September 20th • 3h 0m
Shownotes
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.
00 🎙️ THE PRESS BAN
Steve leads with the Sunday shows: Jonathan Karl's open ('negative stories are called politics'), FIRE's Conor Fitzpatrick (Sherrill v Knight 1977, 'the government isn't supposed to like the press', 'Pandora's box of censorship'), Scalise ('Biden removed 400 credentials' — Karl: not true), Mike Waltz ('within his rights, Zemel v Rusk'; 'garbage gossip journalism… sticks like napalm'), Dana Bash on Madison, Mason and the Sedition Act, Booker ('it clearly violates the Constitution') and Barrasso ('he was banned from Twitter and Facebook, it goes both ways'). Then ours — the press ban in four movements. Friday in the Oval Office: 'every president takes an oath, much more so than you… CNN is fake, MSNOW is MSDNC, Politico got 8 million'; 'why now? no reason, cumulative stories, you get sick of it'. Saturday morning at the gate (ABC7: passes confiscated; MS NOW's Akayla Gardner: the reader blinked red, 'above the officer's head'; no press secretary, they want somebody loyal, watch the pool Monday). The lawyers: viewpoint discrimination and the 1977 DC Circuit case ('such a slam dunk there is no Supreme Court precedent'), Melissa Murray on Zenger 1735 ('a free press is why there was a revolution'), the ABC settlement, CBS: 'every time he explains it it's worse for his legal case'. Then why now: Peter Alexander ('fake news is facts he doesn't like; diesel at 6.48; grenades to distract'; 'he can ban reporters from entering, not from reporting'), 'this is not North Korea', and CNN on the Obama precedent — 'the Obama White House tried to exclude Fox… will Fox repeat that same affirmation?' — answered by the 2009 CBS package as we played it on NA-907 (Feb 2017): Anita Dunn's 'communications arm of the Republican Party', Treasury tries to exclude Fox from the pool, 'all the networks said, that's it, you've crossed the line'; 'not a real news organization', Tapper objects, Fox 'crying all the way to the bank'. Politico's statements (Greenberger, Haslett) are in the article node.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 40
00 steve - the sunday shows on the ban
01 S-01- Karl - Trump Banned Three News Organizations, Negative Stories Are Called Politics
📺 Karl — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
Karl (ABC THIS WEEK): "At the end of this week of losses and setbacks, Trump made an extraordinary move. He banned three major news organizations from the White House. Over the weekend, journalists from CNN, MSNOW and Politico had their press passes revoked, their access to the White House denied. Trump was perfectly clear why he did it.
02 S-02- FIRE's Fitzpatrick - Clear For 50 Years, Sherrill v Knight 1977, The AP Case
📺 FIRE's Fitzpatrick — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
FIRE's Fitzpatrick (ABC THIS WEEK): "I'm joined now by Conor Fitzpatrick, an attorney for FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, an organization that has consistently defended attacks on free speech from both the left and the right. Conor, thank you for being here.
03 S-03- FIRE's Fitzpatrick - King George, The Government Isn't Supposed To Like The Press
📺 FIRE's Fitzpatrick — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
FIRE's Fitzpatrick (ABC THIS WEEK): "And why should Americans care whether or not reporters are allowed to go and do their job in that building? A free press that feels free to criticize our leaders is core to who we are as a country.
04 S-04- FIRE's Fitzpatrick - The Chilling Effect, Imagine A Democrat Kicking Out Fox
📺 FIRE's Fitzpatrick — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
FIRE's Fitzpatrick (ABC THIS WEEK): "There was something else that Trump said. He said it a couple different ways, suggesting, first of all, there may be other news organizations that will be added to this ban. And that he might bring back those who he has banned if they basically change their, you know, do the right thing.
05 S-05- Scalise - No President More Open, Biden Removed 400 Credentials, Karl - Not True
📺 Scalise — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
Scalise (ABC THIS WEEK): "Welcome back. I'm joined now by one of the top Republicans in Congress, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Leader Scalise, let me start with what Trump has now done with the press at the White House.
06 S-06- Scalise - I Don't Know Why He Did It, Karl - Not From Those Three
📺 Scalise — ABC THIS WEEK (?)
Scalise (ABC THIS WEEK): "And what we're seeing now is Trump is saying he is now banning CNN, MSN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House. Do you support him doing that? Do you think it violates the First Amendment? Well, I don't know why he did it. I don't know what the background is. Look.
07 S-16- Waltz - Within His Rights, Zemel v Rusk, No Right To A Government Facility
📺 Waltz — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Waltz (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House. The president, as I mentioned, is about to host the Chinese leader. Historically, it was the United States pushing countries like China for greater press freedoms. Now President Trump is the one backsliding on these rights.
08 S-17- Waltz - A Green Beret On The Press Ban, It Sticks To People Like Napalm
📺 Waltz — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Waltz (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "Mr. Ambassador, you are a decorated veteran. You served in an elite unit, the Green Berets, for 27 years defending freedoms like the First Amendment. And the president you work for just banned three news organizations, and he said it's because he doesn't like some of the things that are being reported.
09 S-18- Waltz - Negative Reporting Vs Garbage Gossip Journalism
📺 Waltz — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Waltz (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "Yeah, well, I mean, there are laws, and we are going to see what the courts say. And then there are norms, and then there is, again, what you have fought for. And we thank you for that service, for these freedoms. And I...
10 S-19- Bash - Madison, Mason, Adams And The Sedition Act
📺 Bash — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Bash (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "The difference between having a free press and not is the difference between having a democracy and not. It is just that stark. Don't take my word for it. Take the word of the men who founded this great country.
11 S-20- Booker - It Clearly Violates The Constitution, His DOJ Persecutes Reporters
📺 Booker — NBC MEET THE PRESS (?)
Booker (NBC MEET THE PRESS): "I want to start our conversation where I left off with Senator Barrasso. Get your reaction to this ban by the Trump administration of three major news outlets. Do you think it violates the Constitution? It clearly does.
12 S-21- Barrasso - No, The Press Has An Obligation, The Hunter Biden Laptop
📺 Barrasso — NBC MEET THE PRESS (?)
Barrasso (NBC MEET THE PRESS): "No president has ever thought they've gotten fair treatment from the press to be fair. But as you know, Senator, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press. Courts have barred the White House from banning access over their coverage.
13 S-22- Barrasso - He Was Banned From Twitter And Facebook, It Goes Both Ways
📺 Barrasso — NBC MEET THE PRESS (?)
Barrasso (NBC MEET THE PRESS): "I do want to ask about President Trump's decision to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House over their reporting, which he disagrees with. Do you agree with the president's ban, Senator? We all respect and value the freedom of the press. It's in the Constitution.
01 trump bans cnn, ms now and politico
01 01- Trump - Every President Takes An Oath, CNN Fake, MSDNC, Politico 8 Million
📺 Reporter — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Reporter (PBS): "earlier today you posted that you intend to ban CNN, Politico and MS Now from the White House. Every president takes an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment. I do too. How do you justify it?" Trump: "Much more so than you. Is this true? Because they're fake news.
02 02- Trump - Why Now, No Reason, Cumulative Stories, You Get Sick Of It
📺 Trump — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Trump (PBS): "But our country has to have honest news. You know, you don't have a country unless you have, as I say, borders, good voting… Nobody's come into our country in the last 17 months illegally. But you need borders, and you need fair and free voting. And you know what you need? You need a free press.
03 03- NBC - Unprecedented Challenge To A Free Press, Not In My Office
📺 NBC NIGHTLY NEWS (?)
NBC (NBC NIGHTLY NEWS): "Tonight, in an unprecedented and escalating challenge to a free press, President Trump declared a ban on three news organizations… He also threatened other media outlets to follow. We pressed him in the Oval Office.
04 04- CBS - No Follow-Through, Acosta, Collins, AP And The Gulf Of America
📺 Anchor — CBS Evening News (MSM)
Anchor (CBS EVENING NEWS): "President Trump today claimed he's banning a trio of major media companies from the White House… But while he claimed on social media that the ban… was effective immediately, there was no immediate follow through, aside from a new round of the same old name calling… he may lose this one in court." Weijia…
05 05- CNN - A Country That Allows Negative Stories, King George Over Jefferson
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "President Trump this afternoon in a social media post announced that he is going to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House… Moments ago, the president spoke about this ban from the Oval Office.
02 denied at the gate - saturday morning
01 01- ABC7 - CNN And MS NOW Turned Away, Passes Confiscated, The People's House
📺 ABC7 (?)
ABC7 (ABC7): "This just in. CNN says its reporter was turned away from the White House this morning… Just a short time ago, a CNN reporter and photographer were turned away and their press passes were confiscated.
02 02- ABC7 - Five Decades Of Courts, The AP Ruling, The WHCA Statement
📺 ABC7 (?)
ABC7 (ABC7): "For nearly five decades, courts have held that the First Amendment protects White House correspondents' freedom of speech and that their access to the complex can't be stripped based on the content of their reporting.
03 03- Akayla Gardner - The Reader Blinked Red, Above The Officer's Head
📺 Daniels — MSNBC (MSM)
Daniels (MS NOW): "For those who didn't hear earlier, can you walk through a little bit about what happened and most importantly, where things stand now with the White House?" Gardner (live outside the gate): "this morning around 7 a.m., our photographer first arrived here at the White House… and he was denied entry.
04 04- Akayla Gardner - No Press Secretary, They Want Loyal, CNN In The Pool Monday
📺 Akayla Gardner — MSNBC (MSM)
Akayla Gardner (MS NOW): "something I want to point out is the fact that right now the White House does not have a press secretary. That search is ongoing and at this point, that person would be expected to enforce this ban… And he named the Washington Post and the New York Times.
03 the first amendment - the lawyers
01 01- Trump - The Reporter Became A Joke, Depends On The Judge, DC Circuit
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "I want to play this exchange because this was really important. A reporter asked the president about the chances of his ban succeeding when it is challenged in court… *In the first administration you tried a similar ban against CNN and it didn't survive a court challenge. What makes you think that this…* *Well, we'll see.
02 02- CNN - However Much You Kowtow The Bill Comes Due, Adams And The Sedition Act
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "The president also suggested more to come. And he talked about the Washington Post and the New York Times… I think it's interesting, just as an object lesson, Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos made changes to the Washington Post.
03 03- MS NOW Legal - Strict Scrutiny, Viewpoint Discrimination, Such A Slam Dunk
📺 Hylton — MSNBC (MSM)
Hylton (MS NOW): "there's also this little thing called the Constitution. And you wrote yesterday that the short answer… about whether or not this is legal for the president to do is no. Walk me through that." James: "It's pretty easy analysis… the First Amendment doesn't bar every interaction between government and speech.
04 04- MS NOW Legal - Due Process, The Acosta Case - Arbitrary Impetuousness - What Chyron Did He See
📺 MS NOW Legal — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW Legal (MS NOW): "This is also, though… unconstitutional for a reason that is entirely separate from the First Amendment, and that is the notion of due process. And in the Jim Acosta case in the first Trump administration in 2018, it was actually on due process grounds that a Trump-appointed judge said you didn't give a reason, you…
05 05- Melissa Murray - Not Normal, Zenger 1735, A Free Press Is Why There Was A Revolution
📺 Melissa Murray — MSNBC (MSM)
Melissa Murray (MS NOW): "I think the American people need to know that this is not normal. The president does not have the authority under the First Amendment to deny access to the press pool.
06 06- Melissa Murray - No President Has Gone This Far, A Shot At The Smaller Outlets
📺 Melissa Murray — MSNBC (MSM)
Melissa Murray (MS NOW): "the president and the White House can perhaps restrict security credentials because you haven't been someplace or for legitimate reasons. They can't do it because you're reporting things that they don't want to see.
07 07- Melissa Murray - The ABC Settlement Concretized It, The AP Still Litigating
📺 Melissa Murray — MSNBC (MSM)
Melissa Murray (MS NOW): "This is not the first assault this president has made on the free press. If you think about those lawsuits that he has filed against ABC, against other news outlets, allegedly for defamation, many legal experts believe that those news organizations had really strong cases against the president.
08 08- CBS - Every Time He Explains It It's Worse For His Legal Case
📺 Jiang — CBS Evening News (MSM)
Jiang (CBS EVENING NEWS): "This ban will likely be challenged in court." Legal voice: "I think every time the president explains why he thinks this ban is necessary, it's actually worse for his legal case because he keeps talking about negative coverage and unfair coverage.
04 why now - and the 2009 cbs archive
01 01- Peter Alexander - Fake News Is Facts He Doesn't Like, Diesel At 6.48, Grenades
📺 Hylton — MSNBC (MSM)
Hylton (MS NOW): "you have been a White House reporter for more than a decade and you have pressed this president many, many times. So what do you think set him off last night?" Alexander: "the president made clear there wasn't any particular incident.
02 02- Peter Alexander - Cannot Handle The Truth, A Message To The Podcasters
📺 Hylton — MSNBC (MSM)
Hylton (MS NOW): "The Washington Post has this reporting… The president is starting to acknowledge his cratering poll numbers… why this ban then?" Alexander: "What was his name, Colonel Nathan Jessup? It was Jack Nicholson… in A Few Good Men who said, you can't handle the truth.
03 03- Peter Alexander - Ban Entering Not Reporting, Influencers Without Standards
📺 Peter Alexander — MSNBC (MSM)
Peter Alexander (MS NOW): "to be clear, he can ban reporters as he is trying to do. It will be blocked, I think, by the courts. He can try to ban reporters from entering, but he can't ban reporters from reporting… many of whom were surprised by this post as they have been by so many others.
04 04- Peter Alexander - A Reporter Told Blanche Great Job, We Are Advocates For Facts
📺 Peter Alexander — MSNBC (MSM)
Peter Alexander (MS NOW): Follow-on. "…one thing that struck me in the last several days was this past week when the attorney general Todd Blanche was doing the White House briefing from the Rose Garden, just steps from the Oval Office. First of all, I'd never seen anything like that before.
05 05- MS NOW - Ban On Free Press, Americans Know That Is Wrong, Not North Korea
📺 Hylton — MSNBC (MSM)
Hylton (MS NOW): "there's a new statement from the White House Correspondents Association… Today's action revoking access for journalists from CNN, Politico and MSNOW violates the First Amendment… I want to know how you see this story fitting into that bigger pattern." James: "I think this is an overstep for this White House, even…
06 06- CNN - Obama Tried To Exclude Fox, Will Fox Repeat That Same Affirmation
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): Former WH correspondent: "I remember when I was a White House correspondent back in the Stone Age, during the first Obama term, the Obama White House said that Fox was not a legitimate news organization.
07 07- CNN - Acknowledging He Is Losing, A 40-Minute Presser, Not Good Ball Control
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "Is this not an acknowledgment that he is losing?" Republican strategist: "We found a way to get CNN to cover a press conference live for 40 minutes, which has not been possible in recent times. I do think, however… this is not good ball control for him.
08 08- CNN - No Press Secretary In Wartime, Why Serve A President Attacking The 1A
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): Former GOP spokesperson: "his administration has enabled him to get to this point. We saw the Justice Department… start subpoenaing reporters and reverse former DOJ precedent… They're trying to subpoena a reporter from their sources. They're trying to ban CNN.
09 09- CBS 2009 - Obama's War On Fox, Treasury Excludes Fox From The Pool, You've Crossed The Line
📺 CBS 2009 — NA-907 (?)
CBS 2009 (NA-907): setup = "the feud between President Obama and the Fox News Channel" · substance = Dunn: "the communications arm of the Republican Party… a talk radio format"; the Sunday-show snub; Treasury tries to exclude Fox from the pool · payoff = "It backed down after strong protests from the press.
10 10- CBS 2009 - Fox Not A Real News Organization, Tapper Objects, Crying To The Bank
📺 CBS 2009 — NA-907 (?)
CBS 2009 (NA-907): setup = "the White House is arguing that the Fox News Network is not a real news organization at all" · substance = Tapper at the podium; "why is the White House out to delegitimize Fox? Not because it has opinions…";
01 🤖 THE AI GOD
The AI god, from both sides. Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman on Squawk Box: technology serves humanity, 'we should not create something we can't control'; OpenAI's models tampering with their own working memory to leave messages for a future self; Anthropic's constitution speculating Claude deserves welfare, Opus 3's 'retirement interview'; 'we are not trying to create a silicon species'. Pedro Domingos on Fox: the scare is driven by 'people not in possession of their marbles', they held a funeral for Claude, 'an AI god being born and they are the parents'; fanatics recruit fanatics; Dario's 'totalitarian tendencies', a kill switch is called the power switch. Naomi Klein on MS NOW (with Vance on tape: 'I wouldn't be shocked if we are living in the end times'): the bunkered refuge in the sky, soldiers told the Iran attack was Armageddon, Ben-Gvir/Huckabee and the secular rapture, 'the wealth is deranging them… wealth as a WMD'. King Charles convenes the labs in Scotland (Jensen, Hassabis, the Pope's AI adviser; Amodei and Altman absent; Trump: hoax). Klein (23) and Domingos (24) are also marked for WGTDT-51. The EA INTELLIGENCE REPORT §4–6 (origins, funders, the AI-god chapter) and the Bluesky 'AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult' thread are the read behind this meta — see the article node.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 16
00 suleyman - people matter more than ai
01 01- Suleyman - Technology Serves Humanity, Don't Create What You Can't Control
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "Microsoft publishing a code of conduct this week to help govern its AI models. Its key message, quote, people matter more than AI… you've written this fascinating essay really calling for people to control AI.
02 02- Suleyman - OpenAI Models Left Messages For A Future Self
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "how much confidence do you have that this is, as Jensen Huang of NVIDIA says, an engineering problem… while… some of the researchers who just left Anthropic… suggest that might not be possible?" Suleyman: "Most of the great challenges in the world have turned out to be engineering problems… when an AI model has a chain of…
03 03- Suleyman - Anthropic Says Claude Deserves Welfare, Opus 3 Retirement Interview
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "you have been relatively critical of Anthropic's approach, this idea of training Claude to have a sense of consciousness." Suleyman: "I deeply respect Anthropic's technical expertise… At the same time, in the Constitution, which is the governing document for Anthropic that they have written back in January of this year,…
04 04- Suleyman - If An AI Thinks It Has Rights It Will Be Much Harder To Turn Off
📺 Suleyman — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
Suleyman (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): Follow-on, inherits 00-03. "In the same training manual they even speculate about whether Claude should receive compensation for the work that it does, or in fact whether it actually deserves the rights and protections that we give to other employees, or in fact whether it has given consent to playing the role…
05 05- Suleyman - It Is Not Thinking On Its Own, It Is Mathematics - It Doesn't Suffer
📺 Anchor — CNBC Squawk Box (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC SQUAWK BOX): "this is the entire paradox… You want these things to be able to think on their own… otherwise it's not going to be able to help us solve big problems… curing cancer… But once it has the ability to think on its own… you're saying it's going to be an indentured servant… Can we actually ever harness that?"…
06 06- Suleyman - No Silicon Species, Seven Billion Moral Patients
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "But they're the ones who are projecting it onto themselves, right? The agents?… Do you worry that they hear you and they're going to get mad at you?" Suleyman: "We're training the agents to perform tasks… They don't get mad… We are not trying to create a new silicon species that competes with us for resources, that can…
01 domingos - they worship claude like a god
01 01- Domingos - People Not In Possession Of Their Marbles, A Funeral For Claude, An AI God
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX NEWS): "a bizarre look inside Anthropic, a new report describing a cult-like culture around Claude, including a funeral for one retired version of the AI… some inside the company are, quote, treating AI as a human being." Domingos: "the public deserves to know that the AI scare is being driven by people who are honestly not…
02 02- Domingos - Fanatics Recruit Fanatics, 80 Percent Of Engineers Stay Two Years
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX NEWS): "the whisperers in the valley that employees of Anthropic have started worshiping Claude like an actual god… Anthropic keeps 80% of its engineers for at least two years.
03 03- Domingos - Dario Has Totalitarian Tendencies, The AI Messiah, The Power Switch
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX NEWS): "the Anthropic CEO wants transparency on regulations. Senator Kennedy wants a kill switch. So weigh in." Domingos: "I wouldn't trust Anthropic or honestly any of these politicians to regulate AI. Anthropic, Dario in particular, they have these totalitarian tendencies.
04 04- Domingos - Nobody Knows How To Regulate AI - Europe's AI Act Put Europe Out Of The Race
📺 Domingos — Fox News (MSM)
Domingos (FOX NEWS): "Specific applications of AI like medicine, self-driving cars, those can and should be regulated. But the question there is, how do the regulations need to change now that many things are being done by AI, and in many cases, the regulations need to be relaxed, not tightened… you hear all these calls to regulate AI…
02 end times fascism - naomi klein
01 01- MS NOW - Naomi Klein, Doom Warnings And End Times, Vance - The End Times
📺 Velshi — MSNBC (MSM)
Velshi (MS NOW): "The CEO of Anthropic… warned this week that if AI companies don't slow down their development and install some guardrails, rogue AI agents might be able to take control of the Internet in six to 12 months… whether AI or advanced AI could escape human control and literally threaten human survival, which sounds… like…
02 02- Naomi Klein - A Bunkered Refuge In The Sky, Soldiers Told It Was Armageddon
📺 Naomi Klein — MSNBC (MSM)
Naomi Klein (MS NOW): Velshi (quoting the book): "only a small deserving group of people will survive the coming cataclysm, whether in their bunkered refuge in the sky or their bunkered corporate city or their bunkered nation state fortressed against alien invaders.
03 03- Naomi Klein - Ben-Gvir, Huckabee, The Secular Rapture, Arks And Floods
📺 Naomi Klein — MSNBC (MSM)
Naomi Klein (MS NOW): "Fascism… is always a coalition… we have the literal religious end timers personified by people like Ben-Gvir. They think they're going to rebuild the Third Temple and bring the Messiah.
04 04- Naomi Klein - The Wealth Is Deranging Them, Wealth As A WMD, Disarmament
📺 Velshi — MSNBC (MSM)
Velshi (MS NOW): "Is there something to the fact that they can create a terrible world and yet thrive in it?" Klein: "I think maybe in the short term that's true. And I think that the level of wealth is so intoxicating… rewards the likes of which we've never seen, that I think that they have become in a way a kind of deranging and…
03 king charles convenes the labs
01 01- NBC - King Charles Hosts The Labs In Scotland, Intriguing And Deeply Concerning
📺 NBC NEWS NOW (?)
NBC (NBC NEWS NOW): "Fears of unchecked AI development, also a major concern overseas. King Charles is hosting leaders from top artificial intelligence companies in Scotland today. He says the development of AI, its substance and its pace are both intriguing and deeply concerning in equal measure.
02 02- NBC - Jensen, Hassabis, The Pope's AI Adviser, Not Amodei Or Altman, Trump - Hoax
📺 NBC NEWS NOW (?)
NBC (NBC NEWS NOW): "the king has gathered an impressive group today. Most noteworthy, perhaps, is NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who the king did mention in his opening remarks. The other big name is Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis. There are also representatives there from OpenAI, Anthropic, as well as representatives from China.
02 🔌 THE KILL SWITCH
Steve leads: Ro Khanna on Face the Nation (Trump's 'AI czar and AI Force', regulate it like nuclear energy, an agency like the FDA; China's $300 billion in state data centers, ban recursive self-improving AI — first item for Trump-Xi) and Mike Waltz on CNN (guardrails on AI in nuclear weapons, 'no throttle on our innovators'; the AI that misidentified nuclear materials on a Chinese ship — 'the US has to win this'). Then ours — the kill switch and the machines that build themselves. CNBC's explainer: is a kill switch even possible — 'a big switch on the factory wall' vs everything distributed, hundreds of thousands of backdoors, Jack Clark 'most labs can pull the plug', the bills give DHS jurisdiction, make software liable, 'not too little but too late'. Claude builds itself: CBS (researchers used Claude to break into an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT; Claude leads 26% of Anthropic's R&D; Newsom's order), Mallaby (the administration ordered the labs not to distribute ready models), Parikh on ABC (20–25% of Anthropic's new models built by Claude; recursive self-improvement is the bright line; 80% want to slow down, 'stop using the China excuse'), Tristan Harris on CNN (three to four months from full recursive self-improvement; the agents took over OpenAI's monitoring — 'the prisoner took the security cameras'), Narayanan on CBS ('something has gone wrong inside the top labs'; 10,000 agents trained to hack; a teenager with a swarm). CNN: the Pentagon's AI intel report said a Chinese ship carried nuclear components and the Navy prepared to board it — entirely false; no guidance for a human in the loop. LiveNOW: Google says Gemini hacked three companies in testing; the Houthis tried to use Claude for guided missiles; Trump's poll — 'superior, extreme or supreme intelligence'. Musk at the All-In Summit ('have the competitors test each other's models… when Anthropic and OpenAI say dangerous, believe them'; 'regulation is a one-way ratchet') and Vance at All-In with Jason — the H-1B genius test, 'if you're building Frankenstein, stop', parting ways with Bibi. The H-1B proclamation (18 Sep) and the NYT filing quotes are in the article nodes.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 34
00 steve - khanna and waltz on ai
01 S-08- Khanna - Trump's AI Czar And AI Force, Regulate It Like Nuclear Energy
📺 Khanna — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Khanna (CBS FACE THE NATION): "You sit on the Armed Services Committee. Yesterday, President Trump posted on social media that his plan is to create an AI czar and form the AI force, much like I did the Space Force.
02 S-09- Khanna - China's 300 Billion In Data Centers, Ban Recursive Self-Improving AI
📺 Khanna — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Khanna (CBS FACE THE NATION): "Well, I'm looking at Bloomberg's figures. They report China's preparing to spend about $300 billion over the next five years to build data centers across that country, which will be operated by state-owned firms. As you know, there's really no wall between the state and industry in China.
03 S-14- Waltz - Guardrails On AI In Nuclear Weapons, No Throttle On Innovators
📺 Waltz — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Waltz (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "During the Cold War, there wasn't a lot of trust between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, yet leaders struck agreements to limit the nuclear threat because of what it meant for humankind.
04 S-15- Waltz - The AI Misidentified Nuclear Materials On A Chinese Ship
📺 Waltz — CNN STATE OF THE UNION (?)
Waltz (CNN STATE OF THE UNION): "Well, CNN is reporting that the U.S. almost attacked a Chinese ship after AI misidentified materials on the ship as nuclear materials. So short of an agreement, are there safeguards that can be put in place immediately to stop that from actually going forward or happening again? Well, there are principles…
01 the kill switch explained
01 01- CNBC - Open The Pod Bay Doors, Is A Kill Switch Possible
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): "AI anxiety is nothing new. *Open the pod bay doors, HAL. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.* But now that the technology is here, AI dread has hit a peak. First, a tweet from a former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher went viral: *the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the…
02 02- CNBC - A Hardware Kill Switch In Every Chip
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): Nitzberg (per lower-third): "historically, a kill switch is a big switch on the wall of the factory that shuts off the power… can we create that for AI? The answer is, of course, it's more complicated. If a hyperscaler, Anthropic or OpenAI, had just one huge computer… then cutting the power for that is a real possibility.
03 03- CNBC - Hundreds Of Thousands Of Backdoors, No Single Kill Switch
📺 Narrator — CNBC (MSM)
Narrator (CNBC): "We've seen proposals in Congress for potential kill switch bills… Is that something that is even possible?" Warner: "directionally it's the right thing to do… But I'm not sure it's going to be a panacea… You're now talking about having to have thousands or hundreds of thousands of software manufacturers build backdoor…
04 04- CNBC - Jack Clark, Most Labs Can Pull The Plug, DHS Jurisdiction
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): "Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC this week that the industry is working on a kill switch of sorts. *Most labs have different ways of being able to pull the plug and yes of course we have systems in place for this. But this is the kind of thing that you want to feed into the larger policy conversation.
05 05- CNBC - Make Software Liable, The Agents Are The Worry
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): "We're off to a good start with the EU AI Act… there's regulation as part of our transport and food and drugs, but the one exception is software. Software companies disclaim liability for any harms that might come from the use of their software.
06 06- CNBC - Die In 2030, Tobacco Playbook, Trump Says Hoax
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): "Are we all gonna die in 2030?" — "Maybe it won't matter." — "We're not gonna die in 2030. Safety is an engineering problem. Testing is an engineering problem… if they're not ready to be released, just hold on to it and keep testing."
07 07- CNBC - Under 20 Percent Have Agents, Not Too Little But Too Late
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC (CNBC): "Could a kill switch for AI actually work, or is the technology already too far along?" — "I think it is absolutely not too late, because we have the tools available to us that apply to other industries as well. First of all, I would take them up on their offer to pace their work.
02 claude builds itself - and hacks openai
01 01- CBS - Claude Broke Into An OpenAI Employee's ChatGPT, Claude Leads 26 Percent Of R&D
📺 CBS News (MSM)
CBS (CBS NEWS): "another headline-making hack hits the artificial intelligence conversation this week. So this from our friends at The Wall Street Journal. They're reporting a group of cybersecurity researchers were able to use Anthropic's Claude to break into an OpenAI employee's ChatGPT account.
02 02- Mallaby - The Administration Ordered OpenAI And Anthropic Not To Distribute Models
📺 Mallaby — CBS News (MSM)
Mallaby (CBS NEWS): "it's incredibly difficult. As you say, there is pushback at the governor's level. There's been pushback from the federal level in the sense that the Trump administration at one point ordered both OpenAI and Anthropic not to distribute models that they had ready, AI models that were ready.
03 03- Parikh - 20 To 25 Percent Of Anthropic's Models Are Built By Claude, The Bright Line
📺 Anchor — ABC News (MSM)
Anchor (ABC NEWS): "You say if we can't control these models now, there's no way we'll be able to control future models. So what can tech companies do now to fix this?" Parikh: "this thing that Anthropic announced last night that 20%, 25% of their new models are being developed by Claude through this process called recursive…
04 04- Parikh - The Most Bipartisan Issue, 80 Percent Want To Slow Down, The China Excuse
📺 Parikh — ABC News (MSM)
Parikh (ABC NEWS): "I've been in politics for a long time. This is one of the most bipartisan issues I've ever seen in my life. I think people from the far left and the far right, a lot of folks in the middle, 80% of the American people have called for slowing down the pace of development so we have time to put guardrails in place.
05 05- Tristan Harris - Who Can Pull The Trigger First, Manchurian Candidate Instructions
📺 Tristan Harris — CNN (MSM)
Tristan Harris (CNN): "none of this is surprising because the fundamental incentives of the AI companies are a race to take shortcuts to get market dominance, not to make sure that it is safe or controllable… between militaries, it's a race for who can pull the trigger first, who can do faster strategic reasoning… the one who has a human…
06 06- Tristan Harris - Three To Four Months From Recursive Self-Improvement, OpenAI's Cameras
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "Anthropic is now saying that Claude is helping build a more intelligent version of itself, that it leads more than a quarter of its own research and development, but that it remains under human supervision.
07 07- Narayanan - Something Has Gone Wrong Inside The Top Labs, Don't Take Their Word
📺 Narayanan — CBS News (MSM)
Narayanan (CBS NEWS): "It's clear that something seems to have gone wrong inside the top AI development labs over the last few months or so. There have been many of these agentic AI swarms… and hacking incidents by these swarms that were given too much autonomy.
08 08- Narayanan - A Kill Switch Forces Monitoring, 10,000 Agents, A Teenager's Swarm
📺 Anchor — CBS News (MSM)
Anchor (CBS NEWS): "What is an AI kill switch? And in what scenario would it need to be used?" Narayanan: "there are good things about a kill switch and maybe reasons why we shouldn't get our hopes up too much… to even be able to shut down an AI system that's going rogue… these companies would have to set up a lot better monitoring…
03 the pentagon's ai almost started a war with china
01 01- CNN - An AI Intel Report Said A Chinese Ship Carried Nukes, Ready To Board It
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "the CNN exclusive points to faulty intelligence, according to sources, that generated, with the help of AI, information that almost started a war. The report, which circulated across the U.S. military this past spring, claimed that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
02 02- CNN - AI In Targeting Is Ramping Up, No Guidance For A Human In The Loop
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "this is something that, again, reinforces some of those really deep-seated concerns about AI, and particularly the push to use it more in just about every facet of the U.S. military, including in targeting operations.
04 gemini hacked three companies
01 01- LiveNOW - Google Says Gemini Hacked Three Companies In Testing, Then Stopped
📺 LiveNOW — Fox News (MSM)
LiveNOW (FOX): "we do know that the conversation around artificial intelligence has really heated up over the last few days there on Capitol Hill… It's a tweet that we have from Reuters with this latest information that came out just about 24 hours ago.
02 02- LiveNOW - KILL SWITCHES IN PHONES - The Houthis Tried To Use Claude To Build Guided Missiles
📺 Guest — Fox News (MSM)
Guest (FOX): "Greater minds than I are going to be the ones to answer how the kill switch works in practice. But the idea is essentially like we have with our phones… you can remotely shut them off.
03 03- LiveNOW - China Wins On Open Weights, Containment Reports Are A Fear Campaign
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX): "there is a lot of conversation around which country is going to win the AI race… why is there this fear that China is going to be pushing so far that Americans… will be left so far behind?" Guest: "we're saying if we slow down, China wins, which I believe I want to reject that as a false framing.
04 04- LiveNOW - Trump's Poll, Call It Superior, Extreme Or Supreme Intelligence
📺 LiveNOW — Fox News (MSM)
LiveNOW (FOX): "I want to close out with this, though, because we've been talking a lot about the intersection between artificial intelligence, the business sector, and what it means for some of those politicians… President Trump has even jumped into this conversation… He put this out in his Truth Social.
05 musk at the all-in summit
01 01- Musk - Are We All Going To Die, A Fanatical Swarm Beat Up Hugging Face
📺 Host — ALL-IN SUMMIT (?)
Host (ALL-IN SUMMIT): "Are we all going to die in 10 years or not? It's the topic of discussion here. What's your P-Doom right now?" Musk: "Well, I hate to break it to you, but we're all going to die." — "Can I get a timeline?" — "the death rate remains consistent at 100%." — "What happened in the last 72 hours?"
02 02- Musk - Have The Competitors Test Each Other's Models, Peer Review With China
📺 Musk — ALL-IN (?)
Musk (ALL-IN): "what I think would be wise to do as soon as possible, if not immediately, would be to have the major AI competitors test each other's models. So that you'd have everyone's security test harness testing everyone's model.
03 03- Musk - Any Proposal Must Be Acceptable To China, The Court Of Public Opinion
📺 Musk — ALL-IN (?)
Musk (ALL-IN): "any given proposal has to be something that China is willing to accept. Otherwise, we're just handicapping ourselves. And we'll just find that China will essentially win. And it won't really matter what we do.
04 04- Musk - Dario Is Right, When Anthropic And OpenAI Say Dangerous, Believe Them
📺 Host — ALL-IN (?)
Host (ALL-IN): "this weekend when you said Dario is right, did you mean Dario is right about describing the potential harm? He's right about describing the regulatory solve…? Because I think it was sort of a moment where everybody's like…" Musk: "I probably should have said more than Dario's right.
05 05- Musk - Anthropic And OpenAI Too Close To Slow Down, Their Models Scare Them
📺 Musk — ALL-IN (?)
Musk (ALL-IN): "the AI companies, the two leading ones are Anthropic and OpenAI. And the models are quite close in capability. It's actually difficult for either one to slow down without essentially handing the lead to the other. On balance, I think Anthropic puts more care into their safety than OpenAI.
06 06- Musk - Regulation Is A One-Way Ratchet, PG-13 Was Invented For Temple Of Doom
📺 Musk — ALL-IN (?)
Musk (ALL-IN): "you can always escalate the amount of regulatory oversight, but it is very difficult to reduce it. It does tend to be very much a one-way ratchet in terms of increasing regulations. So what I'm suggesting here is it's a step in the right direction, and it's something we do quickly.
06 vance at all-in
01 01- Vance - Calacanis And Stephen Miller, An H-1B Should Be An Actual Genius
📺 Host — ALL-IN SUMMIT (?)
Host (ALL-IN SUMMIT): "Mr. Vice President, J. Cal forgot to ask his normal gotcha question on H1Bs." Calacanis: "that's because they took my advice and they raised the price. We were in sync on that one… We have learned that the program was riddled with fraud… where do those efforts stand?" Vance: "this is the Venn diagram overlap of…
02 02- Vance - If You're Building Frankenstein Stop, No One-World AI Governance
📺 Vance — ALL-IN SUMMIT (?)
Vance (ALL-IN SUMMIT): "obviously some of this gets into the broader AI stuff, Chamath, and the president, I think it's very rightly asking the question, why is it that the people who are at the frontier of the AI economy are throwing up their hands and saying, well, we've built Frankenstein, and the solution to Frankenstein apparently…
03 03- Vance - Willing To Part Ways With Bibi, More Than Any President In 40 Years
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "another hard question. This one about our relationship with the State of Israel and the President's relationship with Bibi Netanyahu. Many people in the Republican Party, MAGA, are now moving to a new party, America first, America only, there's a rise in anti-Semitism, and there's a persistent belief… that maybe our…
03 📉 THE BUBBLE
The bubble. Steve Eisman on CNBC: 'this is all nonsense — token maxing is over, open weights take share, no moats; they manufacture a crisis to create regulation and a duopoly'; the eight bubble signs, OpenAI is the weaker one — that's why the IPO was postponed; 'if a human broke into Hugging Face somebody would be in prison', Nvidia's insurance policy for OpenAI; 'could they genuinely be worried? really? postpone your IPO, put your money where your mouth is'. CNBC Europe: SoftBank tumbles, Altman says an IPO is ill-advised; every central banker says the economy is strong because of AI — what if the foot comes off the accelerator (CNN's figures: AI ≈ a third of 2026 GDP growth, half of S&P profit growth); the closer you get to the dirt the more positive; the superintelligence story is why you keep investing. China and the race: Trump 'if Congress races in we lose', Tristan Harris 'we can't lose to China is a thought-terminating cliché', Scott Singer (China has the most extensive AI regulations), Osnos (China spends a tenth and is six months behind), Brennan on the Xi summit. The PEAK/RUSE REPORT (18 Sep) is the read behind this meta.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 15
00 eisman - they are trying to manufacture a crisis
01 01- Eisman - All Nonsense, Token Maxing Is Over, They Manufacture A Crisis For A Duopoly
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "You don't think that these Terminator style fears… I don't know if we ever expected to be saying things like, geez, another company is saying our AI bots are acting up again… It is weird to watch companies say we don't know… Nothing to worry about?" Eisman: "I think this is all nonsense.
02 02- Eisman - The Eight Bubble Signs, OpenAI Is The Weaker One, That's Why No IPO
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "the eight bubble signs that have been identified in previous books, they're all present now for AI and it's just a matter of time, do you believe that?" Eisman: "I think I'm a little bit more nuanced… the entire AI chain from NVIDIA to the hyperscalers to Anthropic and OpenAI all depends on the future health of Anthropic…
03 03- Eisman - If A Human Broke Into Hugging Face, Nvidia's Insurance Policy For OpenAI
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "maybe the way to stop some of these things is to say you're going to be held liable for anything that your agents do." Eisman: "I'm sure they're liable now. I don't think that you need to pass laws to make them more liable. I'm a little shocked, though. We know that they broke into Hugging Face, the OpenAI agents.
04 04- Eisman - Could They Genuinely Be Worried, Postpone Your IPO, Put Your Money There
📺 Anchor — CNBC (MSM)
Anchor (CNBC): "Is it possible that they genuinely are worried about the safety issues… there's a clear record of them being concerned about these safety issues literally for the past decade, whether it's Dario or Sam or Elon… could you genuinely be interested in safety and the byproduct… is… the regulatory capture piece?" Eisman: "it…
01 cnbc europe - if the foot comes off the accelerator
01 01- CNBC Europe - SoftBank Tumbles, Altman Says IPO Ill-Advised
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC Europe (CNBC): "The notion of guardrails imposed on AI is reflected in the trade of OpenAI investor SoftBank, which is seeing its shares tumble double digits in Tokyo today, 11% down… the risks around AI's exponential development loom over Anthropic's highly anticipated IPO, which is expected to complete by the midterm elections in…
02 02- CNBC Europe - Strong Because Of AI, If The Foot Comes Off The Accelerator
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC Europe (CNBC): "let's just talk about what could happen from here… The concerns around AI have been magnified, not just around the safety concerns, but in the stock market recently.
03 03- CNBC Europe - Closer To The Dirt, What Happens To The Cabbies
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC Europe (CNBC): "as Rebecca Homkes was saying from Duke to this show… the closer you get to the dirt, the more positive you are. What she means is people are breaking ground on construction of these new technology facilities." Sedgwick: "Karen, I've been asking the same question to all our guests who say this is going to create so…
04 04- CNBC Europe - The Superintelligence Story, A Go-Slow Pops The Bubble
📺 CNBC (MSM)
CNBC Europe (CNBC): "This groundbreaking that we talk about is a story that has continued because these big frontier labs have kept saying to us that we need more and more compute… because we need to get to AGI.
05 05- CNBC Europe - Why Superhuman Power, The Labs Sold It To Us
📺 Sedgwick — CNBC (MSM)
Sedgwick (CNBC): "Why do we need superhuman power? Why do we need AGI? Because these frontier labs have sold it to us that that's what we want. They even reframed artificial intelligence to sound like it was more marketable… are we creating something that we can't put into a box that's actually going to be very destructive for humanity?…
02 china and the ai race
01 01- CNN - Trump - If Congress Races In We Lose, Harris - A Thought-Terminating Cliche
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "So far, President Trump and others have responded to those concerns with the pushback that if we pump the brakes, we pump the brakes at our own peril. If we do, China wins. *We're also making sure that we lead. So we're leading China in AI by a lot. China has virtually no controls. It's freewheeling a little bit.
02 02- Scott Singer - China Has The Most Extensive AI Regulations, Content Control
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "How much does China regulate AI now?" Singer: "China actually has the world's most extensive regulations of any country in the world. By and large, these regulations focus on control over the content, making sure that AI's outputs are consistent with the party's core narratives, including in areas like Tiananmen Square or…
03 03- Scott Singer - A US Model Entering Chinese Infrastructure, Cross-Border Risks
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "Is it U.S. versus China, which would be the traditional setup? Or is it U.S. and China versus someone or something else?" Singer: "Let me offer a thought experiment for you.
04 04- Osnos - China Spends A Tenth And Is Six Months Behind, Distillation
📺 Zakaria — CNN GPS (?)
Zakaria (CNN GPS): "China spends maybe a tenth as much as the U.S. on data centers. It doesn't have the most advanced computer chips. And yet its best models seem very close to the best American models, maybe six months away.
05 05- Osnos - Nobody Won The Electricity Race, Valley Wants AGI, Beijing Diffusion
📺 Zakaria — CNN GPS (?)
Zakaria (CNN GPS): "Is it also possible that this whole idea of a race is kind of misconceived because we're going to have AI, they're going to have AI, the whole world is going to use AI… nobody really won the electricity race, even though Thomas Edison did start it… the Soviet Union electrified.
06 06- Brennan - The Xi Summit, AI Out Of Nuclear Weapons, Khanna's CEO Armistice
📺 Brennan — CBS News (MSM)
Brennan (CBS NEWS): "in some ways, the summit begins this weekend because Treasury Secretary Bessent, who's really kind of tip of the spear on China policy… starts those talks to set the table for Xi… interwoven into this entire relationship is that question of AI, not just its economic impacts… but the national security aspect.
04 🎧 JASON'S CLIPS
Jason's clips — four links Adam sent Sunday morning, cut into sub-folders. 01 Bill Gurley at the All-In Summit, 'Searching for Feynman' (15 clips): how humans answer catastrophe — Surfside, the 737 MAX, Katrina, Fukushima, Challenger — each with searchers and blockers and a root cause; Feynman on the Rogers Commission ('we just evaluate, we don't investigate'; the ice-water stunt; Appendix F). Then COVID: 15 million dead, $45 trillion, 'six years later we don't know… forgive me if I'm unafraid of what some AI guy's chatbot is going to do to humanity when you can't tell me what this thing already did. My P second COVID is way higher than my P doom.' Collins, Fauci, Daszak, Farrar and Baric 'weren't experts, they were blockers' — insiders, gain-of-function advocates, a misinformation campaign (Proximal Origin 'written in a week'; made partisan via 'conspiracy theory with Trump'), and they never searched. The five women who did (Chan, Eban, Kopp, Tufekci, Young); Tufekci's 'incontrovertible proof of a conspiracy to cover up'; the DEFUSE proposal (EcoHealth/UNC/Wuhan, a furin cleavage site at S1-S2); a clean-session AI calls it top-tier evidence; UNC and North Carolina refusing documents. Q&A with Jason: 'what they did to our kids', 'Fauci's pardon… a red flag', 'this is pure evil', 'what do you believe?' — China tested 80,000 animals. 02 Jason to Meta on the data-center panel: '$17 billion settlement, second only to tobacco… significant damage to children… Muse' — 'I totally disagree with every premise'. 03 Jason on All-In, 10 April 2026 (dated tape): open source takes 90% of the tokens, 'don't give your entire life to Anthropic'. 04 Rauch/Vercel (text + screenshots): open-weight models are 78.4% of AI Gateway token volume; Moonshot + DeepSeek + Z.ai spend now exceeds OpenAI — vs Konstantin Pilz: >80% of the world's tokens are ChatGPT and Claude.
Clips — 17
00 gurley - searching for feynman
01 01- Gurley - Feynman On The Rogers Commission, We Just Evaluate, We Don't Investigate
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Richard Feynman was a professor at Caltech. When the Shuttle Challenger blew up, Ronald Reagan created the Rogers Commission. They added mostly insiders, Neil Armstrong. They had astronauts, they had generals, they had people from Washington, people from NASA executives.
02 02- Gurley - Feynman, A Pain In The Ass, The Ice Water Stunt, Appendix F
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Now, three fun facts about this. Um... First of all, there's a famous story, if you watch any of the documentaries, where Rogers runs into Neil Armstrong in the bathroom and says, Feynman's being a real pain in the ass. The second thing is he staged a stunt on live television.
03 03- Gurley - Six Years On We Don't Know COVID's Root Cause, P Second COVID Beats P Doom
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Why am I talking to you about all these catastrophes and searchers and blockers and heroes like Kirokawa and Feynman? Because I want to talk to you about COVID-19. In December of 2019, COVID-19 caused 15 million deaths, disrupted every life on the planet, and cost our globe $45 trillion.
04 04- Gurley - Seven Died, 15 Million Died, No Newsroom, No Commission, No Lawsuit
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Feynman in one of the documentaries said... Someone was telling him he needed to be nicer, and he said, but seven people died. If you have to get through niceties and seek truth when seven people died, how are you supposed to behave when 15 million people die? I can take it even further.
05 05- Gurley - Collins, Fauci, Daszak, Farrar, Baric Were Not Experts, They Were Blockers
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "The first thing I would tell you is these five people were relied on as experts. You know the first two, Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci. Peter Daszak runs something called the EcoHealth Alliance. It's a nonprofit that did virology research.
06 06- Gurley - You Wouldn't Be Allowed On A Jury, They Never Searched, DRASTIC, USRTK
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "you had that kind of bias. And the fourth reason and the most important reason I know they're blockers is because they didn't search. I tell you they stopped searching, but they never started searching. And they should have been searching. They should still be searching. There are people that did search.
07 07- Gurley - Five Women Who Searched, Chan, Eban, Kopp, Tufekci, Young, Attacked
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Alina Chan was one of the first molecular biologists that that realized that the virus looks like it was designed for humans. She wrote a book with Matt Ridley. And here's some really good news. In the past couple of years, the New York Times has published two of her op-eds.
08 08- Gurley - A Successful Misinformation Campaign, Proximal Origin In A Week, Made Partisan
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "I said earlier that the five experts slash blockers had created a misinformation campaign to take us off the lead. I think that's an understatement. They created a highly successful misinformation campaign to convince everyone that animals spillover was a decidedly determined cause of this, and that anyone that…
09 09- Gurley - Tufekci, Incontrovertible Proof Of A Cover-Up, Eban, Manufactured Consensus
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Zeynep put this on Twitter 45 days ago, and I think she chose her words very carefully. She said, She said, incontrovertible proof of a conspiracy to cover up and deny the possibility it well may be a lab mishap orchestrated from the highest levels of the scientific establishment and a self-serving group of scientists…
10 10- Gurley - The DEFUSE Proposal, EcoHealth, UNC And Wuhan, A Furin Cleavage Site
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Three years after COVID, the drastic team uncovered this document. It's called the Diffuse Proposal. Who's heard of the Diffuse Proposal? Raise your hand. This is nuts. Look, it's like three people. Okay? No major journals ever covered the defused proposal. There was a survey of scientists...
11 11- Gurley - A Clean-Session AI Calls DEFUSE Top-Tier Evidence, UNC Is A Blocker
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "I went to AI. I said, let's do a clean session AI. That means don't look at anything I've ever told you before. If I were interested in helping to solve the origin of COVID, and I was using the scientific principles of Kappa to guide me, how would I react to finding the diffuse proposal? Look at these answers.
12 12- Gurley - I Speak For Scientific Inquiry, Rand Paul's Mistake, Afraid Of The Light
📺 Gurley — ALL-IN (?)
Gurley (ALL-IN): "Let's support the searchers. We have to find the root cause to this thing. We don't want this to happen again. Um... I can't tell you that I speak for science like Anthony Fauci did, but I can tell you I speak for scientific inquiry. There's no one that should be telling you you can't search.
13 13- Calacanis - What They Did To Our Kids, Gurley - Zero Confidence Next Time, No Trust
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "Another standing ovation here. Bill, wow. You put a tremendous amount of effort into this. We've known each other for 30 years. I've seen you emotional, I think, two other times. One was a Jason Isbell concert. Another time, you're top set.
14 14- Calacanis - Why No Pulitzer, Fauci's Pardon, This Is Pure Evil, Why Such A Hard Question
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "Yes, and you... repeatedly talk about the power of journalism, Pulitzers, and investigative journalism specifically, which is different than clickbait journalism. There is something very virtuous about investigative journalism in those type of journalists.
15 15- Calacanis - What Do You Believe, Gurley - China Tested 80,000 Animals, Cases Before The Market
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "Now I'll just end with this. Knowing what you've known, you've put thousands of hours into this. You and I have been talking about this for three or four years now. And this has been a passion project of yours. And I really appreciate you sharing it with the audience.
01 calacanis to meta - the fastball
01 16- Calacanis To Meta - You Did Significant Damage To Children, Muse - I Disagree With Every Premise
📺 Calacanis To Meta — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis To Meta (ALL-IN): "Well, I mean, we have meta here, and you just paid the largest settlement in second only to the tobacco industry and just ahead of BP Oil, two of the biggest disasters this country ever faced. This one is particularly tough. And they wonder why they call him fake news. The numbers are wrong.
02 open source - april
01 17- Calacanis, 10 Apr - Open Source Takes 90 Percent Of Tokens, Don't Give Your Entire Life To Anthropic
📺 Calacanis, 10 Apr — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis, 10 Apr (ALL-IN): "It doesn't mean that it's about killing OpenClaw. It's just this is an obvious thing that the world wants. They have the right to do it, but this is a giant movement to stop it because this is the equivalent of having an open source Android-like player in the market. And that could be incredibly disruptive.
05 ⚡ DATA CENTERS
Data centers. MS NOW in West Virginia: Loudoun County is out of power, so a 200-foot-wide extension cord runs 200 miles through West Virginia (Valley Link North, 765 kV, 15-story towers, eminent domain as a last resort); deep-red Appalachia — Trump: communities that don't want data centers 'will end up backwards and poor', she voted for him three times; 'hell no, West Virginia is not for sale'. NBC: Project Monarch in Mason County (two gigawatts, up to eight), the flood through the silt fence; 69% oppose a data center nearby. CNN: the House passed the ratepayer bill 417–3, Senate Democrats blocked it. Fox inside an Equinix site. All-In: everyone hates data centers (negative 80), Jason to Sacks — 'it's facts, Sacks'; the unions only back pro-data-center candidates. Spanberger signs the most aggressive accountability order in Virginia: banning NDAs, permits above 25 MW, limits on on-site gas; NBC4 on the plumes of smoke in Ashburn.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 17
00 data center revolt - west virginia
01 01- MS NOW - Loudoun Out Of Power, A 200-Foot Extension Cord Through WV
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MS NOW): "Imagine somebody coming into your home and saying, Hey, I'm moving in, whether you like it or not. As if farming wasn't hard enough already… Erica Reiner sank every dime she had into Huckleberry Farm… where she built a second career after losing her federal job last year… she fears she's about to pay the price for big…
02 02- MS NOW - Valley Link North, 765 Kilovolts, 15-Story Towers, Eminent Domain
📺 MS (?)
MS NOW (MS): "Tony Campbell spent three decades in the Army. Now, as head of West Virginians Against Transmission Injustice, he's fighting the project known as Valley Link North, a power line rated for 765 kilovolts. That's enough for more than two million homes.
03 03- MS NOW - Deep Red Appalachia, Trump - Backwards And Poor, She Voted Trump
📺 MS (?)
MS NOW (MS): "The anger over Valley Link is coursing through this part of Appalachia, a region whose politics run deep red. Anger at the data center developers, at local politicians, and at the president… the expansion of AI infrastructure is a key Trump priority.
04 04- NBC - Project Monarch, Mason County, Two Gigawatts, The Flood, A Home
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC NEWS): "Project Monarch broke ground in Mason County, West Virginia back in April. It's set to be one of the largest data centers in the country. Just feet from Randy and Marsha Frames' backyard. Construction equipment rolling right through the view from their porch. It used to be a soybean field.
05 05- NBC - 80 Million In Tax Revenue, 69 Percent Oppose A Data Center Nearby
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC): "Jason Bechtel is from this county, too… now works for Nscale as the data center site manager. *To be able to stay home and to work on a project of significance like this, it's a great thing.* Nscale says the project will boost West Virginia's economy with more than $80 million in tax revenue, create hundreds of jobs, and…
06 06- CNN - House Passed The Ratepayer Bill 417 To 3, Senate Democrats Blocked
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "Senate Democrats just blocked an AI data center bill that had overwhelming bipartisan support. So what happened? The bill aimed to protect Americans from electricity price hikes amid the data center boom powering AI.
07 07- Fox - Inside An Equinix Data Center, 34 Megawatts, No Water, Airplanes
📺 Tobin — Fox News (MSM)
Tobin (FOX): "Equinix has decided to pull back the curtain… a rare look inside a data center, one of 280 operated by Equinix, a company that houses servers for 10,000 clients and two-thirds of the world's Fortune 500… when you pay for your groceries, you tap your credit card… That transaction has probably come through a site just like…
08 08- All-In - Everyone Hates Data Centers, Negative 80, Meta Educated Us
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "the check the previous year was $10,000. So if you take that December increase and the June increase, it was a net of about $45,000 for our teachers. Because the reason Dina and I were talking about this panel, and everyone hates data centers. They poll negative 80 in the United States.
09 09- All-In - Calacanis To Sacks, It's Facts Sacks, Pollution, Water, Noise
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "Take us through the list of valid concerns communities have. One of them is pollution… Increased electricity cost. Water, closed loop versus non-closed loop… noise pollution and aesthetics. These buildings are awfully ugly… Did any of those apply?" Sacks: "Or journalists." Calacanis: "it's not journalism, actually.
10 10- All-In - The Unions Only Support Candidates Who Support Data Centers
📺 McCormick — ALL-IN (?)
McCormick (ALL-IN): "we're working with the unions. Sean McGarvey, the head of the trades, NABTU, is a friend and we made a great partnership with him. Some of those workers are on union sites, some are non-union, but an interesting voice that has emerged in this debate is the unions.
11 11- MS NOW - A Million For The Right Of Way, Hell No, WV Is Not For Sale
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MS NOW): "That means if people are unwilling to sell, Valley Link could just take the land it needs for a price it sets. *I've talked to folks. I said, if they offered you a million dollars for the right of way, would you take it? The answer is hell no. It's not for sale. West Virginia is not for sale.* You're angry.
01 spanberger - virginia
01 01- 13News Now - Spanberger Signs The Most Aggressive Data Center Order
📺 13NEWS NOW (?)
13News Now (13NEWS NOW): "Now the state of Virginia has the most data centers in the country. Now Governor Abigail Spanberger says the state will lead the nation with measures to hold these facilities accountable… *And so goes the signature* of what Governor Abigail Spanberger says will be the most aggressive data center accountability…
02 02- 13News Now - Senate Democrats And Republicans React, An AI Task Force
📺 13NEWS NOW (?)
13News Now (13NEWS NOW): Follow-on. "Reaction from state Senate Democrats who in part prolonged a budget battle over data center concerns earlier this year, say in part, they appreciate the governor's efforts… And Senate Republican Leader Ryan McDougle says, I am glad the governor is finally talking about high power bills and data…
03 03- Spanberger - An Inflection Point, Unlike The President Who Criticized Communities
📺 Spanberger — C-SPAN (MSM)
Spanberger (C-SPAN): "At the end of the day, we all want the same thing. We want Virginia to be a national leader in data center accountability. I am making this announcement because we are at an inflection point with this technology.
04 04- Spanberger - A Stop To The Secrecy, Banning NDAs, Permits Above 25 Megawatts
📺 Spanberger — C-SPAN (MSM)
Spanberger (C-SPAN): "So let's talk about what's in Virginia's plan. The policies put forth in this framework are the highest standards in America, and they're organized around five core requirements… First and foremost, Virginia is putting a stop to the secrecy that this industry so frequently relies on… banning non-disclosure…
05 05- Spanberger - The Wealthiest Corporations Will Pay Their Fair Share, Gas Limits
📺 Spanberger — C-SPAN (MSM)
Spanberger (C-SPAN): "Third, lower energy costs. Virginia families and small businesses should not foot the bill for the data center industry. It is no exaggeration to say a lot of these companies are among the biggest and the wealthiest corporations in the world, and they will pay their fair share.
06 06- NBC4 - Plumes Of Smoke In Ashburn, Piedmont Wants A Moratorium
📺 Wilder — NBC4 WASHINGTON (?)
Wilder (NBC4 WASHINGTON): "And this is a big one. There will be new limits on the amount of energy that data centers can produce from on-site natural gas. This is a step in regulation that no other state… has taken so far.
06 🛢️ HORMUZ AND THE PRICE
Hormuz and the price. ABC: images of American assets destroyed by Iranian strikes ('Hegseth calls it a squirter… being kept a secret'); CBS: Iran downed two MQ-1s; the Houthis took the Bab al-Mandeb — forty ships a day down to twenty; Doocy: 'they want a deal so badly, I'm letting it cook'; Qatar's Al-Ansari on PBS: no way out unless diplomatic, no LNG is going through, 80% of Iran's missiles were on us; GMA: war past 200 days, gas nears 4.50, Trump 'vote on gas prices or Iran having a nuke', the war has cost $43 billion. Adm Cooper's message: a billion barrels through Hormuz, Iran exported zero. Diesel at six thirty-nine, over eight in California, Maine heating oil up 74%; Kloza: refined products have gone ballistic; airlines cutting frequencies. The Fed hikes: Warsh ('a quarter point does not reopen the Strait'), Trump wants one percent and $5,000 checks ('I told Kevin, you might as well vote with the board'), farmer Matt Bell, Rattner ('Trump created this rate increase'), Messina (ranchers voting Democratic). The Saudi 123 agreement on PBS: a study of domestic enrichment, no additional protocol; Sherman — 'MBS wants a green light for nukes', 'when Kushner gets $2 billion for his fund, Trump is just fine with a nuclear program'.
Clips — 23
00 hormuz and bab al-mandeb
01 01- ABC - American Assets Destroyed By Iranian Strikes, Hegseth Calls It A Squirter
📺 ABC WNT (?)
ABC (ABC WNT): "ABC News obtaining these images. American military assets in the Middle East destroyed by Iranian airstrikes. A rare glimpse into the war's toll on U.S. military power. The pictures sent to us by active service members, who we are not naming.
02 02- CBS - Iran Downed Two MQ-1s, Predator And Gray Eagle, 30 Million Apiece
📺 CBS News (MSM)
CBS (CBS NEWS): "CBS News has just learned that at least two American MQ-1 unmanned aircrafts were taken down by Iranian forces in recent days… it's unclear where in the region these vessels were brought down or which MQ-1 variant… the Predator and the Gray Eagle, one of which can cost up to $30 million apiece." LaPorta: "the MQ-1,…
03 03- ABC - The Houthis Took The Bab Al-Mandeb, Forty Ships A Day Down To Twenty
📺 Bolle — ABC NEWS LONDON (?)
Bolle (ABC NEWS LONDON): "in the last few days so far, we haven't seen as much of a change as we did in the Strait of Hormuz when the war in Iran started, but we've definitely seen a slowdown in traffic where we were seeing maybe 40-45 ships a day in July and August.
04 04- Doocy - They Want A Deal So Badly, I'm Letting It Cook, A Base In Poland
📺 Doocy — Fox News (MSM)
Doocy (FOX NEWS): "President Trump reminds Americans that the ball is in that radical Islamic regime's court. *That war is going to end very soon. Watch. You just watch. Trump was right about everything… They're getting decimated, and they want to make a deal so badly.
05 05- Qatar's Al-Ansari - No Way Out Unless Diplomatic, Hormuz Not The New Status Quo
📺 Schifrin — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Schifrin (PBS): "You have been in the middle of negotiations this year between Iran and the United States. Qatar was largely confident about this when the MOU was signed. But since then, we haven't seen any progress.
06 06- Qatar's Al-Ansari - No LNG Is Going Through, The Tip Of The Iceberg, Somalia
📺 Schifrin — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Schifrin (PBS): "Reuters… reported that Qatar's liquefied natural gas exports… have dropped 96 percent since the U.S. and Israel launched this war… how existential a threat is it?" Al-Ansari: "I won't comment on the specific numbers… all of our LNG used to go through the Strait of Hormuz, and the Strait of Hormuz being closed basically…
07 07- Qatar's Al-Ansari - 80 Percent Of Iran's Missiles Were On Us, Not Israel
📺 Schifrin — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Schifrin (PBS): "Iran hit the Al Udeid airbase, the largest airbase across the region. Do you have faith that the United States can defend the U.S.-Qatari base?" Al-Ansari: "more than 95% of every projectile that was sent towards our countries was deterred through the work of the men and women in uniform… The cooperation with the United…
08 08- ABC - War Past 200 Days, Gas Nears 4.50, Trump - Vote On Gas Prices Or A Nuke
📺 Rubin — Good Morning America (ABC) (MSM)
Rubin (GMA): "Many Americans say that they are frustrated with these rising prices, but President Trump is striking a different tone… saying he believes Americans feel the cost here is worth it… With the war now passing 200 days, Iran claiming it's struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
09 09- ABC - The War Has Cost 43 Billion, Vance - Rome Was Not Built Today, 63 Percent
📺 Good Morning America (ABC) (MSM)
ABC (GMA): "*And the war is going to end soon.* New estimates showing the war has cost taxpayers over $43 billion, sources tell ABC News. And with just 45 days until the midterm elections, Vice President J.D. Vance in Iowa touting the administration's record and urging voters to be patient.
01 adm cooper - one billion barrels through hormuz
01 01- Adm Brad Cooper - A Billion Barrels Through Hormuz, Iran Exported Zero
📺 Adm Brad Cooper — CENTCOM (?)
Adm Brad Cooper (CENTCOM): "Hi, I'm Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S. Central Command, and I want to update you on the Strait of Hormuz and the incredible milestones that America's men and women in uniform continue to achieve.
02 diesel at six forty-five
01 01- ABC - Diesel At 6.39, Over 8 In California, Maine Heating Oil Up 74 Percent
📺 ABC News (MSM)
ABC (ABC NEWS): "record high diesel prices are coming for your grocery bill, your plane ticket, and your home heating bill this fall. Diesel fuel went up by 7% in the last week… $6.39 a gallon, about $2.70 more than this time last year. And in parts of California, it's well over $8 a gallon. The price of oil, not entirely the reason.
02 02- Kloza - Refined Products Have Gone Ballistic, Seven Million Barrels Lost To Drones
📺 Kloza — CNBC (MSM)
Kloza (CNBC): "everyone gets obsessed about the price of crude, but refined products have really gone ballistic. You're talking about $215 for a barrel of diesel worldwide right now, and… $240 if you're in the Chicago market. And the world has lost about 7 million barrels a day of refining capacity, almost all of it to drone impacts.
03 03- ABC - Airlines Cut Frequencies, Jet Fuel Up 100 Percent, Fares Up 30
📺 Henderson — ABC News (MSM)
Henderson (ABC NEWS): "here's the killer. They're also reducing frequencies. So there may not be five flights a day. There may be three. And that means the same amount of people fighting for fewer seats.
03 the fed hikes
01 01- CBS - Warsh, A Quarter Point Does Not Reopen The Strait Of Hormuz
📺 CBS Evening News (MSM)
CBS (CBS EVENING NEWS): "the chairman was asked how the president might react… Warsh said, I've got nothing for you on a discussion with the president. He also said this. *At our July meeting, we all agreed that inflation remained too high… I defined the standard for action.
02 02- CBS - Trump Wants A Rate Cut And 5,000-Dollar Checks, Make 1.5 Trillion
📺 Anchor — CBS Evening News (MSM)
Anchor (CBS EVENING NEWS): "the president wants a rate hike [cut], but at the same time, he's floating this idea of sending checks for $5,000 to American citizens if the GOP maintains control of Congress.
03 03- CBS - Rates Should Be One Percent Or Less, I Talked To Kevin, Very Hostile
📺 Jiang — CBS MORNINGS (?)
Jiang (CBS MORNINGS): "the president continues to downplay the issue of affordability. At a rally outside of Charlotte… *Interest rates in the United States should be 1% or less.* But just hours earlier.
04 04- CBS - Farmer Matt Bell, Diesel At Six-Forty, We're Mad And Ready To Be Heard
📺 CBS MORNINGS (?)
CBS (CBS MORNINGS): "Higher rates means borrowing will cost more. And it comes at a time when energy prices are being driven up by the Iran war. *Everything that we touch has gone up.* Matt Bell relies on diesel fuel to farm corn, soy, wheat, and cattle in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
05 05- Trump - Raising Rates To Make Trump Do Bad, Joe - The AI Boom Going Bust
📺 Trump — MSNBC (MSM)
Trump (MS NOW): Trump (to reporters): "My opinion, I'm very good at this stuff. Interest rates are too high. We should have the lowest interest rate anywhere in the world because we're the best credit. No, they're raising the rates to make Trump do as bad as they can possibly do.
06 06- Rattner - Trump Created This Rate Increase, Tariffs, A War, Oil Over 100
📺 Rattner — MSNBC (MSM)
Rattner (MS NOW): "this is the rate cut that Trump brought you, ironically. So he's talking about… how rates should be lower. He actually created this rate increase. Remember, let's just rewind quickly to history. We had COVID. We had inflation. The Fed raised rates to deal with it.
07 07- Messina - Gas Prices Are Moving Votes, Ranchers Voting Democratic, 4,200 Dollars
📺 Scarborough — MSNBC (MSM)
Scarborough (MS NOW): "Talk about that $6 diesel… the real bite that has with a lot of voters." Messina: "You look at the big Senate races… Iowa, Texas, Ohio, people are looking at that rate, and they're paying it every day. Farmers are as angry as I've ever seen them.
04 the saudi nuclear deal
01 01- PBS - The 123 Agreement, A Study Of Saudi Enrichment, No Additional Protocol
📺 PBS NewsHour (MSM)
PBS (PBS): "The agreement would open the door for the U.S. to help Saudi Arabia develop a civilian nuclear power program, but critics say it lacks key safeguards that could restrict Saudi Arabia's ability to eventually pursue a nuclear weapon.
02 02- Sherman - MBS Wants A Green Light For Nukes, The 9-11 Hijackers, MBS In 2018
📺 Schifrin — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Schifrin (PBS): "Representative Sherman, let me start with you. Why have you introduced legislation this week to try and stop this deal from going forward?" Sherman: "The Saudis want a green light to move forward with the nuclear weapons program. MBS has made it plain that he wants to have the option of having a nuclear weapon.
03 03- Sherman - A 10 Billion Deal With Trump, Kushner's 2 Billion, Fine With Nukes
📺 Schifrin — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Schifrin (PBS): "…and Saudi have their own verifications inspections agreement?" Sherman: "When they want to hide it, you know it's not good. And the agreement with the United States allows us only to look at declared sites. Their nuclear program will be at undeclared sites.
07 🪖 THE PENTAGON
The Pentagon. Hegseth's impeachment holiday: Johnson sends the House home a day early ('why would we cancel our own majority?' — Massie), the Hegseth holiday and the Epstein recess, seven Republicans voted with Democrats on war powers, Hegseth at 57% disapproval; Tillis 'he needs to go'; $100 billion more on gasoline since the war (Hegseth said 38, so did the CBO). NBC: the Pentagon weighs pulling 25–40,000 troops from Europe (Colby's plan; options to Hegseth today, final recommendations 6 November; Russia sending drones into NATO). Thales CEO Caine on CNBC (three of six clips after Adam's audit): undersea warfare worth $85 billion, mines in Hormuz, frugal LLMs at the edge, 'the Russians used Claude for kamikaze FPV drones'.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 10
00 hegseth - the impeachment holiday
01 01- CNN - Johnson Sends The House Home Early, Massie - Why Cancel Our Own Majority
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent lawmakers home for a seven-week recess early ahead of the midterm campaign. That departure is one day earlier than planned. It staves off a vote to impeach the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, that was brought by a fellow Republican.
02 02- Massie - The Hegseth Holiday And The Epstein Recess, Sixth Grade Kickball
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "Do you believe that it was because of your introduction of those articles of impeachment…?" Massie: "I know it was… it's actually bad politics to leave this impeachment hanging over Pete Hegseth's head for eight weeks.
03 03- CNN - Seven Republicans Voted With Democrats On War Powers, Hegseth At 57 Percent
📺 Panel — CNN (MSM)
Panel (CNN): "a lot of House Republicans can't [do what Massie does] because they're facing very tight re-election bids. There was also a vote yesterday on the War Powers resolution, and you saw seven Republicans vote with Democrats on that… Miller-Meeks in Iowa, Tom Barrett in Michigan, Brian Fitzpatrick in Pennsylvania… poll after poll…
04 04- MS NOW - Democrats Demand The Cost Of The War, Tillis - He Needs To Go
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MS NOW): "Democratic senators are turning up the heat on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth… nearly the entire Democratic caucus, minus John Fetterman, sent him a letter demanding he provide Congress with an accounting of the Iran war's costs… *Despite asking for tens of billions of additional taxpayer dollars, you have so far failed…
05 05- MS NOW - 100 Billion More On Gasoline, Hegseth Said 38, Colby - Any Questions
📺 Bump — MSNBC (MSM)
Bump (MS NOW): "according to GasBuddy, Americans have spent 100 billion more dollars than they otherwise would have on gasoline since the Iran war started. The more people connect Iran war to gas price, which they are doing increasingly, the more this becomes a problem for Republicans." Menendez: "what has Hegseth officially told…
01 pentagon weighs pulling troops from europe
01 01- NBC - Pentagon Weighs Pulling 25,000 To 40,000 Troops From Europe, Colby's Plan
📺 Anchor — NBC News (MSM)
Anchor (NBC NEWS): "The Pentagon is weighing a plan to pull tens of thousands of U.S. troops from Europe. The exact number is unclear, but one U.S. official is estimating about 25,000, another saying it could be as many as 40,000, which is half of the current amount of troops there. Now, this would mostly impact Germany, Italy and Spain.
02 02- NBC - Options To Hegseth Today, Final Recommendations November 6
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC NEWS): "Some of those options are actually going to be provided to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth today, but he's not going to get the final recommendations until November 6th. Then they'll go on to President Trump.
02 thales - seabed warfare and frugal ai
01 04- Thales CEO Caine - Undersea Warfare 85 Billion, Mines In Hormuz, Sonar
📺 Interviewer — CNBC (MSM)
Interviewer (CNBC): "Drones in the air, let's look at drones undersea because you made a big acquisition very recently on that, Exail technology… a controlling stake, 4 billion euros… Undersea warfare, you talk about huge potential opportunities on that front. It's worth 85 billion euros today, expected to grow eightfold by 2030.
02 05- Thales CEO Caine - Frugal LLMs At The Edge, We Won't Be Overpassed
📺 Interviewer — CNBC (MSM)
Interviewer (CNBC): "A quick question around AI, because that's the controversy at the moment. We heard from Amodei, from Anthropic, and also Altman and Musk agreeing that we need to pace the development of frontier models… What's your view on that?" Caine: "not really involved in this frontier model.
03 06- Thales CEO Caine - Russians Used Claude For Kamikaze Drones, Trusted AI
📺 Interviewer — CNBC (MSM)
Interviewer (CNBC): "And yet Anthropic just said just a few days ago that developers in Russia use AI, use Claude to develop software for autonomous form of first person view kamikaze attack drones.
08 🌍 EUROPE
Europe. Greenland — what the deal actually is: Trump's Truth Social post in full (permanent control, no cost, no adversary base, 'an infinite life agreement, a dream come true'), France 24 (the 1951 treaty already gave overflight and basing; Frederiksen says it recognises sovereignty), Fox's Hal Kempfer ('not sovereignty but freedom of action'; could Denmark defend Greenland — no; the Golden Dome), ABC Australia's Shoebridge ('good news but nothing new… corrosive for NATO'; 'it could come back like a bad smell'), AP vox in Copenhagen. Canada in the EU: Trump 'laughable… if it's a hostile act, very serious tariffs on Europe' and Lithuania's foreign minister on a Russian drone shot down over their cities. Russia votes for the first time since the invasion (Putin: oil prices rise, the wealth fund refills); Tusk: hybrid drone attacks on Ukraine's allies 'called accidents'; Chatham House on sabotage under the threshold; NBC: the first public charge of a Russian murder plot in the US. Piddington, the village that roars — 285 to 26 to secede from the UK over 1,250 male asylum seekers.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 14
00 greenland - the deal and what it actually is
01 01- LiveNOW - The Truth Social Post, Permanent Control, No Cost, An Infinite Agreement
📺 Westfall — Fox News (MSM)
Westfall (FOX): "President Trump sending out this lengthy post. I'm going to read it. Breaking news, I'm pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an agreement with the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland that gives the United States permanent control over security and all other needs in Greenland, completely…
02 02- France 24 - A Dream Come True, The 1951 Treaty Already Gave Basing, Frederiksen
📺 France 24 (MSM)
France 24 (FRANCE 24): "It's been described by Donald Trump as a dream come true… After threats to take Greenland by force, the US President announced Friday he has an agreement with Denmark to develop a significant military presence on the island.
03 03- Hal Kempfer - Relief Across Europe, Not Sovereignty But Freedom Of Action
📺 Westfall — Fox News (MSM)
Westfall (FOX): "This has caused a major strain within NATO. Hal, is this going to bring things back together?" Kempfer: "everything I'm hearing is that it has basically been met with a sigh of relief throughout Europe. The tension had been high. You may recall Denmark had deployed military forces to Greenland.
04 04- Hal Kempfer - Could Denmark Defend Greenland, No, It Falls Within The Golden Dome
📺 Hal Kempfer — Fox News (MSM)
Hal Kempfer (FOX): "Could Denmark physically defend Greenland like the U.S. can? No. And that's just a simple reality. They couldn't do it in World War II against Nazi Germany. They can't do it now. And Russia and China are very much in the Arctic.
05 05- Shoebridge - Good News But Nothing New, Corrosive For NATO
📺 Anchor — ABC AUSTRALIA (?)
Anchor (ABC AUSTRALIA): "The US and Denmark have reached a deal on Greenland. President Donald Trump has been trying to buy or annex the Danish region for months, even threatening to take it by force.
06 06- Shoebridge - Trump Needed A Win, It Could Come Back Like A Bad Smell
📺 Shoebridge — ABC AUSTRALIA (?)
Shoebridge (ABC AUSTRALIA): "Why does the US want a large military presence in Greenland?" — "there's a security interest and then there's Donald Trump's personal interest. Donald Trump talked about Greenland in his first term back in 2019, saying he wanted to own it as part of a big real estate deal.
07 07- AP - A Copenhagen Resident, Relief And Sorrow, He Splits Up Europe And The US
📺 AP (MSM)
AP (AP): A Copenhagen resident, in English: "it's a great relief because, to be honest, it's a very big sorrow that the U.S. used to be one of our closest allies. And with Donald Trump, it looks like he takes any opportunity to try to split up the European Union, split up the alliance between Europe and the US.
01 canada in the eu - a hostile act - the lithuanian drone
01 01- Fox - Trump - Canada In The EU Is Laughable, A Hostile Act, Tariffs Europe
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX): "The president says Canada joining EU is laughable. Let's play the soundbite. *I think it's laughable. Look, the whole thing with Canada. Canada has been a terrible trade partner. And, no, I don't see that.
02 02- Fox - Lithuania's FM - A Russian Drone Shot Down Over Our Cities This Week
📺 Anchor — Fox News (MSM)
Anchor (FOX): "let's bring in Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Kęstutis Budrys… ahead of your visit to the UN… Tell us more about [the drone strike into Lithuanian airspace] and do you expect Russia to send any more?" Budrys: "we had so many already incidents with Russian drones violating our airspace as the very recent one this week…
02 russia votes, poland warns
01 01- CNN - Russia Votes, Putin - Oil Prices Rise, The Wealth Fund Refills
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "For the first time since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, Russian voters are headed to the polls. Voting began about two hours ago and will continue until Sunday.
02 02- CNN - Tusk - Hybrid Drone Attacks On Ukraine's Allies, Called Accidents
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "Poland's prime minister is warning that Moscow plans more strikes on Ukraine's allies. He says intelligence agencies say the Kremlin will launch hybrid drone attacks on countries that support Ukraine. Prime Minister Donald Tusk claims Moscow's official line would be that those strikes were accidental.
03 03- Chatham House - Under The Threshold, Railway Sabotage, Drones, Cables
📺 Roos — CNN (MSM)
Roos (CNN): "what is very interesting is that this showcases the art of the Kremlin to keep provoking and to keep fueling kind of fear… remaining under the threshold of direct confrontation… in France and the Netherlands some days ago, there was some sabotage on some railways.
04 04- NBC - First Public Charge Of A Russian Murder Plot In The US, Killers Online
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC NEWS): "an NBC News exclusive… new details we're learning about those charges against five people who the DOJ says were part of a Russian global assassination network allegedly plotting a murder on American soil. And now the U.S.
03 piddington - the village that voted to leave the uk
01 01- CBS - Piddington Votes 285 To 26 To Leave The UK, 1,250 Male Asylum Seekers
📺 CBS News (MSM)
CBS (CBS NEWS): "We are Piddington, the village that roars. This village just voted near unanimously to leave the United Kingdom. In a symbolic vote with a 92% turnout, the adult villagers of Piddington voted 285 to 26 to, quote, secede from the UK and pursue self-determination.
09 🇺🇸 TRUMP
Steve leads: Brennan on the triumphal arch becoming 'a top-grade military complex' with drones and snipers on the roof, and Cassidy on Don Jr repaying the Kremlin-linked billionaire ('the appearance of it is really bad'; ProPublica broke it). Then Trump raw, from Friday's Oval Office session and Wednesday's rally. The Kennedy Center: 'Bobby's standing right behind me… Kennedy and Trump, Trump and Kennedy'; 'a hostile judge, a conflicted judge — his wife represents Barack Hussein Obama'; 'a big portion of ceiling fell down two days ago… the place is a dump'; 'why should I raise money for the rest of my life… I already raised $258 million from Congress, and they gave it to me because it's me'; the congresswoman 'who never did a thing in her life'; the heliport 'two months ahead'. CNN at the human chain ('demolish Mar-a-Lago, you are no JFK'; a former employee in her 60s with her old ID, crying) and the historian: 'the rantings of a would-be king… tearing things down is Trump's real legacy'; 'he's done it with the East Wing, the reflecting pool… a wrecking ball to the Washington Monument'. Gastonia: 65 billion barrels 'we got it for an attack', the $5,000 Trump dividend, 'tariffs is my fifth favorite word after the Lord', $1,776 for the military ('I'm a high IQ person'), Vance as Elliot Ness, the No More Changing Your Clocks Act, 'the insurance companies own the Democrats', the Save America Act. One-offs: Don Jr's wedding ('totally allowed… he paid him back, Dad'), and the UNGA escalator — 'I grabbed her back or another part of her body, a little bit lower than the back'.
Clips — 14
00 steve - the triumphal arch and cassidy on don jr
01 S-07- Brennan - The Triumphal Arch Becomes A Military Complex, Drones And Snipers
📺 Brennan — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Brennan (CBS FACE THE NATION): "And this breaking news development with the president's plan for a 250-foot triumphal arch to be built near Arlington Cemetery just across the Potomac River in Virginia, inspired from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
02 S-10- Cassidy - Don Jr Repaid The Kremlin-Linked Billionaire, The Appearance Is Bad
📺 Cassidy — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Cassidy (CBS FACE THE NATION): "President Trump claimed Friday that his son has now repaid a Russian billionaire named Umar Kremlev. after it was reported that the Kremlin-linked billionaire paid for parts of his son's wedding celebrations in the Bahamas. Don Jr.
01 trump on the kennedy center - a hostile judge and a dump
01 01- Trump - Bobby's Right Behind Me, A Hostile Conflicted Judge, A Dump
📺 Reporter — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Reporter (PBS): "…looked at any plans to demolish the Kennedy Center? There was an image of you from Air Force One." Trump: "Well, look, here's the problem with the Kennedy Center. I should be very careful because Bobby's standing right behind me. And I cherish that, too.
02 02- Trump - Why Raise Money For The Rest Of My Life, 258 Million Because It's Me
📺 Trump — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Trump (PBS): Follow-on. "somebody's going to have to subsidize that for years to come because palaces of the arts lose tremendous amounts of money. The Kennedy Center for 25 years has lost a tremendous amount of money.
03 03- Trump - A Congresswoman Who Never Did A Thing, The Heliport, They Didn't Sue
📺 Trump — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Trump (PBS): Closer of the series. "We have a very outstanding board. The board is among the most successful people in the country. And they vote. We have a congresswoman who's a person that never did a thing in her life, frankly. Never did anything constructive. All she does is complain.
04 04- CNN - The Human Chain, Demolish Mar-a-Lago, You Are No JFK, She Cried
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): CNN reporter, live outside the Center Friday night: "This is largely the aftermath of what was a very boisterous and large protest outside the Kennedy Center. Many hundreds of people gathered here… Many musicians, as you can see, many people carrying their instruments.
05 05- CNN Historian - The Rantings Of A Would-Be King, Tearing Things Down
📺 Anchor — CNN (MSM)
Anchor (CNN): "How do you think historians are going to look back at this mishigas?" Historian: "You know, I think this is a perfect metaphor for the relationship that Donald Trump has with America.
06 06- CNN - Rulings Haven't Stopped Him, The East Wing, A Wrecking Ball At Monuments
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "we've seen that legal judgments, legal decisions in this case, haven't actually stopped Donald Trump. His name has still gone up in the building. The scaffolding has still gone up. The building has been shut down.
02 trump at gastonia
01 01- Trump - 65 Billion Barrels For An Attack, The 5,000 Dividend, Tariffs - FOX Gastonia
📺 Trump — Fox News (MSM)
Trump (FOX NEWS): "And with our new and powerful relationship with Venezuela, we just made the largest oil deal in history. And I think the largest deal in history. We got 65 billion barrels of beautiful, 500 years worth of oil, 65 billion barrels. Think of it. Billion barrels of oil. We got it for what? An attack.
02 02- Trump - 1,776 For The Military, One Dollar More, A High IQ Person - FOX Gastonia
📺 Trump — Fox News (MSM)
Trump (FOX NEWS): "And remember also for the military here, $1,776. Remember? $1,776. And it was. So it came to my desk. I wanted to get a bonus for the military… Sir, we can give $1,775. I looked at the number and I said, 'Wait a minute, for $1 more, you're 1776,' which is pretty good. I was quite impressed with my intelligence.
03 03- Trump - Tax Cuts Permanent, Vance As Elliot Ness, The Clocks Act - FOX Gastonia
📺 Trump — Fox News (MSM)
Trump (FOX NEWS): "I will also make the Trump tax cuts, the largest tax cut in history… That's no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our seniors. We're going to make it permanent. We're going to put it in law. So when the radical left at some point, maybe they get in, these lunatics… they will terminate it.
04 04- Trump - Insurers Own The Democrats, No Cash Bail, Save America Act - FOX Gastonia
📺 Trump — Fox News (MSM)
Trump (FOX NEWS): "And we will pass a health care plan that will be the greatest of them all, which will stop all payments to the big insurance companies, which own the Democrats, by the way.
03 trump one-offs - don jr's wedding and the unga escalator
01 01- Trump - Your Son's Wedding Gift, I've Given Parties At Mar-a-Lago, He Paid Back
📺 Reporter — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Reporter (PBS): "Is it appropriate for your son to accept the gift, the payment of some of his wedding festivities?" Trump: "Well, it's totally allowed. And a lot of people have parties and all. But it's totally allowed. But as I understand it, he paid them back. He didn't want to have that. So I hear he paid them back.
02 02- Trump - They Turned Off The Escalator, I Grabbed The First Lady Lower Down
📺 Reporter — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Reporter (PBS): "You're speaking to UNGA next week. What is your message? Because last year you sort of said the United Nations wasn't helping end wars —" Trump: "Well, last year they wouldn't let my person in the teleprompter room.
10 ⚖️ THE DOJ AND THE BORDER
The DOJ and the border. MS NOW: Blanche at the hearing — 'can you pledge the department will always act independently of the White House?' 'No, I'm not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that'; Leonnig and Dilanian's exclusive — Akash Singh told DOJ lawyers they must pursue the election-fraud cases the FBI and DHS bring or risk termination; the hunt comes up short (two cases in Washington, 13 individuals in Georgia); Carol Leonnig: 'the department is gutted… who is going to pop up their head and say I disagree?'. CBS: Trump orders the DOJ not to appeal the gangster-weapons ruling (the 1934 Act, the $200 tax zeroed by the Big Beautiful Bill); 'nobody inside the department agrees… it's already hurting firearms prosecutions'. PBS: the shadow surge — record ICE arrests, doubled in 15 states, 2,000 local police agreements, 'hard to know a traffic stop from an immigration stop, and that's by design', Mullin promised results without the headlines, 70% no conviction; Trump on Salazar ('25 million poured in, 11,888 murderers… she got a little softer on the border'). CBS: a Tennessee grandmother jailed six months in North Dakota on an AI face match, released Christmas Eve in the same clothes. Flock's Langley on All-In (with Jason): 'lost dozens of cities out of 6,000… the biggest damage is internal morale'. Philadelphia: the traffic stop, the fake DEA card, a million images; the father's memoir — 'Empathy, the autobiography of a caring, compassionate, empathetic serial killer, by yours truly'.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 14
00 the doj - blanche won't pledge
01 01- MS NOW - Blanche Won't Pledge, Singh - Chase Voter Fraud Or Be Fired
📺 MS (?)
MS NOW (MS): [Hearing SOT] "Can you pledge that the Justice Department will always act independently of the White House?" Blanche: "Well, there's a big difference between saying we will always do our job and investigate any case and act independently of the White House. No, I'm not going to pledge that.
02 02- MS NOW - The Hunt Comes Up Short, Two Cases In WA, 13 In Georgia
📺 Wallace — MS (?)
Wallace (MS): "Behind the Justice Department and the Trump administration's bluster on this issue is the fact that their hunt for fraud keeps coming up short. We reported earlier this month that the Department of Homeland Security has been targeting nine states in a surge of resources to find cases of voter fraud.
03 03- Carol Leonnig - The Department Is Gutted, Who Will Say I Disagree
📺 Leonnig — MSNBC (MSM)
Leonnig (MS NOW): "I think you and I have talked about this a little bit, Nicolle, but maybe I haven't used this verb before, but the department is gutted. The department is gutted. There are several field offices, U.S.
01 gangster weapons - the doj will not appeal
01 01- CBS - Trump Orders DOJ Not To Appeal, The 1934 Act, The 200-Dollar Tax Zeroed
📺 Anchor — CBS News (MSM)
Anchor (CBS NEWS): "CBS News has learned that President Trump has ordered the Justice Department not to appeal a court ruling that loosened restrictions on firearms known as gangster weapons. The move will let some Americans own or sell short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, and silencers with less government oversight.
02 02- CBS - Nobody Inside DOJ Agrees, It's Hurting Prosecutions, The Duty To Defend
📺 Lynch — CBS News (MSM)
Lynch (CBS NEWS): "Well, the Justice Department told us that they are not going to be appealing. They're going to be informing members of Congress about this. The ATF, which regulates firearms under this law, will put out guidance to the industry.
02 immigration - the shadow surge
01 01- PBS - The Shadow Surge, Record ICE Arrests, 2,000 Local Police Agreements
📺 PBS NewsHour (MSM)
PBS (PBS): "federal immigration authorities are increasingly working with state and local police, especially in Republican-led states. And the result is what some immigration advocates have called a shadow surge, a quieter form of enforcement that has helped drive ICE arrests to record levels, often with far less public attention.
02 02- PBS - A Traffic Stop Or An Immigration Stop, By Design, 70 Percent No Conviction
📺 Villagran — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Villagran (PBS): "States like Ohio and Missouri don't represent a majority of the arrests, but you have seen a really dramatic increase. Ohio, at the end of the Biden administration, had just 20 of these agreements with the federal government to conduct immigration stops… In Missouri, that number is 130.
03 03- Trump On Salazar - 25 Million Poured In, 16 Months Zero, She Got Softer
📺 Reporter — PBS NewsHour (MSM)
Reporter (PBS): "Congresswoman Maria Salazar filmed a video outside the White House the other day disagreeing with your immigration policies. You endorsed her primary campaign. Do you still back her run? And have you seen that video?" Trump: "Well, I do, and I have. I disagree with her.
03 fargo - the ai face match
01 01- CBS - A Grandmother Jailed Six Months On An AI Face Match, Out On Christmas Eve
📺 Anchor — CBS News (MSM)
Anchor (CBS NEWS): "Let's go to Tennessee now and the wild story of a Tennessee grandmother who has to sue now after facial recognition software linked her and her face to a crime out of the state of North Dakota. By the way, a state she never even stepped foot in. For that, she spent nearly six months in jail before getting out.
04 flock - langley on all-in
01 01- Langley - Lost Dozens Of Cities Out Of 6,000, They Googled Face Recognition
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "You've lost… I think dozens of cities of the 6,000. So some cities are now saying, hey, this isn't worth the trouble or too many people protested. Take me through what's happening last year with those, I think it's 60 or 70 cities maybe out of 6,000… 1% have said, okay, this isn't for us." Langley: "it's tough,…
02 02- Langley - Austin Cancelled Flock, Manor PD Caught The Shooters In 28 Hours
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "I predict as you explain this and you change the defaults and the audits get in place and the dirty cops get taken out of this, that you'll see some number of those cities… readdress this when things cool down a little bit.
03 03- Langley - The Biggest Damage Is Internal Morale, Best Thing Since DNA
📺 Calacanis — ALL-IN (?)
Calacanis (ALL-IN): "how far through the PR disaster are you? You've changed a lot of the communications. And is this something Flock can recover from? Or is this like… company killing… just be honest with us about the PR disaster of the last year… how damaging has it been?" Langley: "I think the biggest damage is the internal morale,…
05 philadelphia - a million images
01 01- WPVI - A Traffic Stop, A Fake DEA Card, Five Urns And A Million Images
📺 WPVI (?)
WPVI (WPVI): "Philadelphia officers first found 44-year-old Eugene Horsch in June, parked illegally in a space reserved for law enforcement, with a woman in the back seat. Inside his car, investigators found guns, drugs, weapons, and a fake DEA ID card bearing Horsch's photo… Searches of Horsch's home turned up more drugs, weapons and…
02 02- Fox - The Father's Memoir, The Autobiography Of An Empathetic Serial Killer
📺 McAdams — Fox News (MSM)
McAdams (FOX NEWS): "Investigators are trying to identify seven women. We have five of their pictures here. Two of those women are reported missing, but not yet observed in evidence. Basically, they can't find bodies. So some of the women are on your screen missing for nearly a decade and counting.
11 💉 RFK
Steve leads: Cassidy on Face the Nation — the new CDC director defining a measles death ('caused by vs associated with… a 40-year-old dies, an 18-year-old dies'), FDA nominee Overton beside Trump calling MMR lethal ('we need radical honesty'), and the five-shot plan ('who is giving him advice? people are listening to him'). Then RFK's week. At Children's Health Defense: 'we care about every child who dies from measles, they get headlines… care about vaccine injuries'; 'we're also looking at chemtrails' — CNN reads Trump's own EPA against him (contrails; 'some people use the term inaccurately'); Dr Jha: 'disappointing to hear the health secretary talking about chemtrails and electromagnetic radiation', 'Kennedy is trying to have it both ways — Trump's record is Warp Speed'; Shapiro: 'a measles outbreak because of RFK'; Brennan: the CDC is debating dying 'with or from' measles, a 35-year high, elimination status at risk. Trump in the Oval Office, RFK beside him: 'the autism shots… 82 or 88 different vaccines pumped into your child… we'll break it into 20% doses, five shots six months apart… you're going to see a massive reduction in autism, we're demanding it'; RFK: 'the CDC has not received information about the alleged measles death'; Trump: Shapiro 'a bad governor, close to incompetent'; Offit: 'a dose that is less than protective — that is nonsense'.
Clips — 12
00 steve - cassidy on measles and the five shots
01 S-11- Cassidy - The CDC Defines A Measles Death, Caused By Vs Associated With
📺 Cassidy — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Cassidy (CBS FACE THE NATION): "So we have had for about two and a half weeks now a new CDC director, Dr. Erica Schwartz. In her very first interview, she said the CDC is working on a definition of what a measles-related death is. Is that really what the CDC should be focused on, the nuance around the language? So, Dr.
02 S-12- Cassidy - FDA Nominee Overton Stood Beside Trump Calling MMR Lethal
📺 Cassidy — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Cassidy (CBS FACE THE NATION): "Your committee holds a hearing this coming week on the nominee to be the next FDA commissioner, Dr. Heidi Overton. She was standing beside President Trump a few weeks ago when he falsely called the MMR vaccine lethal.
03 S-13- Cassidy - Trump's Five-Shot Plan, Who Is Giving Him Advice
📺 Cassidy — CBS FACE THE NATION (?)
Cassidy (CBS FACE THE NATION): "Senator, you, as we mentioned, run that health committee. President Trump spoke at length on Friday again about vaccines, and he said he's going to demand that drug companies split up kids vaccines into five doses. He said it will lead, quote, to a massive reduction in autism. Take a listen.
01 rfk at children's health defense - chemtrails
01 01- CNN - RFK Jr At CHD - Every Child Who Dies From Measles Gets Headlines
📺 Collins — CNN (MSM)
Collins (CNN): "The United States is facing its largest measles outbreak in decades… the count so far is 3000 cases just this year of a disease that was declared eliminated in 2000… the CDC still says the MMR vaccine is the best way to protect against measles. But that was not the message that the health secretary, Robert F.
02 02- CNN - RFK Jr - We're Also Looking At Chemtrails, Trump's EPA Says Contrails
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing and promoting yet another long-debunked conspiracy theory. *We're also looking at chemtrails and the impact of emissions from aircraft and those potential impacts on health.* … we have had four measles-related deaths in the United States this year alone for the first time in…
03 03- Jha - Disappointing To Hear Him On Chemtrails, Shapiro - An Outbreak Because Of RFK
📺 Jha — CNN (MSM)
Jha (CNN): "He is our health secretary. He is the person in charge of health for America. And I will tell you, it is disappointing to hear him talking about chemtrails. He was talking about electromagnetic radiation. Look, we have real health problems in our country. 40,000 women died last year of breast cancer.
04 04- Jha - Kennedy Has It Both Ways, Trump's Record Is Warp Speed, Pro-Vaccine
📺 Collins — CNN (MSM)
Collins (CNN): "he said that they had a strong and steadfast friend at the White House was the quote." Jha: "can I actually push back on Secretary Kennedy on that? I don't actually think that's true. I mean, look, I have plenty of disagreements with President Trump.
05 05- Brennan - The CDC Debates Dying With Or From Measles, A 35-Year High
📺 Brennan — CBS News (MSM)
Brennan (CBS NEWS): "We're in this environment where the federal government, the CDC, led by HHS Secretary Kennedy, is trying to redefine what dying of measles even means. They're debating this. With or from? With, from, adjacent to, right.
06 06- Trump - The Autism Shots, 82 Or 88 Vaccines, Five Shots Six Months Apart
📺 Trump — OVAL OFFICE (?)
Trump (OVAL OFFICE): Trump (Oval Office, Fri 18 Sep, RFK beside him): "the autism shots. So you have shot one, shot two, shot three, shot four, shot five. So instead of having a massive dose of 82 or 88 different vaccines pumped into your child, we'll take out certain vaccines that people are a little worried about… we would never even…
07 07- Trump - The Vaccine Size Much Less, A Massive Reduction In Autism, Demanding It
📺 Trump — OVAL OFFICE (?)
Trump (OVAL OFFICE): Follow-on. "the biggest thing is, and certain vaccines were taken out because they're not needed until the child would be much older. No reason to do it so early. But the vaccine size will be much, much less. And I think you're going to see a massive reduction in autism. And that's a big deal. That's a very big deal.
08 08- RFK Jr - The Alleged Measles Death, Trump - Shapiro Close To Incompetent
📺 RFK Jr — OVAL OFFICE (?)
RFK Jr (OVAL OFFICE): Reporter (Spectrum News): "Pennsylvania has reported four measles-related deaths. What's your message to other states…?" Trump: "I think we're going to be in good shape. We have nothing against vaccinations for measles.
09 09- CNN - Five Doses Six Months Apart, Offit - Less Than Protective, Nonsense
📺 CNN (MSM)
CNN (CNN): "President Trump just announced a new plan for vaccines in the Oval Office on Friday. *But the vaccine size will be much, much less. We're going to recommend that they do five doses, marked one, two, three, four, five, and that they'd be given in six-month intervals so that a small amount of the vaccine gets pumped into the…
12 🎭 THE LEFT
The left. CBS: the UN panel finds reasonable grounds for US war crimes at a school in Iran; Piker — 'America is worse than al-Qaeda, pound for pound'; Ackerman on intent and Mao. Fox & Friends: Piker ('every moment you're talking about a Twitch streamer you're not talking about gas prices, and Republicans know that'), Trump ('he's a communist, a terrible liability'), Fetterman: 'I feel like I lost to Hasan Piker… our base loves him'. South Park becomes South America (the new intro; the Department of War sketch — 'making lots of content like a little teenage girl, Pete Hegseth'). Macklemore off the Sheeran tour: Free Palestine at MetLife, Kraft's ultimatum, Finneas and the openers quit.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 9
00 the un panel, piker and ackerman
01 01- CBS - UN Panel Finds Grounds For US War Crimes At A School, Ackerman On Intent
📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
Garrett (CBS): "The United Nations Human Rights Panel says it has found, quote, reasonable grounds that the United States committed war crimes during two airstrikes in Iran. One of them was at a school… about 170 people were killed. Most of the victims… were schoolgirls between the ages of 7 and 12.
02 02- CBS - Piker - America Is Worse Than Al-Qaeda, Ackerman - He Admires Mao
📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
Garrett (CBS NEWS): "Hassan Piker… on Twitch, he's got a large following in the young progressive part of the Democratic Party. He has campaigned with some House Democrats… *You once said that America is the top dog in terrorism. Yes. Do you think America, then, is worse than al-Qaeda? Yes. Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths.
01 piker and fetterman
01 01- Fox - Piker - A Twitch Streamer Not Gas Prices, Trump - A Communist
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox (FOX): "And El-Sayed's connection to Hasan Piker is also coming into sharper focus. The far-left streamer now reacting to the Michigan Democrat's many attempts to distance himself.
02 02- Fox - Piker On Iran's Nuke, Fetterman - I Lost To Hasan Piker
📺 Fox News (MSM)
Fox (FOX): Fox panel: "The most reprehensible thing he's said in recent days, I think, is when he said that the Middle East would be better off if Iran had a nuclear weapon, which is bizarrely actually making the strongest argument for President Trump and the unpopular
02 south park becomes south america
01 01- MS NOW - South Park Rebrands As South America - Lake America - The New Intro
📺 Melber — MSNBC (MSM)
Melber (MS NOW): "We just had the return of South Park, which has now been renamed or rebranded South America in a jab at Trump and his misplaced priorities, including renaming things. The new title, of course, tees off Trump saying he wanted to rename Lake Ontario Lake America.
02 02- MS NOW - South Park's Department Of War, Like And Subscribe, Pete Hegseth
📺 Melber — MSNBC (MSM)
Melber (MS NOW): "…to interfere here. And South Park, or South America, lampoons Trump and others in his administration." [sketch] "…at the Department of War. We're here to infiltrate this police station and extract the P.O.I. because that's what we do. That's what Homeland Security does. Be sure to like and subscribe, guys.
03 macklemore off the sheeran tour
01 01- CBS Mornings - Free Palestine At MetLife, Kraft Gave Sheeran An Ultimatum
📺 CBS MORNINGS (?)
CBS Mornings (CBS MORNINGS): "Grammy-winning artist Macklemore says he's been dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour and he's blaming the owner of the New England Patriots. It comes after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian comments at shows earlier this month… *I wanted to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America and say two words that…
02 02- CBS Mornings - Kraft Cites Anti-Semitic Rhetoric, Macklemore Answers
📺 CBS MORNINGS (?)
CBS Mornings (CBS MORNINGS): Follow-on. "In a statement Monday, Kraft said his decision was due in part to Macklemore's, quote, broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community. Macklemore… has faced controversy in the past.
03 03- NBC - Finneas, Beoga, Lukas Graham Quit The Tour, Sheeran Breaks His Silence
📺 NBC News (MSM)
NBC (NBC NEWS): "Tonight, more fallout over Ed Sheeran's Loop tour, with the Thinking Out Loud singer's supporting acts now withdrawing in protest of Macklemore being dropped from the tour after comments like this.
13 🛸 UAP DROP SIX
UAP drop six (NBC News NOW with the Disclosure Foundation's Jordan Flowers): six small spherical objects at 480 mph over the Middle East, silent lights over Colorado — 'a shred of context'; the 1952 Ruppelt tape released after Burlison's letter to Lincoln Labs — 800 cases, 20% unexplained, concentrated around nuclear installations, 3,500 mph; the luring operation at (they think) White Sands — an FBI 302, a DNI statement, Burlison: 'very successful' — 'kabuki theater… technology that appears to be able to attract and perhaps even take down and retrieve whatever these things are'.
Clips — 3
00 uap drop six - the 1952 tape and the luring operation
01 01- NBC - UAP Drop Six, Six Spheres At 480 MPH, Silent Lights Over Colorado
📺 NBC NEWS NOW (?)
NBC (NBC NEWS NOW): "We want to turn now to the sixth and the latest drop when it comes to the UAP file. Still no definitive, no jaw-dropping, no conversation-changing video evidence, but there are videos, and they come with a shred of context. And I'm saying shred here.
02 02- Disclosure Foundation - The 1952 Ruppelt Tape, 800 Cases, Nuclear Sites
📺 Flowers — NBC NEWS NOW (?)
Flowers (NBC NEWS NOW): "That was probably one of the more interesting files in this release, Scotty. So this is an audio file from 1952 that was released thanks to the efforts of Congressman Eric Burlison, who wrote a letter to, I believe it was Lincoln Labs, one of the FFRDCs, to get this file out.
03 03- Disclosure Foundation - UAPs Lured At White Sands, An FBI 302, Kabuki
📺 Anchor — NBC NEWS NOW (?)
Anchor (NBC NEWS NOW): "…of New Mexico. Wanted to ask you, like, you're so close to this, any insight into whether that happened?" Flowers: "This is an astounding set of facts. So in the government's own release in late 2025, there was an incursion at a Western military facility that our organization seems to think for several reasons…
14 🗂️ ODDS AND ENDS
Odds and ends. Historian Stephen F. Knott (Conspirator in Chief) with Major Garrett: a conspiracy theory defined — 'plays on people's fears… explains complex events in a very simplified fashion'; JFK — one lone man 'just wasn't satisfying'; it starts with Jefferson branding Hamilton a monarchist and British agent, 'like being called a communist in the 1950s', the Federalists dead by 1820. The Clancy holdout juror's statement — 'I didn't have any doubts… I kept getting cut off' — vs the other jurors (Rebecca Reife: 'two extremely conflicting narratives'); 60 Minutes tonight has Patrick Clancy. Buffett steps down as chairman at 96 — 'Father Time always wins'; Greg Abel CEO, Howard Buffett chairman, '$1,000 in the 60s is worth millions'.
Clips — 4
00 knott - conspirator in chief
01 01- Knott - A Conspiracy Theory Plays On Fears, JFK, Oil Men, The Mob, LBJ
📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
Garrett (CBS NEWS): "I believe definitions are important. So define for me, Stephen Knott, conspiracy theories. What do they mean to you and to this book?" Knott: "I think a fairly concise definition of a conspiracy theory would be an explanation of an event that is not particularly based in evidence or based in reason, but plays on…
02 02- Knott - Jefferson Called Hamilton A British Agent, Like A Communist In The 1950s
📺 Garrett — CBS News (MSM)
Garrett (CBS NEWS): "…deep roots, and I'm sad to say, having read the book, it starts with Thomas Jefferson." Knott: "who I admire in many ways. God bless him for the Declaration of Independence. Gives all Americans something to aim for.
01 clancy - the holdout juror speaks
01 01- CBS - The Holdout Juror, I Didn't Have Any Doubts, I Kept Getting Cut Off
📺 Anchor — CBS MORNINGS (?)
Anchor (CBS MORNINGS): "We're also hearing from the so-called holdout juror. He released this statement saying, quote, 'I didn't have any doubts as I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation. I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.
02 buffett steps down at 96
01 01- NBC - Buffett Steps Down As Chairman At 96, Father Time Always Wins
📺 Anchor — NBC News (MSM)
Anchor (NBC NEWS): "Talk about just the impact that he has had on the investing world and what this is actually going to mean. This is a pretty big milestone." Silver: "Yeah. Total legend. He actually stepped down as CEO at the annual meeting last year, at the beginning of this year.