So, the President thinks he’s in a Liam Neeson movie, the DOJ thinks "transparency" means hiding 98% of the Epstein files, and Ghislaine Maxwell got a puppy. Happy Wednesday. The masks are officially off, and what’s underneath is even uglier than we thought.In this episode, I’m breaking down the absolute fever dream that is February 2026:

• The Hunter Arc: Why the White House is rebranding the presidency as a revenge thriller and what "voter ID whether Congress likes it or not" actually means for the midterms.
• The Zuck Trial: Mark Zuckerberg is finally in front of a jury (not a fan-boy Senate committee) defending why Meta thinks 10-year-olds are "valuable assets" rather than human beings.
• Epstein’s 2%: Attorney General Pam Bondi claims "all" the files are out. Spoilers: They aren't. We talk 40 terabytes of missing data, Ted Lieu’s C-SPAN bombshell, and why the DOJ is busy redacting names while releasing victims' photos.
• Eight Fractures: A brutal investigation into ICE enforcement in Minneapolis and the "Catch of the Day" operation that’s turning even the President’s own voters against him.
• Subpoenaed Opinions: How DHS is using administrative subpoenas to unmask anonymous Reddit and Discord users for the crime of... having an opinion.
• The Quiet Parts: From Jared Kushner’s nuclear "diplomacy" in Iran to the weaponization of health grants against blue states.
  
  

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They raised their hands. Every. Single. One of them.


The survivors sat three feet behind the Attorney General of the United States...a phalanx of white and blacked-out redaction shirts. When asked if the Department of Justice failed them, the hands went up. When asked if they’d been ignored by the very people sworn to protect them, the hands stayed up.


But when asked if they actually trusted the DOJ? Dead silence.



While they stood, Pam Bondi stared at her notes like eye contact was a biohazard. No apology for the "accidental" release of victim nudes. No explanation for why billionaire predators got the luxury of a black marker while their prey got doxed.


She had the audacity to say she wouldn't "get in the gutter" with the committee.


But here’s the reality: The gutter is where those survivors' private lives were dumped.


Let's break down the absolute circus of the February 11th Judiciary hearing.


Welcome to the gutter. We’re all in it now.


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While the country argued about a Super Bowl halftime show, the U.S. government quietly revealed how power actually works. In this episode of Red, White & Bruised, Robin breaks down the week America exposed itself in real time. From the culture war meltdown over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance to the resurfacing of the Epstein files, the dismissal of Steve Bannon’s criminal case, and a Justice Department increasingly aligned with political loyalty over accountability. This episode examines how distraction functions as cover fire. Loud outrage dominates headlines while structural changes reshape the legal, political, and information systems underneath.

In this episode:

• The coordinated backlash to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show and why culture war outrage is the point
• Trump’s response to athletes speaking honestly at the Winter Olympics and the growing political cost of enforced “gratitude”
• Ghislaine Maxwell invoking the Fifth Amendment while quietly signaling willingness to testify in exchange for a presidential pardon
• New revelations about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s post-conviction ties to Jeffrey Epstein
• The Department of Justice moving to dismiss Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt conviction
• A Fifth Circuit ruling allowing indefinite detention by ICE without bond hearings
• Looming DHS funding deadlines and Democratic paralysis
• Elon Musk’s renewed political spending and the growing money imbalance ahead of the midterms
• The White House’s unprecedented “Media Offenders” page and its implications for press freedom
• How culture war noise, legal infrastructure, financial power, and information control work together by design

This is not chaos. It’s architecture. While public attention stays locked on spectacle, the machinery of power rewrites the rules in plain sight. This episode connects the dots between distraction and consequence...and asks what happens when the loudest outrage stops working.

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An 84 year old woman is missing in Tucson. The President posted a racist video and won't apologize. The DNI is seizing voting machines. And Kamala Harris just relaunched her social media.

It's been a week. Let's get into it.



In This Episode:

The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
Day six of the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, taken from her Arizona home in the middle of the night. We break down the full timeline, the ransom notes sent to media outlets, the FBI's warning about AI deepfakes complicating proof of life, the arrest of a fake ransom scammer, a new message being analyzed by investigators, a vehicle of interest at a Tucson Circle K, and the towing of a car from Nancy's property Friday evening. Still no suspects. Still no proof of life. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward.

The President Posted What?!
Late Thursday night, Trump's Truth Social account shared a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, during Black History Month. The White House called the backlash "fake outrage." Then Tim Scott called it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." Then Republicans started calling the President directly. Then it came down. Then they blamed a staffer. Then Trump said he won't apologize. We walk through every layer.

Tulsi Gabbard and the Election Conspiracy Road Show
The Director of National Intelligence showed up at an FBI raid in Georgia, seized voting machines in Puerto Rico, skipped the capture of Nicolás Maduro, and has a classified whistleblower complaint locked in a safe alleging she restricted intelligence for political purposes. We connect the dots between all of it.

Kamala Harris and the Return of KamalaHQ
Harris relaunched her campaign accounts as "Headquarters," a youth mobilization project that is very obviously a 2028 campaign in disguise. Robin makes the data driven case for why the Democratic Party needs to move on, including the 21 point youth vote collapse, underwater favorability numbers, and what happens when a party chooses familiarity over a real reckoning.

Key Sources & References
Pima County Sheriff's Department press conferences (Feb. 5–6, 2026)
FBI Phoenix Division, SAC Heith Janke statements
NBC News, CBS News, CNN, ABC News, Fox 10 Phoenix — Nancy Guthrie coverage
Washington Post, NYT, NBC News, CBS News, CNN, CNBC, Axios, The Hill — Trump/Obama video coverage
Reuters — Tulsi Gabbard Puerto Rico voting machine investigation
Wall Street Journal — Gabbard whistleblower complaint reporting
Civiqs, Marquette Law School, Catalist — Harris polling and post election data



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The Director of National Intelligence showed up to an FBI raid on a Georgia elections office. Then she put the President on speakerphone with the agents. Then we found out she's been sitting on a whistleblower complaint about herself for eight months.

This week, we're talking about Tulsi Gabbard, the woman who went from Bernie Sanders endorser to Democratic presidential candidate to Fox News guest host to Trump's spy chief in one of the most cynical political transformations in modern American history. We're talking about the Fulton County raid, the classified complaint locked in a safe, her documented history of consuming Russian state media, her secret meeting with Assad, and why Russian state TV calls her "Russia's girlfriend."

I'm not going to dance around it: I think Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset. And I'm going to tell you exactly why.  Buckle up.

KEY POINTS

• On January 28, 2026, FBI agents seized 700 boxes of 2020 election materials from Fulton County, Georgia. DNI Tulsi Gabbard was physically present, at Trump's specific direction.
• The day after the raid, Gabbard visited the FBI's Atlanta field office and put Trump on speakerphone with the agents. He gave them a "pep talk" for investigating the election he lost.
• Former FBI officials called this "unprecedented" and said there is "unanimous disgust" across current and former agents.
• A whistleblower complaint about Gabbard has been locked in a safe for eight months. Federal law requires transmission to Congress within three weeks.
• Three former aides told ABC News that Gabbard regularly read and shared articles from RT, the Kremlin's principal propaganda outlet.
• In 2017, Gabbard took a secret trip to Damascus and met with Assad for nearly three hours. Congressional staffers later worried she might leak information about a Syrian defector.
• A former U.S. ambassador to NATO called Gabbard's 2017 foreign policy memo "basically the Russian playbook."
• At her confirmation hearing, Gabbard refused to call Edward Snowden a traitor. Senator Bennet responded: "Apparently, you don't understand how critical our national security is."
  
  
  
  

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The DOJ just dumped 3 million pages of Epstein files. Trump's name shows up over 1,000 times.

Elon Musk wanted to know which night had the "wildest party" on Pedophile Island. The Commerce Secretary's wife RSVP'd to bring the kids to Little St. James. Steve Bannon was texting a child rapist about borrowing his plane. And the guy announcing all this? Trump's former defense attorney. You can't make this shit up.

But here's the kicker: survivors got doxxed while their rapists hide behind black rectangles. Fifty percent of the files are still being withheld. And Ghislaine Maxwell remains the only person in prison.

For this episode, Robin rips through the documents, names the names, and asks the questions your government hopes you're too distracted to ask. The receipts are here. The excuses are bullshit. Let's go.

SOURCES & LINKS:

• DOJ Epstein Files Repository: justice.gov/epstein
• CBS News Searchable Epstein Database
• House Oversight Committee Document Releases
• Survivors' Official Statement (January 31, 2026)

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"They say history repeats itself, but usually it has the courtesy to let you catch your breath between atrocities."

This week, the world watched as American foreign and domestic policy went from "unstable" to "active crime scene." From the decks of an "enthusiastic" aircraft carrier to the steps of a violated consulate in Minneapolis, the rules of the game have been set on fire. Robin breaks down the illegal incursions, the paramilitary tactics being used on American soil, and the administrative lies falling apart in real-time.

In this episode:

• The "Enthusiastic" Armada: Trump’s latest threats against Iran, the return of Operation Midnight Hammer, and why the administration is using "speed and violence" as a poll-number pivot.
• The Board of Peace: A dive into Jared Kushner’s $7 trillion "colonial parody" and the plan to turn Gaza into a seaside resort.
• Consulate Chaos in Minneapolis: A federal agent’s attempt to storm the Ecuadorian Consulate, the violation of the Vienna Convention, and why Italy is comparing American law enforcement to the SS.
• The Alex Pretti Narrative: The truth behind the "massacre" lie, the role of Stephen Miller in fabricating an assassin story, and the fallout for Secretary Kristi Noem.
• The Database is Real: Inside the federal plan to "make protesters famous," the use of LRADs on American citizens, and the database flagging of "agitators" before they end up in ICE custody.
• The Human Cost: The heartbreaking deportation of 5-year-old American citizen Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos and the rising body count in federal detention.
• The Politics of Spite: The attack on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and the looming government shutdown over DHS funding.
  
  
  Keywords: Trump Iran threat 2026, ICE protest database, Ilhan Omar attacked Minneapolis, ICE Minneapolis shooting, Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem impeachment, Vienna Convention violation, Ecuador consulate ICE, Italy refuses ICE Olympics, Tom Homan database, domestic terrorist database, Operation Metro Surge, Judge Schiltz ICE contempt, 5-year-old deported Honduras, Génesis Gutiérrez Castellanos, Keith Porter ICE shooting, Renee Good ICE shooting, Trump approval rating 2026, DHS funding shutdown, Stephen Miller, abolish ICE, immigration enforcement, federal agents protesters, LRAD sound cannon, Zipps raid Phoenix, Board of Peace Gaza, Jared Kushner Gaza, Trump Truth Social, mass deportation, sanctuary cities, political podcast, news podcast, current events 2026

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Two American citizens have been killed by federal agents in Minneapolis in less than three weeks.

 On January 24, 2026, ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot ten times..mostly in the back...after trying to help a woman who had been shoved to the ground by ICE agents. Video shows he was disarmed before he was killed. Within hours, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called him a "domestic terrorist." Hours after his death, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a chilling demand: hand over your state's voter rolls, or the federal agents stay.

In this episode, Robin connects the dots between the ICE occupation of Minneapolis, the expansion to Maine, and the Trump administration's nationwide campaign to seize voter data from 24 states. What emerges is a terrifying picture: immigration enforcement as political weapon, federal agents as a goon squad punishing dissent, and a roadmap to consolidated authoritarian power.

• The execution of Alex Pretti: What the videos show vs. what DHS claims
• Witness affidavits: Shot in the back, after being disarmed
• Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller's "domestic terrorist" lie
• Pam Bondi's extortion letter: Voter rolls for peace
• Why Minnesota? Why Maine? The pattern of targeting Democratic states
• The DOJ's lawsuit against 24 states for voter data
• DOGE's secret agreement to share Social Security data with election deniers
• Where this is heading: Escalation, Insurrection Act, rigged midterms
• The witness who is terrified ICE is coming for her
• Where is the Democratic Party?

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For this episode, Robin examines the fundamental differences between liberalism and progressivism and why understanding this divide is critical for 2028.


Key topics include: Why Republicans fall in line while Democrats fracture over purity tests, the data showing disruptive protest tactics reduce public support by 15%, and how protest votes intended to help Gaza enabled Trump's return and Gaza's devastation.

With 31 Nobel laureates warning about fascism, Yale historians fleeing to Canada, and a Democracy Index rating the U.S. at 55/100 (authoritarian territory), ideological purity has become dangerous. With democracy itself at stake, coalition building must supersede purity politics.

In this episode, Robin argues that while liberals and progressives share end goals, such as universal healthcare, climate action, workers' rights, racial justice...their strategic disagreements determine electoral outcomes.

Compromise isn't betrayal; it's how democracy functions.


Keywords: liberal vs progressive, democratic party divide, why democrats lose elections, electoral strategy 2028, progressive purity politics, coalition building, capitalism vs socialism, free speech vs cancel culture, identity politics, incrementalism vs revolution, protest tactics effectiveness, political compromise, Gaza protest votes, Republican electoral strategy, swing state politics, moderate vs progressive, political pragmatism, deplatforming debate, working class voters, political podcast, 2028 election analysis, authoritarianism warning, voting strategy, ideological purity critique
Sources: Pew Research (2021), Ruy Teixeira/The Liberal Patriot, Matthew Yglesias/The Atlantic, Ezra Klein/NYT, Democracy Index 2025, 31 Nobel Laureates fascism letter

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This week: NATO threats, depression-era meals, and a timeline of authoritarianism that reads like dystopian fiction...except it's all real.

Robin breaks down Trump's Greenland obsession and the threat of military action against our own NATO allies. Eight European countries are getting tariffs because they won't help us invade Denmark. When Emmanuel Macron is comparing you to Putin, maybe it's time to reassess.
Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (net worth: $15 million) wants you to know you can feed yourself for $3...just eat one piece of chicken, one piece of broccoli, one tortilla, and "one other thing." Groceries are up $310 per year for American families, but have you tried eating less? Marie Antoinette energy.

In Minneapolis, over 2,500 people have been arrested in the largest ICE operation in American history. Schools are closed. The National Guard is mobilized. Masked federal agents operate without ID. And on January 7th, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good...a mother of three, poet, and school board member. She was called a "domestic terrorist" within hours. ICE blocked a physician from helping her as she died. Now the DOJ is investigating her widow, not the shooter. Six federal prosecutors have resigned in protest.

Also covered: Trump "joking" about canceling elections, the Department of Labor posting Nazi-adjacent slogans, the Insurrection Act being threatened against American protesters, a death in ICE custody ruled likely homicide, and why 31 Nobel laureates just warned that "the signs of fascism are here."

Plus: why three Yale historians who study fascism for a living just moved to Canada, and what it means when a new Democracy Index says we've "slid well into authoritarianism."




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Trump Greenland invasion, NATO tariffs 2026, Brooke Rollins $3 meal, grocery prices inflation, Minneapolis ICE raids, Renée Nicole Good shooting, ICE killings, Tim Walz DOJ investigation, authoritarianism America, fascism warning, immigration enforcement 2026, federal prosecutor resignations, Insurrection Act, political podcast, progressive politics, Trump administration, civil rights violations, police accountability, democracy crisis, political analysis

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro: The Golden Age
05:30 - Segment 1: Greenland Imperialism & NATO Threats
18:45 - Segment 2: Let Them Eat One Piece of Broccoli
28:20 - Segment 3: Minneapolis Under Siege
42:10 - Segment 4: Renée Nicole Good (Content Warning)
58:35 - Segment 5: Top 10 Signs of Fascism This Week
1:14:20 - Closing Thoughts

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