The Dawn Stensland Show opens with flash-flood warnings across the Philadelphia region, a rough ride on I-76, and Dawn refusing to brush off dangerous road conditions. We also react to a Phillies trade that could move Trea Turner to the outfield, the return of Eagles training camp, fresh manufacturing numbers, and President Trump saying talks with Iran are back on as a possible strike is put on hold.
Dawn backs Judge Jeanine Pirro after she drops the felony case against former Olympian David Hearn, arguing that new police reports leave prosecutors without enough proof in the Reflecting Pool case. Frank Scales and Ian McGuinness of Surge Philly then bring video from the ICE detention center at Delaney Hall, where anti-border protesters create a human wall to keep them out of an encampment on public property. The crew also reacts to Cornell student Austin Franco rejecting a paid internship at what he calls a Jewish-run firm, while Frank and Ian warn that anti-Jewish rhetoric is spreading among young men through social feeds.
Dr. Yair Lev joins Dawn to make the case for Pencils Over Pixels and a parent opt-out from school-issued screens in Lower Merion classrooms. He says parents, pediatricians, physicians, and tech experts want more teacher-led instruction, books, pencils, and face-to-face learning, but the district refuses to give families a real choice. Dawn puts parental rights at the center of the school fight while also tracking the regional search for an armed Walmart shooting suspect and a Pennsylvania murder suspect caught before boarding an international flight.
