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  • Unread Content - ElevenLabs: Oct 14, 2026 – Musk Money Floods the Midterms

    Jeremy and Sarah walk through the day's political newsletters, with fact-check notes on what is confirmed, disputed or not yet verifiable.

    • Elon Musk has directed more than $276 million to Republican efforts since July, including about $158 million to the Senate Leadership Fund
    • Times reporters answer reader questions: misleading political ads, ICE at polling places, taxpayer-funded Trump ads, and voter ID
    • A Times tally of Trump's attacks on election integrity, and how it is disputed
    • Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home; no charges described yet
    • Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece amid donor-payment allegations; questions about the new press secretary's bar admission
    • A Collins-aligned super PAC's attack ad runs in Portland, Oregon instead of Portland, Maine
    • A false rumor about Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, debunked by AP and FactCheck.org
    • Republican super PACs pull support from Reps. Tom Kean Jr. and Mariannette Miller-Meeks
    • Abdul El-Sayed's AI platform, split-screen social media views of the Michigan debate, and home insurance costs in Kansas
    • Quick hits: New Jersey–Manhattan bridge disruptions, world news, Meta AI models, and NASA's Perseverance rover
      • Source

      The New York Times newsletters The Morning and On Politics, with supporting reporting cited from the Associated Press, NBC News, CNBC, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, the Portland Press Herald, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and the Brennan Center.

      About this episode

      This episode was produced with automated tools: the script was written with AI assistance, and the voices are AI-generated (ElevenLabs). Errors are possible.

      Music: "Cozy Coffeehouse" by Bensound (bensound.com)

      15 min
    • Governors, Money and the Midterm Map

      Will and Sarah talk through the day's news newsletters, with about three weeks to go until the U.S. midterm elections.

      Governors' races

      • Why governors matter: policy experiments, congressional maps, election rules and Senate appointments
      • Georgia: Rick Jackson vs. Keisha Lance Bottoms, and what's at stake for 2028
      • Ohio: Vivek Ramaswamy vs. Amy Acton in one of the cycle's roughest races
      • Texas: Greg Abbott vs. Gina Hinojosa

        • The race for Congress

        • Republicans in tight races distance themselves from tariffs and the Iran war
        • The money advantage, and whether there's time for it to matter
        • Where the Senate and House races stand

          • Also in this episode

          • Quick political items, Ohio polling, and the Georgia Senate debate
          • Hurricane Isaias, a migrant boat disaster off Yemen, Pope Leo's surgery, and the Nobel prize in economics
          • Flamingos riding out the storm in a zoo bathroom
            • Source

            Summarized from the day's news newsletters, including reporting and polling from The New York Times. Please read the original reporting for the full story.

            About this episode

            This episode was produced with automated tools: the script was written with AI assistance, and the voices are AI-generated (ElevenLabs). Errors are possible.

            Music: "Cozy Coffeehouse" by Bensound (bensound.com)

            12 min
          • America's Retreat: How Drones Redrew the Battlefield

            Jeremy and Sarah talk through the October 8, 2026 edition of The Morning from The New York Times.

            Main story: America's retreat (about 6 minutes)

            • Why the war with Iran, pitched as a brief show of strength, has repeatedly forced U.S. forces to pull back
            • The hasty removal of B-1 bombers from a base in Britain, and the drone threat behind it
            • How drones and cyberweapons make "out of range" a thing of the past
            • What it costs: bombers flying from U.S. soil, low missile stocks, and a naval supply line running to Diego Garcia
            • The administration's very different account

              • Lightning round (about 3 minutes)

              • Hurricane Isaias heads for the Gulf Coast
              • Which college majors pay off
              • Ukraine's counteroffensive in the Donbas
              • The world's first nuclear clocks
              • Remembering Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote Apollo's onboard software
              • Delayed funding for HIV and tuberculosis research
              • MLB and WNBA playoffs, and LIV Golf loses Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia
              • Jonathan the giant tortoise, about 194 years old, has his genome sequenced
                • Source

                The Morning newsletter, The New York Times, October 8, 2026, by Sam Sifton. The main story draws on reporting by David Sanger and Eric Schmitt. Read the original at nytimes.com.

                About this episode

                This episode was produced with automated tools: the script was adapted from the source with AI assistance, and the voices are AI-generated (ElevenLabs). Errors are possible. Please refer to the original reporting.

                Music: "Cozy Coffeehouse" by Bensound (bensound.com)

                9 min
              • Welcome to Unread

                Every inbox has them: newsletters, updates and long reports you promise to read later. On Unread, Jeremy and Sarah pick one long email per episode and talk it through, covering what it says, why it matters and what's worth remembering.

                Your inbox, read. Over coffee.

                About this show

                Unread is produced with automated tools: scripts are adapted with AI assistance, and the hosts' voices are AI-generated (ElevenLabs). Every episode credits its original source.

                Music: "Cozy Coffeehouse" by Bensound (bensound.com)

                2 min

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