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September 5, 2025
Did you know? Sept 5, 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1, now the most distant human-made object in space.
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are first joined by friend of the show Alexander Raikin, Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss how America has abandoned suicide safeguards and the lessons from Canada’s MAID program. Next, David Robinson, a leading voice for Western Canadian independence, breaks down the crises north of the border, from economic instability to cultural tensions, and what they could mean for America. Then, seasoned financial expert Gary Gygi returns to analyze the latest jobs report and what it reveals about the health of the U.S. economy. And stay tuned for Kiley’s Corner, as she dives into the latest drama in the small town of London, Kentucky—from a torture chamber investigation to ongoing clashes with the city council.
WBD chair emeritus and cable TV titan John Malone slams CNN as ‘left-leaning, anti-Trump’
John Malone, the billionaire cable king who helped bankroll CNN at its birth, torched the network for becoming a partisan, “left-leaning, anti-Trump” megaphone.
The 84-year-old media mogul, who is chair emeritus of CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, said it has turned into a distorting version of the pioneering news channel founded by Ted Turner in 1980, according to his new memoir, “Born to Be Wired.”
How America abandoned its suicide safeguards Key protections are being ignored
In 2020, Jane, a 29-year-old Colorado woman with eating disorders, was “provided with lethal drugs … in the midst of a mental-health crisis”, according to a lawsuit filed this year by the Institute for Patients’ Rights, an advocacy group seeking to overturn Colorado’s assisted-suicide program. Jane qualified for assisted suicide, the lawsuit contends, yet she was discharged from a hospice because she no longer qualified for hospice care, and her hospice considered her no longer competent to consent to medical treatments. So how could she have consented to suicide-by-doctor?
Jane was fortunate: her parents successfully sued for guardianship, and a court ordered the medication to be destroyed. Jane “went on to recover from all of it, including her anorexia”, according to Matt Vallière, the executive director of the Institute for Patients’ Rights. Jane found work as an occupational therapist, went on vacation, and even purchased a home. Although she ultimately died two years later of complications from her history of eating disorders, she’d had an opportunity to “live her best life”, Vallière says. That any medical professional decided that Jane qualified for assisted suicide, he claims, was “absurd”.
Jane’s case isn’t unusual. It’s a symptom of unprecedented behind-the-scenes chaos in the assisted-suicide bureaucracy. Violations of assisted-suicide laws are rampant in the states with the largest and oldest programs. Yet I have found no suspensions or revocations of clinician licenses, even when patients were endangered.
DEA agents uncover London ‘torture chamber,’ buried drugs, bones
Federal agents made a gut-churning discovery when they stopped by a London home looking for a man connected to multiple Drug Enforcement Administration investigations. An affidavit obtained by FOX 56 shows that federal agents were made aware of 53-year-old Scottie Shelton’s connections to the eastern Kentucky drug trade. Shelton had reportedly served as an informant in the past, and on Aug. 12, Special Agent David Wilson and several other agents set out for Shelton’s Southern Oakes Road home in hopes that he’d share information pertinent to their other investigations.
Small Rabbit with a Black Tail Not Seen in 120 Years Found Hopping Around Mexican Mountains
A species of cottontail rabbit endemic to Mexico has been seen again for the first time in over 100 years following a committed search by biologists.
For more than 4 years, GNN has paid close attention to a special conservation mission called the “25 Most Wanted” list—a name that invokes bounty hunters and bandits, but which actually focuses on species lost to science.
Over those 4 years, the organization behind the list, called Re:Wild, has located 13 of those species, which range from funghi and insects to larger animals like deer.
This most recent hit was the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit—unmistakable for its small and black puffball of a tail, so counterintuitive to the reference to “cotton” in its name. This enigmatic rabbit was last seen by scientists in 1904 and was feared extinct, but after a five-year search in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range of Mexico, it’s clear the little hopper is undoubtedly still among us.
“Just knowing that it had been 100 years, and no other scientist had seen a live [Omiltemi] rabbit is incredible,” said José Alberto Almazán-Catalán, a biologist who led the search. “It’s totally different from the regular cottontail, and I was completely amazed and very happy to have had that opportunity to see one.”
As with any decent search effort, Almazán began at the LKP, the last known position. Back in 1904 that was a very rural area, but it’s now a forest on the edge of Chilpancingo, the capital city of the state of Guerrero with a population of over 200,000 people.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no trace of the Omiltemi rabbit was found, and so in 2020, the hunters switched their focus to conifer forests at higher elevations.
Once there, the hunters met another kind of hunter—subsistence hunters—who had in fact seen the rabbit very recently on their dinner plates. This is the sort of local knowledge that has been key to finding several of the other 12 lost species discovered by the initiative, not necessarily because they’re all hunted, but because small rural community members in places like Indonesia don’t publish in scientific papers, and may see animals daily that haven’t been seen by scientists in decades.
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