Last week, we aired our latest special Mapping the DSA Machine, just for our Torch subscribers. After the premiere, 97% of them voted to release it to the public immediately because they believe it's too critical to keep behind a paywall this close to the midterms.
And I agree. ~Glenn Beck
Nord Stream Pipeline Bomber Trial Begins
… pipelines in the Baltic Sea, one of the alleged perpetrators has to answer in court for the first time. The trial of Serhiy Kuznetsov began today in Hamburg, Germany.Nord Stream Pipeline Bomber Says He Was Operating on Instructions from Ukraine Government https://t.co/DJDVpkMyOS
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 14, 2026
During opening arguments, lawyers representing Kuznetsov informed the judge that he was acting on instructions given to him by the government of Ukraine when he led a team to detonate explosives on the Nord Stream pipeline.
GERMANY – According to the indictment, Serhiy K., together with other military personnel and on behalf of Ukrainian state agencies, is said to have developed the plan to destroy the natural gas pipelines running from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The aim was to prevent Russia from using revenues from the gas trade to finance the war of aggression.
Under the leadership of the accused, a commando consisting of several professional divers, a skipper and an explosives expert is said to have brought large quantities of high-performance military explosives into the waters off the Danish island of Bornholm on a sailing yacht chartered in Rostock. There, explosive devices equipped with time fuses were then attached to the gas pipelines running along the seabed.
When they were ignited on September 26, 2022, the two gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 were severely damaged. There were a total of four leaks on three of the four lines.
Serhiy K. was arrested at the end of August 2025 on the basis of a European arrest warrant on the Italian Adriatic coast while on vacation with his family and transferred to Germany three months later. Since then, he has been in custody.
Treasury & IRS Move to Protect Health Care Benefits for Eligible Americans
… taxpayer-funded Premium Tax Credits are reserved for eligible Americans.Hardworking American taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize health care for people who are ineligible under federal law. Today’s proposed rules implement the common-sense reforms enacted by the Working Families Tax Cuts to close eligibility loopholes and ensure taxpayer-funded Premium Tax Credits are reserved for eligible Americans. Under @POTUS, this Administration is cracking down on fraud and corruption; holding bad actors accountable; lowering health care costs for Americans; and restoring integrity to our tax code and health care system. https://t.co/jiuMqFAaoV
— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) October 14, 2026
Under POTUS, this Administration is cracking down on fraud and corruption; holding bad actors accountable; lowering health care costs for Americans; and restoring integrity to our tax code and health care system.
No Patient Was Benefitting From This
… improper subsidy payments this year alone. At an annualized rate, this savings exceeds $1.5B.".@AFergusonFTC: "It was a choice – a conscious choice – in the previous Administration to do nothing about this and it helped no one. No patient was benefitting from this. Rich insurance companies and unscrupulous brokers were the only beneficiaries of this. That is fixed today." https://t.co/QB0nDh20MP
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 14, 2026
The Timing of Anthropic’s Latest Scare Campaign Is Hard to Ignore
… shut down since there’s no central kill switch.Are Small Models Really a Threat? The Anthropic Fear Factory just released a new report warning that small models may be only months away from self-replicating across cheap IoT devices like off-brand Android TV boxes and smart ovens. They say such an AI worm would be hard to shut down since there’s no central kill switch. We’ve gone from “The Terminator is coming” to “your toaster might kill you.” But the experiments don’t support the dramatic headlines. They ran a 26B model across 15 $55 TV boxes at 0.39 tokens per second. The end-to-end test used emulated devices with deliberately open ADB ports, so the “hacking” step was trivial. The capable model often ran on a separate server. Agents were harnessed and told to propagate. This is not proof of autonomous rogue AI worms in the wild. Nor is the threat even novel. Worms that do this without AI already exist. Mirai in 2016 scanned for default credentials and built massive DDoS botnets. Kimwolf has infected over two million devices, mostly cheap Android TV boxes, by hitting open ADB ports. Small models don’t currently add much that matters on these targets. The bottleneck has never been figuring out the device. It’s the huge number of devices that ship with open ports, default passwords, and no patching. Traditional worms already exploit that at scale. A practical attacker would use the best models available offline to design a better traditional worm, then ship the lean binary. You get the intelligence benefit at design time without dragging a slow, heavy model along with every infection. Embedding a weak model in the payload is the worse option for anyone who actually wants the largest, fastest botnet. The timing of Anthropic’s latest scare campaign is hard to ignore. The day before, Brian Armstrong posted that Coinbase fine-tuned an open-weight small model (Qwen-3.5-9B) on proprietary fraud data. It beat frontier models, including Anthropic’s own Opus 4.5, while being faster and much cheaper. In testing it cut fraudulent transactions by about 30%. This is the emerging pattern. For narrow enterprise workloads you don’t need a general superintelligence. You need a small specialist model trained on your own data. Cheaper to run, especially as compute gets tighter, and often better on the metric that matters. That is a direct threat to the frontier-company model of selling access to ever-larger general models. Safety advocates should be welcoming this development. If the real concern is existential risk from ever-larger frontier systems — the ones that could theoretically do sustained autonomous R&D or become hard to control — then a shift toward smaller specialized models is the safer outcome. Small models specialized on fraud detection or support tickets are not pushing the frontier. They are not in the category of systems that could become a new species. The theoretical loss-of-control risk is created by models getting bigger and more generally capable. Safety advocates focused on those risks should welcome companies having a cheaper alternative to constantly scaling general models. Instead we get dramatic warnings about small models at the exact moment they are starting to take real enterprise share from closed-model companies like Anthropic.
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) October 14, 2026
We’ve gone from “The Terminator is coming” to “your toaster might kill you.”
But the experiments don’t support the dramatic headlines. They ran a 26B model across 15 $55 TV boxes at 0.39 tokens per second. The end-to-end test used emulated devices with deliberately open ADB ports, so the “hacking” step was trivial. The capable model often ran on a separate server. Agents were harnessed and told to propagate. This is not proof of autonomous rogue AI worms in the wild.
Nor is the threat even novel. Worms that do this without AI already exist. Mirai in 2016 scanned for default credentials and built massive DDoS botnets. Kimwolf has infected over two million devices, mostly cheap Android TV boxes, by hitting open ADB ports.
Small models don’t currently add much that matters on these targets. The bottleneck has never been figuring out the device. It’s the huge number of devices that ship with open ports, default passwords, and no patching. Traditional worms already exploit that at scale.
A practical attacker would use the best models available offline to design a better traditional worm, then ship the lean binary. You get the intelligence benefit at design time without dragging a slow, heavy model along with every infection. Embedding a weak model in the payload is the worse option for anyone who actually wants the largest, fastest botnet.
The timing of Anthropic’s latest scare campaign is hard to ignore. The day before, Brian Armstrong posted that Coinbase fine-tuned an open-weight small model (Qwen-3.5-9B) on proprietary fraud data. It beat frontier models, including Anthropic’s own Opus 4.5, while being faster and much cheaper. In testing it cut fraudulent transactions by about 30%.
This is the emerging pattern. For narrow enterprise workloads you don’t need a general superintelligence. You need a small specialist model trained on your own data. Cheaper to run, especially as compute gets tighter, and often better on the metric that matters. That is a direct threat to the frontier-company model of selling access to ever-larger general models.
Safety advocates should be welcoming this development. If the real concern is existential risk from ever-larger frontier systems — the ones that could theoretically do sustained autonomous R&D or become hard to control — then a shift toward smaller specialized models is the safer outcome.
Small models specialized on fraud detection or support tickets are not pushing the frontier. They are not in the category of systems that could become a new species. The theoretical loss-of-control risk is created by models getting bigger and more generally capable.
Safety advocates focused on those risks should welcome companies having a cheaper alternative to constantly scaling general models. Instead we get dramatic warnings about small models at the exact moment they are starting to take real enterprise share from closed-model companies like Anthropic.
Today’s Disgusting Hit Piece Is Out of Bounds Even by Fusion Ken’s Low Standards for “Reporting”
… “reporting.”My apologies in advance for the language here but this fake news filth is getting old. Fusion Ken Dilanian is the biggest piece of shit in the fake news media today. Today’s disgusting hit piece on our FBI reforms is out of bounds even by Fusion Ken’s low standards for “reporting.” This MSNOW headline below is BULLSHIT. Working with state and local law enforcement WAS OUR STRATEGY. Regardless of who put handcuffs on the violent criminals. That’s precisely why we changed how UFAP warrants were used and expanded FBI agent scoping to empower our agents to get dangerous criminals off the streets—criminals prior leadership would have ignored. I’m not going to let this piece of filth rewrite history. FACT - I told the FBI SAICs on weekly calls that I didn’t give a damn who arrested the violent street thugs, as long as we assisted in getting them OFF THE STREETS. I said it repeatedly, and I meant every word. Prior FBI leadership’s decisions to largely avoid working with state and local law enforcement absent a direct federal nexus was a COMPLETE FAILURE. WE changed that strategy. WE prioritized cooperation over bureaucratic turf wars. WE put getting criminals off the streets ahead of arrest statistics and institutional egos. And I firmly believe that shift helped drive crime down. I will not sit quietly while people distort the record and take credit for a strategy they never supported. This is absolute bullshit.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) October 14, 2026
This MSNOW headline below is BULLSHIT. Working with state and local law enforcement WAS OUR STRATEGY. Regardless of who put handcuffs on the violent criminals.
That’s precisely why we changed how UFAP warrants were used and expanded FBI agent scoping to empower our agents to get dangerous criminals off the streets—criminals prior leadership would have ignored.
I’m not going to let this piece of filth rewrite history. FACT - I told the FBI SAICs on weekly calls that I didn’t give a damn who arrested the violent street thugs, as long as we assisted in getting them OFF THE STREETS. I said it repeatedly, and I meant every word.
Prior FBI leadership’s decisions to largely avoid working with state and local law enforcement absent a direct federal nexus was a COMPLETE FAILURE.
WE changed that strategy. WE prioritized cooperation over bureaucratic turf wars. WE put getting criminals off the streets ahead of arrest statistics and institutional egos.
And I firmly believe that shift helped drive crime down. I will not sit quietly while people distort the record and take credit for a strategy they never supported.
This is absolute bullshit.
… 96.2% data reporting from local partners this year, the highest level since 1960.The data is collected by the field and our partners - not from me - and whether you like it or not the FBI had a 90% increase in violent crime arrests from the previous 18 months. That’s in addition to the largest single year reduction in violent crime since 1936. We also had 96.2% data reporting from local partners this year, the highest level since 1960. You can attack me with fake news all you want but what you’re really doing is attacking the brave men and women of law enforcement. And you owe them an apology.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 14, 2026
You can attack me with fake news all you want but what you’re really doing is attacking the brave men and women of law enforcement. And you owe them an apology.
€1 BILLION Permanent Fund for Europe’s “Disinformation” Industry
… YEAR — GDI’s estimate of advertising revenue redirected away from news sites through its work with industry partners.REVEALED: The Global Disinformation Index is now pushing a €1 BILLION permanent fund for Europe’s “disinformation” industry—after President Trump shuttered its operations. This organization plays a key role in the censorship industrial complex. The numbers: • $200 MILLION A YEAR — GDI’s estimate of advertising revenue redirected away from news sites through its work with industry partners. • €400 MILLION — proposed contribution from the EU budget. • €400 MILLION — proposed contributions from member governments. • €200 MILLION — proposed contributions from institutional investors. • €45 MILLION EVERY YEAR — projected endowment distributions to sustain the wider sector. The proposal comes from GDI’s Richard Woods and the Atlantic Council’s Mark Scott. It would support organizations involved in fact-checking, platform monitoring, digital rights and regulatory litigation. Its instructions are explicit: “fixed investment mandates to insulate grant making from political cycles” An independent board would govern the money. The European Parliament and European Court of Auditors would receive annual reports, but: “without operational control over individual funding decisions.” Meanwhile, GDI’s financial scrutiny extends beyond advertising. Its website describes examining creators’ merchandise sales, donations and platform revenue shares to inform action by governments and industry.
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) October 14, 2026
• €400 MILLION — proposed contribution from the EU budget.
• €400 MILLION — proposed contributions from member governments.
• €200 MILLION — proposed contributions from institutional investors.
• €45 MILLION EVERY YEAR — projected endowment distributions to sustain the wider sector.
The proposal comes from GDI’s Richard Woods and the Atlantic Council’s Mark Scott. It would support organizations involved in fact-checking, platform monitoring, digital rights and regulatory litigation.
Its instructions are explicit:
“fixed investment mandates to insulate grant making from political cycles”
An independent board would govern the money. The European Parliament and European Court of Auditors would receive annual reports, but:
“without operational control over individual funding decisions.”
Meanwhile, GDI’s financial scrutiny extends beyond advertising. Its website describes examining creators’ merchandise sales, donations and platform revenue shares to inform action by governments and industry.
Ukraine Intelligence Is Carrying Out an Op
May I just posit the reason that “it doesn’t make sense” is because these were not ballistic missiles form Russia.
The reason the early warning system did not work is because that system specifically looks down range. When the origination of the event is local, the system will not identify it.
Ukraine intelligence is carrying out an op, a public op to create sympathy. Ukraine intelligence is carrying out the targeting.
It’s World War Reddit.
Fake sirens. Fake blackouts. Fake attacks. Similar to Ukraine intelligence doing the Nordstream op and blaming it on Russia.
The events are real, but the news about them is fake.
It’s the first war without international journalists on the ground. So, it can all be scripted and spun.
The Last Refuge
Zelenskyy is indicating that “our partners” failed to warn Ukraine.
That their own sensors didn’t pick it up till the last minute.
The blame game there by Zelinsky sounds more like pointing the finger at American betrayal, other than a failed response.
What is being claimed here, in the context of modern warfare doesn’t make any sense.
I will wait to see if the United States, President Trump, or Russia come out to deny or validate this specific attack.
But my speculation, arises with Zelenskyy’s warning that Russia is preparing for a major assault and Kiev.
To me this sounds like the staging of a false flag.
The reason the early warning system did not work is because that system specifically looks down range. When the origination of the event is local, the system will not identify it.
Ukraine intelligence is carrying out an op, a public op to create sympathy. Ukraine intelligence is carrying out the targeting.
It’s World War Reddit.
Fake sirens. Fake blackouts. Fake attacks. Similar to Ukraine intelligence doing the Nordstream op and blaming it on Russia.
The events are real, but the news about them is fake.
It’s the first war without international journalists on the ground. So, it can all be scripted and spun.
The Last Refuge
… systems. These are specifically designed to detect ballistic missile launches from Russia and other countries.Did Russia really attack Ukraine with a ballistic missile and hit energy infrastructure after the ceasefire? That is what it’s being claimed by Ukrainian president Zelenskyy. Now here is the problem. The United States and NATO have early warning ballistic missile detention systems. These are specifically designed to detect ballistic missile launches from Russia and other countries. Zelenskyy is indicating that “our partners” failed to warn Ukraine. That their own sensors didn’t pick it up till the last minute. The blame game there by Zelinsky sounds more like pointing the finger at American betrayal, other than a failed response. What is being claimed here, in the context of modern warfare doesn’t make any sense. I will wait to see if the United States, President Trump, or Russia come out to deny or validate this specific attack. But my speculation, arises with Zelenskyy’s warning that Russia is preparing for a major assault and Kiev. To me this sounds like the staging of a false flag.
— Joshua Reid | Redpills.tv (@realjoshuareid) October 13, 2026
Zelenskyy is indicating that “our partners” failed to warn Ukraine.
That their own sensors didn’t pick it up till the last minute.
The blame game there by Zelinsky sounds more like pointing the finger at American betrayal, other than a failed response.
What is being claimed here, in the context of modern warfare doesn’t make any sense.
I will wait to see if the United States, President Trump, or Russia come out to deny or validate this specific attack.
But my speculation, arises with Zelenskyy’s warning that Russia is preparing for a major assault and Kiev.
To me this sounds like the staging of a false flag.
Former Massachusetts State Official Charged with SNAP Fraud
… pretrial release for state drug and gun charges, allegedly lied to obtain over $540 per month in SNAP benefits.🚨 BREAKING: Former Massachusetts state official, Lamar Cook, charged w/ SNAP fraud. “The alleged conduct is simply egregious…I find it disturbing that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could not prevent this from happening” – US Attorney Foley Defendant, who was on pretrial release for state drug and gun charges, allegedly lied to obtain over $540 per month in SNAP benefits. 🔗 Read more: https://t.co/sWxXVMiyMo
— U.S. Attorney Massachusetts (@DMAnews1) October 14, 2026
Huge Win for America
ANOTHER MASSIVE 21 BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT FOR AMERICA!
Today, under my leadership, GlobalFoundries and my Department of Commerce led by Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a MASSIVE 21 BILLION INVESTMENT to build 2 giant new Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities in Malta, New York.
This DEAL will create 27,000 high paying Construction and Supply Chain Jobs and over 1,000 additional highly skilled Manufacturing Jobs in New York.
Under my direction, JAPAN WILL PROVIDE THE CAPITAL for the 21 Billion Dollar Investment. This DEAL is a result of my HISTORIC TRADE DEALS to REVITALIZE the American Industrial Base, create HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF GREAT AMERICAN JOBS, and strengthen our National and Economic Security.
We are turning the Investment commitments from Japan, Korea and Taiwan into HUGE Construction Projects. These are TRANSFORMATIONAL AND GENERATIONAL DEALS FOR AMERICA — More Semiconductors, more Power, more Energy Security, and more Jobs for the U.S.A.
As I showed with our massive WIN with INTEL, my Administration's Commerce Department is the first to ever earn money for America. I am announcing an additional agreement with GlobalFoundries where the U.S. Taxpayer will receive shares in GlobalFoundries. My Commerce Department will invest 955 Million Dollars in Silicon Photonics, Silicon Germanium, and Advanced Packaging. This brings our total Investments to 1.63 Billion Dollars, and now, the U.S. Government’s stake is worth over 2 Billion Dollars. We are the first Administration ever to turn Grants into money for America. Your great Businessman President running the Greatest Economy in the World — AN ALL-AROUND HUGE WIN FOR AMERICA!
Donald J Trump
Today, under my leadership, GlobalFoundries and my Department of Commerce led by Secretary Howard Lutnick announced a MASSIVE 21 BILLION INVESTMENT to build 2 giant new Semiconductor Manufacturing Facilities in Malta, New York.
This DEAL will create 27,000 high paying Construction and Supply Chain Jobs and over 1,000 additional highly skilled Manufacturing Jobs in New York.
Under my direction, JAPAN WILL PROVIDE THE CAPITAL for the 21 Billion Dollar Investment. This DEAL is a result of my HISTORIC TRADE DEALS to REVITALIZE the American Industrial Base, create HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF GREAT AMERICAN JOBS, and strengthen our National and Economic Security.
We are turning the Investment commitments from Japan, Korea and Taiwan into HUGE Construction Projects. These are TRANSFORMATIONAL AND GENERATIONAL DEALS FOR AMERICA — More Semiconductors, more Power, more Energy Security, and more Jobs for the U.S.A.
As I showed with our massive WIN with INTEL, my Administration's Commerce Department is the first to ever earn money for America. I am announcing an additional agreement with GlobalFoundries where the U.S. Taxpayer will receive shares in GlobalFoundries. My Commerce Department will invest 955 Million Dollars in Silicon Photonics, Silicon Germanium, and Advanced Packaging. This brings our total Investments to 1.63 Billion Dollars, and now, the U.S. Government’s stake is worth over 2 Billion Dollars. We are the first Administration ever to turn Grants into money for America. Your great Businessman President running the Greatest Economy in the World — AN ALL-AROUND HUGE WIN FOR AMERICA!
Donald J Trump