Craig's back from the desert and stuck at a four — buoyed by the World Cup, dragged down by the "National State Fair" spectacle. Nick's at a seven, and it's one man's fault.

We open on Elon Musk, who in a single week became the world's first trillionaire — SpaceX went public June 12th — and put his hand in a pogrom. We try to make "a trillion dollars" mean something (spoiler: if he gave each of his fourteen kids a million dollars a day, he could've started in 1830 and still be writing checks today), and then turn to Belfast, where Musk poured his megaphone onto anti-immigrant riots that burned families out of their homes — accounting, by one count, for more than half of all the views on posts about the violence. A Northern Ireland Assembly member called it a race-based pogrom. Musk blamed "social media," which is a hell of a thing to say when you own it. Craig walks through what "pogrom" actually means, the tangled politics of Irish nationalism in the north, and why a man identifying with the literal villain of a cartoon and then saying so out loud is its own kind of tell.

Talarico Talk is week two of the heartbreak. Last week the Rizz Minister conceded ground on trans rights to a friendly podcast host; this week we look at what that concession actually bought him — nothing. The right got louder, not quieter; they called him a flip-flopper and a liar; and he never even explained himself. We zoom out to the coordinated, nine-figure machine running the exact same trap on vulnerable Democrats race by race, and then Nick and Craig pick up where they split last week: does watching the concession fail make it more forgivable, because he was trapped — or less, because he sold people out for nothing? Craig holds the line. Nick holds a looser grip. Neither pretends it's simple, and we land on the one thing that might win them back.

Dr. Craig Is Fun at Parties: Multivitamins & Wellness. A deep one. Craig traces the through-line from 19th-century industrialization to modern nationalism to the body-purity politics underneath your supplement shelf — and explains why the fastest route to fascist content on your feed runs straight through fitness influencers. Plus: the safest gym influencers, and the long goodbye to a world where the Nazis at least had the decency to wear uniforms.

Delaney Hall, Part Two. We pick the thread back up: the strike's now in its third week, dozens of women have joined — one of their demands is the firing of a guard accused of assaulting at least ten of them — and the people inside are being transferred out as punishment for striking. The state of New Jersey is suing GEO Group to get inspectors in the door; a sitting congresswoman called the conditions torture; and the Democratic governor suing the company is also the one who sent in the state police. Then the legal spine: GEO keeps getting taken to court over a dollar-a-day labor program, keeps losing, and just argued to the Supreme Court that being made to stand trial for forced labor was itself an injustice — and lost that too. Eighty-eight percent of the people they're putting to work have never been convicted of anything. Nick explains the commissary. He also explains how he knows what a commissary is.

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