The Quiet War: How US and European Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million People and Almost Never Worked
A Lancet study found US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people over 50 years - 51% of them children under five. The success rate? Thirteen percent.
The Spending Spree Is the Receipt
The Pentagon blew a record $93 billion in one month on lobster, pianos, and recliners. Two months later, 42 million Americans lost food stamps for the first time ever.
A DOGE Employee Allegedly Walked Out of the Social Security Administration with Your Data on a Thumb Drive
A former DOGE engineer allegedly left the SSA with data on 500 million Americans on a thumb drive. When a colleague raised legal concerns, he said he'd get a pardon.
The EPA’s Chemical Safety Office Is Run by the Chemical Industry’s Former Lobbyists
The people who spent their careers fighting EPA chemical regulations are now running the EPA chemical safety office. Their ethics holds just expired. Zero enforcement actions taken.
The 26-Year-Old Who Fired the Ethics Lawyers Is Now Running Pentagon AI
Gavin Kliger got caught with illegal stock holdings at the CFPB, fired the lawyers who flagged it, and just got named Pentagon Chief Data Officer. During a war.
They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore
Vietnam fast-tracked a $1.5B Trump deal while negotiating tariffs with his White House. The Trump sons are cutting deals with the same countries their father is negotiating with.
Freedom Is for Sale, and the Price List Is in the Lobbying Filings
A nursing home fraudster paid $960K to voter-suppression lobbyists and got a presidential pardon after 3 months of a 3-year sentence. The inmates at Otisville took notes. The pardon industry has a price list.
The Promotion Nobody Noticed
Trump didn't fire Kristi Noem. He gave her a brand-new title, a whole hemisphere to work with, and zero Senate oversight. The horse commercial got her fired. Not the dead Americans.
The Cyber Strategy That Gutted Its Own Defense Team
Trump's new cyber strategy brags about Iran and Venezuela while CISA has lost a third of its staff and the Salt Typhoon investigation is dead. Great offense. No defense.
The People Hit With Ethics Complaints Wrote the Ethics Complaint Rules
Todd Blanche announced they'd gut bar oversight. Then Pam Bondi signed a rule giving herself veto power over ethics complaints filed against DOJ attorneys - including the ones filed against her.
They Gutted the Watchdogs Before They Made the Appointments
The Social Security commissioner sold about $530 million in stock a few months before it crashed more than 40%. The SEC chair held up to $6 million in crypto, and the SEC dropped its big crypto cases. Both followed the rules. That’s the problem.
The Pentagon’s No. 2 Used to Own the Companies Now Winning Golden Dome Contracts
Steve Feinberg built a private equity empire of defense contractors. Trump made him #2 at the Pentagon. Now those companies are winning Golden Dome contracts. He "divested." His kids got the money.