A pair of left-wing podcasters were aghast on Monday at videos depicting the amount of trash left outside of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk's memorial.

Kirk's memorial was held in Glendale, Arizona on September 21. The event reportedly drew about 90,000 attendees and included speeches from President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Kirk's widow Erika, and several MAGA personalities.

After the event, Arizona news outlet CBS 5 reported on the amount of trash left near the stadium. Videos also appeared on social media showing trash littering multiple areas around the stadium.

Podcast hosts Sam Seder and Emma Vageland of "The Majority Report" responded to the videos in a new episode.

"I would have expected better," Seder said. "I mean, you're going to a memorial for gosh sakes. I think Charlie Kirk was from Arizona. It goes beyond disrespect. It's like disdain."

"Steven Miller says, 'We're the ones who build,'" Vageland said, referring to Miller's speech during Kirk's memorial. "Looks like it's mountains of trash."

The Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed a key subordinate of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, calling him a "grim reaper" over his efforts to stop what could well be lifesaving research into melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.

This comes as Kennedy held an announcement with President Donald Trump that the administration is endorsing a hypothesis linking autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy, which has very little scientific evidence backing it.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, the board noted, "is back running the FDA’s biologics division after a short resignation amid controversy over his role in killing a drug for a rare muscular dystrophy disease. RFK Jr. got him reinstated, and he’s now following through on his campaign to block a Replimune Group immunotherapy for patients with advanced melanoma. It’s a scandal that will cost many lives."

"Career FDA staff supported the RP1 therapy for approval, as did oncologists who described the trial results as unprecedented," wrote hte board. "Tumors shrank in nearly all patients, and one-third went into remission. One in six saw their tumors vanish. Patients with metastatic melanoma who don’t respond to other treatments typically don’t live much more than a year. The FDA designated RP1 as a 'breakthrough therapy' last November to expedite its review."

However, Prasad moved to reject the treatment on the grounds that the clinical trials didn't include a placebo group — even though doctors note running a placebo group in a terminal disease that has other forms of treatment available is considered unethical. This mirrors similar unethical demands the Trump administration is making on approval for reformulating vaccines.

"This is part of Mr. Kennedy’s anti-pharma agenda, and Dr. Prasad is his point of the spear," wrote the board. "The campaign could also enrich Mr. Kennedy’s trial-lawyer friends. Several plaintiff firms have sued Replimune for allegedly deceiving shareholders about its medicine’s prospects for approval. In fact, the FDA misled Replimune."

What all this shows, the board concluded, is that "the biggest danger to public health these days is regulators like Dr. Prasad who loathe drug makers more than they care about helping patients."

With President Donald Trump getting ready to put a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, the type of work permit used by high-skilled immigrants in fields like technology, some of the key tech CEOs would be expected to have their hair on fire — but instead, at least some of them are openly singing Trump's praises.

And there might be a key strategic reason for that, CNN's Brian Stelter told anchor Erica Hill on Monday: to boost Trump's ego to the point that he will be willing to listen to them and give them a voice on the finer details of the policy.

"Learning today about the H-1B visas and seeing how some of these tech CEOs are reacting to the idea of a $100,000 price tag on these visas, NVIDIA CEO, OpenAI CEO have been out on the airwaves touting this and thanking touting this and thanking President Trump," said Stelter. "And that all goes back to the flattery. In fact, listen to these two sound bites."

"We want all the brightest minds to come to the United States and to remember, immigration is the foundation of the American dream," said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in a clip. "And we represent the American dream. And so I think immigration is and so I think immigration is really important to our company and really important to our nation's future, and I'm glad to see President Trump making the moves he's making."

"We need to get the smartest people in the country, and also streamlining that process, and also sort of aligning financial incentives seems good to me," said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in another clip.

"As they say, Erica, flattery can get you anywhere or almost anywhere," said Stelter. "And these companies continue to try to one-up each other with giant, multi-billion dollar price tags, promising the world and beyond to President Trump."

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