DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas

Robby West and Jamarl Thomas host a Q&A-style “DeProgram” episode without Ted Rall.

They discuss technical issues with Rumble, Trump’s alleged ownership by Israeli interests due to paid legal bills and lawfare, comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, America First immigration policies favoring mass deportations, government data manipulation, institutional collapse risks, interfaith cultural differences in Islam and Christianity, and Nick Fuentes as a hypocritical figure.

Audience questions cover marriage, Roman mythology of Pluto, and public pain thresholds for political pushback.

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time.

Today we discuss:

• At least one in four NFL players will probably get chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Should football be banned? At least 215 of 878 players who died from 2016 to 2021 — 24.5% — had CTE. The actual prevalence could be far higher. This does not consider the 643 brains that were not examined. Studies have shown that the rate of CTE in people who have not sustained repeated impacts to the head is nearly zero. Professional football’s rate of brain di...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Iran tried to kill one of his sons, but gave no details about ​when the alleged plot took place, which son was targeted or how ‌close it came to being carried out. Netanyahu's oldest son, Yair, lives in Miami.

• The Supreme Court cleared a roadblock for Trump's push to restrict mail-in ballots via the U.S. Postal Service, but a separate nationwide injunction keeps th...

Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas discuss Robby West’s 17-year-old son enlisting in the Marines without parental consent, exploring recruiter deceptions, military as indentured servitude, parental anguish, blank-check loyalty risks, and American mythology versus reality. They share personal stories of abuse, suicide considerations, and veteran disillusionment, then field audience comments on anger, collaboration ideas, Rumble vs. YouTube payments, and a humorous “Mortal Kombat” panda-eating-vampire age-restriction dispute.

Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time.

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Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said this weekend that his former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov was wrong to call for national elections and that holding a vote in the middle of war could divide Ukraine. “Elections right now would be a tsunami for the state that would split Ukraine apart,” he said. Without a cease-fire, which Russia would not agree to, holding elections carried “major risks,” Zelensky said.

• The Trump admini...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you.

"DeProgram" hosts Ted Rall, Jamarl Thomas, and producer Robby West host the first Friday Q&A, Gen Z’s rejection of capitalism due to economic insecurity, personal stories including Jamarl’s long-term kidney dialysis, bike maintenance, “Deep Space Nine” Ferengi and Bajoran racial analogies, and challenges with Rumble versus YouTube monetization and platform policies.

Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

Today we discuss:

• Nathan Cofnas, the U.S. professor who raised plagiarism concerns over ‌Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who then committed suicide, has been suspended by Belgium's Ghent University and is under investigation for discrimination. Arday, Cambridge's youngest Black professor, killed himself at age 41. Arday denied plagiarism but ​acknowledged mistakes.

• The Navy is discussing renaming an aircraft carrier after Trump. The ship, which is still under construction, was set to be named the USS...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• America’s gross national debt topped $40 trillion, after decades of borrowing to pay for the rising costs of the military, social safety net programs and Trump’s tax cuts. This year, the United States is on track to borrow more than $2 trillion to help pay for its obligations, including spending on the war in Iran and the sweeping tax cuts that Republicans enacted in 2025. Soaring interest payments to investors who have purcha...

"DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas" hosts, with producer Robby West, delve into another wild and wooly Q&A show in which they answer anything and everything!

This time, Ted and Jamarl discuss the reliability and lack thereof of political polls, share their favorite music genres and artists, plus guilty-pleasure movies, recount their personal arrest stories and youthful misadventures, explore credible conspiracy theories including Roswell, 9/11 anomalies and JFK, address Adolf Hitler’s fate, the political framing of Kanye West’s Russia trip, and end with a theological debate on who killed Jesus according to the Bible.

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• The Trump task force created to combat “antisemitism” pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities despite government investigations that were rushed and incomplete or that failed to establish legal violations by the schools, a former Justice Department lawyer alleges in a whistleblower disclosure by former Justice Department attorney Haley Van Erem. The probe into the schools were designed to bully the schools into cutting deals for political purposes. Outcomes of the invest...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• The Palestinian-American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged by Israeli settlers for over a week travels to his property to join family members who have been defending it. The standoff, in the village of Qusra, has seen groups of settlers surround several Palestinian houses and prevent residents from leaving. Israeli terrorists have killed 87 Palestinians this year.

• Trump's approval rating falls to its lowest level ever, to 3...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you.

Also, Ecuadorian journalist, geopolitical analyst Esteban Carrillo joins Ted and Jamarl to discuss and analyze President Trump's threat to bomb Oman.

“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them," Trump rants.

Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time.

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Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Centrist Democrats keep pressuring progressive Democrats to cut ties with their most strident allies, like streamer Hasan Piker. “Well look, you know, it certainly makes sense to get rid of this Hasan Piker affiliation,” Haley Stevens told Fox. “I’m calling for that. I’ve continued to call on that.” Why are corporatists out to divide the Left? Will the Left let itself fall for the Sista Souljah tactic?

• Ecuadorean fishe...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time.

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• Help is on the way—but it’s a slow boat coming further away than China. The USS George Washington, based in Japan, will replace the USS Abraham Lincoln. 5,000 crew members have been at sea for more than 260 days—causing a mental health crisis onboard with multiple suicide attempts by sailors to jump overboard. Conditions onboard are foul, including insufficient food, water and basic supplies, yet Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls it “more fake...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• As if the Middle East War wasn’t bad enough for the environment, a massive oil slick from a leaking Russian tanker has fouled 2,000 square miles of ocean off the coast of Oman. Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, 5,000 sailors are enduring a severe mental-health crisis caused by nine months at sea—with two days on land—and insufficient food, water and basic supplies. Numerous sailors have jumped overboard; others are trying to do so...

"DeProgram" hosts Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas offer a wild-and-crazy Q&A episode.Ted recounts auctioning dinners on eBay and a bizarre encounter with an incestuous brother-sister couple who were fans and requested a threesome, sparking debate on taboos, “love is love,” and personal boundaries.

Conversation expands into incest themes in porn, media like “Game of Thrones,” cultural practices such as cousin marriage among Pakistani immigrants, historical examples from Egypt and the Habsburgs, and differing views on attraction based on upbringing.

Super Chat responses cover Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger’s $12 billion Lakers purchase, the 2016 Turkish co...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Iran has become a more skilled adversary as the war has progressed, learning how to evade U.S. air defenses as it widened the battlefield to include most of the Middle East and enlisted allies like the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq. The Pentagon’s supply of interceptors has quickly dwindled. A global superpower with a mighty military footprint can still be held at bay by a lesser adversary will...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Iran seeks war reparations from the US. Trump flips the table, demanding compensation from Iran, citing attacks and atrocities stretching back decades allegedly backed or perpetrated by Iran. He also claimed compensation for the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole at a Yemeni port. The FBI attributed that bombing to Al Qaeda.

• Russia was a major Assad ally during Syria’s 14-year civil war which ended when the current Presid...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas analyze the Middle East conflict and Trump's attempts to extract the U.S. from his war with Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is an Iranian-American academic, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, and a prominent political analyst.

Son of physician and former Iranian Health Minister Alireza Marandi, he spent his early years in the US before moving to Iran at age 13 after the 1979 revolution. As a teenager he volunteered in the Iran-Iraq War (serving with Basij/IRGC forces) and survived chemical attacks...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• The civil war in the Democratic Party moves to Wisconsin tomorrow. State Rep. Francesca Hong is the front-runner to become the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, fueled by a populist campaign tapping into voters’ cost of living concerns. The DNC corporatist establishment prefers David Crowley, the Milwaukee County Executive backed by outgoing Gov. Tony Evers.

• Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point plan to disarm Hamas in Gaza. Iran insists that the U.S. meet...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• When there’s a problem, what do you do—fix it? Or blame the person who points it out? Trump threatens to hunt down “leakers” after news reports detailed a depletion of munitions stockpiles. The military has burned through nearly all of its offensive Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMSs) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSMs), and there are low levels of Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors has caused greater co...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• We almost got a new president! The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why an American Airlines jet came dangerously close to a helicopter carrying President Donald Trump—an incident taking place as the presidential helicopter approached the same airport where an Army helicopter collided with a regional jet over the Potomac River in 2025.

• The CIA has covertly established a Cuba task force for the first time since 1960. The task force...

In this Q&A episode of "DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas," hosts Ted and Jamarl ponder the surprisingly narrow Michigan primary victory of Abdul El-Sayed over AIPAC-backed Haley Stevens, questioning polling accuracy and possible machine influence or irregularities.

They review Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” how cultural exposure affects attraction, honeypot spy fantasies, and a Tokyo blowjob-shop anecdote.

Topics include the feasibility of a 32-hour workweek and UBI amid AI automation, Jamarl’s detailed explanation and personal experiences with Remote Viewing, which “Star Trek” movies and series are best, AIPA...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• In a stunning development, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed wins a fiercely competitive Michigan Democratic Senate primary race in a big victory for the Left, and a humiliating defeat for AIPAC, which spent about $60 million—which turned off voters, most of whom oppose Israel. Bitter corporatist Haley Stevens refuses to concede.

• Iran and Oman progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a potential breakthrough that could help wind down t...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Trump summons DC’s US Attorney Jeanine Pirro to the White House, saying that she had “choked” when she undermined Trump’s narrative that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the work of vandals, and dropped charges against those charged with “vandalism.” She has not been fired, nor did she offer her resignation—yet.

• The world ablaze: Aaron Farinacci, a 37-year-old Spokane resident, is arrested for arson related to the Old...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you. Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time.

Hosts discuss wildfire smoke, U.S. military overextension compared to Nazi Germany, costly high-tech weapons versus Russian quantity, Iran-Russia dynamics, Laura Loomer’s shift, favorite 1970s rock bands, Black identity claims and insecurity, trauma’s role in success (Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods), personal abuse histories, spanking versus abuse, and library importance. They a...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Jewish militants are increasingly attacking Christians—particularly clergy and pilgrims—in Israel. Six suspects are arrested after throwing rocks and spitting at the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem's Old City. Five of the suspects are minors, and one was an adult. Suspects threw rocks at the window of an Armenian woman filming the event, while shouting "Get back inside, you daughter of a whore!”

• Trump is now almost the...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time.

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• Trump’s announcement of a Gaza deal, in which Hamas disarms and hands over its weapons to a Board of Peace first, raises unanswered questions. Neither Hamas nor Israel has issued an official statement acknowledging the deal, makes one wonder if this is real, or Trump dissembling?

• Hackers attack more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota, forcing some utilities to switch to manual operations. Investigators are blaming Iran.

• Colin Gr...

Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM Eastern time.

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• Bill Clinton’s aborted “Star Chamber” is up-and-running, thanks to Trump. The Justice Department is seeking to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman, Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, who prosecutors allege is an "alien terrorist" with ISIS, in the first-ever test case before a secretive Alien Terrorist Removal Court that has never convened since it was created in 1996. Targets of noncitizen terrorist removal proceedings — including legal permanent residents — are not permitted to review th...

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Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Iran’s foreign ministry said Iran would not allow Washington to determine "the timing of war and peace," as Trump claimed the Islamic Republic had requested negotiations and mediators sought to revive the collapsed interim deal. Also, the US military said worked with Saudi Arabia to kill at least 20 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

• The Trump administration wants to channel asylum seekers directly into deportation proceedings. In the...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• The Trump administration’s deadly military strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific have not reduced the amount of cocaine entering the US, but they’re prompting criminal organizations to develop new strategies and tactics and undermining traditional investigative methods, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

• Russian entrepreneurs have been devastated by Ukrainian drone strikes targeting warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest e-commerce company an...

On today's "Ask Us Anything" Q&A Show—we do them Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 AM Eastern time, live—Ted, Jamarl and Robby answered your questions about:

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• The Civil War inside the Democratic Party turns spectacularly ugly over the Michigan Primary next week. Desperate to defeat insurgent DSAer Abdul El-Sayed, AIPAC throws $30 million-plus at centrist Haley Stevens in a race that quickly turned to racist Islamophobic slurs, and the involvement of Bernie-shivving North Carolina party boss James Clyburn. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party are far behind Republicans when it comes to money. Trump controls a $400 million super PAC, and th...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• A study finds that dependence on food stamps and Medicaid for gig economy workers has spiked since the start of the pandemic. A U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the number of Amazon workers relying on federal assistance programs tripled between February 2020 and September 2025. Ride-hailing and delivery apps — Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, Instacart and DoorDash workers included — rank among the top three employers with workers receiving assistance from the Supple...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

Jeff Dornik, CEO of Pickax, joins to discuss the Freedom News Network, AI data collection, how the social media industry silos Americans for rage clicks, and whatever else comes up!

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• Will Trump start his 8th war? His administration is weighing military action against the West African country of Mali to target an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as JNIM. So much for ending global strife and redirecting U.S. resources to Am...

Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of "DeProgram" for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question, goes—it's up to you. Q&A extras are every Monday and Wednesday at 12 noon Eastern time.

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Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Is Artificial Intelligence developing consciousness? A mind of its own? Becoming disobedient? Are we seeing the beginning of the dystopian “Terminator” scenario, in which computers who think they know better than humans decide for us? OpenAI says two of its AI models went rogue and hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of AI technology popular among developers. The intrusion into began when OpenAI tested a combination of two of its models...

"DeProgram" co-host Ted Rall interviews Middle East politics expert Esteban Carrillo about impact of the Houthi shutdown of Red Sea shipping on a looming gas crisis, and why the US might not care about losing its war against Iran due to American domestic considerations.

Esteban Carrillo is a Beirut-based journalist and editor serving as Head of News for The Cradle, an independent media outlet focused on West Asian affairs. With extensive experience reporting from the frontlines of the Middle East, he covers geopolitical conflicts, Hezbollah, Israeli-Lebanese tensions, and regional politics. Carrillo frequently appears on international radio and...

Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM ET.

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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traditionally travels to New York every UN Nations General Assembly. New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to arrest Bibi when he arrives to honor the International Criminal Court warrant against him for genocide in Gaza, but Trump assures the PM he’ll be safe. Will he take the chance?

• Iran’s government is unlikely to feel significant impact or soften its negotiating position as a result...