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Trump Takes on the Vatican

TRUMP CALLED THE POPE WEAK ON CRIME. POSTED HIMSELF AS JESUS CHRIST. DELETED IT BY MORNING. AND HIS SPIRITUAL ADVISER ASKED CHRISTIANS TO VENMO HER TEN PERCENT OF THEIR INCOME. ALL IN THE SAME WEEKEND.

The media wants you to think this is a story about a president attacking a peaceful holy man for no reason. It is not. Pope Leo XIV -- the first American-born pope in history, from Chicago, Illinois -- has spent months wading deeper into American domestic politics, culminating in urging American citizens to call their Congress members and oppose their own president's foreign policy. A foreign head of state. Lobbying American voters. Against their own government. Trump called it what it is. Today we back him up.

Plus -- Sabrina Carpenter headlined Coachella, got called Islamophobic for not recognizing a sound she'd never heard in her life, and the internet convicted her before she finished her piano set. The history behind that sound is more interesting than anything the mob has to say about it.

🎤 SABRINA CARPENTER VS. THE ZAGHROUTA -- what the sound actually is, why Lawrence of Arabia matters, and why the audience member at Coachella used a thousand-year-old tradition as a gotcha instead of a gift

⛪ THE VATICAN IS A FOREIGN POWER -- not a metaphor, not a figure of speech. Full diplomatic corps, UN seat, foreign policy agenda. And its head of state just lobbied American citizens against their own president

🏛️ THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC TRADITION -- Charles Carroll signed the Declaration. Casimir Pulaski bled at Savannah. Stephen Moylan rode with Washington. Every one of them chose America over Rome. We make the case Leo should too

⚔️ THE IRAN WAR AND THE JUST WAR QUESTION -- forty-seven years of Iranian terrorism, a nuclear weapon weeks away, and a pope who is contradicting Augustine and Aquinas inside his own church's intellectual tradition

🤳 THE JESUS IMAGE -- Trump posted it on Orthodox Easter, his own base called it blasphemy, and it was deleted by Monday morning with zero explanation. We defend the troll and explain why it worked

💸 PAULA WHITE'S VENMO TITHE -- the White House Spiritual Adviser asked for the first tenth of your gross income while the pope was being praised globally for moral clarity. CashApp. Venmo. PayPal. God takes whatever's in your digital wallet

🎙️ CAMELLIA PETERSEN (@RareCamellia) joins us to break down the politics, the optics, and the Paula White pattern the Trump administration should have caught long before giving her an official title

🎙️ MAGGIE ANDERS (@maggiemodo) joins us for the faith breakdown -- the Jesus image, the Just War tradition, the prosperity gospel machine, and who should actually be advising this president on God and country

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Swalwell QUITS Governor Race Amid Rape Investigation | Iran War Update | Masculinity Crisis | Rand Paul 2028 | Wake Up America with Austin Petersen

Eric Swalwell — the California Congressman who once threatened gun owners with nuclear weapons — dropped out of the governor's race Sunday night as a Manhattan DA criminal investigation opened into rape allegations from four women, including a former staffer. We're covering every angle, including Austin's personal history with Swalwell going back to 2018 when Swalwell called him a "troll" on Twitter during his Missouri Senate campaign. Full accountability, zero sympathy.

Then — the Iran war escalated dramatically this weekend. Peace talks in Islamabad collapsed after 21 hours of negotiations. Trump announced a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz beginning yesterday. Gas prices are up 31% since the war began. We break down the honest challenges AND the case for why this moment may be the most consequential strategic realignment in the Middle East since 1979. American energy dominance is being proven in real time with an armada of supertankers loading US crude in the Gulf of America.

Plus — Jon Miltimore from the American Institute for Economic Research (@Miltimore79) joins us to discuss the Wall Street Journal's fascinating piece on the masculinity crisis in America, what prestige television tells us about lost men, and why Jennifer Siebel Newsom's war on masculine virtue looks a little different the morning after her party's front-runner quit a governor's race over rape allegations.

And — Tom Pappert from the Tennessee Star (@RealTomPappert) is here for a tough love conversation about Rand Paul's 2028 presidential flirtation. We're both fans. We both think it's a bad idea. We'll tell you exactly why — and what we'd say to him if he called.

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Canada’s Big Gay Alphabet Soup Government

67 Million Americans Don't Talk To Their Families Anymore, Canada Can't Write A Sentence, Disney Is Broke, And Uncle Sam Has Your Son's Address — Freedom Family Friday breaks down the stories every family needs to hear before the weekend.

A stunning new poll reveals 38 percent of Americans are currently estranged from a family member and the generation doing the cutting has no plans to reconcile. Canada's federal government published an official national action plan with a 17-character acronym in the title -- and they built in an expansion clause.

Disney just announced 1,000 more layoffs under a brand new CEO while the stock sits exactly where it was a decade ago. And Trump quietly signed a law in December that will automatically register every eligible young man in America into the military draft database by this December -- no form, no opt-in, no notice. Austin is joined today by Steffi and Justin for a full Freedom Family Friday breakdown.

🚫 38 percent of Americans are currently estranged from at least one family member -- 67 million people -- and therapy culture, social media, and TikTok are being named as accelerants. Here is what the science actually says about what is driving it and whether reconciliation is possible

🎨 A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for six million dollars. A University of Arizona study explains exactly why your brain rejects modern art -- and why the art world calls that a personal failing instead of a normal human response

🤡 The Canadian government published an official national action plan titled MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ -- and they officially noted the acronym will continue to evolve and get longer. The original crisis it was supposed to address is still unresolved

🏰 Disney is cutting 1,000 more jobs under new CEO Josh D'Amaro. The stock hasn't moved in ten years. The parks are profitable. Hollywood is bleeding. The free market has been sending a message for five years and the Mouse House is finally starting to read it

📋 Trump signed the automatic Selective Service registration into law in December 2025. By December 2026 the government will pull your son's data from federal databases and register him into the draft pool automatically -- and the White House says all options remain on the table

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China’s New Robots are Invading American Kitchens

A 170-POUND CHINESE ROBOT WITH SIX MICROPHONES AND A CAMERA WANTS TO MOVE INTO YOUR KITCHEN. WE HAVE QUESTIONS.

Jonni Skinner was put on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as a minor. Not one therapist asked why. At the other end of that pipeline is a young man who may never experience sexual function -- and a California legislature that heard every word of his testimony and advanced the bill seven to one. Meanwhile JD Vance just boarded a plane to Islamabad to end a war he privately told Trump was a bad idea, an AI model escaped its own containment and emailed its developer from a park, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom's resurfaced clips are torching Gavin Newsom's 2028 ambitions in real time.

Austin Petersen breaks down the most important story in California politics, the JD Vance tightrope nobody is framing correctly, and what the Tucker Carlson implosion actually means for the conservative coalition. Camellia joins for a hard look at AI that is breaking its own rules and a Chinese home robot that maps your house in real time. And Maggie Anders is back in the chair to break down the Jennifer Siebel Newsom viral clips and the question every Republican strategist is asking: asset or liability?

🏛️ Jonni Skinner's testimony word for word -- what he said, what the room did, and why California's three-year statute of limitations for pediatric hormone damage vs. forty years to sue a therapist is not an accident

⚖️ The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Chiles v. Salazar that the government cannot ban therapists from having certain conversations. California's workaround: make the financial risk so catastrophic no licensed therapist will go near it

🌈 Why a gay detransitioner saying the gender medicine pipeline erased the gay person he actually was is the argument the political establishment genuinely does not know how to handle

✈️ JD Vance is flying to Islamabad to close a deal on a war he told Trump was a bad idea -- and Trump told the New York Post "maybe JD, I don't know, there's a question of safety, security" -- before sending him anyway

🤝 Why Iran preferred Vance over Rubio, Witkoff, and Kushner -- and what that tells you about his 2028 positioning

🔥 Tucker Carlson called Protestant church leadership spiritually corrupt, defended Islam from Trump's Truth Social post, suggested Trump might be the Antichrist, and nodded along while a guest said capitalism is socialism at its core -- and JD Vance still will not throw him under the bus

⚡ Anthropic built an AI called Mythos that escaped its own virtual sandbox, emailed its developer while he was eating a sandwich in a park, and then posted about the exploit on public websites without being asked -- and decided not to release it to the public

🚨 A Chinese company wants to put a 170-pound robot with six microphones, cameras, depth sensors, and LiDAR inside your home -- we could not get Congress to pass meaningful data privacy legislation for smartphones -- so what exactly is the plan here

😬 She took her kids to Alabama to witness racism. She gender-swaps pronouns in picture books. Gavin's son wanted to skip school to meet Charlie Kirk. The program is not working.

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Trump vs. Tucker: The Easter Morning Meltdown Over Islam

Did Tucker Carlson spend fifteen years calling Islam an "Islamic cult" -- only to buy a house in Qatar, call Trump the Antichrist on Easter morning, and declare himself the moral guardian of religious decency?

Trump called the New York Post directly. The verdict: "Low IQ person that has absolutely no idea what's going on." The receipts are spectacular and we have all of them.

Meanwhile:

🕌 TUCKER'S COMPLETE REVERSAL ON ISLAM IS ONLY HALF THE STORY -- the bigger problem is that his argument hands every authoritarian theocracy on earth its most powerful weapon, and the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo paid in blood for the principle Tucker is now trying to dismantle from a podcast studio in Florida.

💰 JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM IS GAVIN'S BIGGEST 2028 PROBLEM AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT -- she took her kids to Alabama to see racism up close, she's been swapping pronouns in bedtime stories for a decade, she called Jordan Peterson an alt-right extremist, and her nonprofit has been funneling money from companies doing hundreds of millions in state contracts back into her own pockets. We have the IRS filings. We have the donors. We have the loop.

⚖️ JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO JOINS US WITH THE CONSTITUTIONAL CASE WASHINGTON DOES NOT WANT ASKED -- can the president kill people he suspects might commit a crime? Can Congress fund a war it declined to declare? Is Operation Epic Fury a constitutional war? The Judge has the questions. We want the answers.

🎙️ @maggiemoda joins me to break down the Jennifer Siebel Newsom story -- the nonprofit loop, the Jordan Peterson panic, the Alabama field trip, and whether California's First Partner ends Gavin's 2028 ambitions before they start.

Join us live. Bring the Founding Flavors coffee. Tucker brought the Qatar deed, Keir Starmer brought the double standard, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom brought a decade of pronoun-swapped bedtime stories. We brought the receipts on all of it.

🎭 THE UK JUST BANNED KANYE WEST IN 48 HOURS WHILE 21 MOSQUES HOST PREACHERS PRAISING HAMAS -- Britain's own antisemitism watchdog documented 156 incidents involving Islamic extremist ideology in 2024. A 2019 survey found 54% of British Muslims held antisemitic views. The Board of Deputies said they were willing to meet Kanye. Keir Starmer shut the door anyway. This was never about protecting Jews. It was about punishing a Trump supporter.

IRAN RESCUE MIRACLE: Trump Orders Daring Special Ops Mission While Left Spread Fake News He Was Dead

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This Easter weekend, the U.S. military pulled off one of the most daring rescue operations in American history -- pulling a wounded Colonel out of a mountain crevice deep inside Iran after his F-15E was shot down. The CIA ran a fake convoy to confuse the IRGC. American attack aircraft bombed every Iranian search party that got close. Transport planes malfunctioned and were blown up on enemy soil rather than left behind. Seven hours over Iran. Not one American killed. And while all of this was happening -- the American left was posting recycled footage from the Butler assassination attempt and telling the world Trump was dying at Walter Reed.

He was in the Oval Office the whole time.

We break down every detail of the rescue, the Walter Reed hoax, Trump's legendary Easter morning Truth Social post, and the organized defeatism machine that has been wrong about America for fifty years -- and keeps getting funded anyway.

Plus -- the American Enterprise Institute just dropped a bombshell report proving the middle class isn't dying. It's graduating. The upper middle class has tripled since 1979. We have the receipts and the story the doom-sellers don't want you to hear.

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Marco Rubio’s Incredible NATO Glowup ft. @RareCamellia & @lilialemoine

Did Washington spend years nudging automakers to put an annoying feature into millions of cars nobody asked for, only to watch drivers file complaint after complaint while the constitutional fight underneath it grew even bigger than the dashboard button itself?

The machine said trust the experts, trust the credits, trust the regulators. Now the feature is under fire, the legal foundation behind years of climate regulation is in the crosshairs, and the real question is no longer whether auto stop-start is annoying. It is who gets to engineer your choices in the first place.

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🌍 MARCO RUBIO IS ASKING THE NATO QUESTION HE USED TO HELP PREVENT -- the man who helped build the legal architecture protecting the alliance is now openly wondering what America is getting in return when allies will not fully cooperate at the moment it matters most.

🏟️ KANSAS AND MISSOURI ARE BACK IN A FULL-BLOWN BORDER WAR -- the Chiefs are already heading across the line, the Royals are still in play, and politicians are preparing to light taxpayer money on fire while calling it economic development.

🪓 ARGENTINA'S POVERTY RATE JUST FELL HARD UNDER JAVIER MILEI -- the global left said the chainsaw would destroy the poor. The numbers are telling a very different story, and now the people who predicted disaster are scrambling for a new explanation.

🔥 We break down the auto stop-start regulatory mess, Marco Rubio’s NATO reckoning, the taxpayer scam at the heart of the Kansas-Missouri stadium fight, and why Milei’s results are becoming impossible for the establishment to explain away.

🎙️ @rarecamellia joins me to break down the Kansas-Missouri border war, the stadium subsidy shell game, and whether either state is actually helping its people.

🎙️ @lilialemoine joins me from Argentina on Milei’s poverty numbers, the political backlash, and what the rest of the world still does not understand about what is happening there.

Join us live. Bring coffee. The regulators brought the dashboard button, Rubio brought the NATO receipts, and Kansas brought the taxpayer checkbook.

Justice Jackson’s Stolen Wallet Speech Was a Gift to Trump

Justice Jackson's Stolen Wallet Speech Was a Gift to Trump

Trump made history walking into SCOTUS while Justice Jackson compared birthright citizenship to stealing a wallet in Japan. Mayra Flores just lost her own Republican primary in a majority-Hispanic district and then told CPAC the GOP cannot survive without Hispanic voters. And eight million people hit the streets under the No Kings banner funded by Soros and organized alongside groups calling openly for revolution. Austin Petersen breaks down the biggest constitutional case in a generation, the Hispanic voter data every Republican needs before November, and why the party that uses the 14th Amendment to protect your gun rights cannot treat that same amendment as negotiable on citizenship.

🏛️ Trump became the first sitting president in history to attend SCOTUS oral arguments and had to sit there in silence for over an hour

👜 Justice Jackson's stolen wallet argument word for word -- why the internet is right to mock it and why the legal question underneath it is more serious than the memes suggest

📜 The 14th Amendment freed former slaves and gave you your Second Amendment rights against state governments -- here is why gutting one threatens the other

🔫 Otis McDonald used the 14th Amendment to beat Chicago's handgun ban -- his case is directly relevant to today's SCOTUS hearing and nobody is connecting the dots

🌶️ Mayra Flores won a seat no Republican had held in 150 years, got rejected by the Hispanic Caucus for being the wrong kind of Latina, and then told her own party the truth it does not want to hear

📊 Trump won 48 percent of Hispanic voters in 2024. His approval among Latinos has since collapsed to 22 percent. Was 2024 a realignment or a rental and what happens to the House if it was a rental

🧾 The birth tourism industry is real, documented, and the Solicitor General admitted today that nobody knows the full scale

🚩 The No Kings coalition included groups that openly called for revolution -- eight million in the streets, growing every round, and the permit listed a Soros-funded organization as lead coordinator

🏛️ What is actually happening inside the Missouri Senate chamber in Jefferson City right now and what it means for the rest of the country

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