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Unity Waterboarding, Furious Allies, & a Congressional Crime Scene
The Badlands Brief is your daily drop of Badlands’ takes on the narratives dominating the info war. Read on, and join the conversation in the comments section.
Establishment Left Calls For Unity as Far Left Suffers Major Loss In Wisconsin
Wisconsin Democrats are confronting a widening internal divide after the party’s establishment wing defeated a progressive-backed candidate in a closely watched primary, dealing another setback to activists seeking to push the party further left. The result follows months of Democratic infighting nationally over ideology, electability and the growing influence of democratic-socialist candidates.
In the aftermath, establishment Democrats are calling for party unity ahead of November, arguing that internal ideological fights risk weakening Democrats against Republicans. The result adds to a broader debate inside the party over whether the energy generated by its activist left can translate into statewide victories — or whether Democrats need to move toward the center to remain competitive.
Burning Bright: I’m old enough to remember when myself and some of my fellow Badlanders took about a year and a half of endless grief from small, vocal segments of the so-called Truth Community for advancing the argument that, when American politicians attempt to waterboard the electorate with ‘unity’ messaging, they are de facto admitting their desire to perpetuate the Uniparty itself.
In fact, perhaps the revelation I didn’t know I would be subjected to throughout 2025 and 2026 when it comes to said Truth Community of which we are all a part was that so many in said community would be able to maintain the cognitive dissonance required to routinely reference the obvious presence of a Uniparty ... while bloviating endlessly on the need for MAGA to vote for the GOP.
Now, I am very well aware that Donald Trump also tells us to vote for the GOP, and I am very well aware that most in his base will do so, and it’s also entirely possible that is the best thing to do.
But to say that the Republican Party as currently constituted has our best interests at heart ignores the sum total of their entire existence as an apparatus layered over the mandate of the people as a barely-concealed balm that does nothing to mute their underlying rot.
In fact, as I have been arguing all year, if Donald Trump himself actually believed in the sanctity of the Republican Party, or rather the people who currently make it up, why has he been governing the nation for almost two years as if Congress (which is currently controlled by the GOP, FYI) is a direct impediment to the MAGA agenda and NOT an accelerant for it?
But I digress, as this take was originally going to be about the other side of the Controlled Opposition Dynamic.
This week’s headlines on a ‘Far Left’ communist losing the Wisconsin Governor’s race to an ‘Establishment Democrat’ are highly revealing for a few reasons:
For starters, it demonstrates in no uncertain terms that, in clearly drawing a line of demarcation between themselves and said ‘Far Left,’ the Establishment Democrats have actually actualized the plans of said ‘Far Left.’
Remember, as I have been writing about on my Substack for weeks, the self-defined end game of the DSA has been to engineer a ‘Dirty Break’ within the Left.
Well ... in celebrating the breaking off of the ‘Center Left’ from the ‘Far Left,’ said ‘Center Left’ hasn’t just helped to codify the Dirty Break they were ostensibly trying to avoid, but have actually spent more energy accelerating it than the very people they’re breaking from.
The ultimate, glorious irony to it all, however, and the inspiration for my GOP-tinged rant above lies in the fact that said Establishment Left is currently waterboarding their own radical base with the same ‘unity’ messaging the Uniparty Right (and again, much of the Truth Community) has been wielding against free thinkers and actual MAGA-minded Americans for the better part of Trump’s second public term.
In other words, whatever you think of the so-called ‘Far Left’ when compared to the so-called ‘Center Left,’ keep in mind that YOU have been called the so-called ‘Far Right’ by the so-called ‘Center Right’ that currently governs you.
How did that make you feel?
How do you think it makes the so-called ‘Far Left’ feel?
All of which is to say, when BOTH sides of the Uniparty call for Unity on a platform that seeks the subjugation of the American people and the furtherance of federal power over said people, you might want to back off the desire to forward the same rhetoric to your fellow Truthers.
Moscow Warns of Higher Food Prices as Russia, Ukraine Strike Grain Ports
Russia and Ukraine are escalating attacks on each other’s Black Sea export infrastructure, threatening grain supplies from two of the world’s largest agricultural exporters. Ukrainian strikes forced major grain terminals at Russia’s Novorossiysk port to halt operations, while Russia struck Ukraine’s port of Izmail on the Danube, damaging infrastructure and starting fires. Russia accused Kyiv of threatening global food supplies; Ukraine says Russian attacks have already devastated its own export capacity.
The disruption is already hitting markets: wheat futures jumped after the Novorossiysk attack, while Ukraine says its grain exports plunged 76% year-over-year during the first half of August. With food-supply concerns mounting, Ukraine has now reportedly proposed a mutual halt to attacks on civilian Black Sea targets, though Russia has not formally accepted the offer.
GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: The explosion in Ukrainian terrorism around the world is no coincidence.
In all likelihood, it is all being funded by US tax dollars, but that is completely in line with how terrorism has always been financed.
Why would the US State Department and Congress send money to Ukraine to fund terrorist activities that target food infrastructure when we are already facing a food-affordability crisis?
I suppose we could also ask, “why is water wet?” But to what end?
What is the “Deep State?” What are its public-facing institutions? What is the CIA? Which agency is responsible for USAID? Which agency distributes billions of dollars in grant money to NGO’s every year? Which agency is responsible for engaging in diplomacy on behalf of the US? (And therefore responsible for the current state of the world?) Who rigs elections around the world to install puppet leaders? Who launders classified information and misinformation through the media? Who has been conducting illegal psychological warfare operations against the American People?
The answer to all of these questions is: The State Department.
The State Department is beyond redemption. It represents one of the greatest evils on earth. It most certainly is the #1 financier of terrorism.
Put down the pom-poms and stop cheerleading for an organization that hates you and wants to see your civilization and culture eradicated. We didn’t send Donald Trump to Washington to make friends with the State Department. We sent him there to bring it to its knees, expose its crimes against humanity, and—God willing— abolish it from existence.
In its place, we will establish a new diplomatic mission that isn’t predicated on the effeminate practices of clandestine espionage, subterfuge, assassination, coercion, and passive-aggressive politics. We must restore masculinity to our foreign policy platform with direct-path thinking where we say what we mean and we mean what we say. No more placating the sensitivities of neurotic ne’er de wells or the proclivities of degenerate sociopaths.
We must project a maverick aura of sure-handed optimism and unapologetic ingenuity, wrapped up in the competitive confidence of an alpha-led society. That is true “Peace Through Strength.”
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Feds Confirm Ongoing Fraud Investigation Against Ilhan Omar
ICE is refusing to release records concerning its investigation into allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar committed immigration fraud, telling Just the News that disclosure could interfere with ongoing “enforcement proceedings.” The records request sought information about allegations that Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi to help him obtain immigration benefits — allegations Omar has repeatedly denied.
The exemption ICE invoked is significant: FOIA Exemption 7(A) applies to law-enforcement records whose disclosure could reasonably interfere with a pending or contemplated enforcement proceeding. The agency’s response follows earlier statements from border czar Tom Homan that DHS was pulling Omar’s records and from Vice President JD Vance that DOJ was reviewing the allegations. ICE’s response does not establish that Omar committed fraud, but it provides official confirmation that a related federal enforcement matter remains active or contemplated.
Ashe in America: This is exciting.
Ilhan Omar is, based on her own activity and rhetoric, an enemy of the United States of America. I define enemy in this context as those attempting to transform our nation out of the constitution and literally destroy the Republic.
I’m not sure it’s possible for Omar to not violate her oath because of her often-stated world view; it’s more likely that her oath is a means to an end and without personal meaning or reverence or consideration. (That alone should be enough to remove her from Congress.)
Omar is credibly alleged to have married her brother as part of an immigration fraud scheme and, for years, the authorities have all just ignored it.
The idea that authorities might be moving on the allegations is, as I said, exciting.
“You may lose your U.S. citizenship in specific cases, including if you…commit an act of treason against the United States and are a naturalized U.S. citizen who faces denaturalization due to committing certain crimes.” — USA.gov
I’ve long speculated that Omar could be stripped of her naturalized citizenship and deported if the allegations about her participation in immigration fraud prove to be true. Denaturalization typically occurs if the individual is found to have committed fraud or misrepresentation during the naturalization process, such as lying about their identity or criminal history.
Enabling immigration fraud as a naturalized citizen may not qualify one for denaturalization… But the circumstances might make a difference. That is, I don’t know if marrying your brother to defraud the people of the United States counts, but it should.
Marrying your brother to defraud the people of the United States while actively plotting to destroy the Republic certainly should.
It should be tested in court.
It should, but it probably won’t. Omar is a good little uniparty soldier, playing the role she’s been hired to play. She won’t be kicked out of the country. She won’t even be kicked out of Congress. (Also, her presence in Congress is inexplicable outside of fake elections. Don’t forget that the Congress removed George Santos.)
The idea that Americans must cater to self-described enemies is preposterous.
I can still hope that the ultimate role she’s been hired to play is to be the example for how enemies of America can be stripped of their naturalized citizenship and deported.
A Republic, if you can keep it.
Still, I’m not holding my breath.
US Furious With Israel For Allowing “Anarchy” in West Bank as Rampant Jewish Terrorism Consumes Palestine; IDF Not Stopping Settler Violence
The Trump administration is reportedly furious with Israel over its failure to curb escalating settler violence in the West Bank, with White House officials discussing this week why Israeli authorities are allowing what one report called “anarchy.” Particular concern surrounds Qusra, where settlers have blockaded Palestinian families inside their homes while Israeli forces have failed to remove them. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has previously described perpetrators of such attacks as “terrorists.”
The violence has risen sharply. Shin Bet figures reported by Army Radio recorded 660 attacks by Jewish extremists against Palestinians in the first half of 2026, up roughly 60% from the previous six months, while Palestinian injuries rose from 82 to 140. The IDF itself acknowledges an overall increase and has deployed additional forces to the West Bank, while military officials have described violent illegal outposts as one of the army’s biggest challenges. Arrests and prosecutions remain rare.
The reported US anger has so far remained largely private: Trump has not publicly confronted Israel over the latest violence, and the White House and State Department declined to comment on the reports.
You know things are really bad when even Mike Huckabee is using terms like “Israeli terrorists.”
It seems that Israel is reaching a tipping point, driven largely by Israeli Settlers—most of whom are US-born dual citizens.
It turns out that the deeply isolated Chabad communities in the US are even more radicalized than their Ultra-Orthodox counterparts in Israel. When they move out of the US and to Israel, rather than buying or renting a home in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, they hook up with a real estate firm that is organizing communities in the West Bank. An immigrant from the US can acquire a free home if they are willing to take it from a Palestinian family.
And while Mike Huckabee will claim that the IDF is intervening to prevent the Israeli citizens from taking things too far, the reality remains that remote Palestinian homes are being besieged and the roads leading to them locked down to prevent anybody from coming to help the Palestinians.
One family has reportedly been in their home for five straight days as the Settlers block the road to prevent supplies from flowing. The IDF has refused to step in and stop the Settlers, who seem organized and violent enough to take over security and law enforcement from the police.
But where is the moral clarity? Is there no self-reflection?
Where are the Christian Zionists? Why are they endorsing this banditry?
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Congress is a Treasonous Crime Scene
A new Substack report from Natalie Winters alleges that organizations identified by US government investigators as tied to Chinese Communist Party influence and intelligence operations spent years cultivating relationships with senior American military officials and Washington power brokers. Winters’ investigation focuses on organizations and individuals connected to China’s military-linked influence apparatus that gained extraordinary access to former generals, national security officials and policy circles in Washington.
The reporting also revisits China’s long-running campaign to obtain sensitive US military and nuclear technology, alongside allegations that Americans with access and influence participated in organizations facilitating unusually close relationships with Beijing. Previous congressional investigations have independently documented Chinese nuclear espionage against the United States, including the theft of nuclear weapons information.
The emerging picture is significant: organizations US authorities have identified as serving Chinese intelligence or influence objectives were able to operate inside elite American national-security networks for years, raising questions about how deeply Beijing penetrated the institutions responsible for protecting US military secrets.
Ashe in America: Natalie Winters is naming names of potentially compromised US officials. It’s about time someone does, and Natalie is a savage that demonstrably terrifies the regime. I love everything about it.
Shadow China appeared to be shadow recruiting US comrades and, based on Natalie’s reporting, they were successful.
“One of those partners is the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The U.S. government says CPAFFC is tasked with ‘co-opting subnational governments’ and has sought to ‘directly and malignly influence’ American officials to advance Beijing’s agenda.”
She goes on in her thread to outline how those officials did advance Shadow China’s global agenda.
Remember this from a few weeks ago?
“I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.”
Probably wasn’t that difficult for Nikki Floris to run a treasonous shadow government with all those collaborators in Congress.
Disclosure must be followed by accountability.
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CIA Had Low Confidence in Israeli-Relayed Iranian Threat Before Trump’s Secret Plane Switch in Turkey
US intelligence officials assessed an Israeli-relayed Iranian assassination threat against President Trump as low-confidence before the Secret Service staged an extraordinary security operation that saw him secretly switch planes while leaving Turkey last month.
Israel passed intelligence to the CIA about a possible plot involving Iranian proxies and shoulder-fired missiles near Ankara during the NATO summit. CIA analysts did not view the information as compelling and described it as “Israeli-derived, not US-generated, and viewed as low confidence.” They conveyed that skepticism to administration officials.
Despite the doubts, the Secret Service proceeded with the switch. Trump publicly boarded a legacy Air Force One before being moved via an airport catering truck to a smaller C-32A military aircraft that flew him out of Turkey. Officials noted the agency had already experienced three near-misses with the president and was not taking chances.
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Ilhan Omar should no longer be part of the country she hates. Frankly, she'd gain politically, on the "world stage" at least, if she would circumvent the legal case building against her, denounce her US citizenship, and leave. She could forever claim to be "a leader in exile," while enjoying a version of immunity (at least to a large extent) from prosecution as a political martyr.
Well BB, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. The intentional fracturing of both parties is forcing us to see TRUTH. The test we now face is, can we see that TRUTH and then look first at ourselves, then at our neighbor, and figure out how to discern, then discuss, and act.
Much work remains, particularly in the justice phase, but for most of us, our work isn't there: it's in the rebuilding. Discussing and debating the "revelation process" we're living through is fascinating and painful, but the battlefield is littered with opportunity to start the healing.