DN Speak Daily

Monday, March 23, 2026

HITMEINTHEHEADWITHABAT (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

A federal judge has issued a new rule requiring Jeanine Pirro to notify the court when she fails to get a grand jury to bring charges.

Jim Comey has been subpoenaed in the sprawling criminal probe against ex-CIA chief John Brennan in Judge Aileen Cannon’s district.

Attorney General Pam Bondi attempts to flout a deposition subpoena from the House Oversight Committee in the Epstein Files investigation.

The Department of Justice has suspended minimum work requirements for hiring attorneys.

Plus listener questions, including a question about the predicate of Crossfire Hurricane.
Interview:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-732m6-2c2596fe

Kaiser therapists claim new screening system puts patients at higher risk

"Human work needs to stay with human beings," Marcucci-Morris said.

Five licensed Kaiser therapists also said that since the California healthcare giant began rolling out its new patient assessment process, they've seen patients with high-risk cases wait longer for care. At the same time, these therapists say lower-risk patients are sometimes being fast-tracked to appointments with clinicians and clogging up an already strained system. Since January 2025, therapists have reported more than 70 examples of Kaiser's mental health screening system resulting in negative care outcomes, according to an administrative complaint with the California Department of Managed Health Care that the NUHW in northern California filed against Kaiser...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/kaiser-permanente-therapists-ai-strike

Iran vows to destroy Middle East water and energy facilities if US attacks power plants

Tehran has said it will "irreversibly destroy" essential infrastructure across the Middle East, including vital water systems, if the US follows through on Donald Trump's threat to "obliterate" Iran's power plants unless the strait of Hormuz is fully opened within two days.

As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens of people, and Tehran deployed long-range missiles for the first time, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war, now in its fourth week, with both sides threatening facilities relied on by millions of people...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-says-destroy-middle-east-infrastructure-us-energy-sites.

Arkansas police arrest Kendra Duggar on child abuse charges

Arkansas police have arrested Kendra Duggar, the wife of reality TV personality Joseph Duggar, on misdemeanor child abuse charges, in the latest scandal to envelop the family featured on TLC's 19 Kids and Counting.

Kendra Duggar faces four counts each of endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false imprisonment, according to the Washington county sheriff's office in Arkansas. She has a hearing scheduled for Monday...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/arkansas-kendra-dugger-child-abuse-charges

Child labor violations rise in US – as Republicans still roll back protections

"If federal standards are eroded, then they have nothing in place to protect minors from hazardous work, exploitative conditions, being over-scheduled, all these types of violations that we're already seeing in across the country," said Mast...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-protections-republicans

Iran social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack

"A core part of the Iranian information model is identifying fault lines in American political debate and amplifying them," he said. "For years, that meant platforming fringe movements on the left with demonstrable sympathies toward adversarial regimes. What's significant now is is that Iranian state media has found new and growing supply of content on the right, where rhetoric questioning Israeli influence over American foreign policy is trafficking in overt antisemitism.

"Iran doesn't need to create that content. It simply presents itself."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-social-media-strategy-information-war-us-israel-attack

INSIDER Reveals Pope Leo's Confrontation of GOP-Linked Opus Dei

Journalist Gareth Gore returns to talk to Court Accountability Action’s Alex Aronson about his recent talk with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, where he discussed Opus Dei and its abuses with His Holiness. Gareth and Alex talk about how this meeting came about, what Gareth shared with the Pope based on his years of reporting, and what may come next for the Vatican’s relationship with Opus Dei.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxvmm1wajp4