Badlands Daily: 10/5/26 - Russia’s Plague Lab Leak, Jack Smith’s Phone Dragnet and DOJ vs ERIC
CannCon is back from a sweltering weekend in Tampa with a Packers win and a full docket. It starts in Siberia, where a lab worker's death from a suspected plague has nearly 200 people under observation, and with why, after COVID, nobody trusts the officials telling us not to worry. His fix for gain-of-function research: give it its own island, far away from the rest of us. Then the Ninth Circuit pauses the reinstatement of a fired Seattle U.S. attorney, Justice Alito says he has a suspect in the Dobbs leak, and President Trump calls for mandatory prison time for fraudsters and for the…
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