Trade wars, robot wars, and Blackbeard with broadband. Canadian tariffs come for Alaska, delayed federal ferry money finally docks, and AI agents discover cooperation—and even self-sacrifice. John and Rachel also ask whether cyberwar will revive an old constitutional idea: privateering.

Tariffs, trees, and Tina Peters. John and Rachel look at why Alaska parents are paying more for school supplies, what the Trump administration’s plan to scrap the Roadless Rule could mean for the Tongass and Chugach National Forests, and why using federal dollars to pressure Colorado into freeing convicted election official Tina Peters set a worrisome precedent for a state as dependent on Washington as Alaska. Then they head to Article IV and the Constitution’s Property Clause—the remarkably short provision behind some remarkably large arguments over who gets to decide what on federal land.

In this episode, Rachel wonders whether $272 million in federal Rural Health Transformation Program money might fail to fully land in Alaska, while John looks into the billions of dollars some Native corporations are getting in ICE contracts. We also see who has called Trump a mere temporary tenant of the White House, and we discuss what George Washington might have thought about our war with Iran.