Welcome to the future! It’s a lot like today: looting sprees at the top–by hedge funds; looting sprees by protesters in the streets. It will take all of us in a popular uprising, led by real leaders, like AOC, not self-serving politicians like Ro Khanna, to get us out of this. Gaslit Nation is here to help you stay grounded in this week’s bonus show looking at why you can’t trust Ro, the Paris protests, Trump’s lifeline to Putin’s failing invasion of Ukraine, and more.
But first, congratulations to Jared Kushner for finally becoming just another Russian oligarch with an Israeli passport. There’s hope for other nepo-baby trust fund kids whose parents had to buy their way into the ivy league. More on that in our news round-up – there is just so much news we had to share what we couldn’t cover in the bonus instead in the show notes.
Here is your World War III news round-up:
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Vanity Fair published an excerpt of investigative journalist Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. Kushner and a lawyer at the DOJ both responded by threatening legal action, which they will never do, because that would lead to discovery–revealing even more dirty secrets. What’s not a secret, as Cole’s book confirms once again, Kushner, with his no-longer-secret bank accounts, is dangerously corrupt: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Princes-and-Thieves/Matthew-Cole/9781668095324
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Matthew Cole’s damning book into Jared Kushner’s illegal Middle East cash machine confirms once again that Kushner is illegally operating as an unregistered foreign agent and must be prosecuted: https://newrepublic.com/post/216985/jared-kushner-phone-hack-middle-east-dictators
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Prosecute Jared Kushner: “‘It’s not complicated,’ the Kushner acquaintance told me. ‘All the Middle Eastern countries invest in Jared’s fund, and they suck his dick, so they can get political favors from the Trump Administration.'” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/jared-kushners-dollar-diplomacy
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Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system https://kyivindependent.com/amid-starlink-crisis-finnish-tech-giants-announce-plan-to-help-ukraine-build-its-own-sovereign-satellite-system/
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Ukraine Evidence Hub documents war crimes: https://ukraine-evidence.org/?src=x
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A message from Prairieland Defendant Elizabeth Soto from Johnson County, where her state case is currently pending. https://x.com/DFWSupCommittee/status/2112967468453069153
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The US Military’s Notorious ‘Heat Ray’ Is Headed for the Border https://www.laserwars.net/p/military-heat-ray-souther-border-mexico
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Unvetted AI agents are accessing U.S. bank accounts https://www.laserwars.net/p/military-heat-ray-souther-border-mexico
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Kremlin darling Anna Paulina Luna’s Husband Owns 10 Percent of Drone Startup That Got $37 Million in Pentagon Deals https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/anna-paulina-luna-husband-andrew-gamberzky-nokturnal-ai-oksi-drone-startup-pentagon-contracts/
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Former CIA official with Top Secret clearance admits to $194 million fraud, including 298 gold bars and four luxury South Florida properties https://fortune.com/2026/10/06/cia-official-top-secret-clearance-gold-bars-194-million-fraud/?utm_campaign=social_share
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Italy Is Looking Into Whether Russian Agents Helped Fuel Riots https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-21/italy-is-looking-into-whether-russian-agents-helped-fuel-riots
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Trump DOJ’s Fraud Snitch Scheme Instantly Backfires https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dojs-fraud-snitch-scheme-instantly-backfires
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This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.