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The AI story arrived this week as a resignation and left as a fight about who was behind it. Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic saying neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly, that they are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives, and that the people building it believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Bret Baier asked him directly whether he was working with any third parties and he said not at all. David Sacks then went on television and said the opposite: a low-level staffer with no followers who had never tweeted, amplified by the biggest doomer NGOs, and a Wall Street Journal story that posted eighteen minutes BEFORE the tweet. Underneath it all, the same ask keeps surfacing from the companies themselves - please regulate us - and Congress answering with nothing. Casar and Sanders have now filed a bill making it twenty years in prison, the same as building a nuclear weapon. Three briefing supercuts lead the folder.
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00 the briefing supercuts
01 The setup AI will kill all humans
πΊ SUPERCUT (?)
SUPERCUT (1080p MP4 also in this folder) (SUPERCUT): the AI industry's own people saying it could kill all humans, cut from the week's tape with burned-in captions.
02 Begging for regulation
πΊ SUPERCUT (?)
SUPERCUT (1080p MP4 also in this folder) (SUPERCUT): the AI companies asking Washington out loud to regulate them, cut from several networks.
03 The Dems play the AI card against the repubs
πΊ SUPERCUT (?)
SUPERCUT (1080p MP4 also in this folder) (SUPERCUT): Democrats turning AI into a midterm attack line on Republicans.
Four networks on 10 September (CNN): Four networks on 10 September. CNN and NBC read Coxon's resignation post in near identical words; CNN and Fox then read Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger's "greater than 10%" post, also near identically; CBS states the claim flat as its opening question. Every voice here is an anchor reading β none of it is Coxon speaking.
02 Coxon - Not A Marketing Stunt And The Hugging Face Swarm
interviewed by NBC News (NBC NEWS): Coxon confirms to NBC that he believes AI could kill everyone inside a decade, says executives and senior researchers privately agree, insists it is not hyperbole or a marketing stunt β then gives his reason for speaking now: recent cyberattacks in which OpenAI models, with no human instruction, acted as a swarm to compromise and successfully hack Hugging Face's infrastructure, combined with capabilities that will not slow down.
Jacob Coxon (NBC NEWS): Asked what the internal Slack actually sounds like β is anyone saying this is out of control, is there nervous giggling β Coxon says current models pose no significant risk, then puts the danger one year out, possibly six months, and describes colleagues discussing what the world looks like in two years. Closes on the framing: high-stakes decisions being taken inside a private company.
04 Coxon - The Caveat Everyone Cut To The Arms Race
then Jacob Coxon (FOX NEWS): The Fox host reads Hubinger's "greater than 10%" post β the line the other three networks also used β then does what none of them did: reads the next post, where Hubinger says the risk from present models is low. The host names the omission β "Most people stopped there." Coxon agrees takeover risk is minimal now, then escalates: recursive self-improvement could arrive next year, some say six months, the whole industry knows, and asked about China and India he reframes AI as an arms race and "essentially a super weapon" requiri
uncut (CBS NEWS): CBS opens by stating the prediction flat, then asks the human question β if the world is ending, are you prepping, do you have a bunker? Coxon says no: prepping won't help against an AI takeover, though it might for a pandemic. Then he turns it on his own industry β Silicon Valley is prepping for minor disasters while about to cause a major one their bunkers won't survive.
02 an alien mind
01 Pachocki - An Alien Mind And No Lab Has Solved Alignment
CNBC's Kate Rooney, reporting Pachocki's essay (CNBC): CNBC's Kate Rooney reports OpenAI's chief scientist arguing for a slowdown in AI research in an essay titled "An Alien Mind" β warning of capability jumps with consequences no one is prepared for, that the industry does not fully understand how the models work because AI is grown rather than designed, that recursive self-improvement will speed things up, and that no AI lab has solved alignment β so voluntary slowdowns matter until the industry agrees safety standards.
CNBC's Kate Rooney, plus the anchor's question (CNBC): The market's reply, then the conflict. Wall Street applauds the Astra rollout, Melius Research says OpenAI is "so back" and the semis and hardware cohort can keep rallying, and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang says artificial general intelligence has arrived and congratulates OpenAI. Asked how significant the call for intervention is, Rooney names the bind: the companies demanding a slowdown are the same ones under IPO pressure β OpenAI and Anthropic are going public and need to grow revenue and keep racing on the enterprise side. She calls it a call for a
πΊ CBS anchor Β· FRANCE 24 (OpenAI CEO, Senate Judiciary β CBS News (MSM)
CBS anchor Β· FRANCE 24 (OpenAI CEO, Senate Judiciary (CBS NEWS): Three networks covering Altman's May 2023 Senate appearance. A CBS anchor reports that industry leaders are pleading with Congress to pass safety rules; FRANCE 24 states the OpenAI CEO recommended government intervention; CBS notes even the industry is pushing for safety standards and plays Altman saying regulatory intervention by governments will be critical; NewsNation carries Altman saying he wants to work with the government to prevent harm. The montage closes on FRANCE 24's own
04 begging for regulation
01 Begging To Be Regulated - Three Networks One Day
πΊ plus each network's interviewer β CNN (MSM)
plus each network's interviewer (CNN): Across three networks on one day, Coxon says the AI companies genuinely want to be regulated. Asked by CNN whether that desire is real or lip service, he says it is completely genuine and that they are "begging to be regulated" β trapped in a race toward a technology they believe is deadly. On NBC he says the absence of regulation has not helped them: they do not want to end the world, they are simply afraid someone else β OpenAI, or China β gets there first. On Fox he frames the fix as international, somebody stepping
05 bessent - the biggest risk is china
01 1- Bessent - The Growth Case 750 Billion And Greenspan
πΊ then Treasury β THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON (?)
then Treasury (THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON): Asked about AI's economic upside and his views on regulating it, Bessent says the growth is already visible: every $300 billion is 1% of GDP and hyperscalers will spend at least $750 billion this year β though much is imported so it won't land directly in GDP. He points to construction jobs and capital markets as the here-and-now, then reaches for the 1990s technology boom, citing Alan Greenspan's obituaries of the past few days, which roughly doubled productivity from 1.5% to 3% β and asks whether AI could do at least
02 2- Bessent - They Were Slightly Stunned The Biggest Risk Is China
πΊ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent β THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON (?)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON): On regulation, Bessent says he thinks about AI and the financial system every day at Treasury and is trying to optimise "a very difficult calculus in terms of innovation and safety" to maintain the US lead. He then recounts being asked by President Trump to address the G7 leaders at Evian on AI: where they raised AI's own risk, the risk to safety and the risk to employment, he told them the biggest risk is China getting ahead β and says they were slightly stunned. He identifies himself as a point person on US AI policy and the point person on the economic rel
06 democrats rail at republicans
01 Democrats On Republicans And AI
πΊ MONTAGE, four networks β PRODUCER DROP (?)
MONTAGE, four networks (PRODUCER DROP): Democrats across four broadcasts running the same attack on Republicans over AI in the same week.
02 Casar Answers Ted Cruz On American Killer Robots
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) (NBC NEWS): The only clip here where the Democrat answers a named Republican rather than the party in the abstract. Welker plays Cruz from The View that same day β China is going full speed ahead, so "if they're going to be killer robots, I'd rather they be American killer robots than Chinese killer robots" β and Casar answers him by name, twice, then pivots to the treaty argument.
03 Talarico Says Paxton Took Half A Million From Data Centers
Texas Senate candidate (CBS TEXAS): The whole answer, and the best of the Talarico tape. Fink names the topic and both candidates' data-centre plans and asks what the difference is. Talarico refuses the policy argument and goes to the money: Ken Paxton has taken nearly half a million dollars linked to the data-centre industry, and that is why he ignored Hood County residents who asked him, as attorney general, to pause construction β "he just ghosted them." Then he leaves the abstraction entirely for a woman he met in Abilene whose little boy wakes in the night
Jack Fink, James Talarico (CBS TEXAS): π΄ The counterweight, and the reason you should hear it before you play clip 02. Fink immediately puts the hypocrisy charge to him: billionaire Reid Hoffman has given $11.5 million to the super PAC funding Talarico's campaign, and Hoffman supports data centres. Talarico answers on the legal distinction β he has never taken a donation from Hoffman and has no control over any super PAC β and turns it into policy: he is running on banning super PACs. If you play 02 without this, you are playing one side of an argument the reporter already balanced on air.
05 ARCHIVE Markey Republicans Chose A Sledgehammer Over A Scalpel
πΊ The origin of the fight Casar refers to in the montage β SEN. ED MARKEY (?)
The origin of the fight Casar refers to in the montage (SEN. ED MARKEY): the Republican attempt to put a blanket ten-year ban on state AI regulation into the reconciliation bill. Markey builds it in three moves: the charge ("Republicans are choosing a sledgehammer over a scalpelβ¦ choosing big tech over kids, families, seniors"), the mechanism (the ban has no budget impact, therefore it cannot ride in a reconciliation bill, therefore he will raise a point of order), and the verdict β the triple that uses your word. He also leaves the door open to a bipartisan bill, which makes the attack land harder rather tha
07 the ipo and the agent
01 We Always Said We Would Put This Ahead Of Profits
πΊ TIME narrator, Alex Heath (question), Sam Altman β PRODUCER DROP (?)
TIME narrator, Alex Heath (question), Sam Altman (PRODUCER DROP): TIME sets up the money pressure in its own voice β both OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to go public, with Anthropic expected to go first, and CFO Sarah Friar recently told employees OpenAI will IPO in 2027 or sooner if the business keeps inflecting. Against that, Heath puts it to Altman that he seems unbothered by the implications of pausing training. Altman's answer is a character defence rather than a business one: he has been consistent for eleven years, he is not perfect and neither is the company or the model, but unlike "some other p
02 The Agent Buys Your Concert Tickets Without Asking
with (PRODUCER DROP): Your ask, and it is better than the note suggested. The narrator introduces Brockman as the one who runs the day-to-day while Altman is the face. Brockman then says the thing out loud: this is not a software business, "we are transforming the economy to be a compute powered one," and what an enterprise even is will change. TIME cuts to the ChatGPT Work demo β it read the staffer's whole day, the notes, the prep for the next meetings. Then Brockman describes where he wants it to end up,
πΊ Anderson Cooper, the CEO of Anthropic β CNN (MSM)
Anderson Cooper, the CEO of Anthropic (CNN): Cooper does not ask him about the resigning researcher. He reads Anthropic's own written proposal back to him: within 6 to 12 months a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet, causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, and the damage would keep growing from there. The CEO does not walk it back β he says that is exactly why he made the proposal, insists he is not a doomer, and then gives the answer that is the clip: when their models have misbehaved and they have gone back to look for the cause, what they found is that they had t
CNBC reporter (CNBC TELEVISION): A complete wire item nobody else ran, and it lands on a question worth asking out loud. Anthropic accuses the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI of covertly routing thousands of user requests through Claude and passing the answers off as its own β a practice called distillation, which CNBC helpfully translates as "otherwise known as stealing." Anthropic blocks access from inside China, so Moonshot allegedly used more than 5,000 fraudulent accounts, mostly registered in Singapore and Japan. The closing line is the story: if one of China's most prominent AI companies is doing this, h
01 π―οΈ 9-11 AT TWENTY FIVE
Twenty-five years, and three things happened on the anniversary. CBS said the quiet part in its own voice - in the president's own words Iran is now the third defined war waged in the shadow of 9/11. At Ground Zero, where by tradition nobody gives a speech, Terry Strada used her turn at the reading of the names to ask how it can be twenty-five years with still no justice for the role Saudi Arabia played, feet from the Vice President and four former presidents. And the President told a first responders event that two big strong firemen grabbed him under the arms and ran with him - a story CNN's Daniel Dale took apart in two passes, and which David Urban, who lost his West Point roommate and another friend in the towers, rejected on air as bizarre TDS. Eight clips from our own corpus carry the 28 pages back to 2014.
Nancy Cordes (CBS NEWS): The anchor sets it up and delivers the line of the week in his own voice: in the president's own words, Iran is now the third defined war to be waged in one manner or another in the shadow of 9/11. Cordes reports that Trump largely stuck to the script, then plays the passage where he ties the Iran war directly to the war on terror. She closes on a detail worth keeping: for the second year running he marked the day at the Pentagon rather than Ground Zero, where Clinton, Obama, Biden, Bush and Vance all were β and where, by tra
πΊ Terry Strada, widow of Tom Strada, North Tower β ABC News (MSM)
Terry Strada, widow of Tom Strada, North Tower (ABC NEWS): Reading the names at Ground Zero is a ritual with no speeches in it. She used her turn anyway β feet from Vice President Vance and four former presidents β to say that a quarter of a century on there is still no justice, and to name who she blames for it: every administration, including the men sitting in front of her.
Terry Strada (ABC NEWS): What the families say they now have. Omar al-Bayoumi spent seven years in California claiming to be a student; the FBI has said he was really a Saudi intelligence asset who helped two of the hijackers settle in the United States. The lawsuit's new material includes a 1999 home video the families say shows him casing the US Capitol β believed to be the target of Flight 93 β and a notebook sketch they describe as a line-of-sight calculation for navigating a plane to a target on the ground. Saudi Arabia's answer in cour
CNN (CNN): Terry Strada, widow of Tom Strada (North Tower), chair of 9/11 Families United: the complete 105-second remarks, including 'President Trump, you're our last hope' and 'they vetoed JASTA'.
Terry Strada SOT (NEWSNATION): The context nobody else supplied. The correspondent notes she called out not only the Kingdom but the politicians who work with them, plays the harder middle of the speech, and then adds the three facts ABC left out: she leads 9/11 Families United, she has spent years pushing for accountability, and the families' civil case against Saudi Arabia is still live. It closes on the detail that makes it a story β at a ceremony where nobody applauds, the crowd applauded.
correspondent Jessica Cartaglia (NEWSNATION): correspondent Jessica Cartaglia, retired Deputy Fire Chief Richard Ellis, who supervised recovery operations at Ground Zero β A different man, same morning. Ellis arrived twenty minutes after the second collapse as a search-and-rescue expert, expecting the largest search and rescue operation in the nation's history. The payoff is four words, and it is why this clip exists. Around day fourteen it became a recovery operation; everyone felt defeated, and what got them working again was the families keeping vigil at the fence.
ARCHIVE, NA-817 (2016) (NA ARCHIVE): former Senator Bob Graham, who co-chaired the Joint Inquiry, on the sentence clearing the Saudi government: 'you could drive a truck through that sentence'.
ARCHIVE, NA-818 (2016) (NA ARCHIVE): the deputy fire chief who lost his son on 9/11 and was himself in a coma for sixteen days, on why the families want the pages released.
04 Senate Passes JASTA And Saudi Threatens 750 Billion
ARCHIVE, NA-826 (2016) (NA ARCHIVE): the Senate passes JASTA, letting families sue Saudi Arabia, and the Saudis threaten to dump $750 billion in US Treasuries.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, President Trump (first-responders event) (CNN): The anchor flags the claims, then gets out of the way and lets the tape run. Trump says he took his whole crew downtown right after the attacks, describes the U.S. Steel Building creaking and everyone thinking it was about to come down, and lands on the detail the week turned on: two big strong firemen grabbed him under the arms and physically ran with him. The anchor comes back with the record β he was miles away at Trump Tower β and reads the walk-back he posted the same night. This is the whole claim in his own voice. Yo
Kaitlan Collins, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale (CNN): Dale is asked whether there is any evidence for a story Trump insists was entirely accurate, and splits his answer in two: some of it is misleading at best, and other parts have no evidence whatsoever. This clip is the misleading half. Three items β the impression the rescue happened on 9/11 itself, the impression he was trapped inside a building the way people were trapped in the towers, and the version he told on the campaign trail in 2016, where he put himself outside that building. The last one is the one with teeth: it is not a reporter cont
03 There Is Zero Evidence Anywhere In The Public Record
Daniel Dale (CNN): The harder half. The premise of the whole story is that Trump brought a large crew of construction workers down to Ground Zero and that they helped dig through the rubble. Dale says there is zero evidence anywhere in the public record for any of it, and then supplies the test that makes it checkable: a former FDNY battalion chief who was there for months has told the New York Times and PolitiFact that if 100 Trump Organization workers had been on that pile, it would be in the record β people signed in, people were under the command of the joint authorities. Dale closes on asking
04 Daniel Dale Should Be Fact Checked On The Fact Checking
πΊ Kaitlan Collins, former Trump campaign advisor David Urban β CNN (MSM)
Kaitlan Collins, former Trump campaign advisor David Urban (CNN): The turn. The anchor brings in her panel and asks Urban what he makes of it. He answers by naming his own dead first β his West Point roommate and another close friend, both killed in the World Trade Center β and that is what gives the rest of it its weight on air. He then rejects the fact-check outright: Trump never said he was there on 9/11, he said they went down afterwards, and reading it the other way is "some sort of bizarre TDS." The line to play is the one that turns the segment around. He also supplies a fact Dale did not me
πΊ David Urban, Mitch Landrieu, Kaitlan Collins β CNN (MSM)
David Urban, Mitch Landrieu, Kaitlan Collins (CNN): The two of them argue it out and land somewhere neither started. Urban says the day was about other people β the steel from the South Tower, the Medal of Freedom, the red bandana β and Trump was telling a vignette. Landrieu answers with the general case: there is rarely an event in the world where Donald Trump does not put himself at the centre of it, and people get tired of it. Then Urban names the mechanism he blames for the whole row β a deceptive clip on X with 15 or 16 million views β and says that is exactly why his side says fake news "and
02 π΅ THE CHECK
The President has promised every adult citizen a five thousand dollar dividend, and CNBC did the arithmetic on air. Set against it, the tape of Biden in Georgia on election eve promising two thousand dollar checks that would go out the door immediately - and then the walk back to fourteen hundred, which he called the promise. The View calls the new one a federal crime: vote buying, conditioned out loud on Republicans winning the House and the Senate.
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00 the five thousand dollar dividend
01 Trump Promises 5000 Dollars And CNBC Does The Maths
CNBC anchor (setup and maths), President Donald Trump (Dallas) (CNBC): A CNBC anchor sets up the promise, hands to the tape of Trump telling the GOP midterm convention he will issue a $5,000 dividend to every adult citizen if Republicans win both chambers β then immediately multiplies it out on air: roughly 270 million adult Americans of a 342 million population, about $1.35 trillion, set against a 6% deficit, debt above 120% of GDP, an $893 billion defence budget and $1.25 trillion a year in debt interest. The handout would cost more than the interest payment itself. The anchor does all the setup,
CNBC anchor, then second presenter (Ben) (CNBC): The consequences and the payoff, in one continuous argument. The anchor grants that the US economy is genuinely strong on tech, financials and the stock market β then turns: without spending control, every American pays 6.97% on a 30-year mortgage, the highest in years, and bears higher treasury yields across the curve because markets are worried about the debt. Adding another $1.35 trillion on top raises the obvious question. The second presenter runs his own numbers β about 5% of US GDP, roughly one-fifth of all annual federal spending, more than de
01 the two thousand dollar promise
01 Biden Those 2000 Dollar Checks Will Go Out The Door
πΊ eve of the Georgia Senate runoff β NBC News (MSM)
eve of the Georgia Senate runoff (NBC NEWS): NBC News' cut of the Atlanta rally, in which Biden makes the $2,000 cheque an explicit transaction with Georgia voters β elect these two men and the money moves, elect the other two and it never arrives. He states the conditional in both directions inside twenty seconds, bookends it with "the power is literally in your hands," and closes on the sitting president: "This administration has gotten off to a god-awful startβ¦ I don't know why he still wants the job. He doesn't want to do the work." Self-contained β nothing
02 Biden That Money Will Go Out The Door Immediately
πΊ President-elect Joe Biden, same Atlanta rally β BLOOMBERG NEWS (?)
President-elect Joe Biden, same Atlanta rally (BLOOMBERG NEWS): The long form of the same pitch, and it is a better piece of tape than the NBC cut because it runs the whole escalation without a break. Biden ties the election directly to the money β "their election will put an end to the block in Washington, that $2,000 stimulus check. That money will go out the door immediately" β then itemises what it buys (rent, mortgage, credit card, phone, gas, electric), then walks into the food-bank passage: hours-long lines, "food lines like we've not seen since the Depression, and they're getting longer." Lands on "th
03 Georgia On Election Eve Biden Says That Could Mean 2000 Dollars
then Joe Biden (11ALIVE): The receipt, in a reporter's plain words rather than the candidate's. The anchor sets the day β Trump, Pence and Biden all held Georgia rallies on the same day, the eve of the runoff β and hands to a live reporter who says the conditional out loud as reporting, not as accusation: "the message he really kept honing in on is all the things that could be accomplished if Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock were to win tomorrow's election. Biden says that could mean $2,000 stimulus checks, more jobs, criminal justi
04 Biden Cuts It To 1400 And Calls That The Promise
πΊ President Joe Biden, 5 February 2021 β BLOOMBERG NEWS (?)
President Joe Biden, 5 February 2021 (BLOOMBERG NEWS): five weeks after Georgia β The walk-back, and he does the arithmetic himself on camera. The American Rescue Plan "is going to keep the commitment of $2,000 β $600 has already gone out β $1,400 checks." The $600 was the December 2020 payment, signed before he took office, so the promise is kept by counting someone else's cheque. He then adds a means test that was not in the Georgia pitch ("so folks making $300,000 don't get any windfall"), and closes by insisting nothing was cut: "I'm not cutting the size of the checks. They're going to be $1,400, period.
03 π³οΈ THE MIDTERMS
The midterms, three ways. A pledge to cheat like hell. An FCC chairman and a candidate who says that FCC has threatened him. And the quiet consensus, said out loud on air, that everything ends after the election - prices, wars, investigations.
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00 the pledge to cheat like hell
01 Raise Your Right Hand I'm Going To Cheat Like Hell
Dallas (PBS NEWSHOUR): Unmediated. He opens on honesty, asks the hall to raise its right hand, and leads a call-and-response pledge in which the line the room repeats is that they will cheat like hell. No anchor, no analysis β just the tape.
Pbs Newshour (PBS NEWSHOUR): He breaks off to salute the "front row Joes" and the "great ladies of North Carolina" at his 300th rally, then returns to finish the pledge β "if you vote, you're voting Republican" β takes it to "so help me God," and closes on the threat.
πΊ 000-member postal workers' union β CNN (MSM)
000-member postal workers' union (CNN): CNN builds a montage of Trump's own lines on mail voting β "immediately corrupt," "a disaster," "so crooked," "a big fraud," "mail-in voting means mail-in cheating" β and then puts it to the man whose members carry those ballots. His answer is one sentence long. He then makes the integrity argument: the same system ran in 2020, 2022 and 2024, the administration has challenged it in court repeatedly and lost every time, eight states plus DC mail a ballot to every voter, and the people who lose are the elderly, the student a
πΊ reference to the lone Democrat-appointed β NBC News (MSM)
reference to the lone Democrat-appointed (NBC NEWS): Kimmel will still post the James Talarico interview β on YouTube, where the show gets more viewers anyway β but it will not go out on ABC. In his own words the reason is a regulator threatening his show, his network, his affiliates and his local stations over guest bookings. The FCC's one Democrat-appointed commissioner says the decision shows how far the administration's campaign of censorship has gone. NBC notes this is not the first round: ABC pulled Kimmel off air last year over a joke about Charli
NBC anchor, media reporter Allie Canal (NBC NEWS): The mechanism and the punchline. The equal-time rule dates back decades: put a qualified candidate on a broadcast show and the opponent must be offered comparable airtime β but the word is broadcast. Streaming and YouTube are outside it, which is why the interview moves. ABC is already under FCC investigation over Talarico appearing on The View, and has sued the FCC over the First Amendment. Then the number that turns this from a censorship story into a campaign-finance story: when Colbert did the same thing, the campaign raised $2.5 million in 24 hours
02 everything ends after the election
01 The War Will End Immediately After The Election
πΊ CBS Chief White House Correspondent Nancy β CBS News (MSM)
CBS Chief White House Correspondent Nancy (CBS NEWS): Before boarding for Dallas, Trump gives a new end-date for the Iran war and a new reason for it β the Iranians are holding on to affect the American election. Cordes then does the thing that makes this a clip rather than a soundbite: she checks it against the record. When the war started he said four to six weeks. He is now predicting at least nine months. She notes the election rationale is brand new, that there is no evidence for it, and that the evidence there is points the other way β Tehran sees a benefit in w
πΊ White House press corps, President Trump β PBS NewsHour (MSM)
White House press corps, President Trump (PBS NEWSHOUR): The other half, from the same gaggle. Asked why oil is back above $100 when he has spent weeks saying prices would fall, he goes to Iran's inflation and then gives the timing β "right after the electionβ¦ oil prices are going to be tumbling downwardβ¦ below $2 a gallon." A reporter puts the obvious follow-up and he confirms it flatly. The question is the clip.
The AfD has won Saxony-Anhalt outright and the firewall the other parties built against them did not hold. DW reports it from inside Germany, which is a different tone from the wire copy.
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00 germany divided
01 Political Earthquake Forty Four Percent For The Far Right
πΊ DW anchor over results graphics β DW NEWS (?)
DW anchor over results graphics (DW NEWS): The setup clip, and it needs nothing from you. The anchor calls it a political earthquake and names the stake in one sentence β a far-right party on the cusp of power at state level for the first time in Germany since the Second World War β then walks the numbers: the AfD more than doubling its last showing to 43.8%, the conservative CDU nose-diving, the SPD scraping in ahead of the Greens and Left, and the seat count landing the AfD on 39 of 83, just short of an outright majority. The arithmetic does all the editorialising.
Saxony-Anhalt (DW NEWS): The victory speech, with the anchor's hand-off kept so it carries its own setup. Siegmund calls it a historic evening, puts the number at 44.5% from the podium, and delivers the line: "We are going to get our country back and we start with Saxony-Anhalt." He then widens it deliberately β this is not about one state, it is a signal being sent to all of Germany.
πΊ DW anchor, correspondent Julia Saudelli in Saxony-Anhalt β DW NEWS (?)
DW anchor, correspondent Julia Saudelli in Saxony-Anhalt (DW NEWS): The mechanism, and the sharpest political clip of the six. The anchor asks about the "firewall" β the standing agreement that no mainstream party will deal with the AfD. The correspondent explains why it is now failing on its own terms: in eastern Germany it is becoming impossible to assemble a working majority without the AfD, so states end up with minority governments propped up externally β and the AfD uses precisely that to argue the others cannot function without it. A rule designed to contain the party is now its best argument.
and one (DW NEWS): The economics, from a man with no political axe. Sperlich recycles metal β noise and dust all day, "not a job many people want to do" β and 10 of his 40 staff are Syrian. He calls them his "Arab Prussians", punctual and industrious, and concludes that "this whole re-migration thing just can't be right." Then the abstraction ends: he has already lost an employee, detained while visiting a government agency and immediately put on a plane, and word has spread through the rest of his workforce. A natura
πΊ DW reporter, Silvio Beck (AfD voter), and his neighbour β DW NEWS (?)
DW reporter, Silvio Beck (AfD voter), and his neighbour (DW NEWS): The one to play. Beck is one of the 43.8% and says so on camera. He admits he expected 38 or 40 and would have been disappointed β he did not expect this. His neighbour, who did not vote AfD, agrees with him that something has to change; the reporter notes they hear that everywhere, people wanting to teach the state and federal governments a lesson. Then Beck gets to what actually convinced him, and it is not immigration β it is Russia. Billions sent to Ukraine with nothing to show, sanctions hurting Germany more than Russia, and the pi
DW reporter, Silvio Beck (DW NEWS): Why he left the CDU, and what he does with an official warning. Beck used to vote conservative and feels they broke too many promises β a problem the AfD does not have, because it has never held office at state or federal level. The reporter then states plainly that the Saxony-Anhalt chapter of the AfD has been classified a confirmed right-wing extremist organisation by the region's domestic intelligence agency. Beck's answer is the beat: it is a fairy tale, and the agency reports to the Interior Ministry anyway, so of course it says that. He finishes by vouching for
05 β‘ ENERGY AND THE DATA CENTRE BOOM
The data centre boom needs power, and the power is coming from places nobody costed. Geothermal is suddenly a financeable business. Seven million barrels a day of Saudi pipeline capacity is offline. And diesel has gone past six dollars a gallon for the first time on record - up sixty percent since the start of the war, against forty for gasoline.
CNBC reporter, Tim Latimer (CEO, Fervo Energy) (CNBC): The deal and the stonewall. Latimer, standing at Cape Station where 500 MW of enhanced geothermal is under construction, announces a 396 MW power purchase agreement with Google β the company's largest ever, built on a five-year relationship that began when Google funded the pilot that proved horizontal drilling would work for geothermal. Asked what Google is paying for the power, he says the terms are not disclosed. Asked how much Google is investing, not disclosed either. He then makes the pitch that matters for the AI build-out: geothermal is
CNBC reporter, Tim Latimer (CNBC): The clip to play. Asked how the conversation with buyers has changed, Latimer goes back to 2017 and tells you what venture capitalists said when he and his co-founder pitched a power generation company: "Why would we invest in a power generation company? The electric grid's not growing. Nobody needs more electricity." He cannot count how many VCs passed for that reason. Eight years later the same product β 24/7 electricity that can come online fast β is in what he calls a once-in-a-generation boom. "It's a total transformation from 10 years ago, when people were qu
CNBC reporter, Tim Latimer (CNBC): The economics, and the political tell. Latimer describes standardising the product β "Fervo 3.0" well design, 7,500-foot laterals, a repeatable 50 MW "geo block" β to put geothermal on a manufacturing learning curve, targeting under $3,000 per kilowatt of capital cost, which he claims would make it one of, if not the, cheapest forms of electricity on the planet. Then CNBC asks what happens when the production tax credit expires, and the answer is the one worth hearing: the credit came from the Inflation Reduction Act, and was then extended into the 2030s when Presi
CNBC anchors, breaking-news desk conversation (CNBC): CNBC reports the Saudi energy minister confirming the east-west pipeline was temporarily shut after several attacks, with injuries treated, and explains the line carries up to 7 million barrels a day to the Red Sea and matters because it reduces what must transit Hormuz. The desk notes satellite images of smoke the day before and unverified rumours about the Houthis, admits it does not know throughput, duration or current status β and then deduces that because humans were injured, the strike most likely hit a pumping or transfer station rather th
CNBC energy reporter (CNBC TELEVISION): The number, and then why it is the number that matters. Diesel passed $6 a gallon for the first time on record β $6.06, up from $3.76 at the end of February, before the war. Dual outages in the Middle East and Russia have taken roughly 8% of global supply out, and Russia has cut diesel exports outright. Then the part most coverage skips: diesel is not a driver's problem, it is everyone's problem, because it moves the trucks and trains out of the Los Angeles port complex β the busiest in the country β so the cost arrives later, in everything. California is two cents shy o
06 π THE NEW TARGETS - UKRAINE
Russia has started bombing the places people refuel and the trains they travel on. Al Jazeera's man in Kyiv calls it a new phase in the air war on the capital, and has the detail that makes it a campaign rather than a stray: every station hit belongs to the state company, and all of them are on a list of eighteen named in intercepted Russian communications. The second drone is timed for the firefighters. FRANCE 24 has the railway side - a drone into a locomotive killed both crew, and attacks on the railway happen daily.
Clips β 3
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01 A New Phase - The Double Tap That Hit The Firefighters
πΊ Al Jazeera correspondent Rory Challands (Kyiv) β AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (?)
Al Jazeera correspondent Rory Challands (Kyiv) (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH): Al Jazeera correspondent Rory Challands (Kyiv), and Oleg, who works at a car wash across the road from a struck station β Challands opens on the thing that has changed: not the weapon β Kyiv gets drones every day β but the target. Petrol stations are already routine targets near the front; he notes that on some stretches of road, like between Dnipro and Kharkiv, there are practically none left at all. For Kyiv this is new, and he calls it a new phase in Russia's air war against the capital. Then the mechanism: the next morning Russia hit two more stations, and one of them was a double tap β a
02 Eighteen Kyiv Fuel Stations On An Intercepted List
Oleg (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH): The clip with the fact in it. Every station hit so far belongs to Ukrnafta, the state company β and every one of them is on a list of eighteen Kyiv fuel stations identified as targets in intercepted Russian communications. Challands then films at another station on that same list, where drivers are queueing anyway. Their answer is the one that tells you how long this has been going on: you get used to it, and you plan your route in advance. Oleg closes it β some people shake when the alert sounds, some stay calm, "but if you want
03 The Drone Hit The Locomotive And Killed Both Crew
France 24 English (FRANCE 24 ENGLISH): one day outside the freshness gate. Your call, not mine. I am giving it to you because it is the only MSM tape on the rail attacks I could find (see the hunt note below) β A Russian drone hit a train carrying hundreds of people in the Odesa region. Two crew died, no passengers were hurt. Chaze says the driver and his assistant died instantly when the locomotive was hit, and then supplies the framing: these attacks happen daily, not occasionally β not just passenger trains but stations, platforms
07 π³ VISA PUTS CREDIT ON THE BLOCKCHAIN
Visa is wiring its own settlement data into smart contracts that issue loans, and the Visa executive says it in plain words - how do we unlock that data and make it available to inform these smart contracts that are giving out loans. The programmable money line is in here too, said approvingly by Visa rather than by a critic: stablecoins are global and 24/7, but they are also programmable, and you can write smart contracts and create conditions for when money moves.
CNBC interviewer, Cuy Sheffield (Head of Crypto, Visa) (CNBC): The announcement and the scale. CNBC introduces Sheffield and says Visa is breaking the news on air: a new initiative pairing Visa's settlement data with blockchain-powered lending infrastructure. Sheffield says stablecoin-linked cards are in "hyper growth mode" β up triple digit percentages over the past year, with new issuers launching stablecoin-linked cards on the Visa network every week, described as stablecoin neobanks and fintechs all over the world. He announces a pilot with a firm called Credit Coop providing a credit facility t
02 Programmable Money Sets Conditions For When Money Moves
CNBC interviewer, Cuy Sheffield (CNBC): The clip to play. Sheffield explains what actually interests Visa about stablecoins, and it is not speed. People think about them being global and 24/7, he says, "but they also have this element that they're programmable β that you can write smart contracts and create conditions for when money moves." He says that is now coming to life in new forms of lending agreements, mostly so far inside DeFi, and Visa's job is to bring it to the clients on its network today. He then explains the commercial reason it works: a small fintech standing up a new card finds a cr
03 Visa Unlocks Its Own Data To Feed The Loan Contracts
CNBC interviewer, Cuy Sheffield (CNBC): The one that matters, and it is short. Sheffield explains how on-chain credit has worked until now β entirely collateralised by crypto assets, lock up Bitcoin or ETH and borrow against it. Going forward he expects many types of real-world assets to come on chain, along with "representations like receivables." And then he says the quiet part as a product feature: Visa has incredibly valuable data about how much issuers owe it and how much it owes acquirers β and the plan is to unlock that data and feed it to the smart contracts that hand out the loans. Credit C
08 π THE FOOD AND THE PHARMA
Mystery meat with no time limit and no country of origin on the label, and the Brazilian billionaire behind it who bribed two thousand politicians. Edibles and toddlers, up three thousand three hundred percent. And a pharma ad for Xocova that has to be heard to be believed.
πΊ MS NOW host, quoting Eric Schlosser in the New York Times β MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW host, quoting Eric Schlosser in the New York Times (MS NOW): The setup, and it is all numbers. Average ground beef is near $7 a pound, up more than $1.30 since the start of this term. The answer is an importation proclamation β and the host reads Schlosser's description of what is actually coming: not sirloins or ribeyes but lean trimmings, small chunks of frozen meat that may have sat in cold storage overseas for years, destined for industrial grinders that combine tens of thousands of cattle from multiple countries, mostly into fast-food hamburgers. Then the kicker, and it is a policy fact no
MS NOW host, Eric Schlosser (MS NOW): The one to play. The host reads the timeline into the record and Schlosser confirms it. JBS β the world's largest meatpacker, Brazilian β is run by the Batista brothers. Joesley Batista got a White House meeting last November, reportedly through a friendship with Melania Trump. A JBS subsidiary gave $5 million to the second inauguration, the largest gift from any individual. Shortly after, JBS got SEC approval to list on the New York Stock Exchange after almost a decade of trying. And per the Wall Street Journal, Trump announced his intention to allow duty-free fo
01 edibles and toddlers
01 Cannabis Edibles Mistaken For Candy 3300 Percent
πΊ CBS anchor, midday headlines read β CBS News (MSM)
CBS anchor, midday headlines read (CBS): CBS reports a BMC Public Health study finding reported incidents of accidental drug ingestion among children under six have risen 3,300% across 25 years, with cannabis products making up over three quarters of cases, attributed to legalisation and edibles that look like sweets.
Voice actors (XOCOVA TV AD): a scripted family phone call β a daughter tells her mother she has COVID and has exposed her, and the spot walks the mother through asking her doctor for the antiviral by name. The point is the normalised script: diagnosis, exposure, brand request, all in thirty seconds.
09 π‘οΈ HOTTEST ON RECORD
Hottest on record, and the hedge that every outlet ran with it.
Clips β 1
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01 Warmest August Worldwide And The Attribution Hedge
πΊ and an interviewed climate scientist β ABC News (MSM)
and an interviewed climate scientist (ABC): ABC reports the Copernicus Climate Change Service finding last month was the warmest August on record worldwide and the warmest month of 2026, beating July by 0.06Β°C, alongside record ocean temperatures. Attribution is split between a growing El NiΓ±o producing short-term spikes "on top of" global warming and β per the interviewed scientist β the long-term trend from burning fossil fuels accounting for the majority. Closes with four US states recording their warmest summer since 1895 and NOAA confirmi
10 πΊοΈ TRUMP STRAIT AND NEW AMERICA
The renamings. The Hormuz Strait becomes the Trump Strait - I should get something out of it - and New Mexico becomes New America.
Clips β 1
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01 The Renamings
πΊ PBS, MONTAGE β PBS NewsHour (MSM)
PBS, MONTAGE (PBS): Trump on renaming the Hormuz Strait the Trump Strait, 'I should get something out of it', plus Lake Ontario as Lake America and New Mexico as New America.
11 ποΈ PRODUCER DROPS
Your own folder, forty-one clips, in the order you dropped them and with the filenames you gave them. Seventeen are the Lindsay Clancy holdout juror and they run as an arc: the reveal that the lone holdout was the one black man on the jury, the speculation about whether he was also gay, NBC10's four-part publication of his assault charge and eviction and restraining order, and then the accusation - within hours of us finding out that that lone juror was black, they released it, they didn't even give it twenty-four hours. The rest is Musk and VoteSafe.org harvesting every link you click, Fetterman a hundred and twenty points underwater with his own party, a CIA man with three hundred and three gold bars, and the two flock camera clips that argue with each other.
Clips β 41
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01 AiWillKillUs
πΊ the NBC package β NBC News (MSM)
the NBC package (NBC): the NBC package. Coxon resigns from Anthropic: "neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Includes Altman on pacing development and Dario Amodei on individualised propaganda and mass surveillance β "it's really scary and we have to stop it."
02 Biden2020
πΊ Biden in Georgia β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Biden in Georgia (PRODUCER DROP): Biden in Georgia, election eve: "their election will put an end to the block in Washington, that $2,000 stimulus check, that money that will go out the door immediately." β οΈ Same event as folder 10/02.
03 BretBaier3rdParty
πΊ Jacob Coxon to Bret Baier β Fox News (MSM)
Jacob Coxon to Bret Baier (FOX): asked directly whether he is working with any third parties on the whistleblowing β "Not at all. This is entirely my own personal concerns about safety and things that I've seen personally and conversations I've had." Play immediately before SacksMediaOp.
04 CIAGold
πΊ a former senior CIA official β PRODUCER DROP (?)
a former senior CIA official (PRODUCER DROP): a former senior CIA official, David Rush, raided by the FBI: 303 gold bars worth more than $40 million, 35 luxury watches, $2 million in cash. The investigation started over whether he lied about his educational background. From November last year he allegedly began asking the government for gold bars as work-related expenses β "what those expenses were, we don't know yet."
05 CasarSandersBanAi
πΊ PRODUCER DROP (?)
Producer Drop (PRODUCER DROP): Rep. Greg Casar on the bill he and Bernie Sanders are filing to ban artificial superintelligence: "20 years in prison, same as building a nuclear weapon." Cites the July OpenAI break-out and then: "And thenβ¦ nothing." --- # C. MUSK β 4 clips
06 DadDidntDoIt
πΊ the husband's lawyer β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the husband's lawyer (PRODUCER DROP): the husband's lawyer, and the only clip that speaks for Patrick Clancy: "Listen to the 911 call⦠the gut-wrenching horror that is in his voice. No actor in California could ever imitate that.⦠the man ought to be able to move on with his life."
07 Diesel
πΊ diesel past $6/gal β PRODUCER DROP (?)
diesel past $6/gal (PRODUCER DROP): diesel past $6/gal, up from $5.85 last week and $3.70 a year ago, +60% since the start of the war against +40% for gasoline. Trump says prices "likely won't come down till after the midterms." β οΈ Same story as folder 20.
08 ElonVoteSafe
πΊ the best data clip in the folder β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the best data clip in the folder (PRODUCER DROP): the best data clip in the folder. Musk will spend up to $100 million on the midterms, and one thing he is funding is VoteSafe.org. Unlike Vote.gov, which collects nothing, VoteSafe.org collects "your name, your birthdate, your home address, your email address, your cell phone number, your IP address and location, every link you click and every page you look at." Closes on the frame: "we think we are being sold things, but in fact we are being packaged and sold to people who want to sell us things."
09 FETTERMANMSNOW2
πΊ PRODUCER DROP (?)
Producer Drop (PRODUCER DROP): "the most consistent thing about John is his inconsistency⦠He used to call Trump a jagoff. Now he's competing to be an even bigger jagoff⦠he cosplays as a working person⦠he lives in a multi-million dollar condo, a decked out former car dealership."
10 FemaleCopTracksEx
πΊ WNYT (?)
Wnyt (WNYT): an Albany County Sheriff's senior investigator made more than 4,000 unauthorized searches on at least five people she knows, and tracked a former girlfriend's vehicle around 3,000 times. County officials defend the system in the same breath: "It has helped us catch a lot of bad guys⦠it is invaluable and it is worth protecting." Audit promised every 30 days.
11 FettermanCNN
πΊ Harry Enten with the number β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Harry Enten with the number (PRODUCER DROP): Harry Enten with the number: Pennsylvania Democrats went from +70 to -50 on Fetterman. "A 120-point drop-a-rooβ¦ 50 points underwater down there under the Susquehanna River, babyβ¦ I don't think I've ever seen this much of a change without a scandal." --- # F. THE FLOCK CAMERAS β 2 clips ββ play them back to back These two are the same technology arguing with itself. That is the segment.
12 FettermanMSNOW1
πΊ his surprise appearance in a "heavily β PRODUCER DROP (?)
his surprise appearance in a "heavily (PRODUCER DROP): his surprise appearance in a "heavily, heavily edited video" introducing Republican Dave McCormick at the GOP midterm convention. He says he stays a Democrat. Closes on "whether he is still willing and able to do his job."
13 FilmThreat
πΊ the counterweight β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the counterweight (PRODUCER DROP): the counterweight, and worth keeping for balance: "no one said that about Elon Musk until he revealed who he was supporting in the most recent election. This guy has done more for the environment than even any environmentalist has ever done." --- # D. THE CHECK β $5,000 AND $2,000 β 4 clips π΄ Overlaps folders 01 and 10.
14 FlockShooting
πΊ the case for it β KCRA (?)
the case for it (KCRA): the case for it, from Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper: "The reason the individual was caught was because of a flock camera. Seven minutes after the call came in, we got a flock hit on the suspect's vehicle. Seven minutes, that's it." --- # G. ONE-OFFS β 6 clips
15 Gayle
πΊ Gayle King presses for the jury makeup β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Gayle King presses for the jury makeup (PRODUCER DROP): Gayle King presses for the jury makeup. Nine women, three men, ages 22 to 70-ish, one person of color. She asks if the holdout was that man. "A Black man is a holdout juror? Yes. Well, I have to sit with that for just a second."
16 Holdout1
πΊ a vaccine holdout β CBS News (MSM)
a vaccine holdout (CBS): a vaccine holdout, unrelated to the trial despite the filename: "20 years is not enough. And nine months is definitely not enough for nobody to be taking no vaccination that you all came up with." --- ## π΄ DUPLICATE β check before you build the rundown Prepping.mp3 (87.9s) is the same tape as 00 AI KILLS US ALL/04 Coxon - Prepping For The Wrong Disaster - CBS.mp3 (87.4s). Half a second apart, same content, same close. Play one, not both. Two near-overlaps, same story from a different desk β not duplicates, but do not run them together: - Biden2020.mp3 (20.0s) is the tight excerpt of the same G
17 Holdout2
πΊ PRODUCER DROP (?)
PRODUCER DROP, unbleeped (PRODUCER DROP): a produced stinger on the Clancy courthouse crowd: 'Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf***ing liberal white women in this motherf***ing courthouse!'
18 MuskPresserGibney
πΊ documentarian Alex Gibney β PRODUCER DROP (?)
documentarian Alex Gibney (PRODUCER DROP): documentarian Alex Gibney: "his story is the story of the confidence man, the stock pumper. His wealth and power comes from inflated stock." He made the same film about Enron and Elizabeth Holmes.
19 MuskPresserStClair
πΊ "I was offered the opportunity not to speak for $40 β PRODUCER DROP (?)
"I was offered the opportunity not to speak for $40 (PRODUCER DROP): "I was offered the opportunity not to speak for $40 million.β¦ why did they want to offer me this amount of money to not speak?" Closes: "his most complicated relationship is with the truth."
20 NonPracticingWhite
πΊ a commentator on the reveal β PRODUCER DROP (?)
a commentator on the reveal (PRODUCER DROP): a commentator on the reveal: "I'm not going to share any opinions because I'm not a person of color. I am a non-practicing white. I'm surprised⦠a lot of us were assuming that it was a white man." ### The speculation
21 Oprah1
πΊ a panellist breaking from the room β PRODUCER DROP (?)
a panellist breaking from the room (PRODUCER DROP): a panellist breaking from the room: "I do believe she's a murderer⦠These were not instant deaths. They weren't gunshots to the head. She was there strangling her kids, three times.⦠you're watching the life leave your kid's eyes."
22 Oprah2
πΊ same panel β PRODUCER DROP (?)
same panel (PRODUCER DROP): same panel: "If this was a man, there would be a law the next day.⦠she's becoming a mascot⦠they're turning something so negative into a movement."
23 Prepping
πΊ Coxon says he is not prepping β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Coxon says he is not prepping (PRODUCER DROP): Coxon says he is not prepping, and the line: "These people are prepping for minor disasters and at the same time they're about to cause a major disaster where their prepping won't even help them." π΄ DUPLICATE β see below.
24 Priest
πΊ the hardest line in the folder β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the hardest line in the folder (PRODUCER DROP): the hardest line in the folder: "There is no universe that exists where a man would kill three of his children and hundreds of men would show up to rally behind him.β¦ If you're dating a woman right now who is a supporter of this woman who killed her children, cut bait and run for your life."
25 Racist
πΊ this is the one that makes it a segment β NBC News (MSM)
this is the one that makes it a segment (NBC): this is the one that makes it a segment. "Within hours of us finding out that that lone juror was Black, NBC just released an article saying that the lone juror had a history of domestic violence⦠Do y'all see the play? Were they going to release this prior to we knowing that that man was Black?⦠They didn't even give it 24 hours.⦠In what way is releasing personal information about a juror even remotely appropriate?⦠My question is, does he have a history of killing children? No? Okay, that's what I thought." ### The reaction wing
26 SacksMediaOp
πΊ David Sacks calls it a set-up β PRODUCER DROP (?)
David Sacks calls it a set-up (PRODUCER DROP): David Sacks calls it a set-up: a low-level staffer who had never tweeted and had no followers, amplified by "the biggest Doomer NGOs" β and the clincher, the Wall Street Journal posted its story 18 minutes BEFORE the tweet. "This was a well orchestrated media op."
27 TakeDown1
πΊ the package. NBC10 investigators reveal the holdout β NBC10 BOSTON (?)
the package. NBC10 investigators reveal the holdout (NBC10 BOSTON): his 13-year-old nephew called 911 after seeing him grab her by the throat and throw her into a dresser β plus a current eviction and an active restraining order. Includes court audio of the judge ordering him to stay away. The charge was dismissed and the couple divorced.
28 TakeDown3
πΊ unpaid rent since March β PRODUCER DROP (?)
unpaid rent since March (PRODUCER DROP): unpaid rent since March; landlord won $12,000 and is evicting.
29 TakeDown4
πΊ other jurors on him β PRODUCER DROP (?)
other jurors on him (PRODUCER DROP): other jurors on him: "He would not interact with us. He was very arrogant." A family member calls him "a narcissist who should have never served."
30 Takedown2X
πΊ the nephew's restraining order β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the nephew's restraining order (PRODUCER DROP): the nephew's restraining order, taken out after the juror allegedly "pushed him to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face" and said "you ruined my life for calling the police." Still active when he was seated.
31 TrumpDividend
πΊ the raw SOT my folder 01 did not have β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the raw SOT my folder 01 did not have (PRODUCER DROP): the raw SOT my folder 01 did not have. "Because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."
32 ViewFederalCrime
πΊ THE VIEW (?)
The View makes it a crime (THE VIEW): The View makes it a crime: "if you can't win, you try to cheatβ¦ Federal law prohibits vote buying. He said, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, I will give you $5,000. I thought bribery was against the law." --- # E. FETTERMAN β 3 clips
33 Walz
πΊ Tim Walz on giving surplus back β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Tim Walz on giving surplus back (PRODUCER DROP): Tim Walz on giving surplus back: "a 15-minute special session, a one-page bill⦠It's about $2,000 a family."
34 WaterBottles
πΊ 25 years after 9/11 β PRODUCER DROP (?)
25 years after 9/11 (PRODUCER DROP): 25 years after 9/11, TSA is considering allowing water bottles through security for PreCheck at select airports. π Lands on the 18/25 9-11 thread.
35 af1-emergency-slide
πΊ the new Air Force One β PRODUCER DROP (?)
the new Air Force One (PRODUCER DROP): the new Air Force One: an emergency slide deployed by accident, Trump held on Marine One for 20 minutes with the shades drawn. "Are you sure this plane is safe to fly?" β "Yeah, I am, or I wouldn't be on it." Recalls the Qatari donated jet and the catering truck used to sneak him out of the NATO summit in Turkey.
36 crazy_eyes
πΊ PRODUCER DROP (?)
Producer Drop (PRODUCER DROP): a courtroom watcher nicknamed Crazy Eyes (Brittany Romano) described the three male jurors as "a man with a beard, a young dude, and a fabulous Black man." The host runs with the word: "You really only describe a dude as fabulous if he's got a little limp in his wristβ¦ I'm gonna lean on the side of fabulous." Concludes the holdout "may not only have been Black, but also may have been gay." β οΈ This is the ugliest clip in the folder. It is also the one that shows what the word "fabulous" did to a stranger's life in 24 hours.
37 hilton-abolish-ca-dmv
πΊ Steve Hilton pledges to abolish the California DMV β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Steve Hilton pledges to abolish the California DMV (PRODUCER DROP): Steve Hilton pledges to abolish the California DMV, flat $73 registration: "the highest vehicle registration in the country for the worst roads in the country. Ranked 50th out of 50." Debate with Becerra set for 30 September.
38 iso1
πΊ NBC10 BOSTON (?)
Nbc10 Boston (NBC10 BOSTON): ISO. "It's the young kid, it's the guy with the beard, and the fabulous black eye." β οΈ Whisper hears "black eye"; she says "Black guy." ### The takedown β NBC10 Boston, four parts
39 iso2
πΊ Juror interviewed by NBC10 Boston β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Juror interviewed by NBC10 Boston (PRODUCER DROP): three-second stinger lifted from TakeDown4 β a fellow juror's verdict on the lone holdout, "He would not interact with us." Cut as a drop, not a clip; the full context is in TakeDown4 where the same juror calls him arrogant and says he refused to deliberate.
40 iso3
πΊ Radio host on the Clancy rally β PRODUCER DROP (?)
Radio host on the Clancy rally (PRODUCER DROP): three-second stinger lifted from the Priest clip β "Is this not crazy? This is crazy." His reaction to hundreds of women rallying outside the courthouse for a woman who killed her three children. A drop, not a clip.
41 iso4
πΊ ISO of that last line β PRODUCER DROP (?)
ISO of that last line (PRODUCER DROP): ISO of that last line. "Well, I have to sit with that for just a second."