Pope vs. Dope | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

<p>Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time. </p><p>Today we discuss:</p><p>•<strong> Pope Leo XIV</strong> says the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” with nothing for “healing, education and restoration.” “Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, <strong>dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth</strong>,” Leo said, presumably about <strong>Trump and Netanyahu</strong>.</p><p>•<strong> Progressive Democrat </strong>Analilia Mejia <strong>won a special election</strong> in New Jersey’s 11th District, by a landslide, allowing Democrats to further narrow Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House to 217-214. <strong>AIPAC had interfered</strong> in the primary by going after incumbent Tom Malinowski, a self-described Zionist, because he wanted conditions on aid to Israel. </p><p>• House conservatives, concerned that warrantless government surveillance of foreign individuals could sweep up data on Americans, shot down an 18-month extension Section 702 of the <strong>Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act</strong>. They have 10 days to talk.</p><p>• <strong>Disgruntled employee</strong> Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, of Highland, California, is accused of causing $500 million in damage by setting an April 7 fire that destroyed a 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark distribution center in Ontario. Abdulkarim, who worked through a third-party logistics provider, filmed himself setting pallets of paper goods ablaze, says the DOJ. “If you’re not going to pay us enough to [expletive] live… at least pay us enough not to do this,” he allegedly says. “I just cost these [expletive] billions,” he texted. “<strong>Luigi popped that mutherf---er</strong>,” Abdulkarim said in a call, “a lot of people are going to understand.”</p><p></p><p>JOIN US LIVE ON RUMBLE</p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/c/DeProgramShow</a></p><p></p><p>FOLLOW TED:</p><p><a href="https://rall.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://rall.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://x.com/tedrall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://x.com/tedrall</a></p><p></p><p>LISTEN ON SPOTIFY:</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/2kdFlw2w8sSPhKI8NRx8Zu</a></p><p></p><p>LISTEN ON APPLE MUSIC:</p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deprogram-with-john-kiriakou-and-ted-rall</a></p>