dugan To me this is all just drama guys It's all just drama I can't tell you how many times I've been called Mossad And you name it CCP A Fed I'll call all that stuff.

I typically take it as a compliment. I will say it's annoying. There's a bunch of unjust attacks against me. I do feel they are unjust, unwarranted. A lot of them based in lies. And I don't like them, obviously. But they don't actually ever get to me. I think it's funny that

these people spend so much time focused on hating me when we don't we don't return fire like we'll talk generally about the people that are doing this bullshit we never give them any actual attention never calm up by name the stuff that's most annoying is like when we see our friends who see it going on and they like either ignore it or you know participate in whatever that's the shit that's like you guys are idiots but the fact that she had to come out here and do this post and make it so detailed and draw so much attention

to it and drawing so much attention to the conflict, the podcaster wars. This makes it feel part of a little controlled opposition dynamic type thing. That's all I'm saying. But what do you guys think? Until we determine exactly who the Badlands Fed is, John is the Fed. I'm pretty sure we determined it was Alpha.

If there was a Fed. But it could be wrong. But that is probably how you should all operate at all times. Like just assume everybody's a fat online. Don't trust anybody. But you don't know personally. CIN Stewart, no organization is asshole proof. That is so true. Frederick Glad they're so John.

You never got your 7K from Mossad. Check must be in the mail. I wish. I've always said like, we'll take money from whoever. If Mossad wants to give us money, we'll do it. But we just won't. We're just not going to push your message. We're going to say whatever we want to say, which is why we don't get the money.

quiet coney lawyers for cash nonprofit appear to be representing her all this is suspect tension farming says pauliamatham yep your mom is a fed mom is not a fed come to a guard you'll probably meet my if you come to the dead with guard she usually comes to that one and uh you can tell pretty quickly she's not a fed if alpha is a fed g money is massad ghost must be misodd gordon was considered but until proven otherwise everyone's Fed stay frosty yeah even this drama like I try not to even let it take up a moment of my time I really don't care I don't care about any of this stuff I'm also care about how these people like treat and interact with me personally I've never

met Alexis Wilkins don't know or cash Patel didn't was did not appear to be a fan of me but I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna offer an actual opinion on which side is right in this stupid drama because it's all it is drama. I'm not going to give him my attention. I don't listen or trust or watch any of these guys' content anyway. That's even General Flynn. Like I don't watch this stuff. I don't have time.

I don't know what he's doing. And I definitely will watch Alex Jones when he's on there. Don't watch some period. So I really don't care. What's up? Ash is back in the chat. The people post for Israel not get the money. And are they?

I did hear a story like that. Valens needs a Russian podcaster. Vladlands. I love that. The people post for Israel. I just wrote that one. Sap drama, a waste of time.

Not all feds are bad. More good than bad, John. I only care about our grocery prices. 3.75 gas and those hurting around me. I can relate to that. Badlands media fan says, is there going to be another exclusive live stream tomorrow? Yes, there is.

Get your guard tickets. But with that, guys, I think I'm going to get out of here. I think that's all I got. I don't think there's any other stories, but I will be back tonight on the power hour. So make sure you guys hit that thumbs up. Stick around Badlands. Got a great day full of content for you. And tonight, Me and Burning Bright will wrap it all up with a pretty lively discussion. A lot about narratives tonight again, some financial stuff, economic stuff. But yeah. So I hope you guys have a good rest of day. Walberg Forge. said for $5 in the chat, Rumble Rant, get yourself a sports drink to replenish that salt you just expended.

I will do that. I have a little meeting on soft disclosure here with Ash and the team. Then after that, I will get myself a sports drink. But yet, you guys have a good rest of your day. I will see you later this evening. Let's get started.