Federal Judges Criticize Trump’s Justice Department for “Unethical” Conduct — ProPublica

ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity

 

FCC Officials Took Gifts From Paramount While It Had Business Before Them — ProPublica

Expensive Gifts: Despite regulating broadcast media, FCC commissioners have accepted pricey tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala from CBS or its parent company, now Paramount. 

Conflict of Interest: Ethics experts say that by accepting the gifts, FCC commissioners are compromising the agency’s impartiality and should avoid acting on Paramount’s pending merger. 

Mixing Business and Pleasure: After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala 

Another ICE Coverup (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

FBI Director Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from Bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions.

US Attorney Andrew Boutros agrees to pay the attorney’s fees for the Broadview Six in a bid to avoid discovery as the codefendants seek a special prosecutor to investigate the Justice Department.

The Harris County DA says federal authorities have sidelined local officials from investigating the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in Houston.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche will face confirmation hearings this week as New Mexico accuses the justice department of obstructing the Epstein Ranch investigation.

Plus listener questions.
Interview: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/another-ice-coverup/id1317481380?i=1000776450359

So, is faith without works dead? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

The Epistle of James might be the most quietly radical book in the New Testament — it insists that faith without works is dead, that mercy triumphs over judgment, and it may be pushing back directly on Paul.

This episode, we dig into who actually wrote it (probably not Jesus's brother), why nobody quoted it until the third century, why "James" is really "Jacob," and why Martin Luther wanted to demote it to an "epistle of straw."

Chapters: 

• 0:00 Cold Open
• 0:44 The Epistle of James
• 2:17 It's Actually "Jacob"
• 4:01 Which James Wrote This?
• 6:07 Nobody Quotes It for 200 Years
• 7:45 Was James Really the Author?
• 10:20 James vs. Paul on Faith
• 12:06 Chapter 1: Wisdom Literature
• 13:45 The Rich, the Poor, and the Law
• 17:12 Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment
• 20:06 What "Chesed" Really Means
• 22:36 Faith Without Works Is Dead
• 28:49 Abraham, Isaac, and Works
• 31:16 Luther's "Epistle of Straw"
• 32:56 Pure Religion: Orphans and Widows

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/lCM1pO-SpyQ?si=oOWEWujonmPCPK1p

The Arrogance of Faith? #shorts #shortsfeed

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wC4uHtPCPv4 

Unethical Chief Justices

Interview: 

https://youtube.com/shorts/KQydObJfDTE?si=UJfJEKdHw3x386L0

LIVE DEBATE [God is Fiction] 3-16-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube and podcast)

TIMESTAMPS 

8:39 Skepticus joins  

11:00 David - Philbro nonsense; What is Justin’s foundation for his view of the Bible; Contradiction in 1 Chronicles 21 & 2 Samuel 24

46:15 Joe Ja - Starts with fine tuning; Were the Israelites slaves to God?

1:21:43 VanTam - Caller talks non-stop; We have a creator because everything has one; Caller misunderstands infinity; Was time created? Justin gives caller 2 minutes to talk at the end of the call

2:06:50 RegularJohn - Caller believes in God because he sees patterns in people’s name; If you use your story for why God is real, why wouldn’t you trust the story of other people and their God?

2:24:20 Darth Mark [Agnostic] - Believes we live in a simulation; Caller believes they have precognitions that come true

2:49:35 Duke Tree - Christianity is true because of all the believers that have died for their faith; Is Genesis 3:15 a prophecy? What about other prophecies?

3:33:50 (Duke Tree) Is a choice by coercion an actual choice (follow God or burn forever?) Caller: yes, it is still a choice and Hell isn’t a lake of fire and torment

3:56:20 Alfie - What Christian scholars does Justin recommend?

4:01:40 Jared - Humans are the only creatures that say God isn’t real; Caller believes everyone knows God is real and non-believers are lying

4:22:00 James - How do atheists account for logic and knowledge? Is God contingent? How about Jesus?

4:46:15 (James) - Even if God isn’t real, living as if he is the best way to live your life; Are God’s morals objective?

5:10:29 Superchats and wrap-up GGs

Interview: 

• YouTube video, with viewer comments: https://www.youtube.com/live/ow-VuBA52j0?si=cTgFsajnCZRO5MS5
• Podcast, audio only: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2026-03-16-fiction-atheist-live-debates/id1837730286?i=1000759287917

Monte Mader Deconstructs Alt-Right Christian Nationalism (Find Out podcast on YouTube)

We're mixing things up on this episode of the Find Out Podcast with our guest, Monte Mader. Monte is not only a culture critic, musician and podcaster, she was raised in a far right Christian Nationalist community who has flipped sides and now offers guidance to white, ex-Evangelical Christians who want to leave the MAGA movement.

Monte explains to us deeply engrained her family was in Christian Nationalist Republican politics. Growing up in a deeply religious household in Wyoming, her father home schooled and raised her to believe that you can't be a Christian and a Democrat. We find out what caused her to finally leaver the Christian Nationalist community and why they worship Donald Trump.

Chapters

00:00 I Took My Bible & I Threw It Across The Room
01:24 Raised At The Intersection of Republican Politics & Religion
05:52 Christian Apologetics
08:51 What Was the First Seed of Doubt?
12:41 The First Time I Realized I Was Intentionally Lied To
16:11 Realizing Christian Nationalism Is The Problem
23:51 My Dad Held Trump To The Same Moral Standard He Held Clinton
29:38 James Dobson, Eugenics, Larry Ellison & The Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger
36:19 What's The Difference Between Trump's Iran Plan & Trump's Vietnam Plan?
42:17 Matt Schalpp of CPAC Has Been Credibly Accused
45:40 Ronald Reagan Was A Piece Of Sh*t
49:10 You Cannot Expect or Demand Apologies From People That You Victimized
57:34 Let's End On Something Hopeful

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/VoQhokCN3w4?si=Pdu0fUsV8Z4GFoXR

Christopher Hitchens destroys Christian ethics and morality

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9cw2pb0ok

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2oMmTwtT2QY

Aipac affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since 7 October, filings reveal

Revealed: AIEF, a charitable affiliate of pro-Israel lobby Aipac, has spent millions on travel for lawmakers from both parties, even as voters’ support for Israel plummets…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/aipac-aief-congress-israel-travel

 

Supreme Court HIT with NEW SCANDAL as Alito Treasury Link REVEALED!!!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHHSuqryp2c

Christian defends slaughtering children - Doesn't Go Well (Jon Cohen; Unconvinced on YouTube)

What happens when someone calmly tries to justify God commanding the killing of children? In this live debate, a Christian caller attempts to defend some of the Bible’s darkest passages — including genocide, child killing, and eternal punishment.

The conversation escalates fast.

If morality means anything at all, it cannot suddenly stop applying when the character in question is called “God.”
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/IVIWDVaw_Sg?si=quXXGWP4BDXPkCfR

Call your Senator and tell them you support this.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3a6HTI_0kbk

 

Kansas pastor’s Senate buzz sparks GOP pushback!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pd1qvDgWYCk

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

On 23 March, traders placed $580m in bets on the oil futures market just 15 minutes before Trump said on social media that the US was having “productive” talks with Iran, according to the Financial Times. The traders made a windfall after Trump’s comments triggered a sell-off in the oil markets that made oil prices plummet. 

The same thing happened again on 7 April, this time when traders spent $950m on oil futures, betting that the price of oil would fall just hours before the ceasefire with Iran was announced. 

“We can’t say from the outset whether any of these trades were illegal. Any one of them could be lucky, and any one of them could be based on lawful information,” said Andrew Verstein, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. “But many of them bear the hallmarks of suspicious trades that would naturally warrant investigation.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns

 

Ethics scrutiny hits fundraising for Mills, Cherfilus-McCormick - Live Updates - POLITICO

The documents, which encompass January through March, show GOP Rep. Cory Mills reported just less than $75,000 raised this quarter as he continues to face an Ethics Committee investigation that includes allegations he broke campaign finance rules and threatened to release sexually explicit videos from a past relationship. Mills has denied the allegations against him...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/15/congress/ethics-woes-hit-fundraising-00875006 

The Simple Truth About Human Potential

Humanism is a nonreligious worldview that centers human dignity, freedom of thought, and responsibility to one another. 

In this first video of Humanism 101, leaders from the American Humanist Association introduce what humanism means, what humanists believe, and why millions of people already live by humanist values without realizing there’s a name for it. Featuring Fish Stark, Executive Director, Candace Gorham, President, and Jake Via, Organizing Director. 

Humanism rejects the idea that morality requires religion and instead emphasizes ethics rooted in compassion, reason, and shared humanity. Humanists believe science helps us understand what’s real, while empathy and justice guide how we treat others. Humanism supports democracy, human rights, freedom of belief, and the idea that people working together can solve real-world problems.

 If you’ve ever searched for ethics without religion, secular humanism, or a values-based philosophy grounded in human potential, this video is for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGL6rIza7-M

 

David P. Barash says "the soul is due for a takedown" | Freethought Radio: In Studio (YouTube)

FFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor sit down with evolutionary biologist and psychologist David P. Barash to tackle one of religion’s most enduring claims: the human soul. Drawing from his book "The Soul Delusion," Barash breaks down what people mean when they talk about souls, why the concept persists, and how science explains consciousness without invoking the supernatural.

Interview: 

https://youtu.be/nhlNsgKLDak?si=T7cd6MMj0_2_ZWRF

Tax is not theft: why the “it’s my money” argument is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK-PmfkViDE