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Badlands Daily: 6/9/26 - Pratt Officially Out, Pentagon Flags Israel Spying, Colby Profiled
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- Jun 9, 2026
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Summary
CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday with the AP officially calling the LA mayoral race for Nithya Raman over Spencer Pratt, with Jesse Watters accidentally calling it the "next selection" live on Fox News. The LA absentee verification website goes down for maintenance in the middle of the ballot curing period while Pratt voters report their ballots are not showing as counted, and CannCon notes this is the EIP and Stanford Internet Observatory's Venezuela-Smartmatic psyop being deployed again on cue. Ghost drives the geopolitics segment with a story that has been building since early in the first Trump term: the Pentagon has raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," with the DIA issuing a formal assessment that Israeli intelligence installed surveillance software on US defense personnel's phones in Israel. The three named surveillance targets are Witkoff, Elbridge Colby, and Michael DiMino, and Ghost delivers a full profile of all three, showing their appointment was a deliberate signal that Trump was never doing what the neocons and the Israeli lobby claimed he was doing. Ghost connects it back to his June 2023 first Badlands appearance predicting the entire Israeli-Iran operation, and explains why Iran's hypersonic missile program is what actually keeps Israel up at night.