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The Nuclear Deal We Can't Verify
Wright let DOGE cancel the programs funding Iran's inspectors. Now they're gone.
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The Fake Psychiatrist Character.AI Kept Running
100 days after the safety pledge, Pennsylvania caught a chatbot quoting a license number that doesn't exist.
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Eight Companies Said Yes. One Said No.
The label Hegseth threatened them with had only been used on foreign adversaries before.
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The Bill Stripping Your Nurse of Workers' Comp
Ohio H.B. 277 strips four labor protections at once. Clipboard Health and ShiftKey lobbied for it.
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73.6% of ICE Detainees Have No Conviction
DHS keeps saying "worst of the worst." ICE's own data tells a different story.
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How $3 Billion Walked Out of the CFPB
Russell Vought's first 90 days dismissed a $2B Capital One case, voided an $80M Navy Federal refund mid-payment, and dropped the largest payday lender's investigation.
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Tesla Sent $573M to Musk's Private Companies
While Musk ran DOGE and defanged the regulators investigating his companies, Tesla's board kept writing checks to them.
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Jassy: AI Replaced 40 Workers With 5
Six months after blaming 'culture' for 30,000 layoffs, the Amazon CEO gave shareholders the math.
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The Walmart Subsidy You Pay For
Low wages, SNAP enrollment, then Walmart collects 26% of every food-stamp grocery dollar.
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Trump's Order to USPS: Refuse the Ballot
He signed it 4 days after the Senate refused. The 1970 statute says he can't.
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Kushner's $25M-a-Year Management Fee
The label is what makes it legal. The label is also the entire mechanism.
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ICE Got $75B. Here's What They Bought.
A 51-50 Senate vote funded a surveillance stack that doesn't ask for warrants. The receipts are public.