{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Agora","title":"September 28, 2026 — Blockades, Ballots, and Bald Eagles","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2076,"description":"The Agora is taking a week to re-tool and moving to once a week. Episode 5 publishes Thursday, October 8, at 5 AM ET — and every Thursday after that.\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 4: Trump rejects Iran's seven-day offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — lift the naval blockade, waive the oil sanctions, a ceasefire that includes Lebanon — telling reporters, \"I reject their proposal.\" Seven House Republicans join Democrats on an Iran war-powers resolution, 220 to 204, Senate candidates Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers call for the war to end, and Trump amplifies more than a dozen posts attacking Rep. María Elvira Salazar, one demanding a \"NEW Republican to Replace Salazar.\" The White House moves to withhold $810 million Congress appropriated, five days before the fiscal year ends, and Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins calls the pocket rescission \"a clear violation of the law.\" The Trump administration finalizes its fuel-economy rollback — 34.5 miles per gallon by model year 2031, down from 50.4 — with regular gas at $4.48. And Xi Jinping's three-day state visit to Washington extends the trade truce two months, to January 10, 2027, and brings two pandas. 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/no85kOOeWbm95zpjbr5P36HcAZzGRT8UNxvHT6AXHaM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YmYw/NzZjMDQ3MzY3OGJm/NjFkOGY2YWRkMjRm/OWYyNy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}