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Grep News official podcast is an investigative news podcast that cuts through partisan noise to deliver the biggest headlines with clarity, rigor, and zero agenda. Hosted by Bam Rather, a tech powered journalist who reads the documents and follows the evidence wherever it leads.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico, and the FCC Threat Claim (opens the original)
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Jimmy Kimmel moved an interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico off ABC and onto YouTube, citing FCC pressure over guest bookings. The video passed 1.4 million views while the GOP's competing event drew a fraction of that audience. Bam Rather walks through what's documented, what's still missing, and why the ABC–FCC lawsuit may be the only thing that can answer the central question.
Missouri Redistricting Fight: Denny Hoskins Defies State Supreme Court (opens the original)
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Missouri Republicans redrew a congressional district mid-decade, held a primary in it, and then watched their own state's Supreme Court rule the map had never legally existed. What followed was a 48-hour sprint through state courts, a federal district judge, and two trips to the U.S. Supreme Court — with a Secretary of State defying his own court along the way. The voters who nominated candidates in a district that was never law barely made the coverage.
Birthright Citizenship Blocked Again by Judge Boardman (opens the original)
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A federal judge has blocked President Trump's second executive order targeting birthright citizenship, calling it 'almost certainly unconstitutional.' But the more unsettling story is what the June Supreme Court ruling may — or may not — have actually decided, and whether these orders are losses or a long game.
Boston Dynamics Spot Robots and ICE's $2M Procurement (opens the original)
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ICE has issued a procurement notice for Boston Dynamics Spot robots — outfitted with cameras and chemical sensors — worth up to two million dollars. The stated purpose is officer safety in hazardous environments, but the purchase sits inside a thirty-eight-billion-dollar ICE funding surge that also includes tactical robots and electric-shock devices. The real story is what this sale forces Boston Dynamics to do with the ethics policy it built its reputation on.
Anthropic vs. Pentagon: Judge Lin Rules Blacklist Was Retaliation (opens the original)
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When Anthropic drew two ethical red lines—no mass surveillance, no autonomous kill decisions—the Pentagon branded it a supply-chain risk on par with a foreign adversary. Federal Judge Rita Lin found the designation wasn't a security judgment at all, but retaliation for protected speech. The case turned on a detail the government couldn't explain away: other agencies kept using Claude even after declaring it too dangerous to touch.
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