It Could Happen Here - Executive Disorder: Pogrom in Belfast, Trans Healthcare, Denaturalization Cases

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

The gang discuss election fraud claims in California, a pogrom targeting immigrants in Northern Ireland, DOJ investigations into healthcare for trans youth, new denaturalization cases against 17 people, and Greg Bovino’s potential 2028 presidential run.  Sources:  https://www.independent.com/2026/06/04/new-details-emerge-about-leadup-to-largest-fire-in-channel-islands-history/ https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-reports-19th-death-of-2026-georgian https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.293201/gov.uscourts.mad.293201.106.0.pdf https://x.com/JacobEngels/status/2062157399255847030?s=20  https://wcca.wicourts.gov/caseDetail.html?caseNo=2026CF000289&countyNo=55&index=0&mode=details  https://www.whois.com/whois/bovino2028.com  https://x.com/CBSNews/status/2064422223541154065?s=20 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2/text  https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/whats-in-the-secure-america-act/ https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/compromised-votes-still-being-counted-right-wing-media-promote-election-misinformation https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116690027934241490 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28199744-dorcasopn060526/  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-moves-strip-us-citizenship-17-naturalized-sex-offenders-fraudsters-drug  https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108886/index.html  https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2026/06/25-5087-2176040.pdf https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-landmark-resolution-end-pediatric-gender-affirming-care-and https://www.acluok.org/news/senate-bill-904-faq/ https://www.aclu.org/qa-coe-et-al-v-blanche https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-parents-say-mount-sinai-plans-to-share-trans-childrens-records-with-trump-administration https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-admin-weighs-how-to-provide-care-for-nyc-trans-kids-amid-trump-backlash https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/06/transcript--mayor-mamdani-appears-on-wnyc-s-the-brian-lehrer-sho https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/metropolitan/services/lgbtq-health-center/   https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/julio-sosa-celis-ice-minneapolis-shooting.html  https://www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2026/May/castro-arrested https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2064457103134343170?s=20  https://x.com/BarakRavid/status/2064393192162660733?s=20  https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2064290478091067601?s=20  https://t.co/lY0s8D3jZy  https://x.com/DanLamothe/status/2064336646376505687?s=20  https://x.com/Reuters/status/2064794729477447978?s=20 https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/europe/northern-ireland-knife-attack-belfast-intl https://bsky.app/profile/enddbelfast.bsky.social/post/3mnxbrtzgsk2ySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. June is Black Music Month, and on the Drink Chams podcast, we're speaking with the hottest names in the culture, like Sway Lee. Do you realize how legendary you are? I appreciate that. I'd be seeing it, but I'm like, man, I still got, like so much more to do. Like, Prince, he dropped like 30 albums.

We dropped, like, five right now. That's the rate we got to be going. Yep, that's a good attitude. No matter the era, Drink Chams brings you the biggest names and the most unfiltered conversations. Listen to Drink Chams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. From daily news to dating fails, conspiracy theories to cooking with celebrities who can't actually cook, Amazon Music's got the most ad-free top podcasts ready to entertain, included with Prime.

I've been hearing for decades that the markets can solve climate change. Today, we have more incentives for market solutions than ever and emissions are rising. On this season of drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of three market solutions colliding in one multinational boondoggle. You gotta get Bruce of the guys credit. They're Republican.

They don't give a shit of money. It's now. Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You think you're in control until you realize you're not. As they're having this gun battle, thousands of feet up in the air,

many of the bullets start to puncture the aircraft. I thought we were going to die then. The Knife is a podcast about the moment ordinary lives take an unexpected turn. Real people, real stories, and the split second that changes everything. New episodes drop every Thursday on the Exactly Right Network

and the IHeart Podcast Network. Listen to the Knife on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Also Media. Garrison thinks. That's good. That's good. If we were brave, if we... Yeah, well, new Halloween got you unlocked. That's not happening.

Howard. This is, it could happen here, executive disorder. Our weekly newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. Today I'm joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans. Ew. This episode, we're covering the week of June 3rd to June 10th. James, some small news items to start.

Yeah, many small things this week. New details have emerged about the Santa Rosa Island fire. If you remember, the fire was started by mariner. At first, it was reported that the mariner had started the fire by firing distress flares. It now appears that the mariner's engine caught fire, starting to fire. Then he fired distress flares, but there's more. Okay. How many fires did this guy have involved in his boating trip?

Well, he ran into the island next door a week before. Okay. Oh, boy. and was towed by Coast Guard to their harbor, where they found that he didn't have a number of items that you have to have on his boat for safety equipment reasons. So they pounded his boat for six days until a Good Samaritan donated those items. He then left the harbor and crashed into the next island. I think that Good Samaritan made a mistake. I think we can agree.

This is not the Mandel. Yeah. I think doing anything to enable this man to refloat on the seven seas. should not be in the sea. Yeah. This guy listened to too much Jimmy Buffett. Yeah.

Unfortunately, like, there seems to be one of those situations. He bought the boat for a single dollar. What? We generally don't give advice

on this podcast, but I will say. You couldn't have said a funnier thing than that. It's not uncommon in Southern California for people to buy boats in order to find a cheaper

place to live. Yes, of course. Things like slip fees, rate to stretch. People don't really see things out of that. I've worked on some old diesel engines on these boats. They're not particularly straight. I'm not a great deal with, but they're not particularly straightforward. And this results in what I think we have seen here, which is a delta between confidence

and ability on the seven seas. This isn't a boat that one should be saving alone, much less so if they only bought a couple of years go for a single American dollar. No. Unfortunately, it did destroy a large grove of Tory Pine, which only exists there and here. So, yeah, I know. Be careful about there would be pirates. Moving on

now. ISIS reported it's 19th in custody death this year when correctional centers. Georgia, yeah. Continuing to set all the worst records, a court has vacated the president's $100,000 H-1B visa tax.

Cases bought by California at Al, it's more than a dozen states that will be impacted by the tax. This is a good one. Gregory Bovino appears to be eyeing a run of the presidency. Sure. This is interesting. So he launched an expert website. Yeah, why not?

Why? Like, his website atavino, 2028.com, the campaign appears to have originated from Jacob Engels. Engels is a right way. He's kind of Roger Stone Protégé. They broke ways. Engels was a pierced to be charged with methamphetamine possession earlier this year. Oh, wow. It was Engels who was first posting this House Bovino 2028 thing in Bovino's replies.

And Engels now is listed on Bovino-2020.com. Oh, God. In this House Bovino thing, he's just, he watched too much Game of Thrones, right? That's why he's saying that? I think so. Because I looked into it, and that's as far as I can. tell it's him trying to do like a nightly, like, we're the new nightly order. I mean, it's, it's part of his SS cosplay is how I kind of interpreted it.

Because he clearly is obsessed with the fucking shitstaffel, and they were like a nightly order. And that's, I get those vibes from Greg. Yeah, like, if you look at the website, right, like, you could, like, he's prominently featured wearing it's now infamous great coat, trench coat, whatever you want to call that. Big fucking coat, yes. I don't know if Pavino, like, Bovino, maybe he's just trying to run this. as far as it'll go, right? He just lost his job.

So maybe he's looking for, like, something new to do. Oh, sure. Like, I'm not sure how serious, you know, is with this. I do think he's definitely trying to continue to, I guess, influence the national discussion, I guess. Well, in the internet, I mean, he's hanging out with the fucking Martin Selner over in Portugal. He's hanging out with, like, straight up, like, Christchurch math shooting affiliated Nazis, you know? Yeah. Like, he's going for.

it. Everyone should just scroll down to the our founders section of this website. Okay, hold up. Before, before we do that, this link has now appeared in our group chat. That is the most Nazi-ass, like, just profile picture thing I have seen in a long time. It's like a Wolfenstein. Very Wolfenstein's aesthetic. Yeah, right. But like in the same way that like they're also clearly aping from like communist aesthetics. Like the red background, the way he's kind of framed. is this like weird. Yeah, is it kind of West German? I would almost say it's like generic propaganda now,

which is sort of like a mix of like West German, USSR or East German, like USSNR, like the use of bread, the use of the olive branches, the sun rays coming from his body. Yeah, the Oakley. It's just kind of like generic propaganda, House Bovino, men fight back. Well, it's an AI generated image, right?

So it is. Based on the way the text is formed, it does appear to be an AI generated image. It looks AI. It's not properly framed, right? The framing on the left and right is thicker than a framing of the top. There is no framing at the bottom, like, Zameterow shit. Oh, my God.

No, I think we're all missing something, which is that right underneath the big propaganda image. It's in very tiny text, the words, in very tiny text, almost hidden. Vino knows what America needs. America's men. It's not in quotation marks. No. The slogan of the campaign is men. fight back.

Yeah. Or the slogan to House Bovino, it's a little unclear. Yeah, right. Unclear. Maybe it's housed Bovino. Maybe he's struggling to make rent, having lost his job at the Boyd Patrol, and this, he's sending up a pack to pay his rent. But yeah, incredible.

Wow. The Our Founders section, really. Oh, my God. Okay. I have scrolled down to the Our Founders section. And there is an incredible specimen. The, a bold national strategy part. is really upsetting to me.

Because he's calling himself the commander in capitalizing the V and the Sea in a very, like here's the ways following the commanders maximum effectiveness in quelling the foreign hordes that have subsumed our nation's cities, both large and small. The American people witnessed

what true leadership, powered by a warrior mindset, actually looks like, is the commander endeavored to restore order and national sovereignty. That is one sentence. Second sentence, America as a whole has already fallen to the grasps of the foreign global one-world hellscape ushered in by Barack Hussein Obama. However, we believe that the commander can not only usher in the Great

Restoration of America, but also cement the continuity of a strong and sovereign United States that will last a millennia. A thousand-year-Raic, in other words, and that also was one sentence. That is two sentences that I just read. Yeah. I need to be clear. Yeah, the campaign, a couple of Gmail addresses are using here. Some really small font, by the way. It's inconsistent, right? Yeah, it's very interesting. consistently. This looks like they had AI layout his website, too. Well, they have one woman on their founders page.

And everyone else had size like 20, and she's like size 11. Yeah. Like the set will have, you know, images of him or of his post where you can see his name. But it refers to him only as the commander. So, like, there's a post of Gregg's where, like, it's that post that he made at the airport, where he's, like, pointing at the flight to Newark when he was on his way to Portugal being like, should I just handle it myself and, you know, go to Jersey to deal with this? And above that is, perhaps I must resolve this personally as a quote,

the commander challenging the inertia of the open borders bureaucracy in response to, like, it's written like Greg Bovino became the overall dictator of America, and this is a history book 60 years later. Like, that's the way his website is written. Yeah, it's incredibly low effort. Yeah. And he really has a high opinion of himself. Yeah.

I got to say that. Yeah. I do wonder how much this is just angles, just writing this. as a fine. Yeah, I wonder how much he had to do with this, but this does not seem like he had nothing to do with it. I will say that based on my knowledge of Greg Bevino. Yeah, he's shared it on his own social media. Great. In other news, the months-long fight over ICE and CBP funding has come to an end. In a 214 to 212 vote on Tuesday, the House has passed a reconciliation bill, funding ICE and CBP.

Yeah, this is the so-called Secure America Act, right? It'll give them $70 billion. So if we look at that combined with the Big Beautiful Bill, there's about 240 billion allocated them in a single year. It doesn't mean they have to spend it all this year, right? The Secure America Act gives them a window up to September 30th, 2029, with no particular allocations for any given year. to me, that strikes me as a hedge against funding after the midterms. I think that's what

that's about. Also notable, Lig Karas said that they used reconciliation to allow a simple majority in the Senate. We went over the details of a previous version of this bill a few weeks ago. This money is going to go towards hiring and arming new officers, hiring more administrative staff, attorneys, and this is all going to be towards immigration enforcement, as well as some money allocated for acquiring new border technology. The $1 billion of quote-unquote security funding for Trump's ballroom was removed from the bill by the Senate last week. Two other short things I want to mention. Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted two people in relation to stop cop city protests and alleged crimes in 2022. And Wednesday morning, the FBI rated about seven people in Michigan related to pro-Palestine protests,

at the University of Michigan and protests against University of Michigan officials. As of recording, like this just happened a few hours ago and relates to an indictment that was unsealed this morning as well, which charges eight people. We'll cover this more in detail in the future. We're going to do one more quick segment here, and then when we return,

we're going to talk about the programs in Belfast. Yay. Some updates related to primary elections. In Maine, Graham Plattenor has won the Democratic primary with about 72% of the vote. The governor's race is too close to call with the ranked choice voting yet to be tallied, but I'm keeping my eye on the Sanders and Labor-backed candidate Troy Jackson, who campaigned with Platner. Jackson is about 9,000 votes behind the pre-ranked choice vote candidate, Dr. Nirav Shaw.

After a week of counting, we have more definitive results from the the elections in California last week. Yeah, which a lot of people are saying is an unforgivable fup of democracy that they counted all of the votes and it took them a while. But yeah, Gares, please continue. And we'll talk about the chaos that is being justified by the fact that this took a while to count. Tom Steyer will not be making it onto the ballot this coming November. Nope. With 91% of the votes counted, Steyer has earned one million 928,381 votes, or 22.5%. Republican Steve Hilton, former Fox News host,

has edgedyre out by about 200,000 votes, earning 25% of the vote and advancing to the general election where he will go up against liberal Democrat Javier Bacera with 27.9% of the vote. Katie Porter won just under 400,000 votes. Karen Bass still leads the L.A. mayoral primary with 95% of the votes counted. Bass has nearly 300,000 votes, running 34.3%. Progressive Nithia Rahman has moved into second place with 29%, beating Republican Spencer Pratt with 25.5%. So the general election will see Ramon go up against Bass. reality TV star Spencer Pratt was up in the early vote,

but as Ramon started to pull ahead, Trump and others began claiming the election was being stolen from Republicans. Pratt has insinuated that Roman's lead came from L.A.'s homeless population and must grow out that, quote, the level of fraud here is mind-blowing. Yeah. Also, homeless people can vote.

Like, what? Yeah, yeah. Provided they are U.S. citizens. Like, yeah. Yes, yes. It's all lies. Yeah. I mean, and a lot of what's, even what's being reported in the Washington Post is straight up lies.

Like, they just published an article today that includes this line. And again, the theme of the article is like, well, you know, obviously this election wasn't stolen, but the fact that it's taken so long is really a problem. You can't actually blame all these people if they think it's suspicious. This is not evidence of a rigged election, but it creates fertile ground for conspiracy theories to take root. It didn't help that Rahman tearfully conceded last Tuesday, but it's irresponsible for Pratt to intimate on social media. She did not concede. She didn't tearfully concede.

That did not happen. That never happened. The Washington Post lied. Like, that's just in a post article. That's just a lie by the Washington Post. Like an intentional lie, I would argue. Incredible. I guess to just go into this to people understand, like, you know, like I've written for broadsheet newspapers.

several people, this is not one person fucking up, right? This is an institutional fuck up. This was a choice. Yeah. It was a choice to get this wrong. The person whose name is on the byline wrote that, yes. An editor then edited. A copy editor then edited it. And then somebody laid it out for the website. Yep. And you know this. If you're listening and you work for the post, you know this. You know that your editors, your bosses and your colleagues chose to lie and are choosing to continue to lie and spread lies through their publication. You're aware of this

if you work there still. I think anyway. I don't know. Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, or Ingram, and Sean Hannity are alleged that Democrats stole the election. And Trump has continued to make claims that the election was rigged. Quote, here we go with the very late and massive numbers of mail-in ballots. Yeah, no shit. Truth.

Sorry. Yeah, man. It's convenient. Yeah. Just eternal 2020. Trump truth earlier this week, quote, Not possible for Spencer Pratt do have lost the L.A. runoffs after the big lead he had, third world nation, unquote. Did he understand what the word nation means?

No. No. I don't think. They start these truths. I don't think he understands how election works, obviously. Or he does and he's just saying what he needs to say here. Notably, on Sunday, Trump stormed out of an interview on Meet the Press when asked if he had any evidence of, quote, unquote, cheating in California.

The election was rigged. It was a dirty election. And it's happening again right now in California. It's happening right now in California. Right now it's looking, look at what's happening. Where's the evidence to that? It's four days. In California, it's, no, they're not there.

They're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you, it's four days and they aren't even close to coming up with it. You know why they're doing that? Because they're cheating on the election. Do you have evidence to support that? All I have to do is look. All you have to do is look. Is he in front of a green screen that depicts a John Deer tractor and planter?

No, they are in Wisconsin, in some kind of barn, and it's raining outside in this barn with the John Deere tractor and like haybells. It's an interesting kind of like real world set they have. Yeah, okay. And the focus is very weird, like the... Yeah. Trump later called vote counting in California, quote unquote, crooked, just like how the press is crooked. quote, you're either crooked or you're stupid. You know that these elections are rigged.

Your network knows that they're rigged. You're like a third world country. Your elections are crooked and you're crooked. And Mr. President. And so is ABC and CBS and CNN. You're one-sided crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had it up. Thank you, darling.

Have a good time. Mr. President, let's please. I traveled all the way to Wisconsin. God, that's embarrassing. Yeah. Just being mean to him. Be rude. Yell at him. Call him a fucking liar. Scream at him. Stop doing this bullshit. Like, I'm sorry. I have no sympathy for that. Like, people booed him, dreamed the national anthem at a Knicks game. You can fucking do this. Scream him. Call him a piece of shit. Like, you know, you're not getting anything out of just letting him talk. Call him a liar. Shout over him.

Yeah. Stop pretending. Yeah, yeah. Fucking cowards. I'm sorry. And yeah, Mia, you're right. I think we should definitely pay attention to the fact that Trump did cause the Nix to lose that game. He did. He did. And honestly, that's what I like about him because it continues James Jolin's streak of death. House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about these claims on Monday and said that the vote counting in California, quote-unquote, stinks to high heaven and that the schemes are so, quote-unquote, diabolical that it's impossible to. to prove election rigging.

The president keeps saying that there's election fraud in the California mayor's race. What evidence is there to prove that? You tell me, Manu. They are counting votes weeks after the election. We have entire nations with huge populations like India that can count their votes in 24 to 40. You're saying it's rigged like the president?

I'm not saying it's rigged. I'm saying it stinks to high heaven, and everybody knows that. Let's remove the appearance of impropriety. Let's have, what a concept? Let's have votes on an election. the day of the election. That's what many states are able to do. I think California is playing around with this. But what evidence is there to prove that there was a ranked? Some of these efforts

are so diabolical and so far upstream, it is impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively something is wrong here. So this is, I think, very clearly a preview of what's to come in the midterm elections. Oh, yeah, for sure. And they are kind of laying this out here. It's, of course, impossible to prove, but we all know that it's wrong. Yeah. This is going to be, election for the rest of my life. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. But there's going to be anything that happens that does not meet the increasingly fanciful version

of reality they have to believe. Yeah. Right? It's not just elections. It's literally any fact that, like, is inconvenient. There's any storm that shouldn't have happened based on when they think a storm should happen, right? Yeah.

This is just life now. Yeah. It's necessary to, like, create the version of reality that they're existing in. Yeah. We're going to go on break and then discuss the pogroms in Northern Ireland. Pride Months Toronto. Pride is an opportunity for you to create your own space, to celebrate your existence. IHeart Radio is proud to be an official sponsor of Pride Toronto Festival, and we won't stop.

Celebrate Pride. Turn up the love and listen to IHeart Pride Canada. Your 24-7 radio stream and the only playlist you need for your Toronto Pride celebrations. Pride is so great because it gives a whole bunch of people this visibility that, They've never had before. We have a ton to celebrate Toronto. Happy Pride. Iheart Radio.

Happy Pride from the Outspoken Podcast Network. All month long and all year round, we're celebrating being loud, proud, and always original. It's me, Brandon Kyle Goodman, host of the podcast, Tell Me Something Messy. Check out my show for unfiltered takes on dating, relationships, and adulting. The more you get comfortable with someone,

the more their real self comes out, they're going to be gross. What's the grossest thing about a man? Burping. Shut it down. Listen to High Key for the best pop culture takes, and there are no girls on the internet for all your tech news. For your favorite celebrity key keys, check out outlaws with T.S. Madison. Wait, so Luke was the son of Vader.

And Vader was turned by Rupal? Yeah, well, somebody's heard of some old, old, old witch. Learn to love yourself unapologetically with BFF, Black Fat Fem, and start your day with intention with waking up with Ryan coming in July. Celebrate Pride with the Outspoken Network on the IHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Open your free IHeart Radio app. Search Pride and listen now.

What did black music, food, and culture teach us about who we were becoming? 2016 was sort of that last era of monoculture where we still consumed things in community. From Beyonce and Rihanna. Everybody wanted to be Beyonce. I don't think we'll ever see another Rihanna. To soul food, memory, identity,

and the stories we carry through black culture, What does it mean to be black and eat in America? So we were these group of people who knew how to work the land, who knew how to live with the land. We make it do what it do. Therapy for Black Girls is bringing together the conversation shaping Black Life right now. You will never make me feel bad for being a black girl, for being a black American girl, ever. Therapy for Black Girls is bringing it all to the mic. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

A decade ago, the ethanol kingpin of I. Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil. So we met with a lot of larger farmers, went from Bahia to Tokatines to Madagroso. And he brought a team of executives. They were going to help the country get in on a gold rush. Carbon and its derivatives are going to be really the next great commodity that the globe's going to trade. But back home in Iowa, trouble was brewing. If you live in Iowa, your land, your water, and your voice could all be at risk thanks to a man named Bruce Rastetter.

people are questioning if his climate solutions have anything to do with climate at all. You gotta give Bruce and the guy's credit. They're Republican. They don't give a bit of money. It's now. On this season of drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of how the ethanol kingpin of Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil and what it tells us about the limits of technology and markets to solve the climate crisis.

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We are back. Oh, yeah. On Tuesday, July 9th, this is the day before we are recording this, which is important because we don't know how that's going to proceed from here when you're listening to it. But on June 9th, there were widespread attacks on the homes of non-white people in Ireland in what I and many others have described as a pogrom. Mass assailants kicked down doors, forced non-white people from their homes, and lit houses and cars. on fire, people were being stopped in the streets. I'm going to read a little bit from a report from Hennel Othman, who was on the scene reporting

on what was going on, quote, As a woman from an ethnic minority background looked down from an upstairs window, some of the men rushed the front door and broke it down. With the attack thick with smoke from fireworks, they attacked the downstairs windows with bricks. As they stormed the property, some claim to be, quote, liberating it. Graffiti nearby demanded, quote,

local homes for local people. A woman in the crowd said to her friend, quote, there's we girls inside. Yeah. It is an extremely bleak and worrying event. The nominal cause of this program was a video of a stabbing in Belfast that has gone viral on social media, which has been amplified by right-ring forces,

both in Ireland, the UK, and across the world, probably most famously by Elon Musk. We will touch on that more in a second. But before we say anything about the broader context, I think it's important to state two things here. One, Ireland and also particularly the factions of Irish politics are going to be getting to here, has had racism problems long before any of these events.

Famously, you know, if you want to look at the most immediate stuff in the recent past, exactly one year ago today in Northern Ireland, there was a smaller race riot. There was a smaller scale version of the thing we're seeing here with less damage but still, you know, absolutely terrifying effects. This very much rhymes with the race riots that we saw in the UK a couple of years ago. Yeah. Right.

Like a similar, similar deal, similar motivation of mobs attacking. At that point, at that point, it's more focused on hotels that refugees. were believed at, but yeah, like you were saying, we have basically the same idea. Yeah, these are white mobs. It's also, I think, important to note on top of just the general sort of racism of Irish society, this program's largely taking place in loyalist neighborhoods. You know, these are places with very, very longstanding far-right paramilitaries with very close ties to the police. A lot of the people in the streets are, you know, sort of parts of old loyalist paramilitarian criminal networks. These are in most.

many cases, like, believed to be the same networks that, you know, we're doing shit during the troubles and have been active in various forms throughout the occupation of Ireland. And deportations, Belfast notes that leaked emails from police after the 2025 riots. They are from the riots themselves. They said, quote, is important for you to understand our expectations. Unless there is an obvious article to issue, we do not expect you to expose yourself to significant unnecessary risk. So what that in effect is saying is that this is in effect a stand-down order if you don't, if you think that anything would be even- Let the mobs do what they're going to do.

Yeah, right. And that's just the stuff. This is from the 2025 riots. Presumably similar orders went out during these riots. And that's just the stuff that they sent via email, right, that has been leaked out. The police, again, very notably did very, very little while all of this was happening while people's houses were being burned down while people were being dragged out of their homes. These attacks also come after weeks of far-right discourse in the UK about the killings of two white men by non-white men. Yeah. I mean, on the BBC, they are having debates about whether there is a, quote, two-tiered police system, which, you know, when I initially saw that, I was confused because, yeah, two-tiered police system has been the way that, you know, like anti-police violence activists have to, about the way the police system functions, where there is a way the police function for white

people, which is that it treats them significantly better, and then there's the way it works for non-white people. The far right has flipped this on his head and is now arguing to an extent that his now sort of national discourse on the fucking BBC is arguing that there is a two-tier police system where non-white people are let off the hook for their crimes and where white people aren't protected by the law. This is nonsense, but it has been spreading rapidly pushed by far-right actors like Tommy Robinson and of course Elon Musk. Yeah. Yeah.

Musk specifically has been really pushing this. Yeah. He was a big figure too in what happened in the UK a bit ago. Yeah. And the 2025 Irish riots too. Right. That's exactly right. And he's been nonstop pushing and making posts, making claims to the extent of like,

we need to, the only way things will get better is if we keep protesting, you know, this has to be handled like forcefully, yada, yada, like that sort of shit. Like he has been. he's been basically devoting, as far as I can tell, the week that he is about to have and that he is having his IPO devoting the majority of his time to inciting up a gram. Yes, seems to be. Yeah, he retweeted a post from Restore Britain, which is a somehow even further right, just straight up, effectively fascist party, but even further right than the already

horrifying reform party saying, quote, do not make peace with evil destroy. Yeah, there's another one where you're like either you fight back or you die. That's what it comes down to. There's been a lot of comparisons between Elon Musk and Radio Rwanda, which is a radio outlet that was broadcasting calls for the Redmondage. Well, and that's not accurate really, but. You're referring to RTLM, right? Radio Television Libre Melcholina.

Yeah. Yes. Radio Rond is a different thing. Oh, sorry. Am I? Like, Radio Rwanda is a currently existing corporation. So we need to be extremely clear in our terminology. Let me be very clear here because I actually had this pulled up for this.

RTLM was the radio station that is often accused of helping to coordinate or some people will just say straight up and cited the genocide. It was owned by a guy named Felicia and Kubuja, who was an extremely wealthy Rwandan man and who was personally very much involved in wanting to push for the genocide. RTLM regularly called Tutsi's cockroaches and encouraged people to cut down the tall trees. However, there are also good reasons why this is not quite as direct as it seems. RTLM did not coordinate attacks. They did not plan specific actions. And analysis in the modern day has shown that a lot of the worst massacres, in fact, the majority of the worst massacres did not have any direct relation to RTLM. Now, RTLM's propaganda and broadcasts played a... role in the genocide and incited and continue to like escalate the violence. But it's not exactly,

I would argue it looks like, and we also, we don't have perfect analysis of what's just happened in Northern Ireland. So maybe this will prove to be wrong. It looks like what Musk is doing has more of a direct positive effect. Yeah. But that's also not clear to me at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. My estimation so far, but again, like this is changing, my estimation so far is that I think it is actually closer to it in that I think I think even if musk isn't there something like this happens sure because i think a lot of this is mobilization through like very local irish political forces and these sort of unionist networks but it's also really difficult to say just because yeah all of those networks have been heavily influenced by musks x in the last few years too so it's

yeah i don't know how you want to yeah well and it's feeding off of like a decade of intensifying anti-immigrant sentiment across the UK, including Ireland and Northern Ireland. Yeah. And this is also something people will point out when you're talking about Rwanda and RTLM, which is that like, well, as much blame as you want to give RTF and some of these other media organizations that unquestionably had some role in motivating and fueling what happened. I mean, the root of the Rwandan genocide comes from the period of colonialism when the Tutsis were like a favored group of people within the country, which is what started a lot. of these like underlying hatreds, right?

Is the way in which the colonial power played these different groups off of each other? So anyway, whatever. It's always the case. It's always going to be deeper than some guy has a media outlet, right? But that doesn't mean the media outlet. It is not involved in what's happened.

Yeah. It was the same in Rwanda, right? Like, we had the Intrahamway, like, like they existed and they distinct from RTLM, but like the environment that allow those two things to happen. Nothing's monocausal. People want to do this in history. No, and it's the difficult thing of both, it's very important to point out when something like this rhymes with something that happened in a genocide that killed a million people.

And also, the more you learn about stuff like this when people make those comparisons, the more learned people are like, well, that's not quite right. Actually, this is, it was a little different thing, you know. Yeah. The Genocide Memorial Museum in Kigali is the most moving museum of the student in my life. It's incredible. If you have the chance everyone should go. We need to do more in bastards on Rwanda. But yeah, anyway.

Wonderful country. Yeah. The one thing I also want to mention sort of in closing here is that, you know, again, like part of the reason this is happening, part of the reason it's been a lot of, you know, of these unionist networks, part of the reason it's happening the way that it is is that this is a very, very old white supremacist project going back, like, you know, like through the British occupation of Ireland, right? And it's a project that's been aligned with like the Rwandans,

were once British in the sense of like, like the, you know, this is carrying on the sort of long imperial British tradition is like, yes. One of the world's, like, largest and most flooding in Bruce those white supremacist organizations. Yeah. We talked about this in the meeting we were having beforehand, but like loyalists in Northern Ireland have regularly made a habit of, particularly in the 70s and 80s, displaying Rhodesia flags in the 90s, apartheid South Africa flags. It's very common to find confederate flags.

Yeah, partly as a direct response to the internationalism of republicanism, they just decided to align with the worst people on the planet. Yep. Yeah, there'll be another episode up on this Monday that goes into more detail and we'll have more information as it comes out. This is, again, a rapidly changing situation. There might be more... By the time you hear it.

Days of this, it's possible that the police will crack down harder because there's been some pressure put on them by basically every government's involved in this. But we just simply don't know that at this time. And yeah, it was a absolutely horrifying day. Yeah, pretty horrible to see. Let's do immigration in the U.S. now. Another country where things are going great. So a judge has ruled that the Trump administration's broad restrictions on asylum and work permit.

These were issued after the shooting of two national guards, people in D.C., are unlawful. To quote from the court order here, more than six months ago, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services enacted a series of policies that through the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States

into indeterminate legal limbo. The agency announced that it would be placing an indefinite pause on the adjudication of immigration benefit requests from individuals from 39 African-Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern countries. Since then, individuals from these countries have been categorically barred

from receiving final decisions on, among other things, their asylum, work permit, green card and citizenship application. And USCIS's hold on adjudications cannot be attributed to anything that these individuals did wrong. Rather, it arises solely by the happenstance of their birth. And then I found this interesting in the court documents here. In ruling on these motions, the court is reminded of a line often repeated in discussions around immigration policy. If people wish to immigrate to United States, they ought to follow the law and do things the right way. This case serves as a perfect example of

immigrants doing. Just that. They went on to say that the USCIS had used what they called pretextual concerns of national security that mask anti-immigrant sentiment that is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making. Illegal terms, that means that USCIS's actions of a contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious. There's a fairly like emphatic court response, right? This will affect a great deal of people. This has left a great deal of people in limbo, right? Most famously, I guess there were people who were at the stage of their naturalization where they take the oath to become American citizens, right, the very final step. It is obviously a formality. You've passed a background checks, done the interviews, et cetera, et cetera, but it's still a necessary step without doing it.

You do not become a citizen. And those people had been delayed and unable to do that. They will be able to proceed with that. Other people will be able to proceed with their process with the caveat that USCAS, if we have reported before in this show, is heavily focused on denaturalization, and it might be very hard for them to actually make that progress and get USCIS to move on stuff. Talking of denaturalization, the DOJ has begun proceedings against 17 people. These people are either accused or convicted of serious crimes. What it seems that in most cases, people have been adjudicated to have committed crimes. In some cases, they pled guilty to crimes after they naturalize,

naturalized, but that they were doing before they naturalized. And what they are arguing here, the DOJ is arguing, is that therefore, they lied when they were naturalized because they were asked if they had committed any crimes for which they had not been arrested. So by not confessing to those crimes in their interview, they were therefore lying. They were lying on the form. Yes, on the form or in the interview or both. And therefore, that is why they are trying to denaturalization. This is a large denaturalization. 17 people is a lot. A couple of them also are alleged to have applied for immigration benefits under multiple different identities. One that I found particularly interesting is a Catholic priest who abused a minor parishioner. It's interesting

because it's interesting to see them going there. I'll follow these and kind of keep tabs on how these progress, but that they have been ramping up denaturalizations. We are beginning to see them kind of reaping the work USCIS has been doing since. to Trump administration fundamentally turned that agency around and pointed it at denaturalization. Meanwhile, a GAO report on immigration detention in Camp East Montana.

I've never seen it written like Montania with, so I'm guessing it's Camp Monta. Like Joe Montania almost? Yeah, well, like, they write, it says Montana. So like, I don't know, but it's, it's in Bliss, right? Like, it's inside Fort Bliss.

So, like, one would expect to normally, like a Spanish-style pronunciation given the region. Yeah. But maybe they just like a fucking NIA. I don't know like why they're not. Anyway,

it's camp, its name is spelled like the state, not the, not the Spanish word for mounting. Some of the things detailed in this report are pretty shocking. A guard lost a loaded gun. Oh boy.

Yeah. People with diabetes and HIV did not receive treatment plans and quote on... Jesus. Yeah. On February 20th, 2026, I issued a discrepancy report

for detained non-sids and death by use of force in January. of 2026. The coroner's autopsy found the death to be a homicide due to asphyxia. However, the contractor did not provide use of force and death reports to ICE as required. In addition, evidence associated with the incident was missing or destroyed. Jesus. Yeah. Like one of their guards strangled someone to death. It appears. Yeah, there's a range of ways someone could be asphyxiated, right? Like I... Yeah. That's true, but... I'm guessing they're tempted to restrain this person violently.

and, like, as we've seen many other times in American history, murdered them. Yeah. And then evidence of that was destroyed. What is allowing this to happen? It's that the contract was solicited using a worldwide expeditionary multiple award contract vehicle. That's generally like a military contract vehicle. It allows an experience pool of military contractors to apply for the contract. They probably did it like this to expedite the awarding implementation, right?

Camp East Montana is a soft-sided facility on Fort Blaze. I've talked about it before here. Soft-sided facility means tents, right? It means keeping hundreds of people in tents. They hired a contractor who had no experience using what's called a lowest price technically acceptable evaluation approach. So they filter out people who can't do the requirements that they have for the contract and then they look at which of the ones that does meet the requirements has the lowest price, right?

this has resulted very clearly in them contracting someone who's completely incapable of managing a facility like this. And even among ice facilities, this one appears to be particularly heinous. And this has resulted in very, very predictable and easily foreseen human tragedies. They are capable of doing better than this. Conditions were very bad at Bliss for Afghan people, Ray, who came here after the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I wrote about that for the nation. You can look it up. I interviewed someone who is there. But this is even worse.

Rather than learning from that, they've just gone deeper. This has resulted in at least one person being killed. It's pretty horrific. Let's go on break. And then we will return for some stories about trans-health care and war with Iran. Experience. You and a pal in Montreal and Osiaga with four nights at residents in downtown Montreal. flights from Porter Airlines, two weekend gold tickets, and $1,000 of cash.

Please love me. Lord, Zara Larson, Dima Gray, Sombor, 21 pilots, and more. Download IHeart Radio. Listen to IHeart new music for 10 minutes and enter to win. Osiaga, 26. Every day you listen is another chance to win. Happy pride from the Outspoken Podcast Network. All month long and all year round, we're celebrating being loud, proud, and always original.

It's me, Brandon Kyle Goodman, host of the podcast, Tell Me Something Messy. Check out my show for unfiltered takes on dating, relationships, and adulting. The more you get comfortable with someone, the more their real self comes out, they're going to be gross. What's the grossest thing about a man? Burping. Shut it down. Listen to High Key for the best pop culture takes, and there are no girls on the internet for all your tech news. For your favorite celebrity key keys, check out outlaws with T.S. Madison. Wait, so Luke was the son of Vader.

And Vader was turned by Rupal. Yeah, well, somebody's heard of some old, old, old witch. Learn to love yourself unapologetically with BFF, Black Fat Fem, and start your day with intention with waking up with Ryan coming in July. Celebrate Pride with the outspoken network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Open your free IHeart Radio app, search Pride, and listen now. But did Black music, food, and culture teach us about who we were becoming? 2016 was sort of that last era of monoculture

where we still consumed things in community. From Beyonce and Rihanna. Everybody wanted to be Beyonce. I don't think we'll ever see another Rihanna. To soul food, memory, identity, and the stories we carry through black culture. What does it mean to be black? And eat in America.

So we were this group of people who knew how to work the land, who knew how to live with the land. We make it do what it do. Therapy for Black Girls is bringing together the conversation shaping Black Life right now. You will never make me feel bad for being a black girl, for being a Black American girl, ever. Therapy for Black Girls is bringing it all to the mic. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

A decade ago, the ethanol kingpin of Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil. So we met with a lot of larger farmers, went from Bahia to Tokatines to Montegrozo. And he brought a team of executives. They were going to help the country get in on a gold rush. Carbon and its derivatives are going to be really the next great commodity that the globe's going to trade. But back home in Iowa, trouble was brewing. If you live in Iowa, your land, your water, and your voice could all be at risk thanks to a man named Bruce Rastetter. Now people are questioning if his climate solutions have anything to do with climate at all.

You got to give Bruce and the guy's credit. They're Republican. They don't get it. on this season of drilled Carbon Cowboys, the story of how the ethanol kingpin of Iowa became the king of corn in Brazil and what it tells us about the limits of technology and markets to solve the climate crisis.

Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, we are back. I have a sort of hodgepodge collection of stories related to trans-health care and trans rights in the United States. that I'm going to go kind of sequentially

and some of them tie together. But let's start with the trans military ban. We've an update on this. A federal appeals court has at least temporarily blocked the Pentagon

from expelling transgender members of the military, though trans people may be barred from enlisting. So this is kind of sort of like a new form of don't ask, don't tell, in a way.

You can get in if you're not trans, but once you're in and you are trans, there's no legal grounds to remove you from the military. This was a 2-1 ruling that found Hague Seth's anti-trans policy was, quote, driven by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group and, quote, both arbitrary and based on animus. For those reasons, the policy violates the plaintiff appellee's

constitutional right to equal protection of the law, unquote. The last bit is very important. like the Equal Protection Clause, in cases like this, is going to be the main thing that trans people are able to rely on. Now, Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins, an Obama appointee, wrote that the Trump admin claimed their anti-trans policy is solely about whether the military can disqualify people from service due to a mental health condition, like gender dysphoria. Judge Wilkins wrote, quote, But the record shows that the purpose of the Higgs-Seth policy is to target applicants and service members, who express what the administration believes is a quote-unquote false gender identity,

and the policy goes far beyond disqualifying persons currently or recently suffering from gender dysphoria. Some of those disqualifications are completely unexplained and have no reasonable justification, unquote. Hague Seth almost immediately announced he is appealing to the Supreme Court. Oh boy. We will see where this goes. Yeah. Last month, the DOJ announced a settlement with, the Texas Children's Hospital as part of an ongoing national investigation into violations of

federal law for providing gender-affirming care to minors. The Texas Children's Hospital has entered into agreements with both the DOJ and the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, that includes a commitment to not perform quote-unquote sex-rejecting procedures on minors, which the DOJ says includes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. This is a new term that they're really, really rolling out. Sex-rejecting procedures. You're going to see this a lot more in these next few weeks to months. Yeah.

The hospital in Texas also agreed to pay over $10 million in damages and civil penalties to, quote, resolve allegations that it submitted false billings to public and private payers to secure insurance coverage for pediatric sex-rejecting procedures. The Department alleges this conduct violated the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, and Federal Fraud and Conspiracy Laws, unquote. So they're saying that by billing insurance, whether public or private, for quote-unquote sex-rejecting procedures, trans-health care, that this was an act of fraud. Now, this is a settlement, and at the end of the settlement, they do note that these are just

allegations that these have not actually been proven, the liability is not been proven in a court, but these are the allegations that resulted in the settlement. Now, as a part of the settlement, the Children's Hospital will also open the first ever, quote-unquote, detransition clinic. So detransition care is the same as transition care, right? It is the same type of care. Yeah. I know this. This is like what I do. There's not enough detransitioners out in the world to sustain an actual full clinic, which points to the fact that this clinic is not going to be used for consenting detransition.

This is mainly going to be used as a conversion therapy clinic for kids who want to transition, but are now going to be forced to go to a clinic like this because they're not able to get their health care through this hospital, or really like in Texas as a minor. The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio settled a very similar case last week

paying a $308,000 fine and agreeing to dedicate $2 million in funds for detransition care while promising to not provide gender affirming health care to minors for 20 years. That is the part of the settlement in the Cleveland Clinic case. My God.

In mid-May, Oklahoma passed a bill prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care, including surgery and HRT, as well as offering this care in state-owned facilities. The bill does not cut funding to doctors at private health care facilities to provide HRT, as I've seen some claim online. This, like many of the Medicaid restrictions, primarily affects poor trans people on state Medicaid and may make care hard to access in the future, depending on how private hospitals,

react to this bill, even though it does not necessarily force them to change the way they operate. Lastly, later this summer, New York City will begin testing a pilot program for a direct, low-slash-no-cost gender-affirming care clinic for adults, opening in a low-income neighborhood in Queens. I think this is a good first step in providing access to care, considering the Trump administration's threats to restrict Medicaid and Medicare coverage or remove Medicare-Medicaid eligibility from hospitals that provide gender-firming care services. But as we know, trans youth have borne the brunt of these threats. Now, Bose Mom Dani and the City Health Commissioner have said they are working to expand

city-provided gender-firming care services to cover trans youth. Commissioner Martin told the City Council last Friday, quote, we are committed to this issue and want to make sure that we provide the services and resources for youth, as well as making sure we don't expose ourselves to clawbacks from the federal government, which disrupt the rest of the care we can give. There's much more to come on this, but rest assured, we are working on this, unquote. Something that is worth understanding here is that this new pilot program, this city-run low-slash-no-cost drop-in clinic,

is completely separate from the city's H&H-NH-Mew. hospital system, which already operates multiple H&H prize centers that currently offer youth gender-affirming care, including HRT. I called one this morning to confirm that they are still offering services to children, people of all ages. Now, H&H is funded through city subsidies and patient revenue through Medicare. The new pilot program is attempting to launch an alternative care service that isn't reliant on insurance or federal funding, if that comes into question. And they're trying to get this clinic up and running off the ground as soon as possible, and then, once the pilot program is tested, expand it. Last week, Mom Dani announced a $15 million

investment in gender affirming care, quote-unquote, as a first step and said that the funds would be used to, quote-unquote, unlock care for youth who have had their health care restricted by private hospitals. So it's currently unclear how exactly these funds will be used. For a while, advocates in New York City and State were fighting for care in the state budget, which delayed some of the process on this city provided care because they were expecting about $8 million of care from the state budget, which eventually fell through. So now the city process is ramping up on this. Earlier this year, two major hospital systems in New York City stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth, ahead of prospective HHS federal rule changes that would prevent hospitals from receiving federal funding

if they offer gender affirming care services to youth. These rules have yet to go in effect, but two major hospitals essentially complied beforehand. The risks from the federal government aren't just isolated to restricting federal funding. The Trump administration has employed a variety of threats in an attempt to intimidate patients and care providers. Last month, the two hospitals that discontinued care for trans youth received a criminal grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas, requesting information on pageants under 18 years of age. At least one of the hospitals, Mount Sinai, is complying with the subpoena,

though telling parents the records would be anonymized, whatever that means. A group of trans New Yorkers who have received care at NYU Langone and their parents have filed a class action lawsuit to protect their medical records. Though patients at Nautilai could also sign on to this suit. The suit has extended the deadline for the subpoena till late June, as both the hospital and patients fight this in court. A similar administrative subpoena requesting records for youth patients was challenged and successfully blocked in Rhode Island.

These subpoenas should be fought on the strongest grounds by both the patients, the state, the city, and the hospitals themselves. And beyond the all ages care currently offered by the H&H health system, I think it was also fair to advocate that the direct low, no-cost drop in clinic expand to cover all ages once the pilot program is up and running this summer. We'll briefly discuss the detention of an ICE officer and the war on Iran. We do have a good ICE arrest for you this week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the one good author, right. Let's just start there then.

So the Henning County Attorney has filed charges against ICE agent Christian Castro. Castro was arrested in Texas. He was arrested by Texas Rangers with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigators and DHS Security Office of the Inspector General Staff at the scene. According to a statement by the Hanapin County Attorney's Office, Castro is charged with, quote, four counts of second degree assault and one count of false reporting a crime for an incident on January 14, 26, when he discharged his weapon through the front door of a home, knowing there were people who had just run inside. The bullet travelled through the door and struck one victim in the leg before making its final impact

in the wall of a child's room. They didn't note in this that the case might be removed to federal court, but they say that he would still be ineligible for presidential pardon. It is not usual when announcing any prosecution to consider the impact of a presidential pardon. It is interesting that they did. Oh, ha. The case in question refers to Castro shooting of Julio Soros-Ser-Selis, in which DHS claimed that Sosa-Selis and two others attacked Castro with a broom at a snow shovel and that Castro, quote, fired the defensive shot to defend his life.

DHS very quickly dropped its case, put two agents on leave for providing accounts that were contradicted by video evidence. Probably Castro was one of them, right? this is interesting A, that they were able to obtain the DHSOIG support. I had forgotten the DHSOIG were still doing stuff like this, to be honest. I didn't think they were.

So this will be one that we will follow. That only leaves us with Iran, where this week a A United States Apache helicopter was, people have been using shot down. I'm not sure if it was shot. It was taken down, reportedly by an Iranian drone

and reportedly by a collision with that drone. It's possible that this happened accidentally, but given other things we've seen, right, in Ukraine, for example, it is possible to take down a helicopter with a FPV drone. That would be my guess as to what happened here. Its crew were then rescued from the Strait of Hormuz by another drone, an uncrewed surface vessel. The US only bought these online.

in March of this year. So this is the first time that we're aware of that they were used in this capacity, right? So this is like a boat drone, an uncrewed surface vessel. And it scoop, well, it didn't scoot them up. They got on it. It collected them. And then it took them to a second location where a helicopter was able to lift them up. As a direct result, and according to St.com, at the direct order of the president, the US then began self-defense, I'm quoting here, right, quote-unquote, self-defense strikes against Iran. They claim these strikes were a quote-unquote warning shot and will not impact negotiations, but as we record this on Wednesday afternoon, they have just announced another series of strikes. This all comes after

Israel and Iran exchanged missile solvers when Iran responded to Israeli bombing in Beirut. And the Houthis have also claimed a missile attack on Israel and have said that they would begin targeting Israeli shipping again. We are already teetering on the edge of this becoming a massive international conflict in a region again. I mean, it is a massive international conflict, right? But returning to these full-scale conflict that we saw until the ceasefire, which has been repeatedly violated, but nonetheless has reduced the amount of bombing that's happening.

Israel also bombed Palestine this week. Among the people killed was an eight-year-old boy named Judd Soleiman in northern Gaza, which is tragic. Yeah, we'll keep reporting on this. I've tried really hard not to make our coverage of especially what's happening on a round Twitter review because real people are killing and real people are dying. And like it's focusing on the stupid shit that the president said or that, you know, Netm Yahoo said on Twitter, like isn't or true social converted to Twitter or whatever.

Like that's not really what's at stake here. Like what's the stake is people's lives. And so I want to kind of avoid doing the back and forth social media review. But yeah, that's what I got this week. Cool. Oh, breaking news. As we go to press here, the Berlin Zoo has announced the name of its newborn pygmy hippopotamus. And I thought Hitler was a mistake. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I don't think that's an appropriate name for them to use. A little Hitler. I'll drop a link in the chat so you all can appreciate it. It's like a new Moudang just dropped moment. They are calling it Brochen, Brochen, I don't speak German.

Sure, okay, guys. That's marketable. Sure. Yeah, yeah. Great. Bruchin. Good work, guys. That sounds like a handy.

Children aren't legally allowed to eat in my country. Another dub for German marketing. It means bread roll, I guess. It's a very cute hippopotamist. That's a pretty cute name. Breadwell would be a cute name for, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess if you're German, it's a cute name.

Hit us up, German language listeners. Does it seem cute to you? No, don't, because you'll just get angry at us for not understanding your strange language. In my defense, you live outside of America, the only other country in the world. Right? Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah, I'm just going to ignore the Iran reporting that you said. Yeah, we just did.

Yeah, we'll not mention that. Email us at pool zone tips at proton.com. Some of you marketing fuckers are still trying. Remarkable. I'm pretty sure it's one person who just creates new aliases, but I'm, playing whackamol over there in the block list. Okay. I will read your name.

Z out if you keep doing it. All right. Well, I think that's going to be it for all of us here. And it could happen here. That's the it. And it could happen here is this, as us doing it. Mm-hmm. Podcast.

Goodbye. We're trying to scroll on your couch. We reported the news. We reported the news. It could happen here is a production of, Cool Zone Media. For more podcasts from Cool Zone Media, visit our website, Coolzone Media.com, or check us out on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can now find sources where it could happen here listed directly in episode descriptions. Thanks for listening. June is Black Music Month, and on the Drink Chams podcast, we're speaking with the hottest names in the culture, like Sway Lee. Do you realize how legendary you are? I appreciate that. I'd be seeing it, but I'm like, man, I still got like so much more to do. Like, print. He dropped like 30 albums.

We dropped like five right now. That's the rate we gotta be going. Yep, that's a good attitude. No matter the era, Drink Chams brings you the biggest names and the most unfiltered conversations. Listen to Drink Chams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. From daily news to dating fails, conspiracy theories to cooking with celebrities who can't actually cook, Amazon Music's got the most ad-free top podcast. podcasts ready to entertain, included with Prime. I've been hearing for decades that the markets can solve climate change. Today, we have more incentives for market solutions than ever, and emissions are rising.

On this season of Drilled, Carbon Cowboys, the story of three market solutions colliding in one multinational boondoggle. You've got to give Bruce of the guy's credit. They're Republican kids. They don't give a shit of money. Listen on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You think you're in control until you realize you're not. As they're having this gun battle, thousands of feet up in the air, many of the bullets start to puncture the aircraft. I thought we were going to die then.

The Knife is a podcast about the moment ordinary lives take an unexpected turn. Real people, real stories, and the split second that changes everything. New episodes drop every Thursday on the Exactly Right Network and the IHeart Podcast Network. Listen to The Knife on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.