Background Briefing (5am)

Ryan Cooper / Eric Blanc / Erik Baker

The Confirmation of Kash Patel as Trump’s Dumbest Self-inflicted Wound to Weaken America and Accelerate Its Collapse as a World Power
In Crushing of the Federal WorkForce, Musk and Trump Will Not Find the Trillions to Make Trump’s Tax Cuts to the Super-Wealthy Permanent
The Fraud of the Can-Do Power of Positive Thinking, as We Head Into An Era of Techno-Serfdom


Background Briefing (5am)

Jacob Heilbrunn / Leila Hilal / Jeet Heer

Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist “Crusader” at the Pentagon, Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire
A Palestinian Perspective on Trump’s U.S.-Owned Gaza as a “Riviera of the Middle East”
The Growing Alarm at Musk Having Every American’s Social Security Number, Address, Email, Income, and Personal Details