02:00 NYT: Elon Musk and His Allies Storm Into Washington and Race to Reshape It, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-administration.html
14:50 MAGA’s Big Tech Divide (Ezra Klein talks to James Pogue): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNlhwAWnMA
18:00 The VP Choice: Vance vs. Walz (full documentary) | FRONTLINE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_DlxA6330
55:00 NYT: As Establishment Warms to Trump, Elite Law Firm Takes On His Appeal, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/nyregion/trump-criminal-conviction-appeal.html
1:11:45 Transformative Trumpism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKz7F6qWfe4
1:17:00 Jesse Waters
1:30:00 DeepSeek AI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMI00YgsPH4
1:33:40 Donald Trump signs an executive order protecting children from transgender surgery, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKz7F6qWfe4
1:47:00 Facebook agrees to pay Trump $25 million for censoring him after January 6, 2021
1:51:00 Maybe name the moon “Trump” as in “It’s a full Trump this month!”
1:52:40 Trump defense department dominated by restraintists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kfoScU3qck
1:57:00 The American instinct is that the pragmatic and the moral are the same thing
1:58:00 Trump Slashes DEI and Anti-White Racism | Guest: Jeremy Carl | 1/24/25, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ6U3FHomRM
2:05:00 Nathan Cofnas: Was I Wrong about Woke?, https://ncofnas.com/p/was-i-wrong-about-woke
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2:19:00 Great Controversy in Israeli Batei Din – The Langer Case, https://www.koltorah.org/halachah/great-controversy-in-israeli-batei-din-the-langer-case-by-benzion-rotblat-21
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