Target: The Far Left | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

<p><em>LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime:</em></p><p>Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. </p><p>Today we discuss:</p><p>• In an <strong>unusually expansive</strong> way, Sebastian Gorka, senior counterterrorism director on the National Security Council, is <strong>designating leftist groups in Greece, Germany and Italy as terrorist organizations</strong>, to pressure foreign allies to investigate them and to search for connections with leftists here so they can <strong>surveil, investigate and imprison American opponents of Trump</strong>. </p><p>• <strong>Melania Trump denies connections to Jeffrey Epstein</strong> and that Epstein introduced her to Donald. Why?</p><p>• <strong>Trump warns Iran</strong> ahead of planned negotiations this weekend, to comply abide by terms he says were agreed on for a ceasefire, or he’ll order <strong>large-scale attacks</strong> on the country. 6 ships—no oil tankers—passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. <strong>JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner</strong> will attend peace talks in Islamabad. After a surge of <strong>suspicious trading</strong> on prediction markets, the White House tells staff not to use <strong>insider information</strong> on the Iran war to bet on financial markets.</p><p>• <strong>If someone wants to break into your Signal chats, they might find a way to do so.</strong> The FBI recently extracted incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone. The user had deleted the app, but the FBI scraped incoming messages from the push notification database, even though those messages were set to disappear.</p><p></p><p>MERCH STORE: <a href="https://www.deprogram.live" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.deprogram.live</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://x.com/tedrall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/tedrall</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/JamarlThomas" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/JamarlThomas</a></p><p></p><p>LIVE ON RUMBLE: <a href="https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow</a></p><p>SPOTIFY: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu</a></p><p>APPLE MUSIC: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-ted-rall-and-jamarl-thomas/id1825379504</a></p>