Eric Swalwell’s Accusers Brought Receipts - His Lawyer Brought Cease-and-Desist Letters
He admitted “mistakes in judgment.” He just thinks you shouldn’t care. Here’s the thing about the Eric Swalwell allegations - he denies sleeping with his staffers. He just had his lawyer send at least two of the women accusing him letters demanding they stop talking about it. If you’re new here - let’s catch you…
The Man Who Might Be Satoshi Is Going Public Through the Commerce Secretary’s Son’s Firm
Adam Back, Howard Lutnick, and a $79 billion disclosure problem The guy the New York Times just identified as the secret creator of Bitcoin is in the process of going public through a company chaired by Howard Lutnick’s son. Take a second with that. Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work…
The Pentagon Is Lying About Dead Americans While Writing Legal Cover to Kill Iranian Civilians
The Pentagon has three casualty counts. None of them are the same. I’ve been staring at two documents from the Pentagon and I keep coming back to the same question: are they bad at counting, or are they lying? The Intercept published a piece this week showing that CENTCOM’s official casualty count for the Iran…
Hungary’s Foreign Minister Was Caught on Tape Spying for Russia. He Still Has His Job.
Verified recordings, 72 delisted Russian entities, zero consequences Okay so Hungary’s Foreign Minister got caught on tape coordinating with Russia and I genuinely don’t understand why this isn’t bigger news, so let me walk you through it ’cause it’s wild. Peter Szijjarto is Hungary’s Foreign Minister. He’s been in the job since 2014. Hungary is…
Altman Proposes Taxing Robots While Selling Them to the Pentagon
The company that dropped its ethics lost to the one that kept them People think I’m a cheerleader for AI. I would say that I’m not a cheerleader for anything. I just want to look at issues logically. AI is not good or bad - it’s just a tool - used by people - who…
The CIA Director’s Grandson Summoned the Pope’s Envoy - and Many at the Vatican Heard a Threat
The Pentagon invoked a medieval hostage crisis to silence the pope So, the Pentagon summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to a meeting in January and it went about as well as you’d expect. Elbridge Colby - he’s the Under Secretary of War for Policy, which, yes, they actually call it the Department of War now - …
The War Is a Product Launch
The Pentagon asked for $200 billion. The president's sons own $750 million in drone companies bidding on those contracts. Nobody blinks.
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.
Trump’s Ukraine ‘Peace Talks’ Were a Business Development Scheme for His Donors
Id say you won’t believe this, but Ive said that too many times. The Wall Street Journal dropped a huge investigation yesterday about Trump’s Ukraine peace talks, and the only surprising part is that anyone still calls this foreign policy. What they described was a business development scheme for the presidents friends, donors, and family…
Billionaires Don’t Make Good Leaders Because They Don’t Need Money. Wrong.
I’m so tired of seeing billionaires be lauded as good options for governing roles because they can’t be tempted by money because they have plenty of it. You don’t get to be a billionaire because money has no effect on you - duh. Every election cycle, some billionaire decides they’re the answer to our problems…