June 14th • 2h 38m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
🚨 Producer Notes
BOTG — 'Inside Sportsball' drone-industry insider (defense producer)
📋 Summary
Works in the drone/defense industry: 'Nobody's talking about 70-plus Reapers (MQ-9s) being shot down by Iran.'
His company is scrambling to RE-ACTIVATE the MQ-1 for the Air Force — cheaper than the MQ-9 — 'this is awesome for me… either way, I get more work.'
NA-grade buried detail: the war's real drone attrition + the cheaper-drone pivot ('maybe Hegseth is on to something').
Also: never received his knighthood RING ('who do I complain to?'); pledges another donation.
📜 Full (verbatim — read on-air)
Nobody's talking about 70 plus reapers (MQ-9s) being shot down by Iran.
Our company (have to be non descript) is scrambling to re-activate the MQ-1 for the Air Force.
This is awesome for me. The Air Force's capabilities have been reduced. Our drones cost less than the MQ-9.
So maybe Hegseth is on to something.
Either way, I get more work!
God bless you both.
Also, I never received my ring. Who do I complain to?
John, be nice to Adam. Why are we playing mom and dad with you two.
Yeah, I'll donate yet again.
FISA Went Dark Friday
BOTG — Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' field report (Mike, Minneapolis)
📋 Summary
Saw it opening night: a dud — lurches between cerebral sci-fi, a car chase, and campy faith monologues so fast the plot is lost.
In-your-face religious / 'our place in the universe' themes so out of place he laughed out loud in confusion.
'By far the worst movie Spielberg has ever made' — the Trump-admin 'UAP footage' hype squandered by 'a B-movie masquerading as a summer blockbuster.'
Pin: Project Blue Beam / mass-disclosure softening. Signs off 'Thank you for your courage.'
📜 Full (verbatim — read on-air)
Boots on the ground here in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. My wife and I saw "Disclosure Day" tonight and I thought I would file a report from the field.
First off, this movie was a dud. The writing was scattered - it moved between cerebral sci Fi to car chase to campy philosophical monologues and then back again - so quickly and abruptly that anything resembling a plot line was lost half-way through the effort.
And there were religious themes of faith and our lot in the universe that were thrown in your face and simultaneously so completely out of place that I could not help but start to laugh out loud in the theater from sheer confusion.
By far the worst movie Spielberg has ever made. Whatever suspense might have been created by the release of the "UAP" footage released by the Trump admin a few months back was expeditiously squandered by this B-movie masquerading as a summer blockbuster.
I'm afraid the payoff after months of speculation was an unmitigated disappointment, assuming one had any hopes for this film at all.
Thank you for your courage, — Mike
📋 Notes to Self
<b>FIFA / VAR (Adam):</b> USA beat Paraguay 4-1, good match. Advertising 'solved' (digital pitch-side signage + hydration breaks). But the offside technology 'is kind of ruining the game.'
VAR detail: ref Makkelie yellow-carded Tim Ream for a foul on Almiron; VAR flagged the WRONG player (Almiron simulation); card rescinded post-restart and Almiron booked instead — first World Cup mistaken-identity review to strip a card and hand it to the opposition after play resumed.
<b>End-of-show music (Adam):</b> 'On the Seventh Day' — https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-seventh-day/1543189802?i=1543190051 (Apple Music; reference note).
💸 Producer-Pool Sponsor Messages (Adam discretion to read)
<b>OFFICIAL STATEMENT from Texas Slim — 'Returning to the Source of the Seed' (likely on-air read)</b>
<b>Verbatim (sic): </b>"Texas Slim here. After six years on the road and thousands of handshakes with ranchers across the country, it is time for me to pull back and return to why all of this began. When I look back at the original spark, the source of the seed was in big part because if tge No Agenda Show and my brother, Adam Curry. Throughout these intense years of travel, Adam has helped guide, steward, and point people in the right direction while I performed a global reconnaissance of beef intelligence."
(Texas Slim — Beef Initiative; full statement captured verbatim in the producer-note file.)
Ashley Slater on Relief Gel (value-for-value testimonial)
<b>Verbatim: </b>"Bring this into the pool. I don't even know! But what I do know is that the Relief Gel, I can confirm, works! I get neck pain on one side when I get stressed out and it makes it go away! And I had a weird kink in the middle of my back this morning. I had my daughter put a glob on and it too went away. WEIRD. I have tried most any pain gels and nothing ever has touched it. Especially that neck pain." — Ashley Slater
📌 Above-the-clips — summaries, research & no-clip context
BIOLABS — what Gabbard's release actually claims (answers Adam's 'which countries?')
Per DNI Gabbard's ODNI statement (2026-06-12): 120+ US-funded biolabs across 30+ COUNTRIES, including Ukraine (the IC's own prior warning: a US-funded Ukraine lab likely held dangerous pathogens vulnerable to Russian seizure).
<b>No fabrication: </b>Gabbard gives the 120-labs / 30-countries totals and singles out Ukraine; she does NOT enumerate the full country list in the released statement. A specific country-by-country list is not yet sourced — flag, don't invent.
THESIS — Apple WWDC local-AI vs the hyperscalers (gap-flagged, ran partly as a clip)
Apple's WWDC 2026 leaned into on-device 'Core AI' / local models (MLX on Mac, Apple Intelligence). NA read: local inference undercuts the hyperscaler/cloud-GPU buildout — ties GPU-as-a-Service + the AI-bubble thesis. The Kittlaus 'data center in your pocket' clip is the affirmative case (meta 03).
RESEARCH — SpaceX 'Green Shoe' shares (who / trigger / how much — answered)
WHO holds it — the IPO UNDERWRITERS, not employees: Goldman Sachs (lead bookrunner), Morgan Stanley (stabilization agent — the one who exercises it), JPMorgan (syndicate). 'Employees in green shoes' is a nod to the term; the real greenshoe goes to the banks.
TRIGGER: underwriters first sell ~15% MORE shares than the base deal (going short); within 30 days they either EXERCISE the option — buying the extra shares from SpaceX at the $135 IPO price — if the stock holds above offer, or buy in the OPEN MARKET to stabilize if it sags below $135.
HOW MUCH: ~83.3 million extra shares × $135 = ~$11.2 BILLION more capital; the deal rises from $75B to ~$85.7–86B if fully exercised (up to ~638.9 million shares).
THE KICKER (Bloomberg): SpaceX struck a RARE deal to pay the bankers $0 in fees for the $11.2B greenshoe — almost unheard of on a deal this size (Musk leveraged the demand to stiff the banks on the fee).
Separate: a directed-share program reserved up to 5% of Class A shares at the IPO price for 'certain employees and persons identified by the executive officers.'
Term origin: 'greenshoe' = Green Shoe Manufacturing Co., first to use the structure (1960 IPO) — hence the literal-green-shoes joke.
RESEARCH (open) — Epoch Times 'most important AI experiment you've never heard of'
TODO: locate the underlying study/paper the op-ed references. https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-most-important-ai-experiment-youve-never-heard-of-6045675
SERENDIPITY — The Verge: 'The world's first trillionaire is a killer' (the outrageous-claims read)
TC Sottek op-ed: Musk's wealth 'built on suffering.' Hook: SpaceX's IPO makes him the first trillionaire — then it charges the Musk-led DOGE dismantling of USAID 'directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands… knowingly… gleefully.'
The funny part: he allegedly spent a weekend 'feeding USAID into the wood chipper' (likened to the Fargo villain); the death math leans on a Boston University tracker PROJECTING 'over 780,000 deaths' — a model laundered into a literal body count. Cites Bill Gates + FT's Edward Luce. (archive: https://archive.is/dxFr0)
SCREWWORM — FDA Emergency Use Authorization, OTC injectable (ivermectin)
FDA issued an EUA for an OTC injectable to prevent New World Screwworm in cattle — the drug is IVERMECTIN (Ivomec), the COVID-era 'horse dewormer,' now carrying an official Emergency Use Authorization. Part of a 2026 wave of NWS EUAs. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-over-counter-injectable-drug
📰 Topical Articles (no associated clip — organized by topic)
IRAN / DEAL
AI / BIG TECH
DYING WORLD ORDER
SURVEILLANCE / FINANCE
SERENDIPITY / SPORTSBALL
00 ⚔️ IRAN DEAL - STRAIT OF HORMUZ - CHORUS OF BRASS
The Iran-deal segment as a CHORUS OF BRASS — five retired flag/senior officers (Gen. Keane ×2, VAdm Harward, Adm. Montgomery, Col. Leighton) all surface on one deal singing the same hold-the-line tune; the density is the tell. Then operational status, the economy spin, the counter-narratives, and the July-4th-funeral oddity.
Clips — 14
01 Gen Keane - the Iranians are always inconsistent what they say and what they do are two different things - Fox
Ret. four-star Gen. Jack Keane (Fox): asked why Iran isn't pushing back — their comments are always inconsistent, Trump's strikes added leverage: 'what the Iranians say and what they do are two different things.'
02 Gen Keane - Iran is a diabolical ideological regime we prefer to finish them militarily - Fox
Ret. Gen. Jack Keane (Fox), the harder line: a diabolical ideological regime — 'you and I prefer the other option: finish them militarily.'
03 VAdm Harward - Iran paying the price economic strangulation needs money driven to the table - Fox
Ret. Vice Adm. Robert Harward, ex-Navy SEAL (Fox): the blockade and economic strangulation are what's driving Iran to the table — 'they need money… need to survive.'
04 Adm Montgomery - Iran are expert negotiators hold the line dont agree to anything that doesnt solve it - Fox
Ret. Adm. Mark Montgomery (Fox): Iran are expert negotiators staking out a far position; Trump must hold the line and not agree to anything that doesn't solve it.
05 Col Leighton - Iran controls the strait other straits could copy it Pandoras box can never be undone - CNN
Ret. Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton (CNN): Iran still controls the strait and other chokepoints could copy it — 'Pandora's box… can never be undone.'
06 CENTCOM 9 ships disabled + Trump MOU is going to get done they want it more than I do - Fox
Fox reporter + Trump SOT: 136 ships redirected and 9 disabled since the April blockade; Trump on the deal — 'it's going to get done… they want to sign it more than I do.'
07 Trump + Phil Flynn - secret oil mission millions snuck through Hormuz by night is legend - Fox
Trump + oil analyst Phil Flynn (Fox): Trump reveals millions of barrels were snuck through Hormuz by night; Flynn — 'something of legend… loose lips sink ships.'
08 CNN - Iran FM we are the victor while a shipping exec says the US are losers - CNN
CNN: Iran's foreign minister declares victory on state TV while a shipping executive counters that 'the U.S. are losers.'
09 Treasury Sec Bessent - Texas is booming California is a role model in how to tank a great place - Fox
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent (Fox): Texas is booming while 'California is a role model in how to tank one of the greatest places'; the US is now an energy superpower past Saudi and Russia.
10 David Brooks PBS - the strait is now an Iranian-Omanian lake we end up worse off it was economic pressure not bombs - PBS
Columnist David Brooks (PBS): Hormuz is now 'an Iranian and Omanian lake' and we end up worse off — it was economic pressure, not the bombs, that moved people.
11 David Brooks PBS - we walk away with face covering but we lost the war and everyone knows it - PBS
Columnist David Brooks (PBS): the danger is face-saving — 'we lost the war, and everybody knows we lost the war.'
12 Suzanne Maloney Brookings - the economic pain is much tougher on the US Iran built to evade sanctions - PBS
Brookings' Suzanne Maloney (PBS): the economic pain is far tougher on the US and global economy — Iran spent 47 years building an economy to evade sanctions.
13 ABC GMA - Iran promises never to build a nuke which was already in the first paragraph of the 2015 deal - ABC
ABC GMA (corr. Selina Wang): what Iran gets (unfreezing assets) plus the kicker — Iran 'promises never to build a nuke,' which was already in the first paragraph of the 2015 deal.
14 Fox - Irans late Supreme Leader Khameneis funeral is set to begin on July 4th - Fox
Fox: Iranian state media says late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's funeral begins July 4th; anchors muse whether the US-250th date carries a message.
01 🧬 GABBARD BIOLABS
DNI Tulsi Gabbard's ODNI release: evidence of 120+ US-funded biolabs across 30+ countries (incl. Ukraine), gain-of-function hidden from the public, a Trump EO ending the funding, and the Fauci/Biden-team coverup. A direct callback to NA's long Ukraine-biolab / GoF thesis.
Clips — 3
01 Gabbard -1- releases evidence of 120 US-funded biolabs in 30 countries incl Ukraine - ODNI
DNI Tulsi Gabbard (ODNI): after months in IC holdings, releases evidence of 120+ US-funded biolabs in 30+ countries incl. Ukraine — the IC had warned a US-funded Ukraine lab likely held dangerous pathogens.
02 Gabbard -2- gain-of-function hidden from public Trump EO ended the funding - ODNI
DNI Gabbard (ODNI): the evidence was withheld from the public; many labs ran hazardous-pathogen and gain-of-function research with little oversight — Trump's May-25-2025 EO ended the funding worldwide.
03 Gabbard -3- Fauci and Biden team lied and threatened those who exposed the biolabs - ODNI
DNI Gabbard (ODNI): Fauci and the Biden national-security team 'lied repeatedly' about the biolabs and threatened those who tried to expose them — an intentional coverup.
02 🕊️ MASSIE & THE USS LIBERTY
Rep. Thomas Massie's USS Liberty floor speech series + Jeremy Boreing's establishment counter (tragic-mistake vs deliberate-attack). The deliberate-vs-accident fight itself is the beat.
Clips — 5
01 Massie USS Liberty -1- honors survivors recounts 1967 IDF attack on unarmed US ship - House
Rep. Thomas Massie (House floor): honors the USS Liberty survivors and dead 59 years to the day after the 1967 IDF attack on the unarmed Navy spy ship observing the Six-Day War.
02 Massie USS Liberty -2- 25-min strafing napalm torpedoes machine-gunned lifeboats - House
Rep. Massie (House floor): Israeli jets strafed the Liberty for 25 minutes — cannon, napalm, torpedoes blew a 40-foot hole killing 25 — then machine-gunned the lifeboats.
03 Massie USS Liberty -3- planes recalled 17 hrs official mistaken-identity vs insiders intentional - House
Rep. Massie (House floor): rescue planes were recalled mid-attack, no help for 17 hrs (34 dead/174 wounded); officials say mistaken identity but Rusk, Helms, Inman, Boston and Adm. Moorer call it intentional.
04 Massie USS Liberty -4- call to action ussliberty.org enters Ward Boston declaration to record - House
Rep. Massie (House floor): a call to action (ussliberty.org) and enters into the record Ward Boston's declaration that the only official inquiry was invalid.
05 Massie USS Liberty -counter- Boreing official bodies found mistaken identity not deliberate - Daily Wire
Jeremy Boreing (Daily Wire), counter-narrative: every official body — Congress, CIA, the Navy court of inquiry — found mistaken identity (Israel thought it an Egyptian vessel); 'the conspiracy theorist is never satisfied.'
03 🫧 THE AI BUBBLE & BIG-TECH CONTROL
The AI bubble & big-tech control: SpaceX's frothy valuation, Apple's on-device 'local AI' undercutting the hyperscalers (WWDC/Kittlaus), Google's biggest search change in 20 years, and the Anthropic restriction fight (All-In: the real goal is to regulate open source) + the France24 suspension.
Clips — 10
All-In on Anthropic
01 All-In -1- the Anthropic risk is censorship they evaluate your prompt and decide the output companies need control - All-In
Chamath Palihapitiya (All-In): Anthropic's risk is censorship — they evaluate your prompt and decide the output before you get it; companies need governance and diversity, not a single point of failure.
02 All-In -2- Freeberg Anthropics restrictions are forcing companies to local open source Chinese models - All-In
David Friedberg (All-In): Anthropic's restrictions are pushing his and other companies to run open-source models locally — 'the best open-source models today are Chinese.'
03 All-In -3- Anthropic wants a new FAA-FDA to approve all AI models - All-In
All-In (likely David Sacks): Anthropic/Dario want a new 'FAA or FDA to approve all models' — the real goal is to apply regulation to open source, which can't comply: a 'preemptive strike' to sandbag it.
Anthropic Suspension
01 France24 - Anthropic marketed its product as dangerous now the govt suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - France24
FRANCE 24: Anthropic marketed its product as 'dangerous' and pushed for oversight — now the US government has ordered Fable 5 and Mythos 5 suspended on national-security grounds (so they're off for everyone).
Apple WWDC Local AI
01 WWDC -1- Siri cofounder Kittlaus on-device AI is a data center in your pocket disrupts the cloud - Bloomberg
Siri co-founder Dag Kittlaus (Bloomberg): 80-90% of queries will run on-device — 'a data center in your pocket' — disrupting any frontier company that charges for cloud compute, at 'zero token cost.'
02 WWDC -2- Kittlaus says Apples secret weapon is turning app islands into bridges - Bloomberg
Siri co-founder Kittlaus (Bloomberg): Apple's secret weapon is bridging app 'islands' via the app store — one query plans your whole night out — 'a do engine, not a search engine.'
Google AI Search
01 Google AI Search - SVP Nick Fox biggest search change in 20 years AI is the best thing that ever happened to search - Bloomberg
Google SVP Nick Fox (Bloomberg): Google's biggest search change in 20+ years — AI answers, conversational search, agents that complete tasks — 'AI is the best thing that's ever happened to search.'
SpaceX Valuation
01 SpaceX -1- Westly says 100x multiple frothy moonshots vs Anthropic and NVIDIA - CNBC
Ex-Tesla board member Steve Westly (CNBC): SpaceX is 'three moonshots in one'; the 100x sales multiple 'feels a little frothy' vs Anthropic (8-10x) and NVIDIA (13x) — 'my money might be on Anthropic.'
02 SpaceX -4- Westly was combining SpaceX and XAI a mistake could this be Elons Waterloo - CNBC
Steve Westly (CNBC): on combining SpaceX with xAI — Musk disintermediated the sleepy defense primes, but Anthropic/OpenAI/Google are state-of-the-art — 'could this be his Waterloo? We'll find out soon.'
03 SpaceX -5- Westly the AI IPO race OpenAI shows losses Anthropic already profitable in 2026 - CNBC
Steve Westly (CNBC): the AI IPO race — OpenAI filed showing two years of losses while Anthropic grows faster and says it'll be profitable in 2026 — 'no one is close to touching Anthropic.'
04 🚸 MISSING CHILDREN & TREN DE ARAGUA
DOJ + DHS on 400k+ missing migrant children (475k entered / 300k unaccounted, the super-sponsor indictments, the 'stuff of nightmares' case; Mullin (Noem's successor): 146k found, 'raped 600-700 times,' sanctuary-city harboring) + the US-Venezuela Tren de Aragua leader kill.
Clips — 7
Missing Children
01 Missing Children -1- DOJ 475k entered under Biden 300k unaccounted sponsors trafficked them the most vulnerable suffer - KOMO
DOJ official (KOMO): 475,000+ unaccompanied kids entered under Biden, 300,000+ unaccounted; 'sponsors' trafficked them via fraud — 'when government fails to protect our borders, the most vulnerable suffer.'
02 Missing Children -2- DOJ indicts 3 Guatemalans who smuggled a dozen kids 15500 super-sponsor cases identified - KOMO
DOJ official (KOMO): indicts three Guatemalan illegal aliens who smuggled a dozen children; 15,500+ 'super-sponsor' cases identified (anyone claiming 3+ unrelated minors).
03 Missing Children -3- DOJ 27yo smuggled a 14yo claimed to be her brother then assaulted her the stuff of nightmares - KOMO
DOJ official (KOMO): a 27-year-old smuggled in a 14-year-old by claiming to be her brother, then sexually assaulted her — 'the stuff of nightmares.'
04 Missing Children -4- DHS Sec Mullin 450k missing neglect at best criminal at worst Trump made it a point to find them - KOMO
DHS Sec. Mullin (KOMO): allowing 450,000 kids to go missing under Biden was 'true neglect at best, criminal at worst'; Trump made it a point to find them.
05 Missing Children -5- DHS Sec Mullin 146k found 300k still missing some raped 600-700 times who are you - KOMO
DHS Sec. Mullin (KOMO): 146,000 found, ~300,000 still missing, some 'raped six to seven hundred times' — 'if you can't stand for law enforcement to find these kids, who are you?'
06 Missing Children -6- DHS Sec Mullin found in sanctuary cities Mamdani harboring them we will find the worst of the worst - KOMO
DHS Sec. Mullin (KOMO): most are found in sanctuary cities; names NYC mayor Mamdani as 'harboring' them — 'we're going to find the worst of the worst.'
Tren de Aragua
01 NBC + Trump - US and Venezuela killed TDA leader Nino Guerrero send them to the depths of hell - NBC
NBC News breaking + Trump: the US military 'with the Venezuelan government' killed alleged Tren de Aragua leader Nino Guerrero — Trump: 'send them to the depths of hell where they belong.'
05 🌍 DYING WORLD ORDER
The dying world order: Carney's 'next world order built out of Europe' speech series, the Swiss 10-million population-cap referendum, and the Gordie Howe Bridge trade 'issues.'
Clips — 8
Carney New World Order
01 Carney NWO -1- the post-Cold War rules-based order is breaking down a global rupture not a quiet transition - Carney
Canadian PM Mark Carney (Ireland speech): the post-Cold War rules-based order is breaking down — 'a global rupture, not a quiet transition'; institutions weakened, trade weaponized.
02 Carney NWO -2- a Canada Ireland Europe bloc twice the US population defense budget twice Chinas a force for good - Carney
PM Carney: Canada/Ireland/Europe can be 'a force for good' — combined population twice the US, 'collective defense budget twice that of China's,' most top universities and half the Nobel winners.
03 Carney NWO -3- sovereignty now needs AI semiconductors critical minerals Canada fast-tracks a trillion in investment - Carney
PM Carney: sovereignty now needs semiconductors, space comms, AI, critical minerals and payment systems — Canada is 'fast-tracking a trillion dollars of investment.'
04 Carney NWO -4- ad hoc coalitions and a bridge between the TPP and the EU a trading bloc of 1.5 billion - Carney
PM Carney: true sovereignty can't be achieved in isolation — ad-hoc coalitions and 'a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the EU… a trading bloc of 1.5 billion.'
Gordie Howe Bridge
01 Gordie Howe Bridge opening delayed Trump wants compensation potash critical minerals steel autos at play - Global News
Global News: the Windsor-Detroit Gordie Howe Bridge ribbon-cutting was cancelled last-second; Trump won't grant permits 'until the US is fully compensated' — potash, critical minerals, steel and autos at play.
Switzerland Population Cap
01 Switzerland Population Cap -1- DW explains the SVP referendum to cap Switzerland at 10 million risking EU free movement - DW
DW News: Switzerland votes on a Swiss People's Party initiative to cap the population at 10 million; if it passes, it 'could force Switzerland to end free movement with the EU.'
02 Switzerland Population Cap -2- supporters 100k enter each year we cant pave the Matterhorn farmland built over - DW
DW News (SVP supporters): ~100,000 enter each year and infrastructure can't keep up — 'we're not going to build on top of the Matterhorn'; a farmer is losing his land to development.
03 Switzerland Population Cap -3- opponents healthcare heads for disaster nursing beds sit empty over-85s to double - DW
DW News (opponents): healthcare relies on foreign workers — 'Swiss-only staff won't work, we're heading for disaster'; empty nursing beds and a doubling over-85 population.
06 🏛️ WEAPONIZATION & THE DEEP STATE
Weaponization & the deep state: the Weaponization Fund, the 8647/Comey National Mall read, and the NV-AG election-integrity (USPS mail-ballot) fight.
Clips — 3
8647 National Mall
01 PBS NewsHour - Interior Dept investigating 8647 anti-Trump message in dead Mall grass - PBS
PBS NewsHour anchor read: Interior is investigating a giant '8647' in dead Mall grass (86='get rid of', 47=Trump) — the same '86 47' Comey spelled in seashells, for which he's now charged.
Election Integrity
01 NV AG Aaron Ford - USPS blocking mail ballots is unprecedented overreach and a lie I have beaten Trump in court and will again - MS NOW
Nevada AG Aaron Ford (MS NOW): a USPS proposal would block mail ballots in states that don't hand over voter data — 'it's a lie, there's no widespread fraud… I've beaten Trump in court dozens of times and will again.'
Weaponization Fund
01 Todd Blanche - we are not moving forward with the 1.8B fund period but wont put it in writing - MS NOW
Acting AG Todd Blanche (MS NOW): tells Congress the $1.8B weaponization fund is 'not moving forward, period' — but 'I'm not committing to putting anything in writing.'
07 🎭 KENNEDY CENTER
The Kennedy Center saga — Trump's name forced off by an Obama-appointed judge: his Truth-Social meltdown, the MS NOW mock (Beatty 'good trouble'), and the 'gladiator fight on the South Lawn while people can't buy gas' panel riff.
Clips — 6
01 Kennedy Center -1- Trump Truth Social post Obama judge rules the name must be removed - FOX
Fox anchor reads Trump's Truth Social post: an 'Obama-appointed judge,' Christopher Cooper, blocked the renovation closure and ruled the board can't add the Trump name — 'the name Trump must be removed.'
02 Kennedy Center -2- Trump meltdown treated so unfairly by the courts as I but thats okay - FOX
Fox — Trump's post escalates: Judge Cooper 'should be ashamed of himself'; Trump won't chase a 'hopeless journey into never-never land' — 'no president has been treated so unfairly by the courts as I, but that's okay.'
03 Kennedy Center -3- MSNOW reads Trumps troublemaking exclamation-point brief Beatty good-trouble clapback - MS NOW
MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart + Rep. Joyce Beatty: Trump's own filing calls her 'a troublemaking appointment, exclamation point'; Beatty quotes John Lewis ('good trouble') — 'his action was unlawful.'
04 Kennedy Center -4- MSNOW gleeful drag queen bubbles and a double rainbow over the Kennedy Center - MS NOW
MS NOW: a gleeful host segment — drag-queen bubbles and a double rainbow over the Kennedy Center as Trump's name comes off.
05 Kennedy Center -5- Rep Beatty it is a vanity project he wants to be a dictatorship - MS NOW
MS NOW — Rep. Joyce Beatty: the renovation is 'a vanity project — he wants to be a dictatorship.'
06 Kennedy Center -6- the gladiator fight on the south lawn while people cant buy gas - MS NOW
MS NOW panel — the 'split screen' riff: you can't have the president doing 'the gladiator fight on the South Lawn' and saying 'I love the inflation' while people can't buy gas — 'we need a unified message, a strategy.'
08 🐛 NEW WORLD SCREWWORM
New World Screwworm — the PBS anchor read on the parasite's northward march (pairs with the FDA ivermectin/Negasunt EUA articles below).
Clips — 1
01 Screwworm - flesh-eating parasite back in Texas USDA dropped sterile flies from planes Mexico cattle ban - CBS
CBS Mornings (reporter Jason Allen, San Antonio): the flesh-eating New World Screwworm is back in Texas, pushing record beef prices; the USDA's sterile-fly plants aren't online until next year; Mexican live-cattle imports are banned.
09 🎰 SERENDIPITY
Serendipity: Trump's $60M White-House-lawn UFC birthday cage fight + Team USA's World Cup run, and the Spencer Pratt LA-mayor mail-count twist.
Clips — 7
Spencer Pratt LA
01 Spencer Pratt -1- claims secret recording forces Bass or Raman to resign FBI is coming - NBC4
NBC4 LA: defeated LA-mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt (ex-reality star) claims a secret recording damaging enough to force Mayor Bass or councilwoman Raman to resign — 'the FBI is coming.'
02 Spencer Pratt -2- expert Islavsky says talk is cheap recording just designed to make news - NBC4
NBC4 LA: ex-LA County Supervisor Xavier Islavsky reality-checks it — voters have moved on, 'talk is cheap… it's just designed to make news.'
UFC + Team USA World Cup
01 NBC - 13 presidents were wrestlers Washington grappled Lincoln won hundreds Teddy threw a senator - NBC
NBC: 13 former presidents were wrestlers — Washington grappled, Lincoln won hundreds, Teddy Roosevelt learned jujitsu and threw a senator to the ground.
02 Rubio - the UFC fight is like JFK putting a man on the moon a gift to the American people - MS NOW
Sec. of State Marco Rubio (MS NOW): the White-House UFC fight is 'a gift to the American people,' like JFK's man-on-the-moon vow; the anchor deadpans 'I'll just leave that alone.'
03 MSNOW - what in the grift is this Trump bought UFC stock and 250 dollar medallions he profits - MS NOW
MS NOW: Trump bought UFC-parent stock before announcing the fight; a $1M-a-plate fundraiser and 'Freedom 250' medallions ($250-$12,000) profit his licensing company — not in a blind trust.
04 David Brooks PBS - JFK brought Auden and Bernstein now weve got cage fighting cultural decline - PBS
Columnist David Brooks (PBS): JFK brought Auden, Frost and Bernstein to the White House — 'now we've got cage fighting; don't anybody say America's in cultural decline.'
05 Trump wishes Team USA good luck run through a wall before the World Cup opener - Fox
Fox: Trump to the Team USA World Cup squad — '26 champions ready to run through a wall' — and the captain's awkward reply.