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    About Those NDAs - How Could the Mayor Not Know?

    Newest · October 16th, 2026 · 3:52 p.m. MemphisNew since your last visit

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    3. October 10th, 2026xAI, MLGW and the NDAs: the real story on Memphis’s waterNew since your last visit
    4. October 9th, 2026Does a Moratorium Hand xAI a Monopoly?New since your last visit
    5. October 8th, 2026Memphians are being poisoned by something worse than gas turbinesNew since your last visit
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    September 3rd, 2026Runtime 19:40

    The Tangled Web of the President’s Piggy Bank

    On August 14th the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company - a national trust bank set up by the Trump family’s crypto company to run its stablecoin, USD1.

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    The Receipts

    Ten Acts.Forty-Nine Years.One Story.

    Forty nine years and a hundred sources on how Russian money reached an American presidency. Built to be read in order.

    1. PrologueWhere it all begins.
    2. Act I1977 - 1986The setup.
    3. Act II1983 - 1986The proof of concept.
    4. Act III1987The recruitment.
    5. Act IV1986 - 1993The operation.
    6. Act V1990 - 2016The infrastructure.
    7. Act VI1998 - 2016The pipeline.
    8. Act VII2001 - 2015The KGB playbook with expensive suits.
    9. Act VIII2006 - 2015The franchise.
    10. Act IX2013 - 2016Going steady.
    11. Act X Part A2016-2020The operation, the receipts, the cover-up.
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    Open investigation The xAI Files Elon Musk built the world’s biggest AI computer in my city and nobody was watching. The reading room · open to anyone I have nearly 13,000 pages of public records. I could use the help. Start reading Everything on AI The AI Files What AI is actually doing to power bills, air, jobs and your privacy. Start here if you arrived through a story about data centres.

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