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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: More GOP Bribes, Grifts, Suffering 

• GOP Plotting Post-Midterm Abortion Crackdown White House officials told Attorney General Todd Blanche to slow-walk anti-abortion action until after the midterms because “an aggressive approach on abortion would generate unwanted attention” and alienate voters; “No one wants us taking any real action before the midterms,” said one senior official. via the Washington Sun. 
• GOP Rallies Ohio Base With Anti-Immigrant Hate as ICE Victim Laid to Rest Nearby As Trump and Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno whipped up their base outside Dayton, community members were mourning the death of 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant and college student who killed himself in August after Trump cancelled the temporary immigration status that had allowed him to stay in the country. Bel wanted to be a doctor. via the Columbus Dispatch and the Washington Post. 
• New Fake Bribe From Mad King Targets Seniors On top of his $5,000 “dividend” false promise, Trump is now claiming he will send $90 to more than 20 million seniors; he would draw the money from a fund meant to improve Medicare. via the AP and the Washington Post.
• Elon Musk’s Chatbot Setting International Policy Grok advised Trump on his decision to invade the sovereign nation of Venezuela, telling him the people would welcome a coup against Maduro. via Futurism and Time. 
• Marco Rubio Forgives Egypt’s Human Rights Abuses, Sends $320 Million in Military Aid The money was a thank-you for playing a “helpful role” in Trump’s illegal war on Iran; Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities arrested the entire staff of one of the nation’s only independent media outlets last week and accused them of publishing fake news. via NBC News. 
• Regime Sends Money Promised to European, Middle Eastern Nations to Right-Wing Latin American Countries The regime is “diverting to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia $52 million that had been approved for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq.” via the Washington Post. 
• Federal Commission Unanimously Approves Another New ‘Beautiful Building’ on White House Grounds National Capital Planning Commission members okayed Trump’s plan to plunk a new 700-person occupancy building next to the White House, allegedly to be used as a visitor screening facility. via NBC News and the Washington Post. 
• With Friends Like These During a quarrel over whether to make daylight savings time permanent, Trump posted what he said was Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s cell phone and said voters should call it and tell him to pass the law that would do that. Meanwhile, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz gave the finger to party unity and called Vice Bootlicker JD Vance “insecure.” via HuffPost, the Guardian, Politico and Politico.
• With Dems Like These “Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel called on Democratic lawmakers Sunday to set aside plans to impeach President Donald Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.” via the Hill and NBC News.

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Wealthy Nations Plan to Release Emergency Fuel Reserve as Prices Continue to Mount

The Group of 7 nations said they would release 100 million barrels of crude, diesel and gas over the next four months to help people cope with the extreme cost of fuel as Trump continues his illegal war on Iran, the AP, Politico and the Washington Post reported. The announcement comes after Trump threatened to ban US exports of diesel fuel, which would raise prices even higher than Friday’s record of $6.37 per gallon. The release of emergency reserves could lower prices a bit. But the volume the G7 is planning is just one day worth of global consumption. Per the Post:

“This is a short-term bandage for a wound that is still wide open,” said Brett Erickson, a risk advisory consultant who closely monitors oil and gas markets. 

President Donald Trump framed the release as a victory for the U.S. “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil,” Trump posted on social media Friday morning. “The process will begin immediately.” 

QUICKEST QUICKIES

• US Military Races to Move All 12 B-1 Bombers Off UK Air Base After Officials Receive New Threats “The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone. The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States.” via the NYT. 
• Federal Judge Rules That Cop Who Targeted Woman With Flock Camera Violated 4th Amendment “The judge’s opinion is one of the first times a federal judge has decided Flock searches can be unconstitutional, and suggested that Flock’s network is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance.” via 404 Media and TechCrunch.  
• OpenAI Hacks Australian Government Executives again evaded responsibility in their announcement that rogue artificial intelligence bots are to blame, not them, for accessing without authorization non-public data in a New South Wales state government department; “We simply cannot trust these companies,” said Greens MP Abigail Boyd. “They have no respect for the sovereignty of our governments, of our way of life.” via ABC News and the Guardian. 
• Russian Authorities Put Hospital on Lockdown After 28-Year-Old Anti-Plague Institute Lab Tech Dies of Suspected Plague Meanwhile in the US, another ancient disease continues to make its comeback; at least five people have now died of measles in Pennsylvania. via the Guardian and Newsweek. 

SOME NUMBER

$9,000

That’s how much more households in Oregon, Mississippi, South Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming will pay for energy through 2040 thanks to Trump’s policy changes, according to an Energy Innovation analysis, the Associated Press reported. People in all other states will pay more, too; the group expects the average increase will be $6,500 nationwide.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

10/5: Sam is hosting solo today. His guest is Paris Marx, host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, publisher of the Disconnect newsletter and author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empire.

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PARTING WORDS

“There was something wondrous in the human journey of a young fighter who carried a rifle and grew into a gentle prophet of nonviolence. When he was asked some years ago what he wished to bequeath to the generations that would follow, he answered: banish hatred.”

– Peace activist and former speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, writing about his father-in-law, Dr. Lucien Lazare, a member of the Jewish resistance in France, who died last month at 101 years old. Among other victories won against the Nazis, Lazare and his unit liberated the French city of Castres and ambushed a German train as the Wehrmacht forces fled, the NYT wrote in his obituary.

The experience led Lazare to embrace a philosophy of peace, which he took with him when he and his family immigrated to Israel. He stood with Palestinians and translated an essay Burg wrote for Le Monde that said, “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” Lazare's anti-Zionism infuriated members of his synagogue, who ultimately rejected him. “Even when the price was heavy, his voice remained firm and stayed with us,” Burg wrote. “Soft and powerful, it reminded us that peace is the natural continuation of rescue.”

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