Just Human #380

In this episode, we take a look at where the Midterm Blue Wave originated from.We now know that a huge group of people who did not vote in 2024 (because they weren't politically interested, disliked their options, were too young, whatever) showed up in large numbers to oppose the current thing. These voters broke hard for Democrats.Their #1 issue was the economy; they blamed the party in power for it and voted for change. They did not suddenly become Democratic Socialists, and they did not vote based on any sort of agreement with the policy positions of Democratic Socialists. They voted in opposition to the current situation as they perceived it: namely, concerns about the economy, corruption, immigration (specifically heavy-handed deportation practices), bad Republican candidates, and, to a lesser but not insignificant extent, the terrible messaging from the GOP and malign influences that pushed them towards Dems or not voting at all.And in that there is a white pill. Because the Blue Wave is not an ideological one but an oppositional, reactionary one, it does not represent a permanent Democrat vote block. We can win those voters, and we can win the next group of new voters, too.I hope you will join me in dealing with the midterm loss and the explanations for it directly. Most of all, I hope you will join me in stoicly moving forward and working towards winning back what we have just lost.The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode I offer my many thoughts and reflections on the 2026 Midterms. The article I am reading from is below.The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I talk midterm elections, make a correction regarding my earlier commenting on the Doe v. Gaetz lawsuit, celebrate Maurene Comey’s big win, and provide updates on the following criminal cases: Bolton, Brinksman, Floris, and SPLC.Be advised, there may be some editing errors and bloopers in this episode. I was in a bit of a rush to get this out to y’all. Enjoy!Timestamps00:00 Start01:08 Midterms, GO VOTE, Polling Problems, Predictions09:46 Doe v. Gaetz correction17:38 Justice for Maurene Comey40:49 Understanding > Reacting44:24 Giving in to current flows and narratives versus maintaining fidelity to the truth, to what you believe is right48:39 Quick Update on SPLC case55:25 Links and Thank yous56:49 DOJ asks judge for MAX sentence for Bolton (5yrs prison, 3yrs supervised, up to $250k fine)01:14:30 CIA contractor Brinksman out on bond01:27:30 Bog update on Floris and Benevides case (Fmr FBI officials charged with false statements to Congress)02:19:38 Some comments on Cognitive WarfareThreads used in this episodeBoltonBrinksmanFloris and BenevidesThe Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we catch up on news in the Rep. Ilhan investigations (some small news items there and one VERY significant reveal by DOJ), and I introduce three new cases I’ll be tracking: the RICO case against Virginia State Senator Lucas and her family; a leak case involving a CIA contractor who fed classified intelligence to his girlfriend so she could write about it on Substack; and the case of two former senior FBI officials who allegedly made false statements to Congress in testimony about the Hunter Biden investigations and one of his laptops.The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, we find possible explanations for the Trump, Musk, Ukraine, and Starshield disinfo ops; we take a look at the civil suit brought by two Jane Does against Matt Gaetz and a couple of his buddies; and we catch up on some big updates in the J5 Pipe Bomber Case. The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I attempt to sort through news stories and statements regarding the reported slowdown, interruptions, and limitations on Starshield in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Musk says, “It wasn’t me.” Trump says, “It wasn’t me.” Media says, “It was Musk and Trump.” Zelenskyy says, “It’s still not fixed.” Pentagon says… nothing.Spoiler: we don’t actually figure out what happened or why, but the exercise of going through it all provides lessons in filtering news, comparing reports, and staying sober-minded in an environment that constantly begs you to get drunk on emotion and political bias. The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I dig into who Rep. Ilhan Omar and her family are and find that investigators are examining at least four things right now: immigration fraud, her personal finances, her campaign’s finances, and her contacts with at least one foreign contact.I also look deeper into the Talarico Hoax and find strong ties to grifters, scammers, and perhaps even the SVR.Finally, I walk through the claims that Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia took out Russian bots and affected the viewership and engagement of dissident-right podcasters and similar figures.There are a few throughlines in this episode that I highlight repeatedly. One, check the source material, and assess its credibility before accepting the information as true and before sharing it with others. Two, there are influence ops everywhere; there’s a war for your mind, so you must keep your guard up at all times. Particularly against information and individuals who appear to be confirming what you may already believe. And third, do the right thing. Take the high road. It will keep your conscience clear and act as a shield against those influence ops.Timestamps 00:00 Introduction09:30 Update on the Rep. Ilhan Omar investigations13:22 President Trump’s comments16:35 U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro’s comments22:50 Biden DOJ was investigating Rep. Omar in 202429:48 Digging into Omar’s family, immigration, and naturalization46:39 Omar’s finances50:50 Going deeper into Omar’s family history01:08:30 Omar’s connection to the Minnesota fraud schemes01:15:50 Omar’s alleged foreign contacts01:29:00 A word of caution on fake images and false information going around about Omar and these investigations01:35:45 Update on the Talarico Hoax02:27:03 Yandex Data Center strikes and its impact on Western social media03:01:55 Closing thoughtsThe Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode: news that HSI, with DOJ alongside, executed a search warrant this morning at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her family’s immigration to the U.S.—on Columbus Day. It has me in stitches.In other news, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who on November 5, 2009, killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 others, is headed for a firing squad. I go over a report on his radicalization and discuss my views on the death penalty and whether his execution ought to be televised.Texas Democrat James Talarico was gone for nine days. He said it was the flu. Some large X accounts claimed he was actually at a mental health facility in Ohio. The facility says he was never a patient there. Someone is being dishonest, and I suspect a baited hook is now set in someone’s cheek.Lastly, the grand-conspiracy case in Florida and the Fulton County 2020 election probe appear to be coming apart as multiple key personnel have recently resigned, including a central figure in both of these probes, Kurt Olsen, who reportedly had his security clearance pulled just before resigning. It sounds like bad news, but the criminal probes are real, the grand juries are real, and the subpoenas are real. The news about all of these things, however, may be fake.Timestamps00:00 Introduction01:00 Make a plan to vote and ask your family and friends to do the same10:40 HSI conducts search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. residence16:15 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan to be executed by firing squad43:15 Talerico MIA hoax1:21:05 Grand conspiracy case in Florida and Fulton County 2020 election probes may be falling apart. Or not. The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I address the self-defeating and foolish notion that “not voting” is a viable strategy for anything other than ushering in left-wing tyranny. I also take on the habit of calling things “fake and ghey,” and the kind of adult make-believe that can tip into psychosis.To do this, I take two approaches.First, I share part of my personal story about why I left Badlands Media. I have some experience and insight into the “everything is fake,” “voting doesn’t matter,” and related nonsense, because I was there when these rotten ideas first began to take hold in that community. Those notions were a huge part of why I left—perhaps the primary reason. I think those of you who have been with me for years will appreciate hearing this story. I’ve wanted to tell it for a long time but felt the moment hadn’t quite arrived. I think it has now.Second, I directly address Shipwreck’s two-minute video that pushes the not-voting strategy and the other delusional ideas.Timestamps00:00 Introduction03:32 "A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones…”06:30 Preface to Shipwreck’s video08:28 Shipwreck’s post and video, some initial comments from me13:45 Leaving Badlands and the central role this “fake and ghey” nonsense played in that decision. 34:41 I respect Badlands welcoming ideas and allowing differing views, but I think some foolish ideas, such as the notion the “fake and ghey” invites, are unworthy of being treated as valid. 35:30 Addressing directly the claims and ideas presented in Shipwreck’s video.The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe

At 7:06 a.m. on December 4, 2025, Brian J. Cole Jr. was arrested while walking to a 7-Eleven near his home. The FBI took Cole to a staging area and then to the Washington Field Office, where they interviewed him.Agents first ask Cole about his personal history, his family, his work, and the rest of his background. When they get to the pipe bombs, Cole initially denies any connection. He offers a cover story. He denies, denies, and denies. He gets on what I call the anxiety hamster wheel. Then, after the agents show him some of the evidence and explain how overwhelming the totality of it is, Cole begins to confess to all of it.Thanks to a filing the defense made this week, a transcript of that interview is now public. In this video, we read it. All of it.Despite the confession and the significant evidence against Cole, many people still claim he is a patsy: that the confession was coerced, that it could not have been him, that his autism and other conditions made him incapable of doing it, and that the person in the January 5, 2021 video does not match Cole.But the evidence and the confession match Cole and no one else.To believe Brian Cole is not the January 5 pipe bomber, you have to ignore the physical evidence against him, which is damning even without the confession. You then have to believe, on faith and imagination, that under interrogation—after a series of denials—he instantly invented a detailed story about the purchases, the assembly, the planting, and his motives. That story would also have to match the same evidence. And he would have to tell it while performing intense anxiety and a guilty mind.The same people who claim he was framed also call him a “child” with severe autism. He is in his 30s. They argue he was not capable of doing what he is accused of and what he confessed to, yet he was capable of putting on that performance.It takes far more denial and invention to reject the case than to take the evidence, and Cole’s own words, at face value.The evidence in this case, together with Brian Cole’s confession, removes all doubt about who the January 5 pipe bomber is.It was him.The transcript is here.The Just Human Podcast and Just Cases Newsletter are reader-supported publications. Your support makes pulling these court documents and carefully researching them possible. Thank you all so much for that.I’d love to hear from you: Drop your takes on this episode and the topics covered in the comments.To keep the insights coming and support my work, consider upgrading to a paid subscription or hitting one of the support links below. Thanks a ton.Support links:Coffee—click here.Just Human Merch—click here.Benson’s Honey Farm affiliate link: click here.Bootleg Products affiliate link: click here.Manly Cans affiliate link—click here.To find all of my links in one place, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justhuman.substack.com/subscribe