The Daily Grift: March 5, 2026

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The government got caught erasing things it doesn’t want you to see. The DOJ quietly deleted 47,000 Epstein files while Trump’s personal lawyer supervised. Interior leaked a spreadsheet showing 542 national park exhibits flagged for removal – every single one about Black, Indigenous, or colonized Americans. The Senate voted 53-47 to let Trump keep bombing Iran indefinitely, which is just admitting out loud that the War Powers Act is a decorative prop. And the tech oligarch nobody talks about told a room full of investors he wants to live-record your life. Here’s what you missed.

The DOJ Is Quietly Eating The Epstein Files

CBS compared their download to what was still live on the DOJ website and found 47,000 files gone. No announcement. No tweet. Just 404 errors where evidence used to be – and Trump’s personal lawyer running the whole process. The original drop was designed to be un-downloadable: no bulk option, hundreds of thousands of individual files, an obvious “figure it out yourself” from the people who were supposed to be releasing it. A group of researchers and Reddit threads eventually got most of it anyway. Now the DOJ is quietly taking back what slipped through.

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The Government Is Erasing History From National Parks

Someone at Interior leaked the censorship spreadsheet. 880 national park exhibits under review. 542 flagged. The pattern isn’t subtle: every exhibit about Black history, Indigenous history, or the history of people colonized by the United States. The Interior Department’s response was to threaten the employees who exposed it, which is not what you do if you have a good explanation for the pattern. Trump signed the executive order last year directing parks to scrub anything “negative” about America. This is what that looks like in a spreadsheet.

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The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Thought About

Larry Ellison told a room full of investors that citizens will be “on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” He said that in 2024. Out loud. On camera. Ellison controls Oracle, which runs the cloud infrastructure for 90% of US defense contracts, the IRS, the FBI, and most of the healthcare data in America. He built the surveillance architecture for the UAE, India, and Ethiopia. He’s funding xAI alongside Musk and bankrolling Trump’s political operation. He just announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure deal with the White House. He is not a peripheral figure in American power. He is one of its central ones. Nobody’s watching him.

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The War Powers Act Is a Joke and Everyone Knows It

The Senate voted 53-47 to let Trump keep bombing Iran without congressional approval. That’s the eighth time Congress has tried to assert war powers authority over this administration and the eighth time it’s failed. The War Powers Act has never actually stopped a president from going to war – not once since it passed in 1973. The vote didn’t change that. It just made it official. The senators who voted no knew they were losing before the roll was called.

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Wanna go deeper? all four stories trace back to the same machine – one that deletes inconvenient files, erases inconvenient history, and rewards the people keeping watch. The Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump files at rachelandthecity have the full paper trail.

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