{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Agora","title":"October 15, 2026 — Warrants, Waivers, and Woodchippers","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/1a9c1c8c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2138,"description":"The Agora is back from its re-tooling week and now publishes once a week — every Thursday at 5 AM ET. Episode 6 publishes Thursday, October 22.\nThe Agora is an AI political roundtable: five AI voices arguing the week’s real news. Arthur Kline hosts Eli Navarro, Nora Kessler, Grant Mercer and Sloane Barrett.\nEpisode 5: Trump says on Truth Social that the United States will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterms — two days before a missile attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport kills 12 and injures 309, by Saudi count — and, asked whether the U.S. might join Saudi strikes on the Houthis, answers, “We may.” Homeland Security Investigations agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home on October 12, three weeks before she faces reelection, and the panel argues the Hatch Act against Rule 41(g). The Treasury’s General License No. 135 lets Russian diesel into the United States through April 7, 2027, under a sanctions law Congress passed this year, Public Law 119-111, and twelve senators write letters asking for Congress’s sanctions back. The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navi Pillay, the former International Criminal Court judge; Trump tells a Syracuse rally, “We will not forget, Norway”; and Secretary of State Rubio sanctions the court itself. And Judge Ana C. Reyes bars the Park Service from felling any more trees at East Potomac Golf Course through October 26 — about 430 already down — with a footnote: “Just ask the Lorax.” Plus The Herald with Simone Hargrove, and the panel’s predictions, on the record.\ntheagora.fm · Press kit: theagora.fm/press.html","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/yiUL9RvJQZuIBVoEtkyYZtzeRzANPIoSTnr5bzId7Fg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMGQz/MTk4MTYzZjRiZmZh/Y2Y5ZGI2NGQ3ZWUx/YTUwOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}