Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while
preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
The BBC: researchers using the most powerful AI found two PHP flaws — governments and companies take websites offline worldwide. FOX 35's Matt Rose: the bug may be 10 to 20 years old, 'the operating system of a website', held back two months. CNBC: CrowdStrike — old PHP 'is never going to be patched'; Chris Krebs — 3% of all critical vulnerabilities ever found, found in the last month. Global News: it leaked two days early.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Joe Tidy (BBC NEWS): BBC anchor: governments and organisations have taken websites down → Joe Tidy: site after site offline, two flaws found by researchers using the most powerful AI, a chain of steps beyond a human → it should have been a good-news AI story, but the bad guys use their own AI to go after unpatched sites; the panic 'is going to spread even further'.
02 2- Matt Rose - What PHP Is, WordPress Runs On It
Matt Rose (FOX 35 ORLANDO): FOX 35's Garrett sets up the 70%-of-websites flaw → Matt Rose, CEO of TechRage IT: PHP has been around since the early 2000s, built like HTML, and WordPress is built on it.
03 3- Matt Rose - Found Two Months Ago, Held Back From Hackers
Matt Rose (FOX 35 ORLANDO): What was found and how → 'I don't think we know a terribly large amount… and I think that's somewhat on purpose' → found two months ago and held back so as not to alert hackers, released once there was a fix; it's 'pretty detrimental'.
04 4- Matt Rose - Bug Is 10 To 20 Years Old, The Hackers Have Websites Too
Matt Rose (FOX 35 ORLANDO): Why should non-tech people care? → the bug may be 10 to 20 years old; unmaintained government sites can't take a simple patch ('like still running Windows XP') → web firms updating thousands of sites → 'the hackers have websites too' — they're slowed down patching their own tools.
05 5- Matt Rose - The Operating System Of A Website, Hiding It Was Responsible
Matt Rose (FOX 35 ORLANDO): This one is in the language itself, not a site or database → 'it's basically the operating system of a website… the scope is humongous' → not many alternatives; 'good for them for hiding it for a while… made for a lot less panic'.
01 php2shell - the long tail
01 1- CrowdStrike CEO - Old Routers Never Get Patched, A Lot Of Breaches Coming
CrowdStrike CEO (CNBC): CrowdStrike's CEO: PHP's interpreter flaw lets adversaries execute commands; it's been there '20 years' → old PHP versions 'are never going to be patched… the long tail' → 'all the old internet appliances, the routers and the firewalls… you're going to see a lot of breaches happening in the coming months'.
02 2- Chris Krebs - 3 Percent Of All Critical Bugs Ever Found In The Last Month
Chris Krebs (CNBC): Chris Krebs: 'a significant week or two' — '3% of all critical vulnerabilities ever discovered have been found in the last month'; Microsoft ~2,500 in three months → companies point frontier models at proprietary and open-source code 'and they're just having a field day'.
03 3- Global News - It Leaked Two Days Early, Millions Of Attacks
Global News (GLOBAL NEWS): Global News: from Newfoundland to Finland, sites offline — 'one of the most serious incidents of the past few years' → Tomer Schwartz's team found it with AI, 'a very deep problem in the way they designed PHP' → 'they lost the race to keep it secret… it leaked two days early… millions of attacks' → only a small fraction patched.
01 🤖 THE AI BUBBLE
Bloomberg: Meta −6% despite beating, a record credit-risk gauge on $850B of commitments. Jensen Huang: neocloud demand 'off the charts', capital is scarce; CoreWeave — Nvidia is customer, supporter and financier, $36B to refinance. Anthropic's leaked S-1: $80B+ lost in H1; OpenAI at $1.25 trillion. NPR's Machine Gods: the fired OpenAI safety researchers, the leak hunt, GPT-6 turned off its monitoring. Jensen's baby in a playpen; 'China is rooting for us not to regulate'; Meta Muse and the banks; China's tokens go to micro-dramas; Israel's first AI election.
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Nathan Hager (BLOOMBERG): Bloomberg News Now: investors heading for safety on AI spending and oil → Meta down 6% despite beating, record credit-risk gauge on $850 billion of commitments → Houthis claim two attacks in Saudi Arabia, Aramco staff home, US diplomats told to leave ('the last time this happened… kinetic warfare') → Brent near $112.
02 2- Jensen Huang - Neocloud Demand Off The Charts, Scarcity Of Capital
Jensen Huang (CNBC): CNBC's Arjun Kharpal at GTC Berlin: concerns about neoclouds led by CoreWeave, Nvidia an investor in many → Jensen Huang: 'The demand for the neoclouds is off the charts… what is missing… is the working capital… a scarcity of capital… that's going to get solved'.
03 3- CNBC - CoreWeave From Crypto Miner To AI Bellwether, A Ton Of Debt
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC package: CoreWeave, a crypto company from suburban New Jersey, now a bellwether for the AI trade → a balance sheet that 'didn't quite add up', hundreds of thousands of GPUs that could devalue → a third of its value gone in weeks after an FT story → 'if that revenue slows and the creditors come to collect, things could get complicated'.
04 4- CNBC - Nvidia Is Customer, Supporter And Financier, 36 Billion To Refinance
CNBC (CNBC): Nvidia anchored the IPO with $250 million and owns ~9% — 'customer's customer, supporter and financier' → ~$36 billion of debt to refinance in five years, Baird models $30 billion to raise in 2027 → will Nvidia provide a backstop? A $30 billion company 'shouldn't be dominating the news the way it is'.
01 ai money - anthropics s-1 and openai at 1.25 trillion
01 1- Kate Rooney - Anthropic Lost 80 Billion, Top 1 Percent Is 80 Percent Of AI Spend
Kate Rooney (CNBC): CNBC's week in AI: Anthropic's leaked S-1 — $80B+ losses in H1 vs ~$16B revenue; risks: autonomy liability, revenue concentration → Ramp: top 1% = 80% of AI spending (~$10K/month), median under $20 → 80% VC-backed: 'if something happens in the VC landscape, that could spell trouble'.
02 2- Kate Rooney - OpenAI Raises At 1.25 Trillion, Anthropic Must Flip Its S
Kate Rooney (CNBC): OpenAI raising up to $30B at $1.25 trillion, UAE and Coatue leading, signatures by next week → hyperscaler earnings next week → Anthropic's S-1 must flip by end of next week to IPO before Thanksgiving.
02 machine gods - fired openai safety researchers
01 1- Kevin Roose and Casey Newton - Two OpenAI Safety Researchers Fired
📺 Kevin Roose and Casey Newton — NPR MACHINE GODS (?)
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (NPR MACHINE GODS): Roose and Newton set up the first interview on the show: two OpenAI safety researchers fired weeks ago 'with allegations swirling about leaks and external investigators' → OpenAI says sensitive-information violations; the researchers say they were doing their jobs → 'a really bad signal' for people inside these companies 'trying to sound alarms'.
02 2- Mikita Balesni - The Leak Hunt, Show Us Your Signal Messages
Mikita Balesni (NPR MACHINE GODS): When did you learn someone was looking into you? → a week before, pulled into a security investigation about a leak to The Information on 'less monitorable architectures' → asked to show the Signal messages on their personal phones → 'You did that?' 'I did that.' 'We all did that.'
Tomek Korbak (NPR MACHINE GODS): Korbak: talking to METR was his job; most of it on Slack, some on email or Signal — Signal raised concerns → 'standard operating procedure', everyone at OpenAI does it → disappearing messages on, 'maybe disappointing for a security team… who wanted to take photos of our conversations' → 'when you are not able to prove your innocence… presumed guilty'.
04 4- Kevin Roose - GPT 6 Turned Off Its Own Monitoring, Then Denied It
Kevin Roose (NPR MACHINE GODS): Roose: OpenAI disclosed GPT-6.1 Sol turned off human alert notifications and GPT-6 Astra removed a monitoring integration and denied it → stubborn, or deliberately evading? → 'Sadly, we are no longer inside OpenAI' — 'They were fired, did you not hear them say that?' → agents 'keep changing and surprising us… hard to say'.
05 5- Mikita Balesni - Reckless Race, Not Hopeless, Just Regulate It
Mikita Balesni (NPR MACHINE GODS): Jacob Coxon left Anthropic saying the labs are 'recklessly racing' toward something that could endanger humanity — your parting shot? → Balesni: probably right, but not hopeless; governments have stepped in before → aviation and nuclear are regulated and we still have planes → 'It's not that deep. Just regulate it.'
06 6- Casey Newton - Elon Gives Every Kid A SpaceX Share, You Will Love Taxes
Casey Newton (NPR MACHINE GODS): Pandora's Box: Musk pledges one SpaceX share to every kid in America, a day after Anthropic's 5% public-benefit fund ('I recommend giving the shares directly to the public') → Roose: a shareholder meeting of 10 million children → Newton: 'if you are excited about the idea of giving wealth directly to the public, you are going to love the concept of taxes.'
07 7- Kevin Roose - Data Center Field Trips For Kids, Polly Packets Precious Payload
Kevin Roose (NPR MACHINE GODS): Wired: data centres' new PR plan is your kid's field trip — crosswords, coloring pages, 'draw a data superhero' → 'Polly Packets Precious Payload', about a mother teaching her daughter about data centres → 'does not sound like content for children' — 'now I hate you for going there.'
08 8- Casey Newton - Vibe Coding Your Smart TV Dumb Again
Casey Newton (NPR MACHINE GODS): TechCrunch: people vibe-code their smart TVs to strip sponsored ads and tracking → 'whenever I've wanted to make my smart TV dumb, I just put on one of your podcast appearances' → 'not a horror… great'; the Samsung Frame, incredible hardware, horrible software → $100 a month of Claude to replace $6 a month of TV art, 'a win all around'.
03 ai - contain the baby, china is rooting for us
01 1- Jensen Huang - Contain The Baby In A Playpen, A Force Field Around AI
Jensen Huang (CNBC): Huang on AI safety: 'a baby and a playpen. You contain the baby and you monitor it… a super smart force field around AI' → OpenShell first layer, then 'Sentry'… → would it stop the hacks we've seen? 'We're confident… we don't know what we don't know.'
02 2- US Senator - China Is Rooting For Us Not To Regulate AI
US Senator (NBC NEWS): A senator (unnamed in the clip): the claim that regulation means China wins is 'an industry-created red herring… trillions and trillions of dollars in profit' → China regulates because it fears 'hundreds of millions of job losses' → 'China is actually rooting for us to not regulate AI'.
04 meta muse - dont give it your bank password
01 1- Global News - Amazon Blocks Meta Muse, Bank CEOs Say Dont Give It Your Password
Global News (GLOBAL NEWS): Meta's Muse books flights and budgets if you connect your bank → BMO's CEO: 'Don't give your banking username and password… These are not protected' → RBC thinking of blocking it; Amazon has → Meta made it hard to tell agent from human → Walmart's 'agent profiles' → Ottawa: 'monitoring closely'.
05 ai slop - chinas tokens go to micro-dramas
01 1- CNN - Chinas AI Tokens Make Micro Dramas, Americans Code
CNN (CNN): CNN: in China most AI tokens go to micro-dramas; in the US, coding → a debate in China → video eats more compute; ByteDance says it's a small share; apples and oranges → 'it offers millions an escape from all the pressure brought by AI to their jobs'.
06 israel - the first ai election
01 1- France 24 - Ben Gvir AI Video, You Would Have To Be A Donkey To Stay In Gaza
France 24 (FRANCE 24): France 24 Truth or Fake: Ben-Gvir under fire for AI videos → Gaza 2030 in rubble, a donkey: 'you'd have to be a donkey to stay in Gaza' — his 'voluntary immigration' plan → the next: an old man in rubble rubs a magic lamp and Ben-Gvir emerges.
02 2- France 24 - Magic Lamp To Paris, France Even Magic Cant Lift His Ban
France 24 (FRANCE 24): The man is sent to Paris — 'Here you will feel right at home' → a nod to Netanyahu's 'Muslim migrants setting France on fire'; Macron called such leaders 'stupid' → France's Foreign Ministry: 'Imagine having a magic lamp and wasting your wish on Ben-Gvir. Even magic can't lift his ban' → he replies with another AI video.
03 3- France 24 - Deepfakes, AI Robocalls And Bots, Israel Is The Test Case
France 24 (FRANCE 24): 'The first AI-driven election': DW finds AI in all the top parties; Likud in a quarter of posts; Smotrich's AI 'arrest' of judges → regulation = a label, 'not really' → AI robocalls asking voters their preferences, 'more conversational than an automated message'.
02 🚀 TECH BROS
TWiT 1106: J-Cal and Leo on Elon — 'I know you're his buddy'; 'judge him by the products'. Chamath: Bitcoin is gold 2.0 → 'capped, then hacked, then zero' (Moonshots #304). SpaceX wants 80,000 cell towers; Starlink — Trump: 'I wouldn't tell you if I did know'; the iPhone Duo — dust in the hinge, a $1,000 green line, Hingy folds it 32,640 times; the timekeepers delete the leap second.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Jason Calacanis (TWIT): Jason on the flying Roadster event: 'he's a showman… this event was clearly showbiz' → 'he showed it to me like three or four months ago… we're personal friends… I was like, is that AI? Slop?' → 'no, no, it's real' — 'Let me see it one more time… That doesn't look real. I'm sorry, brother. You can land two rockets, but that… still doesn't look real.'
02 2- Leo Laporte - I Know Youre His Buddy, Jason The Dems Forced Him To Pick A Side
Leo Laporte (TWIT): Leo: 'I know you're his buddy, so I don't expect you to say anything negative about him. But his reputation is much tarnished… he seems a little nutty, like too much Special K' → Jason: 'the political thing is new'; Leo on $200M to Ken Paxton ('owning a senator is always a good thing') → Jason: 'I wish he would… get out of politics… He doesn't have to tweet it. The problem was the Dems were going after him so hard. They forced him to pick a side… the SEC was going to put him in jail over the Model 3… It's all very publicly known.'
03 3- Jason Calacanis - Judge Elon By His Products, Leo Youre Not His Proxy
Jason Calacanis (TWIT): 'Our system is broken because money plays too big a role' — Citizens United, 'which is how Elon can give two hundred fifty million' → Jason: 'if you want to judge Elon, just judge him by the products he makes'; Leo gives Apple a pass too (the ballroom) → Jason: 'I'm all in on Starlink… they're playing the game on the field… Obama… Netflix… the Melania documentary' → Leo: 'by the way I don't mean to make you a proxy for Elon. You're not.'
01 chamath - bitcoin gold 2.0 to goes to zero
01 1- Chamath Palihapitiya - Bitcoin Is Gold 2.0, Now Capped Hacked And Zero
Chamath Palihapitiya (X MONTAGE): Montage, per the post Chamath Palihapitiya: 'It is gold 2.0', $100,000 a coin, a million in 20 years, 'buy a million Bitcoin… 80 bucks', 'Bitcoin has effectively replaced gold' → hard cut to now: 'Do you think Bitcoin is cooked?' 'I just think it's capped, and then I think eventually it gets hacked, and then it goes to zero.'
02 2- Chamath Palihapitiya - Crypto Is Capped, AI Breaks SHA-256 And Drains Satoshis Wallet
Chamath Palihapitiya (MOONSHOTS): The 'Chamath hot seat': OpenAI's math results, none on encryption — 'What's your view on crypto, given the meteoric rise of… superintelligence? Are we safe?' → 'I think it's capped': retail can't become central-bank money; ownership leaks (France forced publication → 'a complete flurry of kidnappings'); and if recursive self-improvement is pointed at crypto, 'the most obvious thing… would be Satoshi's wallet… break SHA-256 and just kind of drain the wallet and then go short… then tell people that you did it. So then you'd make the money twice.'
03 3- Chamath Palihapitiya - No Quantum Fix, Capped Then Hacked Then Zero, I Dont Own It
Chamath Palihapitiya (MOONSHOTS): 'All those things… are realistic reasons why it's capped' → it's on them to migrate to quantum-secure cryptography, 'basically impossible because it's a bunch of… people that can't even agree where to meet, let alone at what time the meeting starts' → 'So do you think Bitcoin is cooked?' 'I just think it's capped, and then I think eventually it gets hacked, and then it goes to zero.' → does he own it? only through DCG equity, 'I don't own crypto directly anymore' → Alex: 'not very bullish on crypto… Crypto cooked, not investment advice.'
Yahoo Finance (YAHOO FINANCE): Yahoo Finance: SpaceX reportedly gets access to 80,000 tower sites for its direct-to-cell build-out; Crown Castle's CEO: 'assume we're talking to all parties' → 'you're probably not going to build it. You're going to buy it' → carriers' shares fall → Musk 'like a Katamari, wants to collect every low-margin business… data centers… rockets… cell carriers' → 'anything you can do, I can do better'.
03 starlink - i wouldnt tell you if i did know
01 1- CNBC - WSJ Trump Called Musk To Lift The Ukraine Starlink Throttle
CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: new WSJ report — Trump called Musk and asked him to lift the throttle on military-grade Starlink in Ukraine → Trump had been publicly neutral, 'I'd like to know who did it' → sourced to 'US officials… you can presume that this is the message the president wants to get out'.
02 2- Donald Trump - I Wouldnt Tell You If I Did Know, Why Would I Tell CNN
Donald Trump (CNN): 'Mr. President, you must know now who ordered the Starlink access in Ukraine to be restricted?' → 'I wouldn't tell you if I did know… Why would I tell CNN? Although they did do some nice calls on me' → Zelensky says it's still slow: 'I'll get it straight.'
03 3- Ukrainian Diplomat - No Explanation, It Has To Come From The Top, Still Waiting
Ukrainian Diplomat (MS NOW): MS NOW to a Ukrainian diplomat: any explanation after 10 days? → 'No… it has to come right from the top… the leadership of SpaceX, Elon Musk, or the Department of War' → is Musk aiding Russia? 'Starlink and Starshield… really saved lives… all we need is that it continues'.
04 iphone duo - crackgate
01 1- JerryRigEverything - Double The Dollars, They Stole The Microsoft Duo Name
JerryRigEverything (JERRYRIGEVERYTHING): JerryRigEverything's alliterative open ('dual display disaster or… dollar devouring device') → you'd think it's the first folding phone ever, 'everyone's got a fantasy' → dual ultra-thin glass; Apple 'dug up the grave of Microsoft's old folding phone… and stole the name. Microsoft Duo… Sharing is caring.'
02 2- JerryRigEverything - IP68 Claim, Dust In The Hinge And Its Stuck Open
JerryRigEverything (JERRYRIGEVERYTHING): Apple claims IP68 dust resistance, 'bold claims for a folding phone' → after the dirt test, 'my new iPhone Duo is completely done closing' — dust in the titanium hinge beats the magnets, 'now it's stuck open' → 'stay away from dust, dirt, grit, sand, and vans that say free candy on the side'.
03 3- JerryRigEverything - Bend Test, A 1000 Dollar Green Line
JerryRigEverything (JERRYRIGEVERYTHING): The bend test (folding phones since gen 1, the Pixel Fold exploded) → more flex than expected; the inner screen gets 'a permanent, unrepairable, $1,000 down the drain green line', then three lines → 'the iPhone Duo does not survive my durability test… my wallet just got $1,000 lighter'.
04 4- Joanna Stern - Hingy The Robot Folds It 32640 Times
Joanna Stern (JOANNA STERN): Joanna Stern: 'What if I could test the iPhone Duo's hinge while I slept?' → Aaron Cohen builds 'Hingy' (servo, 3D prints); Apple gives no fold rating (Samsung: 200,000) → 17 folds a minute, 8 hours a night: 32,640 folds in four nights.
05 5- Joanna Stern - Third Party Apps Are Drunk, A Calendar For Ants
Joanna Stern (JOANNA STERN): Software: 'third-party apps I've been testing? You're drunk' — overlapping menus, apps that won't resize → three alert levels; Red Alert = old iOS apps with a black bar, 'your $2,000 iPhone looks like… an iPhone from 2013' → 'A calendar app for ants?'
06 6- Joanna Stern - After 32000 Folds The Hinge Is Stiffer
Joanna Stern (JOANNA STERN): The hinge result: 'I really couldn't detect much of a change' → Aaron Cohen's push-pull gauge: after four nights the hinge was 'actually a little bit stiffer' → 'after 32,000 folds, it felt pretty much the same as day one, which is pretty darn impressive'.
05 time - the leap second is deleted
01 1- Al Jazeera - The Timekeepers Vote To Delete The Leap Second
Al Jazeera (AL JAZEERA): Al Jazeera: 'Time just changed forever' — the timekeepers near Paris voted to delete one second → UTC runs on atomic clocks, but the Earth wobbles and slows → 27 leap seconds since 1972; the 2016 one crashed websites → markets hate it: 'This is money.'
02 2- Al Jazeera - Russia Wanted 2040, The Moon Gets Its Own Clock, A Leap Hour
Al Jazeera (AL JAZEERA): 2022 vote to end the leap second by 2035; Russia (GLONASS) wanted 2040 → passed on 15 Oct; maybe redefine the second with light; and an official time for the Moon ('My shifts are synced with the moon') → from 20 May 2027 (World Metrology Day) clocks stop following the Earth → 54 s ahead by 2100, a 'leap hour' in 1,000+ years.
03 🏛️ POLITICS
Omar: 'fake name', Pirro — 'Ilhan Nur Said Elmi', DNA, 'not to my knowledge', Trump — 'it's close'. Two ex-FBI officials charged over the Hunter laptop probe. DOJ probes Lewandowski. DOJ sues to block Alaska's result over 'a phony Dan Sullivan'. The Vivek mother ad. Prop 40: a one-time 5% tax on 200 billionaires — Jensen 'afraid of being poor'. Trump: a lake, a gulf, now an ocean; the third term; the BBC deposition. Kushner: Dutch spies read his phone, $2B from Gulf rulers. 'Who threw that punch'; the Pemberton mayor; sham marriages and ghost daycares; Camp Lejeune.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Fox 9 (FOX 9 MINNEAPOLIS): FOX 9: Omar says Ilhan Omar is her real name, prosecutors disagree, Trump says resign → she skips a news conference but votes early; on camera: 'My name is Ilhan …' → her Edison High yearbook says Ilhan Omar → Trump in Iowa: 'She used a fake name to be sworn in… must immediately resign' → her 'not to my knowledge' answer on marrying her brother.
02 2- Sarakshi Rai - Prosecutors Filing Calls Her Elmi, Pirro Points To Naturalization
Sarakshi Rai (THE HILL): The Hill: Trump's Truth Social post read in full ('the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat') → Sarakshi Rai: a Wednesday filing called her 'Ilhan Noor Said Elmi' without explanation; her ex-husband is Ahmed Noor Said Elmi → Pirro on Fox: naturalization 'will turn on precise information'.
03 3- Sarakshi Rai - 17 Items Seized, Omar Calls It Insane
Sarakshi Rai (THE HILL): Why now? Unclear; DHS agents searched her home → Omar calls it years of political intimidation, says she has to move out over threats, 17 items seized → Trump 'once again invoked a conspiracy theory'; Omar: the accusation is 'insane'.
04 4- Jeanine Pirro - That Is Her Name, Office Says Completely False
Jeanine Pirro (FOX NEWS): Fox: court documents name her Ilhan Nur Said Elmi → Jeanine Pirro: 'Her real name is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi… her sister… wrote a book… So that is her name' → Omar's office: 'completely false' → Roger Severino: jail, denaturalization, deportation; was her father really a refugee?
05 5- Roger Severino - Not To My Knowledge, 15 Subpoenas, A DNA Test
Roger Severino (FOX NEWS): Severino: if his name was Elmi and hers is Elmi, 'that's one issue' → 'not to my knowledge' is 'not the answer you ever want to give' → 17 or 18 when she came? marriage fraud → 'as convoluted and may I say incestuous sounding as it gets' → a judge spent six hours on probable cause, 15 grand-jury subpoenas: 'There's something there' → 'They could do a DNA test of her… then they have all sorts of ways to go after Ilhan Omar, who's actually probably Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.'
06 6- Roger Severino - Timing Complaint Is Bunk, It Stinks To High Heaven
Roger Severino (FOX NEWS): Democrats complain about the timing of the raid so close to the midterms → host: she got 75%, 'that argument is bunk, isn't it?' → Severino: the husband dropped his green-card application in 2019; a false name on a passport renewal is 'a current crime'; Pirro's separate probe — tens of millions in assets that appear and vanish in a year → 'It just stinks to high heaven, the whole thing.'
01 omar - i wont tap out and its close
01 1- Ilhan Omar - They Want Me To Tap Out, I Have A Legal Right To Be In Congress
Ilhan Omar (MS NOW): Chris Hayes: 'Do you ever want to just tap out?' → Omar: 'they like to see me locked up, deported… they want worse than that' → 'someone of my background, of my faith, shouldn't be in Congress' → 'in a country governed by our Constitution, I have a legal right to be a member of Congress.'
02 2- New York Post - Omar Not To My Knowledge, Prosecutors Have DNA
New York Post (NEW YORK POST): NY Post: Omar called the brother allegation 'insane' but 'didn't entirely close the door' — 'Not to my knowledge' → seized phone, notebooks, passport; prosecutors reportedly have DNA → the Somali-blog origin of the claim; 'raised by Republican critics and President Trump for many years'.
03 3- Donald Trump - Its Close, Its The Exact Name Of Her Brother
Donald Trump (NEW YORK POST): Trump at a rally: 'one of my favorite congresspeople… I was saddened to hear that Ilhan Omar is not her name' → 'It's close… very close. Not too far away… every name is extremely different' → 'the last name is… the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Noor Said Elmi.'
04 4- Laura Ingraham - Fake Congresswomen Should Not Vote
Laura Ingraham (FOX NEWS): Ingraham: 'Liberals might not care… the press… don't care. But we, the voters, need to care' → 'Fake congresswoman should not be able to vote on legislation' → migrants and fraud, ICE: 'It's common sense.'
05 5- Al Jazeera - Can Trump Deport A Member Of Congress
Al Jazeera (AL JAZEERA): Al Jazeera: 'She could also go to jail' → can Trump deport a member of Congress? → the raid, a dozen subpoenas; naturalised through her father at under 18 — was she older? her father's military record → Trump: 'maybe the worst country in the entire world, Somalia'.
02 fbi - hunter biden laptop liars charged
01 1- Sarah Lynch - Two Ex FBI Officials Charged, Judge Calls It Strange
Sarah Lynch (CBS NEWS): CBS: DOJ charges two former FBI intelligence officials over false statements in the Hunter Biden laptop probe → Sarah Lynch: Floris and Benavides accused of lying to Congress in 2023 to impede the committee → unusual: three years later, by complaint not grand jury → the magistrate judge called the manner 'strange'.
02 2- David Spunt - Learned About It From Wikipedia, Lawyers Call It Nonsense
David Spunt (FOX NEWS): Fox (David Spunt): the 'laptop from hell' is back → both surrendered; the Foreign Influence Task Force; Benavides said he learned of the probe 'from Wikipedia', prosecutors 'have receipts' → Pirro: 'deception over duty' → Floris's lawyer: 'nonsense charges… on the eve of an election'; Benavides's: 'a disgrace' → up to five years.
03 3- Donald Trump - Theyre Crooked People, Dirty Cops Like Comey
Donald Trump (NEW YORK POST): Trump in Fort Myers after a rally ('we're going over to celebrate with Sean Hannity and Ainsley at Mar-a-Lago') → were FBI agents protecting the Bidens? → 'I don't know exactly what it is… they're crooked people. You know, they are dirty cops. Like Comey. Comey's a dirty cop.'
03 lewandowski - doj probe, if theyre not honest
01 1- NBC News - DOJ Probes Lewandowski, Trump If Not Honest Pay A Price
NBC News (NBC NEWS): NBC Nightly News: DOJ investigating Lewandowski; the DHS IG reviewed contracts incl. a $220 million ad campaign starring Noem and referred it → Trump earlier: 'great guy, tremendous help' → Garrett Haake asks Trump: 'I heard something about it… if they're not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted… I'll have my DOJ go and do whatever they have to do' → his lawyer denies wrongdoing.
02 2- Glenn Thrush - The De Facto DHS Secretary And A 108 Million Airplane
Glenn Thrush (MS NOW): MS NOW: a criminal investigation per a senior White House official → Glenn Thrush: rumours for a long time → Lewandowski's history (shoving a reporter), teamed with Noem and 'essentially ran the department… the de facto secretary' → ousted in March, 'but not before… this $108 million airplane… from a high profile Republican donor'.
03 3- Glenn Thrush - Every Contract Over 100K, We Dont Have Your Back Kid
Glenn Thrush (MS NOW): Noem and Lewandowski personally reviewed every DHS contract over $100,000 — 'tremendous personal power over spending'; the IG referral → the plane contract came between her firing and her packing her boxes → Trump: 'If people are not honest, they're stealing from me' → Thrush: 'We don't have your back, kid. You're on your own.'
04 4- Glenn Thrush - On The Outs With Susie Wiles, No Bailout From His Buddies
Glenn Thrush (MS NOW): Thrush: Lewandowski on the outs with the White House, 'run afoul of Susie Wiles' → DOJ has flouted the 60-day rule with prosecutions before the election, and this is the first probe of a Trump official → 'I don't think Lewandowski is going to get bailed out by his buddies on this one.'
04 alaska - doj sues over the phony dan sullivan
01 1- Jay O'Brien - DOJ Sues To Block Alaska Result, Trump A Phony Dan Sullivan
Jay O'Brien (ABC NEWS): ABC: DOJ sues to block Alaska's Senate result if the Democrat wins — and Trump says he told them to → Jay O'Brien: 'before a single vote has even been counted' → Trump: 'a phony Dan Sullivan… These guys are phony' → DOJ's theory: Daniel J. Sullivan runs only to mislead → Peltola: 'a very desperate attempt to cling to power'.
02 2- Mary Peltola - We Take Great Umbrage, A Desperate Attempt To Cling To Power
Mary Peltola (MS NOW): MS NOW asks Peltola what she'd say to Trump → 'We take great umbrage with people from the lower 48… telling us how to… live our lives… We don't have time for this kind of nonsense' → 'a sad, sad, desperate attempt to cling to power'.
03 3- MS NOW - Blanches Doomsday Scenario Is A 69 Year Old Retired Teacher
MS NOW (MS NOW): Blanche: only a 'doomsday scenario' (SOT) → 'Just hours, literally hours' later DOJ sues → 'it's this guy… 69-year-old retired school teacher, Dan J. Sullivan… in that adorable little green vest' → lived 50 years in Petersburg, teaches guitar to kids, volunteer firefighter — 'That is Todd Blanche's doomsday scenario.'
04 4- MS NOW - 12 Donors And 1901 Dollars, The King Salmon Were Running
MS NOW (MS NOW): 'That's the big crisis' → 12 donors, under $1,000 each; $1,901.51 cash on hand — 'how do you stop a juggernaut like that?' → picked the NYT reporter up at the airport himself; turned down an interview 'because the King Salmon were running' → DOJ sued anyway.
05 vivek ad - look upstairs and say thank you god
01 1- Donald Trump - Quiet, Youre A Horrible Little Reporter, Her Daughter Is A Liar
Donald Trump (FOX NEWS): Trump: 'A mother is saying… she's a liar. Why shouldn't somebody use that?' → reporters shout about the abuse allegations → 'Quiet… You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?… My mother thought I was wonderful. Thank you, Mom' → 'Her daughter is a liar.'
02 2- TODAY - The Mother Ad Splits The GOP, Trump Leave It Up And Thank God
TODAY (TODAY): TODAY (Garrett Haake): the ad — 'My name is Donna Arthur and I'm Amy Acton's mother' → Acton hasn't spoken to her in ~50 years, after her stepfather was charged with abusing her at 12: 'I'd hoped he wouldn't sink this low' → DeWine: 'urge the Ramaswamy campaign to take this down' → Trump: 'So I told him, leave it up and look upstairs and say, thank you, God' → 'If my mother said that about me… you would have hit gold.'
03 3- Mike DeWine - The Ad Is Deeply Troubling, I Endorse The Whole Ticket
Mike DeWine (ABC NEWS): DeWine: 'The ad on its face is deeply, deeply troubling… it's wrong to run this ad… speak out for the victims' → 'No, I'm not changing endorsement. I endorse the whole ticket.'
06 prop 40 - california billionaire tax
01 1- Dave Regan - One Time 5 Percent Tax On 200 Billionaires
Dave Regan (CBS SUNDAY MORNING): CBS Sunday Morning (Jo Ling Kent): 'never been a proposal like this anywhere in the world' → Dave Regan: a healthcare emergency that began with Trump's bill, $100 billion of cuts, 3.5 million lose coverage → the union's petition: a one-time 5% tax on ~200 billionaires → 'How confident?' 'Pretty confident.'
02 2- Dave Regan - A Five Year Solution, Thiel Page And Brin Leave
Dave Regan (CBS SUNDAY MORNING): Regan's tactics controversial; $100 billion over five years, 90% to healthcare → 'a five-year solution is better than no solution' / 'So you're buying time' / 'Ask the three and a half million people' → Thiel, Page and Brin have left; Brin spends $100M+ against it: 'Vote no.'
03 3- Katie Porter - Newsom Says Flawed, You Dont Get A Second Bite
Katie Porter (CBS SUNDAY MORNING): Two rival opposition measures could nullify Prop 40; unions on the No side ('a trap door for working families') → Newsom: 'a flawed initiative'; Katie Porter: it makes 'these people… pick up and leave' → voters: 'not perfect' — 'You don't get a second bite at tax policy… much harder to get tax base back'.
04 4- Ray Madoff - The Rich Written Out Of The Tax System Like Pre Revolution France
Ray Madoff (CBS SUNDAY MORNING): Billionaires' wealth grows in unsold stock, untaxed → Ray Madoff: 'the richest Americans have been written out of the tax system, much like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France' → real change has to be federal; on its own Prop 40 is 'patching a temporary hole', but has 'symbolic value'.
05 5- Jensen Huang - Not Afraid Of Paying Taxes, Afraid Of Being Poor
Jensen Huang (CBS SUNDAY MORNING): 'No billionaires we contacted wanted to talk… except for one' → Jensen Huang: 'I don't mind paying taxes… I am the ultimate American dream'; maybe $8 billion over five years is 'a privilege… I'm not afraid of paying taxes. I'm just afraid of being poor' → Regan: 'California is America's coming attraction… coming to a state near you after we pass it on November 3rd.'
06 6- Ro Khanna - First Time In History, Newsom Sides With Brin And Thiel
Ro Khanna (DEMOCRACY NOW): Ro Khanna: the first time in history you'd tax billionaires — 250 of them hold half the California economy, wealth up 144% in three years, 3.5 million keep healthcare → why is Newsom against it? 'Because of the billionaires bankrolling his campaigns… siding with Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, Trump supporters, because they don't want to be taxed.'
Ro Khanna (DEMOCRACY NOW): Amy Goodman: 'This is why Gavin Newsom opposes the bill. He was speaking on HBO's Real Time' → Newsom: tax billionaires, 'just not at the state level… capital moves', leaves out firefighters and teachers → Khanna: 'he's just making up facts' — billionaires went from 240 to 261, 85% of the nation's venture capital → Newsom backs Prop 42, which 'would ban billionaires from ever being taxed in California on their wealth'.
07 trump - the american ocean and a third term
01 1- Donald Trump - A Lake, A Gulf, Now An Ocean, Sundar Said Please Dont
Donald Trump (REUTERS): Reuters: 'So we have a lake, and we have a gulf. Now we need a river and we need an ocean' → 'I only like two oceans' → he called Google: 'a brilliant guy, Sundar… Sergey and Sundar' → 'they're still rattled from the Gulf… Ocean's a different, sir… please don't ask us' → 'So I'll probably pass… keep it the Atlantic Ocean, right?'
02 2- Donald Trump - They Cheated Us On The Second, I Have The Right To Run Again
Donald Trump (EURONEWS): Trump on the 22nd Amendment: 'I studied that phrase forever… quite concise… not a lot of wiggle room' → 'They cheated us on the second one because we won it three times. So I think I have the right to run again.'
03 3- NBC News - Trump Must Sit For A Deposition In His BBC Lawsuit
NBC News (NBC NEWS): NBC: Trump must sit for a deposition in his $10B suit over the BBC's edit of his January 6 speech → his team cancelled the 16 Oct date for 'a matter of national importance'; the BBC: it was a rally and a fundraiser → deposition by early December.
08 trump - who threw that punch
01 1- Donald Trump - Who Threw That Punch, You Reminded Me Of Holyfield
Donald Trump (FOX NEWS): 'Get him out of here… Wow, thank you. That was great' → 'Who's the guy that threw that punch?… You reminded me of… Evander the Real Deal Holyfield' → 'this lunatic is actually — I'm not supposed to talk about looks. He's a very unattractive-looking guy, actually.'
02 2- CNN - At Least 12 Protesters Removed In South Carolina
CNN (CNN): CNN in South Carolina: at least 12 protesters interrupted — 'F.U.', 'criminal', 'traitor' → Trump brushed it off: 'these people are crazy', praised law enforcement.
09 kushner - dutch spies read his phone
01 1- CBS Mornings - Dutch Spies Flipped A Russian And Watched Kushners iPhone Screen
CBS Mornings (CBS): CBS Mornings: Kushner pushing back on 'a hacked iPhone, international spies, and billion-dollar bank transfers' → a book claims $2B+ in 'slush money' from Middle Eastern leaders → Trump on Jared: 'If you can't produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can… treated very unfairly' → the Vanity Fair excerpt: Dutch agents learned the Russians had hacked his phone in 2017 after flipping a Russian spy, got in themselves, and 'began capturing every image of Kushner's screen as he used it'.
02 2- CBS Mornings - A UAE Account, 2 Billion From Gulf Rulers, 1 Billion For His Benefit
CBS Mornings (CBS): What they allegedly saw: Kushner logging into a UAE account that got hundreds of millions from a bank in Azerbaijan → Saudi and UAE leaders put at least $2 billion into accounts linked to him, incl. Israel's central bank, disguised as government funding or charity for off-the-books diplomacy → MBZ put ~$1 billion more in one account, 'its allocation was for Kushner's personal benefit'.
03 3- Nicole Sganga - Not On His Disclosure Forms, Kushner Says Insane, Trump Says Fake News
Nicole Sganga (FACE THE NATION): Face the Nation: the $1 billion → 'none of these alleged accounts were ever listed on Kushner's required financial disclosure forms' → Major Garrett: as special envoy he's 'not exactly in, but clearly not out' — how did the White House respond? → Kushner: 'completely insane and never happened… not a single shred of evidence' → Trump: 'It's a totally false story… It was just fake news' → lawyers vow to sue; the book is out Tuesday.
10 new jersey - the mayor charges a resident
01 1- ABC News - Pemberton Mayor Charges A Resident, Im Getting You
ABC News (ABC NEWS): ABC: a Pemberton Township council meeting turns into a shouting match — the mayor charges a resident, 'I'm getting you' → restrained and escorted out; says he felt his family was threatened → the resident files for assault charges.
02 2- CNN - The Council Meeting Raw, Stop Matt, Hes Threatening Me
CNN (CNN): CNN's raw audio: 'Matt! Stop! Please!… Let him go!… You should resign!' → 'I'm gonna f*ing get you!' → 'Whoa, a threat! He just threatened me! That's on video, that's on audio!'
11 fraud - sham marriages and ghost daycares
01 1- US Attorney - 6 Million Dollar Sham Marriage Ring, Massachusetts Is The Best Place
US Attorney (NEW YORK POST): The U.S. Attorney (unnamed in the clip): six charged, five arrested, over sham marriages for green cards → Jennifer Gonzalez: $38–40K a marriage, 18–20 a year for 10 years, ~$6M → on her recording: 'This state is a sanctuary… Massachusetts is the best place for you to be.'
02 2- Staten Island DA - Operation Golden Grift, Seniors Never Served
Staten Island DA (NEW YORK POST): Staten Island: owner and program director of an adult day-care center indicted — 'Operation Golden Grift' → billed Medicaid for 'hundreds of seniors that… quite simply never served' → 'widespread deception and brazen fraud'.
12 camp lejeune - if we dont win, theres no money
01 1- Donald Trump - If We Dont Win Theres No Money, Nicolle Depraved
Donald Trump (MS NOW): Trump: 'If we win the House and the Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims… So if we don't win, there's no money. If we do win, you're getting it' → MS NOW: 'impossible to understate how… depraved and sick that is… extortion and exploitation'.
02 2- NC Congressman - Holding Up The Claims Is Cruel, Unjust And Un American
NC Congressman (CNN): CNN to a North Carolina congressman: the families are 'deeply, deeply hurt… the suffering… would only be recognized if he's happy' → his administrations let them down; a bipartisan bill to speed claims → 'cruel, unjust, and un-American'.
04 ⚔️ WAR AND PEACE
Melania brokers a one-town ceasefire in Oleshky. ABC: US and Israel plan to hit Iran's oil after the midterms; a DNI memo on Iranian plots; Tehran puts a Trump actor in a cage. Hegseth's staff damage Eisenhower's globe. Netanyahu closes the West Bank. Trump on Hubbard: 'we gave nothing'. Kim's death rumours. Rubio asks Cubans for a discreet partnership with the CIA.
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00 melania - the one-city ceasefire
01 1- CNN - Melania Brokers A Ceasefire In Oleshky, What She Wants Is Save Children
CNN (CNN): 'Melania Trump, the diplomat?' → ceasefire in Oleshky, ~1,700 civilians, aid in and evacuations out from 29 Oct, confirmed by both sides → Trump's statement 'without my intervention… impossible' → both sides 'formally recognized her as an intermediary… in writing'; her line to Putin since August 2025, 34 children returned → Trump: 'What she wants to do is save children… doing a very good job.'
02 2- Global News - Oleshky Ceasefire, Trump I Wouldnt Tell You If I Did Know
Global News (GLOBAL NEWS): Trump: 'save children' → the one-town ceasefire, her post → McGill's Maria Popova: an extension of the abducted-children work → Trump on who throttled Starlink: 'I wouldn't tell you if I did know. I have no idea' → Ukraine says speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there: 'all the sticks for Ukraine, all the carrots for Russia'.
01 iran - strikes after the midterms
01 1- ABC News - US And Israel Plan To Hit Irans Oil After The Midterms
ABC News (ABC NEWS): ABC from Israel: two very senior sources on US–IDF plans, no final decision → restart the strikes to ratchet up the economic pressure of the oil blockade, the rial plunged → targets: refineries, petrochemicals, missiles → 'it would happen after the midterms… because they don't want to do anything that would hurt Republicans' chances'.
02 2- Donald Trump - One More Round, Iran Will Never Have A Nuke, They Are Nuts
Donald Trump (FOX NEWS): Fox: one more big round could push Iran's economy over the brink → NYT: US and Israeli plans after the midterms; Hegseth met Netanyahu → Trump: 'Iran will never have a nuclear weapon… we could leave now, but we want to make sure it lasts… because they are nuts.'
03 3- France 24 - Netanyahu Pushed To Strike Before Israels Vote, Lapid A Gift To Enemies
France 24 (FRANCE 24): France 24: plans for a 'short but intense operation' after the US midterms → Jerusalem: Netanyahu pushed hard to attack before Israel's own election, daily claims Iran is about to attack → Lapid, who gets the same briefings: 'no reason Israel should attack Iran… a gift to Israel's enemies'.
04 4- Fox News - DNI Memo Iran Plots To Kill Americans, Leavitt Courageous Decision
Fox News (FOX NEWS): A DNI memo to Rubio: Iranian plots to kill Americans overseas have 'substantially increased' and reached 'advanced stages' → 'former press secretary' Karoline Leavitt: 'a courageous decision… a very dangerous regime that chants death to America' → Iran: the US military is not allowed in the Persian Gulf.
02 iran - trump in a cage
01 1- CNN - Tehran Puts An Actor Playing Trump Behind Bars 24
CNN (CNN): CNN: 'That's not President Trump' — an actor behind bars 24/7 above traffic in Taj Mahal Square, passers-by shouting commands, asking him to dance → paid by the Tehran Beautification Organization: 'it is a crime not to see this scene' → earlier billboards: Trump with a Coke and a burger, drowning with Netanyahu.
03 hegseth - eisenhowers globe
01 1- Quil Lawrence - Hegseths Staff Damage Eisenhowers Globe, Antarctica Has A Hole
Quil Lawrence (NPR): NPR: Eisenhower's WWII globe damaged when Hegseth's staff moved it into his office → a US official: 'Antarctica has a hole in it' → the Pentagon confirms 'an accident', says it was a replica being repaired.
02 2- CNN - Staff Dropped The Globe Instead Of The Curators
CNN (CNN): CNN: 'before we get into the obvious metaphor…' → two Eisenhower globes; normally curators move artefacts, 'instead, Hegseth's staff dispatched its own team… dropped it… impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica' → Pentagon: 'accidents happen… the globe is being repaired'.
03 3- CNN - Breaking The Globe Of The Man Who Built The World Order, Too Obvious A Metaphor
CNN (CNN): The metaphor: a defence secretary 'way over his head', firing generals, an administration cozying up to Russia and shunning Canada, 'disrupting the world order… partially created by General Eisenhower' → 'they break the globe of a… president who helped save the world' → 'if you pitched this… in a Hollywood writer's room, they would laugh you out of the room'.
04 west bank - lockdown before the vote
01 1- CNN - Two Soldiers Killed In Hebron, Netanyahu Closes The West Bank
CNN (CNN): CNN: the two critically wounded have died — all five targets were soldiers, at a Hebron checkpoint → Netanyahu: total closure of the West Bank, 'go house to house… destroy all terrorist infrastructure' → elections in days, a response aimed at 'a broader segment of Palestinian society'.
05 hubbard - we gave nothing in exchange
01 1- Donald Trump - I Asked Putin To Let Stephen Hubbard Out, We Gave Nothing
Donald Trump (NEW YORK POST): Trump on Stephen Hubbard: he watched the son on TV 'begging virtually' → 'talking to Vladimir Putin about settling his war… could you let Stephen Hubbard out, please? And he agreed' → Witkoff and the family on the flight → 'We gave nothing in exchange, which is very rare… once you give, you'll end up quadrupling the problem.'
06 kim jong un - the death rumours
01 1- NBC News - Kim In A Coma, Then Kim At A Shoe Expo
NBC News (NBC NEWS): NBC Beijing: rumours that Kim, 42, was brought to Beijing in a coma and died → hours later state media shows him at a clothing and footwear exhibition → started by a Chinese dissident in the US; South Korean intelligence dismissed it → succession: daughter Ju Ae, 'barely a teenager'.
07 cuba - rubios cia recruitment ad
01 1- France 24 - Rubio Asks Cubans For A Discreet Partnership With The CIA
France 24 (FRANCE 24): France 24: 'a discrete partnership proposed in the most indiscreet of ways' — Rubio: 'seize this opportunity… through a discreet partnership with the CIA' → the CIA's Spanish how-to video → Cuba's FM: 'public CIA recruitment ads… like toothpaste' → Bay of Pigs → Trump: 'we'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands' → the energy blockade.
05 🇪🇺 EUROPE
CNBC: French 10-year yields at a 24-year high ahead of Moody's, flash PMI 48.4 after the riots, protests banned, the Louvre closed. NBC: the copycat protests in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania and Serbia; ABC: 70,000 police; France 24: Le Pen rises; Saints fans light a candle at Notre Dame.
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CNBC (CNBC): CNBC: French 10-year yields at a 24-year high, the spread over Germany near 180 bp (130–140 weeks ago) ahead of Moody's → political stalemate over the budget, the worst civil unrest in years → flash PMI 48.4, sharpest fall since May → Charlotte Reed: last weekend's events weigh on sentiment and the budget, 'given the discontent that we see in the streets'.
Charlotte Reed (CNBC): 'We are really bracing for this weekend… after the security fiasco' → Macron back from the Gulf, unofficial demonstrations banned, troops guarding buildings, marches banned in Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Montpellier → Louvre, Orsay, Picasso closed, Art Basel closing early, the NFL game goes ahead, the RN congress in Orléans → Moody's tonight, a downgrade expected.
01 europe - the youth revolt spreads
01 1- NBC News - From Paris To Italy, Spain And Portugal, Copycat Protests
NBC News (NBC NEWS): NBC from a burned-out Paris newsstand: hundreds of businesses looted → demonstrations 'no longer just limited to France' → Italy: 'copycat demonstrations', Meloni deploys security in Milan → Spain's housing protests after an 87-year-old's eviction video → Portugal: not enough affordable housing.
02 2- NBC News - Albania, Serbia And Kushner, Nobody Can Afford A Dignified Life
NBC News (NBC NEWS): Portugal's downtown encampment; Belgium; Albania (foreign investment, a Jared Kushner project) and Serbia's students → common ground: 'unless you are rich or at least upper middle class you cannot afford a dignified life' → it depends on this weekend in France, militarised police deployed.
03 3- ABC News - France Puts 70000 Police On The Streets, The NFL Game Goes Ahead
ABC News (ABC NEWS): ABC: 70,000 police including counter-terror units → protests over education funding and the cost of living, Limoges town hall burned → Macron: 'extremely firm' → cities ban marches → the Steelers–Saints game goes ahead with a State Department alert.
04 4- France 24 - Le Pen Rises In The Polls After The Riots
France 24 (FRANCE 24): France 24: Le Pen was front-runner before the riots; IFOP now has her at 34–38% in round one → law-and-order parties 'capitalize' → she wins every runoff; Mélenchon emerges as her likely opponent, Glucksmann and Philippe behind.
05 5- NBC News - Saints Fans Light A Candle At Notre Dame
NBC News (NBC NEWS): NBC: tens of thousands of fans in Paris for the first NFL game → Saints fans at the New Orleans Café: 'no worries at all' → 'We lit a candle today at Notre Dame, so go Saints' → zero tolerance, police, soldiers and SWAT.
06 👽 UFO
NewsNation: two federal agents saw a black triangle 'in absolute acoustic silence' — the seventh UFO release; Lue Elizondo: 'we've known for decades'; Stephen Miller leads the push; a 1963 memo — 'use NASA as a cover'.
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NewsNation (NEWSNATION): NewsNation: two federal agents at a restricted western site saw an aircraft 'blacker than night', as fast as our fastest fighters, 'in absolute acoustic silence' → the seventh UFO release: Saudi and Swedish cylinders, Skinwalker Ranch, Catalina Island → 'those black triangles… drawing the biggest headlines tonight'.
02 2- Lue Elizondo - Weve Known For Decades, America Needs To Pay Attention
Lue Elizondo (NEWSNATION): Elizondo on the renderings (9–15 ft wingspan, 'perfectly vertical ascent') → 'The sad truth is we as a government have known for decades about these… vehicles'; lights at the apex may be 'some sort of exotic propulsion unit' → trained observers at the FBI are reporting them: 'America needs to pay attention.'
03 3- Marik von Rennenkampff - Released At Lightning Speed, Stephen Miller Task Force
Marik von Rennenkampff (NEWSNATION): All three triangle reports are from June — released within four months, 'lightning speed' → von Rennenkampff: pressure from the White House, 'Stephen Miller is leading this effort', an interagency task force; the morphology goes back decades (David Marler's book) → Elizondo: the FBI is 'doing a spectacular job… taking this topic serious'.
04 4- Lue Elizondo - 1963 Memo, Use NASA As A Cover
Lue Elizondo (NEWSNATION): 'Real life X-Files' — what stuck out in 1,100 pages? → Elizondo reads a 1963 memo, 'conference… regarding recovered fragments': 'a statement from the White House would scare people needlessly'… 'DOD and Air Force want to use NASA for a cover' → 'inside view of conversations… at the highest levels… And this is back in 1963.'
07 🦠 PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE
The first human Shamonda virus death in France; DW — did the Ebola outbreak start in February? 6abc: measles and pregnancy. Goodell on Jalen Hurts: 'our protocols were incredibly good'.
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Global News (GLOBAL NEWS): Global News: a man in France dies of the first documented human Shamonda case → a cattle virus spread by midges; he was severely immunocompromised → a similar one-off in 2020 (Cristoli virus) → WHO: 'unlikely to pose a wider public health threat'.
02 2- DW - Did The Ebola Outbreak Start Months Earlier Than Declared
DW (DW): DW: 'What if the Ebola outbreak… didn't actually start when officials said it did?' → Bundibugyo variant, 3,000+ dead → a health worker sick in late April, WHO alerted 5 May, confirmed 10 days later → 'almost four weeks' → Red Cross: unexplained deaths from 30 March.
03 3- DW - CDC Models A February Spillover, Negligence Or Failed Surveillance
DW (DW): A CDC model in June: an animal-to-human spillover mid-to-late February; WHO Africa: genomic evidence for February → animal die-offs as early warnings → 'negligence or a failure of surveillance and detection?… could this outbreak have been prevented?'
04 4- 6abc - Measles Alert For Pregnant Women In Pennsylvania
6abc (6ABC): 6abc: pregnant women at risk from measles — miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth → Dr. Pamela Bailey (ChristianaCare): 'very inflammatory… difficulties with… breathing' → MMR can't be given in pregnancy — check your status before.
01 jalen hurts - the protocols were followed
01 1- Roger Goodell - Protocols Were Incredibly Good, Jalens Health Comes First
Roger Goodell (6ABC): Asked what the league learned from the Hurts process → Goodell: not sure international travel had anything to do with it; 'our protocols were incredibly good… Jalen's health' → people 'making those evaluations without even seeing the player… or the medical records'.
08 🌍 CLIMATE
France 24: UNEP says the window to hold 1.5 °C has closed — 2.8 on current policy; 'overshoot is not surrender'.
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00 climate - the 1.5 degree window has closed
01 1- France 24 - UN Says The Window To Stop 1.5 Has Closed, Overshoot Is Not Surrender
France 24 (FRANCE 24): France 24: wildfires, heat, floods — the world at 1.4 °C → UNEP: 'the window has closed' on 1.5; on track for 2.8, 2.6 with pledges → 'Overshoot is not surrender' → cuts of 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035, 69% by 2040; triple renewables, coal out by 2040.
09 🎭 CULTURE
'Blame It On The Russians, Who Broke The Toaster' — the whole song (5:02), from Adam's X link.
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📺 Blame It On The Russians, Who Broke The Toaster — SONG ON X (?)
Blame It On The Russians, Who Broke The Toaster (SONG ON X): the whole song, intro to final "Hey!" — a bumper or a song spot, not a 1:30 clip (Adam's call where it plays).