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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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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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The Walmart Subsidy You Pay For
Low wages, SNAP enrollment, then Walmart collects 26% of every food-stamp grocery dollar.
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Your city got a data center. Here's what it cost.
Texas revised its own subsidy estimate by 8x. Fourteen states don't even track what they're giving away.
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Claude's Safety Lives on Anthropic's Servers
A federal court asked if Anthropic could control deployed Claude. The answer was no.
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Atlassian's Opt-Out Only Comes in Enterprise
Their own support page still says "never." It went live in November.
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The AI Study That Graded Its Own Customers
Nearly 90% of firms say AI hasn't moved their productivity. The consulting industry billed $11B anyway.
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SEC's 456 Cases: The Metric Got Rewritten
The fewest enforcement actions in 20+ years arrived with a press release that says counting them was always wrong.
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The €4/Hour 'Made in Italy' Label
Milan prosecutors caught Dior, Armani, Loro Piana. The reform bill stalled in December.
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The $53 Pill That Costs 69 Cents in England
Same molecule. The 60x price gap traces to a 2002 decision nobody ever rewrote.
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Medicare's New AI Pays to Deny
CMS wrote the incentive in plain English. Contractors get a cut of every denial.