You have to hear how badly local news fell for this completely made up trafficking story... it's so good. But before that, Lydia's got our vegetables with some "where are they now" and final thoughts and discoveries about the funding of these grifty orgs.

• Gaza and Trump's "Preference" of Private Armies (Michael Picard - Incubator for Media Education and Development, 12/3/2025)

• HIDDEN COSTS: US PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES AND THE RISKS OF CORRUPTION AND CONFLICT (Michael Picard & Colby Goodman - Transparency International, 7/2022)

• GHF Core Pipeline (@BoycottDS on Twitter; 7/21/2025)

• Exclusive: US firm in Gaza aid program, criticized by UN, in talks for new role (Pesha Magid & Rami Ayyub - Reuters; 2/11/2026)

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We reach the end of our journey into the human trafficking grift, and it's not a good ending. The very same lying idiots we've been tracking are now being paid government money to point guns at civilians in Gaza. And allegedly shoot them.

• "Amateur Hour": The Man Sending US Military Contractors to Gaza (Noah Lanard - Mother Jones; 9/17/2025)

• US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza (Julia Frankel & Sam Mednick - AP News; 7/2/2025)

• Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites (Andy Verity, Tom Beal & Will Dahlgreen - BBC News; 9/9/2025)

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The deep dive into the right wing trafficking panic industrial complex gets even more interesting, as our web of characters expands to include Tim Tebow, Sound of Freedom, and that guy from Sound of Freedom who turned out to be horrible (surprise!).

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Fox News declared that WOKE HOLLYWOOD is dead with the great success of anti-woke film, Project Hail Mary. Lydia takes us through the world of right-wing film critique as they attempt to make this bizarre claim.

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We finish off the discussion on bogus child trafficking/missing children statistics. Also, what should we ACTUALLY be worried about when it comes to our children?

It's 2026, do you know where your Ashton Kutcher's 2011 anti human trafficking campaign is?

We've got so much to say on this one that it's a WT-DOUBLE episode! (tm). After the USA men's hockey team won the gold, not only was Kash Patel in the locker room celebrating with them, but he also got Trump on the phone. Trump made an incredibly sexist joke and the men laughed. After they received some backlash, we wanted to take a look at how they responded and see if ANY of them could muster the SLIGHTEST bit of introspection and, dare we say it, maybe even contrition?

The New York Post went off on a bioethicist after he published his concerns surrounding the marketing after Trump signed legislation bringing whole milk back into federally subsidized school lunch programs. Lydia breaks it all down: the NYP's attacks, the actual article from the "woke professor," some history of dietary racism, and a smattering of the propaganda that's been coming out of the Administration ever since.

• Is the Recent Effort to Glorify Whole Milk Tainted by Racism?, (Arthur Caplan, Bioethics Today, 2/4/2026)

• How Milk Became a Battleground in Trump's War on "Woke", (Paige Oamek, The Nation, 1/30/2026)

• Milk, a symbol of neo‑Nazi hate, (Andrea Freeman, The Conversation, 8/30/2017)

• Why the Trump Administration Is Obsessed With Whole Milk, (Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 1/18/2026)

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